Posted on 08/21/2019 6:44:52 PM PDT by Perseverando
A series of Special Forces military training exercises -- including gunfire with blanks -- is being staged across 21 North Carolina counties starting Aug. 30,
and the Army is telling the public not to be alarmed at the suspicious-looking activity. (Source: Video screenshot | U.S. Department of Defense)
August 21, 2019 at 1:34 PM EDT - Updated August 21 at 1:34 PM NORTH CAROLINA (Mark Price/Charlotte Observer) - A series of Special Forces military training exercises -- including gunfire with blanks -- is being staged across 21 North Carolina counties starting Aug. 30, and the Army is telling the public not to be alarmed at the suspicious-looking activity.
Known as Robin Sage training, the unconventional warfare exercises can be likened to live-action role playing in the extreme, with hostile engagement playing out between Special Forces students, volunteer civilians and soldiers out of Fort Bragg. It continues through Sept. 12, said a press release.
Heavily populated counties like Wake, Cumberland and Union counties are among training sites, according to the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg.
The students will match wits with more seasoned soldiers, who will “act as realistic opposing forces and guerrilla freedom fighters,” officials said in a release.
Advance notice has become a critical part of the program since one soldier was killed and another wounded in 2002 by a Moore County deputy who mistook the exercises for criminal activity.
A similar Fort Bragg military exercise in 1997 created panic in Charlotte, when uptown residents were terrified by the sounds of 100 commandos attacking a warehouse. The “urban warfare” assault incorporated helicopters and “simulated bombs and gunfire,” the Charlotte Observer reported.
The exercises starting next week will involve engagements against a fictitious country known as Pineland, officials said. Staging areas will be largely on private land in 10 of the 21 counties, but the others may feel some impact, officials said.
The 21 counties include Alamance, Anson, Cabarrus, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson, Davie, Guilford, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, Richmond, Robeson, Rowan, Scotland, Stanly, Union and Wake counties, officials said.
Local law enforcement agencies and government officials have been alerted, a release said.
“Residents may hear blank gunfire and see occasional flares. Controls are in place to ensure there is no risk to persons or property,” officials said. “Residents with concerns should contact local law enforcement officials, who will immediately contact exercise control officials.”
Unconventional warfare tactics call for the students to “wear civilian clothes,” but the public will be able to identify them by “a distinctive brown armband,” officials said. Vehicles will be labeled, too, along with training areas, a release noted.
“Robin Sage is the U.S. military’s premiere unconventional warfare exercise and the final test of over a year’s worth of training for aspiring Special Forces soldiers,” according to the press release.
“Candidates are placed in an environment of political instability characterized by armed conflict, forcing Soldiers to analyze and solve problems to meet the challenges of this ‘real-world’ training.”
This happens every year in NC. Some years get more press than others.
Everyone FREAKED when this was done under obummer.
But he gave people a legitimate reason to freak.
It’s not a thread but it sure does help them get really good at taking down a militia or internal threat.
Which we may be considered one day.
Regular occurrence in various forms, under various names in various locations in NC since the 50s. Used to be mainly in Uwharrie NF.
#freepineland
They tried to do such an exercise in a Central Texas county near us a couple of years ago. It didn’t turn out well. A hundred patriots kept watchful eyes on the troop movements the entire month. There probably won’t be another mock invasion in this area for a while.
I remember spending five months in South Carolina in 1964 with Exercise Hawk Blade/Air Assault II which involved a large number of troops - large expanses of South Carolina and North Carolina were designated as maneuver areas. Great experience!
This is the deep state cover for the martial law coming our way.
Not.
But I wanted to be the first with the crazy talk.
I was thinking the same thing. Once the government tries to take our guns and all heck breaks out, It’ll be interesting to see who follows orders and who follows the constitution. They’re wussifying the military every day and there are sure to be many more SJW officer types directing enlisted soldiers. It could get really ugly internally and for the civilian population as well. This next war fought on our soil will not be pretty.
Good thing they’re not near my ranch, I’d hate for their helicopters to be in the way of my helicopters!
Agreed. I don’t fear this kind of operation under the current president. The former resident however, is another thing entirely.
If you go down in the woods today,
You’re sure of a big surprise.
Instead of students on the opposing side, how about bringing in Antifa for some added realism?
I was in “Swift Strike III” and ran all over South Carolina at the Georgia border. Had great times in those little beer bars in the small towns out in the middle of the bean fields. Great People!! Troops had greater times with the ladies! Especially those that headed for the sharecropper abodes.
That logo could get one SHOT !!!
Swift Strike III in 1963 - a sister unit returned with a semi trailer load of watermelons. An airborne unit jumped into a big watermelon field and the owner filed a claim and was reimbursed by the Army. Troops decided that since he had been paid for the crop, the watermelons belonged to the Army. LOL!
Perhaps we should show due respect to Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe for the above comment. After all, given the left's penchant for calling all who disagree with them 'Nazis' and given that PDJT's grandfather was German and spelled his name 'Drumpf', there was perhaps, some restraint displayed by the Prof NOT stating 'WW2' instead of the 'Civil War'.
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I’ve never heard of it.
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