Ft. Campbell helicopters are very active tonite--the most I've seen in years!

[southerncrone]

I live in the flight path of many of the Ft Campbell training runs about 45 miles from the base. There have been at least 5 banks of copters fly over in the last couple of hours. We might get 1 or 2 flyovers in a day's time. But not this many so close together, especially at night.
Must be gearing up a war to deflect from the Russia Connection.

[southerncrone]

1. And now #6!

[Gabi Hayes]

2. on their way to trump's Grenada, wherever that might be

maybe they're just circling while he throws darts on a map

[Motown_Johnny]

18. Sweden? We all know the terrible terrible things happening in Sweden. n/t

[Chipper Chat]

3. North Korea?

Trump is salivating for a "victory."

[Gabi Hayes]

7. blood bath on the order of Iran/Iraq

if anybody starts it, it'll be the NK doughboy, not our gutbucket

[sarcasmo]

4. Night maneuvers. When @ Ft. Bragg or Eglin we did this all the time @ night.

[southerncrone]

9. They do run night maneuvers almost every night, usually 1 or occasionally 2.

But I've never witnessed this many at once in the 23 years I've lived here.

[Docreed2003]

5. They're as far out as sumner co tonight

[TheMastersNemesis]

6. Those Formations Consistent With Air Assaults. Probably Looks Like Vietnam Formations.

A typical helicopter formation in Vietnam was troop carriers in the middle and rear. Gunships were in front and on the sides.
When nearing a landing zone gunships move forward and attack in front of landing troop carriers then circle the LZ. Having been in Vietnam I would have been interested in seeing them.

Air mobile insertions of a company would include multiple formations in groups. So you email is interesting.

[Gabi Hayes]

10. trump woulda been there, too, but he couldn't remember

which foot to fix....those bonespurs are hard to find

and his were the hardest. nobody had harder bonespurs than he did. so sad!

[TheMastersNemesis]

11. I Know A Former Navy Dr. Says Bone Spurs Would Not Keep One Out Of Draft.

Apparently bone spurs are treatable and not terribly disabling.

[southerncrone]

13. Perhaps he couldn't pass the psyche test. JS

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. Is that related to Trump's visit, ya think? n/t

[southerncrone]

12. Haven't heard he's visiting or that he will be in the near future.

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. Last I heard he was in Virginia..

let's see..Fort campbell...
Kentucky?

We have occasional helicopter overflights, just unusual enough that I too wonder what the hell.

[TheDebbieDee]

14. Rappel training at night, possibly!

[southerncrone]

15. Never had anywhere near this many before in the 23 yrs I've lived here.

[bluedigger]

16. Probably just a brigade level training exercise.

I spent more than a few hours circling over Ft. Campbell as "Air Freight" pretending to go somewhere back in the day.

[Solly Mack]

17. and you did it beautifully!

[bluedigger]

20. Cheated death a few times and lived to tell of it at least.

For a peacetime soldier I had a ridiculous number of close calls.

[Solly Mack]

23. When my eegit would come home from a FTX he would complain about

all the sitting they did a lot of the time and I would say "but you did it beautifully".

Training exercises can get ugly, as you well know. One guy came up short a grenade, everyone was on locked down until it was found. They were moved to another part of the area and guys came in to mow the grass near where the soldiers had been training - you guessed it.

They found the grenade. Fortunately - very fortunately - no serious injuries.

My eegit didn't complain about sitting that day.

This was years ago in Oklahoma at Fort Sill.


Bet you have some funny and scary stories.

[bluedigger]

25. Engineering unit next door to us spent from Thanksgiving to Xmas in the field loking for a lost M16.

They finally relented and let them back on post for Xmas. Eventually found out the M16 went out the main gate in someone's trunk.

And then there was the time we lost a 105mm howitzer round that fell out of a Chinook in flight... (It wasn't fuzed and buried itself six feet deep in a soybean field.

[Mountain Mule]

24. HA! HA!

Knowing you I can believe it! Glad you made it through.

[miyazaki]

21. They're bombing the hell out of the Desert Combat Training Center

in Twentynine Palms, CA. tonight. Been doing so a lot the past week. I can feel the concussions from thirty plus miles away.
Gearing up for a Spring Offensive possibly.

[Mountain Mule]

22. I hate that kind of stuff!

I used to live in Colorado Springs in between Ft Carson and Peterson Air Force Base. Sometimes there would be all this aircraft up in the sky for no apparent reason. I'm an Army brat and I'd wonder if my friends in the military were being sent out on yet another deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan. On a night like tonight that would really have me wondering. As a matter of fact, I have a friend who still lives in the Springs and he told me yesterday that there's been all kinds of aircraft traffic over his house for the last few days. Wouldn't surprise me in the least if the Traitor gets us into another war so he can CYA.

[japple]

28. A belated welcome to DU, Mountain Mule, from an elderly

Army brat!

[Mountain Mule]

30. TY, japple!

I'm getting pretty dang elderly myself!

[MineralMan]

26. Maybe they're planning a raid on North Korea of some kind.

Trump appears ready to do some military flag-waving, and PRNK could be a likely target, I'd think. Maybe he's planning a PRaNK on them.

[hvn_nbr_2]

31. More likely a raid on CNN, NYT, and WaPo. nt

[japple]

27. I live in N. Georgia and a retired army colonel told me that our area is

in a flight path from a base in KY to a base here in Georgia (maybe Ft. Benning). I remember during the Bush years that there were a lot of big transports flying low (C-130s?) over this area during the day as well as at night. We would often see them nearly brush the treetops. When the Obama admin. came into office, they stopped. Now, they are back again at night, usually 8 or 9:00 pm, flying from north to south. My house is about 65 miles from the Atlanta airport and it is not unusual to hear air traffic overhead, but this is different.

[asiliveandbreathe]

29. Interesting..my son, Ret Navy Chief -21 years - same thing at Luke AFB AZ

He said he usually doesn't even pay attention, noticeable increase..and he is about 20 miles away from base...