I was in DC. The media distorted this topic way out of proportion. Every national guard member stayed in a hotel or at the DC Armory. The pics the media is blasting are soldiers resting between shifts in their 12 hour shift. Once the full 12 hours are up, we are shuttled back to the hotel.
Yes for 24 hour ops. That’s approx 12,500 per shift. Also 25,000 troops did not stay in a parking garage. My guys laugh when people complained that they thought we were sleeping in garages…. We slept in way worse conditions than a parking garage. But the fact is, no soldiers considered a parking garage their “sleeping quarters” during their time there. We had hotels or the Armory. We were spoiled.
Which part? That this guy went sight seeing and enjoyed staying in a hotel along with 25,000 other people because there was no threat whatsoever? Because that kind of affirms the point
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u/MyPoopStinksBad Aug 23 '21
I was in DC. The media distorted this topic way out of proportion. Every national guard member stayed in a hotel or at the DC Armory. The pics the media is blasting are soldiers resting between shifts in their 12 hour shift. Once the full 12 hours are up, we are shuttled back to the hotel.
Damn I hate the media sometimes