14 November 2013 (09:54 UTC-07 Tango)/10 Muharram 1434/23 Aban 1391/12 Gui-Hai (10th month) 4711
“It puzzled me to no end because….there was no evidence of any military involvement, there were no signs stating that, no announcement to the public that there was going to be an exercise here. There was no one in uniform, and no military vehicles at all.”-Robert Westbrook, witness of Special Forces op conducted in Port Hawkesbury, on Cape Breton Island
Canadian news media reporting that a small coastal town called Port Hawkesbury was the sight of an unannounced military op, involving Canadian Special Operations Force Command’s Joint Task Force 2 (aka JTF2).
The incident happened on the night of 25 October 2013. Some townsfolk noticed a lot of commotion at the abandoned call center. Of course the locals wanted to know what the hell was going on, so they investigated and took pics. Robert Westbrook was then confronted by two military men who threatened him and “…asked if I was ‘patriotic’, which I thought was quite a strange question, and I didn’t really answer that because I didn’t think it was relevant, and I said so.”
Westbrook is a former U.S. citizen who became a Canadian citizen.
They told Westbrook they were military police, but they were not wearing the standard Canadian MP uniform. The MPs called the war game a “training evolution” op. The evolution op involved the abandoned call center, which used to be a major source of employment in the town.
It’s also interesting that the “training evolution” op involved the use of civilian vehicles. The MPs claimed they were acquainted with the local Mounted Police (RCMP) commander, and threatened Westbrook to have the RCMP arrest him. The local RCMP commander, Shelby Miller, swore to news media he was not told of the war game, and in regards to the MP he “Never met the man.”