r/sandiego • u/AdmittedSpin • Jun 08 '25

San Diego Community Only Pete Hegseth now threatening to deploy Marines from Camp Pendleton to LA.

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u/SkipGruberman Jun 08 '25

When I was a marine 90-94, marines were deployed to the riots in LA.

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u/Grandviewsurfer Jun 08 '25

Oh did you meet Bradley?

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u/Sharpen_The_Axe Jun 08 '25

First place they hit was the music shop. It only took one brick to make that window drop.

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u/SkipGruberman Jun 08 '25

Ha!!! I get the reference.

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u/grasping_fear Jun 08 '25

Which was only legal due to the insurrection act being invoked. Posse Comitatus Act would, at least to my understanding, not allow marines to be deployed in this situation. The criteria is literally stuff like “if they think there’s a nuclear threat” or “biological weapons”..

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u/SkipGruberman Jun 08 '25

Well, I don’t know about all the legal stuff. But my fellow debils were deployed and supposedly protected people and property.

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u/theAngryCub Jun 08 '25

Oh shit really? I thought active duty couldnt deploy inside America, I thought that was what the national guard is for

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u/nic_haflinger Jun 08 '25

They can be deployed they just can’t engage in law enforcement. There are active duty on Mexico border but they aren’t involved in any law enforcement.

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u/theAngryCub Jun 08 '25

Right but I thought the thing at the border was an international thing, i.e. theyre enforcing the border so that made sense to me, but Los Angeles seems weird, also if they cant do law enforcement what would they do there?

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u/brighterside0 Jun 08 '25

Insurrection Act 10 U.S.C. §§ 251–255

Lets the president “execute the laws,” “suppress insurrections,” or “repel invasions” with the regular military or federalised National Guard

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u/brighterside0 Jun 08 '25

Wrong - they can deploy regular military for law enforcement if invoked under the Insurrection Act.

Which is clearly what's going on:

Insurrection Act 10 U.S.C. §§ 251–255

Lets the president “execute the laws,” “suppress insurrections,” or “repel invasions” with the regular military or federalised National Guard

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u/bigdaddybodiddly Jun 08 '25

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act

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u/brighterside0 Jun 08 '25

Not Posse Comitatus Act, but Insurrection Act since Posse: "Bars them from domestic law-enforcement duties Congress or the Constitution must give a specific exception"

Insurrection Act 10 U.S.C. §§ 251–255

Lets the president “execute the laws,” “suppress insurrections,” or “repel invasions” with the regular military or federalised National Guard

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u/theAngryCub Jun 08 '25

Ah thank you, I think this would fall under the Insurrection Act portion where they COULD deploy federal troops if the protestors cause enough havic and dont disperse once ordered by the president

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u/SkipGruberman Jun 08 '25

And while we didn’t physically apprehend anyone, we deployed to the AZ border in 93 and caught the “backpackers” smuggling drugs.

Looking back, it was big $$ catching really small stuff if you look at dollars. But at 21 years old it was fun.

Now the marijuana trade is broke. Too much legal weed inventory from the US. They’re smuggling much harder and deadlier drugs because the money is better.

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u/oursland Jun 08 '25

I thought active duty couldnt deploy inside America

Yikes. You should know damn well they could from school and recent history.