Congressman Paul Gosar (R-AZ) on Thursday despatched a letter to Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin demanding solutions about “the Division of Protection’s (DOD) presence within the Center East,” together with the variety of U.S. army amenities in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, and Yemen, the aim and legality of those amenities, and the variety of U.S. service members stationed in these international locations.
This follows an airstrike at Tower 22 in Jordan, which killed three and injured dozens of Nationwide Guardsmen.
Gosar notes that “Many of the injured are members of the Is Battalion, 158th Infantry Regiment, or “Bushmasters,” of the Arizona Nationwide Guard, together with Guardsmen from Phoenix, Tucson, Florence, Prescott, and Buckeye,” and “As a result of severity of their accidents, three of those Arizonan Guardsmen needed to be medically evacuated for crucial therapy.”
The letter continues, “Final September, greater than 350 Arizona Guardsmen deployed to the Center East as a part of Activity Power Spartan in assist of U.S. Central Command’s Operation Spartan Protect. (OSS) OSS is tasked with drive safety, humanitarian help, and operational assist of U.S. and allied forces within the Center East. Every year from Fiscal Yr 2020 to Fiscal Yr 2022, OSS acquired over $1 million for amenities and base assist. It’s not clear which bases acquired these funds.”
“I’ve no higher precedence than defending the pursuits of Arizonans and conducting oversight of their tax {dollars} spent overseas,” Gosar instructed Austin.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, The White Home introduced Sunday, January 28, that three U.S. service members had been killed and “many wounded” in a drone assault at Tower 22 in Jordan near the border with Syria.
The assault is the primary one to kill U.S. troops out of over one hundred-fifty assaults on U.S. bases and ships within the Center East because the October 7 jihad bloodbath assault on Israel by Hamas. A number of People had been killed within the October 7 assault, and a number of other extra had been taken hostage by Hamas and are nonetheless being held in captivity. Earlier within the month, two Navy SEALs drowned whereas boarding a ship off the coast of Somalia to intercept Iranian weapons certain for Houthi terrorists in Yemen.
Along with three U.S. Servicemembers had been killed, over 40 had been injured, with eight requiring transport to a different location for therapy. The troops had been reportedly in a tent construction sleeping after they had been attacked by a UAS, or unmanned plane system.
The next Friday, the U.S. started retaliatory strikes within the Center East. The airstrikes employed greater than 125 precision munitions, and U.S. army forces struck greater than 85 targets, in keeping with a press release launched by CENTCOM.
This additionally comes after an appalling revelation, the place the Pentagon final month admitted Secretary of Protection Lloyd Austin was hospitalized at Walter Reed Nationwide Army Medical Heart following issues from ‘elective surgical procedure’ – it seems Lloyd Austin had prostate most cancers and hid it from the Biden White Home and the American folks. Austin then refused to reply questions from reporters in regards to the incident last Thursday in his first press convention since his secret hospitalization.
The three servicemembers killed in motion had been all members of the 718th Engineer Firm, a reservist unit out of Fort Moore, Georgia.
The Pentagon released the names of three deceased servicemembers:
- Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, 46, of Carrollton, GA
- Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, of Waycross, GA
- Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, 23, Savannah, GA
deceased servicemembers from left to proper: Rivers, Sanders, Moffett
The Defend the Guard Act, legislation sponsored by State Senator Wendy Rogers in Arizona and launched in a number of states, goals to ban Nationwide Guard troops from being launched into energetic obligation fight except the U.S. Congress has handed an official declaration of battle.
After Arizona Senate Republicans handed this invoice final 12 months with zero Democrat assist, Arizona Home Speaker RINO Ben Toma stonewalled it within the Home, in keeping with a Capitol insider and Deliver our Troops Residence founder Dan McKnight.
The Gateway Pundit reported that the identical invoice handed within the New Hampshire Home of Representatives final month.
“Solely Congress has the authority to declare battle. I applaud the Arizona Senate’s effort to stop the governor from sending our Nationwide Guard forces into energetic obligation fight to struggle unconstitutional eternally wars all around the globe that we now have no enterprise being in,” Congressman Gosar instructed The Gateway Pundit.
Learn the total letter beneath: