The US Army is rehearsing how to bury its dead on future battlefields
US Army practices digging temporary battlefield graves
In North Carolina, the Army tested temporary battlefield graves for the first time on a large scale since the Korean War. Engineers used D6 bulldozers to dig a trench for 20 remains in about 75 minutes, letting commanders plan for up to 2,400 burials a day. Chaplains and fatality specialists also worked out how to honor the dead when individual services are impossible, while keeping remains identifiable for eventual return to families.
If we went to war tomorrow, we would be making this up as we went along.
- jawiggins
Often when seeing stories like this, there's some implication that the training is due to a planned operation or coming scenario. Yet my employer will regularly make me do trainings for all kinds of things that I know we don't plan to do, from system compromise to fire drills. Yet I've never seen a news story reporting that, for instance, a US bank is drilling for a systems breach that compromises customer accounts, even though I'm sure they do it. It's funny that there are some things we may fret about in the news yet in our personal lives we know them to not be a big deal.
- malfist
Oh no, the military is training to be a military. What is this Jade Helm 2.0?
- eqmvii
Everyone on social media seems to be HUNTING for signs that the powers that be are prepping for the end of the world.