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ashling

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Tue May 5, 2015, 09:49 PM May 2015

Rick Perry suggests Greg Abbott went too far in questioning U.S. military exercise Jade Helm 15

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Former Gov. Rick Perry suggested Tuesday that successor Greg Abbott went too far last week in raising questions about U.S. military exercises in Texas.

“It’s OK to question your government. I do it on a regular basis. But the military is something else,” said Perry, an Air Force veteran, as he prepared to speak to the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth. “Our military is quite trustworthy. The civilian leadership, you can always question that, but not the men and women in uniform.”

Last week, Abbott ordered the Texas State Guard to monitor the federal military exercises known as Jade Helm 15 after some citizens raised concerns that the maneuvers are actually the prelude to martial law.


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