Posted on 05/09/2015 8:07:19 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Nothing to worry about. I am sure it is the local meter maids out chalking tires in their MRAP. /S
Governor Abbott has endured holy hell in the liberal Dallas Morning News and from fellow Republicans for daring to look into this. Rick Perry made the stupid remark that we can always trust our military. Really Rick? Who do they get their orders from? I swear I think the Republicans that are elected have rocks for brains. Not an intelligent one among them except for Cruz.
What’s wrong with using Fort Irwin for it?
What’s wrong with using any of the myriad military posts for it?
Like, say, Fort Irwin?
Plus Sarah Palin and Louie Gohmert.
BKMK (remember LG movement off cape last week)
The man calling the shots on Jade Helm is not named Barack Obama. His name is United States Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, the new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (as soon as he is unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate).
“Gen. John Kelly, head of U.S. Southern Command, told Marine Corps Times that Dunford — whom he described as his best friend — proved his quality and competence to the White House and others outside the Marine community particularly during his time as ISAF commander, during which most U.S. and coalition troops departed Afghanistan in a phased drawdown.
‘He’s got combat time as a no-kidding combat leader, and he’s a soldier-statesman as well,’ said Kelly, who has known Dunford for much of his Marine Corps career. ‘He did excellently in Afghanistan with some very difficult guys, including Afghanistan’s former president [Hamid Karzai].’”
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/story/military/pentagon/2015/05/07/dunford-marine-background-prepared-for-joint-chiefs/70931514/
Delusional thinking.
There have been large scale military maneuvers in the US for many decades. The Louisiana and Tennessee maneuvers before and during WWII come instantly to mind. where the Army needed large areas to train that were beyond the capacity of military installations. And there were the annual REFORGER exercises in Germany, that covered thousands of square miles every year during the Cold War. During my tours in Germany, I participated in several of those, in addition to 3rd Armored Division and V Corps winter and summer maneuvers in Hesse and the Fulda Gap that was our General Defense Plan area of operations.
This is one case where the fear is from conspiracy theories that, to me do NOT hold water. However, bh0 is the perfect person to make people have such fears.
You didn’t answer the question.
What is wrong with using Fort Irwin?
Delusional???
Facts and fruits of where we have arrived as a nation that I cited are self-evident.
False bravado and a vain hope in a people already willfully subjugated and conditioned to this current tyranny is delusional.
So what exactly is unconstitutional about this training exercise?
Do you understand the importance of using realism in maneuvers? If there is a Beslan or Mumbai type attack, they’ll have to transit across civilian areas. What help is it to practice in a small enclosed space? Nobody is going to attack them at Ft. Irwin.
My only point is that there is nothing at all new here, in fact these are very small indeed compared to some past war games.
What is wrong with using Fort Irwin, answer the question.
See 54.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Irwin_National_Training_Center
Medina Jabal and Medina Wasl are there.
Again, what is wrong with using Fort Irwin.
Also, since when has the Obama admin ever used the word “terrorist” to describe anyone other than a conservative?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Polk
Fort Polk is also a place to go.
It was also the site for the Louisiana maneuvers.
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The LA maneuvers involved 400,000 men and were spread out over most of the state. Not limited to a base.
Practicing counter-insurgency on a base makes a lot of sense if you think you’ll be attacked there. If you think they are more likely to attack in civilian areas, you need to practice maneuvers where you will need to fight.
You don’t think they might learn something useful by having to deal with traffic, local LEOs, worried civilians, etc.? All of which they’d have to deal with during a real attack.
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