Jade Helm 15 military exercise including USMC MEU, 82nd Airborne and SOCOM has the prepper community going mad!

via Modern Survival Blog.

The upcoming “Jade Helm 15 – Master the Human Domain” ‘domestic’ military drill has created a storm of controversy all over the internet, and for good reason. There are LOTS of questions surrounding the motives and details of the exercise which is doing more than just raising a few eyebrows.
Operation Jade Helm 15 will commence July-15 (until September-15) in the American southwest (as in, all of it) (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado) and is a ‘domestic’ military training exercise which some say may violate the Posse Comitatus Act (while others say it technically does not).
The ‘drill’ apparently has the military working in acceptance of, or some cooperation with, state-county-local domestic law enforcement agencies and will include Special Operations Command, the special forces of the military services, the 82nd Airborne, elements of Marine Expeditionary Unit(s), and interagency partners, which refers to other departments and agencies of the federal government, including – reportedly – the FBI and DEA.

Read it all here. 

Wow.

I don't know what to think.  I do know that every major Army and Marine base has a combat town or two.

I also know that role players can be brought in to simulate whatever training needs to be done without going into downtown Los Angeles (as they've done in the past) or any other major US city (or minor one for that matter).

My opinion?

This is bad.  Military leadership seems like its lost touch with middle America.  While they still have many fans...they also have their detractors.  Additionally they're becoming viewed in the same way law enforcement is.  Not as defenders but as oppressors (not how I view the military...just the messenger on this...read the comments over at Modern Survival Blog).

This exercise will not help that.