great article if anyone missed it- very important stuff in there
JTF-NCR
Maj. Gen. Jones
Army 3rd Inf. Reg.
Largest unit
The Old Guard
guards- the tomb of the unknown soldier
buuut- “behind the scenes”
<movie reference
reverts to it’s true roots
“roots”
think tree
of liberty
The Old Guard is secretly busy watering the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants, traitors and scum.
Also note the Old Guard contains soldiers that do public events. Face unit. These are the guys Army wants to show. If there’s any filming or documenting to do for public consumption Army would naturally have these show up…
Highlights
To conduct his multiple missions, Maj. Gen. Jones has a force of over 10,000. They are doing everything from watching Washington's airspace, to standing by for emergency bomb disposal, to staying ready to carry out law enforcement duties should there be a greater catastrophe and need for military intervention.
His largest unit, the 3rd Infantry Regiment, also known as "The Old Guard," normally supplies the spit-shined guards at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers and conduct the Army's most public events. But behind the scenes, the 3rd Regiment reverts to its true infantry origins. With activation of the Joint Task Force, the Regiment has been given responsibility to "conduct homeland defense and civil support operations to defend and secure the National Capital Region."
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tucked away in that same March 26 order were others assigned to JTF-NCR—including secret special operations units, the so-called "National Mission Force"—units that were directed to sequester in operational facilities and split up into multiple shifts, creating a primary and back-up group that would be available for immediate deployment.
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Maj. Gen. Jones gave an interview to "Fort Meade Declassified" on March 17, an official and breezy official podcast about goings on in the Washington area military. There he talked about growing up in Maryland and his job as senior officer responsible for the Washington battlefield. When asked what he was doing in his leisure time, he said that he had just finished reading a book about the riots in Washington, DC in 1968 following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. The name of that book? "A Nation on Fire."
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From the article:
jones interview
new podcast
ft. meade declassified
https://www.army.mil/article/232020/fort_meade_public_affairs_unveils_new_garrison_podcast_fort_meade_declassified
The community will be able to leave feedback on Fort Meade's various digital platforms including its Facebook and Instagram pages.
Listeners can also send topics and questions to the cast's hosts, Joe Nieves, digital media manager, and Sherry Kuiper, chief of community relations.
Every fifth episode of "Declassified" will have a "mail call" where questions will be answered.
The podcast can be found on all of the Fort Meade Public Affairs social media accounts and the Defense Visual Information Distribution System (DVIDShub.net) as Fort Meade Declassified at https://www.dvidshub.net/unit/FGGMPA.
https://www.dvidshub.net/unit/FGGMPA
Jones interview here:
https://www.dvidshub.net/audio/63164/fort-meade-declassified-special-episode-with-mg-omar-jones
there are several other episodes, they are all here:
https://www.dvidshub.net/search/?filter%5Bunit%5D=FGGMPA&filter%5Btype%5D=audio&sort=date
gonna go ahead and post this right here before listening to audio in case anyone else wants to see this now, could take a while to get through it