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| Exercise Ridge Runner |
| 2017-04-09 |
| [WarZone] To the casual observer, the scene might’ve looked like an odd cross between a reenactment of a past war and a demonstration of a future conflict. Elite special operators, some of whom were speaking foreign languages, were roving around the hills of West Virginia on foot, horseback, all-terrain vehicles, and by helicopter, while practicing specialized tactics, some of which are nearly a century old. But this wasn’t another remake of the movie Red Dawn or a weird time-traveling short story. It was a real life, routine exercise called Ridge Runner 2017 that occurred in February 2017. The particular group of participants ‐ including special operators from the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, all of whom are NATO members ‐ and certain practice sessions suggested the event had a lot to do with Russia’s increasingly revanchist polices in Europe. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 Jade Helm? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-04-09 18:34 |
| #2 Yes, can't recall the names... if there were any. Some of these were culminations of A&S events, NV Test Site, etc. I suspect that is what you may be referring to. No foreigners in any of those as I recall. Close coordination with Local Law Enforcement (LE) is key. There have been a few, let's just say embarrassing moments over the years. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-04-09 11:30 |
| #1 Mr. B - was there an older version of this run by SAD? I remember reading about a large scale E n E exercise where runners had to get from NoVa to Florida on there own by social engineering, hitchhiking, or shall we say other unconventional means. Does this ring a bell?? Might have been training for a SMU. |
| Posted by: Bangkok Billy 2017-04-09 10:36 |