This was done by SS and Latvian home guardsmen.
According to part of his account, "After the civilian guards with the yellow armbands shouted once again, I was able to identify them as Latvian home guardsmen.
The platoon was ambushed en route, with 14 Home Guardsmen being captured.
The small garrison of Gacko was anticipating an attack by rebels during the night, but in the afternoon 180 Home Guardsmen that had withdrawn from Avtovac arrived to bolster their position, and the night passed without incident.
Even grimmer, if that is possible, than "The Guards," THE KILLING OF THE TINKERS (St. Martin's Minotaur, $22.95), Ken Bruen's second Jack Taylor crime novel, finds this discredited ex-guardsman back home in Galway, his latest attempt at redemption a hollow joke.
"Since we were just back from vacation and had little to eat in the house, I naïvely set out for Main Street to buy some bread and milk, but I was stopped by an armed National Guardsman who told me to go home".
But the Louisiana guardsmen are not expecting to fly home for at least another week, maybe two, and the journey itself could take 4 to 10 days.
She was fine, as it turned out, but I had to walk home, and I kept getting stopped by National Guardsmen who were looking for looters.
They will soak up the sun and the noise; watch the dancing; laugh at the David Cameron jibes; enjoy the fabulous views; revel in the discordance of it all – a beach where guardsmen usually tread; anarchy in the home of order.
In North Carolina, where the storm caused huge traffic jams in the Raleigh area on Wednesday as people left work and rushed to get home in the middle of the day, national guardsmen patrolled the roads in Humvees, looking for stranded motorists among abandoned vehicles.
