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Coast Guard firing on boat in the Potomac [A TRAINING EXERCISE!?!?!?!?!?!]
CNN ^ | Sept 11, 2009 | CNN

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]

Coast Guard fired on boat in the Potomac, nothing on the wires yet...

Who are these idiots!!!!!!!!!!


174 posted on 09/11/2009 7:37:05 AM PDT by maggief


TOPICS: Breaking News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: boat; coastguard; dc; drill; potomac; uscg
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To: The Pack Knight
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 that
They 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 ...
421 posted on 09/11/2009 9:56:06 AM PDT by _Jim
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To: The Pack Knight

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.


422 posted on 09/11/2009 9:57:20 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: The Pack Knight
This being DC, I'm betting all the available encrypted channels are all reserved for certain activities. I don't know for sure however.

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.

423 posted on 09/11/2009 9:57:34 AM PDT by Cold Heat
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To: PghBaldy
Gibbs said, “I tend not to question law enforcement trying to keep the nation safe.”

Now active duty military serving overseas in live fire zones, that's a horse of a different color...

424 posted on 09/11/2009 9:59:51 AM PDT by BlueNgold (Have we crossed the line from Govt. in righteous fear of the People - to a People in fear of Govt??)
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To: RinaseaofDs
POTUS was on the move this morning. All this happened before this Coast guard exercise was run this morning.

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.

425 posted on 09/11/2009 10:00:50 AM PDT by Cold Heat
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To: Cold Heat

When CNN hears “bang bang bang,” on the radio, they think that’s real shots fired. Probably from a 12 gauge assault rifle.


426 posted on 09/11/2009 10:03:38 AM PDT by RetroSexual
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To: _Jim
Example #1: Common sense is not so common ...

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.

427 posted on 09/11/2009 10:04:12 AM PDT by rewrite (It ain't what You are, it's what You're about that makes a difference in the world.)
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To: Red_Devil 232

What the hell does that mean?


428 posted on 09/11/2009 10:04:32 AM PDT by PghBaldy (Obama Hijacks 9/11: http://www.serve.gov/assets/documents/09_0828_potus.pdf)
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To: RinaseaofDs
I will say that if the White House is lying about this, then it's more likely that it's to downplay an actual threat, rather than to play up a phony one. Everything Obama has done so far suggests that he does not want September 11th to be associated with terrorism any longer.
429 posted on 09/11/2009 10:06:15 AM PDT by The Pack Knight (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: rewrite

Well, I’m impressed with yours too. Thanks.


430 posted on 09/11/2009 10:07:12 AM PDT by _Jim
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To: Cold Heat

Yeah, and AF1 flyover was also a training mission. Gotcha.


431 posted on 09/11/2009 10:08:18 AM PDT by PghBaldy (Obama Hijacks 9/11: http://www.serve.gov/assets/documents/09_0828_potus.pdf)
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To: Cold Heat

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.


432 posted on 09/11/2009 10:10:21 AM PDT by The Pack Knight (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: Krankor

I wish


433 posted on 09/11/2009 10:11:27 AM PDT by mojitojoe (Socialism is just the last “feel good” step on the path to Communism and its slavery. Lenin)
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To: PghBaldy

It means I do not want you next to me in the the trench when the SHF!


434 posted on 09/11/2009 10:12:02 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: TLI

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!


436 posted on 09/11/2009 10:14:50 AM PDT by Voter62vb
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To: maggief

Well, Voinovich is rather emotionally fragile, as he showed a couple years ago. I can see why he’s upset by this.


437 posted on 09/11/2009 10:15:15 AM PDT by The Pack Knight (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: PghBaldy

Training for ObamoSoros on intimidation of crowds with deniability.

/tinfoil taken off.


438 posted on 09/11/2009 10:16:40 AM PDT by Voter62vb
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To: JesusBmyGod

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.”


439 posted on 09/11/2009 10:19:56 AM PDT by toldyou (Even if the voices aren't real they have some pretty good ideas.)
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To: MinuteGal
Rush just reiterated almost exactly what I wrote above....essentially that the slavering media was making a stupidly dramatic mountain out of a molehill.

This is exactly what he means by "Drive By Media." Tossing off mindless "reports" on targets of opportunity without bothering to actually investigate the facts.
440 posted on 09/11/2009 10:22:33 AM PDT by The Pack Knight (Duty, Honor, Country)
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