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From: Dotty Darya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: David Rydel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DAVE, PLEASE POST. Re: Urban Warrior Advanced Warfighting Experiment.
Date: Monday, January 03, 2000 9:34 PM
The following needs to be understood by everybody this country,
especially those brave people in the patriot movement.
This came by way of David Rydel today and I understand why those
in the Patriot movement are concerned about the issue of Urban
Warrior as it is presented here. I would like to share with you
my own understanding of Urban Warrior exercises because I think
they are vital to maintaining America's secuity and insuring the
safety of our military personnel. In fact, if any groups would
like to talk to someone who is involved in the administration of
Urban Warrior exercises let me know and I will see if can
arrange that. While I cannot pretend to promise anything, in the
past, they have met with those that have real concerns.
As I understand it, Urban Warrior is practice in fighting inside
of cities, but the ultimate target is not to fight in OUR
cities. Futurists say that within ten years between 70% and 80%
of the world's population will live in megacities in what is
called the urban littoral: a strip about 100 miles wide along
the shores of the oceans, largest rivers, and great lakes of the
world. If you take a look at a world map you will see that is
where the vast majority of major cities are already located
(except for Mexico City).
This means the future of warfare will be quite different than in
the past where we were trying to take territory in an horizontal
manner. War, and even humanitarian operations, will be vertical
rather than horizontal.
The only places I have watched training, there are huge open
spaces with battalions, tanks and lines of jeeps that move
freely as jets fly over hills and valleys looking for targets. If
you are ex-military, I'll bet you got sent out to take a hill or
a building across open ground and learned to make camoflage from
found plants. Now, how is that going to help you if you are
trying to make it through Bejing or the slums of Rio?
The new terrain calls for new skills and new ways of thinking
about the problems. Are the snipers on the rooftops? How do we
use the utility corridors to get to an objective unseen? Where
are the radio, television, telephone and other communcations
centers? Progress may be defined by blocks, not miles; by
buildings, not hills -- and our guys have to practice somewhere.
You know yourselves that our services don't have enough money for
ammunition, let alone enough to build fake cities to practice
in. Even if they had that kind of money it wouldn't work:
nothing fake is as good as the real thing.
The Marines will be required to be the first in -- as usual. To
paraphrase Patton, I don't want our young people to die for our
country; I want the other guy to die for it. Urban Warrior is
one way I see that will help bring them back home alive and
well. It isn't practice to take over the US, it's practice so our
guys can fight overseas. We're already doing it; look at
Somalia. While the Marines were in charge of the operation Gen.
Weilhelm did a great job and not one soldier lost their life.
While his leadership was important in that operation, training
for urban combat was another element that helped keep our people
safe.
I'm sorry for the "lecture" guys, but I really wanted you to see
the problems with this story. One of the things that saddens me
most in the Patriot movement is to see people doing
disinformation to either build their own powerbase or create
problems in the community to destabilize it. Help our boys in
uniform, trust me, they wont allow themselves to be used against
Americans.
I believe this story is a disservice to the community and I
simply had to say so.
Thanks for your patience,
Dotty
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From: "EAGLEFLIGHT-- David E. Rydel" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Urban Warrior Advanced Warfighting Experiment March 10,
1999, San Francisco Bay Guardian
One nation under guard The Marine Corps is making plans to take
over U.S. cities during popular insurrections. They're practicing
in Oakland next week. By Gar Smith FORGET THE MIDDLE EAST. Forget
Kosovo. The United States Marine Corps is convinced that its next
major invasion may take place on the west coast of the United
States. That's right: the marines are preparing to put down an
insurrection in a major American city -- say, San Francisco, or
Seattle, or Los Angeles. They'll be practicing in Oakland March
15-18. The marines say the exercise, dubbed Urban Warrior
Advanced Warfighting Experiment, is designed to teach the armed
forces how to distribute humanitarian aid to a big city after a
disaster. But a Bay Guardian review of hundreds of pages of
military documents, obtained through public records requests,
from the Marine Corps' Web site, and from the Alameda County
Public Library, reveals a very different mission. Also in this
issue:
Sending in the troops East Bay city leaders rush to approve Urban
Warrior over protests from neighbors and environmentalists
Disturbing the peace This isn't the first time the military has
practiced war games in U.S. cities Stop the Urban Warrior
invasion The Marine Corps' plans for the invasion reveal that
Urban Warrior is designed to give marines practice in seizing
control of urban areas -- including taking over food and water
supplies, utilities, and communications systems. And statements
and articles by military leaders suggest that the armed forces
are preparing themselves to contain popular uprisings --
including uprisings in U.S. cities. The use of military troops to
quell civilian unrest is not unprecedented. But Urban Warrior
represents a dramatic escalation in the potential use of the
military on American soil -- and nobody in the local or national
news media seems to have noticed. Though San Francisco is no
longer slated to serve as the marines' laboratory, the Oakland
political establishment, led by Mayor Jerry Brown, is rolling out
the red carpet for the troops. Four days of mock fighting,
including the firing of 24,000 blank rounds, have been scheduled
to take place at Oakland's abandoned Oak Knoll Naval Hospital.
The guns will open fire at 7:30 in the morning and continue for
seven hours at a stretch. Over the course of five days Urban
Warrior vehicles are expected to consume 18,063 gallons of fuel
and generate 1.21 tons of air pollution. The nitrous oxides
produced would be 3.4 times greater than the Bay Area Air Quality
Management District's "significant threshold." (Those figures
don't include air pollution from fuel-inefficient military
aircraft, since the Marine Corps' environmental assessment ruled
that its exhaust gases would not fall into the urban "mixing
zone.") During Urban Warrior's grand finale at Oak Knoll March
18, marines will discharge 60 smoke bombs and 8,000 rounds of
blanks in a single hour. Three-block war When the U.S. Marine
Corps Warfighting Laboratory (MCWL) first proposed staging Urban
Warrior inside San Francisco's Presidio National Park last year,
it described a three-day exercise involving 200 to 300 marines.
By January the exercise included five ships, 6,000 sailors and
marines, fighter jets, helicopters, and four days of simulated
combat. National Park Service officials decided the event had
grown too large and pulled the plug. In an effort to save the
Presidio invasion, Gen. Charles C. Krulak (who founded the Urban
Warfighting Laboratory in 1995) wrote an op-ed in the San
Francisco Examiner appealing to San Franciscans to rally 'round
the flag and allow the attack to proceed. Krulak offered a rather
implausible pretext for exploding thousands of rounds of blanks
inside a U.S. city. "Marines will be transported to the Presidio,
where they will provide humanitarian assistance to 'victims' of
an assumed natural disaster," Krulak wrote. " 'Rebel' elements
opposed to the operation will then arrive. The situation will
deteriorate into conflict." Krulak didn't explain why "rebels"
would be opposed to humanitarian assistance in the wake of a
natural disaster. "Humanitarian relief" effort involves marines
handing out "food, water, and diapers" to paid actors performing
from a prepared script, Urban Warrior press representative Col.
Mark Thiffault told the Bay Guardian. But Thiffault conceded that
"humanitarian assistance is not the primary goal. We're doing it
so we can figure out how to do urban warfare." A review of
hundreds of pages of documents regarding Urban Warrior exercises
around the country and in the Bay Area reveals no plans for
providing humanitarian assistance. The actual goal of the
operation is clearly stated: it is to "penetrate," "thrust," and
"swarm" into urban settings to seize power plants, TV and radio
stations, and food and water supplies, to suppress any local
opposition -- and ultimately to control the cities. Urban Warrior
strategists envision a "future battlefield" defined by stateless
war in an urban terrain, against threats including "criminals
with computers" and "terrorists searching for weapons of mass
destruction." (Curiously, they don't have them; they are merely
searching for them.) Marine Corps documents explain that the Bay
Area operation will pit "an enhanced Combat Operations Center ...
against a well-trained, well-equipped opposing force with the
capability to detonate WMD [a biochemical 'weapon of mass
destruction'] in an urban environment." While the planners of
Urban Warrior gloss over the purported humanitarian work, the
experiment's war-fighting components are proudly detailed.
Helicopters will hover 1000 feet above the ground. Humvees, light
armored vehicles, and five-ton trucks will add to the din.
Monstrous 88-ton, 88-foot-long hovercraft, each big enough to
carry four M1A1 tanks, will move supplies and vehicles from ships
to shore. Over the course of the five-day exercise, Urban
Warrior's 1,500-member force would subject East Bay residents to
14 waves of hovercraft landings, more than 40 aircraft
overflights, and the detonation of 60 "flashbang" grenades and
24,000 rounds of blanks. The purpose of all this disruption is to
hone soldiers' skills in fighting what is known as "the
three-block war." The strategies practiced in Urban Warrior
experiments are designed for capturing and holding modern cities
dense with high-rises. "Urban terrain offsets many of the
strengths in the traditional American way of war," Urban Warrior
documents report. They go on to state that the effectiveness of
satellites is severely reduced, rubble from buildings lends the
defender a strategic advantage, and massive numbers of civilians
are likely to get caught in the crossfire. Urban troops should
rely on the "opportune use of indigenous resources," the
documents state. "Developing our ability to effectively forage
for power, water, and fuel may provide a significant reduction in
the logistics requirement on the seabases." Unfortunately, such
foraging would mean seizing resources from the indigenous
population. But that can have its own advantages. To gain
"leverage in establishing control over the urban environment,"
Urban Warriors are advised to seize power plants, water plants,
and food storage and distribution centers. Another section of the
Urban Warrior game plan is more direct, recommending operations
"designed to collapse essential functions." Urban canyons To
enter cities in real-life warfare, the marines plan to use
existing underground passageways, including underground transit
systems like BART and sewer and utility tunnels. "Sewer and
underground utility systems offer one of the most clandestine
avenues for penetrating the urban environment," Urban Warrior
documents state. Special troops equipped with air-quality sensors
would slither through city sewers and utility tunnels on special
sleds and trolleys to reach strategic positions. (As a practical
matter, the Urban Warrior invasion plan warns, the "firing of
conventional weapons in an environment with a high methane
content may pose unacceptable risk.") Marines may also enter from
above. The documents envision marines deftly maneuvering through
cities via paragliders, parachutes, and powered parafoils. To
fight in the spaces between skyscrapers, which the marines refer
to as "urban canyons," the 21st-century marine is being trained
to move up the sides of buildings like a human fly and skitter
from one high-rise to another on rope webs and cable suspension
bridges. The military has developed special weapons to enable
U.S. forces to shoot over the tops of skyscrapers, firing on
enemy troops hiding on adjacent streets. Other weapons blast
holes through steel-reinforced concrete to destroy the
inhabitants of a specific room deep inside a high-rise.
Self-loading automated weapons systems can be left parked in
intersections or within buildings, controlled and fired by
gunners sitting in front of computer screens on ships floating
safely 12 miles offshore. Urban Warrior's conceptual experimental
framework (CEF) treats civilians and noncombatants as bothersome
inconveniences and logistical nuisances. "Noncombatants and
refugees may be as formidable a factor as the urban
infrastructure," the CEF states. "Refugees are likely to clog
roads, inland waterways, airfields, and ports as well as
presenting commanders with humanitarian support issues." A
section addressing crowd control contains photos depicting
helmeted military police with shields and truncheons surrounding
an armored personnel carrier as it rolls toward a crowd of angry,
unarmed civilians. The marines hope to deal with these crowds
using such "non-lethal" weapons as exploding nets,
nausea-inducing ultrasound weapons, blinding laser lights,
incapacitating (and potentially asphyxiating) sticky foams, and
quick-drying substances that can be used to seal doorways,
windows, pipes, and "subterranean avenues of approach." The vast
majority of these technologies, the CEF states, were developed
for local police to handle the antiwar and civil rights protests
of the 1960s. This kind of fighting is notable not for its
humanitarian ends but for its high body count. "Urban fighting
has always been one of the most destructive forms of warfare,"
wrote Maj. Gen. Robert H. Scales Jr., the commandant of the U.S.
Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pa., in the October 1998
issue of the Armed Forces Journal. "In the Vietnam War, the
numbers of Marines killed in the battle for Hue exceeded the
losses in WWII's amphibious assault on Okinawa." Close to home
While Urban Warrior's promoters say such exercises train marines
to enter foreign trouble spots, military documents challenge that
assertion. There are few 15-story urban canyons in third world
cities. And the photographs in Urban Warrior's strategic
documents portray targets much closer to home -- Seattle, Miami,
San Diego, New York City, and San Francisco. In a rare reference
to non-Western countries, the conceptual framework points out
that urban warfare is fundamentally unsuited to most cities in
the developing world. "The squalor and highly inflammable nature
of building materials within many non-Western urban areas --
coupled with the wide use of propane or natural gas for heating
and services -- creates a risk of catastrophic fire," the
document states. Meanwhile, plans are afoot to increase the
military's power in the event of a national emergency. Earlier
this year a disturbing proposal to commission a supreme military
commander to take charge in the event of a "terrorist threat"
received a favorable nod from the White House. A Jan. 28 story in
the New York Times reported that "The Pentagon has decided to ask
President Clinton for the power to appoint a military leader for
the continental U.S. because of what it sees as a growing threat
of major terrorist strikes on U.S. soil." The Times reported that
"top White House officials have reacted favorably," despite
concerns from civil libertarians that "such military power could
slowly expand to threaten the privacy, liberty, and lives of
private citizens." The U.S. Marine Corps document "Why Urban
Warrior?" suggests that foreign terrorists aren't the only
domestic threat the military is readying itself to address.
According to Urban Warrior strategists, approximately 85 percent
of the world's population will live in cities by 2025, and these
cities will contain "all the classic ingredients for conflict.
There will be social, cultural, religious, and tribal strife
between different groups. Many areas will have scarce resources,
including the most basic ones like food and shelter. As
populations grow and resources shrink even further, the chances
for conflict will naturally grow with it." In a January article
in Armed Forces Journal International, Col. James A. Lasswell,
head of experimental operations for the MCWL, puts it even more
directly: "There will be widespread economic problems and
cultural, ethnic, and tribal tensions, many caused by wave after
wave of immigration." In another issue of the same publication,
Major General Scales minces no words about the military's role in
urban warfare in the decades ahead: to fight on behalf of the
rich and against the poor. "The future urban center will contain
a mixed population, ranging from the rich elite to the poor and
disenfranchised," he writes. "Day-to-day existence for most of
the urban poor will be balanced tenuously on the edge of
collapse. With social conditions ripe for exploitation, the
smallest tilt of unfavorable circumstance might be enough to
instigate starvation, disease, social foment, cultural unrest, or
other forms of urban violence. "The enormous problems of
infrastructure and the demand for social services that threaten
to swamp governing authorities in the urban centers of emerging
states will most likely worsen," Scales predicts. "Moreover, the
proximity of the disenfranchised to the ruling elite provides the
spark for further unrest and sporadic violence." Spokesperson
Thiffault volunteered that the marines have no plans to take over
U.S. cities. For all the frightening clarity of the military's
plans, the documents leave one vital question unanswered. Urban
Warrior proposes nothing but open-ended battles for urban
terrain. What happens after the marines swarm ashore and
successfully seize a city? At what point would they stop blasting
holes in the urban infrastructure? "That's one of the difficult
points," Thiffault said. "When do we get out? Who defines how we
get out?" He didn't offer any answers.
Gar Smith covered antiwar organizing and the military for the
Berkeley Barb. He is now editor in chief (on sabbatical) of Earth
Island Journal (winner of the Alternative Press Award for best
scientific and environmental reporting for 1997 and 1998). He is
the winner of three Project Censored reporting awards.
More from the San Francisco Bay Guardian package of stories by
Gar Smith on Urban Warrior counter-insurgency training exercises
According to Urban Warrior strategists, approximately 85 percent
of the world's population will live in cities by 2025, and these
cities will contain "all the classic ingredients for conflict.
There will be social, cultural, religious, and tribal strife
between different groups. Many areas will have scarce resources,
including the most basic ones like food and shelter. As
populations grow and resources shrink even further, the chances
for conflict will naturally grow with it."
In a January article in Armed Forces Journal International, Col.
James A. Lasswell, head of experimental operations for the MCWL,
puts it even more directly: "There will be widespread economic
problems and cultural, ethnic, and tribal tensions, many caused
by wave after wave of immigration."
In another issue of the same publication, Major General Scales
minces no words about the military's role in urban warfare in the
decades ahead: to fight on behalf of the rich and against the
poor.
"The future urban center will contain a mixed population, ranging
from the rich elite to the poor and disenfranchised," he writes.
"Day-to-day existence for most of the urban poor will be balanced
tenuously on the edge of collapse. With social conditions ripe
for exploitation, the smallest tilt of unfavorable circumstance
might be enough to instigate starvation, disease, social foment,
cultural unrest, or other forms of urban violence.
"The enormous problems of infrastructure and the demand for
social services that threaten to swamp governing authorities in
the urban centers of emerging states will most likely worsen,"
Scales predicts. "Moreover, the proximity of the disenfranchised
to the ruling elite provides the spark for further unrest and
sporadic violence."
Spokesperson Thiffault volunteered that the marines have no plans
to take over U.S. cities.
For all the frightening clarity of the military's plans, the
documents leave one vital question unanswered. Urban Warrior
proposes nothing but open-ended battles for urban terrain. What
happens after the marines swarm ashore and successfully seize a
city? At what point would they stop blasting holes in the urban
infrastructure?
"That's one of the difficult points," Thiffault said. "When do we
get out? Who defines how we get out?" He didn't offer any
answers.
End of S.F. Bay Guardian story
................................................................*
Vol. 15, No. 41 -- November 8, 1999
Published Date October 15, 1999, in Washington,D.C.,"Insight"
SundayMagazine Deadly Force and Individual Rights By Kelly
Patricia O'Meara
U.S. special-operations military units are participating in
civilian law-enforcement activities within the United States,
raising questions of legality and ultimate purpose.
ix years after the siege on Mount Carmel, citizens and lawmakers
alike are angry and shocked about details now unfolding
concerning the raid that left 75 Branch Davidians dead.
Allegations that military personnel were present and participated
in the raid on the Davidian compound raise serious questions
about mingling of military and civilian forces in direct
violation of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which forbids such
deployment. ....Just one day after the siege at Waco, Texas,
ended in a fiery horror, President Clinton gave the American
people a glimpse of what to expect. The government could not be
responsible for "the fact that a bunch of fanatics decided to
kill themselves," he said. The commander in chief then warned
that "there is, unfortunately, a rise in this sort of fanaticism
across the world. And we may have to confront it again." . ...
The tragedy at Waco by no means is the first or only example of
violations of Posse Comitatus, but it does underscore the
volatile cocktail that can result from mixing special-operations
troops and civilian law enforcement. Separation of civilian and
military forces long has been an American tradition, but under
the guise of the "war on drugs" and the "war on terrorism,"
Congress in the last two decades has enacted piecemeal
legislation allowing military intervention in civilian law
enforcement, which many believe violates the intent, if not the
letter, of the law. ....For instance, in 1981 Congress passed the
Military Cooperation with Law Enforcement Officials Act, which
authorizes the military to "assist" civilian police in enforcing
of drug laws. In 1989 President Bush created six regional joint
task forces, or JTFs, within the Department of Defense, or DOD,
to coordinate military and police agencies in the drug war. And,
again in 1993, DOD and the Department of Justice signed a
memorandum of understanding enabling the military to transfer
technology to state and local police departments. The difference
between the mission of civilian and military forces in this
context is remarkable. Civilian law-enforcement personnel are
trained to deal with situations occurring locally on the city,
county or state level. They are trained to consider the
individual rights of the citizen, regardless of the severity of
the crime, and use of force is a measure of last resort. On the
other hand, the mission of the military is national security.
Troops are trained to concentrate deadly force on an enemy. ..
..Furthermore, says a law-enforcement official who asked not to
be identified, the distinction between the two forces rarely is
understood by the general population. "Police don't have rules of
engagement," he says. "They have a use-of-force policy. Every
law-enforcement officer, office, agency or department in the
United States lives by the same use-of-force policy. That is,
police may use force only to the level necessary to neutralize a
situation and may use deadly force only to protect themselves or
the lives of others," he says. ....Whatever term is applied, the
fact remains that U.S. troops are participating in civilian
law-enforcement activities inside the United States. Often the
outcome is frightening and, as in the case of the raid on the
Branch Davidians, can be disastrous. Nonetheless,
special-operations military units, such as the 160th Special Ops
group (also known as Delta Force) out of Fort Campbell, Ky.,
which has been implicated in the attack at Waco, for years have
been training in U.S. cities for the possibility of "terrorist
activities." . ... Training exercises known as Military
Operations in Urban Terrain, or MOUT, have been carried out in
dozens of cities throughout the United States. Residents of
Charlotte, N.C., Pittsburgh, Houston and Chicago are among those
who have been awakened in the dead of night by hundreds of
military troops rappelling from helicopters hovering at treetop
level, firing automatic weapons and exploding flash-bang and
smoke grenades. ....Col. Bill Darley, a spokesman for DOD, tells
Insight that "these exercises are not law-enforcement missions.
They're secret combat activities for very explicit purposes such
as scenarios involving recovery of a weapon of mass destruction,
incidents of terrorism and hostage rescue. The activities would
be approximating the same situation as in a foreign country. We
conduct these large-scale exercises in the Southern states as
make-believe foreign countries. Charlotte, N.C., for example,
could be Paris, Munich or any other built-up urban area outside
the United States." . ...Darley continues, "What we're talking
about is close-quarter combat. People engaged in shooting at each
other. It's war gaming in the same way that troops prep for war
gaming overseas. It's just easier to arrange the activities here
than overseas. We arrange these exercises well in advance with
the local officials, police and fire departments, and we do our
best to go door-to-door notifying residents that there will be
loud noises and so on." . . ..Pat McCrory, the mayor of
Charlotte, says that he is unaware of anyone going "door-to-door"
to notify his residents about the exercises and that he came away
from the experience with an entirely different take on the
urban-warfare training that occurred in his city two years ago.
According to McCrory, "They basically misled us. They weren't
up-front about the extent of the exercise. I had people calling
me at home and I could barely hear them for the noise in the
background. We literally had residents that were so frightened
they were ready to pull out their guns." . ..."If an accident had
happened," the mayor continued, "I would have had a tough time
living with myself because I didn't ask enough questions of them
when they first came to us about the exercise. Even my own police
department and city manager were caught off guard and unaware of
the extent of the operations. It took a few minutes before we
realized this was the 'small exercise' the Army had planned.
There were between 15 and 20 helicopters hovering above
condominium buildings shooting automatic weapons. The noise and
disruption were incredible." . . ..Steven Barry, a 24-year
veteran of Army Special Forces, is well-acquainted with
urban-warfare training and not surprised by the secrecy
surrounding it. "The official story put out by the Army is that
they're running out of training areas. For the last couple of
years they've been looking for old run-down buildings in cities
for training. They never inform the public about what they're
doing and, contrary to what is said, the gunfire residents are
hearing is real. Delta Force doesn't train with blanks. They rely
on bullet traps set up weeks ahead of time to avoid outside
penetration of the gunfire. The reason the exercises are secret
is because it's Delta Force. They operate outside the hierarchy
of command and get their orders from the top. They've been called
the president's army for a long time, and they don't move without
his blessing." . ..."It's a slippery slope," warns GOP Rep. Bob
Barr of Georgia, "toward the militarization of civilian law
enforcement. There isn't a more fundamental issue in our society
than keeping civilian law enforcement separate from the military.
The line was completely blurred at Waco, and because Posse
Comitatus has never been prosecuted, this will be one of the most
important areas of the upcoming hearings on Waco." . ...The
lawmaker is equally troubled by the effort to turn military
troops into the world's police. "There's more than enough money
and equipment provided to the military for urban-warfare
training," says Barr. "Our military has its hands full around the
world and is being forced to operate on very tight budgets. Now
we're adding the extra burden and saying, 'Let's spend more money
so they can train domestically in police operations.' This only
diminishes their true mission." . ...Adding to concern about
military troops becoming active in civilian law enforcement is a
1994 survey that is very big among Internet conspiracy theorists.
The poll asked 300 troops at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat
Training Center, Twenty-Nine Palms, Calif., "if they would fire
upon U.S. citizens who refuse or resist confiscation of firearms
banned by the U.S. government." While the majority responded they
"strongly disagreed," the author of the thesis and designer of
the survey questions, Lt. Cmdr. Guy Cunningham, was surprised
that 26 percent of those surveyed indicated they indeed would
fire upon their fellow citizens. This is being taken as another
sign that attitudes are changing and that the mission of the U.S.
military forces has become blurred. ....Darley says, "We're doing
about 20 of these exercises a year," and adds the bizarre notice
that "the helicopters used in these exercises are black. There is
no external identification -- no flag or numbers. The markings on
them are internal to the command. Anyone looking at them would
not be able to tell if they are American helicopters or foreign."
. . ..It gets stranger, say critics. Should an accident occur or
questions be raised about the military's participation in
incidents such as the one at Waco, legislation recently passed as
part of the DOD authorization bill makes it possible for the
secretary of defense to withhold the names or personal
information identifying "any member of the armed forces assigned
to an overseas unit, a sensitive unit, or a routinely deployable
unit." Delta Force falls within the "sensitive unit" category. .
. ..According to Darley, "The legislation is intended to protect
the service member and his or her family from security risks
associated with identifying information that may be available
over the Internet." According to Barry, "This law looks to
specifically protect Delta Force. They're just trying to
shortstop things like Waco and situations in the future where
special forces are used."
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frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects
spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL
gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers;
be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and
nazi's need not apply.
Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
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