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This VQ-3 Ironman vet is proud to post this article.

But I'm wondering what the hell these guys are doing flying their classic 28deg orbit in the middle of the country.

1 posted on 11/18/2016 6:53:30 PM PST by Mariner
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2 posted on 11/18/2016 6:57:12 PM PST by gaijin
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They were doing urban training over my house in Phoenix yesterday evening. Two black helicopters flying back and forth in an ominous way.


5 posted on 11/18/2016 7:00:26 PM PST by donna (This is more fun than I ever imagined!)
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Probably doing drills with NORAD and the silo’s


7 posted on 11/18/2016 7:02:34 PM PST by Despot of the Delta (It's time for Trump to become Vlad the Impaler. I want Progressive/Globalist/Establishment heads)
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8 posted on 11/18/2016 7:04:23 PM PST by llevrok (je sui cou rouge !)
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It is an E-6B TACAMO, which we have had for 30+ years - on a Boeing 707 or (military) KC-135 airframe. My gosh, what is wrong with these people.

The media wants "mystery" and "controversy?" Ask about how many Muslim boys Obama has brought in and then f_cks in the White House. It isn't a joke.

10 posted on 11/18/2016 7:10:17 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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Two squadrons, the “Ironmen” of VQ-3 and the “Shadows” of VQ-4, employ more than 20 aircrews from Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma...

The plane's callsign was IRON99, so she was one of yours.

11 posted on 11/18/2016 7:13:48 PM PST by okie01
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We here on FR had this all figured out the other day when it was first reported. Right down to the type of plane and the air bases involve.


13 posted on 11/18/2016 7:15:12 PM PST by Parley Baer
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“based on Boeing Co.’s 707 airliner “
??????????


17 posted on 11/18/2016 7:38:31 PM PST by DaxtonBrown
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They were in a classic 2 minute hold, left turns, on an airway.

ATC instructs a pilot to “hold” at a certain point. Once that point is reached, pilot initiates a standard rate 180 degree turn to the left, then flies on a heading of 180 reverse from original course for two minutes, then another standard rate 180 degree turn to the left, back to the original course, two minutes on that course back to the hold point, then a repeat of the original 180 left, repeating the process until cleared out of the hold.

Look at the track. That’s exactly what he was doing. Very standard. Nothing exotic here.


20 posted on 11/18/2016 8:18:07 PM PST by Strac6 (My Sig Sauer, My Pilatus, Mrs. Strac... all the fun things in my life are Swiss)
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Scares me to death to know that Obama has a complete working knowledge of our intel infra structure


22 posted on 11/18/2016 8:35:58 PM PST by Be Careful
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Trump needs to create resources and assets that will be out of Obamas perview


24 posted on 11/18/2016 8:37:08 PM PST by Be Careful
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Watch the video people. It is spreading chemtrails. Its normal procedure that everyone denies is happening. Go out on clear days and you will see it happening. Its just that people in Colorado have there heads in the sand.


26 posted on 11/18/2016 8:50:03 PM PST by taxesareforever (Islam is an ideology. It is NOT a religion.)
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At least the engines have been updated. When I first heard 707 I was thinking turbojets.


31 posted on 11/19/2016 4:28:54 AM PST by C19fan
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How about training?


32 posted on 11/19/2016 4:30:53 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Does America still have lots of safe closet?)
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Sounds like just some basic enroute holding.


33 posted on 11/19/2016 6:31:08 AM PST by ops33 (SMSgt, USAF, Retired)
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