Military Vehicles in California 1\19\12

[masterbatess]

had 3 fully armed and maned APC's drive through columbus ohio a few months back. each one had a man wearing a gas mask as the gunner. id share the video but i think its a facebook vid

[grecianjade]

There's an Army Armor unit in California

[Uhnstoppable]

Considering the pullouts in Iraq and to a lesser extent Afghanistan we will likely be seeing a lot of this as materiel gets brought home, unloaded from ships and put on trains to various military installations. No need to go all conspiracy-theory on it. How else are you going to move the thousands of tanks/APCS/ other ground vehicles efficiently?

[jamobrie]

@Uhnstoppable Thats not what these are. Wrong camo. These are painted in a Woodland Camo which means that they are inteneded for a location with a similar makeup of most of the US. (Not saying they are for here ....yet) And those tanks and things overseas are never coming back. We are never going to leave the Middle East (too much oil and opium) so what would be the purpose of bringing them back just so that we can ship them back over there.

[rutilequartzlight]

Freedom and protect own right!

Ron Paul 2012!!!



[DOCSAFETUBE]

these are new b/c the 120mm is not on them ...was the train heading west or north?

[L2design]

are those US tanks? i just had a nightmare last nite also... chinese troops flying in

[MrPiestrak]

off to some foreign country to blow more brown people up

[felix3at]

dig a hole, dig a hole, dig a hole

[IowaEye]

The fact they're painted in woodland camouflage suggests they belong to a guard or reserve unit, since there probably aren't many active Army units that haven't been through at least one tour through either Iraq or Afghanistan, and thus had to change their cammo. The fact this movement took place in the winter suggests its probably not an AT (summer camp), so likely some guard or reserve unit is finally getting its turn in the sandbox. Other military types, let me know if you agree or disagree.

[IowaEye]

While it looks like a lot, it's only enough tracks for one battalion, or about 600 men. The tracked vehicles are M2 Bradley armored personnel carriers, in the infantry configuration. The strange-looking trucks are Hemmitt fuelers. It's not unusual for the Army to move tracked vehicles by rail. It's cheaper than putting each one on a lowboy trailer and putting it in a convoy. Their wheeled vehicles, excluding the Hemmitts, probably went by over-the-road convoy to wherever they're going.

[br0dskalk]

@IowaEye From my military experience, when tanks are transported, you strip it down completely.

I counted 97 M2's from this video, I assume there where more before the vid got started.

rail > road transport on all aspects. its only logical to use it,

The camo is not much to go from, camo is quick to apply and is a good way for "the crew" to get to know the vehicle ><

One thing is sure though, they are not ment to be used for peace.

[IowaEye]

@br0dskalk When you say "strip it down" do you mean optional gear like Stingers or TOW launchers would be removed, so no matter what they really were, they'd all look like regular infantry Bradleys?

[ducttapewireandglue]

@IowaEye 97 tanks, 600 men, enough to keep a mid sized American city at bay or bring it to its knees I imagine. I would like to see a press releaset from the military on this movement. It's clearly not secret. Let's keep hounding them for info. Remember, we have insiders.

[ThereAreManyLikeIt]

Holy shit... maybe the conspiracy theorists were onto something?

[rlmstudio]

ya think?

[83leaf]

i want one, lol

[Iseman10]

Oh Darn. Here We Go...(Sighs)

[DestroyerOfEvil247]

Thank U 4 the post!!!

[Doofus171]

Maybe they are preparing for an invasion from something. Kinda interesting seeing this then all of the videos with the strange sounds all over the world in the same week.

[StAnDnWaKeUp]

Wow I thought the war was over...

[turbodr3ams]

Someone's preparing to spread some more democracy!

[turbodr3ams]

There is your debt crisis in action.

Could have spent that same money feeding all the starving people in the US.

[applemanjohn]

I'm a trucker and I've seen these movements all over the country over the last 8 months or so. I guess they are getting ready to take on the American people. They didn't build the FEMA camps for nothing.

[rlmstudio]

you got that right!

wake up people...

[TheOioink]

You're the biggest war monger country on the planet so of course you'll start another war and die for Oil.

[teska365]

I've been seeing a lot of National Guard movement on the 60 freeway lately.

[ducttapewireandglue]

Can someone verify the record date, supply supporting evidence, or explain what the reason for this movement is?

[ducttapewireandglue]

WTF!

[worldwar3re]

this is where I live