Posted on Jan 22, 2021
‘We feel incredibly betrayed’: Thousands of Guardsmen forced to vacate Capitol
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Thousands of National Guardsmen were allowed back into the Capitol Thursday night, hours after U.S. Capitol Police officials ordered them to vacate the facilities, sending them outdoors or to nearby parking garages after two weeks pulling security duty after the deadly riot on Jan. 6.
One unit, which had been resting in the Dirksen Senate Office building, was abruptly told to vacate the facility on Thursday, according to one Guardsman. The group was forced to rest in a nearby parking garage without internet reception, with just one electrical outlet, and one bathroom with two stalls for 5,000 troops, the person said. Temperatures in Washington were in the low 40s by nightfall.
“Yesterday dozens of senators and congressmen walked down our lines taking photos, shaking our hands and thanking us for our service. Within 24 hours, they had no further use for us and banished us to the corner of a parking garage. We feel incredibly betrayed,” the Guardsman said.
One unit, which had been resting in the Dirksen Senate Office building, was abruptly told to vacate the facility on Thursday, according to one Guardsman. The group was forced to rest in a nearby parking garage without internet reception, with just one electrical outlet, and one bathroom with two stalls for 5,000 troops, the person said. Temperatures in Washington were in the low 40s by nightfall.
“Yesterday dozens of senators and congressmen walked down our lines taking photos, shaking our hands and thanking us for our service. Within 24 hours, they had no further use for us and banished us to the corner of a parking garage. We feel incredibly betrayed,” the Guardsman said.
‘We feel incredibly betrayed’: Thousands of Guardsmen forced to vacate Capitol
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I find it interesting that these conditions appear only slightly worse than those in that Nevada hospital garage COVID-19 care facility.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/08/us/renown-hospital-parking-garage-nevada-covid-trnd/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/10/us/reno-hospital-covid-parking-garage/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/08/us/renown-hospital-parking-garage-nevada-covid-trnd/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/10/us/reno-hospital-covid-parking-garage/index.html
There's been such a surge of cases that a Nevada hospital is treating patients in its parking...
As the number of Covid-19 cases pushes medical facilities to the brink, one hospital has taken an unconventional approach: treating patients in its parking garage.
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LTC David Brown
I think they have more bathroom facilities and better sleeping. One bathroom for thousands of troops? Not like you can dig a pit on Capital Hill or pee in the bushes!
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It will be interesting to see who made this decision. I suspect the lawmakers, Republican and Democrat, had nothing to do with it as they likely have nothing to do with the logistics in general. This seems more like something some administrative pencil pusher would do after seeing all the pictures in the media or soldiers sleeping on the floor of the Capitol.
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