Posted on 09/11/2009 7:13:40 AM PDT by TLI
Edited on 09/11/2009 7:47:44 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
In the Army, we used encrypted, frequency-hopping radio in training all the time. There may well be reasons for the Coast Guard not to do thatThey don't even have to go that far; any of the Project 25 compliant radios produced by EF Johnson or Motorola can be equipped/'optioned out' with AES encryption with a chack mark on the order/provisioning sheet ...
CG has had those spread spectrum encrypted radios for years. Only reason why they’d be on regular VHF is because they are trying to raise the suspect vessel and were unsuccessful. I doubt very seriously this was a training exercise. Especially with live fire. Especially with the bridges open. Especially on 9/11. Especially without issuing a notice to mariners and a notice to airmen.
It’s why National shut down the airport. There was no NTM/NTA so they assume this is NOT an exercise.
WH is lying through its teeth again.
But this was just a daily routine trainer. Something they did a thousand times already and there should not have been a issue of any-kind. The president was back at the WhiteHouse and this crap came from nowhere. When I saw CNN break this I was concerned until I saw the pictures. What I saw was 4 patrol boats, with three of them containing and stopping the fourth. They were identical boats and I thought, "This is a friggin exercise".
When I heard the CNN babe say there was radio traffic about shots fire and apparently someone said "bang", I knew immediately it was a exercise, and I am a Army guy, not a squid. We did the same sort of stuff for daily training.
Now active duty military serving overseas in live fire zones, that's a horse of a different color...
POTUS had gone to the Pentagon as well. That is likely why they pulled the plug at the airport. It is like ten flight minutes away.
When CNN hears “bang bang bang,” on the radio, they think that’s real shots fired. Probably from a 12 gauge assault rifle.
There is never a time or place inappropriate or a scenario to far fetched that those who protect Us shouldn’t train for.
Before Sept. 11,2009, it might have seemed a ridiculous assertion that someone would fly commercial airlines into buildings as an act of terrorism..
I went to Your page.
You seem fairly impressed with your own intellect.
What the hell does that mean?
Well, I’m impressed with yours too. Thanks.
Yeah, and AF1 flyover was also a training mission. Gotcha.
Wow, the “simulated live fire” was a guy yelling “bang”? I’m glad to see all the new government spending isn’t going to training ammo and blanks. God forbid sailors get any useful, realistic training.
I wish
It means I do not want you next to me in the the trench when the SHF!
CNN working with Obama directed by Soros to scare the 9-12 protesters from showing up.
Or, creating a panick that stops the buses and trains - who knows?
As Holder says, Americans are cowards.
See in DC tomorrow come he11 or simulated live shot over water!!!
FREEDOM!
Well, Voinovich is rather emotionally fragile, as he showed a couple years ago. I can see why he’s upset by this.
Training for ObamoSoros on intimidation of crowds with deniability.
/tinfoil taken off.
That is interesting.
When I first read the article, I could not believe it. I read it over and over, looked at the source, and realized it’s for real.
“Whether they will send jumpy tourists and Washingtonians on Pennsylvania Avenue fleeing in fear remains unknown, but embassy officials say they have a green light from the Secret Service, the State Department and the D.C. fire marshal.”
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