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Helicopters over Fairmount
07/25/2015 5:15 PM by John M
Huge helicopters making multiple passes over Fairmount. At least 6 that I’ve counted, one shaking the house. Anybody know what they’re up to?
The invasion starts in Church Hill. I’m starting a revolutionary group a la Red Dawn. Who’s in?
Holy shit that brought out the crazies
@ 42, thank you! They can train over my house all they want if they are doing it to keep us safe! I knew as soon as I heard them flying overhead that the OMG-what-are-they-doing-it’s a conspiracy crowd would come out. God bless our troops!
Zombies, martial law & desensitizing programs! Oh my!
No notification manners. We’re not a military town per se. I watch the copters land all. the. time. at MCV/VCU. Come down a little further off your hill and the shit won’t surprise you as much. Or just endure F-16s after 9/11 and you really don’t care about this small town stuff. #life.
I work in Manchester and see the military helicopters circling over the city at least once a week. Calm down, paranoid ones, it’s called training.
Now, imagine some idiot with a drone thinking it would be fun to fly close and take a picture of a helicopter, and getting too close to the rotors, and … and …
@ #27, Thank You.
Folks, please note the info in the link below, and make your own, objective decision. I, for one, am not in fear of a “Blue Dawn”. We have many new and asymetrical threats within our borders, and therefore must train for them. Let me be clear (as our state motto says: “Sic Semepr Tyrannis”), that our citizens would not stand idle for a REAL “takeover” or etc.
“The spirit of resistance to government
is so valuable on certain occasions,
that I wish it to be always kept alive.
It will often be exercised when wrong
but better so than not to be exercised at all.
I like a little rebellion now and then.
It is like a storm in the atmosphere.”
(Thomas Jefferson)
http://sofrep.com/42197/jade-helm-hide-women-gold-new-world-order/
Laura Llyn
As a former member of the Virginia Air National Guard (the first female), It is good to hear a level headed statement on this subject being discussed here. Often times a person only reads the part of an Act, Bill, Amendment etc. that supports their point of view and winds up with egg on their face for not reading the whole thing.
People, GET OVER YOURSELVES, you do not own the air space over your little confused heads.
Chris McCloud
The Virginia Air National Guard has always used the runways at Richmond International Airport. Their base is located directly behind the RIA which was a military airport when first built. It makes no sense to have duplicate runways less than a quarter mile apart.
I am only speculating on this, however it makes perfect sense to me to close runways to commercial aircraft when flying military aircraft in close quarters. Some of the Air National Guard aircraft are really slow like Hueys and some are blazing fast like the F16.
Great thread. A++ would read again.
I am sure it is training exercises… nothing new. Possibly getting ready for the bike races and anything that may pop up along with regular exercises?
We have own a mountain retreat for the past 25 years which is up on a mountain in the George Washington National Forrest. Every Monday, fighter jets would fly over treetop low (actually 200 feet is the lowest they can go), so low you can see the pilots. After the crash last year of one of the F-15C “Eagle” jets, that stopped. They were out of a National Guards location and did not bother me but actually looked forward to their flyovers and sometimes could hear the air whistle ahead of them.