Go look for yourself.
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It’s 9pm eastern. Normally at this time on a weekday, there’s relatively light traffic. Yesterday and today, it’s been double, triple or more. It started yesterday. I see a pattern. There are sentry helicopter pairs flying randomly around many major east coast bases and waterways. Many many more helicopters up right now than the last year. It’s fucking hectic out there right now. And it shouldn’t be. Pretty sure there’s a carrier down off Florida. I tracked mail birds leaving and then disappearing off shore. Only one place they could be going.
Something has changed with the start of Durham trial. I check this website several times a day since 2019. Every day. I am ex military as well, I know when something is unusual. This is unusual. Very.
We have entered a new phase of whatever is happening. This is a fucking shitload of aircfraft and helos at 2100 on a Wednesday.
Beginning of fiscal year. Happened last year at this time too, and every year prior to that. The units are flush with money, and they like to get out there and train as much as possible. When I was in, we always did major training in October and Feb/Mar. In April and May of 1988, we went to Team Spirit in Korea. Prior to that we went to Hawaii to interface with the 25ID to proof out the light attack concept.