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.
Their new year of financ starts in October, so time to do lots of training?
In my experience it's towards the end of the fiscal year that they try to burn up money. Reason being if they have any left in the pot it supposedly gets subtracted from next year's budget. Source: former DoD employee.
Agree here to a point. Former navy ATC and in my experience there was a big decline right before the budget passed and as soon as they got funds aircraft sorties would be up big. Can’t remember what that time frame was for the new fiscal year besides fall.
New fiscal year starts 1 October and ends 30 Sep.