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@dictatordave East Range.
> “The East Range Training Area on Oahu, part of the Schofield Barracks complex, is a critical U.S. Army training ground east of the main post, used for realistic, intensive training like Air Assault School, land navigation, jungle tactics, and live-fire exercises, supporting the 25th Infantry Division and developing agile leaders for Pacific operations, with frequent training alerts issued for community awareness.”
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> “Dutch Army DPM (Disruptive Pattern Material), adopted in the 1960s, uses a four-color macro-micro brushstroke layout in green, brown, tan, and black. Designed for temperate European terrain, its overlapping strokes break up the human silhouette at both close and long range, blending foliage, shadow, and soil rather than relying on digital pixelation.”
@realcaseyrollins Tim’s been saying that for a decade now. Even a broken (analog) clock is accurate twice a day.
@realcaseyrollins “protested” is carrying a lot of weight in this comment.
@realcaseyrollins I think that’s the uncomfortable truth. You can’t normalize physically interfering with armed federal officers and pretend the risk isn’t real. Resistance has consequences, whether people like the agency or not. Earlier civil-rights movements were explicit about that risk and owned it. What worries me now is the mismatch between rhetoric and reality: people act as if escalation is impossible, then act shocked when it happens. That denial doesn’t protect anyone.
@realcaseyrollins I’ll add this: I’ve honestly been impressed by the trigger discipline shown so far by ICE and other federal agents, even post-2020 and post-Floyd. Given the level of hostility, crowd pressure, and provocation, I would have expected by 2026 an ugly infinity of Kent State–style outcomes. That hasn’t happened. Even with National Guard units now in the mix, restraint has largely held. That fact tends to get ignored, but it matters.
@realcaseyrollins And none of this will cow ICE or make them retreat. It does the opposite. Fear hardens posture, and once violence enters the equation, restraint drops. The first shooting is always the psychological barrier. After that, escalation becomes easier, faster, and more reflexive. ICE will not concede authority through intimidation. Continued defiance doesn’t de-escalate the system, it primes it. If this trajectory holds, confrontations won’t decrease, they’ll multiply, with higher risk on every side.
@bydanaferguson.bsky.social Unless she was an innocent bystander, it’s hard to refute.