Marines to invade downtown Toledo in training excercise:

[JohnnyRingo]

The Marines will take over parts of downtown Toledo as sounds of gunfire will echo off buildings when training exercises are conducted next weekend.
A Marine Corps unit based in Perrysburg will stage the exercises from 9 p.m. Jan. 7 to about noon Jan. 9, Maj. Gregory Cramer said.

Major Cramer said most of the 130-member unit - Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 24th Marines - will take part in the exercises.

"We're looking for an urban environment to do our training," he said. "Urban training is one of the proficiencies we're required to maintain."

Major Cramer said Marines will be dressed in green and will be carrying rifles through the streets, but the exercises should have a minimal impact on the downtown area. He said the Marines will be firing blanks and conducting operations throughout the area.

"The only request we would have of folks, if they happen to be near where an exercise is taking place, is to stay away as much as possible," Major Cramer said.

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They're attacking Toledo in the dead of winter (Wearing GREEN).....What are they training for?
Who's next?

[Jack_DeLeon]

1. Maybe they should attack Detroit...

I've heard bad stories about it.

[nine23]

2. BRING ON THE MASS PARANOIA. USE "THE LITTLE PEOPLE".

Make it "flesh".

I wish I could be there to see it. From anthropology...

[bluestateguy]

3. Um, this is a joke, right. Is this from the Onion?

Just what we need: little boys in green uniforms running around American cities playing with guns and playing war.

[GarySeven]

4. Bush is investing BILLIONS into crowd control technology

microwave beams to be projected into crowds, cooking them from the inside out; sound cannons to blast out eardrums. Why do you suppose troops are being trained to occupy a U.S. city and intern large numbers of citizens? This is the second time this has happened in a U.S. city.

This is the next logical step in the Conservative plan for America.

[shiina]

5. They're training to attack Toledo, what else?

They've actually been doing "urban training" for a long time, but you only hear about it on the really out there conspiracy theorist websites.

[Swamp Rat]

6. They want to play urban warfare?

Arm the citizens of Toledo with paint-ball guns and watch how many Marines get a neon pink makeover.

[JohnnyRingo]

7. Ooooooh....Cant exaclally print that on a yellow ribbon magnet, can you?

Hahahaha

[hellhathnofury]

8. Swing State.

[barbaraann]

9. A message about the recount?

n/t

[Spinzonner]

10. Preparing for a martial law takeover in case Blackwell falters

and is about to give up the story.

[coolhandlulu]

11. Alex Jones will be all over this