Premium Episode 172: US Army Psyop Social Media (The Return of Jake Stories) Sample
Psychological operations are something the United States army openly advertises. They make podcasts and youtube videos out of Fort Bragg in order to recruit men and women into the long-term, international United States psyop on the world. But some believe the Army groups are just "CIA light" and glorified pamphlet pushers. It turns out social media can reveal a whole lot about the underlying overall project of US foreign intervention.
This episode also includes an apparent autobiographical Jake story based on Training Day (2001).
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Welcome, listener, to Premium Chapter 172 of the QAnon Anonymous Podcast, the PSYOP episode.
As always, we are your hosts, Jake Rogatansky, Julian Fields, and Travis View.
Psychological operations.
I do them on Jake every day.
Travis is one.
And if you've been online for long enough, someone will probably have accused you of being a PSYOP.
But what if psychological operations were something the United States Army openly advertised?
What if they were out there starting podcasts about it, cutting thrilling videos for YouTube, and recruiting openly?
This week we are traveling to Fort Bragg, where PSYOP soldiers are trained and deployed.
And by Fort Bragg, I mean the variety of social media accounts deployed by their special forces and PSYOP groups to promote their mission and recruit young men and women into their ranks.
Now, during this rabbit hole, a couple of things to keep in mind.
These are army, specifically airborne groups.
They are not the FBI, nor the CIA, who obviously do their own PSYOPs.
In fact, it's because these PSYOPers are not as well organized, funded, or respected internally, that their content is so interesting.
Because it offers way more opportunities to peer inside the cracks and gain insight into the culture and internal messaging of US-run foreign interventions and their accompanying psychological operations.
Also, I highly recommend that you listen to the episode all the way to the end, as I'm told by Jake that he's hiding a subliminal message, a story of sorts, after the credits.
So let's jump right in.
On May 2nd, 2022, the official YouTube page of the 4th Psychological Operations Group, Airborne, based out of Fort Bragg, as I mentioned, posted a very strange video entitled, Ghost in the Machine, all caps.
It's a bit of a long one, but I wanted to go through it with Jake reading out the titles that appear on screen, and Travis, I'll ask you to try to remember and then describe the images that you've seen along the way.
I feel like we're about to be PSYOPT in the very first five minutes of the show.
This episode's recording has been delayed for days because I feel like I've been PSYOPT just from watching a good portion of these people's output, so...
You're gonna feel bad and it's gonna be vague and sometimes you won't be able to put a finger on it.
Just a sickly feeling making its way into your stomach.
Alright, so here is Ghosts in the Machine.
If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him.
Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.
Sun Tzu As the world watches and listens in horror, the peaceful pro-democracy demonstration in China comes to a violent and bloody end.
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
Have you ever wondered who's pulling the strings?
Born from the ashes of a world at war.
You'll find us in the shadows.
That.
Fucking.
of the spear.
A threat rises in the east.
Warfare is evolving.
And all the world's a stage.
That fucking ruled.
(laughing)
Holy shit, that felt like the preview to like the live-action like Metal Gear movie like
That was... Oh no!
That's so bad.
Why is it so well, well, well made and high production value?
It was.
It was.
I mean, yeah, I mean, there are lots of like weird abstract imagery.
There is like, you know, there's a panning shot of a forest.
There was an extreme close up of a chess board and pieces moving.
You know, there was a conductor in an orchestra all of a sudden.
I mean, it really does seem like like the trailer for like, you know, Call of Duty, Cywar.
Absolutely.
There's a small ghost sigil like kind of hanging in the forest on like a twig.
And they're showing you riots in foreign countries.
They're showing you Chinese troops.
Marching like in battle formation.
They're showing you like a ticker that says Russia invades Ukraine.
And we've just gotten started.
This was just one half of the video.
So let's see.
Let's see where it goes.
There is another very important phase of warfare.
It has as its target, not the body, But the mind of the enemy.
The target of psychological warfare is against the enemy's mind.
It is words and ideas.
Ammunition used by Psi-War.
Anything we touch is a weapon.
It's mission is to influence the thoughts of the enemy soldiers.
We can deceive.
Persuade.
Change.
Influence.
He is expected and encouraged to study foreign languages and the social sciences...
Inspire.
Persuade.
...history, economics, and sociology.
Change.
Influence.
He must have a broad and sympathetic understanding of all phases of human experience.
Inspire.
He is expected and encouraged to study foreign languages and the social sciences...
Gripping at my skin, the walls of night closing in.
But the use of this force as an integral part of combat has now taken on new forms.
We come in many forms.
We are everywhere.
A feeling in the dark.
(upbeat music)
(upbeat music)
A message in the stars.
Stars.
Ghosts.
In the machine.
What are you?
Are.
We.
These are the Cywar soldiers.
Cywar.
Frighteningly good.
It ends with Verbum Vincit and the website of the Army Special Forces Recruitment.
They got some great editors.
They pulled some good stock footage.
They legitimately were showing orange revolutions and being like, oh yeah, that's us, buddy.
Like war zones, Taiwan.
They're like, Jesus Christ.
Yeah, that's a little disturbing.
They're also showing like the fall of the Berlin Wall.
And stuff.
And it's like, oh, it's like, yeah, it's a little bit like a resume.
I don't know.
It feels like they're being very cagey about what exactly they're saying.
But it's very strange.
What makes this doubly eerie is that I know that this particular video was tweeted out by Ezra Kohidwatnik.
Oh, great.
Who is, of course, a much beloved by QAnon followers mentioned in a couple of QDrops.
There's also the appearance in this shot, finally, of, like, why they were in that forest, which is that there's a bunch of guys with, like, white masks, and they start to advance from afar, like, in a kind of formation through the trees, just threateningly being like, we are the ghosts in the machine, like, we've been determining history, we're pulling the strings.
If I was in a theater, okay, and I'm seeing Uncharted, starring Tom Holland, What the fuck is wrong with you?
I don't know, I'm trying to think of a movie that's in the theaters.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
It's probably long gone at this point.
Oh my god.
And that preview comes on, I'm going, okay, what is this?
It's a new Mission Impossible.
Maybe we're finally getting a teaser for Metal Gear.
The video thoroughly creeped me out, and I half suspected it to be fake when I came across it at first.
But after doing some due diligence, I found out that yes, U.S.
Army Special Forces, and specifically their PSYOP division, do indeed have social media presences and are busy recruiting by essentially telling on themselves in these videos.
And people were reacting incredibly well to it.
Here are some comments on Reddit.
Firebird Gaming says, I don't know why, but I find it oddly comforting that the U.S.
Army can still produce some killer recruiting material.
Don't praise the advertising skills of the U.S.
military.
Bourne Purchase says, Russia arrogantly mistook the West's kindness for weakness.
Again, it's just an ad.
They're content creators.
That's all it is.
Yeah, but it gives the posters an opportunity to be like, I, too, am in the war.
Could you read R. Dress' post, Travis?
I can hardly believe it even.
Like, it was good.
Fuck, I want to mind freak some Russians now.
The army hit a home run with this one.
Come on.
Oh my god.
I want to mind freak some Russians.
I want to mind freak some Russians.
What the fuck does that even mean?
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