...I know it's kinda off the game subject...but I was just wondering if any of the pilots on Dogfight are aware of the Jade Helm operations that are supposed to be taking place in July of this year and what are some of your opinions on the subject?..I'm pretty freaked out by it myself...thanks everyone!

Jade Helm is not all that different from an training exercise called 'Robin Sage'

It's just military training... but the alarmists will always blow things up out of proportion to what they really are.. making a mountain out of a molehill.

What is jade helm

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I've heard of it...and live next to one of the closed Wal-Mart's. I'm not too alarmed by it. Military exercises occur all the time. One stupid mistake which really fuels the unrest is labeling Texas and other areas as hostile. I don't think anything will come off it. They would need a whole bunch more troops to make anything more. So, relax, enjoy the ride.

It's common practice on military exercise to label maneuver territory friendly and unfriendly, and have some bogus story about some hapless country you are defending against the aggression of another arrogant country who is part of the evil empire. It was rather stupid to label entire states that way and let the map get out. I went through more rotations of NTC, JRTC, Team Spirit and ReForGer than I can remember, and although it was obvious who the enemy du jour was, they were always labeled the Elbonian Army, or the Kraznovian Separatists, or something nonsensical, as we didn't want to upset our actual enemies. I used to listen to calls for fire, and in the middle of the night they get pretty creative; ice cream truck in the impact area, children gathering, battery five rounds ICM in effect, or Chinese biker battalion assaulting local strip club, battery ten rounds HE. These days there's no sense of humor. You just can't kill people and have fun doing it anymore.

...hey ZebraUp!...yeh I know...Alex Jones is freaking out over that...he does like to cause a lot of hype over that stuff...thanks man!

Alex Jones makes his money off of scaring the rubes.