Russian assault forces head to Colorado to train with U.S. soldiers says magazine
Friday, April 27, 2012 at 3:26PM 
U.S. Marines with the Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit wait to be extracted by helicopter during a rehearsal of the final exercise in Africa Lion 2012 in Cap Draa, Morocco, on April 16, 2012. African Lion is an annually scheduled joint/combined U.S.-Moroccan exercise sponsored by U.S. Africa Command and designed to promote interoperability and mutual understanding of each nation's military tactics, techniques and procedures.(DoD photo by Cpl. Tyler Main, U.S. Marine Corps) There’s a surprise a minute in our 24/7 news cycle, and a story in The New American will certainly raise a few eyebrows.
Russian assault forces will head to Colorado in May to train with U.S. soldiers. The magazine said the training exercises had been publicized in a variety of Russian media for weeks. Ironically the Kremlin provided more transparency than the U.S. government—The New American said, “[V]irtually all of the details about the exercise that emerged publicly early on came from Kremlin sources.”
