U.S. Army Now At DEFCON 2
1,173 ViewsSent in by Lonewolf - for some reason, the U.S. Army has moved to DEFCON 2. This is only 1 step below maximum readiness for imminent attack / war.
I will withhold any speculation as to why (and it doesn’t matter what I think anyway). But if these idiots go to war with North Korea, then it’s just another peg in the cribbage board.
May 29th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Paul Craig Roberts’ take
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13779
Be afraid. Be very Afraid. Not of what the flailing right hand taketh away but of what the hidden left hand giveth.
May 29th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Is anyone else noticing a significant increase in high-altitude, large aircraft traffic today?
May 29th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Navy jet flew right overhead yesterday. I’m NOT on any flight paths (of any sort). Heard him coming from a long ways out. Wasn’t more then a 100 feet from tree top level, so not high-altitude at all.
May 29th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Yes. Out of McConnell AFB. Tankers. Not the usual training rotation.
May 29th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Tankers refuel long-distance flights (DUH). I’m FAR to the West and well North of Wichita. The aircraft I’ve hears all day (but can’t see) are seemingly NOT headed for Malstrom AFB (Great Falls) but are continuing to the West.
May 29th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Yup, North Korea’s the reason.
Personally, I’ve been shaking my head this whole time. They’ve been concentrating on the more-than-likely won’t-be-existant bombs of Iran, and here’s North Korea the entire time jumping up and down and waving its arms like a bratty little kid screaming, “Pay attention to me!” Either this is another ploy by North Korea to get attention (and some more free food), or they actually want a war so they’ll have less mouths to feed.
Its been quiet this past week, but we’ve been seeing a lot of Chinook helicopters flying overhead the past couple of months, more than before we went into Iraq.
May 29th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
The eastern world, it is exploding
Violence flarin’, bullets loadin’
You’re old enough to kill, but not for votin’
You don’t believe in war, but what’s that gun you’re totin’
And even the Jordan River has bodies floatin’
But you tell me
Over and over and over again, my friend
Ah, you don’t believe
We’re on the eve
of destruction.
Don’t you understand what I’m tryin’ to say
Can’t you feel the fears I’m feelin’ today?
If the button is pushed, there’s no runnin’ away
There’ll be no one to save, with the world in a grave
[Take a look around ya boy, it’s bound to scare ya boy]
And you tell me
Over and over and over again, my friend
Ah, you don’t believe
We’re on the eve
of destruction.
Yeah, my blood’s so mad feels like coagulatin’
I’m sitting here just contemplatin’
I can’t twist the truth, it knows no regulation.
Handful of senators don’t pass legislation
And marches alone can’t bring integration
When human respect is disintegratin’
This whole crazy world is just too frustratin’
And you tell me
Over and over and over again, my friend
Ah, you don’t believe
We’re on the eve
of destruction.
Think of all the hate there is in Red China
Then take a look around to Selma, Alabama
You may leave here for 4 days in space
But when you return, it’s the same old place
The poundin’ of the drums, the pride and disgrace
You can bury your dead, but don’t leave a trace
Hate your next-door neighbor, but don’t forget to say grace
And… tell me over and over and over and over again, my friend
You don’t believe
We’re on the eve
Of destruction
Mm, no no, you don’t believe
We’re on the eve
of destruction.
May 29th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Sorry to post this here, but the previous blog entry refuses to load for me and messes up the entire blog page. Even though I can now read this entry, when on the main page, the previous entry prevents anything below it from loading. It’s quite odd.
Tree
May 29th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
I understand that the primary staging areas for Afghan & Iraq ‘wars’ are primarily in the SE and Gulf-coast States. Wonder (not really) what they’re in a pantie-pinching hurry to move towards/into the ‘Pacific theater’! The entire planet has become a “target-rich environment” (as if it hasn’t been for a LONG time). Personally, I’d prefer far fewer targets e.g. far more former targets. Reminded of a line spoken by a Korean spy in a M*A*S*H episode that went, “Let’s GET this show ON the road”. I do concur. The only viable route to a future is to get past the past. So get on with it already!
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On the site’s recent (mis)behavior - this morning it took many minutes to get this site to respond - then load (every other site I tend to scan was normal). Then, just now, I was attempting to post and had to log-in manually (I have NOT removed cookies or keychain). Hmmmm.
May 29th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Tree — send this kind of stuff to me via email if you can, admin at survivalacres.com
I’ve checked the previous entry, can’t see anything wrong with the code so far. I assume you mean the End of Days entry, right?
May 29th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
thank you “steppingup”
it says it all : to bad I didn’t understand when it came out !
eve of destruction
May 30th, 2009 at 1:32 am
I agree with Lonewolf.
This dog and pony show is getting old.
Let these Nazi’s get on with it !
May 30th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
US, Koreas prepare for peninsula war
South Korean and US troops go on higher alert amid Pyongyang’s threats of ‘a powerful strike’ and growing fears of a full-scale war in the peninsula.
“As of 7:15 am Thursday (2215 GMT Wednesday), the US-South Korea Combined Forces Command upgraded Watch Conditions by a notch to Stage Two,” Seoul’s Defense Ministry said in a statement released on Thursday.
“Surveillance over the North will be stepped up, with more aircraft and personnel mobilized,” AFP quoted spokesman Won Tae-Jae as saying.
The remarks come in response to North Korea’s Wednesday announcement, saying it was withdrawing from the armistice that ended the 1950-53 Korean War.
The North also warned that it could launch a military offensive on the South as it faced further pressure over test-firing an atomic bomb for the second time on Monday.
Following the test fire, Seoul said it planned to join the US-led Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), which is aimed at halting shipments of weapons technology.
The decision enraged the North which said it would respond to “any tiny hostile acts…, including the stopping and searching of our peaceful vessels,” with a strong military strike.
Responding to the threats, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned North Korea against “provocative and belligerent” and highlighted the US firm commitment to the armistice and defending South Korea and Japan — both in easy range of North Korean missiles.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Pyongyang’s angry rhetoric will only aggravate its isolation, and that the peace has held despite the North’s repeated threats to end the truce.
Nearly 28,500 US troops remain stationed in South Korea in what Washington calls a deterrent force against Pyongyang.
Won said the surveillance step-up — the fourth since 1982 — to stage two would be focused along the borderline Demilitarized Zone, the Joint Security Area at Panmunjom village and the disputed Yellow Sea border of Northern Limit Line.
He added the tight defense measure was aimed at preventing the North’s military provocations, vowing “the military will deal sternly with provocative acts.”
June 1st, 2009 at 6:38 am
I work on a major SE AFB, and here at least we remain at FPCON (short for force protection condition) Alpha (the old Defcon system was replaced by the DOD several years ago actually), the second to lowest level and the same one we’ve been at 90% of the time since Sept, 2001. No unusual activity to report from here, but then again it is primarily a maintenance and repair facility, with few units based out of here.