Former chief-of-staff told the U.S. Coast Guard academy: 'The worst thing..to put men and women in military uniform against U.S. citizens.'
John Kelly, the former chief of staff, has described his unease at President Donald Trump's deployment of troops at the southern U.S. border to deal with immigrants from Central America.
But Kelly, who served as Trump's chief of staff until January 2019, said he argued that U.S. military personnel should not be deployed domestically, telling the audience of cadets in Groton, Connecticut,:"We don't like it. We see that as someone else's job, meaning law enforcement." "We serve the nation selflessly in an apolitical way. The worst thing in my view is to start to put men and women in military uniform against U.S. citizens, whatever the issue is," he added.coming to the U.S. by foot.
He said that troops' job is to fight"the away game [except] when there's a natural disaster in our country, [then] it's all hands on deck," Kelly added.
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