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Low-flying military aircraft surprise Bay Area suburbs ahead of Biden visit
San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^ | June 18, 2023 Updated: June 18, 2023 9:12 a.m. | Katie Dowd , SFGATE

Posted on 06/18/2023 11:36:24 AM PDT by thecodont

Ahead of President Joe Biden’s trip to the Bay Area, low-flying military aircraft have been spotted in the suburbs.

Residents of Marin County were surprised to see MV-22 Ospreys and Sikorsky White Hawk helicopters in the area Friday. At least five aircraft did maneuvers around the area, including in Larkspur, before heading off. But there’s no need to worry about an impending ground invasion: They’re likely here because Biden arrives in the Bay Area on Monday.

Biden will be on a fundraising blitz among wealthy California Democrats. On Monday, he’ll be the guest of honor at a reception hosted at the Atherton home of venture capitalist Steve Westly and his wife Anita Yu. The Bay Area News Group, which saw an invitation to the event, reports the get-in-the-door price is $6,600 per person. Next, Biden will hop over to Los Gatos for another fundraiser hosted by Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott, his wife Shannon Hunt-Scott and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Reuters reports.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: military; sfbayarea
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To: thecodont

LOL! No they’re not there because of Biden. Nice try though. I guess Biden’s going to be in every major city in the US because the military is currently in every major city in the US including Hollywood Blvd. In LA.


21 posted on 06/18/2023 12:44:33 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: dforest

Bingo! We have a winner.


22 posted on 06/18/2023 12:46:34 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: thecodont
These are US MArine Aircraft.

They are doing practice strafing runs against MAGA supporters ?

Sikorsky White Hawk is the same model that carries the president, Sikorski-VH60N:

Maybe the Chinese are out to spook Joe, so he needs multiple decoys.

23 posted on 06/18/2023 12:55:12 PM PDT by Candor7 ( ( Ask not for whom THE Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!)<img src=""width=500></img>)
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To: GingisK
They are practicing to locate him once he wanders off.

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24 posted on 06/18/2023 12:59:55 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: YouGoTexasGirl

Funny and sad....was a time, only 40 years ago, when low flying military aircraft in the Bay Area was the norm....not something newsworthy....


25 posted on 06/18/2023 1:03:46 PM PDT by Crapgame (What should be taught in our schools? American Exceptionalism, not cultural Marxism...)
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To: dforest

Yes it does. I live in Cleveland, less a mile from the KCLE.

Osprey and fighter jets before, during, and after. Pretty standard.


26 posted on 06/18/2023 1:05:12 PM PDT by EBH (America Blackmailed, The True Story of the World War...Coming Soon)
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To: NautiNurse

Bribeme also works.


27 posted on 06/18/2023 1:06:04 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (We have no shortageerof experts, who state things as fact, but are 4 big re no real idea!)
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To: thecodont
If people got a bill every time Chair Force One and the other VIP fliers made one of these visits I think this would come to a pretty quick halt.

I don't know who pays the local PD and SO to run around with the massive federal people but the cost is high.

In 2017 someone spent a lot of time adding up the Trump travel numbers and the actual cost to run the AF1/2 jets is chump change compared to the fleet of aircraft that bring the security, communications, motorcade (yes including a black painted ambulance), patrol boats, all via air and paid for by us. Just the costs involved with the helicopters, surveillance aircraft, national guard fighters, and air traffic control is in the millions per hour.

28 posted on 06/18/2023 1:08:11 PM PDT by jdt1138 (Where ever you go, there you are.)
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To: thecodont

Dear Leader is arriving.


29 posted on 06/18/2023 1:12:37 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: thecodont

Showing them the instruments as in he has F-15s and atomic bombs to remind them to behave while he visits. But he has no dictatorial tendencies.


30 posted on 06/18/2023 1:29:15 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: thecodont

Any large balloons? “Xi for Biden”?


31 posted on 06/18/2023 1:32:24 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: GingisK

LOL!

Post of the day!


32 posted on 06/18/2023 2:42:34 PM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2023 AND 2024!)
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To: MachIV
About 1% of mainland Chinese are very wealthy, due to their CCP connections.

They say the right things, know the right people and do the right things to push forward the CCP goals and, of course, the Party gets their cut.

That's how communism has always worked.

These people are that 1%.

33 posted on 06/18/2023 2:48:51 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: MachIV
Why would a capitalist invest in communism and destruction of a capitalist society?

Lots of wealth and power in being a Commissar.

They think they'll be commissars, not corpses!

34 posted on 06/18/2023 3:22:01 PM PDT by null and void (I’m starting to get the feeling that everything will kill covid except the vax.)
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To: Crapgame

Yes. Moffett Naval Air Station and Hamilton Field — before “base realignment.”

We used to have squadrons of P3s from Moffett flying over our house all the time headed to the Pacific for submarine searches. They were below 1,000 feet (it often felt like 500 feet!) and made everything in the house vibrate.


35 posted on 06/18/2023 5:55:52 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else.)
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