-This was a National Guard unit, which would be potentially deployed in support of this type of op making it more sinister.
-Doesn’t the Commanding Officer think maybe there could be training time spent on something else, maybe natural disaster preparedness, NBC type training, or even getting ready to accomplish the unit's mission in a deployed environment.
-The most chilling is that we have all been puzzled about what has been going on in Iowa. Iowa seems to be acting more like a Northeastern state than a Midwestern. Seems like they are preparing for potential ops against their own.
Don't be puzzled, folks. Iowa has been radicalized (it began with the NEA and the state's education bureaucracy) and is a lost cause. The Democrat sheep have willingly placed out-and-out socialists in power, and thus Iowa is now fast-tracking towards being another Michigan. Just in the last week the fascist Dems in Des Moines have made the future infinitely more bleak, and the missus and I really need to gather the folks and get the hell out of here before the fruit ripens (or rots).
My kid was in an IARNG unit that deployed to Iraq and lost soldiers to enemy fire, and another Iowa unit had - I believe - the unenviable distinction of having their Iraq deployment extended longer than any other formation in OIF. They done good, just like Iowa citizen soldiers have generally done since 1861... but a few of their brass behave like vindictive and politically connected hacks who consider civilians to be subjects or livestock.
Practicing MOUT on civilians in Johnston or Urbandale would be logistically easier and far more "urban," but Arcadia (or Calamus, or George, or...) would probably be a better classroom if one wants to practice disarming Americans who have notions of rugged individualism and the Constitutional freedoms guaranteed by the founders.
Mr. niteowl77