All: I haven't read the UC book you described, but it certainly sounds interesting....maybe I need to pick up a copy...I know I enjoyed Red Dawn a few years back and am a Clancy fan. Please allow me to offer this observation, however. I'm getting ready to retire after approx 25 years of enlisted and commissioned military service. About half of he last 20 were spent in Military Police assignments and finally (after I got sick of MP work) in the Special Operations community. DC, you mentioned "...rumors concerning massive quantities of foreign troops being filtered in and out of the US for training..." or words to that effect. Although as a mere LTC, I'm not privy to everything, my experience has been just the opposite. Most of the training of foreign military personnel in the US consists of a few hundred (if that many) foreign officers (rarely NCOs or troopies) who attend various service staff and specialty schools (CGSC, School of the Americas, The Army or Naval War Colleges, Airborne and Ranger Schools, SEAL (BUDS) tng, SF Q Crs, Flight School, etc) each year. The German AF does maintain a presence at Holliman AFB learning to fly F4s as the weather in GE and noise restrictions, etc make pilot training difficult, so they have leased buildings, etc from us in sunny NM. Perhaps the more disturbing things we military types hear/read about are civilian and militia reports of the so called "black helecopters" that ferry UN troops about, hover over our cities , scare the local populace, etc. The US Army and USAF SOF aviation communities do conduct exercises in urban areas from time to time...this is well known and is planned and coordinated with appropriate local/county/state government well in advance. But again, these are US forces training w/US rotary wing AC, w/ US SOF operators on board training to protect this nation as they have sworn to do. IMHO, none of the soldiers I've served with and personally known in peace and war over the past 20+ years would ever conciously take part in any training or op designed to deny US citizens their constitutional rights. At least, that's they way I've seen it. (Yeah, I know my profile will be seen, and some wil say "....Yeah, yeah, yeah, what else do you think this guy would say?...". Not much I can say or do about that, but reiterate that the military I know would not stand idly by and watch our nations' liberties get snatched out from our feet. Nuff said.
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