Trump Federalizes National Guard in 3 States to Guard Shipments, Offload Supplies

Why did POTUS federalise the NG in these states, why was this done

National Guard troops federalized by President Donald Trump in the three states hit hardest by the coronavirus – New York, California and Washington state – will take no part in enforcing quarantines or shelter-in-place orders, the chief of the National Guard Bureau said Sunday.

Air Force Gen. Joseph Lengyel said the troops could be used for a range of missions, including guarding shipments and offloading of food and supplies, or possibly responding to disturbances under the supervision of local law enforcement. But they would remain under the control of the states’ governors, he said.

He said there was no truth to rumors spreading on the internet that National Guard troops would be used to keep residents in their homes.

In contacts with all of the governors, “none of them have talked about quarantine operations,” Lengyel said.

He stressed that the troops “won’t be given mission sets where they don’t have protective equipment,” but he also echoed the concerns of the governors that masks and other gear were in short supply.

In a late Sunday telephone conference with defense reporters, Lengyel said he did not expect that any of the troops would come into direct contact with patients infected by coronavirus, but “that remains to be seen” as the virus continues to spread exponentially.

Earlier, at a White House news conference, Trump said that he was activating the National Guard for New York, California and Washington state, and similar action was being considered for other states.”

Troops activated under Title 32 would normally be funded 75% by the federal government and 25% by the states, Lengyel said, but under authorities approved by Trump, the 25% cost for the states was being picked up by the federal government.

He did not have any immediate projections for how many National Guard troops would be federalized, but described the activations as no different from when they are called up for hurricanes or other natural disasters.

As of Sunday morning, at least 7,300 National Guard members had been deployed to fight the virus in all 50 states.

Lengyel said another 30,000 National Guard troops currently are deployed to the U.S. Central Command and Indo-Pacific Command regions, but none of those troops would be diverted to states to combat coronavirus.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/03/23/trump-federalizes-national-guard-3-states-guard-shipments-offload-supplies.html

SecDef Offers Sparse Details on American Woman Recovered in Secretive Military Op

The U.S. military conducted an operation to bring home an American woman who had been the victim of a violent crime in Honduras, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Monday.

Esper was deliberately vague on the details, but said, "We had a young lady, a young American, who was the victim of a violent crime in Honduras, I believe. She has been returned to the United States."

He did not say when or how the woman was brought out safely from Honduras, which has closed its borders during the novel coronavirus pandemic.

"Out of respect for her and her family, for her privacy, we'll just leave it at that," Esper added at a Pentagon briefing.

He noted that the military last Friday flew home an American women's tackle football team, which had been in Honduras for a competition that was canceled because of the coronavirus threat.

Related: American Woman Rescued in Secretive Military Op, Trump Says

U.S. Southern Command said in a Twitter post that two Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft returned the football team to Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, but it was unclear whether the crime victim was on one of those flights.

Esper spoke a day after President Donald Trump at a White House news conference said the woman had been "horribly treated" and appeared to indicate that a dramatic rescue may have been involved in her return to the U.S.

"We were able to get a young woman released from a certain area who was being horribly accosted, horribly treated," the president added.

Trump said that Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley "took care of it. We went in and we got her out, but that was rough stuff." He thanked Milley "and all the people involved and people who went in to get her," but did not say whether the woman had been held hostage.

Following the late Sunday White House news conference, Pentagon officials and Milley's office declined comment and referred questions to the White House.

The return of the woman and the football team underline the plight of thousands of American tourists and students who have been stranded overseas by the closing of borders by the U.S. and other countries hit by the outbreak.

Some of the stranded citizens have posted Facebook pages such as "Americans Stuck in Peru" and "American Citizens Stranded In Guatemala."

On Sunday, the State Department said that two flights had been chartered to bring Americans out of Guatemala and could possibly arrive Monday.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/03/23/secdef-offers-sparse-details-american-woman-recovered-secretive-military-op.html

This Physician Is Using Hormones to Treat TBI Patients

While some physicians are shy about using testosterone and other hormones to treat patients with a traumatic brain injury, that hasn't stopped one southern California physician.

Studies have found testosterone hormone therapy can damage patients' brains, but Mark Gordon, Millennium Health Centers founder and medical director, has found a way to carefully increase this and other hormones in his patients.

For example, he has found clomiphene citrate, a drug commonly used for women trying to become pregnant, can increase the production of testosterone in men. If the patient does not respond to this, Gordon said he will use a low dose of testosterone, along with two other hormones that he claims will counteract testosterone's negative effects on the brain.

"This has been a battle I have been fighting for more than 15 years with my esteemed colleagues," Gordon said in an email. "In assessment of testosterone levels in a person with blast trauma, the traditional health care providers tend to do a very limited blood.

Gordon said it’s more than just testosterone. He looks at the patient's levels of neurosteroids, the brain's hormones, and neuroactive steroids, which are produced by the body, and works to get those in balance.

"Using the science of neuroendocrinology, we assess the brain's hormones and those produced by the body as reflections of our brain's health since, after trauma, these can be greatly affected," he said about his Millennium-TBI Biomarker panel in a statement.

The Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, which tracks and studies TBI cases in the military, says mild TBI (mTBI) can cause temporary gaps in memory, irritability, depression, anxiety and trouble sleeping. Many physicians currently are treating mTBI in patients through cognitive and physical therapy, but Gordon says he has found success with hormone therapy.

Defense Department Health Affairs officials said March 12 they are not currently aware of Gordon’s work, but added they are researching neuroendocrine dysfunction (NED) in patients.

So far, the DoD recommends clinicians consider a NED diagnosis when symptoms like those Gordon has seen – insomnia, impaired cognition and memory loss, as well as emotional and mood disturbance – persist or appear after three months post-injury.

“Symptoms of NED are similar to the symptoms of other post mTBI medical diagnoses such as sleep disorder, memory difficulties, depression, PTSD and/or post concussive syndrome,” states the DoD NED guidance from 2012. “Considering NED may avoid a delay in diagnosis and improve prognosis.”

Gordon said his treatment regime has had great success, helping veterans, a Guinness World Record surfer and a New York City firefighter.

One patient is Green Beret veteran Andrew Marr, who went on to co-author a book with his brother, "Tales from the Blast Factory: A Brain Injured Special Forces Green Beret's Journey Back From the Brink."

Marr's story, along with a couple of other patients', are told in a newly released documentary called "Quiet Explosions: Healing The Brain." The film's next showing will be in Los Angeles on March 18.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/03/22/physician-using-hormones-treat-tbi-patients.html

>>8567164

Ok, I’ll have to check that out, can you explain

>>8567119

Pretty bold professor anon, I think we’re all figuring it’s out that it’s being blown out of proportion. My thoughts IG it gets so bad with all the task force and Trump has done, they will say they’ve never done enough and are incompetent. I don’t know anyone, except my nephew is being quarantined not because he’s been tested and positive. I think it’s like the fainting disease, when one person faints another person faints, so it must be a disease. Instead of subjective programming

>>8567548

Amen anon

>>8567581

She’s a fake actress, fake acting, anything to get attention because she’s irrelevant

House Bill Would Direct 'Purple Heart Flag' to Be Flown on National Holidays

what are the Dems doing, trying to get military to see them as something other than evil, or maybe there are good Dems

A bill has been introduced in the House that would officially designate a "Purple Heart Flag" and direct that it be flown at federal buildings and memorials on national holidays.

The legislation, introduced last November by Rep. Brian Higgins, D-New York, would amend the U.S. Code to allow for the designation of a flag modeled on the insignia of the Military Order of the Purple Heart.

If passed by the House and Senate and signed by President Donald Trump, the bill would have the Purple Heart Flag flown at the World War II Memorial, the Korean War Memorial, the Vietnam War Memorial, national cemeteries, selected federal buildings and Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals.

The flag should fly on holidays including Armed Forces Day, Memorial Day, National POW/MIA Recognition Day and Veterans Day, according to the bill's language.

In a statement, Higgins, whose district includes the Buffalo, New York, area, said, "Raising the Purple Heart Flag would provide a visual reminder of the wounds our warriors endured and the soldiers who have laid down their lives to uphold the liberties this nation was founded on and continues to hold dear."

In an interview Wednesday, Russ Ward, senior vice commander of Chapter 187 of the Military Order of the Purple Heart in Buffalo, acknowledged that "the nation has more urgent matters to attend to now," referring to the novel coronavirus pandemic. But he said the Purple Heart Flag issue eventually deserves the attention of Congress.

Membership in the Military Order of the Purple Heart is restricted to those who have received the Purple Heart medal.

Ward, 73, is a Purple Heart recipient who was wounded in the left leg while serving as a specialist with the Army's 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam during the Tet offensive of 1968.

Estimates vary on the total number of awards of the Purple Heart, the oldest U.S. combat decoration still given out, but the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor in New Windsor, N.Y., puts the number at more than 1.5 million.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/03/20/house-bill-would-direct-purple-heart-flag-be-flown-national-holidays.html