Ed at Hot Air:

“Why does the Guard need these positions filled? It may have escaped notice, but we sent a lot of National Guard units into combat areas of Iraq as we stretched to meet the personnel needs of occupation. They took both combat and support roles for regular Army and Marine units in Iraq, and part of that effort involved holding detainees captured by combat troops. The need for disciplined training in this particular specialty became painfully and publicly clear after Abu Ghraib (although that involved the 372nd Military Police Company of the Army). The need for relocation efforts comes from any war situation where civilians get displaced en masse, as well as peacekeeping efforts in post-war situations.

Whenever and wherever Guard units get deployed, some of them have to be trained in handling prisoners. That job requires specialists with specific training and discipline for the job. The Guard advertises for those positions presumably because they figure that training and experience could be attractive to people who want to be law-enforcement officers (just as MP service in the other branches is), or who perhaps already are in law enforcement and want to serve their country in the discipline they know.

It’s not really a great mystery, nor is it a conspiracy to set up camps for political dissenters.”

Only one problem with the analysis. Army MOS 31E is a “Corrections Specialist”, formerly it was 95C when I went through the training in 1985.

The skill levels of 31E:

* Skill Level 1 MOSC 31E1O. Assists with supervision and management of military prisoners, and provides external security to confinement/ corrections facility.

* Skill Level 2 MOSC 31E2O. Supervises, counsels and manages military prisoners in confinement/correction facilities.

* Skill Level 3 MOSC 31E3O. Supervises confinement facility operations, counseling, management, training and employment of military prisoners in confinement/corrections facility.

* Skill Level 4 MOSC 31E4O. Supervises confinement facility operations and establishes procedures for counseling, management, training and employment of military prisoners in confinement/correction facility.

* Skill Level 5 MOSC 31E5O. Supervises and establishes procedures for all type activities within confinement/correction facility.

Now the description on the guard site:

“Internment / Resettlement Specialists in the Army are primarily responsible for day-to-day operations in a military confinement/correctional facility or detention/internment facility. Internment / Resettlement Specialists provide rehabilitative, health, welfare, and security to US military prisoners within a confinement or correctional facility; provide custody, control, supervision and security to internees within a detention/internment facility; conduct inspections; prepare written reports; coordinate activities of prisoners/internees and staff personnel.

Some of your duties as an Internment / Resettlement Specialist may include:

* Assisting with supervision and management of confinement and detention operations
* Providing internal or external security to confinement/corrections facilities or detention/internment facilities
* Providing custody, control, supervision and escort to all security levels of U.S. military prisoners or internees/detainees
* Counseling and guidance to individual prisoners within a rehabilitative program
* Preparing or reviewing reports and records of prisoners/internees and programs”

The additional inclusion of of “Internment” and “Resettlement” are curious I would admit. The last time these words were used to describe military containment operations was during WWII with the Japanese Internment Camps in the US.

Is the the possibly that the Obama administration would set up such “camps” to quell naysayers and “infidels”? I mean would we draw such a conclusion from Obama’s attempts at squashing free speech thus far?

You decide.

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