Texas Ranger Reports What He Saw INSIDE Military Train Used for “Martial Law” Exercises

A covert training operation by U.S. military special operations personnel, Jade Helm 15, is taking place in a several states this summer, spreading panic and conspiracy theories as to the true purpose of the mission.

The two-month simulation spans much of the Southwest, requiring special forces from four branches of the military to carry out covert operations amid “hostile” territory in Texas, Utah and part of California.

In at least one of those states, hostility toward the operation has begun a few months early. Online and at in-person meetings, many Texans have expressed suspicion and outright opposition to the project. Some are understandably worried about how it’ll affect their daily lives, while conspiracy theorists claim it’s an attempt to institute martial law.

The military says that they are merely preforming training exercises to help hone soldiers’ skills in the event they face a foreign threat, but some citizens are worried that planners have something more domestic in mind.

Events for the exercise are outlined in a map among unclassified documents posted online last month. Army sources have verified to The Washington Post that the map is legitimate.

Many have speculated that the American government isn’t far from declaring martial law, an idea only bolstered by these training exercises.

In an anonymous email sent to Dave Hodges at The Common Sense Show, a self-described Texas Ranger said that train cars outfitted with prison-type shackles have been moving about Texas. While he added that the Department of Homeland Security claimed the train cars were for transporting captured terrorists, he was apparently reluctant to believe them. He wrote:

“We have been told by Homeland that these trains are slated for transporting captured terrorists, non-domestic. We are not sure we can trust this explanation because Homeland is keeping a lot from us and we are growing increasingly uncomfortable with their presence in Texas.”

The paranoia about Jade Helm, which started on websites like Alex Jones’s InfoWars, had started with familiar fulmination about a mass seizure of firearms or a cover-up for American “death squads.”

This week, Texas Governor Greg Abbott asked the Texas state guard to monitor the exercise for any violations of freedom. “It is important that Texans know their safety, constitutional rights, private property rights and civil liberties will not be infringed,” said the governor.

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said Saturday that he’d been hearing concerns about Jade Helm 15, and reached out to the Pentagon for answers.

“My office has reached out to the Pentagon to inquire about this exercise. We are assured it is a military training exercise. I have no reason to doubt those assurances, but I understand the reason for concern and uncertainty, because when the federal government has not demonstrated itself to be trustworthy in this administration, the natural consequence is that many citizens don’t trust what it is saying.”

The Texas Senator, speaking at the South Carolina Republican Convention went on to say:

“I understand a lot of the concerns raised by a lot of citizens about Jade Helm. And I think part of the reason is we have seen, for six years, a federal government disrespecting the liberty of the citizens. That produces fear, when you see a government that is attacking our free speech rights, or Second Amendment rights, or religious liberty rights. That produces distrust.”

“Just because you’re paranoid,” said Cruz, “doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.”

Thanks for the comment. I was writing quickly last night and think some more context would be helpful.

In spite of the alarmist tone of the Ranger ‘revelation’ I don't dismiss his purported testimony. This exercise encompasses a lot of agencies. One is likely DHS in concert with the Federal Bureau of prisons. A few conveyances such as described probably been ordered. Only a small portion of those estimated to be needed if an extensive ‘insurrection’ might occur. In an exercise combining command post (CPX) and Field Training (FTX) elements relatively small numbers of specialized equipment will be employed in a test environment that will try to mimic at least partially how these systems would be really used to familiarize at least some operators with real time use of their equipment. In this case soldiers or DHS personnel will act the role of prisoners and be transported to a mock series of processing and detention centers. In a real world occurrence the prisoner treatment will be something beyond your worse nightmare . One poster correctly identified a site which describes in detail US BOP real time protocols for prisoner movement and handling.

This is a very large exercise and from its scope and the number of player organizations within the armed services it appears to be what is or used to be called a ‘JCS Sponsored Exercise’. This means that issues of the greatest interest and importance to the Department of Defense will be used as the basis for developing the master event list and the play items for each event.
It also means the JCS exercise fund picks up the tab for all extraordinary costs (overtime, flying hours, material consumption, etc.) that participating agencies incur.

During the late part of the Cold War the JCS sponsored two exercises a year. A CPX/FTX in the spring and a largely administrative CPX in the fall/winter time frame. After the Cold War ended these dwindled to one every other year after Desert Shield and then none after 9-11. The exercise program was restarted after 9-11 by concentrating on mass casualty and unconventional scenarios including Weapons of Mass Destruction events. This exercise in scope and duration appears to be akin to the old JCS spring exercises. These included Night Train 85 which dealt with post nuclear reconstitution and Proud Eagle and Present Arms which was the stage beyond Night Train, if memory serves.
These were large in terms of the tens of thousands of soldiers, airman, Marines, and sailors and government civilians that participated in one manner or another and extended in duration continuing for weeks with small exercise cells managing play between peaks of activity. These exercises took two to three years to plan and fund for and besides the JCS exercise issues each participating activity was expected to develop its own list of issues to play specific to the activities mission and function. Conferences began with conceptualization meetings chaired and steered by the JCS exercise element and moved forward in the deliberate programmed manner of the US armed forces. So this exercise would seem to have been germinating likely since 2010/11 and have been in the detailed planning phase since 2012/13. It has received a fair amount of scrutiny from the highest levels of DOD and the services. In the army, the service I am most familiar with, it would have been briefed to the Chief of Staff or the Vice Chief pretty regularly and also all major Army component commanders and all Army MACOMs on a regular basis.

In other words the very highest echelons of the armed forces have routinely been informed of this exercise and its assumptions and all have at the least been unconcerned with what the exercise assumptions and scenario implied. If there had been significant resistance information on the proposed scenario and its assumptions would have leaked out long ago. That should be disturbing in itself. The background is finally coming out as the exercise materials are widely disseminated ( as they have to be) to player staffs and the public affairs aspects of the exercise have to start to be undertaken to present the event as helpful and non-menacing to the areas where the field training will happen.

What Congressman Gomert should ask is how long DOD has been working on this drill and to demand the exercise event or play list and the exercise plan.
That would provide him with some very interesting reading.

Greg, thank you for the link.

Here are several paragraphs from the article, which were Posted on ‎7‎/‎27‎/‎2009‎:

"The harassment and torture that befell (Idaho) Congressman Hansen came from prison officials, in the form of neglect for serious medical problems and health hazards in the (United States) prison work place. The torture also came from the (United States) Federal Marshals who cruelly transported him from one prison to another.

"Political prisoners (ED: Political prisoners? In America?? You betcha!!!) and those who are considered trouble makers arc given what prisoners call, "diesel therapy". "Diesel therapy" consists of being put on diesel busses or airplanes and being transported from prison to prison for weeks and months at a time (ED: ALL at the expense of the taxpayers!). On the surface it sounds benign. What could be the problem with making a prisoner ride in a bus for hours at a time?

"Torture American Style

"Before the prisoner is put on the bus, he is put in handcuffs and shackles (leg irons). The handcuffs are tightened by a black box that stiffens the chains and puts the wrists in a 90 degree bind that painfully cuts circulation and damages the nerves. - It takes several weeks for the circulation and nerves to return to normal. The handcuffs are connected with chains to a waist chain, which is in turn connected by another chain to the shackles which go around the ankles The prisoner can barely move once the shackling process is complete.

"He is then placed in a small seat on a bus or airplane. (ED: George Hansen is a BIG man, standing well over 6'-3" and -- before his ordeal -- tipping the scales at well over 220 pounds.) -- Because of the shackles, the prisoner is forced to sit in one position for up to 20 hours at a time. And the guards will rarely go to the trouble of unshackling a prisoner. -- Prisoners who understand "diesel therapy" know that "fasting" is the only way to handle the ordeal without messing or wetting yourself. -- But even those who are smart enough to abstain from food and drink, still have to suffer the stench of urine and feces which soon fills the bus or plane.

"One other painful aspect of diesel therapy is the shoes that prisoners are forced to wear. They become too small. The cramped position and tight shackles cause the feet and ankles to swell. The shackles cut into the legs and cut off circulation. The blood pools in the feet and causes the feet to swell. The toes are forced up against the tops of the too small shoes, and unbelievable pressure is put on the toenails. The toenails soon become deformed, infected and painful.

"Each day the metal shackles are put back onto raw and infected legs before the prisoner boards the bus. After weeks and months of diesel therapy, the ankles and shins have raw, infected and open wounds that will not heal. Hour after hour, the prisoner sits in a cramped & painful position, with shackles cutting into already infected, raw flesh. Arthritis and bursitis compound the misery of the prisoners. The ingrown, infected toenails, which are jammed inside of purposely small shoes, cripple the prisoner to the point that he can barely walk or move when he is finally released from the shackles.

"During the weeks and months of diesel therapy, the prisoner is out of contact with the rest of the world. In the case of Congressman Hansen, his wife did not know if he was dead or alive. His lawyer could not find him and therefore could not file court papers on time. Even the members of congress who were still trying to help him, could not locate him. During his diesel therapy" he disappeared into the black hole dug and run by the United States Marshals.

"After "diesel therapy", Hansen was forced to operate on his feet himself. His toenails were so deformed that they pointed straight up. He could not wear shoes without excruciating pain. The only remedy that was open to him was to pull the toenails out by the roots. Our prisoners of war in SE Asia had their fingernails and toenails pulled out by their torturers. Congressman Hansen had to become his own torturer in an effort to stop the pain.

"Several weeks ago, Congressman Hansen was testifying before his former colleagues in the House of Representatives.

[snip]

"Then he stood up and walked around in front of his table. Leaning lightly on the table, he pulled up his pant leg and showed his former colleagues the raw, red scars on his own legs -- scars that stretched many inches, from his ankles up his shin bones. He told his former colleagues about his toenails, which have never grown back properly. -- He ended his "show and tell" session by informing the House that they did not have to travel to foreign countries to witness torture. All they had to do is visit any American prison and they would quickly find the effects of purposeful abuse and neglect on certain prisoners.

"If his former colleagues have any sense, they will quickly reform the prison system, before any more of them end up there.

"The scars on his legs and the lack of toenails were minor problems for Hansen. The major pain came from his teeth and deteriorating bones. These problems came from hazardous chemicals he was forced to work around during his job assignment in the prison power plant. The chemicals caused his bones to weaken and his teeth to become infected and turn to mush. (ED: Where oh where is OSHA and the EPA when ya' REALLY need 'em?).

"The pain' of abscessed teeth was unbearable. To be able to function each day, without even an aspirin to dull the pain, he picked up a plastic cap used to splice electric wires. He placed the cap in the infected area and bit down on it all day and night. During his four years in prison, he lost most of his teeth through willful neglect on the part of the prison officials."

"While they MIGHT be fancy cattle cars (the Nazis were fond of those if you’ll recall), they are described here as “prison cars.” They brought with them my 1997 memory of what happened to one of our folks who dared challenge the powers-that-be."

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