U.S Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command

[Ichingcarpenter]

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Worn by soldiers in any CA or Reserve PSYOP unit.





was founded in 1985. USACAPOC(A) is composed mostly of U.S. Army Reserve soldiers in units throughout the United States.

Its total size is approximately 10,000 soldiers, making up about 94 percent of the DoD's Civil Affairs forces and 71 percent of the DoD's Psychological Operations forces.

It goes into more detail


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Civil_Affairs_and_Psychological_Operations_Command


Now this is the interesting part of this story.


The St. Louis Police officer just let go or fired is a part of a PSYOPs military reservist group for the DOD.

From the video that got him in trouble.


"We sang cadence and woke up the camp with over 275 runners," said Command Sgt. Maj. Danny Page, 418th Civil Affairs Battalion command sergeant major.

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From USA today...


Video has surfaced showing a St. Louis County, Mo., police officer engaging in an hour-long lecture in which he rails against "our undocumented president," the "black-robed perverts" of the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. laws that promote equality, prompting the police chief to put him on administrative leave.

Officer Dan Page gained notoriety last Monday after shoving CNN host Don Lemon during live coverage from Ferguson, Mo., where protests erupted after police fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown on Aug. 9. On Friday, CNN telephoned the St. Louis County Police Department to say the news organization had obtained a tape of Page speaking to an organization called the Oath Keepers, which describes itself as a group of current and former law enforcement and military personnel compelled to disobey rules that members believe violate the Constitution.


http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/22/st-louis-county-officer-tirade-dan-page/14465647/

I smell something and its not roses coming up.

[Hooked_n_Looped]

1. Articles like this...

... are why they aren't called PSYOP any more.

Sounds much scarier and more sinister than they are.

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. Wrong

It was created in 1985 and still is in operation.

In May 2006, the reserve component of USACAPOC(A) was transferred to the U.S. Army Reserve Command. The Army's active duty Special Operations Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations units, along with the Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Force Modernization/Branch Proponents, continue to fall under the U.S. Army Special Operations Command and its subordinate United States Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School respectively.

The active component special operations civil affairs brigade 95th Civil Affairs Brigade falls under United States Army Special Operations Command

[Octafish]

4. Gee. First it was undercover secret reporters at CNN...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2000/03/26/cnn-and-psyops/

...now they have undercover secret cops ready to shoot reporters from CNN.

And some wonder whatever happened to democracy.

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. The thing is

From the army's own site congratulating new recruits.:


The course, conducted at the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, including U.S. Army officers and noncommissioned officers, as well as select officers and NCOs from the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps, and allied natiions such as Brazil, Bulgaria and Moldova.

"These graduates stand ready to join the Military Information Support Operations Command or return to their respective joint and allied commands," said Lt. Col. Brinton H. Rosenberry during the ceremony. Rosenberry is the commander of 5th Battalion, 1st Special Warfare Training Group (Airborne), which manages the course. "They're going to synchronize plans and execute inform-and-influence activities across the range of military operations."

The 44-week-long qualification course includes language and cultural training for specific world regions, familiarization with government capabilities and polciies, and courses in the conception, development, design, production, approval, distribution and evaluation of military-information-support products.

"Your knowledge adn skills have operational, joint and strategic implications that you will soon experience," Rosenberry told the graduates. "Applied across our various mission-sets and activities, the power you possess is enduring, and the education you just received is cutting-edge."

Retired Command Sgt. Maj. Michael W. Stein, the event's guest speaker, was inducted as a distinguished member of the Psychological Operations regiment during the ceremony. Prior to his retirement in 2004, Stein served as the command sergeant major for the 1st, 5th and 9th Psychological Operations Battalions (Airborne) at Fort Bragg. He participated many miltiary contingencies during his 24-year career, serving in various capacities in Grenada, Honduras, Panama, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Bosnia, Egypt, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Japan and Korea.

"You've come a long way," Stein told the graduates. "Phrases like 'assessing vulnerabilities and susceptibilies' and 'selection appropriate counter-propaganda measures' are now a working part of your vocabulary. What you read in newspaper articles and see in television commercials will never again regard as mere entertainment or opinion; all these things are done for a purpose, and you're now educated on how these purposes are realized."


http://www.army.mil/article/84073/PSYOP_Soldiers_graduate_qualification_training__join_Army_special_operations_force/


Now what's he really doing in Missouri? What does the army know about his record? Was he sheep dipped?

I just thought it a strange coincidence this asshole is also Psyops.

Now the confrontation on national TV with CNN's Don Lemon might be viewed in a different light as someone who is trained on the media manipulation?

Does the Army know about his connection to Oathkeepers?


BTW... ALL the MISSPELLINGS IN THE ARMY ARTICLE ARE FROM THE US ARMY.

[Octafish]

7. Special Forces to win the battle for men's minds.

Awesome responsibilities, indeed, at MISOC. If I'd have known, I might have gone for a different major.

Oathkeepers itself seems like a giant psyop, both a holding pen and a recruiting ground.

Thank you for this very important info (typos-n-all), Ichingcarpenter. It seems we aren't turning into a fascist state. We already are one.

[MisterP]

6. pssh, it only treats words as weapons, journalism and public discourse as battlegrounds, and works

to negate and rewrite reality!

I don't get what's such a big deal!!!1111

[DonViejo]

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