Martial law: Obama confiscates National Guard helicopters from all 50 states (UPDATED)

Examiner.com  "As if the Obama administration's purchase of more than 2 billion rounds of ammunition, and nearly 3,000 urban tanks, along with their unprecedented (and highly illegal) domestic spying program was not enough to convince you that the federal government is about to suspend the Constitution once and for all, the man who once vowed to run "the most transparent administration in history" has just rather inexplicably, ordered the U.S. Army to seize every Apache attack helicopter currently in use by the National Guard."

It isn't as if Obama needs them for a larger military; he's downsizing that. See if they go into storage somewhere.
Hat tip to Harley Standlee; Placerville, Ca.

Proposed Apache cuts worry former SC Guard leader   "A Pentagon budget plan to take Army National Guard Apache attack helicopters from America’s citizen-soldiers doesn’t sit well with the South Carolina general who commanded an Apache battalion and flew the fearsome choppers for 1,500 hours during his 37-year career.
“ 'It could be problematic for the U.S. Army as a whole. You are losing upward of 20 years of experience that we, the nation, need,” said Maj. Gen. Les Eisner ...

Army Would take Apaches from Nat'l Guard   ..."That would be a reversal of the work that has been done to make the National Guard and reserves into a force that, with a few months lead time, can be used interchangeably with active-duty units, as has happened frequently during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. To achieve that, guard and reserve forces have acquired the same equipment, trained to the same standards and served on deployments of the same length as their active-duty counterparts, most of them at part-time pay while working regular full-time jobs."

An aviation restructuring plan would take all the National Guard's Apaches, just under 200 aircraft from eight attack battalions

"Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., has proposed a bill that would forestall the shifting of helicopters and establish a commission to look at the future structure of the Army, a move Guard leaders support as both forces determine how best to reduce their numbers in coming years. The Guard would like the Army's aviation restructuring to be postponed until a commission can look at the issues."   So glad to see Rep. Wilson still on the job.  Remember "You lie!"?