Iowa: Army/Guard drills to enter, search Americans' homes

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

sadly

And while Hapgood confirmed the Guard had been inundated with objections from citizens concerned about soldiers patrolling the streets of an American town, he said most came from people out of state and unfamiliar with the operation. Iowans, he explained, typically cooperate with the Guard. The change in plans was based on troop evaluation, he said, not public outcry.

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"There are no active duty bases in Iowa, so there are no urban warfare training areas of any size," Hopgood said. "In order to get that larger neighborhood feel or city feel, we have to be creative and partner with our communities."

Hopgood further told WND that in past cooperative exercises with the community, the people of Iowa have welcomed learning how their sons and daughters operate in action.

Plans for the urban operation training, Hopgood explained, are still set to continue, but will be conducted in a smaller, platoon-by-platoon basis in the near vicinity of the Carroll armory.

[Phantom Warrior]

What you described doesn't add up to what they are doing here though.  The crowd control, leaving base in a huge convoy, searching for a weapons dealer, and searching homes with the home owners is more than using a different building because the first choice on base wasn't available.  This sounds pretty differen

Like others have said, this is exactly how you would do it in Iraq.  You need inner and outer cordon to keep troublemakers out and any bad guys in.  You HAVE to move in a large convoy a) for security and b) so that you have enough dismounts to actually do the search.  Bradleys or Strykers can carry a whole squad, but a HMMWV can only carry a couple of dismounts.  To have enough guys on the ground to do a search you need to bring a fair number of HMWWVs.  The "weapons dealer" part is a little iffy, but "EFP supplier" or "IED manufacturer" or "insurgent weapons cache" could easily get garbled into "weapons dealer." 

Searching homes with homeowner consent is most of what we do in Iraq now.  It's called "cordon and KNOCK", instead of "cordon and search."  It's hard to win hearts and minds, an essential counterinsurgency task, if you are kicking in innocent peoples' doors in the middle of the night.

[freedom lover]

We don't do ""let's nuke the place" as a "solution" to all of our ills" on this board.

If that's the best you can come up with... don't.