Texas governor tells state guard to monitor Army training
Source: Associated Press
Texas governor tells state guard to monitor Army training
Associated Press | April 28, 2015 | Updated: April 28, 2015 4:42pm
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has asked the state guard to monitor a U.S. military training exercise dubbed "Jade Helm 15" amid some residents' suspicions of the U.S. government's plan.
Abbott's request Tuesday comes after some residents in Bastrop County questioned a U.S. Army commander during a town meeting about whether the government was planning to confiscate guns or implement martial law.
A map of the operation had labeled Texas, Utah and parts of California as "hostile" for the purposes of the training exercise.
Military officials say armed forces this summer will train on private and public land in areas that were chosen because of similarities to overseas combat areas.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Texas-Gov-Abbott-responds-to-Jade-Helm-15-6229453.php
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The irony is that he thinks it's Obama, but the soldiers belong to Donald Trump.
From a stright geography point of view, I knew the American Southwest is much like Iran as to being a semi desert area with huge amount of agriculture to support its population. I was shocked at how close the numbers were when I added them up. I expected a wider difference in both area and population.
Now I suspect the details will be larger, cities with less population, more rural population etc, but you can compare the Arab speakers in Iran's southwest (where the oil fields are) with the Mexican American population in the Rio Grande Valley. You can also compare a movement of "Hostiles" from Iraq, if the US attacks Iran, with illegal immigrants from Mexico (I am looking from a military TRAINING purpose NOT reality, no one expects Mexicans from Northern Mexico to invade the American Southwest if American troops starts to move around in the Southwest).
The big factor are the distances involved over terrain similar to what exists in Iran. Notice the following map, actual farm land is limited in Iran, you have a much larger amount of Grazing land and a huge "waste land" in the middle of Iran:
http://irancompgovproject.blogspot.com/2010/08/land-use.html
The American Southwest is a good fit, you do have good farm land, but it is limited to Texas, Northern California or areas with Irrigation. On the other hand, the Southwest has extensive land usable for "Grazing" and you do have some deserts.
The above map was in 1978 under the Shah, a more modern map follows:
https://chronicle.fanack.com/iran/facts-and-figures/geography-and-climate/natural-resources-and-land-fertility/
I went to three different web cites and they all came back more or less the same. The Southeast, the easiest area to get from the Indian Ocean, is the most desert (THis is Baluchistan). The richest areas are along the Iraq border and a thin spread against the Afghanistan Border, with major deserts in the middle of Iran (sounds like the American Southwest except for areas irrigated by the Colorado and Rio Grand Rivers)
Hopefully this military exercise shows how high the costs will be to attack Iran and any such attack will be called off. On the other hand, you do not do such planning unless you either what to make a point OR you are going in. I fear the later, but hope that the first (this shows the costs to be to high) or the second (this is to scare the Iranians what we CAN DO, not what we will do).
http://old.wheatatlas.org/country/environment/maps/IRN/0
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Sounds like fun I guess 
Juanita Jean had some fun with this story http://juanitajean.com/ding-ding-ding-we-have-a-winner/
“It is important that Texans know their safety, constitutional rights, private property rights and civil liberties will not be infringed,” Abbott wrote. “By monitoring the Operation on a continual basis, the State Guard will facilitate communications between my office and the commanders of the Operation to ensure that adequate measures are in place to protect Texans.”
Do you know what the Texas Guard is? It’s not the Texas National Guard. It’s just the Texas Guard. It’s like the Boy Scouts except with no adult supervision.
Remember the old sheriff we had here who often tied his shoelaces together? He was the head of the Texas Guard here and his mistress was the Lt. Col. I am not making that up. Just ask anybody.
The Texas Guard is for people too old or too chicken to join the real military. They are for civil help only, like cleaning up after a hurricane. Here’s what they get paid. They do not get to carry guns, even if they have one.
Juanita Jean had some fun with this story http://juanitajean.com/ding-ding-ding-we-have-a-winner/
“It is important that Texans know their safety, constitutional rights, private property rights and civil liberties will not be infringed,” Abbott wrote. “By monitoring the Operation on a continual basis, the State Guard will facilitate communications between my office and the commanders of the Operation to ensure that adequate measures are in place to protect Texans.”
Do you know what the Texas Guard is? It’s not the Texas National Guard. It’s just the Texas Guard. It’s like the Boy Scouts except with no adult supervision.
Remember the old sheriff we had here who often tied his shoelaces together? He was the head of the Texas Guard here and his mistress was the Lt. Col. I am not making that up. Just ask anybody.
The Texas Guard is for people too old or too chicken to join the real military. They are for civil help only, like cleaning up after a hurricane. Here’s what they get paid. They do not get to carry guns, even if they have one.