Russian troops parachuting into Colorado?!

[W.G.Ewald]

GrogNews: Red Dawn? Or Training Exercise?

For the first time in history, Russian and American airborne forces will hold joint drills in the US. The anti-terror exercises scheduled for May 2012 will get off to a flying start with a tactical landing operation and "terrorist" camp raid.
"This is the first time such an event is being held," Russian Airborne Forces spokesperson Col. Aleksandr Kucherenko stressed, announcing the plan. "The Russian airborne will contribute a special task group that will exercise with US special service weapons."
The drills were arranged by the Russian Airborne Command and a US military delegation in Moscow last December.
Russian soldiers will receive preparatory training in Colorado's Fort Carson with the US weaponry and equipment they are to use during the operation. The drills include parachuting, operation planning, reconnaissance, assault operations and evacuations by helicopter.
"According to the exercise scenario, soldiers of the two countries will hold a tactical airborne operation, including reconnaissance of an imaginary terrorists' camp and a raid," Colonel Kucherenko revealed.
The drills will take place between May 24 and 31. But it's not all work: on May 27, the Russian paratroopers will get a chance to unwind at a baseball game in Colorado Springs.

(Have not seen this confirmed elsewhere.)

 

[pmaitra]

It's about time the US and Russia became friends.

 

[Kunal Biswas]

Joint exercise between US & Russian Paratroopers conducted in US..

 

[spikey360]

It's about time the US and Russia became friends.

Pragmatic hope, but that would kill all the fun, wouldn't it? After all, they are supposed to be the greatest of foes.

 

[Chris Jude]

They will be forced to come together in the face of an Alien invasion to the Earth, when all humanity will rise as one forgetting our petty differences.