Scary story of the week - An Army Of Gangbangers

Military.com reports:

The FBI has assigned an agent to monitor any connections between U.S. Soldiers and a Chicago-based gang alliance, federal agents said.

Of particular concern are reports that the Folk Nation, consisting of more than a dozen gangs in the Chicago area, is placing young members in the military in an effort to gather information about weapons and tactics, said FBI Special Agent Andrea Simmons, who is based in El Paso, Texas.

"Our understanding is that they find members without a criminal history so that they can join, and once they get out, they will have a new set of skills that they can apply to criminal enterprises," Simmons said. "This could be a concern for any law enforcement agency that has to deal with gangs on a daily basis."

Chicago gang symbols can be found amid other graffiti, mostly in latrines on U.S. military bases such as Camp Fallujah in Iraq's Anbar Province.

But so far, the military doesn't think it's much of a problem:

"In nearly every one of the cases that we have looked into, it is a young man or woman who thought that the symbol looked cool," said Christopher Grey, spokesman for the Army's Criminal Investigation Command. "We have found some people even get gang tattoos not really knowing what they are, or at least that they have not had any gang affiliation the past."

Still, Army investigators have opened 10 cases in the last year in which evidence of gang activity was found, he said.

Some of those cases have since been closed, but no further details were released by the military.

"We're looking at a million-plus people in the Army," he said. "Any suggestion that this is rampant, we just don't see that."

"Rampancy" isn't the problem.  Just fifty men with expertise on how to use automatic rifles or RPG's or how to build effective IED's -- and who could establish a "pipeline" to get that kind of equipment into civilian hands -- would spell disaster for police.  The mission of our police forces (which defines how they are equipped and trained) does not include fighting urban warfare.  They will adapt if they have to, but not before much destruction has been wrought and much innocent blood has been shed.  This is truly scary.

But notice that this story primarily concerns the Army.  Could it be that none of these tough-guy gang-bangers has what it takes to cut it in the Marine Corps?

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