A recent spate of alleged misconduct by high-ranking officers underscores the need for reform in California's National Guard, current and former Guard members say.
They expected directives from Sacramento headquarters to make preparations for any civil unrest that might arise over stay-at-home rules. But instead of an order to get the ground troops ready to help state and local authorities, the air branch of the Guard was told to place an F-15C fighter jet on an alert status for a possible domestic mission.
Four sources from the Guard with direct knowledge of the matter told
Los Angeles Times that the order didn’t spell out the mission. But given the aircraft’s limitations, they understood it to mean the plane would be deployed to terrify and disperse protesters by flying low over them at window-rattling speeds – with its afterburners streaming columns of flames.
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