Congressmen Michael Guest, Steven Pallazo, and Trent Kelly issued the following statement.
Congressmen Steven Palazzo (MS-04), Trent Kelly (MS-01), and Michael Guest (MS-03) have sent a letter addressed to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressing their deep concern about the way members of the National Guard were treated during their deployment to the nation's capital. Specifically, the letter seeks an understanding as to why guardsmen were removed from the Capitol complex and ordered to set up camp in a nearby parking garage.A signed copy of the letter can be found here. Full text of the letter is included below.
Dear Speaker Pelosi:
We write to express our concern about the recent treatment of some members
of the National Guard assigned to the United States Capitol complex and ask for an investigation into this matter.
We
understand that Guardsmen were asked to leave the Capitol last week
and were relegated to taking breaks and sleeping in parking garages.
While we are pleased that the National Guard was ordered back to the
Capitol and other Congressional office buildings, we are concerned about
this initial directive to leave the complex,
putting our men and women who have bravely protected our nation’s
capital in unsuitable and disrespectful conditions.
We
ask that an investigation be conducted to determine how and why the
decision was made to remove Guardsmen from the Capitol complex and who
ordered their removal. The National Guard has honorably served our
nation with this crucial assignment, and it is imperative that we
address these concerns to ensure accountability. Thank
you for your attention to this important matter.
Sincerely,
Steven Palazzo
Member of Congress
Trent Kelly
Member of Congress
Michael Guest
Member of Congress
30 comments:
What does anyone expect? The marxists in the Democrat Party have the same disdain for the military as they have for the “deplorables” who dared to protest their attempted coups after 2016, and their ultimate theft of the presidency in 2020.
Not a single one of them stood with President Trump. This is just a feeble attempt to appear to be opposition. When in fact they want to maintain their aristocratic DC lifestyles full of dinner party invites and privileges for their relatives.
expect crickets
Should've never been sent there. The new Pretorian Guards?
Curious, did they ask why the former president didnt call in the Guard when people were storming the capitol?
The ruling class/royal family will never apologize to their subjects for the treatment of the palace guard. For you Biden voters - thanks a whole fucking lot.
I guess that m is about what I would expect from two people who “serve” while in Congress and one guy who never served at all. A parking garage is the Ritz compared to the mud and sand we slept in while in the suck
What needs investigating is why we stationed troops on American soil arrayed against the people in violation of the law. There is talk of keeping a wall around the Capital (but not on the border!). If that happens the people inside need to think hard about what they are doing that has caused a need for protection from the people.
Brave action from three of our Reps. "No matter how controversial the issue, we will not hesitate to take a strong stand!"
See Lynn Fitch thread below.
As some witty person said of my beloved Winston: "Prime Minister Churchill has turned his back on the nation, and now boasts that he has the people behind him."
It's worth noting both parties called on this investigation the day it happened.
This was a call by capitol police. When leadership from both parties heard, they immediately worked to get it fixed until the wee hours.
Grandstanding.
PS: Not for nothing, but don't these guys sleep in a lot more terrible places than a parking garage?
Well, let's have an investigation. The reason they were there in the first place was the seditious mob in MAGA gear that beat police with American flagpoles, calling for deaths to police and political leaders. Start there. Round up all those who called for the insurrection. "Rudy G-"trial by combat..'
Then go to why the National Guard was put in the parking garage. The Capitol Police (who were TOLD about the possibility for violence on the 6th by the FBI..) kicked them out of the building. When the elected officials (on both sides) heard about that, they were invited right back in.
Those are the facts. Sorry you Trumpers cant accept reality.
My first question regarding the national guard is why weren't they at the capital with water cannons protecting the entrance when the rioting scum got there?
Media whores
“Actual” Field conditions even in a training environment are far worse. They’re just political grandstanding. If they’re concerned about how service members are treated, investigate the VA...go after something with substance. Sincerely a vet
Perhaps Nancy can make nice and buy these troops a few $24,000 freezers full of $12 per pint luxury ice cream.
Such a kind act might make up for the disrespect shown to these troops.
On a related note, St. Dominic’s Hospital has sent one of their elite squads of parking-garage S.W.A.T teams to make sure none of the National Guard members sneak a pack of Marlboro Lights into the DC parking garages.
Unconfirmed reports suggest this elite force's golf carts arrived last night.
Yes let’s have some more investigations I’m sure we’ll get to the bottom of the guard mis treatment. We should be used to it by now why we’ve had tons of investigations going on for the last four years. It’s one big blurr but surely this one won’t be major waste of millions of taxpayers money like the last ten. Anytime a politician asks for an investigation it’s usually to hide something in plain site. This one being the fact that neither stood by Trump while the pack of hyenas tried to tear him apart for the latest lie. As the lies grew the need to cover oneself grew with them. Hitler once said (never tell a little lie, a gullible public can sniff those out)
There will be investigations into that whole travesty for years, maybe decades to come. I’m particularly looking forward to Trump, his family, and his attorneys testifying under oath.
We know how much Trumplicans love to have long, protracted investigations into bullsh*t when a Democrat is in power.
protracted investigations?
Want to bring up Dingell and Conyers? Schiff? Waxman? Sure you want to go down that path?
The Pelosi-Schumer apologists are out in force on this thread. Or at least two of them posting repetitively.
Hey Hey Bim Bam
Who the hell are we?
Democrats, by damn
Where men can sit to pee.
Having served two years in the First Infantry Division in the real Army, it would have been quite the luxury to have slept in a parking garage with a roof over our heads rather than outdoors on the ground in rain, snow and subfreezing weather both stateside and abroad. My troops never complained. They knew what they had signed up for and were proud to be serving our country.
Our Congressmen need to find a real issue that is not moot to complain about. For example, why was security so lax at our Capitol on January 6? Perhaps our Congressmen don't want to know the answer.
NEWS FLASH:
Pelosi doesn't have control over The Capitol Police.
This is a stunt as every legislator in both Houses know the chain of command.
Again the effort to make a mountain out of a mole hill. Pretty obvious that some Capitol policeman didn't understand the instructions for directing the National Guard to those hotels that had volunteered to offer them rooms and food.
Guest is either incompetent or willing to stir up trouble for political gain. I find both inexcusable. No doubt he knows that one could blame Pelosi or McConnell for the sun not shining and it'd be believed. The truth is too many of those we elect aren't doing there jobs and can be either be led around like a child or are too stupid to know they can assert their own authority.
That letter is an embarrassment. Since when is spending the night in parking garage “mistreatment” of American military? Tell that to the Marines who died at Peleliu and Tarawa, the Army troops who died on Omaha Beach, and 8th Air Force air crews flying over Germany in WWII. Guest, Kelly and Pallazo are pathetic.
In the corps, I slept 100 yards from the flaming pit of human waste which we had to take turns stirrin. Give me a break
After serving 36 years in the Active Army and the Mississippi National Guard I would loved to have slept in the parking garage. We already have enough whiners in the Military! Congressman please don’t make matters worse! We sleep where we can and where we’re are told!
No freeking excuses and no complaints. We have good days and bad days, we took an oath to serve! Hooah.
" In the corps, I slept 100 yards from the flaming pit of human waste which we had to take turns stirrin. Give me a break"
Well, sport . . . I call BS on your dramatic stolen valor fantasy comment.
Even if a real Marine had to do such, they would never announce or discuss it in the comment section of a civilian blog.
The fact the guard was ordered to sleep in parking garages is not the point.
It's the hypocrisy of the left.
Now . . . go back to your Mom's basement and watch your favorite "on demand" MSNBC show.
@ January 30, 2021 at 9:48 PM
Stolen valor? Bite your tongue “sport”
Sorry, I forgot my DD-214 and GWOT came with a promise never to discuss on a public blog.
Err, kill, get some, yut
A desperate attempt to remain relevant. These fellows boarded the Trump train and are now left standing at the station
Regardless who is in the White House or Congress the Wall St Bankers are guaranteed to come out of the situation with their pockets stuffed with $billions. If the zigs and zags of the market don't fall in their favor the Fed/Treasury will 'make them whole' again just as in the S&L crisis, the '99 recession and the 2009 recession.
If the market were FREE banks would be paying 4.5% + on savings and the Dow would be worth $13quadrillion instead of 33.
I spent the day online looking into what bills these, and the rest of the CODEL have authored in the last 2 years. Don’t waste your time. Wicker is the only one who has had an original thought.
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