Posted on 07/08/2015 9:03:00 PM PDT by upchuck
Jade Helm 15, the controversial Special Operations exercise that spawned a wave of conspiracy theories about a government takeover, will open next week without any media allowed to observe it, a military spokesman said.
Embedded reporters won’t be permitted at any point during the exercise, in which military officials say that secretive Special Operations troops will maneuver through private and publicly owned land in several southern states. Lt. Col. Mark Lastoria, a spokesman for Army Special Operations Command, said his organization is considering allowing a small number of journalists to view selected portions of the exercise later this summer, but nothing is finalized.
“All requests from the media for interviews and coverage of U.S. Army Special Operations Command personnel, organizations and events are assessed for feasibility and granted when and where possible,” Lastoria said in a statement released Wednesday to The Washington Post. “We are dedicated to communicating with the public, while balancing that against the application of operations security and other factors.”
The exercise is scheduled for July 15 through September 15 and is expected to include more than 1,200 troops. Army Special Operations Command announced the exercise in March, saying its size and scope would set it apart from most training exercises. For months, some protesters have said Jade Helm is setting the stage for future martial law. Those fears have been mocked by comedians such as Jon Stewart and others, and the U.S. military has tried to reassure people about the exercise.
The Army says the size and scope of Jade Helm 15, a Special Operations exercise that begins in July, set it apart from other training exercises. Also setting it apart: The widespread conspiracy theories that the U.S. is preparing to hatch martial law.
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Obama wants to thumb his nose at Texas every chance he gets, no doubt about it. He’s easy to mistake for a petulant child.
Lol, I could post my image of Obama picking his nose, but I’ll just say ‘thumbs up’ to what you said. He’s thin skinned.
Yes, i am watching this. We own rural property in Texas, I am happy it is not near any places marked on this map, I feel for those that are near.
I’m kind of anxious for it to begin and see if anything happens. When the first announcements about Jade Helm came out they said something to the effect that ‘people won’t even ‘see’ the military’ and ‘if you do see something to report it’.
Is there a clear and readable link for the US map?
8^)
There probably is bgill, but I’d have to Google to search for it and my video driver has been shutting me down on Google. I found and posted the ones I have when the news first came out.
Oh come on. Who the heck do you think are the 45,000 plus soldiers “roaming around” at Fort Hood, the US Army’s largest base? If you are in Texas and want to get “federal soldiers” off your soil you should be the first one asking for that base to move out and take its 9,000 civilian jobs with it.
Fort Hood is in the open and not operating outside that base within the civilians there. Jade Helm is within the civilians and that concerns people, including the governor who has taken steps to know what they are doing. One town voted to not be in that drill and the military cancelled that one.
Yes, armed Americans can go tripping upon federal lands thanks to the law Obama signed in 2009 that had been written by Tom Coburn. It revoked the Reagan administration policy that guns in national parks had to be locked or stored in a glove compartment or trunk. Instead, the bill that Obama signed in May 2009 permits licensed gun owners to bring firearms into national parks and wildlife refuges as long as state law allows it.
http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/08/obama_chided_for_allowing_guns.html
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