Brigade begins Homeland deployments Oct 1; Army has Ray Gun for riot/crowd control
By Lietta Ruger
Wed Sep 24, 2008 at 11:09:13 AM PST
Section: Diary Topic: Military
U.S. Army battalion troops deploy to - well U.S.A.! And U.S. Army has a Ray Gun. Reading these two items together and one could wonder why U.S. active Army battalion needs to deploy to non-combat zones on America homeland soil, while state level National Guard troops need to deploy to combat zones in Iraq. And one could wonder about this scenario as well. U.S. Army being aware of and urgently requesting the non-lethal Ray Gun for use in Iraq and Afghanistan was denied permission. Weapon shown to be effective in riot and crowd control via practice demonstrations using people acting as 'peace protesters'.
http://www.washblog.com/story/2008/9/24/14913/1227