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U.S. Special Operations holding urban warfare drills in Broward County
Sun-Sentinel ^ | 3/30/2015 | Linda Trischitta

Posted on 03/30/2015 5:51:14 AM PDT by HomerBohn

Police agencies in Broward County are assisting members of the U.S. Special Operations Forces who are undergoing urban warfare training..

The exercises began Monday, will last until March 27 and will be held at locations that the military will not disclose.

U.S. Special Operations is commanded out of Tampa and has staged such "routine drills" in cities throughout the country, a spokesman said.

The 200 military personnel are from the four branches: Air Force, Army, Marines and Navy.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: jadehelm; jadehelm15
Not to worry. Nothing to see here, so move along....peacefully.
1 posted on 03/30/2015 5:51:14 AM PDT by HomerBohn
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To: HomerBohn

Officer Barbrady, pick up the brown courtesy phone!


2 posted on 03/30/2015 5:53:18 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: HomerBohn

I have yet to understand the significance of the Title,... Jade Helm....


3 posted on 03/30/2015 5:58:43 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: HomerBohn

This is making a big section of the public on edge and suspicious of the military and their intentions. If that’s part of their psy-ops, they are succeeding.

Flying those helicopters so low and close to high rises is not something these pilots would likely be doing in overseas operations. It just seems that likely that something will conveniently go wrong.


4 posted on 03/30/2015 6:07:23 AM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats & GOPe delenda est. President zero gave us patient zero.)
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To: HomerBohn

Well that is a perfect place to conduct such training.


5 posted on 03/30/2015 6:09:12 AM PDT by angcat
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To: MeshugeMikey

I believe the names are assigned randomly by a computer to purposely give no clues as to mission.


6 posted on 03/30/2015 6:17:08 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: angcat

If SpecOps wanted to recreate a Middle Eastern urban environment, they would have chosen Detroit.


7 posted on 03/30/2015 6:21:10 AM PDT by Makana (Self-esteem is the new intelligence - Greenfield)
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To: CrazyIvan

It has that tone to it.!


8 posted on 03/30/2015 6:32:16 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: angcat

Sorry, it is NOT.

After spending 30 years in and around the Spec Ops Community I have some idea as to how training and exercises are set up.

First there is a clearly stated goal.
Second there is environmental considerations. By this I don’t mean the public’s version of environmental concerns. When will the mission that the exercises supports go down? Where will it go down? What is the expected opposition - direct and indirect?

Once these basic answers are done then you start searching for an exercise area.

My first experience in this area was in 1978. The goal was to rescue passengers from a hijacked airliner somewhere in the Middle East. The time was at night. The location was at Indian Springs Auxiliary Airfield (now Creech AFB, NV). A small and very focused exercise.

In 1988 there was another excise that covered multiple areas in the Southeast. The objective areas and flight times to them matched OPERATION JUST CAUSE that was executed 12 months later.

Since then there have been other exercises - some of which matched real-world operations.

So what potential conflict will happen in a large industrial area involving large number of “brown” or “green” players?


9 posted on 03/30/2015 6:48:31 AM PDT by Nip (BOHEICA and TANSTAAFL - both seem very appropriate today.)
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To: HomerBohn
Another thread from yesterday if anyone is interested in reading the comments thereon:

HUGE MILITARY EXERCISE IN FORT LAUDERDALE FLORIDA


10 posted on 03/30/2015 6:54:33 AM PDT by deport
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To: Nip

It’s not 1978 any more. It’s 1984


11 posted on 03/30/2015 7:01:32 AM PDT by Breto (Stranger in a strange land... where did America go?)
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To: MeshugeMikey; CrazyIvan

I have yet to understand the significance of the Title,... Jade Helm....
***********
Jade Helm - Mastering the Human Domain

Generals: ‘Human Domain’ Will Dictate Future Wars
http://www.dodbuzz.com/2013/05/14/generals-human-domain-will-dictate-future-wars/

And from Freedom outpost article:
http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/03/jade-helm-15-is-real-heres-the-proof/

What could (SOC) Special Operations Command possibly mean within their insignia of “MASTERING THE HUMAN DOMAIN”? According to an unclassified document written by Lieutenant Colonel Mitchell D. Franks of the United States Army
titled “USAWC “Civilian Research Project” ref: pg 15

http://cdn5.freedomoutpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/259609614-USAWC-Civilian-Research-Project-Mastering-the-Human-Domain.pdf


12 posted on 03/30/2015 7:42:36 AM PDT by Whenifhow
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To: MeshugeMikey
I first ran into something called “Operation Garden Plot” in 1972. Then every year in the Southwest thereafter until 1992.
13 posted on 03/30/2015 7:56:18 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: SandRat

Thanks


14 posted on 03/30/2015 7:58:02 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Chinese mythology steering the operation?


15 posted on 03/30/2015 8:01:57 AM PDT by GOPJ (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist. - Freeper RipSawyer)
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To: HomerBohn

Urban warfare training. For where? Don’t let them tell you Europe. European cities bear no resemblance to Ft. Lauderdale or Atlanta or Austin. And we sure know the Mideast does not look like America.

They are preparing for martial law. Likely the economy is going to collapse and they know its coming and are getting ready to face the wrath of the American public. I watched the one video from Lauderdale and it looks to me like they are practicing for swooping in and grabbing the dissenters and activists and whisking them away.


16 posted on 03/30/2015 9:03:38 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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