[lt.america]

You are missing the whole premise for the concern. If this was an Afghani or Iraqi scenario, then yes, the Soldiers need to train, but suspected domestic weapons dealer???? The commanders assertions that he wanted the locals to get familiar with military urban ops. You are having a hard time distinguishing why people have problems with this and trying to tie it in to not supporting the troops. I could draw you a picture but I don't it would do any good.

[Travis McGee]

Crim is a disruptor. Note his “buy some fertilizer, dude!” comment at 80, comparing us to domestic terrorist and mass-murderer Tim McVeigh.

Obviously if he’s intelligent enough to type on a keyboard, then he’s aware that the military already has a dozen elaborate “combat towns” on bases all over the USA to train troops for MOUT in foreign countries.

Searching for “weapons dealers” in a Midwest town in the American heartland has only nefarious purposes. To me, in my opinion, this was the political equivalent to a military “probe” to test an “enemy reaction.”

I would like to know WHO ORDERED THIS “TRAINING?” Did it originate in the state’s National Guard, or did the “request” come from some alphabet agency in DC? And WHY?