Who Will the Military and Police Follow in Civil War II? - #cw2
"Militaries do not come apart in an afternoon, and they never have, including this one."
“Militaries do not come apart in an afternoon, and they never have, including this one.”
(Keith Graves, Christian Warrior Prepper) - You are a staff sergeant in a National Guard unit. It is two in the morning and you have been standing in a parking lot for three hours. An order comes down that does not sit right with you. There is no lawyer beside you. Your platoon leader is twenty-four years old and looks like he is about to be sick. The men on either side of you are watching to see what you do, and you have about eleven seconds to decide. Everything in this piece comes back to that sergeant. The question is not which side the armed forces will pick. It is what he does at two in the morning, multiplied by a few hundred thousand men.
How the Army actually split in 1861
In June of 1860 the United States Army had about 1,080 officers and roughly 14,900 enlisted men. When the Southern states began leaving, 286 of those officers resigned or were dismissed and went into Confederate service. Of the 824 West Point graduates on the active list, 184 went south. The Navy lost 373 officers out of about 1,554.
Now the number nobody quotes. Out of nearly 15,000 enlisted men, roughly…
My son is an MP now and my cousin is the elected sheriff of our Parish so as a Captain I will be deputized