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2008-06-18 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by OldSpook 2008-06-18 14:44|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Of course its not all loonies here in Colorado:

Some people were thrilled to see choppers in action...

Becky Alfrey watched in amazement as the whirlybirds whizzed by her 13th-floor flat, "darting in between the buildings downtown."

"I waved at one of the copters and someone waved back!" she said, adding that the tethered, camouflaged commandos "were literally hanging half out of the helicopter."

Posted by OldSpook 2008-06-18 15:19|| 2008-06-18 15:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Also a lot of the idiots are completely unaware that the 3/19 Special Forces is a Colorado National Guard unit. And that many of Denver metro area police department SWAT Teams have officers who are in the Colorado Guard in that SF unit. There is decent helicopter lift capability as well as SOCOM qualified pilots in the Guard at Buckley AFB, in addition to F-16's, just outside Denver (at Buckley AFB).

I live near Buckley, so I get the privilege of seeing and hearing the F-16's doing their job. And the occasional F-15, C-17, C-5, and Canadian and Marine/Navy F/A-18s transiting, that use Buckley as a stop off top off point.

They keep a low profile, which is why most of the Boulder hippies and Denver dumbasses don't realize they are there.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-06-18 15:28|| 2008-06-18 15:28|| Front Page Top

#3 That would be soooo cool. All we get here are helicopters and airplanes flying so high we can just hear them. I imagine they fly out of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base up in Dayton... or the Blue Ash airport. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-06-18 16:30|| 2008-06-18 16:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Aw hell. Fufill a Moonbat Fantasy. Impose martial law in Denver.

Posted by tu3031 2008-06-18 16:40|| 2008-06-18 16:40|| Front Page Top

#5 There is nothing like the sound of a J-52-408 at high power at twilight; the sound of freedom echoing off the tranquil Puget Sound waters as another day of freedom comes to an end.
As so elquently stated by another airplanemaniac: "The smell of burnt JP makes me horny."

Posted by USN, Ret. 2008-06-18 16:44|| 2008-06-18 16:44|| Front Page Top

#6 I suppose the Moonbats have some right to be concerned, in that 99.2% of the US military are Republicans. Which probably rises to 99.8% in SOCOM.

Maybe it's those Karl Rove Brigade shoulder patches they find so disturbing.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-06-18 17:01|| 2008-06-18 17:01|| Front Page Top

#7 We are coming to take you away, HA..HA!
We are coming to take you away, HO..HO!

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-06-18 17:12|| 2008-06-18 17:12|| Front Page Top

#8 practicing for the democratic convention...?

Posted by Big Flavirong2999 2008-06-18 18:28|| 2008-06-18 18:28|| Front Page Top

#9 It is a treat after dark to watch the 16's lift, pop the afterburner, and roar nearly straight up like a rocket into the dark sky.

They don't do it often, but as I tell my son: that's freedom you are seeing and hearing.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-06-18 18:47|| 2008-06-18 18:47|| Front Page Top

#10 ION RIAN > US PLANS [Euro Missle Shield-GMD/TMD] TO NEUTRALIZE RUSSIA's MISSLES 2012 -2015. Analyst IVASHOV - US desires to emplace BMD in UKRAINE + GEORGIA after these success join NATO. Argues that RUSSIA IS "WASTING TIME",+ SHOULD WARN THAT IN ANY US-RUSS MIL CONFRONTATION, ANY AND ALL NATIONS THAT SUPPOR US MISSLE SHIELD PLANS RISK THEIR NATIONS + INFRASTRUCTURE BEING TARGETED AND DESTROYED BY RUSSIAN NUCLEAR STRIKES.

*IMO, also a SUBTLE WARNING that Russ should strike at CONUS-NORAM targets.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-18 20:42|| 2008-06-18 20:42|| Front Page Top

#11 #8 practicing for the democratic convention...?
Posted by Big Flavirong2999 2008-06-18 18:28|| Front Page|| ||Comments Top

Precisely.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-06-18 20:58|| 2008-06-18 20:58|| Front Page Top

#12 Actually SOCOM says no - they had an identical set of exercises in Boston a little bit ago.

They wanted to work near the sea and a harbor(Boston), and then in an arid high altitude climate (Denver).

Gee, what nation has both those kinds of environments and modern cities... (Pakistan)

Posted by OldSpook 2008-06-18 21:54|| 2008-06-18 21:54|| Front Page Top

#13 Aren't there also some ranger units in Colorado working in mountain rescue or something like that?

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-06-18 22:23|| 2008-06-18 22:23|| Front Page Top

#14 The 2008 Republican Convention seems to be moving along with little hysteria or fanfare.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-06-18 22:36|| 2008-06-18 22:36|| Front Page Top

#15 Marines winter-train in the Sierras by the Sonora Pass, north of Bridgeport, CA

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-06-18 22:38|| 2008-06-18 22:38|| Front Page Top

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