On Monday, April 1, 2002, at 01:24 PM, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > Boise to be test target for Marine snoops > > http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=30032002-024315-8298r > > From the National Desk > Published 3/30/2002 3:33 PM > > BOISE, Idaho, March 30 (UPI) -- In a bid for a more > realistic training experience, Marine Corps > reconnaissance teams will attempt to evade nosey > neighbors and noisy dogs as they prowl the streets of > Boise in a mock infiltration exercise this spring.
Better hope they never hop over fences and sneak through back yards... A couple of months ago a local sheriff shot and killed some commandoes-in-training as they were sneaking around a Georgia neighborhood. (Or South Carolina, or someplace close. Google will turn up the details for those interested---the article later says it was North Carolina.) I certainly have no problem with commando trainees doing their thing on their millions of acres of land. But if they are on public property, they'd better obey all laws about concealed weapons, trespassing, etc. > Such exercises by the military are not unusual. A > similar larger-scale exercise last month in North Little > Rock, Arkansas frightened some residents who came upon > armed troops skulking around their > neighborhoods. > > An Army Special Forces soldier was shot to death and > another was wounded Feb. 23 during such a > surreptitious exercise when they jumped a Bragg County, > North Carolina deputy sheriff whom they thought > was a role-playing actor in an exercise. > --Tim May
