A psychological operations officer and an Army Reserve sergeant in the 174th Infantry Brigade and Navy contractor who obtained a secret security clearance were also present. Days before, Brock posted on Facebook about a second civil war, referring to his military oath to defend against “all enemies foreign and domestic.” Jacob Fracker, an infantry rifleman in the Marines who deployed to Afghanistan twice, is accused of storming the Capitol. was photographed inside the Senate chamber wearing a tactical vest and helmet and gripping plastic handcuffs. The Oath Keepers’ military veterans were not the only former and active military present at the Capitol on Jan. Military Academy graduates after his Oath Keepers membership was revealed. He was called on to resign by some fellow U.S. Military Academy graduate who served in the military police battalion in Anchorage. Another Oath Keeper in Washington that day but not charged in connection with the attack, Alaska State Rep. Edward Durfee Jr., a former Marine and leader of the Oath Keepers northern New Jersey region, was, like Rhodes, outside the Capitol during the insurrection but was not named in the indictment. 6, joined the group’s main stack formation that breached the Capitol and was named in the Thursday indictment, is also an Army veteran. Jessica Watkins, who led the Oath Keepers’ Ohio contingent on Jan. Rhodes himself, who apparently remained outside the Capitol during the attack, is a former Army paratrooper. ![]() government is unintentionally training its own insurrectionists - providing the specialized and strategic-thinking skills needed to carry out an insurrection with any hope of success. None of this is coincidence many of the Oath Keepers present at the Capitol were military veterans. Alongside military terminology and doctrine, those reviewing Thursday’s indictment will find a group seeking armament and transport - purchasing night vision goggles, rifles and assault weapons, and planning transportation and escape routes. The Oath Keepers logo looks a lot like the black-and-gold half-moon shape of the Army Ranger Tab - what soldiers receive for completing Ranger school - and the lingo they allegedly used in encrypted communications channels as they coordinated preparations has military origins. While I learned these terms and tactics with the express goal of defending my country, Rhodes and his Oath Keepers, according to the indictment that charges the 11 with seditious conspiracy, used them in pursuit of overthrowing it. They organized “military style basic” training to get recruits “fighting fit for inauguration,” and Florida members participated in “unconventional warfare” training. The group prepared a “QRF”- quick reaction force - in Virginia and conducted a “recce,” or reconnaissance, to Washington for their operation that fateful day. According to the indictment: Oath Keepers used a “ stack,” a formation designed to breach a building or room, as they entered the Capitol. 6 assault on the Capitol last year is terminology I learned as a U.S. Sprinkled through the 48-page indictment of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and 10 others for their alleged role in the Jan. (Bloomberg photo by Stefani Reynolds)Ĭlint Watts is a distinguished research fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and president of Miburo. ![]() A demonstrator wears an Oath Keepers anti-government organization badge on a protective vest during a protest outside the Supreme Court on Jan.
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