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PJMcK

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4. Exactly

Reply to MohRokTah (Reply #3)

Wed Jun 29, 2016, 03:34 PM

Jun 2016

The military constantly trains for many different scenarios. Not only is that their job, it would be highly irresponsible not to. The last thing the military would want is a big surprise from Russia, North Korea or a host of other bad actors.

Respectfully, I have to question factualness of the OP's third-hand source as well as the second-hand's motivation for sharing this information. Additionally, the third-hand source is probably not way up high in the military hierarchy; if they were, they probably wouldn't talk about it outside of their command.

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