Jade helm

I get that this jade helm exercise is somewhat fishy, but the fact of the matter is that it is only special forces that will be taking part.

As a U.S. Army vet, I know that while special forces troops are very disciplined and effective, there just aren't very many of them. There are not enough troops in our entire military to "lockdown" even a very small part of the country. People claiming that this exercise is the implementation of martial law or something similar need to just tap the brakes a bit.

There is no way possible that this is anything other than just a training exercise. It would take half a million troops to even begin to make this a viable option, and likely more than three times that number to actually pull it off.

I agree that this is fishy and a very strange thing, but people need to chill out on the "martial law takeover" talk. They simply don't have the numbers to even consider that.