US Army mass graves are being prepared in North Carolina as part of Operation Dragon Covenant. See the footage of the excavation.
This report examines footage showing large trenches being dug by heavy equipment, including a bulldozer. The scale of the work suggests the U.S. Army is conducting specialized training for large-scale burial operations.
We analyze the visual evidence from North Carolina to provide a clear look at these earthmoving operations. Whether this is a routine drill or part of a larger military readiness exercise, the visuals provide a rare look at the logistics of such maneuvers.
James Kaufman will news report today.
U.S. Army practices digging mass graves in North Carolina.
The U.S. Army is preparing for the grim possibility
of burying fallen soldiers and civilians on a massive level.
There are tests in how fast they can dig temporary graves
while preserving remains for eventual identification
and return to families after the end of a conflict.
During an exercise in North Carolina,
engineers, preventive medicine teams,
chaplains and fertility management specialists prepared
for a mass temporary internment not used on a large scale since
the Korean War, the Army announced in a statement released last week.
For more than 20 years, during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,
U.S. Air Superiority allowed the quick evacuation
of remains back to the United States
through mortuary affairs channels.
Future conflicts,
especially those with large-scale combat operations, or LSCOs,
may not have the same capabilities according to the Army.
Phase 2 of Operation Dragon Covenant
Challenged troops to test and validate temporary burial operations
and remains and preserve at a large scale.
They've got some sick ---- planned for us.
Engineer soldiers involved had to use their equipment to excavate
and then fill burial trenches without damaging mock remains made
of skeletal models and water containers.
so that the hypothetical future forensic teams could unearth
and repatriate them up to the end of any conflict this exercise
allowed us to take a critical look at how we respect honor
and systematically manage our fallen in a high-intensity conflict
According to Sergeant 1st Class Delbert Rood,
the Senior Fatality Management Leader
for the 3rd Corps Sustainment Command, or CSC, in the release,
quote, if we went to war tomorrow,
we'd be making this up as we went along.
What we're doing here is taking a scientific field test approach
so we can maintain positive control.
Respectfully care for our fallen and civilians.
The U.S. requires the evacuation of human remains
when operations in wartime situations permit.
The U.S. Joint Service guidance authorizes temporary graves
during mass casualty incidents in war
where descendants cannot be safely moved due to safety,
lack of transportation,
Both their deaths are a result of chemical,
biological, or radiological, or nuclear weapons.
Soldiers, civilians, or enemy combatants buried
in temporary graves must be treated with dignity
and their information, if available, preserved by the military.
The Geneva Convention requires that
even the bodies of enemy forces be recorded
and that the identifying information be collected.
Cremation is rarely authorized,
save for hygiene or religious grounds only, which could mean
biological weapons. The army doctrine prescribes
that temporary internment plots consist of five
parallel trenches to hold 100 bodies each,
with 10 bodies on each side of the trenches.
In previous trials,
Units using standard backhoes can excavate only one trench
and thus 10 remains per three hours.
According to the service's release,
operators during the most recent exercise used D6 bulldozers
to excavate a trench large enough for 20 remains
in an average of 1 hour and 15 minutes.
Based on this latest information,
Commanders can plan on an engineering company
with the proper equipment to dig and cover trenches
of up to 2,400 bodies every 24 hours if operated non-stop.
Operators also learned that published instructions on trench standards
do not reflect current Army equipment.
Service said that the doctrine called for seven feet between rows
Shatim's found too narrow to drive
a bulldozer without disrupting the burial trenches.
This discovery, and many others,
reflect in the future army doctrine being printed now.
Beyond the physical trenches,
the exercise also gave religious specialists and chaplains
an opportunity to prepare for these large-scale, well, casualty events
by developing sensitive protocols.
In a high-intensity, consistent combat environment,
fatality management teams cannot stop a 24-hour internment operation
for individual religious gravesite services,
Lieutenant Colonel Ruska, chaplain for the 3rd CSC, said in a release.
The team, he added,
also must be unable to determine an individual's faith after death.
There's just not time.
Quote, we consulted with chaplains
from various low-density faith groups for advertisement.
We said consensus was that consecrating the site before it remains
or placed in the ground
reassures families that their loved ones were treated with reverence,
dignity, and honor
despite the inability to provide a memorial ceremony
in a contested combat environment.
End quote.
This exercise will continue, the Army said,
with Phase 3 coming up of Dragon Covenant.
This will be Spring 2027.
They're preparing to bury all of us.
This will integrate security, medical facilities,
and mortuary affairs in the collection points of bodies.
This sounds like a wonderful idea.
Why would we be paying?
For our own graves,
which is exactly what they're having us do, we're paying these
soldiers and the military to dig
and practice digging our own graves right now.
I hope y'all see and can foresee Operation 2030 or 2031,
whatever they've most recently
named it.
You know what? As long as Bill Gates and Orange Man
At the bottom of the pile, well, that'd be nothing but a good thing.
God bless you all.
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