'Doesn't make any sense': Guardsmen blast MAGA governor over protest deployment

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Raw Story

June 13, 2025 9:23PM ET


Gov. Greg Abbott's (R-TX) decision to activate thousands of National Guard troops for protests has left guardsmen scrambling, with at least one officer slamming the move as senseless.

Abbott said more than 5,000 Texas National Guard troops — along with over 2,000 state police officers — were deployed across the state ahead of what's expected to be large-scale protests against federal immigration raids and President Donald Trump’s actions. Nationwide "No Kings" protests were scheduled for the weekend, including in Houston, Austin, Dallas, and San Antonio.

The Austin American-Statesman reported Friday afternoon that internal memos showed military leaders were forced to scramble to find and train enough personnel for their new orders. Of the 5,000, half were pulled off a border security mission. The memos illustrated what the report characterized as a "potentially rushed timeline for training on crowd control and de-escalation methods."

Two Guardsmen expressed serious concerns to the newspaper over the deployment, including an officer who said they should "never have been mobilized in the first place." “I was shocked that they were mobilizing the amount of people that they were mobilizing,” the officer told the Statesman. “It doesn’t make any sense to me why we would be activated in such large numbers against the citizens we’re sworn to protect.”

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/texas-national-guard/

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REFERENCE - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143476160

(as a note, the referenced article at the "Austin American-Statesman" is completely paywalled - https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/state/2025/06/13/internal-documents-show-texas-national-guard-scrambling-to-find-trained-soldiers-for-protests/84193242007/)

[sheshe2]

1. He's right.

It doesn’t make any sense to me why we would be activated in such large numbers against the citizens we’re sworn to protect.”

[ananda]

5. The only thing Texas officials want to protect is themselves...

and the rich, moneyed interests.

Other citizens are irrelevant and dispensable.

[Marthe48]

2. We'll see today how many NG and military will follow their oath

and refuse to fire on crowds of civilians

[RainCaster]

3. Only one officer?

I sure hope that the majority of those officers feel the same way. And lead with that same conviction.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. There may be others mentioned in the "Austin American-Statesman" article

but I couldn't read the article at all.

BUT - I just found that this was a "shared" article and the "Houston Chronicle" also has the same one -

Internal documents show Texas National Guard scrambling to find trained soldiers for protests

[riversedge]

10. I was blocked twice--even with google sign in.

[riversedge]

9. My guess is that this officer will be put on desk duty far away from action IMHO. or worse??

[Attilatheblond]

4. Attention drug smugglers & coyotes!

The border between TX and Mexico will be safer to cross today due to Gov Abbot kissing Trump's ass and acting like US citizens are hardened criminals.

[littlemissmartypants]

6. Exactly. These fascists are not very smart, are they?

[Clouds Passing]

7. Scabbott is senseless. You can't get sense from the senseless.