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Aunt Nancy USA - Support The Troops Welcome! Note I closed my website and email for AuntNancyUSA.com after 10+ years. Future projects will now be organized only here through this page.

It began in 2003 when my niece Sara and her husband Nate were stationed in Baghdad. Some people submit names of troops, other sign up to send mail to the troops. And dedicated to my WWII veteran father.

10/03/2025

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10/03/2025
Only when the orders are lawful
10/03/2025

Only when the orders are lawful

10/03/2025

The military has to set up against this insanity. Soon.

10/03/2025

🚨 BREAKING: Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General Mark Hertling just bravely TORCHED Donald Trump for his un-American and outright DANGEROUS call for the U.S. military to “train” in — and wage “war” on — America’s liberal cities.

At a surreal event in Quantico where Trump rambled in front of 800 generals, admirals, and senior enlisted leaders, the disgraced ex-president floated the idea of using American neighborhoods as military training grounds — effectively preparing troops to turn their weapons on fellow Americans.

With a straight face, Trump told the room: “We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military.” He ranted that the U.S. is facing an “invasion from within, no different than a foreign enemy,” and singled out San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles as targets. Then he added chillingly: “We’re going to straighten them out one by one. And this is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room.”

On the Daily Beast podcast, retired Lieutenant General Mark Hertling — who spent decades leading American soldiers and commanded U.S. Army Europe — heard every word. And his warning could not be clearer: Trump’s proposal isn’t just reckless. It’s unconstitutional, illegal, and a direct threat to the Republic.

“Breaking that razor’s edge into policing activities, again, is contrary to the Constitution and contrary to our laws, so it shouldn’t be done,” Hertling said bluntly. “What I heard the president say yesterday was an implied remark that he was telling everyone in that room is be prepared to do that. And that only happens once an insurrection occurs, like during the Civil War.”

Think about that. A decorated general is saying out loud that Trump is priming the military to step into the role of an occupying force in American cities — something our democracy has avoided for 250 years.

Hertling laid out why this is so dangerous. Soldiers are trained for combat, not policing. “Soldiers do not get any training on police activities other than those who are going to be military police men and women. So you’re putting an infantryman, a tanker, a truck driver in front of America’s people. And that would be like saying you and I could go out and arrest people and quell riots and do all those kind of things.”

In his words, the military is the “means of last resort” for any domestic emergency — “primarily because they’re not trained to do things like that. And secondarily, because it’s against the law.”

That last phrase says it all: against the law. Trump is not just fantasizing about a new role for the armed forces. He’s toying with illegal orders that would put America’s military officers in an impossible position.

“Soldiers do not get any training on police activities other than those who are going to be military police men and women," Hertling continued. "So you’re putting an infantryman, a tanker, a truck driver in front of America’s people. And that would be like saying you and I could go out and arrest people and quell riots and do all those kind of things.”

And according to Hertling, those officers know it. “I know for a fact that there’s talk inside the military ranks of what is the best way to disobey an unlawful order,” he revealed. But thanks to Trump’s allies on the Supreme Court, the president himself may be shielded from accountability, leaving the burden — and the risk of prosecution — squarely on the shoulders of the generals and admirals he’s pressuring. “Given the recent Supreme Court ruling, which holds the president immune from criminal acts, but the people he’s ordering to do these things are subject to those criminal violations… how do you say no? Hertling asked, pointing to the chilling dilemma.

This isn’t abstract. Hertling himself has faced down illegal orders before — and stopped them. “In each one of those cases … my bosses … said, yeah, you’re probably right. This is illegal. Let’s change this order.” That’s what professional military leadership looks like. But under Trump, Hertling fears that chain of integrity will be broken.

Even America’s allies are rattled. Hertling says foreign commanders have been reaching out, asking why the U.S. military is suddenly being berated and politicized. His answer is grim: our enemies love it, because it shows Trump’s chaos strategy is working.

Trump gave the country a preview of what a second term would look like: a commander-in-chief demanding loyalty, encouraging illegal orders, and hinting at turning troops against fellow Americans. Hertling’s verdict is unflinching: it’s unconstitutional, unlawful, and corrosive to everything the U.S. military stands for.

This is not leadership. It’s authoritarian theater, dressed up as military strategy. And as General Hertling is warning us: if we don’t stop Trump now, the next “war” he launches could be against ANY of us.

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10/03/2025

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10/03/2025

I haven't been a military spouse in more than a decade, but there are some things you don't forget. One of them is OPSEC, and the other is that as an O4 he was one of the lowest-ranking officers in the room. Of course, there's more, but that's not the point of this post.

The point of this post is to say that our Secretary of Defense, an extremely important job that calls for decades of experience leading large numbers of military members on the field and off, doesn't understand OPSEC. We've seen this play out multiple times with unsecured communications that could have very well put military members in danger.

We saw him once again disregard the safety of not only our military members, but also the military brass. This man called hundreds of generals, admirals, and colonels, along with their security detail, to ONE LOCATION where he, the Secretary of Defense, and the Commander in Chief would be. The entire upper military chain of command for all branches, sitting in one room on a date that was publicly disclosed in advance, to lecture them about stuff that could've easily been an email.

To give perspective of how low-ranking our current Secretary of Defense is, I could walk into a recruiter's office right now and be a couple ranks below him. This man was in the reserves, never full-time active duty outside of his deployments. I probably spent more time on a military base as a spouse than he did in his entire career.

For these highly decorated military leaders to be forced to leave their members in countries around the world just to listen to someone they outrank by an embarrassing level, lecture them about military standards is highly infuriating. These people have important jobs. He endangered their lives, his, the president's, and any members left behind with lower-ranking officers who rely on access to those sitting in that room like neon flashing targets.

The physical threat isn't the only way he puts them in danger. He also risked their health. Covid still exists; if one of them were sick and asymptomatic, the entire chain of command is at risk.

These decorated military leaders, who literally keep us safe, making decisions we will never know about, decisions that Kegsbreath couldn't even fathom, had to listen to an oily, bloated, red-faced alcoholic behaving as if he snorted a few lines before going on stage, telling them about the military standards being too low. They were forced to salute someone they had the authority to strip of his rank, and for that reason, I will never get over how ridiculous we look on the world stage.

I'm sure after that display, there is some government adversary somewhere thinking about how easily they could do something nefarious. He just advertised his incompetence on a global scale while the world watched the leaders of "the strongest military on earth" salute him.

Then they shut down the government.

Hopefully, the leaders were able to fly out last night before the government shut down, so they weren't stranded. We really have a cabinet full of unserious people who think everything is a production because they're all either reality show stars and podcasters. They always holler about DEI (which just means Black) and merit-based hiring when none of these people are qualified to be in the roles that they're in.

Jesus, be some common sense and detox because we are being run by clowns with substance use problems. This cannot be real life. We all have to be in cryosleep pods while we're being catapulted to our new planet, and this is a bad collective nightmare.

**Edited to correct his rank. Messed it up out of frustration. Doesn't change that he was the lowest-ranked person in the room.

05/28/2023

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