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Sep 25, 2025
The signs outside the North Carolina bases are aimed at troops troubled by legal issues around military units ordered into domestic law enforcement roles.
Win without War Mobile Billboard drives near the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 9, 2025 in Washington, DC. Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Win Without War.
A billboard outside of Camp Lejeune, a Marine Corps base in North Carolina. Image via Win Without War.
“Did you go to Airborne just to pull security for ICE?” a billboard asks in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The billboard is one of two put up last week in North Carolina outside of two of the largest military bases, the Army’s Fort Bragg and the Marine Corps’ Camp Lejeune.
The signs are part of a campaign run led by veterans, About Face: Veterans Against The War and Win Without War, that wants to reach troops who may have questions on the legality of current or future orders as the Trump administration increasingly uses the military for domestic duties that include immigration and law enforcement.
The billboards direct viewers to a website titled: “Not What You Signed Up For” with encrypted email and messaging platforms where service members can access resources and experts with link to the GI Rights Hotline and the National Lawyers Guild’s task force focused on military law.
“We have several cities that the administration has threatened or announced to send the National Guard into, or to have those governors send the National Guard into,” said Harrison Mann, the associate director for policy and campaigns for Win Without War. Mann was an Army major when he resigned from the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2024 over the Biden administration’s use of American military hardware to support Israel’s military in its war with Hamas.
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Beginning last summer, the Trump administration has widely deployed troops in law enforcement roles. Unlike typical disaster and emergency deployments for guard troops, local leaders and significant portions of local residents have widely rejected the Trump-backed deployments, including 700 Marines and 4000 National Guardsmen sent to Los Angeles in June and more than 2,000 National Guard troops from seven states currently in Washington D.C.
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DeBarros joined the Army on a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps scholarship and deployed to Afghanistan in 2012. During her time there, DeBarros grew disillusioned with the gap between the military’s stated mission in Afghanistan and the reality on the ground. In the Reserves, she began speaking out about the war and civilian casualties as a captain. She was threatened with a court-martial and was eventually discharged.
DeBarros said she sees the operations on U.S. soil reflecting a lesson she came to terms with in Afghanistan — that the military’s purpose is “to carry out violence as effectively and efficiently as possible” and that its use for peace-keeping or diplomacy are “not realistic.”
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Earlier this month, a federal court in California ruled that the deployment of troops to LA was illegal and went against a federal law known as the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of federal troops to enforce domestic laws.
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taskandpurpose.com
Sep 25, 2025
The signs outside the North Carolina bases are aimed at troops troubled by legal issues around military units ordered into domestic law enforcement roles.
Win without War Mobile Billboard drives near the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 9, 2025 in Washington, DC. Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Win Without War.
A billboard outside of Camp Lejeune, a Marine Corps base in North Carolina. Image via Win Without War.
“Did you go to Airborne just to pull security for ICE?” a billboard asks in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The billboard is one of two put up last week in North Carolina outside of two of the largest military bases, the Army’s Fort Bragg and the Marine Corps’ Camp Lejeune.
The signs are part of a campaign run led by veterans, About Face: Veterans Against The War and Win Without War, that wants to reach troops who may have questions on the legality of current or future orders as the Trump administration increasingly uses the military for domestic duties that include immigration and law enforcement.
The billboards direct viewers to a website titled: “Not What You Signed Up For” with encrypted email and messaging platforms where service members can access resources and experts with link to the GI Rights Hotline and the National Lawyers Guild’s task force focused on military law.
“We have several cities that the administration has threatened or announced to send the National Guard into, or to have those governors send the National Guard into,” said Harrison Mann, the associate director for policy and campaigns for Win Without War. Mann was an Army major when he resigned from the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2024 over the Biden administration’s use of American military hardware to support Israel’s military in its war with Hamas.
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Beginning last summer, the Trump administration has widely deployed troops in law enforcement roles. Unlike typical disaster and emergency deployments for guard troops, local leaders and significant portions of local residents have widely rejected the Trump-backed deployments, including 700 Marines and 4000 National Guardsmen sent to Los Angeles in June and more than 2,000 National Guard troops from seven states currently in Washington D.C.
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DeBarros joined the Army on a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps scholarship and deployed to Afghanistan in 2012. During her time there, DeBarros grew disillusioned with the gap between the military’s stated mission in Afghanistan and the reality on the ground. In the Reserves, she began speaking out about the war and civilian casualties as a captain. She was threatened with a court-martial and was eventually discharged.
DeBarros said she sees the operations on U.S. soil reflecting a lesson she came to terms with in Afghanistan — that the military’s purpose is “to carry out violence as effectively and efficiently as possible” and that its use for peace-keeping or diplomacy are “not realistic.”
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The law of ‘Lawful Orders’
The military’s Manual for Courts-Martial states that a service member can defend against obeying an order if they knew it to be unlawful or “a person of ordinary sense and understanding would have known the orders to be unlawful.”Earlier this month, a federal court in California ruled that the deployment of troops to LA was illegal and went against a federal law known as the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of federal troops to enforce domestic laws.
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Billboards aimed at troops ask 'is this what you signed up for?'
The signs went up outside of two North Carolina bases amid the Trump administration’s surge in domestic deployments for law enforcement.
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