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TexasTowelie

(111,963 posts)
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 04:55 AM Aug 2019

Secretive warfare training being staged in 21 North Carolina counties, Army says

A series of Special Forces military training exercises -- including gunfire with blanks -- is being staged across 21 North Carolina counties starting Aug. 30, and the Army is telling the public not to be alarmed at the suspicious-looking activity.

Known as Robin Sage training, the unconventional warfare exercises can be likened to live-action role playing in the extreme, with hostile engagement playing out between Special Forces students, volunteer civilians and soldiers out of Fort Bragg. It continues through Sept. 12, said a press release.

Heavily populated counties like Wake, Cumberland and Union counties are among training sites, according to the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg.

The students will match wits with more seasoned soldiers, who will “act as realistic opposing forces and guerrilla freedom fighters,” officials said in a release.

Read more: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article234211482.html

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Secretive warfare training being staged in 21 North Carolina counties, Army says (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2019 OP
Is anyone else asking WTF is going on? YOHABLO Aug 2019 #1
This is an annual training exercise unc70 Aug 2019 #2
It's called Robin Sage and it's CRK7376 Sep 2019 #3
Thanks for this.❤ nt littlemissmartypants Sep 2019 #4

unc70

(6,109 posts)
2. This is an annual training exercise
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 05:49 AM
Aug 2019

These kinds of things are commonplace in North Carolina. We have a lot of military bases here. I remember various exercises from the 1950s and 1960s.

CRK7376

(2,198 posts)
3. It's called Robin Sage and it's
Thu Sep 5, 2019, 10:01 PM
Sep 2019

the culminating event in Special Forces training for future SF officers and NCOs. A wide swath of the middle southern portion of NC is used as an Unconventional Warfare training location. Future SF soldiers infiltrate the area by parachute, then link up with Partisan Group role players, conduct reconnissance missions, attack brigdes, airports, some kind of strategic target, evade capture including local law enforcement officials, and train the partisan group for a raid against another target in the area. Group dynamics, working in a hostile environment where Partisan groups can be good one day and bad the next day....All part of Robin Sage Training.

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