So, in March 2015, Alex started spreading fear about a government takeover that was coming under the guise of a training exercise called Jade Helm 15. This was an eight-week-long set of exercise that was set to take place across multiple states, primarily in Texas and the Southwest Rockies region, because, as the Army Special Operations Press release put it, these states contained, quote, diverse terrain that replicates areas Special Operations soldiers regularly find themselves operating in overseas.