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I've never heard of anyone being able to justify the expense of a deployment of Guardsmen as a means to appease the public. Was the public clamoring for the National Guard at their airports? Doesn't the NYC public have faith in their own police for airport security?
*shrug*
NYC is full of gimme gimme gimme people with irrational thinking. For example - there was an awful Brooklyn Bridge shooting. A Jewish community clamored for security so NYPD placed a police car with 2 officers each at both ends of the bridge since then.
We have surge drill maybe once or twice a week. It's where an entire police department or some mobilize from point a to point b. I've seen them many times doing it next to my work and Times Square.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJgZGJ1AdMw]NYPD Surge drill on 42nd Street, 10th Sep. 2011 - YouTube[/ame]
Pretty useless to me. Serves nearly no purpose at all but oh well. it's all about a show of force.
huh... I just saw an AWAC flying by... what the heck?