Afghans first, Americans last.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
In 2019, members of the 2nd Battalion, 127th Infantry returned home from Afghanistan. In early October, the 127th left Appleton, Wisconsin and traveled to Fort McCoy for training.
Unfortunately, Fort McCoy was already occupied by an estimated 13,000 Afghan “refugees”.
According to Rep. Tom Tiffany, who has paid several visits to Fort McCoy, the base only has the capacity to house 10,000 people, and is struggling to cope with the overflow in tents. When they first arrived some 600 Afghans had been quarantined with a variety of infectious conditions.
Fort McCoy, located in rural Wisconsin between the small cities of Sparta and Tomah, started out as an artillery range and its barracks were intended to house military personnel arriving for training exercises, not huge numbers of foreign migrants. The barracks, which were built during World War II, are in poor condition and a new construction project only recently got underway.
Even while hosting the largest population of Afghan migrants in the country, Fort McCoy struggled to maintain its training role. Over 100,000 troops had trained there during the fiscal year with personnel from all of the services participating in everything from cold weather operations (it gets pretty cold in that part of the country) and various exercises.
When the 127th arrived, the barracks they were meant to sleep in had already been taken. With Afghans sleeping in their barracks and their beds, they reportedly had to sleep outside instead.
“The summers are warm and wet; the winters are freezing, snowy, and windy,” is how the local weather has been described. In October the weather had begun its slow descent from warm and wet to freezing, but it was not the Afghans who were expected to deal with the weather.
According to a Department of Defense spokesperson, “The 2-127 Infantry Battalion was offered access to the hard structures in the field, as the barracks on post are currently occupied by our Afghan guests.” The spokesperson also insisted that, “There were no unexpected weather events during the training and no impact to the Fort McCoy mission or training for the service members.” And yet according to some the impact on morale has been quite serious.
The displacement of American soldiers to make way for Afghan migrants was symbolic of events in Washington D.C. and at Fort McCoy where refugee meals closely follow Islamic Sharia and liquor was removed from the shelves of the PX so as not to offend the Afghans.
The men of the “Red Arrow” are used to challenges. With a history that includes the Iron Brigade of the Civil War and the Les Terribles in WWI, and as members of the Wisconsin National Guard, they’re not afraid of weather. But the displacement drove home to them where the priorities of the military brass lie, not with the soldiers who served in Afghanistan, but the Afghans whom the Taliban waved past their terrorist checkpoints in Kabul and on to America.
Some no longer recognize Fort McCoy, divided into Afghan “neighborhoods” where the hated Shuras (an Islamic form of tribal governance) have been reconvened and are dictating to base personnel the way that they did during the failed “hearts and minds” efforts in Afghanistan.
The national media, which had little interest in Fort McCoy when it was filled with American heroes training to save lives and win wars, has swarmed over the place. The Today Show, among many others, has filmed canned propaganda segments touting carefully selected Afghan refugees, usually young, western, and female, who locals say are unrepresentative of the thousands of covered and frightened young women, many of them pregnant, in the barracks.
Sources say that reporters are asked to leave their cars behind in the visitor lot and then bused over to selected locations. Camera interviews are usually conducted at the main gate to avoid anything problematic in the background.
What are they worried about?
Since the Afghans swarmed into Fort McCoy, two Afghan refugees are federal facing charges, one for “attempting to engage in a sexual act with a minor” and another for “assaulting his spouse by strangling and suffocating her”. But that may only be the tip of a very large iceberg.
A leaked State Department document contained multiple reports of “child brides” and polygamous marriages at Fort McCoy. Wisconsin Democrats however tried to shut down reports by whistleblowers about the abuse of young girls happening right on our military bases.
“There are no cases in Fort McCoy right now with child, 15-or- under, who is married,” Sen. Tammy Baldwin contended in a very precisely worded denial leaving open the question of whether such cases had existed in the past or whether the children weren’t technically married.
Locals in nearby Sparta whose medical resources have been drafted into the Afghan refugee crisis however describe large numbers of pregnant women, some looking very young and a threatening atmosphere where calls to emergency services in the small city are a constant.
The media plays up stories of impoverished refugees, but sources say that the Fort McCoy Post Exchange keeps running out of smaller bills because the Afghan refugees have plenty of hundred dollar bills to spend. Not to mention credit cards and cell phones.
While locals have generously donated their own clothing, the Islamic Society of Milwaukee has been conducting its own clothing drive focused on hijabs and “traditional” and “modest clothing” for the women. The infidel clothes apparently weren’t sufficiently compliant with Sharia law.
Despite media disinformation, few if any of the Afghans were “interpreters”, many did not even speak English, and the vast majority had not received visas to come to the United States, When the Biden administration surrendered Kabul to the Taliban, it allowed the terrorist group to man the checkpoints and pick which Afghans (and Americans) were allowed to make it to the airport.
The Afghans who had legitimate visas based on their time working for the United States were not allowed through. Some may have been abducted and killed after the Biden administration turned over lists of visa recipients to the Taliban. Only 1,800 SIV visa holders made it here. Another 50,000 were Afghans who had no legal right to be here and once in this country began committing crimes and disappearing from the bases that were hosting them.
Many in Sparta are worried about what this influx of Afghan migrants means for them.
When Cuban refugees were housed at Fort McCoy, some stayed on in the area. Locals are concerned that history may repeat itself with the large number of Afghans. Even if only a few hundred are left behind, they could significantly change the character of the area.
To some locals, the sight of Americans being displaced by Afghans may be their future.
somehistory says
Really an awful thing that biden, controlled from behind the thin curtain by ‘o’ and soros are making happen…on purpose.
“no impact to the Fort McCoy mission or training for the service members.”
“No impact” means that the military guys who are being made to sleep on “hard” surfaces outside are not allowed to say how they are being “impacted.”
It means that those guys who would like a beer or ham sandwich are not allowed to say how they feel about not being allowed to have these because mozlums are now in charge….
The mozlum males who are making decisions about how things are going…just as they did in afghanistan…how long before the screams of little boys will fill the night air?
How many of these guys will continue to “serve”?
It’s truly revolting. Much like the National Guard in d.c. were made to endure awful conditions when the lying wimps of congress were “terrified” of The People.
Treating Americans like dirt and mozlum scum rats like the kings they believe themselves to be.
Fitna says
First impeach Biden and Kamala. Then send them all back. As Robert suggested if Afghanistan is unsafe, there are plenty of other Islamic nations where they’ll fit right in with their language and culture like Pakistan as they’re neighbours.
It’s one thing if you want to give some money to a homeless person or family. It’s another to invite them to stay at your house and live with your family. Then you go to the extreme by throwing your own family out of your house and give the rooms to the invaders. This is exactly what the Biden admin is doing to its own people.
I recall there were similar stories in Germany, they were throwing elderly homeowners and renters out of their homes to make room for fit fighting-age Muslim and African benefits scroungers.
I’ve seen stupid leaders and gov’ts over time but none so bad as the incompetent morons in power in western nations today.
somehistory says
I, too, recall, the German gov making the citizens move from their homes…to become homeless…in order for the mozlum invaders to take up residence…not caring for how their homes were treated by these bums, and making no effort to take care of people who had obeyed the laws and paid taxes for decades.
Thinking that one day, it might come here.
Fitna says
@SH and GI
Yes it’s horrible news…those people should sue the govt for what they did to them. If it can happen in a rich democratic nation like Germany it can happen anywhere.
It seems Merkel and her lackeys are paving the way for Germany to become an Islamic state without any opposition.
Demography really can’t be ‘fixed.’ Once you change the character of your nation and make your own people/culture a minority there is no going back, except by extreme force or warfare.
Those migrants are here to stay…they’ll multiply like rats and 20-40 years from now, Germans and Muslims will probably be at each other’s throats telling each other who the country really belongs to.
Given the great weakness, treachery and cowardice we’ve seen so far, most likely the Muslims will win that argument…since the Germans for years have been giving it away to them anyways while screwing over and demonizing their fellow Germans who never asked for this (or opposed it).
James Lincoln says
Fitna says
“Those migrants are here to stay…they’ll multiply like rats and 20-40 years from now, Germans and Muslims will probably be at each other’s throats telling each other who the country really belongs to.”
According to Pew Research, a continued high migration scenario would put the Muslim population of Germany at about 20% by 2050 – well past the tipping point…
https://www.pewforum.org/2017/11/29/europes-growing-muslim-population/
gravenimage says
Terrible stories, Fitna and Somehistory, Here are a couple of them:
“German court evicts elderly couple from home to accommodate refugees”
The 76-year-old man and his 73-year-old partner have to leave their six-room apartment, which they have been renting for 25 years
https://rmx.news/article/german-court-evicts-elderly-couple-from-home-to-accommodate-refugees/
“German woman becomes the second to be evicted from her home to make room for migrants – as the country begins printing its constitution in Arabic for refugees to learn ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3256156/German-woman-second-evicted-home-make-room-migrants-country-begins-printing-constitution-Arabic-refugees-learn.html
Fitna says
@Graven, pls see my response to you both in the post above.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Fitna. I still don’t think it is too late for Europe–but it will be if suicidal policies like this one continue.
Kenneth J Johnson says
No liqur in the PX. This is just one more step in the direction of SHERI, in the United States yet. Let the Muslems adapt, not us. Whoever madethis decisio should be fired.
KEN
somehistory says
Evidently, the mozlums made the rule.
Check Burry says
With you there Ken. No military should be treated like this.
I hope a day of reconing will come. Throughout the West.
Barbara says
This wrong on so many levels. As bad as it was when Pelosi ordered the NG to sleep in the parking garage, this is 100X worse.
Why is the military not allowing the soldiers to comment on the base? Could it be the military is being treated like trash.
Spiro says
Move along move along nothing to see here
Make sure you get your poison shot of experimental vaccine
Stolen election has consequences
No push back but the msm is in bead with DNC so what would we expect
gravenimage says
Soldiers Forced to Bunk Outdoors While Afghan Refugees Slept in Their Barracks
“There were no unexpected weather events during the training and no impact to the Fort McCoy mission or training for the service members.”
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In other words, US soldiers had to keep up their vigorous training regimen, despite having to sleep outside in tents. As noted, these soldiers are touch and can handle this–but should they have to? Right now, temperatures are in the high 30s, with windy conditions–and given the time of year, this is only goin to get worse.
More:
The displacement of American soldiers to make way for Afghan migrants was symbolic of events in Washington D.C. and at Fort McCoy where refugee meals closely follow Islamic Sharia and liquor was removed from the shelves of the PX so as not to offend the Afghans.
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No one is forcing Afghans to drink liquor–so why does it hav to be removed from PX shelves, to inconvenience military personnel? Are these Muslims going to demand that civilian shops also remove liquor–and pork, and to close in the daytime during Ramadan–with threats to follow if they do not?
More:
Some no longer recognize Fort McCoy, divided into Afghan “neighborhoods” where the hated Shuras (an Islamic form of tribal governance) have been reconvened and are dictating to base personnel the way that they did during the failed “hearts and minds” efforts in Afghanistan.
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Why are base leaders allowing this?
And worse–there is sexual violence–wife beating, child brides, polygamy, and assault of female military personnel.
More:
The media plays up stories of impoverished refugees, but sources say that the Fort McCoy Post Exchange keeps running out of smaller bills because the Afghan refugees have plenty of hundred dollar bills to spend. Not to mention credit cards and cell phones.
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I don’t have a wallet full of $100 bills. This reminds me of the story here where the US had left pallets of $100 bills befind in Afghanistan…
More:
While locals have generously donated their own clothing, the Islamic Society of Milwaukee has been conducting its own clothing drive focused on hijabs and “traditional” and “modest clothing” for the women. The infidel clothes apparently weren’t sufficiently compliant with Sharia law.
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Not likely to become part of American society…
Besides, the idea that Muslims are “modest” always angers me–as though there is anything “modest” about “marrying” nine-year-old girls, polygamy, and keeping sex slaves.
More:
Despite media disinformation, few if any of the Afghans were “interpreters”, many did not even speak English, and the vast majority had not received visas to come to the United States, When the Biden administration surrendered Kabul to the Taliban, it allowed the terrorist group to man the checkpoints and pick which Afghans (and Americans) were allowed to make it to the airport.
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Yes–*deeply* disturbing. If most of these “refugees” were really interpreters, this would not be an issue at all. Perhaps a few spouses might not speak English, but they could get their families to translate for them. Clearly this is in most cases a lie.
More:
The Afghans who had legitimate visas based on their time working for the United States were not allowed through. Some may have been abducted and killed after the Biden administration turned over lists of visa recipients to the Taliban. Only 1,800 SIV visa holders made it here. Another 50,000 were Afghans who had no legal right to be here and once in this country began committing crimes and disappearing from the bases that were hosting them.
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Yes–even more disturbing.
“U.S. Rep. Tiffany demands answers on child bride allegations at Wisconsin’s Fort McCoy”
https://www.thecentersquare.com/wisconsin/u-s-rep-tiffany-demands-answers-on-child-bride-allegations-at-wisconsins-fort-mccoy/article_186f250c-1b0c-11ec-ac62-47655a91ebac.html
I don’t know if, over a month later, Congressman Tiffany has gotten any answers…
tgusa says
With General Bendover in charge this should be expected.
tgusa says
Joe Biden in 2008.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKf7xQtPukA
VICTOR COWEN says
One of your correspondents above posts “the person who made the decision should be fired”
Has the world not realised yet that nobody ever gets fired when it comes to Muzzies.
Roll on Donald when we had half a chance.
Check Burry says
+1000%
The above article re Fort McCoy reminds me of a song
Roll over Beethoven.
All over the USA.
I hope these Rollovers stop in 2024.
Infidel says
Nothing I can say on this story w/o triggering a ban
OLD GUY says
Yes are current President and his administration are more concerned about the life and safety of illegal migrants and un-vetted Afghan refugees than they ever will be about American citizens and Tax Payers. I think our history started with something like “TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION” causing the revolution against the ruling government. History dose repeat it’s self from time to time. Maybe we need a tax payer revolt, if we all stop paying our taxes what are they the IRS and Government going to do? Arrest all of us? I forgot they will just print more money and borrow from China their buddy.