Government Scenarios & Exercises – EP 212
Today, we’re diving into some of the most significant government scenarios and exercises, including Rex 84, Operation Chico, National Response Scenario Number One, Operation Garden Plot, and more. Discover the purpose behind these exercises, the controversies they spark, and the lessons preppers can learn to stay ready for anything. We also explore the intriguing conspiracies that keep us questioning and prepared
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the threat of disaster is never Pleasant welcome to the Casual Preppers podcast these safety measures are essential the only place for prepping survival and entertainment this will be your source of survival instructions and information every member of the family must be coached in the business of survival here are your hosts Cam and Kobe oh yeah we’re back buddy man it’s been it’s been a long time since we’ve done the C PR it we had a little kind of sad feels good to be back to it oh yeah it feels like home you know man it does it does feel like home and relaxed we’ve got some pretty weird crap to talk about right good timing got presidential debate oh gosh government stuff going on display of intellectual prowess that debate was oh my gosh I bet you all the countries are quivering in their boots are they’re going I don’t know how we’re going to to to deal with this both of them both of them got us in the corner what if they team up oh no yeah no it was anyways pretty uh pretty shameful but today though today we got something for you we do I’m excited about today’s because I’m always excited it’s just a podcast yeah exactly but um we’re going to talk about the government scenarios and exercises that I think it’s important for Preppers to know so um a lot of them have some kind of creepy conspiracies behind them or a lot has come from and some of it man is messed up in general like really is yeah this the the testing kind of led to some scary crap so sure yeah I’m really excited about today but I’m also excited about battle box it is the monthly subscription box full of solid gear for adventure Seekers survivalists outdoor enthusiasts and Casual Preppers each month’s battle box send you the coolest selection of handpicked outdoor Survival on everyday carry gear all valued at far more than what you normally pay you never know what’s in the next box but here here’s a sampling of what users received this month the Heaven’s Harvest seed kit a a I know Heaven’s 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focuses on uh a single immensely improvable specific cataclysm scenario and also cataclysmic scenario and that was that was I had to split it into two so I was wondering I took the top of the other one I was like isn’t that the same thing it was too long I couldn’t fit it in one thing sorry I should have mentioned that before I I’m just reading the prompt it’s a little Anchor Man situation going on here yeah go yourself um cataclysmic scenario and also very far from the Mindless drone who is clueless about anything but just reads what’s written on the screen that’s right but the game or the kashian your show is very refreshing as it moves away from the kind of guy who having been a combat combat Medic in Special Forces for years judges everyone else based on the level of training he received and decides you will be outmatched at every turn and won’t last a week thanks for giving this serious topic a funny tone yep I am now recommending you podcast to se have goodbye individuals a because he’s Canadian it’s really hard to get the Canadian a in with a French accent yeah do you think they do it though I don’t I get to me for sure that’s for sure uh that was from pant patent via Apple podcast P um from Canada six this obviously this is the last time he’s listening yeah he’s like I am done with these guys if you guys want to be part of this portion of the podcast go to iTunes go to Facebook leave us a festar review and make it awesome it’s a mad mad world I do not enjoy them anymore I’m going to go watch my hockey um cam did you see the monoliths are coming back I did I’m excited about that dude I’m come on veral come on ver I would I would give anything to have one of these pop up they nice too dude yeah just the place to go they should put a park bench over there go hang out by the monolith like these are the types of things we should be building at a park in town like giant like 100 foot like just gigantic monolith what’s it for I don’t know but so cool yeah there doesn’t have to be any doesn’t have to be for anything you know what I mean navigation for the aliens exactly this is where we want him to come but after another mysterious monolith has popped up this time in Colorado this is a really awesome few sentences from this reporter from this reporter so listen to this Lori Graves the owner of Morning Fresh Dairy Farm in bellw told Colorado for sure yeah told local station KD VR she has no idea how the 8ft tall 4T wide and 8 in deep shiny structure ended up on her property so she has no idea the next sentence is I have ideas but it ALS but it almost no idea but I have don’t want to ruin the mystery around it anyways um people are like hey man it’s back this is pretty darn cool no one knows where these things are coming from just last week which was probably two weeks ago the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said uh a similar shiny reflective structure was spotted by its search and rescue unit near gas Peak so this is the second one to pop up in a month wow I just really hope that this is aliens or something too they’re not they don’t look like crap like they’re nice they’re like shiny they like picked up mirrors from Goodwill and put a whole thing together yeah it’s pretty dang cool so monolith back I did see that and I was excited about it back on the r baby bringing them yeah um I don’t remember if we’ve maybe mentioned this one before but it is the end of the world today no coming soon okay starting in Cambodia oh that’s where it starts yeah interesting a man in Cambodia has warned people that he believes the end of the world is near resulting in thousands of his fearing supporters traveling to his rural property to stay safe oh politician Kim Venna [Music] made the unusual claim on the Facebook page with 370,000 followers that a black hole in his spine was sending him messages of an apocalyptic flood on its way he has a black hole in his spine mhm black hole spine um doesn’t a black hole suck up objects around it yeah starting to like open up in his spine okay really I I just don’t know why getting messages through it yeah and well wouldn’t that just incinerate his entire body yeah and so everybody’s flocking to him for some reason yeah that seems like he added that the only place to remain Untouched by the biblical style floods would be his Farmhouse so it’s like he’s getting like these messages through a little black hole in his spine super weird interesting but it doesn’t matter cuz there’s a a flood coming I can’t sleep because whenever I sleep my spinal cord is pulling so hard because the world is breaking down and the water’s flowing into the Gap okay what on Earth and he has 370,000 followers dude we we have a hard time hitting 20K on Facebook I don’t get it so they there’s people from all over uh in those countries have made a pilgrimage from all over uh with some traveling from South Korea to to visit Cambodian can you drive from South Korea to Cambodia I don’t think so I was to say it seems like you got to take a boat or something the C codian Embassy and and soul has since issued a public statement warning migrant workers not to abandon their work and go back home authorities have estimated between 15 to 20,000 people arrived at his home and those that couldn’t fit are either in camps outside or renting nearby accommodations some people are happy about the new influx of business sure you know they got a bunch of people the guy with the there’s no room and a lot of people are just defecating around the oh well yeah the place so maybe they should defecate in the black hole let it take it crap on my back that’s why I brought you here it’ll consume it huh but yeah I was like this is the weirdest article I’ve ever read God actually it’s a little bit older but that’s interesting don’t know what happened to him either he’s been fully consumed by the black hole or covered in defecation instead of black hole son Su n it’s black hole son s o n he’s the black hole son black hole son mhm black hole son Hy cow that’s all I got super weird man yeah interesting so yeah well that’s fun well uh now that we’ve gotten past that let’s talk about some weird crap that the government does yeah for sure so today’s episode um we’re going to like dive into some of those government scenarios and exercises that have been um that have taken place that have either uh helped us or brought on a lot of fear yeah and some of these are like exercises that they’ve done some of these are just like plans that they’ve made there’s there’s a kind of a mix of stuff there is some have taken place some have been just like scenarios and drawn out and never like actually participated in and I don’t know weird a lot of them I hadn’t heard of but I can see why people get pretty concerned about the whole tactic and the whole idea behind them it’s like some are great get us more prepared but is there other motives probably yeah it’s the government the government it’s like why do they do these things right for the most part we thought it would be interesting yeah it’s just fun stuff we be like you know we’re Preppers we need to know what the government’s doing to prepare and if it’s maybe just you know case in the joint seeing how it can take over yeah they don’t know so what does the government say about these right like why are they doing this kind of stuff they say that they run these scenarios in these exercises to make sure that everyone knows what to do in an emergency specifically whatever emergency they’re talking about here right and that’s which is great per I mean that we need to practice seems like a good deal right yeah whether it’s a natural disaster or it’s a terrorist attack or something like that it they say these help them improve their emergency plans they get these different agencies to work together smoothly and and they iron out the rough spots in in all this kind of stuff before the thing happens it’s a big dress rehearsal for when you know the S hits the HTF or whatever however that works so but us as Preppers sometimes we look at things slightly differently we have a skeptical eye we we are you know really practicing or you really trying to learn what you can do because we just kind of always like to you know slant towards the conspiratorial you know why not cuz it’s fun cuz you’re figer yeah cuz we got black holes in our bones we don’t know but why why do some Preppers might think that they do these things well maybe it’s uh these drills are used to practice controlling and monitoring the population during a crisis right it’s not about us it’s about them and about their like their survival you know they have to control us so that we don’t you know make it bad for them yeah whatever that might be and also we’ve talked about this before what about martial law a lot of times we’re going to talk about this in a whole bunch of these different ones but they seem like they are dress rehearsal rehearsals for martial law it’s like they’re just practicing when they have to or when they get to not have to when they get to do martial law right yeah maybe they’re just Gathering data data is a big deal these days everyone loves it y everyone wants more of it so this is maybe what they’re doing and maybe it’s just a scops you know they want to instill fear they want to condition the people and accept we’re still in charge we’re still in charge we’re always going to be in charge when it goes down we’re going to be here and we’re going to be in charge right and so that’s kind of um why why we might think that they’re doing it now because it’s kind of scary it is kind of scary but the thing is they’ve been doing this for long it’s good but it’s also scary it is yeah they’ve been doing this the government has been doing this for a long time so let’s look back kind of over the years back into World War I you know this was and Cold War both of these there was kind of more of a focus on civil defense we did an entire episode on civil defense and how cool was that episode loved it if you haven’t listen speaking of we’re um for my son’s birthday this is random I throw it in here why not okay for civil defense and like we’re buying um on eBay those coins and stuff that were used to for during like yeah buy an extra one for me yeah get you one get me one uh yeah so that’s what they’re doing World War II and the Cold War you remember Duck and Cover those those were all kind of drills scenarios useless I mean somewhat yeah no you know but that that was kind of some of the things they were doing back then and then post 911 things shifted a little bit right that’s when our Focus really went to terrorism um and that led to the of the Department of Homeland Security and then these large scale exercises like we’re going to talk about later like top off um top officials uh those types of things and then recent times nowadays a lot of stuff focuses on Cyber threats and pandemics and climate change um it’s a whole different time right it’s crazy how these things have gone and you know uh morphed over the years to to be a little bit different depending on what the threats are right and so um these things are interesting and that’s why we decided to talk about I just think they’re kind of fun to talk about but there is application to Preppers we’ll talk about that a little at the end but um I think it’s just good to understand what the government is doing yeah um because it’s information yeah right it’s information and it’s good I mean I want to know that the government’s practicing scenarios that could potentially help us but we need to watch over what they’re doing we need understand we also need to understand like is there a different motive for this or do we need to be more concerned I just develop throat cancer in the middle of this some’s beaming man I will say like element is delicious mhm but the carbonation which is even better which is even better but it comes up I’m sorry I want it to be extra carbonated oh it is and they did a good job no they they hit it on the right spot so um the first one we’re going to talk about is Rex 84 and man is this one deep like I spent I was telling Kobe I probably spent just on this part M an hour and I will not give you any information to make any more sense of it okay I’m excited for that Rex 84 I mean it sounds like some program to exercise you know I’m doing the x84 the Rex 84 about you it’s like P90X type exactly yeah so it’s short for Readiness exercise 1984 um the year 1984 the year that’s even better holy cow Reagan president at the time um and so this plan uh was developed by the US federal government to detain large numbers of American citizens deemed as National Security threats in case of civil unrest and National Emergency which included the unrest if the us and this had to do with the time and uh uh is it Contra Contra Contra that was going on with uh Central America so it had to do with that yeah um Iran and Contra uh crisis and stuff like that so um but they also were looking at if there’s unrest in the US if the US were to invade Central America that those in the United States that were going to be basically uh against it and causing civil unrest they were going to detain them all and so they had the plan for that yeah that’s creepy oh my gosh yes it is it’s like we’re going to do this and if we’re going to have unrest at home we’re going to detain them all I think it’s very similar to what you saw a little bit in World War II then with the Japanese same thing kind of the same thing yeah exactly wow so they kind of had a plan for this um the scenario en visioned State Defense and guard forces I’ll mention more about them they are separate from the National Guard oh rounding up 500,000 undocumented Central American residents and 4,000 American citizens whom the US government General had designated as National Security threats wow so they had a list of people already oh my gosh which is pretty scary that’s creepy um this is where it gets really interesting these people would be detained at 22 military bases in the concentration camps run by FEMA of course so this is where that comes from the yeah which is super interesting so the origins um initiated Again by the sofima in collaboration with the Department of Defense and 34 unspecified federal civil departments and agencies designed to deal with potential Mass civil unrest and continuity of government operations so there were a lot of different plans that dealt with military con contingency plans you know to keep the government going how we would protect the the United States and basically remove any opposition which is pretty terrifying what is it about continuity of government and plans that I just love so much I don’t know I do like I just love it I mean this plan makes it sound like we’ll do whatever it takes which they are going to do are going to yes so there are a few parts involved in this um uh and like like I said uh before it involves the Iran Contra um Affair MH that you’ll have to look up I’m not going to go into details about that but basically um there was there was a Civil War in Nicaragua and the United States was backing the right-wing portion of it sending uh arms and things like that similar to what’s going on in Ukraine well no it’s different because that’s a different country right yeah but it was supporting one side and um Congress was like you’re not sending any more weapons down there and so basically some of the other parts of the government were like Sid stepping that in any way they could to get more armed and I think the president was saying well I didn’t know about this and there there there was a lot of stuff going on so Rex 84 has to deal with that too so but I won’t go into a lot of detail about that um but the uh one portion was so the scenario that they did with this Rex 84 was they were going to send 15,000 um of the 182nd Airborne down and this was part this was Rex 84 Night Train was 15,0 82 airborne to be flown to El Salvador Nicaragua to combat what the government perceived as subversive activities um and then the other portion of FEMA taking the role of cap basically um obtaining any individuals that are in opposition to this to reduce the chance of civil unrest that was FEMA’s role so they would round up and capture those within the United States exactly okay and um assisting the Department of Defense in doing so and that was Rex 84 Alpha that portion um later when the mass detention scenario involving FEMA was added at the request of FEMA director Louie uh gfraa which was he was an interesting dude um and the Reagan ad and Reagan adviser Edwin me and personally authorized by Ronald Reagan the mass detention scenario was codenamed Rex 84 Bravo so that’s the one where most of the conspiracies come from sure so instead of focusing on protecting the country and and it was basically going to just detain people um to prevent was a pre strike which is pretty scary for sure yeah and they were setting up the camps and they were funding this for a time and and that was their focus uh a secret dep Department of Defense and CIA joint investigation into the potential unconstitutionality of FEMA’s role in planning for civil security emergencies AKA martial law unearth the Rex 84b plan and exercise data it emerged FEMA’s director of civil security had compiled a list of 12,000 names of political security threats intruding on the FBI’s jurisdiction so this scenario to kind of protect the people was turning into like this monster of like they they’re making their own list and they were going to take you know yeah and FEMA is not scenario yeah this is FEMA this like Federal Emergency Management is what they’re supposed to be doing so when they were looking into this um the investigator CIA agent William Buckley who was later assassinated actually destroyed the evidence of Rex 84 all the plans interesting stuff oh my gosh so obviously a lot of controvers controversies with this one it’s been subject to multiple controversies um and conspiracies um primarily stemming from its association with potential martial law Mass detention scenarios MH so uh FEMA camps and this is going to be uh the the the potential martial law thing is a recurring theme today yeah so don’t get bored with that we’re going to we’ll one of my favorite episodes in the past of doing great yeah but and there have been claims that Rex 84 established a plan for a a plan for a large scale detention camp where dissidents or political opponents could be held in times of National Emergency y man which is even more scary today yeah of like for sure this you know it’s like is there a list is there people that are going to you know can be detained by this old plan possibly um suspension of con constitutional rights critics argue that Rex 84 could be used to suspend constitutional rights and impose authoritarian um control so scary targeting dissident uh there are there are concerns that the plan could be used to Target political dissidents activists and groups deemed subversive by the government yeah and that I mean we’re already looking at that right now right secretive operations its classified nature and limited public disclosure and destruction obviously of part of it um Rex 84 has fueled speculation about hidden agendas covert operations that could infringe upon individual freedoms um yeah but um in historical comparisons some critics draw parallels between Rex 84 and historical examples of authoritarian regimes using emergency meas measures to consolidate power and suppress dissident heightening fears of similar abuses of power in the United States very similar to Nazi Germany for sure which I don’t like to make comparisons to and I don’t I man it’s this one like kind of freaked me out that’s why I was like reading it again and again I’m like did I understand that right like the country was really doing this basically setting up FEMA camps to capture people that were opposed to whatever was going to happen you feel like that’s oh that’s 1940s that’s not anything we’re going to do today happened 40 years later 80s yeah that’s what I’m saying like the first time with the Japanese right camps then we did it and then we had a plan to do it in the 80s who’s say who’s to say we’re not doing it now I mean come on right how crazy is that Rex 84 that’s a really good one yeah that one is it’s deep and and it has a lot of different things around it you know what else is really good element cuz if you didn’t know electrolyte deficiency or imbalances can cause headaches cramps fatigue and weakness and as people who want to be prepared and ready for anything the last thing you need is something that will slow you down when you need to be ready the most that’s why we at casual Preppers have te up with element it is a tasty electrolyte drink mix with everything you need and nothing that you don’t we think element is perfect 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good it’s it’s delicious you know the Rex 84 there was one thing I forgot to mention in there that was pretty creepy is you see um multiple times throughout that how there were you know there were uh different acts like the was it posy com comatus act that one like different ones about procur procuring weapons and things like that that they found ways to go around like the government’s like yeah we have that in place but we’re going to we’re going to do it a different way within the government like they’re doing these things to sidestep all these different um laws that have been passed shouldn’t surprise us yeah exactly yeah let’s talk about operation Chico sounds cool sounds kind of fun right operation Chico which took place destroy Mexico right yeah so we get to Chico sticks remember those yeah Chico sticks um it took they’re so good took place on December 6 and 7th 1958 the US government conducted a classified exercise to test continuity of government plans in the event of a nuclear attack so Chico California was designated as a relocation site for government officials due to its strategic location and its infrastructure so this is kind of Northern California but it has Railway it has uh Interstate it has highway but it also has the infrastructure needed if the entire government had to move there um it involves still the case uh I don’t think so this was like no kind of like ravenrock but in a different yeah but there wasn’t a bunker so it’s basically so basically it was on the other side of the United States so if oh yeah Washington DC was hit this is they Hur and go and operate from the opposite side yeah um it involves setting up temporary command centers and living facilities to simulate the relocation process so basically like we’re going to try it out see how it goes right they uh practiced establishing communication links and maintaining essential services from the relocation site also when what year oh 8 58 58 okay yeah War SC scare they did a strategic evacuation of approximately 500 families from salano County California to the city of Chico California and overnight care of the evacuees so they went got all agreed it like that they got that would be terrifying I think they they got people to volunteer here I’m not sure how this worked but I was reading some things about it is they basically had um I mean it wasn’t Humvees it was probably jeeps and like just huge Convoy of them they stopped halfway had lunch and then like a high school band played for them halfway there and then they went the rest of the way but it was basically to see hey can we can we house these people can we feed them can we do everything we need to if we had this many people come so obviously you can see different uh situations where that would be good for the government to figure out there many important people come maybe it’s important maybe uh we’re going to pull them all here for martial law maybe we’re going to oh yeah maybe we’re going to help them we don’t know right so there’s a lot of different things they can do the primary objective was to test and refine plans for maintaining government operations during and after a nuclear attack that’s that was the the mainline sense thing that they were trying to do exactly developing and practicing the procedures for evacuating and relocating government officials to secure sites so they actually did the evacuation procedures from where they were to Chico California and they also wanted to ensure effective communication and coordination among all the various government agencies that needed to be uh communicating during this crisis right and then also testing the effectiveness of public safety measures and the ability to protect the civilian population um so there’s a lot of different things they got to throw that in there yeah let’s throw that in there right so there were some things that they actually learned and insights they gained from this controlling excuse me I mean protecting protecting and we got to scratch that off of the uh plans we wrote at the beginning sir sir said control yeah don’t put it there I’m going to read it if you put it on there um exactly you know what I mean operation Chico highlighted the importance of having detailed and executable continuity of government plans like this they said this really helped them they identified gaps in the relocation procedures and they refined protocols for evacuation for those Key Personnel because of this two-day exercise um and it underscored the need for that seamless coordination between federal state and local agencies when a nationwide attack or you know something happens Nationwide um and then Nationwide is on your side I I wanted you to sing it nationwide there you go um man like uh I don’t know if it didn’t talk a ton about this in that n nuclear war scenario right I don’t think it talked a lot about the plans it was like chaos it was chaos and we’re going to talk about that soon by the way um operation Chico demonstrated the importance of public awareness and preparedness in the face of a nuclear threat so they learned some things from this saying man we’ve got to tell these people what’s going to happen and what they should do uh when this does happen but it wasn’t without controversy and it’s not about uh conspiracy you know it’s just it was kind of classified which is crazy to me because they had 500 families involved I don’t know how they kept it classified but they said it was pretty classified and So that obviously makes people go wait what was going on if it was if this classified you why classify we’re just yeah moving people around yeah they said the public and even many government officials weren’t fully informed about the details of the exercise and then now they’re concern want a Russian getting a hold of the you don’t want that no uh it raised questions about the potential for government overreach and impact on civil liberties obviously that’s a big deal here um critics were concerned that plans for relocating government officials and maintaining continuity of government during a nuclear attack could lead to authoritarian measures and the suppression of dissent and that’s that again those are kind of across theboard things with a lot of these right um in in more conspiracies this was just a test for martial law that’s what they’re saying right this is we’re going to bring these families here we’re going to keep them in here and we’re going to say Hey you stay you don’t do anything you can’t so crazy like all this is like all anti-American like you know it’s like we’re free and you know democracy but we all want to go back to monarchy and control and author yeah um they argue that the exercise was obviously a way from power does bro government yeah does to practice controlling the population during a crisis that’s the whole thing they want that control when a crisis hits and a lot of these things are meant to help them understand the best ways to control the population when something strikes right if few yeah we believe this is best for for everybody yes there are theories that the exercise was part of a larger secret agenda to establish underground bunkers and secure locations for the elite ensuring their survival while the general population was left vulnerable so obviously that was a big thing right yeah um and it was designed again to manipulate public perception like that scops type thing right so anyways uh that’s Operation Chico it was pretty interesting back in the 50s the of crazy able to actually do it families that’s that’s a lot man pretty nuts operation cheap you are so busy I know for sure you’re going to move it back yeah so um so National Response scenario number one o yeah sounds pretty cool right we now first your last being number one it obviously uh has the same issue of a nuclear attack so okay National Response scenario number one a scenario focusing on the detonation of a 10 kiloton nuclear device in major US city okay like Chico it could be yeah National Response scenario number one is part of a series of 15 emergency scenarios developed by the United States Department of Homeland Security so this is a newer okay these scenarios help authorities uh prepare for various crises or crisises crisis yeah crisis situations was like crisises that’s all right situations that could impact the country scenario number one specifically focuses on that nuclear attack like you were explaining to to me man this would be so much fun to work on I think think so too I thought the same thing I was like I kind of would like to be part of this like I want to see what they do I want to see what I would do I you know govern plans like yeah cuz it’s pretty cool like I mean a lot of these scenarios um they they basically paint the scenario and they have all their you know break off into groups and then come back like get your partner the worst stuff this paragraph but then they come back with like different solutions and different um possibilities so it’s pretty cool what this is all about uh preparedness for catastrophic terrorist attacks and large scale emergencies coordination between federal state and local agencies so the scenario description the scenario envisions a terrorist cell creating a nuclear device using highly enriched uranium H it’s a huge H so um some of all fears basically yeah that’s what this would be great film yeah I love that one it’s a great the terrorist smuggles of nuclear device components into the US to the detonation occurs in a major city resulting in significant loss of life and property the weapons yield is approximately 10 kilotons 23s the size of the Hiroshima is that also the plot of the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie uh the hell is it called true true right it was the same same kind of thing yeah so I think that was yeah basically they were just doing a Hollywood movie and then I know so or Hollywood movie took this and used it I don’t know basically so immediate response the response timeline begins instantly after detonation boom now authorities must address The Prompt radiation and the gamma dose received from the ground shine which is radioactive particles deposit on the ground ground shine ground shine so basically they’re like okay first of all we got to deal with the radiation right and then after that we got to figure out what to do context concerns the scenario reflects the realistic threat of terrorists obtaining nuclear materials and using them in a major city to be honest I can’t believe it hasn’t happened yet I can’t believe it hasn’t happened yet either I can’t some of all fears creep me out because of that um perfect title for that oh yeah but it’s like how has this not happen how have one of those you know crazy Middle Eastern countries like not brought it to the United States and just detonated yeah I don’t get it causing Mass confusion of like who dropped this was it Russia was it North Korea was it FEMA yeah so scary stuff yeah so they do have a plan in place which is called National Response scenario number one to practice this scenario uh key findings result of the exercise improvements in National Response capabilities discussion of practical implications for Preppers and the general public interesting right sure yeah implications for Preppers yeah conspiracies uh nuclear mind control is what they call it okay they claimed that the government would use the chaos following a nuclear attack to manipulate the public perception suppress disent dissent and exert control over the population any any way this is Extreme way to do it but this would be any way do that Co I can’t imagine they you all to do this yeah exactly yeah co uh civil liberties and detention yeah concerns arise about the potential suspension of civil liberties during a crisis martial law and all that starts to take place because they need to control the scenario in every way possible transparency and accountability some conspiracy theorists focus on the lack of transparency surrounding um this whole plan and this whole process it’s like we want the details too what do we do on your Facebook page we W read it exactly so in summary National Response scenario number one is a critical planning tool to ensure an effective and coordinated response in the event of a small scale nuclear attack terrorists mainly on Uso and so there’s a couple of them that are kind of similar to this we might like blow through them pretty quick because that one well that’s a scary one man it’s very scary and it’s a very probably yeah more real than I ever thought for sure terrifies me yeah how about operation garden plot oh man so this wasn’t a scenario this was just a Department of Defense plan and it was designed to respond to Major domestic civil disturbances yeah brex 84 it talked about this operation as well because all of it was kind of happening around the same time makes total sense and this was developed during a time of significant social upheaval so its primary goal was to maintain public order during instances of large scale civil unrest protests and riots so this was in the 60s and we know what was happening in the 60s a lot of civil rights anti-war stuff was happening in Viet War demonstrations right yeah it was it was a mess and so the plan was part of a broader strategy to ensure National Security and stability during these periods of intense social and political turmoil like stuff was like we got to have a plan for this but the plan got a little bit extreme when you start to really look into it the operation call for the deployment of National Guard and if necessary Federal military forces to assist local law enforcement in controlling and dispersing crowds protecting property and restoring order which kind of happened a few times right what was the one that on the campus that they shot might before actually I don’t I’d have to but it makes sense of like how do we control a scenario like this right and so this basically it provided a framework for the coordination between military and civilian authorities but it that gets a little murky when you start doing that kind of stuff right because it raised public concerns about the militarization start and end like and how far do they go it’s like we don’t want our domestic law enforcement to be military we don’t want to be Mexico right those those are bad things so um critics argued that the use of military forces in civilian settings could lead to excessive force and erosion of civil liberties again much of the similar things that we’ve talked about before um and there were fears yeah America becomes American no more ex you’re not free anymore no there were fears the plan could be used to suppress legitimate dissent and political expression I mean that’s we should be be able to freely gather and protest that’s part of our civil liberties that’s part of unless we say no yeah exactly you know so that’s where it gets a little crazy and you’re like O O Brother o this is not good you know what I mean um brother o for the um the plan included Provisions for extensive surveillance and intelligence gathering on potential sub subersive groups really really similar to what we’ve been talking about 84 came after this it was kind of using yeah these ideas using these ideas the crazy thing was is Operation garden plot allowed for the use of lethal Force if deemed necessary to restore order um you kill the front line of them yeah you get back off get the front line them we’re going to go home all right the potential for military personnel to use deadly force against civilians was a major point of contention and fear among civil rights Advocates I’m there with you buddy I don’t want that either um and another crazy piece of this is the plan could be activated by military authorities without prior approval from civilian government leaders holy crap basically the military just becomes Sergeant serious could say hey we’re going to do this and I don’t have to talk to the governor I don’t have to talk to anybody else I’m just going to go on and do it right so you’re right there were several notable instances where aspects of operation garden plot were activated such as during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and then the la ri of 1992 parts of this were um actually used wow yeah so it was put into action for the time wow it was well that’s scary it is man you know what else is scary not having self-reliant Medical Care terrifying guess what there’s a book out there that you can get today put in your library and you basically can take care of all your medical problems I like the sound of that yeah yeah it’s called the Preppers medical handbook and it is written by an MD and his name’s William w4g mhm another rhyme not 5G no I change that um but this book uh provides the basis of prevention and identification of long-term management of survivable medical conditions that you’re going to face if you’re on your own and Urgent Care is closed yep you got to learn this stuff you do and the book makes it easy like it’s it’s simple to read it has basic medical terms nothing deep there’s no brain surgery in the book it’s all the stuff that you’re going to face and need to be able to handle on your own I would say this book is important even today before any crisis agree like learn how to take care of yourself without going to urgent care every 5 seconds and you can pick this book up at Amazon or go to Preppers medical hand.com and get you a copy it’s very worth it it’s great for your medical library and you definitely need to know your own medicine you do and I we usually try and tag this on all of our YouTube videos so you can actually click the link right there and it’ll take you to get it yeah get it it’s good it’s a good one why not um so let’s talk about National level exercise nle it’s in and actually nle is a nonlinear editor use those every day really yeah so do you know that it’s all so tied to the National level exercise now I do you’ve been doing this yeah so the description of this is It’s the nation’s Cornerstone exercise for validating progress towards promoting and sustaining a prepared Nation uh prepared Nation to respond to catastrophic events and this one really ties into another one I’ve got later so I’m going to go through that one pretty quick and this is I mean I wouldn’t say there’s a lot of controversy around this one this one I think is a good like this should be happening this absolutely the national level exercise is an opportunity for all levels of the government the private sector non-governmental uh organizations and Community groups to test operational capabilities evaluate policies and plans this is basically a prepper plan here yeah test uh familiarize personnel with roles and responsibilities Foster meaningful interaction and communication Across the Nation uh and it basically creates different scenarios each year uh for the nle to kind of practice ranging from n natural disasters to man-made attacks and address specific types of threats and Hazards to that pose the risks greatest to our nation so um the four-year National exercise program cycle includes two operations based uh National level exercises so for example nle 2024 scenario is uh the impact of a large hurricane on Hawaiian islandss of Wahu they should have done like uh fires seriously like let talk about an island yeah that’s not yeah but um the Hurricanes winds Overland flooding the storm surge impact critical infrastructure so it doesn’t focus on just like a widespread National problem it’s a problem that the whole nation can come together and help and fix yeah so the scenario includes limited Port capabilities resulting from Hurricane impacts and in Guam opportunistic attacks result in critical infrastructure going offline or being disrupted further complicating supply chain issues causing uh caused by the damage to the Oahu and honolu harbor so they throw in all these different scenarios and different problems and obstacles that they may face and all these groups come together and devise a plan and pretty awesome I actually think it’s a good it’s a really these ones I think are great there’s really not much controversy behind this because it’s like there can be there can be always can be always can be but they’re great think they should continue to do those for sure so yeah so that that’s what the nle is not what Kobe said nope have you heard of event 2011 C oh man this one so it sounds like a space book this is pretty interesting so this actually horon or something this actually isn’t a government Le one event 201 yeah it’s a highlevel pandemic exercise conducted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the world economic forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation so the government wasn’t behind this huh no no held in October of 2019 this exercise aimed to simulate a global pandemic scenario helping us understand the challenges and preparedness needed to respond effectively to a severe pandemic in the Nic of time but did it do anything look the exercise cons this was basically a tabletop remember yeah this is a tabletop exercise I don’t know if you’ve seen those but they all kind of get together in a room and it’s it’s almost like playing D and D but with um but they’re trying to you know simulate different uh scenarios the exercise consisted of pre-recorded news broadcasts live staff briefings and moderated discussions on specific topics they were carefully designed in a compelling narrative that educated the participants and the audience so they had a whole scenario laid out there was pre-recorded media briefings and then you know it was like your 2019 2019 so crazy uhhuh so what were their goals cam it was uh to show how Global how many masks you can wear Global business how many masks you can sell uh Global businesses and governments need to work together during a severe pandemic that’s what they want Vines you can make it also aimed to identify and point out the gaps and weaknesses in our current pandemic preparedness and response strategies but for sure because this is like the scariest scenario a real yes pandemic scenario they wanted to improve communication and information sharing between governments internal um International organizations and private sector so there was like a three-pronged approach there and they just they they said it’s really important during a pandemic for a collaboration between public and private sectors they wanted to collaborate so obviously this is a little bit awkward the timing timing yeah the event 2011 took place just months before the covid-19 pandemic led to uh a lot of speculation here obviously should have gave it a little more time I know it’s like really like we’re going to release this virus in a couple of months let’s see what happens here guess what forgot to do the planning let’s do it real quick because it’s going to happen so some people obviously saw the timing as suspicious they began to wonder if there was a connection or forn knowledge about the impending outbreak yeah so the conspiracy theorists they were like look event 2011 was part of a larger plan to intentionally release a virus and create a global pandemic this exercise was just a rehearsal for them um so that they have this in because they had this inside knowledge and they’re like maybe we ought to figure out can we stop this thing once we release it you know what I mean yeah um others believe the exercise is a way to lay the groundwork for increased Global control and surveillance always always a you know good thing to look at the argument here is that the pandemic measures put in place during covid-19 such as lockdowns and digital tracking were pre-planned strategies to exert control over populations there also claims that the pandemic was orchestrated to benefit pharmaceutical companies and other stakeholders involved in the vaccine industry our good friend bill and his wife Melinda um their Foundation supports Global Health initiatives including vaccination programs it’s been a particular focus of this Theory obviously yeah so this event to a w attributed to the broader public mistrust of Health authorities and government actions during the covid-19 pandemic and has helped uh to manifest a bit of resistance to Public Health measures vaccine hesitancy and widespread dissemination of misinformation I haven’t seen that yeah I ne I don’t know what they’re talking I don’t even think that’s happening anyways vent 2011 that one’s interesting the timing for sure it’s like wait who you couldn’t have made it even any closer which is really weird yeah um this one has the coolest name dark winter we did a full episode on this you remember I long so um yeah and I can go through this in pretty quick because it’s fairly similar to what you were talking about but it had to do with small pox okay yeah so dark winter exercise was a fictional scenario conducted in June 200 uh And1 to simulate a biological attack of small poox on the US citizens so basically biological warfare yeah and what we would do um the operation designed by health professionals from John Hopkins Center for civilian biod defense strategies now known as the center of Health uh Health security and the center for strategic and International Studies CIS cissus CIS intended to gauge the government’s response to a mock small poox outbreak linked to an unknown terrorist entity say that 10 times FAS Mo small poox so back in the day they used to you know catapult dead bodies to spread the plague this would be similar we just they just release pop bottle full of small Fox let it go crazy that’s right um exercise took place at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington Washington DC again this is a scenario this isn’t real life they didn’t really do this or did they scenario uh the fiction the fictional scenario unfolded during three successive National Security Council meetings over a period of 14 days former senior government officials played the roles of NSC members responding to the evolving epidemic um media Representatives observed the NC meetings and portrayed journalists during the press conference which is interesting they kind of included all what would actually happen and spread of information um dark witer aimed to examine the National Security intergovernmental and information challenges posed by a bi biological attack on American Homeland which is yeah I don’t want a biological I don’t want small pox that’s for sure small pox outbreak as tensions Rose in Taiwan Straits and the crisis developed in Southwest Asia small pox outbreak break was confirmed in Oklahoma City this is a scenario over the course of 13 days the disease spread to 25 States and 15 other countries focuses Public Health response inadequate supply of small poox vaccine roles and missions of federal and state governments civil liberties related to quarantine and isolation people love that stuff yeah the role of the Department of Defense and potential military responses to an anonymous attack oh man in summary dark winter served as a teaching and training resource for public health and government officials emphasizing the need for preparedness and effective response in the face of biot terrorist induced National Security crisis to me this one seems like a well you know well-meaning exercise that makes sense it does make sense right yeah so um interesting is uh some conspiracies that popped up during the 2020 presidential debate the term was used after Biden and president Donald Trump were asked what their actions what actions their administrations would take to combat the coronavirus pandemic the former VI president argued that Trump had no clear plan and that America was headed for a dark winter as a result people lost their minds they loved that didn’t they’re like who you bring up dark winter how do you know about that and then they you know shared the information I just told you that it was a smallpox outbreak scenario and how the United States would counter it so it was almost like some of that information slipped out because he was vice president right and the information of releasing an agent into the public you know Biden knew about it that’s what the whole conspiracy was yep um in in the debate Biden said it’s going to be a dark winner said Susan humph a conspiratorial author have you looked up dark winter I think it slipped out unintentionally so um operation dark winter is also the basis of the storyline in Tom Clans he’s the division which is aming man great game um one other I was just going to briefly go over proud profit okay was a war game conducted by the United States in June 1983 during the Cold War designed by Thomas sh the this Sim simulation aimed to test various proposals and strategies in response to Soviet Union’s military buildup so basically proud profit proud the primary goal of proud profit was to explore different strategies for dealing with Soviet Union’s large nuclear programs so basically they went over did a scenario of what happened if the Soviet Union was to strike the United States with a nuclear warhead uh it’s a simulation tested the response of the national command Authority which is hugely important in terms of like what response and quickly responding to protect and possibly prevent more strikes six minutes oh my gosh so the decision-making simulation tested the response of the um oh yeah they said that outcomes proud profit highlighted the need to resolve Global issues during times of war or potential War um the government file for proud profit was not fully Declassified until December December 20th 2012 emphasizing the importance of considering extreme scenarios and planning appropriate response to opposing nuclear strikes it was the largest um uh most realistic war games that was ever done in US history wow that’s cool that they had played out the scenario of Cold War type of thing you know they’re going a strike what do we do in response how do we pretty scary stuff cool name too proud profit proud profit yeah how this one’s this name’s not that cool top off looks like I do at the gas station driving home uh top off or top officials it’s a series of exercises designed to prepare senior level government officials for possible terrorist attacks involving weapons of mass destruction so this one’s very similar to some of these other ones so I’m not going to get into it too much but these exercises began in 2000 and it’s crazy how many exercises there are they’re all a little bit different yeah so this one’s for the top officials right to them time to figure it out began in 2000 and it been conducted approximately every 2 years with each iteration Focus focusing on different types of catastrophic scenarios um each exercise features a realistic scenario such as a biological attack on a major city or a chemical explosion at a public event those types of things and they’ll they’ll involve like field drills uh with emergency responders and hospitals and um law enforcement practicing evacuation decontamination medical treatment all this kind of in real time as they do this they always include simulated media reports and this is actually a good chance for a lot of them to incorporate the latest technology in these things like surveillance technology communication technology data analysis technology so they use these for several reasons to to to test out this new technology but also to just go over these plans right for that type of stuff again conspiracy theories these could be false flag operations basically where the government stages or allows attacks to justify military actions um scops uh for sure for Global governance and control so that is top off very similar to some of these other ones yeah I’m sure it’s to prepare senior level of government officials prepare probably just protect protect exactly get them into Safety First yep um another one operation Vigilant Guardian yeah and this one actually very similar to another one I had later too is it yeah very very similar military exercise conducted by the uh basically NORAD and the US northcom it simulated a scenario where hijacked planes were used as weapons to attack Targets in the United States MH what year did this happen 2000 so again the government needs to spread these out a little bit it’s getting obvious here like yeah within a few months of it happens after a training exercise but yeah um but yeah specifically operation Vigilant Guardian so that it’s crazy to me I didn’t even know that this was a scenario that they had played out and thought about yeah but but it was it makes it even more susp supicious you know after the September 11th attacks operation Vigilant Guardian gained attention due to its simulated scenarios resembling the actual events of the tragic day mhm it seemed awfully similar you know yep it really and I thought that was kind of creepy um so yeah the government actually had done a simulation trial basically um explored the possibility of hijack planes crashing into buildings and then it happened a year later when I get to mine it’ll get even crazier you just wait we’re going to talk about operation Gotham Shield right now might be the best name be the best name is uh during operation Gotham Shield which took place April 2017 FEMA led a large scale exercise simulating a nuclear explosion in the New York City New Jersey area oh it’s like specific specific to Gotham City yeah ex that’s why I’m saying how cool is that name that is cool it involved a hypothetical ground burst of a nuclear device at the New Jersey side entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel resulting in hundreds of thousands from the New York yeah from New York over hundreds of thousands of killed and injured persons and 4.5 million refugees from the initial blast and subsequent Fallout it aimed to test the response and capabilities obviously uh they practiced evacuation procedures Medical Response and communication strategies in the aftermath of a hypothetical 10 kiloton blast similar to the very similar U what was the other one yeah so they they had the some of the same stuff fielded hospitals search and rescue operations information stuff going on the exercise included included simulations of radioactive fallout as well requiring the responders to practice decontamination procedures as they did this um again they used Cutting Edge technology they used drones for surveillance and this was you know this is in 201 2017 yep um I didn’t hear about it I didn’t either uh search and rescue operations in collapsed buildings and other hazardous environments so anyways it was really cool the stuff they were doing but again conspiracy theorists love to look at this stuff like this was a rehearsal for a false flag thing this was martial law practice this was um designed to instill fear about nuclear threats because they want to keep us scared of these nuclear threats because they can keep adding on different um you know restrictions to us or whatever so anyways that is um operation Gotham Shield that is a cool name that is a very cool name huh I don’t yeah I didn’t remember I didn’t hear anything about that yeah this one um so now we’re going to talk a little bit more about like modern day power grid attack type stuff so gridex gets the mold and Milo out of your bathroom tile sounds like yeah uh grid X grid security exercise is a banal event conducted um by the North American Electric reliability Corporation nerk nerk you freaking nerk typically involving participants from across the United States Canada and Mexico the exercise is designed to to simulate I wanted to say stimulate Maybe simulate coordinate coordinated responses to various simulated cyber and physical security threats that could potentially impact the reliability of the electric grid I’m glad this is actually happening to be honest with you cuz our grid is ancient oh man the thing is going to be like few batteries tied together my gosh it’s going to take the whole system out it’s not good so here are some key details about it purpose it aims to assess the Improvement for preparedness in response and Recovery capabilities of utilities government agencies and other stakeholders in the face of simulated security incidents affecting electric grid um and it could be you know mostly it’s focused on cyber attacks but EMP type stuff too but I think there’s one more specific to that right um participants were uh Homeland Security Federal Energy regul Regulatory Commission um and region reliability organizations so um basically malware INF uh the gridex exercise typically involves scenarios that simulate cyber tax sabotage physical infrastructure damage was also included in this and then you basically lose the power grid now what do you do objectives assessing the effectivess of existing security protocols and responses you know is everybody got their uh Bit Defender and surf Shar up to dat yeah surf shark enhancing collaboration and communication between utilities and government agencies which would be super difficult when the Grid’s down yeah good luck identifying areas of improvement in cyber security defenses and physical security measures which is an ongoing battle evaluating the resilience and Recovery capabilities of the electrical grid infrastructure which I’m sure is not great nope China’s got to support us with those Transformers man yeah so Lessons Learned following each gridex exercise participants conduct after Action reviews to analyze performance document Lessons Learned and develop action plans for addressing identified weaknesses or deficiencies so anyways uh happens twice a year so yeah that’s actually important and I feel again it it’s one of those like is it are they expecting something to happen or they going to cause something is is some of the conspiracies but overall I think that they need to be doing this that seems like Cyber attack grid down in many scenarios we need to figure out how to communicate and get it back online I totally agree so this one’s nobody likes to have lights out and no internet nobody likes it nobody does uh Global Guardian this is the one I was talking about it was very similar to the one you talked about before it’s an annual training exercise conducted by the US strategic command it involves simulated nuclear war scenarios but some other stuff as well um the goal uh is to test nuclear command and control you know simulate realistic scenarios enhance coordination and identify weaknesses but there so much to that I always thought it’s like you knock out Washington DC you can’t launch any like Counter Strike but that’s not it’s not true at all is it but this is really crazy when we talk about 911 um um Global Guardian was actually happening as the 9911 attacks were happening it was happening during the attacks they were doing this um so it was underway during the 911 attacks in 2001 which led to significant speculation and conspiracy theories um they actually have tape recordings from that day from NORAD their Northeast headquarters from the drill and the guy was like um when they told me there was a hijack my first reaction was somebody started the exercise early like it was happening that day and so there was like confusion going on yeah like is this part of a simulation there was several um times where people were like is this you’re saying this is actually happening it’s not the drill that we’re scheduled to have freaking blow your mind right but it wasn’t set up that way yeah how I I don’t know and that’s the whole thing more confusion and not stop what was happening the theory suggests that the exercise provided cover for the real attacks like that was cover right it was a coordinated effort and this was a way that they could make it happen how crazy is that though it was happening the day of oh my gosh and even if it wasn’t the intention of the group but if there was a way for information to like control the the country like practicing something from outside sources that’s even scarier it definitely is it’s you need to do your practice right now and it was they controlled that part of it would be even more scary yeah dude they would never let us know that no another theory says that the exercise contributed to a temporary standown of us defenses making it easier for the 9911 attacks to succeed right because there were all these military resources were focused on this um drill that they were doing and not what was happening so man that’s crazy then obviously like no they had Insider knowledge obviously there was a distraction and confusion through this whole thing but um like as if all of them were involved in it yeah so Global Guardian was actually going on as the 911 attacks I did not know that I didn’t either that’s that is super interesting yeah um so this one um kind of got a lot of people up in arms okay uncomfortable Jade Helm 15 actually didn’t know about this one I think I got the Jade Helm in Diablo did you trade it I traded it up yeah yeah D Jade combined your game and that Jade Helm 15 was large scale military exercise conducted in the US uh or by the United States Special Operations Command that took place from July 15th to September 15th in 2015 primary objective was to improve the Readiness and interoperability of the US Special Forces with other military units and government agencies um participants Jade Helm 15 involved various military units primarily from uh Usso U us usom I don’t know how you say that I don’t know including Army Green Berets Navy Seals Air Force Special Operations Command and Marine corpse Special Operations Command it also included Co cooperation with other military branches and Inter agency partners this involved several States uh Utah Texas Arizona New Mexico Mississippi Louisiana Florida oh wow um the scenario uh included simulated missions such as infiltration reconnaissance unconventional warfare tactics and Cooper cooperation with civilian populations and local authorities this was happening like you know these all of these different groups together were doing this drill and it like in Texas they lost their minds oh really jelm 15 generated considerable controversy and conspiracy theories particularly among some civilians populations in the states where the exercise was conducted sure concerns ranged from fears of Martial law that they were practicing kind of setting up for that government surveillance seizure of private property theories about exercise being a precursor to military takeover imposition and authoritarian rule even Governor Abbott ordered Texas State guard to monitor the exercise due to fear man and yeah and the government was like well wait a minute you can’t watch what we’re doing you know they got all pissed off yeah like a lot of like congressmen were like what are you doing like sending out a state guard to watch over what the government is doing so it got kind of creepy um like the Spider-Man meme yeah where they’re all pointing at each other exactly that’s exactly what was happen Abbott wrote a letter to the state guard asking them to keep an eye on the operation so Texans know their safety constitutional rights private property rights and civil liberties will not be infringed wow that’s crazy fear to J to Jade Helm 15 exercise was said to be from Russian Bots and that the American alt-right Media convinced many Texans uh that Jade Helm was an Obama plan to round up political dissidents F show yeah so anyways it was kind of a um just an exercise of multiple different parts of the military to work together um but created a huge amount of controversy of like is the government going to take over and is it going to be the military you know heard of some of these man I had heard of this one either I guess I don’t pay that much attention that was like in the ear early parts of our podcast yeah it was crazy man um Capstone event exercise and these are some FEMA simulated large scale disaster exercises I think these ones are very good these are good things that they’re happening they do these large scale disasters every couple of years and they have different disasters that they simulate uh and obviously this is great because it provides Hands-On training for all these people emergency responders to understand how to deal with these different um disasters have to have scenario you have to right you have to do it and so a couple of them that I I just pulled up real quick in 2014 they did um a major earthquake in the central United States along the New Madrid seismic zone so that that’s a really good one right so they tested response and Recovery efforts uh for the obviously an catastrophic earthquake which was like search and rescue medical response coordination between all the different agencies state federal local um so that was a big one and then the next one was another earthquake um in 2016 it was called Cascadia Rising they have cool names for these things um it was a massive earthquake and tsunami along the Cascadia subd tion Zone in the Pacific Northwest so this involved over 20,000 participants 20,000 people were in this thing U from various levels of government and private sector partners and Community organizations so they had uh mass casualty response infrastructure assessment communication Strate strategies and Public Safety operations so these are man that Pacific Coast is a ticking time it really is yeah but it’s actually these are really great things I think that FEMA does every few years like those Capstone while it’s building its concentration while it’s building yeah it’s got to raise the money for it it’s got to distract from we got to use some of our that’s when they bring in all the chain link and razor wire when we’re all when we’re all like looking at the coast and like exactly how are we going to do this exactly and they’re building the cans yeah for sure um ex e exercise winter Shield uh a classified military exercise that simulates cyber warfare scenarios interestingly enough it’s used um primarily by the Armed Forces of Ukraine typically during the winter months these exercises are aimed at enhancing the combat Readiness and operational capabilities of the mil Ukrainian military forces partic particularly in preparation for potential conflicts or emergencies during the winter season it’s like a specific winter one huh yeah I thought it was was kind of weird that they did um and with the Ukrainian military it’s like you know um not with the anyway participants exercise winter Shield involves various branches of the Ukrainian Armed Forces including Army Navy Air Force and Special Operation Forces it also May incorporate elements of other security forces such as National Guard and Border guard security uh Services scenario for exercise winter Shield typically simulate combat situations and emergency response operations that could occur in winter landscapes this is kind of like a very unique one that is um training exercises during exercise winter Shield may include live fire exercises tactical drills operations medical evacuations exercises communication drills cold weather survival training and interoperability exercises with Allied or partner Nations this isn’t completely different for I mean this one’s specific to Ukraine and winter but it’s it’s no different than like the Japan and um Japan and South Korea exercise that just recently ended the piss off North Korea for sure yeah and so um these are all taking place and a lot you know and not only the United States being like worried about the conspiracies around this but they’re like are they preparing for something that they know that they’re going to start or were you know going to be attacked by something very interesting I didn’t know yeah I didn’t know that they did that muchi like specifically with so pretty cool but it makes Ian there’s good things that are happening yeah but we don’t know always what the motive is and if there’s something that made him scared and mhm starting to do it this one I love I love love love this one exercise red flag kind of a dumb name but really cool exercise red flag is an advanced aerial combat training exercise hosted at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada it is one of the most comprehensive and realistic air combat exercises conducted by the United States Air Force and it involves participants from all the branches of the US military as well as Allied Nation Nations this is really cool it includes complex missions such as dog fights ground attack sorties and electronic Warfare operations so so when I went to I went to the air show there cuz my brother-in-law was um he was part of the uh Thunderbirds mhm but they did do a scenario uh while I was there of they had two jets that are painted like Russian camo oh man and they said like they wanted to show how fast the F22 could be up and ready to strike which was pretty awesome oh that’s awesome so I was like I’m sure they do it all the time so they kind of showed it to the public at that point it’s really weird to me that still seeing a MIG like strikes fear in my heart me too like just and it’s it’s almost entirely from Top Gun like you know what I mean like and they use them all the time yeah it’s so crazy we actually had one fly in not too long ago to um FAL airport oh really and like I was I happened to be at the uh just showing my son I happened to be there just happened to be there but he was filming like planes kind of Landing he wanted to see and one of them flew in and landed which was super weird oh my gosh dude that’s crazy it was all painted in like green camo too super so yeah very Russian I I’m guessing it was probably doing like a show in either Grand Junction and just Happ which makes sense totally makes sense anyways Pilots must navigate through simulated air defenses coordinate with ground forces and execute Precision strikes so it sounds almost like Top Gun school or something you know what I mean the use of advanced technology including mock ad adversary aircraft and sophisticated radar system creates a Challen challenging environment but here’s where it gets kind of crazy um one of the main sources of controversy surrounding surrounding exercise red flag is the use of experimental Technologies the exercise often involves testing Cutting Edge aircraft weapons and electronic warfare systems leading to speculation about the nature and capability of these Technologies it’s obviously very secret and all this kind of stuff too but um so but it has to be but it has to be yeah exactly some conspiracy theorists suggest that exercise red flag is used to test Advanced and possibly undisclosed Weaponry which I would assume that they’re testing it at some point yeah why not use it why not do it here right yeah um but another prominent theory is that the exercise involves testing technology derived from unidentified flying objects or alien sources okay that makes more sense because Nellis is not that far from Area 51 I’ve heard that and it I’m like I like that I do too so they’re saying that this thing is like um a chance for them to use this backward engineered technology they’re getting from UFOs or something like that um oh that’s that’s all man look at that is that crazy I was on what the that is you’ll have to show that on um social media or something how you post that yeah we were under attack for a moment yeah um some people think it’s preparation for Space Warfare even the theories that red flag includes elements of preparation for Space Warfare involving the testing of anti-satellite weapons oh yeah and other space related military Technologies also it’s it serves as a cover for various black projects or classified military projects that are not disclosed to the public with Advanced aircraft Weapons Systems and other Technologies so this one’s really cool that’s that’s super awesome cool is that yeah well even like when they had um SEAL Team Six like that helicopter crashed and they like covered up and went and destroyed it it’s like I there’s a whole lot of stuff we don’t know the military us they I’m hoping honestly I yeah I know that’s not even a a question in my mind yeah and if it’s not then I don’t know what they’re doing they better have the best of the best they have to right you know and then 10 years later we get it as civilians yeah you know or however that works I don’t know you know what I mean like really anyways that that is a whole bunch of different government scenarios and exercises and so some of them you can see is like that makes a lot of sense and other ones you’re like what like I see why they did it but the timing was odd yeah and what’s what’s the real motive behind it it’s like yeah for sure and you know what are the lessons that we can take from these as Preppers I don’t know I mean I don’t know specifically but you know be ready for anything because the Govern the government’s training yeah it’s exactly what I took from it right it’s like we should be you know practicing scenarios we definitely should um don’t expect the government to like basically be doing all this for us no it’s to continue itself yes it’s for themselves most likely um all of these exercises show how important it is to coordinate and communicate yeah that that should be a key lesson for us as Preppers that we have to have a really good communication plan which is a hard plan to create it’s not easy like and that’s why the government is doing these exercises because they understand that communication is key in these scenarios and how hard it is to coordinate how hard it is to communicate when stuff goes Haywire yeah and so just shows us how important it is for us also practice makes perfect you guys you have to practice these things if you want to be good when it goes down right um so make sure you in in the speed of doing it like yeah like in a nuclear scenario it’s like six minutes you got six minutes yeah it’s insane right yeah um all also staying updated on new threats we see how it is evolved over the years for the government to do these things you need to evolve too with with new threats and and new things that are coming out you have to understand them and you have to have ways to mitigate them and you know we always say the basics are the basics but there’s things you have to understand you know cyber attacks you didn’t care about 30 years ago exact but you have to now right um those are things you got to think about um you have to manage your resources well and you know to be honest I just feel like this stuff is just interesting it was fun yeah it’s fun to talk about it’s fun to to understand maybe yeah maybe the government doesn’t control these things but maybe they do so maybe pay attention to what exercise and 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Always anticipate the show and looking forward to the next episode!
You two are absolutely hilarious together.
Have a great independence day weekend!