re: The Marines are the only branch of the military that answers directly to the President.

The violence will ratchet up today or on Saturday at the progstain leftists protest party.

Pretty sure the ROE is to avoid and resist provocation up and until fired upon or other means of life threatening violence towards them, other LEO, ICE or federal buildings.

Most of the citizenry combatants will back down; however, the cartel affiliates (yes, they're here) will fight and I am interested if they will bring out their weaponry at this point. Ultimately, they will be snuffed out but when is the question.

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Claim it’s not true, then claim you think it’s not true. STFU and sit down

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You can suck an entire truck full of dicks. You and the rest of the slope headed nuckledraggig fricks you hang with.

A long time ago there was some weird law that allowed the Marines to be deployed overseas without congressional approval. I don’t that’s been true for a really long time though.

Or, more accurately, the president can deploy any branch of the military whenever he wants now without congressional approval. Obviously domestically it becomes a lot murkier.

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LookSquirrel

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I giggle just a little bit every time I see his name.

And I'll admit, I do glance... even if so little it is nearly imperceptible... out the window to see if there is indeed a squirrel.

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Last time I replied to Squirrely I saw a baby squirrel come to my sunporch window.

Squirrelly knows I <3 him but his cue brainwashing now appears as if it is nuttier than a squirrel turd. I hope squirrelly didn't buy the Ka$h punisher socks.

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Jesus Christ. Please stop this. The CIC is directly in command of the entire military.

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There's more to it than that.

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Actually, the President can deploy the USMC for I think 90 days without any kind of approval from Congress.

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Pretty sure the president can do that with any service now. How else would he be able to send Delta Force or Navy Seals on missions on a moment’s notice? How would he be able to use the Air Force to drop bombs and missiles all over the world whenever he wants to?

Did congress give congressional approval for the invasions of Grenada and Panama in the 80’s?

I think back in like the 17-1800’s the USMC really was “the presidents own” but it hasn’t been that way for a long time.

The squirrels and I do have a special relationship CA, so keep an eye on them. I had a Grand Mother that used to make us squirrel brains and scrambled eggs. Dee Lish.

Anyway, I might should have titled this differently to reflect what I was regurgitating, from memory, what Joe Lange explained in one of his Badlands Media articles.

A small snippet from his article titled "We won't Forget".

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The Marines are not limited at all from operating on U.S. soil, “as the president may direct.”

The Posse Comitatus Act does not apply to the Marines. Trump does not need to ask for Governors’ permission to step in and stop Antifa or BLM rioters. The Marines can also arrest enemy combatants.

They are one of the many “Trump Cards.”

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According to the U.S. Naval Institute:

In 1798, when describing the original functions of the Marines, the United States Congress provided that the Corps should serve not only in the ships, garrisons and forts of the United States but, in addition, should be prepared “for any other duty on shore that the President may direct.”

Later, in 1836, a law was enacted giving further force and emphasis to this specific authority of the President by empowering him to order Marines to duty with the Army.

Congress gave the President the power to direct the Marines to do whatever he may direct. It was their duty from the very beginning.
More from the U.S. Naval Institute:

Finally in 1947 the drafters of the current National Security Act decreed once more that the U. S. Marine Corps should be prepared “for service with the fleet in the seizure and defense of advanced naval bases . . . service on armed vessels of the U. S. Navy . . . protection of naval property at naval stations or bases . . . and such other duties as the President may direct. . . “employing the same words that are found in the first assignment of Marine Corps functions by the Congress a century and a half before.

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A study of the subsequent employment of Marines lends credence to the conclusion that this interesting phraseology came into being by design rather than through chance, and that the early architects of our military structure recognized the need for a small military force-in-being responsive directly to Presidential authority.

Certainly Congress has set the Marines squarely apart from the other services by endowing the President with a measure of direct authority in employment of the Corps which he did not—and still does not—legally exercise over the Army or Navy, and now the Air Force as well.

The president has direct authority over the Marines according to law. He does not need Congressional approval, and he can direct them as he wishes.

But what does “As the President may direct” really mean? Is it limited?

More from the U.S. Naval Institute:

The effect on the Marines of this brief—though durable—statement of Congressional intent has been to require, over the years, that the Corps be prepared at any time for any form of expeditionary employment in order to meet a short notice Presidential call.

These calls have occurred with a regularity that stands as mute testimony to the practical requirement for such an arrangement. The significant historical implication which has developed from all this is not so much in the variety of combat missions to which the Marines have been committed as in the compelling necessity that they be continually ready for any form of action,specifically because of their special responsibility to the President.

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Aren't Marines under the Department of the Navy?

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I’m not a military guy, but I am a veteran of many late 90s computer games. As I understand it, the concept of “marines” dates back to the earliest sea-faring empires, and were simply troops serving on galleys, triremes, etc. who were proficient in ground/close-range combat as opposed to ship to ship combat.

It seems like the USMC exists mainly because the USN wanted its own ground troops, but now it is kind of like a small self-contained armed forces. Doesn’t the USMC use just about every vehicle type except ships, strategic bombers, and large transport planes? (Note: a friend who’s a marine dad tells me they’re phasing out their tanks)