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| 2012-06-19 |
| H/T The Holy Blogfaddah Massive Bombing Exercises Reported at Fort Knox - Have Been Ongoing For The Past Several Weeks Infidel Bloggers Alliance Contributor Christine, who lives in Kentucky near Fort Knox, reports that massive bombing exercises have been ongoing for several weeks. Locals who have lived in the area for a long time say these kinds of exercises are unprecedented. Here is the dialogue from the IBA comments section: Fort Knox has been SERIOUSLY rocking today. The bombing has been going on since early this morning. Been like a day long earthquake. Somethings up. Doesn't make sense to me. I'm just an old ex-enlisted squid, but this story would make more sense as a precursor of Something Really Really Big if it was happening at, say, Fort Hood or Fort Irwin. I'll gladly accept correction from any current or former Army types, but IIRC, Knox is mostly a venue for junior EM's and 2nd Lt's getting their initial training as Armor crew and officers - not a place where large combined-arms units are doing live fire workups preparatory to going somewhere hot. |
| Posted by:RIcky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) |
| #7 I suggested on her blog that she call the post community relations number if she is concerned about her proximity to the shelling. They're probably closed now but they're probably more eager to talk to someone on the phone than to have to deal with idle speculation on the Internet. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2012-06-19 18:24 |
| #6 Armor school is at Benning now. Not much left at Knox. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2012-06-19 15:06 |
| #5 As an alumus of the Armor School (AOBC,AOAC) and a veteran of nights at the Fiddler's Green, (O-Cubb and the Brick Mess), its not a combined arms site, but if there are several simultanous enlisted and officer classes sharing the range for main gun tables, it does get loud and for a prolonged period, day and night tank gunnery tables. A new neighbor might get that impression |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2012-06-19 13:36 |
| #4 Some years ago an anal-retentive professor I know was testing an experimental sensor system at the Fort Knox shooting range. This guy loved very large digital video databases - there was no other excuse for his range behavior. He had Russian and US high velocity sniper rifles and over time blew the berms up so bad that the range needed to be rebuilt. In addition, he totally wore out two Dragunovs and an unlucky shooter's ear drums. All he got out of it was huge stacks of hard drives full of mostly useless crap. So what I am trying to say is "Don't assume that there is any strategic intent by what you are hearing!" |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2012-06-19 10:56 |
| #3 Destroying evidence the gold is no longer there? |
| Posted by: OmuluqueHapsburg5085 2012-06-19 10:29 |
| #2 Might be giving the RotC boys some firepower demonstrations. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2012-06-19 02:16 |
| #1 Doesn't make sense to me, either. I checked the post website, nothing unusual noted. Looks like this summer's first class of cadets just arrived on June 14. Terrain at Ft. Knox doesn't match anything in Syria or Iran so I would also expect something like Ft. Irwin or even Ft. Carson. My guess is it's a lot of nothing. Maybe they are using a range they haven't used in a while or something that is closer to where this person lives. Person reporting this has only lived there six months. Person reporting says locals "don't remember this much activity in a long time" but that is qualified with "we don't really notice it much anymore" so it might be one of those things that gets noticed when attention is called to it. NOTE: I grew up near a military base and we were told by our parents not to pay much mind to "military business". I am surprised this person is reporting this in this manner. Personal opinion: she should (trying to find a nice way to put it) STFU |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2012-06-19 02:12 |