[Las Vegas Dave]

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[Rennes Templar]

Wow wish I could be there.

[Rennes Templar]

“..there will be no grandstands, as officials cited budget restraints.”

Obama’s fault.

[Las Vegas Dave]

Burke Lakefront Airport - Cleveland Ohio

[nascarnation]

Ha! A bunch of Boy Scouts could take the Burke Airport.
Send those Marines over here and see if they’re any good:

http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/cleveland_metro/two-cleveland-neighborhoods-named-most-dangerous-in-country

[rbg81]

If you want to see a great example of Marines storming something, watch “The Wind and the Lion” from 1975. They double-time march from the ship directly to a Sultan’s palace and storm it. Awesome scene. The clip used to be on YouTube, but it got pulled. :-((

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Awesome, but they should have selected Detroit or Flint. Then they could have blown up lots of houses that they are trying to get rid of and cowed the feral gangs there.

[2111USMC]

I wonder if they’ll use explosives to rip out the fence lines?

And, of course, the target will need to be “softened up” with some arty!

(Some of my favorite memories of 29 Palms is watching air and fire power demonstrations out in the desert using real ordnance!)

[Whenifhow]

Marines Invade Burke Lakefront Airport

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T6_-f9tk000

How the Marines invade Burke Lakefront Airport

http://www.cleveland.com/marine-week/index.ssf/2012/06/the_invasion_of_cleveland.html

The U.S. Marines are spoiling to show you a day in their office. And to do it, they’ve concocted an elaborate wargames scenario that will culminate in a scaled-down, simulated amphibious assault on Cleveland’s Burke Lakefront Airport. You won’t see every weapon and tactic the Marine Corps can use against an enemy — but you will see an impressive bag of tricks, including a combat demonstration of one of the world’s most unusual aircraft, the MV-22 Osprey.

The scenario: Violent revolution in an imaginary country