I'm an ex Mil helicopter pilot and I'm telling you carrying out a confined area landing in a live downtown street, with multiple hazards (trees, wires, vehicles, people, and especially debris) like this doesn't happen for an exercise.

This was the real deal. Note the lack of strobing collision lights, whilst I did see the green of the starboard Nav light and landing light on the second Blackhawk high hover approach, they went out nearing the ground.

It's just not feasible to think this was an exercise when there are plenty of sites in use for this sort of training.

Yes I remember President Trump cancelling the flights of Pelosi and the rest, I didn't connect the two events at the time but it makes much more sense now. I bet their families were suddenly out of town on that date as well!

Good post anon.