News for you folks. I was doing this stuff as a National Gaurdsman in Iowa in the late 80’s. I did it in the regular Army a few times too.
This is not some kind of new scary thing being done. However, we must always be vigilant!
Oh, I don’t doubt the content isn’t new.
The problem is that _someone_ is the intended target for that practice (carried thru or not), and sometimes you have reason to believe leaders have decided that _you_ (i.e.: whatever group you identify with) are the intended target.
Sure, military & police need to practice taking down dissenters in internment camps or the like.
Problem is, the current articulated subjects of these practice sessions are...right-wing patriots.
In the early 70’s in the Regular Army in the SW I was doing this. The OPLAN we were practicing was called GARDEN PLOT.
Agree.
Except for the urban setting, this is just typical civil disturbance training that infantry and MP units (Army & Marine) do on a regular basis to maintain proficiency. The “rioters” in the video were obviously servicemen in civilian clothing with nearly all wearing dayglow sashes around their waists to identify them as participants. The “injuries’ being treated were training aids simulating wounds.
The only difference I see in the video at the link is a lack of the massed shield and baton riot control formation drills used when clearing a street of rioters (e.g., the police and state troopers in recent Baltimore rioting).
This is important training for the servicemen because there is a vastly different mentality between how a soldier or Marine approaches a threat and the way a policeman would respond to the same threat. If you are going to place soldiers and Marines into these policing type situations, they need to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to do the work without unnecessarily injuring civilians or endangering themselves.
yeah maybe but your operation didn’t stand for this!:
JADE = Joint
Assistance for
Deployment and
Execution
HELM = Homeland
Eradication of
Local
Militants
Found on silverdoctors.com
30 or 33 states not 7 or 9 like the Gov. says?
I’m sending a link (that is 45 minute) Dave Hodges talking about Jade Helm,
some more info than I have heard before.
http://www.silverdoctors.com/dave-hodges-on-jade-helm-15-the-governments-war
-on-u-s-citizens/#more-52793