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Posted on 02/21/2009 12:26:19 AM PST by Boucheau
DES MOINES, Iowa – Following publicized reports that the Army National Guard was planning a military training exercise on the streets of a rural Iowa town, the commanding officers have called off the mock "invasion."
The Guard had planned a four-day urban military operation in tiny Arcadia, Iowa, population 443, sending troops to take over the town and search door-to-door for a suspected weapons dealer.
The exercise was designed as a mock scenario to give soldiers the skills needed for deployment in an urban environment, and military officials stressed that only households that consented to be part of the drill would be searched.
"It will be important for us to gain the trust and confidence of the residents of Arcadia," Sgt. Mike Kots, readiness NCO for Alpha Company, told Carroll's Daily Times Herald. "We will need to identify individuals that are willing to assist us in training by allowing us to search their homes and vehicles and to participate in role-playing.
"We really want to get as much information out there as possible," Kots continued, "because this operation could be pretty intrusive to the people of Arcadia."
Military spokesman Lt. Col. Greg Hapgood, however, told WND that the operation has now been "scaled back" and no longer involves an "invasion" of Arcadia.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
your statement was too short. It should also be how the military.. particularly regular troops view the citizenry. The natl guard soldier in the video was pretty happy describing how they were going to do it.
Many of the Ntl guard troops I think just want to get some ninja suited type action for their $200 a weekend (or whatever). And there was NO name tags or type of unit designation I could see on the uniforms.
NO "Police", "FBI", "Ntl Guard" or "ATF" showing prominently any where I noticed.
How unusual...
MILITARY OPERATION ON URBAN TERRAIN (MOUT)
COMBINED ARMS COLLECTIVE TRAINING FACILITY (CACTF)
CAMP DODGE, JOHNSTON, IOWA
1 November 2007
1. Purpose. To provide guidance for the safe, efficient and economic conduct of training on the Military Operations in Urban Terrain at Camp Dodge, Johnston, Iowa.
It's statements like those made in the article that, when combined with further information, makes you wonder...
"What the hell was he thinking when he said that!"
It amazes me that they don't seem to have one person on the planning staff at whatever level this was hatched who realized how this might be taken- especially in the conservative heartland. Especially after having been through all of this eight years ago. Especially with national leadership now to whom 'hope and change' appear to mean intentionally turning the country upside down.
“I presume those questions are rhetorical, right?”
Well, yes, and no—if you have knowledge that I don’t have I’d sure appreciate your divulging it.
I don’t presume to have the answers, really.
But an inquisitive citizen is slippery in the hands of tyrants.
So I got that much goin’ for me. :)
“No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house”
Are they practising to live in the citizens houses?
Do you have this mixxed up with another law?
Maybe.
Why don’t they just go to Ciudad Juarez for some real-world training?
Let these idiots go to DC and practice there.
The basic answer to all those questions is that 0bama has spent his entire adult life hanging around with people who want to destroy this country, turning it into, at best, a third-world s#!+hole.
Everything he does is in support of this goal.
He was thinking nobody would question his assertions.
“...get some ninja suited type action...”
They’re wearing the uniform of an American soldier.
They can dress up in spats and sing like Ethal Merman in the back yards of THEIR homes for all I care.
Play a damn video game or join a paintball team.
Are they men, or boys? What are we talking about here?
This isn’t a frickin’ game.
These guys may one day be asked to dodge bullets or blow a man to pieces—OR WEAR THEIR BUDDIES’ BRAINS, for Christ’s sake.
Are you confusing this with “New Orleans, Louisiana?”
That was another town invaded by other mixed soldiers relishing their work just too much.
zussman village, etc.
Good to see you.
I don’t think I have come across you since the early ramos/camp days.
: )
Can’t say as I notice anything right off that I see as a problem with your comments.
They have them all over on different bases.. even in Alaska!!
I agree.
The UN manual and training guides have all that listed. The Ninja SWAT teams do to.
Funny, the one book looks sort of like a phone book????????
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1967606/posts
I see you and the honorable Mr Finkbeiner are in agreement...
“The mayor asked them to leave because they frighten people,” said Brian Schwartz, the mayor’s spokesman.
“He did not want them practicing and drilling in a highly visible area.”
ofcorse it would dawn on you to look to the southern border and wonder why there migth be a need for the use of US troops in a domestic situation...
Funny crap.....when a lib is in power...the military is training to subdue the right...when the right is in power the military is training to subdue the left....
It never dawns on people there could be another answer.....they are training to keep your ass safe.
I gotta wonder just what goes through the minds of these
Friggin’ Morons,,,Can’t be much,,,
Maybe Somebody told Somebody to Git Skroooed!!!(I hope),,,
Maybe this was a test!!!?
More and more I think it was “floated” by some officers in cahoots with the O admin. Just testing the citizen response you know.
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