Dee asked:

>> My SO's bro just got orders and will be deployed to NO tonight.
>> What is significant and not neccessarily reported in the news is that,
>> essentially he is leading his unit there to shoot to kill.
>
> Is this really true? Who told you that?

The originator of that post was a guy named Vincent Ho, who lives in the San
Franciso area. If you want to ask him directly, his e-mail address is hbv
(at) tsoft.com. I see no reason to doubt it; Vincent's always been a rather
no-nonsense kind of guy.

Moreover, the National Guard (and most other military organizations) are
*trained* to shoot at the center of body mass. They don't spend the
extensive amount of time training in marksmanship that others (e.g.,
Marines) do, so they're not the sharpshooters that you might think. They
don't really have the ability to shoot to wound or disable.

Bob