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RainCaster

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37. This job belongs to the Marines

Thu Jan 7, 2021, 01:54 AM

Jan 2021

Normally, I'm not a military kinda guy, but the USMC provides security to the USN bases and embassies; and they are skilled at serious site security.
No, our government should not appear to be a military organization. I realize that some may infer that by seeing uniformed and armed security at the people's house. Get used to it; you can't go into any court house in our country without passing through a magnetometer managed by armed police.

I make this suggestion because our citizens need to be secure when they come to visit or work in our government. The current capital security does not offer this.

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