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War Games Come Ashore in East Bay
The exercises, designed to test humanitarian assistance, disaster relief and urban combat readiness in a 21st century coastal environment, will begin today at the former Oak Knoll Naval Hospital in Oakland.
Urban Warfare
Urban warfare is modern warfare conducted in urban areas such as towns and cities. As a distinction, warfare conducted in population centers before the 20th century is generally considered siege warfare.
Urban combat is very different from combat in the open at both the operational and tactical level. Complicating factors in urban warfare include the presence of civilians and buildings of all sorts. Some civilians may be difficult to distinguish from combatants such as armed militias and gangs, particularly if individuals are simply trying to protect their homes from the attackers. Tactics are complicated by a three-dimensional environment, limited fields of view and fire because of buildings, enhanced concealment and cover for defenders, below ground infrastructure, and the ease of placement of booby traps and snipers.
Originally posted by Salt of the Earth
reply to post by Jenna
Did you look at any of the links we posted for you, to help you since you woudn't or couldn't find them yourself?
Since we did your homework for you, did you bother to look at any of them?
No? But you're still sneering and mocking?
Not good.
Originally posted by Jenna
Originally posted by Salt of the Earth
I understand there are a lot of illegals in our military now, join up and become a citizen. Also foreign mercenaries as per New Orleans w/ Katrina.
I assume you have sources for that ignorant statement? I'd like to see them if you would be so kind.
The troops didn't seem to mind walking up and down the streets of New Orleans, busting in people's homes who were high and dry, handcuffing them and taking their guns, old ladies, people who had no defense against vandals who were out everywhere prowling around. (probably mostly CIA and Mossad provacateurs or BATF, who knows)
Sources? I don't recall any reports of old ladies having their doors busted down and their guns confiscated by the big bad military.
Yeah, remember how FEMA was so "helpful" during Katrina, cutting the phone wires so the local police and firemen couldn't communicate, keeping the food and water away from the people?
And again, sources?
Originally posted by Salt of the Earth
I don't say things I don't mean.
And if I put up links to back up what I say, what else do you want from me?
Just wait and see I guess if the Army trucks pull up at your door to see what you have in your house and invite you to camp?
These things are definitely happening. I don't listen to Alex Jones for entertainment. I listen to him because he's the alternative media and actually reports the facts, not propaganda.
Factual videos from the mainstream media (ie hostile media) proving the military DID go out on Katrina and bang on people's doors, handcuff them and steal their guns and rifles -- that's not enough. Let's have some mocking and jeering about how negative, and just accuse me of saying things I don't mean to get a rise out of people.
What kind of proof are you looking for exactly? Probably what I said at the beginning, an Army truck pulling up in your driveway and rounding up your family for camp.
And I'm sure you never checked out any videos on the concentration camps either -- too negative. You'd rather wait and see them for yourself firsthand while you're being escorted in by a guy in camoflage and an assault rifle, right?
Originally posted by Salt of the Earth
And if I put up links to back up what I say, what else do you want from me?
Originally posted by elston
Sources??? Are you kidding? I was there helping family. Regarding the phone lines being cut, google it. Nagin and the head of St. Bernard Parish said it on CNN. Did you not watch the news during the event?
Originally posted by treemanx
YES! I do have a blind spot!! To retarded fantasical claims of things have no salt! Finally, a post from you that I can agree with!
Your previous post that says that the news media is not condusive to people who wish to "create their own reality" is very telling. While I obviously dont believe everything I see on TV (quit doing that when I was like 10), on the same token you shouldnt believe everything in the alternative news sources. Which is apparently what you do, while creating your own reality. Someone says spontanious human combustion is on the rise, and you go put on fireman turnouts and stick an extinguisher down your throat.
SO, no amount of my helping you to control your paranoia is going to work, so, have fun in your own little world.
Originally posted by Salt of the Earth
And if I put up links to back up what I say, what else do you want from me?
Originally posted by Jenna
That's just it, you didn't. OKC did it for you.
Originally posted by Jenna
And while I appreciate that he(?) did, they depicted events that police were doing, not the military,
Originally posted by Jenna
and the clips from Alex Jones about urban warfare were about a training exercise the military conducted in an empty area to train for when they are in the middle of a town during a war. As I pointed out in my last post, wars aren't fought in empty fields like they were 200 years ago. They are now fought in urban areas where buildings, alleys, etc. are used to gain advantage. Without proper training, our soldiers will be ill-equipped to fight in such a setting.
Originally posted by elston
Sources??? Are you kidding? I was there helping family. Regarding the phone lines being cut, google it. Nagin and the head of St. Bernard Parish said it on CNN. Did you not watch the news during the event?
Originally posted by Jenna
Not much honestly because I was working 50+ hours a week, taking a full semesters worth of classes ...Which is why I asked for sources since I hadn't heard about it. That's what people do when information is new to them.
Originally posted by Salt of the Earth
No, I put up the link to the ABC story that showed the soldiers in camoflage and helmets and military rifles stomping through the suburbs of New Orleans, banging on people's doors, handcuffing women, demanding their guns. Soon as I posted my reply to you telling you to go search your own links, I changed my mind and went online and grabbed it for you. You're welcome.
You don't practice your war games on American citizens, scare them so they pee their pants and have a heart attack. Come on. You want people landing helicopters in your back yard, blowing up cars and buses on Main Street as though it were all real, and then later on say, Oh it was a drill? They even do this stuff by busting into the schools and dress up with hoods, tell the kids and teachers its terrorists, hold them at bay, make them use the wastebasket for a toilet, so they can get "used" to a terrorist heist. One teacher had to quit her job after this happened. This is what's happening around the country, and it is WRONG.
I don't blame you for finding it hard to believe, but now that you've seen that it's true, don't make excuses for it just to save face. Who cares about saving face? We just need to wake each other up, all of us, before we all end up in the soup.
You flat out said I was wrong, called me an idiot or something.
Since you admit now you didn't know what you were talking about, you should not have called me an idiot, or whatever you said. You should have gone and done a Google to check out what I said if you found it hard to believe. THEN you can come back on the board and call me names. Don't you agree? Even after the links were posted, you were and still are calling me names.
Originally posted by Salt of the Earth
Go look at the post I put up. I deliberately chose something that would not confuse you, skipped over a lot of the posts that the other person put up.
It is the M-I-L-I-T-A-R-Y banging on the doors. Not the police.
In fact, the police were stood down by the feds. The phone lines, communication lines, were cut by FEMA because they DID NOT WANT THE LOCALS INVOLVED.
P.S: Jenna, there is no reason for your hostility to me.
It's not my fault what is happening. I hate it as much as you do. I wish I were wrong.
So does Alex Jones who has been warning people for 15 years now, making films, documenting all this stuff about martial law, the police state, the plans of the elite.
They have reports and journals that people can read, people who are interested enough to do so, and Alex Jones did that. He went out and documented what was happening, made films on a shoestring that look like million dollar efforts, with a lot of original footage that is shocking and disturbing.
Hiding our heads isn't going to make this all go away. It's happening now. It's all coming down on our heads at this moment. The military is getting ready to launch an attack against us right here in America, our own military.
They did it in New Orleans, and don't think they won't or can't do it in another place, or in the whole country.
Originally posted by Salt of the Earth
I was happy to believe they had pulled back, but if Alex says not to believe them, I figure he knows
Originally posted by Jenna
Originally posted by Salt of the Earth
I was happy to believe they had pulled back, but if Alex says not to believe them, I figure he knows
That right there is by far one of the most frightening statements I have ever read. You put way too much faith into what comes out of his mouth. But at least I now understand why you post some of the things you do. You have completely given up thinking for yourself and take everything Alex Jones says as gospel.