Those are MH-6 Little Birds which is the signature of 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR) "Night Stalkers". No idea what they are up to but they never run drills over civilian populations. That's about as taboo as it gets. So whatever they are doing it isn't training or drilling.
Those are the same helicopters used in the LA op a couple years ago. And it sounds like a similar result. In LA they actually landed and removed something from a vacant building. In SD loud booms at a vacant building.
Another Op?
Hybrid training environments – combining a physical structure with a synthetic training environment – can provide realism and repeatable training opportunities,' Army Technology said of the practice.
The key part of this quote from the Army is "combining a physical structure with a synthetic training environment ". Last I looked downtown SD is not a synthetic training enviroment.
As a San Diego resident, I can tel you that there are holes in the Daily Mail story that this post links. It says Camp Pendleton announced training activity, but Camp Pendleton is at the northern tip of San Diego County, about 45-minutes drive from downtown San Diego/Pt.Loma, where the incident took place. The people in downtown/Pt. Loma were not notified.
The article also said the "booms" were from an empty electronics building in the Serra Mesa neighborhood. Serra Mesa is about 10 minutes drive north of downtown. I haven't heard anyone saying the helicopters were in Serra Mesa.
The local news video that I linked to said that the helicopters landed in the park in Liberty Station. Liberty Station is a former military base in Pt. Loma. When the base closed, the military kept two small chunks of land, so there is a tiny military base just west of where the helicopters landed (between Liberty Station and the airport) and another tiny base just south of where they landed (along the San Diego Bay waterfront). Each base is like 2-minute walk from where the helicopters landed.
Those are MH-6 Little Birds which is the signature of 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR) "Night Stalkers". No idea what they are up to but they never run drills over civilian populations. That's about as taboo as it gets. So whatever they are doing it isn't training or drilling.
Those are the same helicopters used in the LA op a couple years ago. And it sounds like a similar result. In LA they actually landed and removed something from a vacant building. In SD loud booms at a vacant building.
Another Op?
The key part of this quote from the Army is "combining a physical structure with a synthetic training environment ". Last I looked downtown SD is not a synthetic training enviroment.
The local news had a different version of the story: https://greatawakening.win/p/16a9v2HlFZ/san-diego-residents-startled-by-/
As a San Diego resident, I can tel you that there are holes in the Daily Mail story that this post links. It says Camp Pendleton announced training activity, but Camp Pendleton is at the northern tip of San Diego County, about 45-minutes drive from downtown San Diego/Pt.Loma, where the incident took place. The people in downtown/Pt. Loma were not notified.
The article also said the "booms" were from an empty electronics building in the Serra Mesa neighborhood. Serra Mesa is about 10 minutes drive north of downtown. I haven't heard anyone saying the helicopters were in Serra Mesa.
The local news video that I linked to said that the helicopters landed in the park in Liberty Station. Liberty Station is a former military base in Pt. Loma. When the base closed, the military kept two small chunks of land, so there is a tiny military base just west of where the helicopters landed (between Liberty Station and the airport) and another tiny base just south of where they landed (along the San Diego Bay waterfront). Each base is like 2-minute walk from where the helicopters landed.