I`m surprised that it took this long for us to get into africa considering how much gold and diamonds are there.I guess we needed to get the oil producing countries in our pocket before we could go after the gold and diamond producing countries,without the oil our planes couldn`t fly and our tanks couldn`t roll.

This kind of training happens all the time but i`m just wondering why the media is reporting about it now?

Im sorry, but what are all the damned MILITARY BASES in this country for, if they are just gonna use civilian areas? I'm sure this point had been made already, but this seems very much like "getting us used to" seeing and accepting military presence.

My home state none the less.

Originally posted by Aqualung2012
Im sorry, but what are all the damned MILITARY BASES in this country for, if they are just gonna use civilian areas? I'm sure this point had been made already, but this seems very much like "getting us used to" seeing and accepting military presence.

My home state none the less.

Well if its your home state, you would know that Myrtle Beach AFB was closed, Charleston Naval Base was closed, Donaldson Center AFB in Greenville was closed, Charleston AFB can't expand, Goose Creek has been toned down, and McEntire ANG base and Fort Jackson is being slowly strangled by the city of Columbia. Shaw hasn't had much in expansion for several years now in Sumter.

Thank goodness we still have federal lands and forest they can and do train on.

Originally posted by kdog1982

Originally posted by LennayTheUndead
More people who know about as much as the military as my 3 year old son, making a big deal out of something complete not abnormal....about a year ago there was a poster on here posting pictures of a convoy hauling tanks on the interstate. They were talking about the US Army "mobilizing" in the continental states...funny thing? I was a part of that 2 week training operation. Which was to take a bunch of non-functioning, defunct equipment, from Dugway to Fort Knox, and then more junk, from Fort Knox to Fort Sill. But yeah, in the meantime, to you people in the "know" of these things....we were invading! People who claim this is "unusual" demonstrate that they know next to nothing about how military units train. It isn't uncommon (at all) for military units to train in the general public. We do it every month in Nebraska...

I see them moving stuff all the time here and think nothing of it.I'm 30 miles east of Fort Knox,but the training in a town of people with blanks going pop pop?What if one of our redneck brothers didn't get the memo and decided to shoot back.

I can hear it now" Hey,bo,there are a bunch of army guys shootin' up the town!!!" " Bo,we are comin' home to defend 'er!"

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There are communities in California near Fort Irwin (Specifically NTC) where they train in the populous frequently. I spent two weeks doing that this past summer. The communities are hell holes, the worst communities I've ever seen stateside. One town I remember specifically not even realizing it was an actual town until we had finished training for the day, and someone told me it was not a "mock up" of a town in Iraq/Afghanistan. It was a legitimate community outside of Fort Irwin. I'm certain that these training operations (if any blanks are fired) are taking place in communities where either a.) nobody will even be around to notice, or b.) in areas of the "general public" where there is a minimal likelihood of any members of society being present.

Originally posted by timetothink
...what's French for idiots?

Imbecile puant

With these type of maneuvers being exercised, in your face style, and clearly practiced by the country's current, active military, it tends to make one go hmmmmmm. Would our own troops fire upon its own citizens? I don't know the answer to that question, but I know one thing, current military personnel are participating in these exercises, and that's something to seriously consider. And before anyone gives me flak, I come from a military family from WW2 up to present day.

I just don't understand why a MEU out of Camp Lejeune, which has it's own Combat town and beach, has to go to Jasper County, SC for urban training. Something is weird about this.

the amount of panic switch mashing in this thread is hysterical to me. the military has been doing this for god only knows how long. we run exercises all over the US. yes, these are critical to actual deployments because the citizenry participates both as normal bystanders and aggressor forces, along with paid actors. as to the post saying we have MOUT complexes on every base, no we do not. and most bases that do have a MOUT complex have one thats 3 blocks wide by 5 block long, or some other equally pitiful excuse for a training area. it has absolutely nothing to do with getting "the people" ready to see military in their own back yard, and everything to do with helping deploying troops be as ready as they can be. the community isn't forced to take part, and in fact many communities that events like this take place in actually INVITE the military to come in and run exercises, with reasons all across the board from it helps local law enforcement train, EMS train, to basic monetary gain for the community. good grief.

I dont see the Mali situation as being the reason to go in. I think they are trying to nullify Chinese and Russian influence. A french term for idot is "les icompetent"