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Comment by ghostmaster on August 19, 2012 at 12:21am

@DOTOM   From what i understand the surveys were given to ward off anyone trying to figure out really what the survey was for.  You was always given some BS story.  Put some nice stuff in the survey, and mix in a few you really care about.  They may of looked at the survey to see the answers, but very few of them counted, and they took notes on those very few, and trashed the rest.   So if you look at the survey as a whole it looks innocent enough the soldiers were doing civil duty.  But to find out how they would act in a certain type of scenario you give them pep talks.  They you send out a survey to see if your pep talk worked or not.   

I have seen this before, years ago between 2000 and  2003.   A few of those same questions were on the same survey.  Others were not.  Perhaps they were handing these out to different branches? 

Comment by Ria on August 13, 2012 at 6:15pm

:)

Comment by Nathan on August 13, 2012 at 5:49pm

Thank you ma'am.

It is a good, informative post btw. Keep up the good work!

Comment by Ria on August 13, 2012 at 5:41pm

Thanks again, Nathan. I just did as you suggested. :)

Comment by Nathan on August 13, 2012 at 5:03pm

Hi Ria,

No need to delete. At the top of the page there is an "options" button, if you clk it you will have an "Edit Post" option. Clking that will put you in edit mode allowing you to change/delete/add to your post. Just delete 60% (best guess) and leave the link at the bottom; you could put in something like 'continue reading at source' or 'full article here' before the link to alert readers that there is more.

If I can be of any help, just ask.

Thanks Ria.

Comment by Ria on August 13, 2012 at 4:22pm

Wow!! Awesome comments, loaded with info. Thank you DTOM for additional  insights into this.

And, Nathan, thank you for the heads up. My bad actually, I thought since I was crediting the authors and also providing the link of the source, I would not be infringing upon or violating copyright. :(

But, I am glad you shared this with me now and I will bear it in mind starting now. However, please let me know if I should remove this post and just let the link be there instead of the whole article? I would appreciate your suggestion.

Comment by DTOM on August 13, 2012 at 3:17pm

I remember reading the form for the first time in '98, but the following link is better than most.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1088237/posts

Links to various sources in the above, and the full text of DD Form 3206 (Rev 2/96)

It seems this issue opened up a can of worms.

It is claimed that on 08 April 1995, J.F.A. Davidson of The RESISTER - "The Purported Newsletter of the Special Forces Underground" - conducted a telephone interview with Lieutenant Commander Earnest Guy Cunningham, USN, regarding his Combat Arms Survey which was given to 300 U.S. Marine Corps combat trained marines at Twenty-Nine Palms California on 10 May 1994.

The Resister stated "Although we do not agree with some of LCDR Cunningham's premises regarding the constitutionality, or desirability, of even benign Operations Other Than War, particularly the bifurcation of the U.S. military into national defense and peacekeeping forces--as a result of our interview, and review of his thesis--we find no justification for anybody questioning his patriotism. LCDR Cunningham's thesis was purely a research effort to determine the long term effects of Operations Other Than War and non- traditional missions on both horizontal cohesion (how the unit coalesces, supports itself, and performs as an integrated whole), and vertical cohesion (trust and confidence in the unit's leadership).

Anybody who doubts this need only talk to the man."

The Resister site no longer exists, the above link goes to archived web pages from 2004.

Comment by Cryptocurrency on August 13, 2012 at 2:46pm

DTOM do you have a link to that form? Would be mega stellar if you did.

Comment by DTOM on August 13, 2012 at 2:43pm

The authors of the piece responded to the recent outcry.

"Our objective was to highlight what we believe is an understudied ...
- Kevin Benson, Ph.D., Colonel, U.S. Army, Retired

"Potential operations"?

Note how these things are always drawn up by 'think tanks' or 'academics'?

Remember DD Form 3206 (Rev 2/96) JOINT SERVICES TRAINING COMBAT ARMS SURVEY, authored by one Navy Lieutenant Commander Ernest Guy Cunningham, that was handed out to USMC at the 29 Palms Marine Corps base in California.

It asked the following questions:

Do you feel that U.S. combat troops should be used within the U.S. and bordering countries for any of the following missions?

(Strongly Disagree) (Disagree) (Agree) (Strongly Agree) (No Opinion)

8. Drug enforcement

9. Disaster relief (e.g. hurricanes, floods, fires, earthquakes)

10. Security at national events (e.g. Olympic Games, Super Bowl)

11. Environmental disaster clean-up including toxic and nuclear

12. Substitute teachers and school workers in public schools

13. Community assistance programs (e.g. landscaping, environmental clean-up,road repair, animal control)

14. Federal and State prison guards and auxiliary police

15. National emergency police force/international security force

16. Advisors to SWAT units, the FBI, or the BATF

17. Border Patrol (e.g. prevention of entry of illegal aliens into U.S. territory)

18. Drug enforcement and interdiction

19. Disaster relief in bordering countries (e.g. hurricanes, floods, fires, earthquakes, etc.)

20. Environmental disaster clean-up in bordering countries including toxic and nuclear.

21. Peace keeping and local law enforcement and internal security forces

22. National building (reconstruct civil governments, develop public school system, develop or improve public transportation system, etc.)

23. Humanitarian relief (e.g. food and medical supplies, temporary housing and clothing and domestic care).

---

45. I would swear to the following code:

“I am a United Nations fighting person. I serve in the forces which maintain world peace and every nation’s way of life. I swear and affirm to support and defend the Charter of the United Nations and I am prepared to give my life in its defense.”

46. The U.S. government declares a ban on the possession, sale, transportation, and transfer of all non-approved firearms. A 30-day amnesty period is established for these firearms to be turned over to the local authorities. At the end of this period, a number of irregular citizen groups and defiant individuals refuse to turn over their firearms to authority.

Consider the following statement:

“I would fire upon U.S. citizens who refuse or resist confiscation of firearms banned by the United States government.”

End of Survey

 

At the time, Cunningham was working towards a masters degree at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey.

In October 1995, John F. McManus, writing for NEW AMERICAN magazine, interviewed Cunningham, who said the survey was intended to confirm and then pass on to higher authorities his fears about "the lack of knowledge among the soldiers about the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and their heritage as Americans."

Genuine concerns or inbuilt damage control/ denial, while trolling with agit propaganda?

Comment by Charles Magus on August 13, 2012 at 1:46pm

Don't be in a state of fear!   The zionist Criminal network doesn't always get what they want!!   Unless these zionists see how they are being manipulated to hate and Murder by the Rothschild Agenda,  they will die in Ignorance and fear, never knowing who they really are!  The Rothschilds may want all gentiles dead, but a world full of nothing but zionists will be a horrific and mentally unstable world!  Until the Earth wipes them off her surface as the parasites that they have become because they believe in all of the lies of their own superiority!  Zionists don't have to be the beings that they have become.  A few have already awoken to a bigger world!   Will the rest see how they can walk into the light?

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