28-09-2009, 03:08 PM
Ed Jewett Wrote:2,500 Pennsylvania National Guardsmen Deployed for G-20 Security
September 23rd, 2009 Via: Lebanon Daily News:
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During the mission, dubbed Operation Steel Kickoff, the Guardsmen will fall under the direction of the U.S. Secret Service and will support local, state and federal agencies. Guard members will serve as a regional response force, augment law-enforcement personnel, provide crowd and traffic control, and help with security.
“Everybody is excited and honored to participate in such a global event,” said Lt. Col. Dale Waltman of Cornwall.
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Also in Pittsburgh for the summit are several members of the Fort Indiantown Gap public-affairs office. Capt. Jay Ostrich of Cornwall said the public-affairs specialists’ primary mission is to do news features on the Guardsmen taking part in the mission.
“Basically what we’re doing is helping to tell the Guard story here,” he said.
Are they feeling their mission to "get the Guard's story out" was successful? Apparently no one mentioned the National Guard was even there, much less they used Active Denial System weapons on civilians including local residents and children. Operation Steel Kickoff was undoubtedly successful; they were inaugurating martial law in America.