“Don’t Be Alarmed”: Army Trains MPs To Drive Tanks On U.S. Streets
Sightings of vehicles provokes fears of martial law
St Louis City residents have been warned to not be alarmed at the sight of U.S. Army tanks rolling down residential neighborhoods after sightings of the vehicles provoked fears of martial law.
The exercise is part of a U.S. Army program run by military police from Fort Meade, Maryland focused around training MPs from St. Louis how to drive heavily armored tanks “on highways and on city streets.”
Sightings of the tanks prompted hundreds of residents to flood news channel KSDK’s Facebook page, with some expressing fears that martial law had arrived with others promising to “stop and salute” the tanks as they rolled by.
Reporting that he was told by the Army not to disclose the location of where the exercise was operating out of for “security reasons,” KSDK reporter Casey Nolan downplayed the exercise as “not such a big deal.”
U.S. Army Sergeant Cornelius Ivory discouraged citizens from taking video and photographs of the tanks and urged them not to get too close.
“They need to know to stay away from it,” Ivory told KSDK.
The exercise will run from June 21-28 in St. Louis, with the presence of the tanks being most noticeable in the area of the sixth district.
As we have exhaustively documented, the increasing shift towards domestic militarization of law enforcementis part of the acclimation process to get Americans comfortable with the idea of troops and tanks on the streets as a routine occurrence.
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This is off topic but perhaps interesting.
I often use google maps to zoom around the earth looking at various regions for interesting geographical formations or whatever else happens to catch my eye. It's lots of fun.
The other day I was looking at a remote desert region in south-east Iran in the vicinity of Kerman and Bam. There I noticed some very odd circular formations (a lot of them) roughly 8 to 14 meters in diameter and spaced fairly regularly about ten meters apart in long rows that merge together and look a lot like dusty roads if you zoom out just a bit.
Exploring further, I discovered a large flat square region containing four large circles each about a kilometer in diameter. At the center of the four larger circles there is some interesting construction. It quickly became apparent that I was looking at a type of military shooting range and that the smaller circular formations described above were in fact impact craters. I don't know much about military matters, so I was wondering if some of you could look at this and tell me if the long regular rows of craters are, well, normal.
The link below should bring up a map of a town called "Shahdad". If you zoom in a bit and look just east and a bit south of Shahdad, the larger (1 kilometer) circles come into view. The impact craters are strung out in amazingly long dotted lines throughout the desert to the north and east of Shahdad. Looking closer at the larger circles and the bordering roads around them you will see that there is a lot going on here. Some of the craters look much more eroded than others so it appears that all this has been around awhile.
http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=shadad+iran&hl=en&ll=30.409597,57.802505&spn=0.246644,0.528374&sll=30.412854,57.763195&sspn=0.123318,0.264187&t=h&hnear=Shadad,+Sistan+Va+Baluchestan,+Iran&z=12
I don't know anything about military stuff. I'll send it around to some others.
Thanks.
There look to me like craters but I don't think they are artillery.Thelines seem to be way too even and straight for that. I would expect a more random patterning from tanks etc. I wonder if t was either some kind of aerial bombing practice or, because of the way they are lined up, even at right angles to each other, part of some construction. Dynamiting for roads that may have never been completed? Especially the way much of it seems to roughly parallel existing roads.
Either that or they're markers, much like crop circles, to guide the toad from the well in on his return.
But, I am not a military person either so that's for what it's worth.
Hi guys.
I've looked at it , it seems to go on for a long time and pretty parrallel to excisting roads, i'm wondering if it could be remnants of centuries of caravan trails?
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