Jade Helm, Combat Towns & the truth about military training...

Thanks to Kyle for the link!

U.S. Army Asymmetric Warfare Training Center
Colonel John Petkosek, commander of the U.S. Army Asymmetric Warfare Group at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia, talked about the 300-acre facility, which opened in 2014. Topics included the types of training troops receive and the application of that training overseas. The Center, resembling a small city featuring several full-scale buildings including a train and subway station, allows U.S. troops to develop and hone skills needed to fight in urban conflict zones around the world. Video clips were shown training. Colonel Petkosek responded to telephone calls and electronic communications, including a telephone line reserved for the active military.

I was monitoring the conversation on a spot I did about Jade Helm being planned stupidly by SOCOM (here) and everyone talks about how some in the community are dumb for reacting in shock at the exercise.  But the one thing no one is asking is why is this exercise necessary?

Ask SOCOM and they will tell you that they need to conduct this exercise so that its members are ready for operations overseas.

Bullshit.

Want to know the dirty little secret?  The US military has spent BILLIONS of dollars constructing state of the art "combat towns" on nearly every MAJOR military base in the US.  But wait you say....what about the people?  Easy.  They use role players, just like they'll use role players in Jade Helm.

If you need to conduct long distance ops to simulate combat conditions then you can operate on Camp Pendleton, 29 Palms, Ft Irwin, Ft Hood, Ft Carson and several other installations in between and still cover the same amount of geography without ever stepping foot on civilian or state land.  Additionally if you use the combat towns located on everyone of those sites, you'll probably be able to use more dynamic methods while doing it (by that I mean you gain live fire opportunities).

I don't know what the deal is with Jade Helm, but the answers we're getting are bogus....anyone with more than 5 minutes in service can tell you that.