By Dirk Diggler

An Op-Ed from Maj. Gen. Steve Danner, head of the National Guard Association of the United States.

By now, you’ve heard the Army’s Aviation Restructuring Initiative is attempting to take AH-64 Apache helicopters away from the National Guard.

That simply won’t do.

There are several very important reasons the National Guard should keep its Apache helicopters, not the least of which is to help keep our National Guardsmen current on their civilian tank-killing jobs. But the real reason we need to keep our Apache helicopters is to fight back against the federal government’s anti-states'-rights tyranny of gay marriage.

Let me explain.

There’s an old poem which states, “First the Nazis came for the guns, then they came for the Jews."

Well, is it any coincidence that, in Texas, first they came for the Apache helicopters, and then they came for the rest of Texas in the form of Jade Helm? Next thing you know, we’ll have universal healthcare and civil liberties for all our citizens. And…