Largest Ever Marine Corps Drill on U.S. East Coast
June 20th, 2011[???]
Via: CNN:
It’s mid-June, a perfect time to visit the beach to watch porpoises play in the surf or seagulls strut the sand — or you could watch a formation of Marine Corps warplanes darting over the shore at hundreds of miles per hour.
But don’t worry — the United States hasn’t declared war on your family’s beach house. It’s just part of a major Marine Corps exercise called Exercise Mailed Fist (translation: armored fist).
The exercise is designed to test the capability of every type of Marine Corps aircraft, including MV-22 Ospreys and F/A 18 Hornets, as well as some Navy ships and Air Force planes.
The drill will stretch from Quantico Marine Base in northern Virginia to the Navy’s Pinecastle Bombing Range in Florida.
With thousands of Marines and other service members involved, it’s the biggest such drill ever on the U.S. East Coast.
How many of the participants had to have “mailed fist” explained to them?
Training for Balochistan?
love the way the media always tries to be humorous or “cute” with stuff like this.
Why doesn’t the military come right out and say “we are planning a military coup?” Huh? I can’t believe Obama is “letting” the Marines stage such a drill and is such a fool to think that the military would NEVER try to take over the U.S. government, or that we the sheeple could be such fools that “this would never happen here.”
Sheesh. The military industrial complex already takes more of the taxpayer dollars than the rest of the whole shebang combined. What else do they need?
Just to enthrone a general.
Think it can’t happen here? This summer will be very interesting.
And those dumb Marines, can’t believe the jokes I hear about them these days. E,g. Need them on Navy ships because Naval officers need someone to dance with etc.
Hope some Marine has the brains to figure this attempted coup out so that Marine’s don’t go down in history as fools for someone who thinks they are fools enough not to see the big picture.