U.S. Army Builds ‘Fake City’ in Virginia to Practice Military Occupation
· Martial law training? 300 acre town includes sports stadium, school, underground subway
The
U.S. Army has built a 300 acre ‘fake city’ complete with a sports
stadium, bank, school, and an underground subway in order to train for
unspecified future combat scenarios.
The
recently opened site is located in Virginia and was built at a cost of
$96 million dollars, taking just two years to complete.
While
the city was ostensibly built to prepare U.S. troops for the occupation
of cities abroad, some will undoubtedly fear that the real intention
could be closer to home. Although the site includes a mosque, the town
looks American in every other way, with signs in English.
The fact that, as the Telegraph reports,
“The subway carriages even carry the same logo as the carriages in
Washington DC,” could suggest that the site was built to double both as a
foreign city and a mock domestic town.
According
to Colonel John P. Petkosek, “This is the place where we can be
creative, where we can come up with solutions for problems that we don’t
even know we have yet….This is where we’ll look at solutions for the
future–material solutions and non-material solutions…anything from how
you’re going to operate in a subterranean environment to how you
dismount a Humvee to avoid an IED strike.”
The
increasing demonization of domestic political groups as extremists has
prompted numerous scenarios where commentators have suggested that U.S.
Army and National Guard personnel could be needed to quell civil unrest.
In 2012, an academic study about
the future use of the military as a peacekeeping force within the
United States written by a retired Army Colonel depicted a shocking
scenario in which the U.S. Army is used to restore order to a town that
has been seized by Tea Party “insurrectionists”.
The study dovetailed with a leaked U.S. Army manual which
revealed plans for the military to carry out “Civil Disturbance
Operations” during which troops would be used domestically to quell
riots, confiscate firearms and even kill Americans on U.S. soil during
mass civil unrest.
The
manual also describes how prisoners will be processed through temporary
internment camps under the guidance of U.S. Army FM 3-19.40
Internment/Resettlement Operations, which outlines how internees would be “re-educated” into developing an “appreciation of U.S. policies” while detained in prison camps inside the United States.
Fort
Hood soldiers are also being taught by their superiors that Christians,
Tea Party supporters and anti-abortion activists represent a radical terror threat, mirroring rhetoric backed by theDepartment of Homeland Security which frames “liberty lovers” as domestic extremists.
Last year, former Navy SEAL Ben Smith warned that
the Obama administration is asking top brass in the military if they
would be comfortable with disarming U.S. citizens, a litmus test that
includes gauging whether they would be prepared to order NCOs to fire on
Americans.
During a recent Ohio National Guard exercise, second amendment proponents were portrayed as domestic terrorists as part of a mock disaster drill.
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