Okay, this probably literally means nothing, but I wanted to pass something I saw today along to my favorite community and contribute any amount of hopium I can.
This happened in a suburb 45 minutes outside of Chicago. I work right next to our town's police station. Several of my co-workers and I noticed that there was a big military Humvee parked behind the police station today (we can see from our office windows above). There were a couple guys in military uniforms with big black rifles standing outside and talking.
Eventually they left, but then a couple Humvees came back later in the day. Troops got out of the military vehicles and they all got into several black SUV's (3 or 4) before all driving off together.
I seriously have no clue what this means or if there even is anything remotely interesting or out of the normal about this, but I've never seen it before and neither have my co-workers.
Also, our building's connection to the Comcast network went down for an hour and a half this afternoon. Let me tell you, my hopes were shooting up pretty high when this happened after seeing the military right outside lol
So, I just wanted to share this with you all! Take it for whatever it's worth to you!
Edit: One of the Humvees rolled through the parking lot while I was outside eating lunch. Terrible quality, I know, but take what you get lol
Thanks for sharing. But you didn't think to take pics or video?
Crappy Picture
Here is a crappy picture I took while I was in my car eating lunch of one of them rolling through the parking lot. I honestly just don't want to give away where I work for privacy reasons, which is why I didn't take better pictures while it was happening.
That's not a Hummvee. That's a SWAT Tactical Vehicle. So, I'd say y'all were watching a SWAT unit gear up to go raid some houses and serve some warrants on some dangerous individuals, but needed some secrecy, so instead of rolling in the tac vehicle, they rolled out in unmarked SUV's.
Do SWAT members usually wear outfits like this? [Uniform(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/ArmyacuOCP.jpg)
Because these are the uniforms the soldiers were wearing (or something very similar) who were standing outside and talking to each other with their black rifles.
Yes. Some wear black, some wear olive drab, and some wear woodland or desert camo, digital camo, etc. All depends on the police agency's preference and where they're operating.
I live in Ctrl Fl, and know SWAT guys/gals in multiple jurisdictions, people I served with in the Navy that went on to continue serving in a police agency, and they all have different tac hear and uni's.
Edit: when I was NAVY EOD, Awe wroked closely with the municipal and county police units in our area. I did some time stationed at MCAS Beaufort with a Marine EOD unit, and we soley did ALL the demo work for Beaufort City Police and Beaufort County Sheriff's. They didn't even have an EOD team.
And when I was stationed in San Diego, we trained different agencies with the knowledge we gained in Iraq and Afghanistan on the various IED's being used and the methods those terror orgs were using on us.
And each one seems to have their own preference of uniforms, even among members of the various units.
Exactly, if you could see from a window you could have at least have recorded something.
I know, I know. I dropped the ball because I'm literally working and with my co-workers. I just didn't want to pull my phone out in front of all of them and record/take pictures. Plus, I was concerned about privacy and giving away the building I work at.
Sooooo, you get what you get! If anything happens again, though, I'll be more conscientious of trying to take a good picture or video.
Nah, I don't think you dropped the ball on anything. You did what you could among the company you had around you at the time.
Don't fault yourself for that.
It's easy for us to talk here online and anonymously, it's something totally different in today's work please environment when you have to put food on the table and keep a roof over your head and dot know if that company will fire you for a certain political pref or for being associated with Q.
And it's good you asked if you don't know the answer.
The only stupid question is the one not asked.