Monday, March 30, 2015

"U.S. Special Operations holding urban warfare drills in Broward County"

"Police agencies in Broward County are assisting members of the U.S. Special Operations Forces who are undergoing urban warfare training."
The exercises began Monday, will last until March 27 and will be held at locations that the military will not disclose.

The 200 military personnel are from the four branches: Air Force, Army, Marines and Navy.

The goal is to prepare participants in realistic, unfamiliar training conditions before they deploy for combat overseas. Those urban locations can't be replicated on a practice range, the military said.

The exercises will happen in a variety of places but will not be held at the beaches, the Everglades, malls or large population centers, the spokesman said.
Don't ask me how I know, but, I bet there wont be any Military exercises in Ferguson Missouri.

5 comments:

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

My advice would be to do their urban warfare drills at Epcot World Showcase.

Methadras said...

Doesn't the Posse Comitatus Act prevail here? Not allowing US military to engage in exercises or to hold operations domestically? I don't like this one bit and I've always had a sneaking suspicion that DoD coupled with DHS are finding ways to have a show of force against citizens of what will happen if armed resistance is carried out.

edutcher said...

This has been going on for years.

At least since Reagan and maybe Nixon (if somebody said Ike and Jack Kennedy did it, too, I wouldn't be surprised).

I don't think Posse Comitatus applies here since they apparently like to use real urban landscape once in a while as opposed to the faux cinderblock cities on military bases (AllenS might know).

We go through these little panics whenever an Administration starts acting appropriately creepy in the eyes of the opposition.

PS I can't think of a better place to hold them than Ferguson.

AllenS said...

edutcher,

Yeah, we had Posse Comitatus east of here, but closer to where I live (50 miles) at about the same time, we The Wild River Patriots. They would meet at a cafe in Grantsburg, and about 400 would show up.

One of the first court cases that I had when I was on jury duty was when one of them tried to use the Constitution to get out of "driving without a license" ticket. The judge would have none of it, and dismissed the case. He had to pay the fine.

Just below the surface.......

AllenS said...

"dismissed the case" should have read
"dismissed his defense argument"