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4 Mar ’12
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still watching this. some of the reports i read, said they would have secret groups out in the civilian population causing disturbances.
not liking that idea.
15 Feb ’12
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officially starts this week doesn't it?
27 Aug ’14
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I will be reporting live from Texas.
15 Feb ’12
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for some reason that made me think of this classic WKRP moment
4 Mar ’12
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wkrp, where has the time gone?
15 Feb ’12
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crazy how fast it goes the older you get
15 Feb ’12
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Looks like it starts tomorrow
It is, according to Chuck Norris, “likely more than a military exercise”.
For senior Texas politicians, it is enough of a concern that they demanded it be monitored by state armed forces. And for a great many citizens, it is at best a secretive and dubious show of military might and at worst, the prelude to martial law, Barack Obama confiscating their guns and locking innocent Americans in internment camps.
Whatever it truly is, Operation Jade Helm 15 begins on Wednesday in states across the south-west. Hundreds of people will be waiting for the troops when they roll in, watching closely.
A counter-surveillance operation called Counter Jade Helm has been set up and volunteers are aiming to locate, track and observe US soldiers as they carry out training drills. The volunteers will gather intelligence that will be relayed to a headquarters in Arizona and posted on a website.
“Why [Jade Helm] exists, we’re not quite certain,” said Eric Johnston, who will run surveillance teams in central Texas. Counter Jade Helm also plans missions in California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida.
“They’re not inviting any media to embed with the units,” said Johnston, “and it’s important for Americans to step up and look around and say, ‘OK, what are you doing?’ ‘Well, it’s secret.’ Not if it’s in public – it’s no longer secret.”
The two-month exercise has been described by the US military as a routine, though unusually large, training event for a variety of units that will take place on both private and public land in order “to practice core special warfare tasks, which help protect the nation against foreign enemies”.
The pushback has been especially strong in Texas, where some of the army’s biggest bases are located. The Lone Star State has been designated as “hostile” territory in the exercise. If nothing else, this is a fair assessment of the state’s prevailing attitude towards virtually anything linked with the Obama administration, or anything perceived as an encroachment on Texan independence.
15 Feb ’12
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anyone hear about this? what the hell are people thinking
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — A sheriff in Mississippi says authorities are searching for two men who fired gunshots from a vehicle at soldiers at a military facility. No injuries were reported.
Perry County Sheriff Jimmy Dale Smith tells WDAM-TV (http://bit.ly/1UlrHi6) that the shots were fired just after noon Tuesday. The soldiers were training at Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center in Hattiesburg.
U.S. Special Forces Command designated Camp Shelby as one of the sites where a multi-state military training exercise, "Jade Helm 15", was expected to take place, according to The Army Times.
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