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LINK More Bureaucrats Carry Guns Than United States Marines.

This is very troubling to me. Why does the Executive Branch have to be its own army?

FuzzyMarineVet 8 Oct 6
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Because elected and appointed members (and former and retired members) of the Executive Branch of Gov't as well as the Legislature and the Judiciary branches are high profile targets for assassination and kidnapping threats.
Members of the Marine Corps, the US Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard who are NOT deployed into an active hostile theater (war zone) are pretty much like everyday people who go to work every day; do their jobs and return home day in and day out.
Your typical enlisted and commissioned personnel are NOT in need of carrying firearms unless they are deployed into a hostile environment.
The POTUS, Vice POTUS, and down the chain of succession are all much more likely to be targeted than anyone else.
You, me, our kids and grandkids are generally not in harms way in our day to day lives. There is a very low order of probability that the average citizen will be kidnapped or assassinated.

Did you read the article? There are over 200,000 armed Executive Branch LEOs and only 186,000 active duty and reserve United States Marines. It has nothing about the personal concealed carry permits.

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The Marines themselves are actually a part of the Executive Branch, aren't they?

And with a chief executive like Biden, it makes the thought scary.

The military branches are under control of the Executive Branch, but Congress is always the final authority on military affairs. Nothing can legally be done under the Constitution with the military unless Congress first authorizes it with an act that is signed into law.

@FuzzyMarineVet Well, they certainly fund the armed forces. But the Constitution makes the President he Commander-in-chief. I don't think it's true that “Nothing can legally be done under the Constitution with the military unless Congress first authorizes it with an act that is signed into law.” Actually, the president can do a lot with the military.

"Article II, Section 2, Clause 1

"The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States....

"The Commander in Chief Clause assures that there can be no military force beyond the president’s control. The military cannot be made an independent force (thus guaranteeing civilian authority over it), and it cannot be made to report to an entity other than the president (such as Congress, as under the Articles of Confederation). Further, as commander in chief, the president has authority over the deployment and operations of the military in peacetime, and over the conduct of military strategy, tactics and objectives once war has begun. In his discussion of the president’s powers in The Federalist No. 72, Hamilton observed that the “administration of government” falls “peculiarly within the province of the executive department.” That power includes the conduct of foreign affairs, the preparation of the budget, the expenditure of appropriated funds, and the direction of the military and “the operations of war.” As the Framers understood, success in the conduct of war demands the unique qualities of the president—unity, decisiveness, speed, secrecy, and energy.

"Two substantial constitutional debates involve the Commander in Chief Clause. The first is whether the clause permits the president to initiate war without Congress’s approval. As discussed in connection with the Declare War Clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 11), some scholars believe the president does have this independent power, while others believe that the Declare War Clause gives war-initiation power exclusively to Congress. As further noted in connection with the Declare War Clause, almost all scholars believe that the Commander in Chief Clause gives the president power to respond to attacks on the United States.

"The second debate is the extent to which Congress can by statute or appropriations direct the way that the president controls the military. For example, Congress enacted or considered enacting statutes or restrictions on appropriations directing the president to take or refrain from taking specific actions in the War on Terrorism and in the conflict in Iraq. Congress of course has authority over the creation and supply of the military under Article I, Section 8—the legislature has no constitutional obligation to provide the weapons that the president wants to carry out his chosen war plans. It is less clear, however, whether and when Congress can intervene to compel the president to take particular actions regarding military operations. To some scholars, the president’s power under the Commander in Chief Clause is plenary, allowing no congressional intervention. Others believe that Congress’s various powers over war and the military allow a full range of congressional interventions—thus finding the president’s authority as commander in chief to be only residual, to be exercised in the absence of specific statutory direction. A third view holds that Congress has authority to restrict and direct the authority of the commander in chief in certain areas but not others.

"Traditionally the courts treated decisions made by the president as commander in chief with great deference. Recent cases involving the War on Terrorism raised questions about the relationship between the commander in chief power and the courts. In Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004), the Supreme Court held that the writ of habeas corpus extended to the president’s decision to declare a U.S.-born detainee in the War on Terrorism an “enemy combatant.” Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006) found that the president’s unilateral creation of military commissions (specialized war crimes tribunals used in most major American wars) violated the Uniform Code of Military Justice enacted by Congress. In 2008, in Boumediene v. Bush, the Court held that habeas corpus extended even to non-citizen detainees held outside the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In each case, strong dissents argued that the Court was interfering with the president’s traditional power as commander in chief."

Cited from: [heritage.org]

@FuzzyMarineVet I believe POTUS is "Commander in Chief" - in some certain circumstances the POTUS can activate and order military to deploy and this has been done numerous times.
The Congress has a limited number of days to either approve or to disapprove that action. If Congress approves then we are officially in a state of "declared war"

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