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Jade Helm 15

Posted By: airforce

Jade Helm 15 - 03/23/2015 01:18 PM

Roughly once a year, the military conducts a training exercise that throws Infowars and other conspiracy-minded websites into fits. This year, it's "Jade Helm 15" that's driving everyone crazy.

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The U.S. Army Special Operations Command responded to reports about the upcoming Jade Helm military exercise by characterizing concerns about the drill “alarmist,” but failed to address why Texas and Utah had been labeled “hostile” territory in documents related to the exercise.

As Infowars reported last week, Jade Helm 15, a “realistic” military training exercise which will involve the Green Berets, Navy Seals, and the 82nd Airborne Division, will take place throughout Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado from July 15 to September 15.

USASOC spokesman Lt. Col. Mark Lastoria responded to charges that the exercise was part of preparations for martial law by claiming the drills were designed to ready troops for overseas operations.

“That notion was proposed by a few individuals who are unfamiliar with how and why USASOC conducts training exercises,” Lastoria said in an email to Stars and Stripes. “This exercise is routine training to maintain a high level of readiness for Army Special Operations Forces because they must be ready to support potential missions anywhere in the world on a moment’s notice.”

However, USASOCM failed to address the fact that a slide for the exercise characterized Texas and Utah as “hostile” territory and an area of southern California as an “insurgent pocket,” claiming that “computer firewalls prevented them from accessing the websites where the document appeared.” (...)
Back in the Cold War days, we weren't allowed to travel on German roads wearing our MOPP gear, out of fear of alarming the German population. Lord knows, we didn't want to hurt the feelings of the same people who built Auschwitz and Dachau.

I'm not a huge conspiracy buff, so I don't see anything alarming about this. But you know, I'm very happy there are conspiracy nuts out there, because sometimes those nutty theories really are true.

Onward and upward,
airforce
Posted By: ConSigCor

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 03/23/2015 03:59 PM

Jade Helm The Low down

https://youtu.be/36gR9a-Db90
Posted By: airforce

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 03/23/2015 05:24 PM

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Originally posted by ConSigCor:
Jade Helm The Low down

https://youtu.be/36gR9a-Db90
Good video. Sometimes it's refreshing to see somebody on the internet who knows what he's talking about.

Onward and upward,
airforce
Posted By: D308cat

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 03/23/2015 05:33 PM

I think its safe to say, They are all friendly Drills, Till The Day they are not! Ever Vigilant !
SEMPER FI
Posted By: airforce

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 03/23/2015 10:18 PM

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Originally posted by D308cat:
I think its safe to say, They are all friendly Drills, Till The Day they are not!
Good point.

Onward and upward,
airforce
Posted By: Mexneck

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 03/23/2015 11:38 PM

Unless FT. Bragg, Camp Mackall and its training areas have shrunk since I was there, there is plenty of room to run a division size Robin Sage across many different drop zones and training areas. Except for insertion and extraction every bit is done on LPCs. So saying that they need the western half of the US to run this makes me sceptical.
Posted By: ConSigCor

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 03/25/2015 07:37 AM

There are reports that Jade Helm is being expanded to include 2 additional states in the south.

This exercise is one of many in recent years that not only attempts to acclimate the public to seeing military personnel on American streets, but to also condition troops to feel comfortable operating domestically.

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Expanding military training activities in Cooper Creek" (Georgia) area.

By Jim Walker, District Leader, Georgia Forest Watch: "Don’t be surprised to encounter Army Rangers in the Cooper Creek area."

I have long been accustomed to seeing soldiers and signs of their activity in the vicinity of Camp Merrill, the Ranger training base in the Etowah watershed, and as far away as Hickory Flat in the Noontootla watershed. They even use the Appalachian Trail. But until this year, to my knowledge, they have never operated as far away from the camp as Cooper Creek.

Back in June, Georgia ForestWatch District Leader David Govus came across two soldiers on foot and one in a pickup truck near Bryant Creek, a tributary of Cooper Creek. Talking with them, he learned that they were scouting out potential helicopter landing zones in the area because, as the sergeant said “the colonel wants to step out.”

The first confirmation that this has been accomplished was on a Sunday in early November. While David was leading a hike in the Cooper Creek area, he met six big army trucks. A soldier on foot in the lead was very helpful in squeezing the wide trucks past the hikers’ vehicles on the narrow road.

Then in December, I had an opportunity to observe the whole operation in action. Accompanying a Forest Service employee going out to core some trees and survey a couple of older stands included in the proposed Cooper Creek project, we came upon a blazing fire. Expecting hunters, instead we found six soldiers with two jeeps, two trailers, and a very large canvas tent, maybe 200 square feet. Not wanting to interfere with their operation, we talked with them to make sure that we would not get in their way. No problem, they said. They would be conducting a three-day training exercise, but the bulk of the troops would not be arriving until later. They also told us that these exercises would be happening on a regular basis, and “you can expect to be seeing a lot more of us.”

With the soldiers’ permission, we went on up the ridge to measure the diameters of selected trees and core them to determine their age. About an hour later, I heard two helicopters approaching and could see that they were heading toward a food plot about a mile and a half away. Because of the terrain, I could not see them land, but they were out of sight only briefly before returning the way they came. The helicopters made four or five trips to the same location, and as we passed by their campfire on our way out, the soldiers verified that those were their guys coming in.

In an apparently unrelated incident, I recently happened to be at Wilscot Gap, where the gated road to Brawley Mountain (FS45) begins, when a big pickup truck turned in toward the gate. I thought it must be Forest Service employees and went over to talk with them. But the truck was not a Forest Service one. The driver was not in military uniform, but the passenger who got out to unlock the gate, was. We had a brief, friendly conversation during which he informed me that, “This is a military road.” “No,” I contradicted him, “it’s a Forest Service road.”
Posted By: ConSigCor

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 03/25/2015 07:38 PM

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From Matt Bracken:

Operation Jade Conditioning

First, let’s cover what Joint Military Exercise Jade Helm 15 is not: it is not a covert plan for the military to conquer the Southwest and institute martial law. And no, the hundreds of special operations troops and thousands of other military personnel taking part in Jade Helm 15 are not bad guys who are out to establish tyranny in America. Those are straw man arguments, posited to be rejected.

But the elimination of the straw men does not mean that Jade Helm 15 is benign. Reality check, please: does anybody reading this seriously believe that President Obama is contemplating dropping thousands of American troops across an area as vast as the space covered by Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen and Egypt? If you believe that, then I will give you a special discount when you buy any two of the eleven New York metro area bridges and tunnels that I currently own.

Many will say, “But the Green Berets have been doing this kind of thing with exercises like Robin Sage for years and years. It’s exactly the same thing. It’s no big deal.” These people are either paid shills, or well-meaning but naïve dupes. Note the motto of Jade Helm 15: “Master the human domain.” From our military to our intelligence agencies to federal law enforcement, Social Network Analysis is a booming field, a field which is now stretched to include imposters and liars paid by the post to influence social media trends. This government-sponsored social media influencing begins in the understandable realm of legitimate foreign counter-terrorism, but today the all-seeing eye is increasingly aimed inward at perceived domestic threats.

FTX Robin Sage and similar legitimate exercises typically take place across a few counties and involve coordination at the sheriff and state police level. The volunteer role-players are often old Special Forces guys or local farmers. One of them that I know was a decorated MACV/SOG hero who for years after his retirement played a mysterious guerrilla chieftain for the newbie Q-coursers. And in a younger age, I ran with a crowd that that pretended to blow up radio towers, bridges and fuel dumps with simulated demolition charges. We also did cross-country movements and escape and evasion training exercises in and out of uniform with a variety of weapons. This was done with the knowledge of the local authorities, to avoid people getting shot due to misidentification when crossing public and private spaces.

But Robin Sage and other training exercises were never scaled up to become regional show-stopping extravaganzas spread across six large Western states, requiring real-time coordination between multiple governors, state police departments, county and city law enforcement jurisdictions, federal law enforcement agencies, and active duty military units from all branches of the service. No, Jade Helm is not Robin Sage. It’s not even Robin Sage on steroids.

Will there be Robin Sage elements to Jade Helm? Of course. Embedded reporters will no doubt be sending back live video, visually establishing the overtly benign and beneficial impact of the exercise as Green Berets and SEALs freefall and fast-rope into their insertion points. An analysis of some of the information gleaned from the Jade Helm 15 informational packet suggests that some of the spec-ops troops will participate in cross-country movements of greater than fifty miles, humping rifles and rucks from Texas into New Mexico among other land routes. But that camo-paint and boot-leather Robin Sage visual is just camouflage for the genuine objectives of Jade Helm 15, which in my opinion are twofold:

First: conditioning Americans to accept increasingly frequent and intrusive military and paramilitary police actions up close and personal. These will include low-altitude over-flights by military aircraft at all hours, plus roadblocks, checkpoints and denied out-of-bounds areas declared during so-called “realistic military training exercises” in and around Anytown, USA. Some of the military participants might be dressed as civilians, or even as enemy terrorists—foreign or domestic. That is to say, the troops will not necessarily be identifiable to John Q. Public as good old G.I. Joe. Instead, they might be dressed up like Jihad John, or even Redneck Jake. We will be told to mind our business, stay indoors, and trust those in authority who can see “the big picture.”

“Hey Martha, what’s all that noise and commotion? It sounds like World War Three is breaking out across the highway downtown!”

“Oh, don’t worry, George. The Army is just doing another urban warfare drill. I saw it on TV.”

Google keywords like “military drill training exercise urban warfare helicopters” and see how many of our cities have already been treated to simulated “Black Hawk Down” battles, complete with booming explosions, midnight helicopters swooping at rooftop level, and plenty of ratatat-tat. Step by step we are being conditioned to living in a battlefield state of mind. Full dress rehearsals for all-out urban warfare are becoming the new normal in the Land of the Free.

To what purpose? Well, to what purpose does the chef slowly turn up the heat under the frog pot? If and when the time comes that the federal government decides to eliminate some pesky nests of sedition in the name of national security, folks living just a few miles away will simply yawn and change television channels, placid as cows chewing cud. Operation Jade Conditioning: mission accomplished.

The second objective of Joint Military Exercise Jade Helm 15 is to practice simultaneously operating all of the control levers of armed federal power on American soil, from major military units and federal law enforcement agencies down to the state police and local law enforcement. (Posse Comitatus? Heavens, no. It’s just a training exercise!)

When the time comes to eliminate those pockets of bitterly-clinging dead-enders standing in the way of social progress that Team Obama seems to hate with far greater vigor than it hates the Islamic State or Al Qaeda, the federal bosses will already know which county sheriffs and chiefs of police are “reliable.” That is, reliable in the KGB or Stasi meaning of the world. Click your heels, Sheriff, and set up the roadblocks as instructed. It’s a federal order! Do it just like we did it last year.

Again, it’s Operation Jade Conditioning. Ditto for our generals being conditioned to take orders from civilian bureaucrats for military deployments directly into American cities and towns.

That’s my opinion. Or, you can choose to believe that President Obama is actually getting our military primed and ready for simultaneous spec-ops team insertions across the entire Middle East from Egypt to Iran, and Syria to Yemen, the same geographical area covered by Joint Military Exercise Jade Helm 15.

It’s your choice to believe that, if you wish.
And then we have...

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http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2...civil-war-and-red-list-extraction-drill/

THE JADE HELM 15 DRILL IS A MARTIAL LAW, CIVIL WAR and “RED LIST” EXTRACTION DRILL

18 Mar, 2015 by Dave Hodges



What does “Master the human domain” mean? Is it a euphemism for the complete subjugation of the civilian population of the United States?

From July 15th to September 15th, 2015, the U.S. Army Special Operations Command is conducting a massive military drill in an area covering the entire American Southwest. At first glance, I thought this drill was a response to the massive military drills being conducted by Russia. I wrongly assumed that Jade Helm 15 was a drill designed to protect the Southwest from an invasion by Russian-backed Latin American military forces (i.e. Red Dawn). However, after reading the operational plan of Jade Helm, it is clear that this drill is about the brutal martial subjugation of the people of Texas, Utah and Southern California who have risen up against some unspecified tyranny. Further, this drill is also about martial law being used as a preventative measure in states which “might” lean towards civil war against the United States government (i.e. California, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico).

The operational elements and impact of Jade Helm 15 cannot be considered in isolation. A careful analysis reveals how this drill is connected to Army policies associated with the confinement of detainees in what is commonly called FEMA camps! This drill is undoubtedly the most frightening thing to occur on American soil since the Civil War.

Red Dawn or Martial Law Preparations?
Jade Helm’s Purpose Defined
“Jade Helm is a challenging eight-week joint military and Interagency (IA) Unconventional Warfare (UW) exercise conducted throughout Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado.”
The term, “unconventional warfare (UW)” makes it clear that this exercise is not dealing with a Russian-backed “Red Dawn” invasion of the Southwestern United States by Russian backed Latin American partners. UW speaks to the guerrilla warfare (asymmetrical) nature of the anticipated and rehearsed conflict. Subsequently, it can be conclusively stated that Jade Helm is not preparing for a Red Dawn invasion, rather, they are preparing for a Red, White and Blue invasion. This is a massive rehearsal for martial law implementation as well as implementing the proverbial and much rumored Red and Blue List and the “snatch and grab” extractions of key resistance figures from the Independent Media as well as uncooperative political figures. The various provisions of Jade Helm make it clear just how dangerous this drill truly is.

Composition of Jade Helm Forces Reveals the True Purpose of the Drills
Thomas Mead, the operations planner for the U.S. Army’s Jade Helm realistic military training has publicly stated that “We have Army Green Berets, Navy Seals, Marine Special Operations Command, the 82nd Airborne Division and we also have some of our interagency partners such as the DEA, FBI and the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (JPRA) that will be working with us.”

The use of Green Berets, Navy Seals and Special Operations Command forces speaks to the unconventional composition of the overall makeup of this group. Among the many duties for these three Special Operations groups include infrastructure raids, assassination of key enemy personnel, reconnaissance, and extraction of key enemy personnel for detention and/or intelligence gathering. It is the latter duty that has me concerned as there has been much discussion over the execution of a “Red List” in which key resistance figures would be kidnapped and “dealt with” in advance of the implementation of martial law. A detailed analysis of the language of Jade Helm has convinced me that we are looking at the implementation of the “snatch and grab” of key resistance figures to the coming marital law. My sources have told me that in past drills of this nature, Red List extraction troops are helicoptered in the early morning hours (e.g. 3AM) land, offload personnel and extract the intended targets, SWAT team style.

In the Jade Helm section entitled “What to Expect“, operation planners state that the public should anticipate “Increased aircraft in the area at night“, and “May receive noise complaints“.
What aircraft would be loud enough at night to guarantee noise complaints? My vote would be the helicopters. And who would be on these helicopters at night? What time are snatch and grab activities historically held? And who typically conducts snatch and grab arrests? The answer to these questions would be the special operation forces, which in martial law, would be the Gestapo version of the Green Berets, the Navy Seals and Marine Special Forces as they arrive at your home at 3AM.

Role players will be participating in Jade Helm. In fact, the same section goes on to state that “Some individuals (i.e. civilian insurgents) may conduct suspicious activities…..” What would constitute a “suspicious activity for the purpose of this drill? Would it consist of pretending to be dragged off to a FEMA camp? Would it be engaging in simulated insurgency activities associated with guerrilla war strategies? There are so many possibilities and they are all associated with civilian resistance against a tyrannical force.

Not only is the use of three special operations forces suspicious with regard to Jade Helm, but more notably is the announced use of JPRA, and this is frightening event. The Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (JPRA) maintains a series of training school sites whose subject matter includes:

“Prisoners of war; hostages and DETAINEES (emphasis added); evasion and escape; search and rescue; Prison survival techniques and experiences; geography and cartography, natural science, ethnology, and country studies; terrorism; military and Naval science; natural and emergency medicine.”

The majority of the above definition makes it clear that the intent of JPRA is to teach POW survival skills, at least until they use the word “detainee”. Please allow me to call your attention to the term “detainee”. In layman’s language, the term “detainee” simply means someone who is a prisoner of the military occupation force (U.S. government). To the average person, the use of the term detainee would not raise an eyebrow, but to someone who is tune with the connotations and denotations of military parlance, the term “detainee” holds specific meaning as evidenced by the following document which is considered by many to be a blueprint manual, created by the Army, for martial law and FEMA camp incarceration for political prisoners (e.g. dissenters).

Restricted U.S. Army Internment and Resettlement Operations Manual
May 2, 2012
FM 3-39.40 Internment and Resettlement Operations

fema leaked document FM 3-39.40 1-5

In section 1-10 of 3-39.40, “A Civilian detainee is a civilian who is interned during armed conflict, occupation, or other military operation for security reasons, for protection, or because he or she committed an offense against the detaining power.”

In section 3-56 of 3-39.40, the following draconian provisions are applied to “detainees“:

“Develops PSYOP products that are designed to pacify and acclimate detainees or DCs to accept U.S. I/R facility authority and regulations (Author’s note: “PSYOP Products” such as the use of torture such as water-boarding and sleep deprivation).
Gains the cooperation of detainees to reduce the number of guards needed.
Identifies malcontents, trained agitators, and political leaders within the facility who may try to organize resistance or create disturbances.
Develops and executes indoctrination programs to reduce or remove antagonistic attitudes (i.e. brainwashing of detainees).
Identifies political activists.
Plans and executes a PSYOP program that produces an understanding and appreciation of U.S. policies and actions.”

The use of the word “detainee” is conspicuous and as the reader can clearly see, it has specific meaning with regard to a Red List extraction action. In effect, this is the black site for political dissidents. Both Jade Helm 15 and the FM 3-39.40 are both Army manuals written exclusively on dealing with civilian personnel in martial law settings. Under the NDAA, designating select citizens as a detainee and holding them indefinitely is legal under this unconstitutional legislation.
States Participating in Jade Helm
Jade Helm is an eight-week joint military and interagency unconventional warfare exercise that will be conducted in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado. A clearer copy of this map is available at this link.
Jade Helm 15 Color Coded Legend Red Denotes a
Jade Helm 15 participants
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This map contains the reason as to why we can be certain that this is not a “Red Dawn” invasion emanating from Latin America. The unconnected pockets of “hostile states” is how we know this a martial law/possible civil war map. The color codes of the states listed in the map presented above, can be deciphered as follows:

civil war1

-The Red States of Utah and Texas are listed as hostile states as is part of Southern California. These states are not geographically contiguous. Subsequently, we are looking at Jade Helm 15 as being the suppression of civil resistance. The use of the 82nd Airborne is also suggestive of the fact that the authorities anticipate that there could be civilian militias rising up, perhaps in combination with veterans groups and possibly military units loyal to the citizens of the United States.

– The Brown State of New Mexico is listed as leaning towards being hostile.

-The Blue States of California, Nevada and Colorado are listed as being loyal, “permissive”, to military authority and martial law.

-The Light Blue State of Arizona is listed as “unknown”, but leaning toward being friendly.

This reads like a civil war scorecard, similar to the one that President Lincoln must have constructed in 1861 after the attack upon Ft. Sumter.
The Participation of Certain Interagency Partners Are Very Troubling
Repeated reference is made about the cooperation between the Department of Defense (DoD) and local law enforcement (LEA) in the Jade Helm document. After reading this document, Program 1033 started to make a lot of sense. Program 1033 is the militarization of local police with former military equipment (tanks, machine guns, etc.). It is interesting to note that it was the NDAA legislation that created Program 1033. Obviously, the purpose of this is to turn the local police into a martial law occupation force.

“CNN and FOX propagandists have nothing on us.” Kate Zickel a host for the Voice of Russia.

I am not surprised, but very concerned that DHS, listed as an interagency partner, is a part of this drill for the following reasons: I believe a significant number of American military will NOT fire upon American citizens. Subsequently, this is the reason for the Russian troop presence in our country and they will fulfill the role of a martial law occupation force. When I have previously mentioned this, the Russian media (e.g. Voice of Russia) has attacked me in the past as if they have something to hide and evidence of these attacks can be accessed here and here.

What seems logical and something that should frighten all Americans is to wonder if DHS and the Russian partners will be a part of Jade Helm 15? Again, I refer to the video production put together by Sherrie Wilcox in which Russian soldiers have been seen in Tennessee traveling in DHS vehicles as they entered into Western Kentucky. As this related to Jade Helm and martial law, this is ominous. Russian troops will fire upon American citizens. Russian troops will extract American citizens from their beds in the middle of the night. What do you want to bet that Russian troops will be included in Jade Helm 15? Russian troops were included in Grid EX II and the RIMPAC war games, so why not Jade Helm. Yes, I am talking about treason and it is coming from the top.

Why would the Drug Enforcement Agency become involved in a martial law operation?This makes no sense unless you read the connection of the compromised DEA to various Central and South American factions (e.g. the possible 5th column presence of MS-13) that I revealed in July of 2014.
Conclusion
With regard to the thematic components to this article, there is no conclusion, this is only the beginning. It is quite clear that the Army fully believes, as do their superiors at the Pentagon and at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, that there is the belief that there is going to be something so catastrophic that an American Civil War II will ensue. The reasons behind this event(s) are not the focus of this article. However, I think it is a safe bet that it will have to do with the seizure of bank accounts and retirement accounts. This is a topic that will be explored in a future article. Meanwhile, Americans in the Southwest need to be concerned that this drill does not go live like so many of these drills seem to in advance of a false flag drill. Every political activist, “uncooperative” politician and member of the Independent Media need to be thinking about where they want to be from July 15 to September 15. It would be best to be where “they” ain’t!
Posted By: Huskerpatriot

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 03/25/2015 09:07 PM

This is pretty creepy stuff.
Posted By: ConSigCor

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 03/26/2015 07:34 AM

Jade Helm: Troops to “Operate Undetected Amongst Civilian Population”

Role players to practice infiltrating towns during controversial exercise

Jade Helm: Troops to "Operate Undetected Amongst Civilian Population"

by Paul Joseph Watson | March 26, 2015

A key component of the controversial Jade Helm military exercise set to take part in nine U.S. states this summer will involve soldiers operating “undetected amongst civilian populations,” to see if they can infiltrate without being noticed.

The “realistic” military training exercise, which will involve the Green Berets, Navy Seals, and the 82nd Airborne Division, is set to take place from July 15-Sepember 15, but has prompted concerns after Texas and Utah were labeled “hostile” territory in documents related to the exercise.

A Houston Chronicle report reveals that soldiers will attempt to blend in with the local population in an effort to test the effectiveness of infiltration techniques. Residents will be advised to report “suspicious activity” during the exercise.

“They’re going to set up cells of people and test how well they’re able to move around without getting too noticed in the community,” said Roy Boyd, chief deputy with the Victoria County Sheriff’s Office. “They’re testing their abilities to basically blend in with the local environment and not stand out and blow their cover.”

By directly involving unwitting members of the local population, this aspect of the drill contradicts the Army’s assertion that, “The public can expect nothing much different from their day-to-day activities since much of exercise will be conducted in remote areas.”

Jim Stewart, chief deputy with the Brazos County Sheriff’s Office, told the Chronicle that the designation of Texas as “hostile territory” was merely a way of setting up a role playing exercise under which soldiers operate behind enemy lines.

The Army has failed to specifically address why Texas, Utah and a pocket of southern California were labeled as hostile territories in training documents for the exercise, merely insisting that the drill is designed to prepare troops for foreign occupations and has nothing to do with preparations for martial law.

No less than 17 different Texas cities will see an Army presence as part of the exercise, which will involve, “participants in civilian dress and civilian vehicles, military aircraft, low-altitude airdrops of personnel and weapons with blank rounds, to avert fearful reactions”.

The cities are Bastrop/Smithville, Big Spring, Caddo Lake, Caldwell, Christoval, College Station, Dell City, Eldorado, Goliad, Junction, Leakey, Menard, Mountain Home, San Angelo, San Antonio and Victoria.

News outlets, primarily Infowars, who questioned the nature of the exercise have come under fire from the Army and other mainstream media outlets, with the Chronicle characterizing the reaction as an example of, “ultra-right-wing fears of a government takeover in the Lone Star State”.

Despite assurances that the training is to prepare troops for overseas missions, Army documents in the past have made clear that plans for martial law are in place for within the Continental United States (CONUS).

A leaked 2012 US Army Military Police training manual, entitled “Civil Disturbance Operations,” described how soldiers would be ordered to confiscate firearms and kill American “dissidents.” The manual also revealed that prisoners would be detained in temporary internment camps and “re-educated” to gain a new appreciation of “U.S. policies,” in accordance with U.S. Army FM 3-19.40 Internment/Resettlement Operations.

Jade Helm has also drawn comparisons to a 2012 scenario outlined by retired Army colonel Kevin Benson, in which the U.S. Military is used to crush an insurgent rebellion overseen by Tea Party militia members who take over the city of Darlington, South Carolina.
Posted By: D308cat

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 03/26/2015 09:05 AM

I'm going to stick my neck out, I think and feel that if you take everything that has happened in the last few years and add them up, including Billions of rounds of ammo ! That we have a better than 60% chance that "THIS IS IT" I also feel that we should all be "ALERT" well before the Scheduled EVENT start date. I have a NASTY FEELING in the pit of my stomach. The country is Broke, The People are waking up, They are running out of time ! God Be With US, Semper Fi
Posted By: airforce

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 03/26/2015 09:31 AM

I'm going to go against the grain here, and say this exercise is probably exactly what they say it is.

Forget what you see in the movies. Green berets can kick doors and do all the sexy stuff if they have to (remember the Son Tay raid in Vietnam?), but their primary mission is infiltration, exfiltration, and working with indigenous forces, such as the Hmuong and the Montagnard tribesmen. These days, they're most likely working with Shiite and Christian village elders in various warm climates - which explains why they're doing this in the South over the summer.

If you ever see these guys this summer, they have failed. Their job is to train and equip indigenous forces. They don't patrol, stand guard, or fight. If they do, they have failed.

You may see some "supply" missions, to the "freedom fighters" they are working with. Again, if you do see equipment moving in and out, they have failed. These supply missions are also done secretly.

In short, I doubt that people in the states where this exercise will be conducted will see anything different. And if they do, well, then these guys need more training.

Onward and upward,
airforce
Posted By: D308cat

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 03/26/2015 10:10 AM

Airforce, If its all that clandestine ? Then why the Big Hoopla ? Just saying ! And don't worry, I don't have any grain to go against, I'm more like Tree Rings, Semper Fi
Posted By: airforce

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 03/26/2015 10:36 AM

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Originally posted by D308cat:
Airforce, If its all that clandestine ? Then why the Big Hoopla ?...
I'm really not sure. I know the DOD wouldn't want to keep the exercise a secret, because if they tried and it got out anyway, all hell would break loose.

Some people will find some conspiracy or hidden agenda in everything, whether it's a military exercise or something they think they hear when they play a Beatles song backwards. That's just the way they are. And frankly I'm glad they do, because it's always good to question authority.

As I said, I just don't think there's anything to get worked up about this exercise. But I've certainly been wrong before, I may make a mistake again someday, and it always pays to be vigilant.

Onward and upward,
airforce
Posted By: Doktor_Jeep

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 03/27/2015 09:47 AM

If their goal is to have some kind of clandestine "movements" instead of the usual herp a derp with camo, then it's going to be a fun game spotting them.

There's always something about them that makes them stick out. Probably because in any crowd they are acting a little different than the rest of the zombies.
Posted By: airforce

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 03/27/2015 11:29 AM

Afghans used to claim they could spot a foreigner just by the way he walked.

I've heard stories of how we smuggled supplies in to the Afghans when the Russians were there. I was on a camel for ten minutes once, and it wasn't fun. I really didn't envy those guys.

Onward and upward,
airforce
Posted By: Asher

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 03/27/2015 06:08 PM

Well let me play devils advocate what if the scenario isn't Martial Law against the all US citizens but a show of force for Mexico.

Russia to supply Mexico with weapons to retake South West US, if US sends weapons to Ukraine & Saudi starts bombing in Yemen.
http://www.redflagnews.com/headline...raine-saudi-a rabia-starts-bombing-yemen

Imagine if our Southern Border with Mexico became a warzone? Hence Texas, Southern Cali and other South Western States being the insurgent area of occupation. Because otherwise I would see pockets throughout the whole US of insurgent activity.

Thoughts?
Posted By: Lord Vader

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 03/27/2015 06:43 PM

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Originally posted by Asher:
Well let me play devils advocate what if the scenario isn't Martial Law against the all US citizens but a show of force for Mexico.

Russia to supply Mexico with weapons to retake South West US, if US sends weapons to Ukraine & Saudi starts bombing in Yemen.
http://www.redflagnews.com/headline...aine-saudi-a rabia-starts-bombing-yemen

Imagine if our Southern Border with Mexico became a warzone? Hence Texas, Southern Cali and other South Western States being the insurgent area of occupation. Because otherwise I would see pockets throughout the whole US of insurgent activity.

Thoughts?
If I were President instead of the Kenyan and Mexican Troops invaded the United States I nuke the scum suckers to hell.

Mexico would effectively cease to exist and that would be just fine with me.

Also what would the Gun Owners of the South West do, I don't think they would just do nothing.

In the end there would be no more Mexico and there would be a few more States in the United States.

Oh by the way the linked article stated Chechen Parliament not Putin, not exactly the same thing.
Posted By: Huskerpatriot

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 03/27/2015 07:59 PM

What better border fence than a 1,000 wide wasteland after several hundred short range nukes are launched.

Any illegals would glow... Easy to spot at night.

E-verify would be a simple Geiger counter!
Posted By: airforce

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 03/27/2015 08:26 PM

I'm a strong believer in that old adage, "Where goods cross borders, soldiers don't." I certainly wouldn't call the border area a free trade zone, but the fact is that both countries profit from trade (both legal and the other kind). There really is little incentive for a border war.

Although, frankly, if Mexico wanted California, I'd be inclined to let them have it. Mexico can't run it any worse than the current state government.

Onward and upward,
airforce
Posted By: ConSigCor

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 03/27/2015 10:14 PM

Remember:
Anything the government and the media tells you is a lie and or propaganda. So, don't fall for their bullshit.

This is undoubtedly a tune up. But, for what purpose?

To quote Matt Bracken...

First: conditioning Americans to accept increasingly frequent and intrusive military and paramilitary police actions up close and personal. These will include low-altitude over-flights by military aircraft at all hours, plus roadblocks, checkpoints and denied out-of-bounds areas declared during so-called “realistic military training exercises” in and around Anytown, USA. Some of the military participants might be dressed as civilians, or even as enemy terrorists—foreign or domestic. That is to say, the troops will not necessarily be identifiable to John Q. Public as good old G.I. Joe. Instead, they might be dressed up like Jihad John, or even Redneck Jake. We will be told to mind our business, stay indoors, and trust those in authority who can see “the big picture.”

The second objective of Joint Military Exercise Jade Helm 15 is to practice simultaneously operating all of the control levers of armed federal power on American soil, from major military units and federal law enforcement agencies down to the state police and local law enforcement. (Posse Comitatus? Heavens, no. It’s just a training exercise!)

When the time comes to eliminate those pockets of bitterly-clinging dead-enders standing in the way of social progress that Team Obama seems to hate with far greater vigor than it hates the Islamic State or Al Qaeda, the federal bosses will already know which county sheriffs and chiefs of police are “reliable.” That is, reliable in the KGB or Stasi meaning of the world. Click your heels, Sheriff, and set up the roadblocks as instructed. It’s a federal order! Do it just like we did it last year.


Jade Helm is a eight-week joint military and Interagency Unconventional Warfare exercise...

...which will involve the Green Berets, Navy Seals, 82nd Airborne Division, DHS, DEA, FBI and the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency

...conducted from July 15 to September 15,

...throughout Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado

17 different Texas cities will see an Army presence as part of the exercise, which will involve, “participants in civilian dress and civilian vehicles, military aircraft, low-altitude airdrops of personnel and weapons .

The cities are Bastrop/Smithville, Big Spring, Caddo Lake, Caldwell, Christoval, College Station, Dell City, Eldorado, Goliad, Junction, Leakey, Menard, Mountain Home, San Angelo, San Antonio and Victoria.

In addition...the States of Miss. and Fla have been added to the exercise.

Operations Planner and retired Green Beret Thomas Mead told an audience that the drill, will now include the states of Mississippi and Florida.

“The exercise is actually an eight-week exercise taking place across seven states,” Mead explains. “As you can see right there, it spans the whole southwest of the United States. We’ve also added Mississippi and we have a group also working out of Florida.”

“We’ll have Navy Seals that’ll be conducting targets and training down in the Mississippi area”.


Operations Planner Francisco Oquendo Jr. also says “specific apparatuses” in the Brazos County area will be targeted for “surgical strikes” during a special extraction mission involving helicopters flying in from Louisiana.

And, Army Rangers out of Camp Merrill, are currently conducting exercises in the Appalachian mountains of N. Georgia.


If 'the drills were designed to ready troops for overseas operations'; why are they practicing how to blend in with American civilians? Do we look like ragheads? Do our cities resemble downtown Afcrapastan?

Why did USASOCM characterize Texas and Utah as “hostile” territory and an area of southern California as an “insurgent pocket”? Could it be the fact that these are not exactly fed friendly areas to begin with? Could it be that they wish to intimidate the Patriots in these areas? Or, gather intell and gauge their reaction/response/ capabilities??? Bundy Ranch, Texas independence movement and civilian border protection activities come to mind.

Remember, among the many duties of Green Berets, Navy Seals and Special Operations Command forces are infrastructure raids, assassination of key enemy personnel, reconnaissance, and extraction of key enemy personnel for detention and/or intelligence gathering.

Golden opportunity!

The militia/patriot movement should be conducting a training exercise of their own.

Time to heighten your Situational Awareness, maintain a high level of OPSEC...especially the protection of key personnel, practice secure communications techniques, and practice covert identification and observation of hostile elements. Now is the time to gather intell on the Opfor. Everyone in the effected areas should be monitoring their communications and generate accurate Spot Reports and Salute's rather than internet rumors. Right now there is cheap, off the shelf hardware/software that will allow you to plot their aircaft flight paths in real time...USE IT.

What you learn now may save you lives later.
Posted By: Asher

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 03/28/2015 07:00 PM

https://freedomfighterreports.com/2...not-a-drill-russia-to-start-a-civil-war/

Says Russian military have been infiltrating Canada in preparation to arm guerrillas in the US and Mexico. Which means groups like NBPP, MS13 and the Drug Cartels in Mexico. Kinda scary right...
Posted By: ConSigCor

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 03/29/2015 07:05 AM

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Friday, 27 March 2015
Military Drill Identifying “Hostile” U.S. States Sparks Alarm

Written by Alex Newman


A massive U.S. military drill dubbed “Jade Helm 15” lists Texas, Utah, and part of California as “hostile” or “insurgent pocket” territory. The unclassified information about this drill is causing widespread alarm nationwide, with more than a few analysts suggesting it may be some sort of exercise practicing to impose martial law on Americans fed up with an out-of-control federal government. During the exercises, which will take place over the summer, Special Forces from various branches of the military will work with local law-enforcement in scenarios that, to critics at least, sound suspiciously like they are aimed at subduing rebellious American civilians and states amid a civil war or large-scale unrest. The federal government issued a response dismissing the concerns and saying that the training is to help U.S. forces prepare for overseas missions, but not everyone is convinced.

The most alarming components of the drills highlighted by concerned citizens and media commentators surround an unclassified presentation about Jade Helm 15’s “realistic military training” that was apparently leaked. In a graphic showing the territory across which the training will take place — essentially the American Southwest — different states are colored based on the fictional status of their loyalty to Washington. Colorado, Nevada, and most of California, for example, are dark blue, indicating that they are “permissive.” Utah and Texas are both shaded red, indicating that they are “hostile.” Southern California is also red, with a note reading “insurgent pocket.” Arizona is light blue, which in the legend is listed as “uncertain (leaning friendly),” while New Mexico is brown, or “uncertain (leaning hostile).” Two more states, Florida and Louisiana, have reportedly been added to the exercise.



According to the presentation, the eight-week training program involves Navy SEALs, Army Special Forces Command (Green Berets), Air Force Special Operations Command, Marine Special Operations Command, Marine Expeditionary Units, the 82nd Airborne Division, and unspecified “interagency partners.” Underneath the logo for the Jade Helm drills, a sword with two arrows crossing it, it reads: “Master the Human Domain.” What exactly that means was not clear, but at least some critics of the exercise have suggested it may be a euphemism for subjugating the population of the United States. Indeed, as other analysts have noted, citing available information, the drill almost certainly has nothing to do with defending the Southern border from invasion. The few details that have been provided, though, are causing concern among analysts.

On a slide explaining “what to expect” during the two-month training program for “unconventional warfare,” the document warns of “increased aircraft in the area at night,” possible noise complaints, personnel carrying weapons with blank ammo, and more. Especially alarming to critics of the program is that “some individuals may conduct suspicious activities designed to prepare them for complex environments overseas,” and that “some participants will be wearing civilian attire and driving civilian vehicles.” Separately, a slide describing what “realistic military training” means has also raised alarm. The document mentions that it will be conducted “outside of federally owned property” and that it is designed to “ensure proper coordination between DOD representatives and local and regional authorities.” News reports citing military officials said the DEA, FBI, and the “Joint Personnel Recovery Agency” (JPRA) would also be participating.

Citing other recently leaked U.S. military documents such as “FM 3-39.40 Internment and Resettlement Operations” about interning American civilians in camps, using “psyops” (psychological operations) on those detainees to affect their views, and more, David Hodges with the Common Sense Show said the drill is “undoubtedly the most frightening thing to occur on American soil since the Civil War.” In a widely re-published article about the training program, he said it could be “conclusively stated” that the drill was really about “preparing for a Red, White and Blue invasion.” “This is a massive rehearsal for martial law implementation as well as implementing the proverbial and much rumored Red and Blue List and the ‘snatch and grab’ extractions of key resistance figures from the Independent Media as well as uncooperative political figures,” Hodges added. “The various provisions of Jade Helm make it clear just how dangerous this drill truly is.”

Responding to widely expressed concerns that the scheme is “preparation for imposing martial law or subduing right-leaning groups and individuals,” as the military publication Stars and Stripes put it, U.S. Army Special Operations Command denied the accusation. “That notion was proposed by a few individuals who are unfamiliar with how and why USASOC conducts training exercises,” USASOC spokesman Army Lt. Col. Mark Lastoria was quoted as saying. “This exercise is routine training to maintain a high level of readiness for Army Special Operations Forces because they must be ready to support potential missions anywhere in the world on a moment’s notice.” He re-iterated those comments in other interviews as well. Despite being referred to as “routine,” it was not clear whether any similar drill identifying U.S. states as “hostile” had ever taken place — except perhaps amid the Civil War.

In comments quoted by the Houston Chronicle, which made its bias obvious in the first sentence by claiming that the drills had “stirred some ultra-right-wing fears of a government takeover in the Lone Star State,” local law enforcement officials also shed some light on what to expect. “They're going to set up cells of people and test how well they're able to move around without getting too noticed in the community,” Chief Deputy Roy Boyd with the Victoria County Sheriff's Office was quoted as saying by the paper. “They're testing their abilities to basically blend in with the local environment and not stand out and blow their cover.” A former Army Intelligence officer was also quoted downplaying fears about the drill and suggesting that it was largely routine training.

Separately, the Chronicle attempted to belittle concerns expressed by critics about the program. National radio host Alex Jones, for example — whose audience dwarfs the readership and listenership of many “mainstream” outlets, including the Chronicle — was introduced as part of the “far-right fringe” movement. Jones’ radio show and online portal Infowars played a key role in raising awareness about the drills under the headline “Feds Preparing to Invade Texas, List State as Hostile.” The supposed “journalist” at the Chronicle, apparently unable to contain himself or conceal his extreme bias, went on to describe the website Freedom Outpost, which also raised concerns about the drill and suggested it was practice for domestic martial law, as “ultra-libertarian.”

While local authorities quoted in news reports were aware of the programs and vowed to work with the community to prevent panic or paranoia, it would not be the first time that the Pentagon has alarmed U.S. civilians with its drills. In 2013, a series of “urban warfare” military exercises in major cities including Miami and Houston involving gun fire and black helicopters terrified locals who were unaware of what was going on. As The New American has also reported in recent years, under the Obama administration, military authorities have taken the unprecedented step of bringing troops from Communist China and Russia to do “training drills” with American forces. Other foreign militaries, primarily European, have for decades been practicing citizen disarmament and other drills on U.S. soil, as documented on video by Alex Jones.

Considering the fact that two-thirds of the American people in polls say the federal government is “out of control” and a "threat" to liberty, it is hardly surprising that many citizens do not trust the Obama administration when it performs military drills with law enforcement that it has been militarizing and attempting to nationalize — especially while identifying conservative states as “hostile” enemies. Obama’s invitation of foreign troops loyal to hostile regimes for military training drills in the United States certainly did not help matters. Nor does the fact that the current commander in chief began his political career in the living room of communist terrorist leader Bill Ayers — a man whose terror spree was backed by the Soviet puppet regime of Fidel Castro when it bombed the Pentagon and murdered police officers. Ayers’ terror group, the Weather Underground, planned to exterminate 25 million Americans in camps across the Southwest after taking over, according to FBI agent Larry Grathwohl who infiltrated the organization. “They were dead serious,” Grathwohl said in an video-taped interview.

Of course, the federal government’s recent behavior — ranging from Homeland Security stockpiling massive amounts of hollow-point ammunition to the multiple agencies producing propaganda demonizing U.S. military veterans, Christians, and Americans with mainstream political views as potential terrorists — is also unlikely to inspire trust. In fact, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia warned just last year that “you are kidding yourself” if you do not think mass internment of U.S. citizens, as happened with Japanese-Americans during World War II, would eventually return to this country.

Jade Helm drill may well just be nothing more than training U.S. forces for “overseas missions,” as officials claim. However, considering the known details of the exercise and the accelerating anti-constitutional lawlessness of the federal government, it is hardly unreasonable to express concerns. In fact, anybody who is not concerned by the current state of U.S. affairs is simply not paying attention.



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Posted By: Archangel1

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 03/29/2015 09:49 AM

Funny how some people have been saying that this Fall is when SHTF.
Posted By: The Greywolf

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 03/29/2015 10:12 AM

I have to agree with Matt Bracken's assessment...That CSC posted,

and then my own personal opinion is...

It is an exercise to get the American people, especially in the states that might rise up, accustom to the presence of troops and equipment in the streets..

This is the very state of Martial law people...
Posted By: Huskerpatriot

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 03/29/2015 10:41 AM

It also gives some of us practice at seeing how they look, move, communicate and interact with LEO...

This is a trial run for both sides.
Posted By: airforce

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 03/29/2015 03:18 PM

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Originally posted by The Greywolf:
It is an exercise to get the American people, especially in the states that might rise up, accustom to the presence of troops and equipment in the streets..

This is the very state of Martial law people...
What would be the point? We're already accustomed to seeing police dressed out in military gear and riding around in armored personnel carriers. Any more, the police look more military than the military does.

Onward and upward,
airforce
Posted By: The Greywolf

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 03/30/2015 07:32 AM

You're right we are used to seeing cops dressed as military in groups of 10 maybe 15 at a time..

Not used to seeing forces taking over whole swaths of a town,and controlling that town

Look at how Boston polices actions surprised folk who just seen it on tv..
Posted By: Mexneck

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 03/30/2015 09:59 PM

From the map I saw it looks like they have large events planned in San Antonio and Houston. This has a million ways to go wrong, and I'm sure they are counting on it.
Posted By: The Answer

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 03/31/2015 02:51 AM

I'm not particularly concerned about the drills we hear/read about in the news. It's the ones we don't hear/read about that are worrisome.


But, of course, we don't hear/read about them.

The facts don't change. You still bleed, they still bleed, and they have bigger and better ways of causing said bleeding. If it ever came down to it, you'll have to be smarter and quieter than they are. These facts aren't changing.
Posted By: Breacher

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 03/31/2015 12:43 PM

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Originally posted by The Answer:
I'm not particularly concerned about the drills we hear/read about in the news. It's the ones we don't hear/read about that are worrisome.


But, of course, we don't hear/read about them.

The facts don't change. You still bleed, they still bleed, and they have bigger and better ways of causing said bleeding. If it ever came down to it, you'll have to be smarter and quieter than they are. These facts aren't changing.
That requires and active and comprehensive intelligence gathering effort which is not going to degrade into the Walfred hoax of the day club where we have to sort through a ten to one ratio of hoax vs solid information in order to develop that intelligence info into anything useful that planners can work with.
Posted By: ConSigCor

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 04/15/2015 02:05 PM

Evidence Suggests Jade Helm Is Connected To Massive Cyber Event, Planned Since 2013

http://www.allnewspipeline.com/Bombshell_Evidence_Jade_Helm.php

Jade Helm 15 exercise, Colorado backs out

http://www.examiner.com/article/jade-helm-15-exercise-colorado-backs-out


Interview with John Trochmann

https://youtu.be/TwHbTydD4z8
Posted By: Archangel1

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 04/15/2015 08:05 PM

This just gets better and better. Can anyone say Cloward and Piven?
Posted By: Breacher

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 04/16/2015 08:19 AM

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Originally posted by Huskerpatriot:
It also gives some of us practice at seeing how they look, move, communicate and interact with LEO...

This is a trial run for both sides.
Really, that's where it needs to be at, and if we have more time on these things, eventually deploy people to the areas where this is active and run our own versions of training ops.

I would almost wonder if it would be worth the effort to find some fresh people the feds don't quite know about and have them get in contact with whoever runs OPFOR for those training exercises. Get them jobs with it, test a few tactics, try to get in on the AARs. Honest test and evaluation of the operations rather than just monkeywrenching the opposition in ways that they might see coming next time.

The troops don't really matter much on this, the important targets to observe and study are the middling level officers along with senior NCOs, especially those who remained SNCOs but have university degrees. They tend to be the most often recruited by the shady alphabet agency types and would be the "old men" calling shots in combat operations involving any "MJTF".
Posted By: Breacher

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 04/16/2015 08:39 AM

The reference in one of the videos is interesting, to this (don't keep the website open very long if you are on limited internet usage, it will suck up bandwidth like a continuing video)

http://map.ipviking.com/
Posted By: ConSigCor

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 04/16/2015 08:40 AM

If you're in the immediate area of these operations you need to be monitoring their comms.
Since exact frequencies are unknown, but bands are known, you should perform a band search.

The following bands are of primary interest:

30-88 MHz. Pay particular attention to:
30-30.55 MHz.
32-33 MHz.
34-35 MHz.
36-37 MHz.
38-39 MHz.
40-42 MHz.
46.5-47 MHz.
49.5-50 MHz.
138-144 MHz.
148-150.775 MHz.
225-400 MHz.

The following bands are of secondary interest:

118-138 MHz.
162-174 MHz.
400-420 MHz.

Extensive use of P25 and FHSS is expected. Real Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum. Police scanners with P25 capability and RTL-SDRs will be necessary.
Posted By: BoldFenianMan

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 04/17/2015 04:56 AM

http://www.infowars.com/reporters-infiltrate-cartel-run-border-town-in-search-of-isis-camp/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTv8A89fO1Y
Posted By: airforce

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 04/21/2015 02:51 PM

This is interesting. I don't believe it, but it's interesting. Does Wal-Mart have the same logistics system as the DOD, and this is why Wal-Marts are closing nationwide, so the DOD can take over the stores? Is this all a part of the Jade Helm exercise?

The video is only about three minutes. Judge for yourself.

Onward and upward,
airforce
Posted By: Breacher

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 04/21/2015 07:12 PM

Not sure about Walmart, but Target stores are somehow connected with DOD, I think using the same supply chain as the PX/AAfes system and set up for distribution of supplies from national stockpiles in SHTF scenarios. Walmart was getting a bunch of stores certified for that, but target was building new ones with the certification in mind from the ground up. It has a lot to do with the layout of the store, the way the loading docks and parking lots get designed, generators on site, and like that guy says in the video, the way the software works in their supply system. If military supply and support people go in and take over, it is not wildly different from the systems they already use, and former military officers work in management at most of those stores anyway. They are also supposed to cultivate careers for National Guard and reservists to help with the personnel integration.

It is not a fully functional system though, and somewhat voluntary on the corporation's part. For example, stores built after I think 2007 are equipped with generators in order to facilitate continued operations in a disaster, but they are usually NOT equipped with sufficient fuel reserves or even fuel tanks to run for more than a few hours at reduced capacity, basically keeping the dairy products and frozen stuff cold long enough to distribute it to the local population on a voucher system. Under those circumstances, it is most likely going to school and jail kitchens. Jail kitchens tend to be a little oversize, and are capable of expanding to become chow halls for police working overtime, but municipalities may make local decisions to consolidate the kitchens at the schools as they are more accessible, have better parking lots and more reserve space for shelter services.

Next plan, someone has to haul fuel trucks to the stores which were set up as part of the reserve program, which includes a lot of the Walmart stores from what I understand, but not all of them. Being in the back rooms of a lot of the stores doing the work that I do, I can tell you that Walmart is better on supplies, Target runs smaller stockrooms, but the Target stores have the better generator systems.

The guy is right about Home Depot, not sure if it is appropriate to discuss here, but that's our turf. Lowes too. That cat is somewhat out of the bag with the recent Denzel Washington iteration of the "Equalizer" franchise, where McCall is relocated to Brooklyn (I think) to an anonymous retirement as a home improvement store employee. The issue with Home Depot and Lowes is there are certain minimums of certain construction materials they are supposed to have on hand no matter what the sales are. Other lumber and construction supply places would not get on with that program of stocking certain minimums so they got written off as approved DOD sources for stuff. Heck, they openly show the GSA supply chain protocols on the cash registers at Home Depot.

What I don't agree with on that guy in the video is that the employees are all just shown the door when the government shows up. Not true, part of the hiring process even for contractors and their employees is that they are cleared for that level of employment with DOD anyway. There were some walmart managers who checked the plates on my truck and read me as a "felon" with local law enforcement and were all ticked off that I was making a higher hourly wage than them for the work I did but they could not say shit about it since I was already cleared by people above their pay grade, but if I go in and apply for a regular job there, that won't work.

Home Depot and Lowes also have discreet hiring policies for exemptions for felons as long as they are veterans who meet certain DOD clearances for reduced sensitivity positions on a case by case basis. They like us to be some place where they can keep an eye on us...
Posted By: airforce

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 04/21/2015 10:19 PM

I know that some retail outlets have contracts with FEMA and various state and county emergency management agencies, but I wasn't aware of the DOD connection.

I'm still not inclined to read anything too nefarious into the Jade Helm exercise, but the Wal-Mart store closings do seem like theyre might be a little more to it. The store that's closing here in Tulsa, by all accounts, really does have some plumbing problems. But having it close for six months seems pretty extreme, and there certainly have been a lot of questions about it. This was the first time I heard anyone connect it to the Jade Helm exercise, so I figured I better report it.

Onward and upward,
airforce
Posted By: Breacher

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 04/22/2015 04:30 AM

I don't see Walmart closing a store for Jade Helm, but I do see the idea of the Jade Helm planners working with Walmart to temporarily use one of the closed down stores as a defacto FOB for certain elements of an exercise. National Guard armories are only so big, but traditionally, National Guard armories and shut down schools are used for those kinds of training exercises. There are also a number of mothballed military bases around California in particular which can be used for that purpose, but quite often the facilities there don't have the kind of easy access trucking depot setup that are relatively common at Walmart, or they still want to keep the layout secret enough that contract truck drivers don't get to see everything and put it on social media video once they have been in there.

As it is, by using Walmart, if some guy starts uploading video of a truck being unloaded at a walmart loading dock, nobody can even conclusively tell where it it is and may not even know what's in the boxes, so if he goes off on some conspiracy theory sounding stuff, its not like it would be readily believable if the military people are there in civilian clothes.

If I am not mistaken, the way this is supposed to work is that the military can move in and conduct operations without the general public even figuring out who they are or what they are doing.
Posted By: airforce

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 04/30/2015 09:17 AM

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered ...elm exercises taking place in the state.

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered members of the Texas Military to monitor federal troops in an upcoming two-month training exercise planned for the Lone Star State.

Operation Jade Helm will bring the U.S. military's most elite soldiers, including the Green Berets and Navy SEALS, to Texas for simulated special operations in a hostile territory. But plans for the exercise have roused fears in many Texans of a federal occupation.

In a letter to Major General Gerald Betty of the Texas State Guard, Abbott said his order was "to address concerns of Texas citizens."

"During the training operation, it is important that Texans know their safety, constitutional rights, private property right and civil liberties will not be infringed," the governor wrote. "I am directing the Texas State Guard to monitor Operation Jade Helm 15."

The State Guard is a militia of volunteer reservists, headquartered at Camp Mabry in Austin, meant to serve in times of emergency or catastrophe. It is one of three branches of the Texas Military, a force commanded by the governor.

Chapter 431 of the Texas Government Code--"State Militia"--reads, "The governor may call all or part of the state military forces to repel or suppress an invasion of or insurrection in or threatened invasion of or insurrection in the state or if the governor considers it necessary to enforce state law. If the number of state military forces is insufficient, the governor shall call the part of the reserve militia that the governor considers necessary." (...)
Onward and upward,
airforce
Posted By: The Greywolf

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 04/30/2015 02:02 PM

Whether true or not, I found this video very interesting.. It's 21 minutes, there are some very interesting conclusions this guy comes to..is he right?.. maybe, maybe not..

Watch it, I love to get our own input on his maps and conclusions

Greywolf

https://youtu.be/Fw1z0M2zZFU
Posted By: BoldFenianMan

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 05/01/2015 01:46 PM

JADE-HELM – stands for: “Joint Assistance For Deployment and Execution – Homeland Eradication of Local Militants.”

Dave Hodges On Jade Helm 15: The Government’s War On U.S. Citizens

http://www.silverdoctors.com/dave-h...ernments-war-on-u-s-citizens/#more-52793
Posted By: airforce

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 05/05/2015 08:54 AM

Chuck Norris is worried about Jade Helm, too.

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...“The US government says, ‘It’s just a training exercise’,” wrote Norris, 75. “But I’m not sure the term ‘just’ has any reference to reality when the government uses it.”

Both the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, and US senator – and 2016 Republican presidential candidate – Ted Cruz have been accused of pandering to conspiracy theorists with their reactions to Jade Helm 15. Abbott asked the Texas state guard to monitor the training exercise. Cruz said his office had “reached out to the Pentagon” to ask about the exercise.

Norris, who appeared as Texas Ranger JJ McQuade in the 1983 film Lone Wolf McQuade and starred in the long-running TV series Walker, Texas Ranger, praised both men for their refusal to believe official government accounts.

“I’m glad … Ted Cruz is asking the tough questions of the Pentagon,” Norris wrote. “Particularly because its ‘exercises’ come too near to my ranch’s backdoor as well, at least according to the map....
Onward and upward,
airforce
Posted By: 5.56

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 05/05/2015 09:56 AM

Folks,
It will be what it will be. There is no sense in worrying about it. We all have had ample opportunity to gear up and shore up any shortfalls.

If U.N. troops deploy for anything other than deploying for a burger at Wendy's it will be as the Japanese stated in world war II. There will be a rifle behind every blade of grass.

The clock is ticking for many of us. That means were are getting older by the minute. Some of us are falling into the category of strong heart and mind with gear, but bodies that are starting to get frail and falling apart.

LOL May not be able to hump a pack over 5 miles of rough terrain, But we still know how to toss the gear on a 4 wheel drive 4 wheeler to get closer to where we need to be!

5.56
Posted By: airforce

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 05/05/2015 03:15 PM

Rep.Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) doesn\'t like this Jade Helm exercise, either.

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..."Over the past few weeks, my office has been inundated with calls referring to the Jade Helm 15 military exercise scheduled to take place between July 15 and September 15, 2015," Gohmert said in a Tuesday statement. "This military practice has some concerned that the U.S. Army is preparing for modern-day martial law. Certainly, I can understand these concerns."

"When leaders within the current administration believe that major threats to the country include those who support the Constitution, are military veterans, or even 'cling to guns or religion,' patriotic Americans have reason to be concerned," Gohmert wrote.

The congressman took particular issue with the layout and labels of the Pentagon map for the exercise. "Once I observed the map depicting 'hostile,' 'permissive,' and 'uncertain' states and locations, I was rather appalled that the hostile areas amazingly have a Republican majority, 'cling to their guns and religion,' and believe in the sanctity of the United States Constitution." Gohmert called on the Pentagon to change the map, the names on the map, and said "the tone of the exercise needs to be completely revamped so the federal government is not intentionally practicing war against its own states." (...)
If these Green Berets really can operate unseen,with all these people looking for them, then they really are pretty good.

Onward and upward,
airforce
Posted By: D308cat

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 05/05/2015 08:29 PM

If you live near a base as I do, between several bases, I can't really imagine what would look out of place, other than UN Trucks or Vans and Blue Helmets or Troops in the Hood, We get flyovers of just about anything you can think up ! It would have to be something obvious ! Also I am at a spot of Major Tourism Traffic, Like last place to eat or gas up for many miles in any direction. Lots of odd Folks that look out of place. Semper Fi
Posted By: Texas Resistance

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 05/06/2015 12:11 AM

I think some advance teams are already starting it. A trusted militia friend in Houston, TX told me that he saw several small groups of military age men trying to look like homeless street vagrants but their expensive backpacks gave them away. Then a few days latter he saw some more in what looked like their staging area on secluded city maintenance property wearing street clothes but also wearing combat boots

Remember they want you to call the cops on them so they will know if they are noticed or not so don't call the cops on then. Try to ask them what they are doing or get photos of them. Remind them they have the right to refuse unlawful orders such as orders to put patriots in the FEMA Camps and confiscate firearms. The Obomination is on his way out and has nothing to loose so he could try anything.

from:http://www.silverdoctors.com/dave-hodges-on-jade-helm-15-the-governments-war-on-u-s-citizens/#more-52793

JADE-HELM – stands for:
“Joint Assistance For Deployment and Execution – Homeland Eradication of Local Militants.” In other
words, the Government is getting nervous about the fact that more Americans are now aware of the corruption, criminality and destruction of civil rights. Jade Helm is specifically intended for the purpose of eliminating fomenting Government insurrection groups. The States in which Jade Helm exercises are being conducted are “hot beds” for anti-Government militia groups (the latter are your allies).
Posted By: Pericles

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 05/06/2015 08:35 PM

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Originally posted by Huskerpatriot:
This is pretty creepy stuff.
Not when one has an understanding of what Special Forces does.
Posted By: Pericles

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 05/06/2015 08:37 PM

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Originally posted by BoldFenianMan:
JADE-HELM – stands for: “Joint Assistance For Deployment and Execution – Homeland Eradication of Local Militants.”

Dave Hodges On Jade Helm 15: The Government’s War On U.S. Citizens

http://www.silverdoctors.com/dave-h...ernments-war-on-u-s-citizens/#more-52793
Prediction - we will still be here on 15 September and I will laugh at anyone who mentions Hodges again.
Posted By: Pericles

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 05/06/2015 08:40 PM

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Originally posted by ConSigCor:
If you're in the immediate area of these operations you need to be monitoring their comms.
Since exact frequencies are unknown, but bands are known, you should perform a band search.

The following bands are of primary interest:

30-88 MHz. Pay particular attention to:
30-30.55 MHz.
32-33 MHz.
34-35 MHz.
36-37 MHz.
38-39 MHz.
40-42 MHz.
46.5-47 MHz.
49.5-50 MHz.
138-144 MHz.
148-150.775 MHz.
225-400 MHz.

The following bands are of secondary interest:

118-138 MHz.
162-174 MHz.
400-420 MHz.

Extensive use of P25 and FHSS is expected. Real Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum. Police scanners with P25 capability and RTL-SDRs will be necessary.
Anything in the ground band of 30-99MHz will be SINCGARS based frequency hopping and encrypted. You would have to be within 100 meters of the PRC-126/128 to pick up anything from those radios.
Posted By: airforce

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 05/06/2015 09:45 PM

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Originally posted by Pericles:
Prediction - we will still be here on 15 September and I will laugh at anyone who mentions Hodges again.
I agree. A lot of people are pretty paranoid about this exercise, just like they were about Y2K. But you know, I'm awfully glad that people are vigilant about things like this. When people really are out to get you, it's not paranoia.

Onward and upward,
airforce
Posted By: Asher

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 05/07/2015 09:08 AM

Airforce, paranoia keeps you alive... Just cause I'm paranoid it doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
Posted By: airforce

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 05/07/2015 09:47 AM

I agree. But when the military really does enforce martial law and start rounding up dissidents, I doubt they're going to ask county governments for permission operate in their county.

Onward and upward,
airforce
Posted By: 5.56

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 05/07/2015 10:38 AM

For what it is worth,

I spoke to some active assets about this today. They are located in TX at several bases. They are not concerned about this exercise. At least to this point there is nothing to get excited about. That could change as we all know.

These folks are in positions within the chain they would or will know if this develops into a pooch screw.
Posted By: ConSigCor

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 05/07/2015 02:51 PM

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Originally posted by Pericles:
Quote
Originally posted by ConSigCor:
[b]

Extensive use of P25 and FHSS is expected. Real Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum. Police scanners with P25 capability and RTL-SDRs will be necessary.
Anything in the ground band of 30-99MHz will be SINCGARS based frequency hopping and encrypted. You would have to be within 100 meters of the PRC-126/128 to pick up anything from those radios. [/b]
Of course the mil will run SINGARS But we have to remember that many fedrule agencys are also involved. They'll be running P25 which we can monitor. In some cases there will also be slip ups...transmissions in the clear. Time for some folks to dust off their monitoring equipment. The point is to see what we can do...how far we can stretch the envelope. They're training, so should we.
Posted By: Texas Resistance

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 05/07/2015 04:37 PM

Quote
Originally posted by 5.56:
For what it is worth,

I spoke to some active assets about this today. They are located in TX at several bases. They are not concerned about this exercise. At least to this point there is nothing to get excited about. That could change as we all know.

These folks are in positions within the chain they would or will know if this develops into a pooch screw.
Of course it is not screw the pooch time yet. The J.A.D.E. H.E.L.M. training exercise is their screw the pooch practice.

We got video intel from the Louisiana Militia of Cooperative Nugget 1997 (gun confiscation practice)then they did it for real in former Yugoslavia and then they did it again in New Orleans after they blew the dyke to cause flooding but blamed it on the hurricane.

Joint Assistance For Deployment and Execution – Homeland Eradication of Local Militants (20)15 is their screw the pooch practice for putting in the FEMA Camps (or executing) all who could mount effective resistance against gun confiscation before they start gun confiscation. Of course we don't know when or if they will go through with it. Too bad they don't go after all the Hajis in the US instead but the Obomination in DC is a Haji muslim too.
Posted By: Breacher

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 05/07/2015 10:15 PM

Any idea what the date was when the dyke got blown?

My understanding was they were pretty weak for a long time but the slumlords and dope house operators did not want to relocate that section of the city or pay for overhauling the dykes since that area was below sea level much of the time to begin with, I think it had previously been a swamp.

That said, if he date fell within a certain time window I know some really bad characters had deployed to New Orleans, the. It is more evidence against them. I have court documentation which places the main BATF west coast swat team there around September 2-3rd and they were apparently in that area but I think that was after the flooding took place. They had arrived around September 2 by air, nobody know for sure how long they stayed,
Posted By: ConSigCor

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 05/08/2015 05:17 AM

When The Elites Wage War On America, This Is How They Will Do It

Wednesday, 06 May 2015 Brandon Smith

The consequences and patterns of war, whether by one nation against another or by a government against the citizenry, rarely change. However, the methods of war have evolved vastly in modern times. Wars by elites against populations are often so subtle that many people might not even recognize that they are under attack until it is too late. Whenever I examine the conceptions of “potential war” between individuals and oligarchy, invariably some hard-headed person cries out: “What do you mean ‘when?’ We are at war right now!” In this case, I am not talking about the subtle brand of war. I am not talking about the information war, the propaganda war, the economic war, the psychological war or the biological war. I am talking about outright warfare, and anyone who thinks we have already reached that point has no clue what real war looks like.

The recent exposure of the nationwide Jade Helm 15 exercise has made many people suspicious, and with good reason. Federal crisis exercises have a strange historical tendency to suddenly coincide with very real crisis events. We may know very little about Jade Helm beyond government admissions, claims and misdirections. But at the very least, we know what “JADE” is an acronym for: Joint Assistance for Deployment and Execution, a program designed to create action and deployment plans using computer models meant to speed up reaction times for military planners during a “crisis scenario.” It is linked with another program called ACOA (Adaptive Course of Action), the basis of which is essentially the use of past mission successes and computer models to plan future missions. Both are products of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

As far as I know, no one has presented any hard evidence as to what “HELM” really stands for, but the JADE portion of the exercise explicitly focuses on rapid force deployment planning in crisis situations, according to the government white paper linked above. This fact alone brings into question statements by the Department of Defense that Jade Helm is nothing more than a training program to prepare military units for “foreign deployment.” This is clearly a lie if Jade Helm revolves around crisis events (which denotes domestic threats), rather than foreign operations.

Of course, if you also consider the reality that special operations forces ALWAYS train like they fight and train in environments similar to where they will fight, the entire notion of Jade Helm as a preparation for foreign theaters sounds absurd. If special operations forces are going to fight in Iraq, Iran or Syria, they go to training grounds in places like Kuwait. If they are training in places like Fort Lauderdale, Florida (including “infiltration training”), then there is no way around the fact that they are practicing to fight somewhere exactly like Fort Lauderdale with a similar culture and population.

I would further note that Jade Helm exercises are also joint exercises with domestic agencies like the FBI and the DEA. Again, why include domestic law enforcement agencies in a military exercise merely meant to prepare troops for foreign operations? I often hear the argument that the military would never go along with such a program, but people who take this rather presumptive position do not understand crisis psychology. In the event of a national catastrophe many military personnel and government employees may determine that they will do what is "best for them and their families". And if following orders guarantees the security of their families (food security, shelter, etc), then they may very well follow any order, no matter how dubious. Also, a large scale crisis could be used as a rationale for martial law; otherwise well meaning military men and women could be convinced that the loss of constitutional freedoms might be for the "greater good of the greater number". I believe some military will indeed resist such efforts, but of course, Jade Helm may also be a method for vetting such uncooperative people before any live operation occurs.

So if Jade is actually a crisis-planning system for the military and the military is training for domestic operations, what is the crisis it is training to react to? It’s hard to say. I believe it will come down to an economic disaster, but our economic and social structures are so weak that almost any major event could trigger collapse. Terror attacks, cyberattacks, pandemic, a stiff wind, you name it. The point is the government expects a crisis to occur. And with the advent of this crisis, the ultimate war on the American people will begin.

Why wait for a crisis situation? With the cover of a crisis event, opposition to power is more easily targeted. For my starting point on the elite war strategy, I would like to use the following presentation on guerrilla warfare by Max Boot, Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow and military adviser, at the elitist World Affairs Council.

I would first point out that Boot claims his work is merely a historical character study of interesting figures from the realm of insurgency and counterinsurgency and is not “polemical.” I’m afraid that I will have call horse hockey on that. Boot is direct adviser to the Department of Defense. His work and this presentation were obviously a study of guerrilla tactics from the perspective of counterinsurgency and an attempt to explore strategic methods for controlling and eradicating guerrillas and “terrorists.”

Any defense the American people might muster against elitist dismantling of constitutional liberties would inevitably turn to "insurgency". So using CFR member Boot’s views on counterinsurgency as a guideline, here is how the elites will most likely wage open war on those within the American population who have the will to fight back.

Control Public Opinion

Boot stresses the absolute necessity for the control of public opinion in defeating an insurgency. Most of his analysis is actually quite accurate in my view in terms of successes versus failures of guerrilla movements. However, his obsession with public opinion is, in part, ill-conceived. Boot uses the American Revolution as a supposed prime example of public opinion working against the ruling powers, claiming that it was British public opinion that forced parliament and King George III to pull back from further operations in the colonies.

Now, it is important to recognize that elitists have a recurring tendency to marginalize the success of the American Revolution in particular as being a “fluke” in the historical record. Boot, of course, completely overlooks the fact that the war had progressed far longer than anyone had predicted and that the British leadership suffered under the weight of considerable debts. He also overlooks the fact that pro-independence colonials were far outnumbered by Tories loyal to the crown up to the very end of the war. The revolution was NEVER in a majority position, and public opinion was not on the revolutionaries’ side.

The very idea of the American Revolution is a bit of a bruise on the collective ego of the elites, and their bias leads them to make inaccurate studies of the event. The reality is that most revolutions, even successful ones, remain in a minority for most, if not all, of their life spans. The majority of people do not participate in history. Rather, they have a tendency to float helplessly in the tides, waiting to latch onto whatever minority movement seems to be winning at the time.

Boot suggests that had the Founding Fathers faced the Roman Empire rather than the British Empire, they would have been crucified and the rebellion would have immediately floundered because the Romans had no concern for public opinion. This is where we get into the real mind of the elitist.

For now, the establishment chooses to sway public opinion with carefully crafted disinformation. But what is the best way to deal with public opinion when fighting a modern revolution? Remove public opinion as a factor entirely so that the power elite are free to act as viciously as they wish. Engineered crisis, and economic crisis in particular, create a wash of other potential threats, including high crime, looting, riots, starvation, international conflict, etc. In such an environment, public opinion counts for very little, if people even pay attention at all to anything beyond their own desperation. Once this is achieved, the oligarchy has free reign to take morally questionable actions without fear of future blowback.

Control The Public

Another main tenet Boot describes as essential in defeating insurgency is the control of the general population in order to prevent a revolution from recruiting new members and to prevent them from using the crowd as cover. He makes it clear that control of the public does not mean winning the “hearts and minds” in a diplomatic sense, but dominating through tactical and psychological means.

He first presents the example of the French counterinsurgency in Algeria, stating that the French strategy of widespread torture, while “morally reprehensible,” was indeed successful in seeking out and destroying the insurgent leadership. Where the French went wrong, however, was their inability to keep the torture campaign quiet. Boot once again uses the public opinion argument as the reason for the eventual loss of Algeria by the French.

What Boot seems to be suggesting is that systematic torture is viable, at least as a hypothetical strategy, as long as it remains undetected by the overall public. He also reiterates this indirectly in his final list of articles for insurgency and counterinsurgency when he states that “few counterinsurgencies (governments) have succeeded by inflicting mass terror, at least in foreign lands,” suggesting that mass terror may be an option against a domestic rebellion.

Boot then goes on to describe a more effective scenario, the British success against insurgents in Malaya. He attributes the British win against the rebellion to three factors:

1) The British separated large portions of the population, entire villages, into concentration camps, surrounded by fences and armed guards. This kept the insurgents from recruiting from the more downtrodden or dissatisfied classes. And it isolated them into areas where they could be more easily engaged.

2) The British used special operations forces to target specific rebel groups and leadership rather than attempting to maneuver through vast areas in a pointless Vietnam-style surge.

3) The British made promises that appealed to the general public, including the promise of independence. This made the public more pliable and more willing to cooperate.

Now, I have no expectation whatsoever that the elites would offer the American public “independence” for their cooperation in battling a patriot insurgency, but I do think they would offer something perhaps more enticing: safety.

I believe the British/Malayan example given by Boot would be the main methodology for the elites and the federal government in the event that a rebellion arises in the U.S. against planned shifts away from constitutional republic or martial law instituted in the wake of a national emergency.

Isolate Population Centers

There is a reason why certain American cities are being buried in technologically sophisticated biometric surveillance networks, and I think the Malayan example holds the key. Certain cities (not all) could be turned into massive isolated camps, or “green zones.” They would be tightly controlled, and travel would be highly restricted. Food, shelter and safety would likely be offered, after a period of disaster has already been experienced. A couple months of famine and lack of medication to the medically dependent would no doubt kill millions of people. Unprepared survivors would flock to these areas in the hopes of receiving aid. Government forces would confiscate vital supplies in rural areas whenever possible in order to force even more people to concentrate into controlled regions.

I have seen the isolation strategy in action in part, during the G20 summit in Pittsburgh. More than 4,000 police and National Guard troops locked down the city center, leaving only one route for travel. The first day, there were almost no protesters; most activists were so frightened by the shock-and-awe show of force that they would not leave their homes. This is the closest example I have personally experienced to a martial law cityscape.

Decapitate Leadership

The liberty movement has always been a leaderless movement, which makes the “night of long knives” approach slightly less effective. I do not see any immediate advantage to the elites in kidnapping or killing prominent members of the movement, though that does not mean they will not try it anyway. Most well-known liberty proponents are teachers, not generals or political firebrands. Teachers leave all their teachings behind, and no one needs generals or politicians. The movement would not necessarily be lost without us.

That said, there is a fear factor involved in such an event. The black-bagging of popular liberty voices could terrorize others into submission or inaction. This is why I constantly argue the need for individual leadership; every person must be able and willing to take individual action without direction in defense of his own freedoms, if the need arises. Groups should remain locally led, and national centralization of leadership should be avoided at all costs.

According to the very promoters of Jade Helm exercises, training will center on quick-reaction teams striking an area with helicopter support, then exfiltrating within 30 minutes or less. Almost every combat veteran I have spoken with concerning this style of training has said that it is used for “snatch and grab” — the capture or killing of high value targets, then exfiltration before the enemy can mount a response.

Fourth-Generation Warfare

The final method for war against the American people is one Boot does not discuss: the use of fourth-generation warfare. Some call this psychological warfare, but it is far more than that. Fourth-generation warfare is a strategy by which one section of a population you wish to control is turned against another section of the population you wish to control. It is warfare without the immediate use of armies. Rather, the elites turn the enemy population against itself and allow internal war to do most of their work for them. We can see this strategy developing already in the U.S. in the manipulation of race issues and the militarization of police.

The use of provocateurs during unrest in places like Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore suggests that a race war is part of the greater plan. I believe law enforcement officials have also been given a false sense of invincibility. With military toys and federal funding, but poor tactical philosophies and substandard training, LEOs are being set up as cannon fodder when the SHTF. Their inevitable failure will be used as a rationalization for more domestic military involvement; but in the meantime, Americans will be enticed to fight and kill each other while the elites sit back and watch the show.

4th Gen warfare also relies on fooling the target population into supporting measures that are secretly destructive to the people. For example, liberty movement support for controlled opposition such as Russia or China, or liberty support for a military coup in which the top brass are elite puppets just like the Obama Administration. Think this sounds far fetched? It has already happened in our recent history! Marine Corp Major General Smedley Butler was hired by corporate moguls to lead a paid army in a coup against Franklin D. Roosevelt (also an elitist puppet) in 1933. Butler luckily exposed the conspiracy before it ever got off the ground. Both sides were controlled, but the coup if successful could have resulted in popular support for the expedient erosion of the Constitution, rather than a slow erosion which is what took place. This is the epitome of 4th Gen tactics - make the people think they are winning, when they are actually helping you to defeat them.

Know Thy Enemy

I have outlined the above tactics not because I necessarily think they will prevail, but because it is important that we know exactly what we are dealing with in order to better defend ourselves. Such methods can be countered with community preparedness, the avoidance of central leadership, the application of random actions rather than predictable actions, etc. Most of all, liberty champions will have to provide a certain level of safety and security for the people around them if they want to disrupt establishment efforts to lure or force the population into controlled regions. Crisis is the best weapon the elites have at their disposal, and exercises like Jade Helm show that they may use that weapon in the near term. The defense that defeats crisis is preparation — preparation not just for yourself, but for others around you. War is coming, and while we can’t know the exact timing, we can assume the worst and do our best to be ready for it as quickly as possible.
Posted By: airforce

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 05/08/2015 02:31 PM

Two Texas counties have cancelled the Jade Helm exercise in their area. .

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GOLIAD – Amid controversy and social media rumors of martial law being implemented, the U.S. Army's Jade Helm 15 realistic military training exercises scheduled to be held in Goliad and Victoria counties have been cancelled.

The Victoria County Sheriff's Office confirmed Thursday that the exercises had been cancelled.

The exercises were scheduled to be held from July 15 to Sept. 15.

Goliad County Judge Pat Calhoun and Goliad County Sheriff Kirby Brumby said Thursday they had not yet been notified of the cancellation of the exercises.

The Goliad County Commissioners Court unanimously approved a request by the U.S. Army Special Operations Command to conduct military exercises in the county on Dec. 8.

Thomas Mead, operations planner for the training, told the commissioners that 60 to 65 military personnel would be involved in the exercises.

Jade Helm exercises were planned to be conducted in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado. The exercises were also scheduled to be conducted in 14 other Texas locations.

Mead said the operations were to be held on Goliad County property owned by T. Michael O’Connor.

Conspiracy theorists hit social media with rumors of a military takeover in the designated areas.
Onward and upward,
airforce
Posted By: Asher

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 05/09/2015 03:50 PM

From infowars.com, Confirmed: Jade Helm Is for the American People...
http://www.infowars.com/confirmed-jade-helm-is-for-the-american-people/

Its mostly video...
Posted By: AZ Hi Desert

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 05/09/2015 05:46 PM

This particular JADE HELM isn't the one we need to quite worry about. This is just the first iteration.

The follow on years are the real concern. It will get bigger, more involved. More units. And it will have foreign elements.

This is an opportunity to recon the methods.
Posted By: Asher

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 05/09/2015 07:16 PM

I agree with the infowars guys now is the time to provide disinformation about you routines an patterns.
Posted By: airforce

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 06/01/2015 08:29 AM

Here is Ron Paul on Jade Helm 15 , on the Ron Paul Liberty Report. About 11 minutes.

Onward and upward,
airforce
Posted By: airforce

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 06/05/2015 10:49 PM

"Counter Jade Helm" is finally a thing. I was wondering when this was going to start.

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Counter Jade Helm, aka CJH, is a training exercise for the people. In response to the military's multi-state training, called Jade Helm 2015, citizens will participate in an unofficial fashion to practice counter-insurgency, organizational and intelligence gathering and reporting skills.

CJH is not affiliated with the military's training exercise.

The objective is not to stop or countermand the military's training, but to practice our own skills. Anyone can participate. Groups within each state that will play host to the military are being established to streamline the process. Individuals not wishing to be affiliated with a group can also submit information to this website for analysis and publishing.
Onward and upward
airforce
Posted By: Huskerpatriot

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 06/06/2015 08:04 AM

Awesome!
Posted By: airforce

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 06/06/2015 05:02 PM

I just registered over there (I'm "airforce," obviously).

If you see anything, be sure to post a situation report here at AWRM as well as over there.

Onward and upward,
airforce
Posted By: Texas Resistance

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 06/06/2015 05:16 PM

I would not give any intel to the Counter JADE HELM website. Part of the purpose of JADE HELM is to teach them if their covert infiltration methods work or not. So they will likely be looking at Counter JADE HELM so don't send them any intel.
Posted By: Huskerpatriot

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 06/06/2015 07:24 PM

I like the idea of handing out prayer cards with a reminder about their solemn oaths...

Don't report.

How could we submitt false/misleading or bogus intel to negate any gains they are attempting to get from this operation?
Posted By: airforce

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 06/06/2015 09:40 PM

Personally, I do like the idea of reporting intel on this operation. If the operation is exactly what they say it is (which I suspect is the case), then we are giving important feedback to the special forces folks who will soon be doing this for real, in the middle east or thereabouts. And if there really is something nefarious about it, we'll all know about it that much sooner.

That's a "win-win" as far as I'm concerned, with little or no downside.

Onward and upward,
airforce
Posted By: Texas Resistance

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 06/06/2015 11:06 PM

What is nefarious about it is that the US is nothing like "the middle east or thereabouts."

And JADE-HELM – stands for: “Joint Assistance For Deployment and Execution – Homeland Eradication of Local Militants.”

"There are no pet puppies. They eat their own."
--Mark Koernke

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams
Posted By: airforce

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 06/07/2015 09:51 AM

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Originally posted by Texas Resistance:
What is nefarious about it is that the US is nothing like "the middle east or thereabouts." (...)
I've been to Texas. And I've been to Saudi Arabia. The people are a little different. But other than that, there isn't that much difference, particularly in the summer, when these exercises are being conducted.

Onward and upward,
airforce
Posted By: Huskerpatriot

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 06/07/2015 11:16 AM

You could always send several hundred non-military "volunteers" in disguise as undercover covert military operators with the goal of flooding their network of reports with false reports everywhere!

One way to negate valid Intel is to co-mingle it with false Intel to the point where you can't tell the difference between them.

Have patriots reporting these false sittings in mass, and ignoring real sightings.
Posted By: MaddMatt

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 06/27/2015 10:02 AM

http://www.gunsamerica.com/blog/jade-helm-geoengineering-extinction-event-2015/
Posted By: Lord Vader

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 06/27/2015 07:00 PM

Extinction Event, NO WAY.

If this event is not in the Bible then it is not going to happen and I know one thing with absolute certainly and that is God is Real and what is in the Bible is real.

Also some people have a tendency to let their imagination get out of control and the Author is one of these People.

And was this reported by Les Nessman on his News Broadcast.
Posted By: ConSigCor

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 07/07/2015 08:38 AM

Jade Helm, Terrorist Attacks, Surveillance & Other Fairy Tales For A Gullible Nation

The United States military is effectively using psychological warfare to learn how people function and how to control them


by John Whitehead | Zero Hedge | July 7, 2015


“Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.” – Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

Once upon a time, there was a nation of people who believed everything they were told by their government.

When terrorists attacked the country, and government officials claimed to have been caught by surprise, the people believed them. And when the government passed massive laws aimed at locking down the nation and opening the door to total government surveillance, the people believed it was done merely to keep them safe. The few who disagreed were labeled traitors.

When the government waged costly preemptive wars on foreign countries, insisting it was necessary to protect the nation, the citizens believed it. And when the government brought the weapons and tactics of war home to use against the populace, claiming it was just a way to recycle old equipment, the people believed that too. The few who disagreed were labeled unpatriotic.

When the government spied on its own citizens, claiming they were looking for terrorists hiding among them, the people believed it. And when the government began tracking the citizenry’s movements, monitoring their spending, snooping on their social media, and surveying their habits—supposedly in an effort to make their lives more efficient—the people believed that, too. The few who disagreed were labeled paranoid.

When the government let private companies take over the prison industry and agreed to keep the jails full, justifying it as a cost-saving measure, the people believed them. And when the government started arresting and jailing people for minor infractions, claiming the only way to keep communities safe was to be tough on crime, the people believed that too. The few who disagreed were labeled soft on crime.

When the government hired crisis actors to take part in disaster drills, never alerting the public to which “disasters” were staged, the people genuinely believed they were under attack. And when the government insisted it needed greater powers to prevent such attacks from happening again, the people believed that too. The few who disagreed were told to shut up or leave the country.

Finally, the government started carrying out covert military drills around the country, insisting they were necessary to train the troops for foreign combat, and most of the people believed them. The few who disagreed, warning that perhaps all was not what it seemed, were dismissed as conspiracy theorists and quacks.

By the time the government locked down the nation, using local police and the military to impose martial law, there was no one left in doubt of the government’s true motives—total control and domination—but there was also no one left to fight back.

Now every fable has a moral, and the moral of this story is to beware of anyone who urges you to ignore your better instincts and trust the government.

In other words, if it looks like trouble and it smells like trouble, you can bet there’s trouble afoot.

For instance, while there is certainly no shortage of foul-smelling government activities taking place right now, the one giving off the greatest stench is Jade Helm 15. This covert, multi-agency, multi-state, eight-week military training exercise is set to take place from July 15 through Sept. 15 in states across the American Southwest.

According to official government sources, “Jade Helm: Mastering the Human Domain” is a planned military exercise that will test and practice unconventional warfare including, but not limited to, guerrilla warfare, subversion, sabotage, intelligence activities, and unconventional assisted recovery. The training exercise will take place in seven different southwestern states: California, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Texas, Utah and Nevada.

U.S. Army Special Operations Command will primarily lead this interagency training program but the Navy Seals, Air Force Special Operations, Marine Special Operations Command, Marine Expeditionary Units, 82nd Airborne Division, and other interagency partners will also be involved. Approximately 1,200 troops are expected to participate in these exercises.

The training is known as Realistic Military Training because it will be conducted outside of federal property. The exercises are going to be carried out on both public and private land, with the military reportedly asking permission of local authorities and landowners prior to land usage. The military map listing the locations that will host the exercise shows Texas, Utah, and the southern part of California as “hostile territory.” According to U.S. officials, these three areas are marked as hostile to simulate environments where American troops are viewed as the enemy. The other areas on the map are marked as permissive, uncertain (leaning friendly), or uncertain (leaning hostile).

Military officials claim that the southwestern states were chosen because this exercise requires large areas of undeveloped land as well as access to towns and population hubs. These states purportedly also provide a climate and terrain that is similar to that of potential areas of combat for the United States, particularly Iraq, Iran and Syria.

Now the mainstream media has happily regurgitated the government’s official explanation about Jade Helm. However, there is a growing concern among those who are not overly worried about being labeled conspiratorialists or paranoid that the government is using Jade Helm as a cover to institute martial law, bring about total population control, or carry out greater surveillance on the citizenry.

In the first camp are those who fear that Jade Helm will usher in martial law. These individuals believe that by designating the two traditionally conservative and Republican-dominated states, Utah and Texas, as hostile territory, while more Democratic states like Colorado and California are marked as friendly, the military plans to infiltrate the states with large numbers of gun owners and attempt to disarm them.

Adding fuel to the fire is the mysterious and sudden temporary closures of five Walmart stores in Texas, California, Oklahoma and Florida, two of which are located near Jade Helm training sites. Those in this camp contend that the military is planning to use the Walmart stores as processing facilities for Americans once martial law is enacted.

Pointing to the mission’s official title, “Jade Helm: Mastering the Human Domain,” there is a second camp that fears that the military exercises are merely a means to an end—namely total population control—by allowing the military to discern between friendly civilians and hostiles. This concern is reinforced by military documents stating that a major portion of Jade Helm training will be about blending in with civilians, understanding how to work with civilians, using these civilians to find enemy combatants, and then neutralizing the target.

In this way, the United States military is effectively using psychological warfare to learn how people function and how to control them.

As a study written by military personnel states, mastering the human domain, also known as identity processes, means “use of enhanced capabilities to identify and classify the human domain; to determine whether they are adversarial, friendly, neutral, or unknown.” The study later states that identity processes can be used to “manage local populations during major combat, stability, and humanitarian assistance and/or disaster relief operations.”

While the military has promised that the work they are doing is aimed for use overseas, we have seen first-hand how quickly the military’s weapons and tactics used overseas are brought home to be used against the populace. In fact, some of the nation’s evolutionary psychologists, demographers, sociologists, historians and anthropologists have been working with the Department of Defense’s Minerva Initiative to master the human domain. This security research includes “Understanding the Origin, Characteristics, and Implications of Mass Political Movements” at the University of Washington and “Who Does Not Become a Terrorist and Why?” at the Naval Academy Post Graduate School. Both studies focus on Americans and the different movements and patterns that the government can track to ensure “safety and security.”

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is also working to infiltrate churches across the country to establish a Christian Emergency Network, carry out emergency training exercises to prevent and prepare for disasters (active shooter drills and natural disaster preparedness), and foster two-way information sharing, while at the same time instituting a media blackout of their activities. As the DHS continues to establish itself within churches, a growing number of churches are adopting facial recognition systems to survey their congregations, identify and track who attends their events, and target individuals for financial contributions or further monitoring. As the partnership between churches and the DHS grows, their facial recognition databases may be shared with the federal government, if that is not already happening.

Finally, there is the third camp which fears that Jade Helm is merely the first of many exercises to be incorporated into regular American life so that the government can watch, study, and better understand how to control the masses. Certainly, psychological control techniques could be used in the future to halt protests and ensure that the nation runs “smoothly.”

It remains to be seen whether Jade Helm 15 proves to be a thinly veiled military plot to take over the country (one lifted straight out of director John Frankenheimer’s 1964 political thriller Seven Days in May), turn the population into automatons and psychological experiments, or is merely a “routine” exercise for troops, albeit a blatantly intimidating flexing of the military’s muscles.

However, as I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the problem arises when you add Jade Helm to the list of other troubling developments that have taken place over the past 30 years or more: the expansion of the military industrial complex and its influence in Washington DC, the rampant surveillance, the corporate-funded elections and revolving door between lobbyists and elected officials, the militarized police, the loss of our freedoms, the injustice of the courts, the privatized prisons, the school lockdowns, the roadside strip searches, the military drills on domestic soil, the fusion centers and the simultaneous fusing of every branch of law enforcement (federal, state and local), the stockpiling of ammunition by various government agencies, the active shooter drills that are indistinguishable from actual crises, the economy flirting with near collapse, the growing social unrest, the socio-psychological experiments being carried out by government agencies, etc.

Suddenly, the overall picture seems that much more sinister. Clearly, there’s a larger agenda at work here, and it’s one the American people had better clue into before it’s too late to do anything about it.

Call me paranoid, but I think we’d better take James Madison’s advice and “take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties.”
Posted By: Garthock

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 07/17/2015 08:09 PM

I'm not far from where Rangers do their mountain training. I'll go scope things out up there in the next few days and see if they are doing anything big.
Posted By: Garthock

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 07/23/2015 09:09 AM

Alright guys, I checked things out.

I was looking forward to doing a SALUTE, but there's nothing to report. No training whatsoever I could find in the typical Ranger training area in the Appalachian Mountains.

Nary a water buffalo, hummer or chopper in the sky.

ETA: Does anyone else have anything to report about JADE HELM?
Posted By: airforce

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 07/23/2015 09:33 AM

This video going around the internet is a hoax. I'm seeing reports of increased helicopter traffic, Air Force guys in downtown San Antonio (that's really shocking!), and the usual crap about Muslim, Chinese, or Cuban troops in disguise.

There is a "Counter Jade Helm" forum here , which I check every now and then to see if there's anything new.

But really, folks, this is supposed to be a Green Beret exercise. You're not supposed to see them. And if you do, they have really screwed up.

Onward and upward,
airforce
Posted By: airforce

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 09/15/2015 10:47 AM

Jade Helm 15 is ending today. If all those nefarious things that people feared would happen are actually going to happen, it better happen pretty quickly.

Onward and upward,
airforce
Posted By: SBL

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 09/15/2015 02:43 PM

Or perhaps the reason nothing happened was because we were so vigilant.
Posted By: ConSigCor

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 09/15/2015 03:06 PM

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Originally posted by airforce:
[b]Jade Helm 15 is ending today. If all those nefarious things that people feared would happen are actually going to happen, it better happen pretty quickly.

Onward and upward,
airforce [/b]
I worked exactly as they planned. It was used to gauge our response / reaction.
Posted By: airforce

Re: Jade Helm 15 - 09/16/2015 09:45 AM

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Originally posted by SBL:
Or perhaps the reason nothing happened was because we were so vigilant.
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Originally posted by ConSigCor:
It worked exactly as they planned. It was used to gauge our response / reaction.
It's a very good possibility that both of those are true.

Onward and upward,
airforce
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