[nonameiguess]

You can, but people seem to forget the job of the military when they're not actually fighting a war is to practice fighting wars. I remember this kind of thing happening all the time when I was in. We had a reserve exercise in Texas where someone got a hold of the operations order in media and thought we were going to literally occupy the state. When we ramped down counterinsurgency after leaving Iraq and started sending all the heavy units back to NTC in California to relearn how to be heavy units, a bunch of people saw hundreds of tanks on trains going west and thought it was some kind of real mobilization. My wife used to work on an experimental radar project that flew unmarked planes with no tail numbers out of a commercial airport under a Navy unit that had no official presence and didn't wear uniforms, but it's pretty obvious to anyone watching they're Navy planes because it's identical models but with radar units attached you'd never see on operational craft. People thought they were smuggling drugs, surveilling the public, testing alien tech, whatever crazy shit the Internet can dream up. All they were doing was collecting data for validation testing, flying over land and water they controlled because that's the only way to get real ground truth.