Army Lets Slip That It's Conducting Secret Operation Around D.C.

[Mrs. Overall]

Source: Bloomberg

The Pentagon has revealed a few details about a secret Army mission that has Black Hawk helicopters flying missions over the Washington, D.C., area backed by active-duty and reserve soldiers.

The mysterious classified operation was disclosed when the Army asked Congress for approval to shift funds to provide an extra $1.55 million for aircraft maintenance, air crews and travel in support of an “emerging classified flight mission.”

It’s part of a $2.5 billion request this month to “reprogram” funds in the current fiscal year’s budget to programs considered high priorities. “Without additional funding, the Army will not be able to perform this classified mission,” the Defense Department said.

“Soldiers from assault helicopter company and aviation maintenance units will be supporting the mission with 10 UH-60s and maintenance capabilities for four months,” according to the document, referring to the Black Hawks. The money will also pay for a specialized “Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility” at Davison Army Airfield at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, just outside Washington.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-22/army-lets-slip-that-it-s-conducting-secret-operation-around-d-c

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. Thanks! I'll be on the lookout...

[hlthe2b]

2. "leaked?" Might anyone benefit from having the public on edge?

hmmm.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. And to listen, simply program your scanners to....

Davison Army Airfield
....

Davison Army Airfield is located approximately 11.0 nms. southwest of Washington, DC at Fort Belvoir, Virginia on the DCA 227 degree radial, and serves as HQ Operational Support Airlift Command (OSAC). In addition to regular United States Army based and transient aircraft movements, regular flights into DAA are operated by the United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, United States Air Force, and the United States Coast Guard. Many civilian flights also operate in and out of Davison on an ad hoc basis.

{snip the frequencies}

In northern Virginia, we regularly get Coast Guard HH-65 helicopters, the yellow and blue Washington Hospital Center helicopter, Virginia State Police, Park Police, and the rare MV-22, if that counts as a helicopter. So anything other than one of those....

[Mrs. Overall]

4. Anyone have a clue what this might be about? Is it a scare tactic?

[qazplm135]

19. odds are something extremely mundane and boring

just because it's Secret doesn't mean it's remotely interesting...as someone who has a TS clearance.

I mean...other than the aliens...

Wait, I've said too much!

[demigoddess]

31. Did trumpf order this to protect himself from an uprising of American

citizens?? Is he expecting a trial and a trip to the guillotine? ala marie antoinette?

[Talitha]

33. Maybe the spineless little weasel will blow a gasket...

and save us the trouble.

[ToxMarz]

5. Jade Helm

[magicarpet]

8. Jade Helm,.. ?

Obama is coming back to become our dictator ? What about the Fascist -trDump ?

[912gdm]

28. He never left.

That's 20 dimensional chess for you. 😉

[Grins]

34. My thought too!

Think those on the Reich will scream their asses off after they hear about this, just like they did over Kenyan usurper’s plan to turn Walmart stores into FEMA Reeducation Camps connected by underground submarine tunnels and pens? Huh? Huh?

[CaptainTruth]

6. Coup?

[infullview]

13. Yep.

[JohnnyRingo]

7. Probably working on plans in case Trump is forced out.

Either by impeachment or election, I'm sure Trump would feel better knowing that martial law could prevent him from being physically removed from the White House. The military could lock down the Capital and shield him from troublesome activists (both civilian and government) while he installs a new legislature.

I'm not much for conspiracy theories, but nothing surprises me anymore.

[LiberalLovinLug]

25. That was my first thought

That or simply getting a plan in place for the hordes of "angry violent libruls" that will storm Washington in protest against some impending action by Trump even while still in office. Makes one wonder what that 'action' will be.

[JohnnyRingo]

37. Fortunately, the constitution doesn't allow the military...

...to be turned on citizens. I'm sure Barr, McConnell, and Lindsey Graham will uphold that.

Shit!

[tiptonic]

9. Don"t worry

We will know for sure, right after the 2020 election.

[bluedigger]

10. First the secret Chinese treaty and now this.

Secrets are hard to keep, it seems.

[hedda_foil]

11. Secret Chinese treaty? What did I miss?????

[OnlinePoker]

14. Probably this one from Cambodia

Cambodia denies deal to allow armed Chinese forces at its naval base

China will be able to place armed forces at a Cambodian naval base under a secret pact between the two nations, the Wall Street Journal said on Sunday, although Cambodian officials denied such a deal had been struck.

The agreement, reached this spring but not made public, gives China exclusive access to part of Cambodia's Ream Naval Base on the Gulf of Thailand, the Journal said, citing U.S. and allied officials familiar with the matter.

Such an arrangement would boost China's ability to assert contested territorial claims and economic interests in the South China Sea, challenging U.S. allies in Southeast Asia.

Chinese and Cambodian officials denied such a pact existed, the Journal said.

https://www.theguardian.pe.ca/news/world/china-strikes-secret-deal-to-allow-armed-forces-at-cambodian-naval-base-wsj-335292/

[hedda_foil]

22. Ahh. Thank you. I assumed incorrectly that we were involved in a a secret treaty with China.

[jalan48]

12. Got to get ready for potential public unrest if the next election is openly stolen.

[murielm99]

16. Potential public unrest is putting it mildly.

He has brought us to the brink of civil war already.

[shraby]

15. Is trump trying to shift money to his wall again?

[KY_EnviroGuy]

17. Hide yer DNC, ACLU and Sierra Club membership cards!

Jade Helm II ?

Anyone monitoring Alex Jones?....... .......

[keithbvadu2]

27. Are they using secret tunnels between closed Walmarts?

Are they using secret tunnels between closed Walmarts?

[KY_EnviroGuy]

30. Yep, and provisions for access to the secret basements of....

the nearest Chic-Fil-A, Home Depot and Hobby Lobby. Ya never know when you need to do a little shopping!

There will be hourly evangelical prayer meetings in the closed Walmarts.

KY.......

[Maxheader]

18. Sounds like a scam..

to get money for duh wall..

[Ford_Prefect]

20. Sounds like something right out of Seven Days In May...

Does anyone remember what ECOMCON was all about?

Or should Congress be asking Eric Prince about this?

[Doitnow]

21. Another distraction for this week's troubles 45 is facing?

[bringthePaine]

23. Posse Comitatus anyone?

from Wikipedia:

"The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385, original at 20 Stat. 152) signed on June 18, 1878, by President Rutherford B. Hayes. The purpose of the act – in concert with the Insurrection Act of 1807 – is to limit the powers of the federal government in using federal military personnel to enforce domestic policies within the United States. It was passed as an amendment to an army appropriation bill following the end of Reconstruction and was updated in 1956 and 1981.

The act specifically applies only to the United States Army and, as amended in 1956, the United States Air Force. Although the act does not explicitly mention the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps, the Department of the Navy has prescribed regulations that are generally construed to give the act force with respect to those services as well. The act does not prevent the Army National Guard or the Air National Guard under state authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within its home state or in an adjacent state if invited by that state's governor. The United States Coast Guard, which operates under the Department of Homeland Security, is not covered by the Posse Comitatus Act either, primarily because although the Coast Guard is an armed service, it also has both a maritime law enforcement mission and a federal regulatory agency mission."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act

[Ford_Prefect]

24. If command and control are subverted by a coup legal boundaries will have little effect.

[Turbineguy]

26. And we know

how much trump respects the law.

[DENVERPOPS]

36. And of course

And of course we are all already well versed on Trump, the Republican Senators and the Republican Party really love to abide by the laws, acts, constitution, etc et etc.

didn't W Bush/Cheney et al try to repeal the Posse Comitatus Act during their administration and possibly were successful for a short period??????????

With these clowns, the DOJ and Supreme Court, they could shove thru a repeal in a minute.........


Then again, do you remember the evacuation of Saigon from the top of the embassy.......Maybe the helicopters are rehearsing getting Trump and Repub Senators out to Air Force ONE which would fly them all to Russia......LOL

[BamaRefugee]

29. Aerial survey for locations of new tRump golf course, future site of the EMOLUMENTS OPEN tournament

[alfredo]

32. Trump just gave himself broader power to deport the undocumented.

Cattle cars are so last century.

[Bengus81]

35. Come on....the PUKES had their "black helo" BS 25 years ago when Clinton was Pres

It was ridiculous then,same now...........