Guardsmen to conduct urban training at Arcadia in April

[SAMSON123]

Can anyone verify this?

The Carroll National Guard unit will train on urban military operations by holding a four-day exercise at Arcadia.

The purpose of the April 2-5 drill will be to gather intelligence, then search for and apprehend a suspected weapons dealer, according to Sgt. Mike Kots, readiness NCO for Alpha Company.

Citizens, law enforcement, media and other supporters will participate.

Troops will spend Thursday, April 2, staging at a forward operations base at Carroll. The next day company leaders will conduct reconnaissance and begin patrolling the streets of Arcadia to identify possible locations of the weapons dealer.

The primary phase will be done Saturday, April 4, when convoys will be deployed from Carroll to Arcadia. Pictures of the arms dealer will be shown in Arcadia, and soldiers will go door to door asking if residents have seen the suspect.

Soldiers will knock only at households that have agreed to participate in the drill, Kots noted.

"Once credible intelligence has been gathered," said Kots, "portions of the town will be road-blocked and more in-depth searches of homes and vehicles will be conducted in accordance with the residents' wishes.

"One of the techniques we use in today's political environment is cordon and knock," Kots explained. "We ask for the head of the household, get permission to search, then have them open doors and cupboards. The homeowner maintains control. We peer over their shoulder, and the soldier uses the homeowner's body language and position to protect him."

During this phase of the operation, troops will interact with residents and media while implementing crowd-control measures and possibly treating and evacuating injured persons.

The unit will use a Blackhawk helicopter for overhead command and control, and to simulate medevacs.

The drill will culminate in the apprehension of the suspected arms dealer.

Alpha Company will conduct a review of the drill on Sunday, April 5.

A meeting to give residents more information and accept volunteers will be held 7 p.m. Monday, March 2, in the Arcadia American Legion hall.

Kots said the exercise will replace Alpha Company's weekend drill for April.

"We have a lot of extended drills this coming year," he added.

In addition to surveillance, searching and apprehension, the exercise will also give the troops valuable experience in stability, support, patrol, traffic control, vehicle searches and other skills needed for deployment in an urban environment.

"This exercise will improve the real-life operational skills of the unit," said Kots. "And it will hopefully improve the public's understanding of military operations."

The pre-drill work with residents is as important at the drill itself.

"It will be important for us to gain the trust and confidence of the residents of Arcadia," said Kots. "We will need to identify individuals that are willing to assist us in training by allowing us to search their homes and vehicles and to participate in role-playing."

"We really want to get as much information out there as possible, because this operation could be pretty intrusive to the people of Arcadia."

http://www.carrollspaper.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=7451&TM=55111.9

These so called URBAN TRAININGS are covers for practicing for starting MARTIAL LAW and locking down and controlling communities...even whole cities. When the Oklahoma City building in america was blown up (control demolition) there was a "DRILL" being conducted that day supposedly anticipating someone blowing up the building (what a coincidence), in 1993 there was a military "DRILL" being conducted on the World Trade center and wouldn't you know a bomb went off in the building that day...fasts forward to 2001 a military/police drill was being conducted at the World Trade Center on September 11 and guess what....airplanes crashed into the buildings and strategically placed bombs in the building controlled demolitioned it to the ground. So we can surmise here that america is being prepared for an all out military/police assault on the nation and people as things go fast from BAD TO WORST given the economic situation that exists in america. What you read about happening in a small town like Carroll Iowa can quickly be transferred to big cities like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, San Fransisco etc etc etc...YOUR POLICE STATE IS ABOUT TO SHOW ITSELF....

[Ganuvanx]

These so called URBAN TRAININGS are covers for practicing for starting MARTIAL LAW and locking down and controlling communities...even whole cities. When the Oklahoma City building in america was blown up (control demolition) there was a "DRILL" being conducted that day supposedly anticipating someone blowing up the building (what a coincidence), in 1993 there was a military "DRILL" being conducted on the World Trade center and wouldn't you know a bomb went off in the building that day...fasts forward to 2001 a military/police drill was being conducted at the World Trade Center on September 11 and guess what....airplanes crashed into the buildings and strategically placed bombs in the building controlled demolitioned it to the ground. So we can surmise here that america is being prepared for an all out military/police assault on the nation and people as things go fast from BAD TO WORST given the economic situation that exists in america. What you read about happening in a small town like Carroll Iowa can quickly be transferred to big cities like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, San Fransisco etc etc etc...YOUR POLICE STATE IS ABOUT TO SHOW ITSELF....

Why all this negativity? The Kenyan is ushering in an era of progress and hope. There's a few similarities between one of his official logos and the eye of Lucifer but it's nothing to worry about

[headhuntersix]

These so called URBAN TRAININGS are covers for practicing for starting MARTIAL LAW and locking down and controlling communities...even whole cities. When the Oklahoma City building in america was blown up (control demolition) there was a "DRILL" being conducted that day supposedly anticipating someone blowing up the building (what a coincidence), in 1993 there was a military "DRILL" being conducted on the World Trade center and wouldn't you know a bomb went off in the building that day...fasts forward to 2001 a military/police drill was being conducted at the World Trade Center on September 11 and guess what....airplanes crashed into the buildings and strategically placed bombs in the building controlled demolitioned it to the ground. So we can surmise here that america is being prepared for an all out military/police assault on the nation and people as things go fast from BAD TO WORST given the economic situation that exists in america. What you read about happening in a small town like Carroll Iowa can quickly be transferred to big cities like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, San Fransisco etc etc etc...YOUR POLICE STATE IS ABOUT TO SHOW ITSELF....

Yeah...ur an idiot.

[mac7000]

When I was in the Army Guard we participated in a similar exercise in Poland. There were about ten countries participating including Russia and we used a civilian town with civilians. This is how the military trains now a days it mostly urban. When I first enlisted in 2000, we would go out to the woods set up a perimeter and pretty much re-enacted scenes from platoon going out on patrols and ambushes. So for all the Ct guys here,  HH6 is ten times the soldier I ever was and everything he says is completely true from my experiences.

[headhuntersix]

No I'm not..thanks for u service bro. The real problem is that the American public and the US military are completely disconnected. Less then 1% serve....we are generally based far from east coast media and population centers...we're secretive about what we do (a neccesity, but a fact regardless). We generally are fairly conservative and represent a mindset that does not exits now or maybe ever, in this country.

U guys don't have anything to worry about from this. We've been doing for year.

Also Mac makes a great point about Russia...we conduct wargames with them every year...its rudimentary but we do it. I didn't realize they conducted them in Poland....as they do hold them at Graf in Germany at CMTC.

[mac7000]

Ya, it was back in 2004 in Poland. There were about ten different countries there with 1 or 2 platoons. It was more of a friendly, lets train together and then have a FTX. Initially the Russians had to sleep in a diffrent area because the Germans and Poles really didn't want them there. They drove down with about 6 BTRs and about a platoon. It was a real eye opener seeing them up close and how cruel their officers are to their men. They have very very low moral and basically a weapon, shovel and blanket. This reminds me of another thread when some idiots here were talking how they would "kick our ass" in a conflict.

On another note, I was in Moldova in 2006 participating in another multi country training mission without Russia. We were about a week into the excerise and the Russians freaked out and word was they thought we were amassing some type of invasion force, to invade a part of moldova (transdinesia?) which wanted to beak away and go back to a Russian state. We had to stop and a couple Russian officers came in to see what was going on.