JADE HELM 15 IS OFFCIALLY FOR REAL

NONE OTHER THAN THE WASHINGTON POST WAS ASSIGNED TO CALM US ALL DOWN AFTER NEWS OF THIS LATEST MILITARY "COVERT EXERCISE" LEAKED OUT, THEN EXPLODED ALL OVER THE INTERNET.  

MONTHS OF DENIAL FOLLOWED THE LEAKS LAST YEAR, AND THEN, YES, YES, WE'RE FINALLY TOLD, THERE REALLY IS A "JADE HELM 15", BUT DO NOT FRET, DO NOT GET YOUR UNDERWEAR IN A WAD OVER IT, ALL IS WELL...GO BACK TO SLEEP, DARLING 'SHEEPSES'.
SLEEP, LITTLE FLOCK, IT WILL ALL BE JUST FINE!  

If you have either not seen anything about this or were told by your 'shepherds' not to take it seriously, NOW you can look, and maybe you'll decide it IS serious.

FIRST, the 'POST', and your "UNCLE SAM", wants you to swallow this along with all your other calmatives: 

March 31, 2015
"Elite service members from all four branches of the U.S. military will launch an operation this summer in which they will operate covertly among the U.S. public and travel from state to state in military aircraft. Texas, Utah and a section of southern California are labeled as hostile territory, and New Mexico  isn't  much friendlier.

That’s the scheme [scheme, is it?] for Jade Helm 15, a new Special Operations exercise that runs from July 15 to Sept. 15. 

Army Special Operations Command announced it last week, saying the size and scope of the mission sets it apart from many other training exercises.

[THAT'S ODD! MANY OF US HAVE KNOWN ABOUT THIS SINCE 2014, RIGHT?!] 

Army Lt. Col. Mark Lastoria, a command spokesman, said in an e-mail, “Training exercise Jade Helm is going to assist our Special Operations Soldiers and leadership in refining the skills needed against an ever changing FOREIGN threat.”   

ATTA BOY, LT. COLONEL, SIR, SELL IT, SELL IT TO US!  

HERE IS WHY THIS EXPLANATION AND CALL FOR CALM IN THE POST BOTHERS ME...
THERE ARE BETWEEN 67,000 AND 70,000 "SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES" MEMBERS, AND THEY DEPLOY FROM SIX TO TEN TIMES MORE OFTEN OVERSEAS THAN "REGULAR MILITARY".  

THESE UNITS ARE FINELY TUNED, EXTREMELY READY!
GIVEN THAT, WHY WOULD THESE ELITE UNITS POSSIBLY NEED "EXTRA TRAINING" FOR MONTHS, ESPECIALLY WHEN SUCH A DEPLOYMENT RECORD MEANS THEY ARE LIKELY EXHAUSTED AND COULD USE A LITTLE REST?  
THAT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE, DOES IT?  

[MAYBE IT WAS THE ABOVE MAP, WHICH ALSO 'LEAKED' LAST YEAR, THAT GOT FOLKS UPSET ABOUT THIS? Click on it for a larger version.
I MEAN "HOSTILE"...TEXAS AND UTAH?
REALLY? WHO KNEW?]  

THE POST SAYS THE MAP IS FOR REAL BUT CALM DOWN!

"But it’s also worth noting that the military has routinely launched exercises in the past in which regions of the United States are identified as hostile for the purpose of training. 

Consider Bold Alligator, a naval exercise in which thousands of Marines and sailors have been involved in the past. The most recent version was launched last fall, and included amphibious landings to prevent insurgent groups in the fictional country known as Garnet — Georgia and part of Florida in real life — from launching attacks. 

In another example, U.S. Special Forces support fictional guerrilla forces in numerous counties across North Carolina in the exercise Robin Sage. Green Beret soldiers work to liberate the country of Pineland, and operate in close proximity to civilians, who are warned that they may hear blank gunfire.  

[BIG QUESTION: HOW DO CIVILIANS KNOW IT'S BLANK GUNFIRE?]

Marine Special Operations troop also have an exercise that is in some ways similar and called Derna Bridge. It spans several counties in western South Carolina, and includes some activities in Sumter National Forest."

WELL, OKAY, FINE...BUT OTHER THINGS HAVE "COME OUT" THAT THE GOOD LT. COLONEL DIDN'T GO OVER FOR US. SOME OF THOSE ARE A WEE BIT TROUBLING TO SOME MINDS.

~ LIKE, OH MAYBE JUST FOR LAUGHS, AND BECAUSE THE MILITARY WILL NOT AT ALL BE OPERATING IN MILITARY UNIFORMS SO MUCH,
IT HAS BEEN 'RUMORED' THAT SOME WHO COME TO THE RESCUE, THINKING THIS IS SOME SORT OF TERRORIST INVASION MAYBE, JUST MIGHT GET "ARRESTED" AND CARTED OFF SOMEWHERE...SOME SAY GUANTANAMO, OTHERS SAY THEY'LL BE HELD LOCALLY.
THAT SEEMS, WHAT, WRONG, DOESN'T IT? HOW LONG WILL THEY BE HELD? WHO WILL KNOW WHERE THEY REALLY ARE?
SURELY THIS WON'T HAPPEN, EVEN IF CIVILIANS ACTUALLY RESIST WHAT THEY WILL BELIEVE ARE REAL THREATS...RIGHT? 

AND IF A LOT OF PEOPLE, SAY THOUSANDS, SEE THIS "COVERT OP" AS THE REAL DEAL, START "FIGHTING BACK", AND SOMEBODY ON EITHER SIDE GETS TRIGGER-HAPPY, THEN WHAT?  

WHAT IF CIVILIANS GET THEIR BRAINS BLOWN OUT BECAUSE THE MILITARY, IF RESISTED BY A CIVILIAN FORCE,  MIGHT SEE THEM AS "INSURGENTS"?
WHAT SAFEGUARDS ARE IN PLACE TO KEEP THIS FROM HAPPENING? 

~ THERE ARE SURELY A LOT OF MILITARY GONE DOWN TO OLD "GITMO" FOR, UMMM, "TRAINING PURPOSES" LATELY, AND MORE ARE ON THEIR WAY. 
WONDER WHY?   

 (March 9, 2015) -- "Fifty-six National Guard Soldiers, from the 42nd Infantry Division, prepared to deploy to the Caribbean by training in sub-zero temperatures and two-foot high snow drifts at the New York National Guard's training camp here."

Forces from the U.S. Southern Command are training at the same facility. In fact, there are multiple Reserves that are training at Guantanamo. 

~ THERE ARE SEVERAL "UNCONFIRMED REPORTS" THAT ISIS ( the "Islamic State") HAS A TRAINING CAMP JUST A FEW MILES SOUTH OF EL PASO, IN MEXICO'S STATE OF CHIHUAHUA. AERIAL RECON PHOTOS AND ALLEGED SATELLITE IMAGES SEEM TO BEAR THESE RUMORS OUT.

SO, IS THE STATE OF TEXAS SHOWN AS "HOSTILE" IN THE JADE HELM MAP BECAUSE OF THE CLOSENESS OF ISIS THERE, OR....??? 

IN THE PAST WEEK, RUMORS AND "ALTERNATIVE MEDIA" ARTICLES HAVE SPREAD LIKE WILDFIRE THAT MAPS (OR "PLANS") OF FORT BLISS, AS WELL AS DOCUMENTS IN ARABIC AND URDU, WERE DISCOVERED IN THE MEXICAN DESERT, JUST A FEW MILES FROM THE U.S. BORDER, AND THAT 'AUTHORITIES' SAID PRAYER RUGS WERE ALSO DISCOVERED WITH THIS CACHE.
WELL, SIMILAR ITEMS SUGGESTING 'VISITORS' FROM THE MIDDLE EAST HAVE BEEN "OFFICIALLY" DISCOVERED THERE BEFORE, WHICH FACTS ARE REPORTED IN THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, AND KUWAITI NEWSPAPERS HAVE REPORTED MEMBERS OF HEZBOLLAH RESIDE THERE, SO, WHO KNOWS? 

 "FBI director Robert Mueller told the House Appropriations Committee in March 2005 that "there are individuals from countries with known Al-Qaeda connections who are changing their Islamic surnames to Hispanic sounding names and obtaining false Hispanic identities, learning to speak Spanish and pretending to be Hispanic." (Fox News). 

In 2010, "The Department of Homeland Security had in custody THOUSANDS of detainees from Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen."
"There's is a procedure which takes place, where in effect, if we can't send them back, they're let go," (Arizona) Senator Jon Kyl said, speaking of illegal Arabic detainees. "Obviously that creates an illegal immigration problem, but it could create a problem of terrorism as well."

SO, YES, THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE MIDDLE EAST ARE CROSSING INTO U.S. TERRITORY.
BUT, IS THAT WHAT JADE HELM 15 IS ALL ABOUT..."COVERTLY" SPEAKING?  

FROM THE U.K, THE OLD "DAILY MAIL" WROTE A STRANGE ARTICLE ABOUT JADE HELM.

"Operation Jade Helm begins in July and will last for eight weeks. Soldiers will operate in and around towns in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado where some of them wil drop from planes while carrying weapons loaded with blanks in what military officials have dubbed Realistic Military Training.

But with residents of the entire states of Texas and Utah dubbed 'hostile' for the purposes of the exercises, Jade Helm has some concerned the drills are too realistic.   

The Houston Chronicle reports that, among the planned exercises, soldiers will attempt to operate undetected among civilian populations.

Residents, in turn, will be asked to report suspicious activity in order to gauge the effectiveness of the soldiers.

Military officials say they've gotten the go ahead for the operations from local authorities such as mayors and county commissions. 

And sheriff's deputies told the Houston Chronicle they would ensure residents living near where aircraft were slated to create disturbances and drop soldiers, civilian and military vehicles will barrel through and where blank rounds would be fired.

The military has also reacted to widespread fear of the operation by calling some ultra-conservative coverage of the 'martial law' drills alarmist and inaccurate."

SORRY, NONE OF THAT MAKES ME FEEL BETTER ABOUT THIS, BUT, AS ALWAYS, TIME WILL TELL.  

THIS CERTAINLY MAY WELL BE A "HARMLESS, NORMAL MILITARY EXERCISE", BUT TOO MUCH CAN GO WRONG GIVEN THE "COVERT" NATURE OF THIS THING.  

IT ALSO VIOLATES THE POSSE COMITATUS, SINCE THE PRESS RELEASE STATES CLEARLY THAT MEMBERS OF THE SEAL TEAMS, 82nd AIRBORNE, AND GREEN BERETS WILL BE MIXED IN WITH THE NATIONAL GUARD, GOING DOOR-TO-DOOR, DISARMING PEOPLE, SEARCHING HOMES, "FAKE-ARRESTING" OR "EXTRACTING PEOPLE", ETC.  

THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED IN LOUISIANA AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA, AND THAT WAS NO DAMNED DRILL! AND THOSE DISARMINGS AND ARRESTS WERE REAL!  

JADE HELM 15 WILL 'GO LIVE'  IN NOT JUST THE  SEVEN STATES SHOWN ON THAT MAP.  OFFICIALS THEMSELVES HAVE RECENTLY CONFIRMED 10 STATES, BUT "LEAKS" SAY AT LEAST 15.   

IT WOULD ONLY BE LOGICAL, SINCE THE "ANNOUNCEMENT" CAME OUT OF FORT BRAGG, NC, THAT NORTH CAROLINA WILL 'PARTICIPATE', AS SHOULD SOUTH CAROLINA, GIVEN THAT FOREIGN TROOPS ARE SOMETIMES 'TRAINED' THERE. 

SINCE BOTH ALABAMA AND GEORGIA HAVE COASTLINES, AND CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE OTHER SOUTHERN STATES ALREADY IN THE "DRILL", THEY SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AS 'PARTICIPANTS' AS WELL.   

BUT THE ONLY OTHER STATES THAT HAVE SAID THEY'RE "IN" ARE MISSISSIPPI, LOUISIANA, AND FLORIDA.

"Speaking of the exercise at the Brazos County Commissioners Court in Texas last month, Jade Helm Operations Planner and retired Green Beret Thomas Mead told an audience that the drill, which will run from July 15 to September 15, will now include the states Mississippi and Florida. 

A local Standard-Times report also lists Louisiana as one of the participating states."  

In just the past few years, the US Army has carried out numerous drills in American cities, with low flying helicopters disturbing residents of Minnesota, buzzing residents of Dallas and frightening Miami residents with simulated gunfire.  
And in EVERY instance, SOME residents were completely unaware these were "drills" and were completely taken by surprise and scared by the sights and sounds of them. 

I ASSURE YOU THAT A SUDDEN FLOCK OF PARACHUTISTS DROPPING FROM THE SKY, FIRING MILITARY WEAPONS, "ACTING" LIKE A TERRORIST ATTACK, JUST MIGHT CAUSE ME TO REACH FOR MY NITRO TABLETS....AND MAYBE EVEN A SHOTGUN. 

AND THAT IS WHY "OPERATION JADE HELM 15" BOTH ANGERS ME AND MAKES ME RATHER NERVOUS.  

TOO MUCH CAN GO WRONG....REALLY, SERIOUSLY WRONG.

WE MUST ADD THAT SUCH AN OPERATION IS JUST NOT ALLOWED UNDER OUR CONSTITUTION.

THAT THE MILITARY STARTED OUT DENYING JADE HELM 15 IS ALSO DISTURBING.

SOME OF THOSE PARTICIPATING IN ITS TRAINING SAID IT WAS IN EXISTENCE AS FAR BACK AS 2013.
HERE ARE 2 EXAMPLES OF SUCH PEOPLE.

TWO ODDITIES FROM LINKEDIN

~ Mia Kelly, with a job description that states "Cyber/IO Planner for Exercise JADE HELM at ICE," from August 2014 to present, showing that from January 2014 to August she was the "Cyber/IO Planner - Jade Helm for the VATC."

~ The other LinkedIn user is Francisco Oquendo, listed as "Operations Planner at ICE INC," but under his work history it states "USASOC JADE HELM Operations Planner- ICE INC," from July 2013 to present.

STUMBLING ACROSS SUCH TIDBITS AS THAT IS BOTHERSOME.  

"ICE"... U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) enforces federal laws governing border control, customs, trade and immigration to promote homeland security and public safety. 

ICE IS NOT MILITARY.

ICE IS PART OF "HOMELAND SECURITY".  

GO LOOK UNDER THEIR TOPIC "WHAT WE DO".

HAVE A READ HERE TO SEE THE "PRODUCTS" THEY OFFER: http://www.ice.gov/management-administration/oaq   

• Law enforcement services and products, including handcuffs, hand restraints, guns and ammunition;
• Detention and removal services such as temporary housing, food, clothing and transportation, including air charter flights;

PAIRING OUR MILITARY TO "ICE"???
CONDUCTING JOINT DRILLS WITH MILITARY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT???  
PRACTICING ON THE PUBLIC???
TOWARD WHAT END??? 

THAT REALLY BLURS A LINE WE DON'T WANT TO SEE BLURRED, DOESN'T IT?

FURTHER READING:  

~ OFFICIAL RELEASE, JADE HELM 15   http://www.soc.mil/UNS/Releases/2015/March/150324-03.html

~A "WHAT IF" WEBSITE THAT HAS SOMETIMES PROVEN "SPOT-ON" WHEN IT COMES TO "RUMORS":  "The New And Growing Islamist Threat From Latin America"   
 http://www.pipelinenews.org/2012/jan/26/the-new-growing-islamist-threat-from-latin-america.html 

~ WHAT CONGRESS KNOWS  https://www.ndia.org/Divisions/Divisions/SOLIC/Documents/SOF_Issues_for_Congress.pdf  

~ http://www.ice.gov/management-administration/oaq

ICE