(Newswire.net — March 30, 2015) — Massive Special Forces operation codename ‘Jade Helm,’ is scheduled for July and will run for eight weeks. Some 1,200 troops from the US elite fighting forces, including Green Berets, Navy SEALS and Special Operations from the Air Force and Marines, will roam across Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Texas and Utah.
The war games have as objective to train special forces on moving undetected in populated area, simulating the missions ‘behind the enemy lines,’ treating US soil as a ‘hostile’ territory.
According to the Houston Chronicle, traditionally US military supportive Texans are not so enthusiastic about this event. According to Shadow Spear, a publication of USASOC, the training exercise, “will be conducted on private and public land with the permission of the private landowners, and from state and local authorities.”
“The most noticeable effect the exercise may have on the local communities is an increase in vehicle and military air traffic and its associated noise,” Shadow Spear said.
“The domestic military operations were not part of some kind of dark plans to take over the United States,” Army Special Operation Command Representative Mark Lastoria said. However, he added that the training is actually practice on “covert warfare tactics and martial law.”
“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,” Lastoria told Shadow Spear.
Paul Pape, a Bastrop County judge, however fears that the training was in reality rehearsal for full-blown martial law on the streets of America.
“What I see here is an opportunity for a portion of our military to be better prepared and better trained to do work that has to be done to secure America’s interests around the world and here at home,” Pape told KEYE television in Austin, Texas.
A number of citizen groups and media also speculate on why the entire states of Texas and Utah, as well as a section of southern California, have been declared “hostile.”
“They’re having Delta Force, Navy SEALS with the Army trained to basically take over,” Info Wars’ Alex Jones railed Sunday. “Texas is listed as a hostile sector, and of course, we are… here defending the republic.”