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Late last week and through the weekend, citizens of St. Louis, Mo.,
were told not to be alarmed should they see military tanks roll by their
home. Even with this warning, though, some wondered why the U.S. Army
was taking the vehicles off the base and to the streets in the first
place.
According to KSDK-TV, Army specialists from Fort Meade came into town for a training exercise for members of the 354 NP company. As the reporter states, this “drivers’ ed.” for tanks will take place on city streets and the highway.
Watch the KSDK report:
http://bcove.me/tk19tstv
(Image: KSDK screenshot)
According to KSDK-TV, Army specialists from Fort Meade came into town for a training exercise for members of the 354 NP company. As the reporter states, this “drivers’ ed.” for tanks will take place on city streets and the highway.
Watch the KSDK report:
As noted in the video, the military is
warning onlookers to steer clear of the tanks should they be seen on the
road. Still, this caused Brandon Smith from Alt-Market in a guest post
for Zero Hedge to wonder why the military is really conducting this training in public at all, saying it “makes very little sense to me.” He poses these questions:
U.S. Army troops all the way from Maryland running open exercises in armored personnel carriers on the busy streets of St. Louis? I know Maryland is a small state, but is there really not enough room at Ft. Detrick to accommodate a tank column and some troops? Are there not entire fake neighborhood and town complexes built with taxpayer dollars on military bases across the country meant to facilitate a realistic urban environment for troops to train in? And why travel hundreds of miles to Missouri?He also points out that some local reports did mention some citizens being worried about the purpose of the training exercise but those featured in the report were all supporters. The local Fox affiliate has a couple examples of the supporters in its report:
http://bcove.me/tk19tstv
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