Ohio National Guard targets Americans

I've bee busy this morning.  This article really, really peed me off.  So I've been firing a response to Governor Kasich's office, the Public Affairs Office of the Ohio National Guard;  (ng.oh.oharng.mbx.pao-buckeye-guard@mail.mil ) and the City of Portsmouth, OH.  This kind of crap only continues because people do not take the time to object.  So, I did.

Dear Governor Kasich:
I read with great disappointment that last year your National Guard conducted an exercise where American citizens who, among other things, support the Second Amendment were identified as the enemy. From the Media Tracker’s article:
“The ONG 52nd Civil Support Team training scenario involved a plot from local school district employees to use biological weapons in order to advance their beliefs about ‘protecting Gun Rights and Second Amendment rights.’” 

As a former military officer, I could have sworn and did, that military personnel were required to “support and defend the constitution.”  Is the education system in Ohio so inadequate that large swaths of the public, including officers of your Ohio National Guard, are ignorant of the Second Amendment?  Or was this entire exercise a fantasy of politically correct morons who occupy the upper ranks of your National Guard?

During my service, I participated as a planner of large-scale international training exercises.  I know exactly how easy it is to construct a training scenario that does not offend your allies or unduly agitate your enemies.   As such, I believe the training scenario used by your 52^nd Civil Support Team was a purposeful politically correct swipe at the Second Amendment.

Today, the US military enjoys great favor with the American people.  When the military starts to identify American citizens as the enemy that favor will quickly erode.  I would remind the “leadership” of your Ohio National Guard that the Tsarnaev brothers were neither American nor Second Amendment advocates.  Perhaps your National Guard can use a bit of imagination in the next training exercise to develop a scenario that does not pit one group of Americans against another.  There is a term for that – Civil War.  Do not allow your National Guard to promote it.

Your Adjutant General should be required to explain to the people of Ohio how such training scenario came to be used by your 52^nd Civil Support Team and apologize for it.  If she doesn’t, she should be fired.  Also, anyone above the pay-grade of O-3 that was involved in this should be required to respond in writing why they thought the training scenario should be allowed.  This will give you an insight into the thinking, or lack there of, of the leadership in your Ohio National Guard.