Active Duty ping.
I am cautious about reading too much into this, but the way things are now, anything is possible.
I had read recently about smaller joint military and law enforcement actions (not exercises) here in TX.
This is a bad precedent, joint military and State law Enforcement actions.
Such training was happening at least a little more than two decades ago (probably much longer). Won’t say more than that, except that public affairs success is up to those running the dog and pony show.
As with the 2012 exercises, it appears that plans were made to provide cross-training exercises for Minneapolis police officers. "Hopefully," Kingsbury's states in his e-mail, "we will have the opportunity to get some of our folks into the game like we did last time."
The military's solicitation letter to Mayor Hodges included a list of training specifics that mirrored language in its 2012 letter. Those specifics included training for "low visibility movement, low-altitude precision helicopter operations, surveillance, and counter-surveillance." However, the Navy's 2014 letter also stated that its exercises would help its personnel in "preserving evidence for criminal prosecution" and that the relationships established with urban law enforcement professionals would be critical to the Navy's "future success."
Conditioning.