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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: LibertyRocks
There needs to be calls for an investigation into this, that’s for SURE.

Investigate??? For what???

Some dufus translates a guy saying "bang, Bang" On on scanner frequency and CNN put's it on the air as "bullets flying, ten shots fired!

Just who you going to investigate?

The river patrol was done with their job for the morning and used the extra time to run a scenario. This is something they do all the time. There is no notice needed of required.

If some radio snoop misunderstands what is happening, who's fault is that?

CNN blew this when they went to air with a false story. Investigate that.

341 posted on 09/11/2009 8:52:56 AM PDT by Cold Heat
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To: Guenevere

Thanks. Going to check it out. It is a strange world we live in now!


342 posted on 09/11/2009 8:53:17 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: austinrepub

WHOOOOOSH!


343 posted on 09/11/2009 8:55:43 AM PDT by BJClinton (Any "healthcare reform" without tort reform is a fraud.)
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To: Cold Heat
Some dufus translates a guy saying "bang, Bang" On on scanner frequency and CNN
Love the armchair quarterbacking that doesn't address the prescense of assets in the area obviously doing something (drill or otherwise): on the water, ground and air ...
344 posted on 09/11/2009 8:58:36 AM PDT by _Jim
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To: LibertyRocks

Check out the following - initially reported in Canada Free Press, I believe.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2336894/posts


345 posted on 09/11/2009 8:58:50 AM PDT by khnyny (Too much power in too few hands is always a problem.)
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To: TLI

This administration is a freaking JOKE>.... they allowed this to happen... just like the flight over NYC of AF1..

Now they have the nerve to say reporters should CHECK WITH THEM... CHECK WITH THEM...

That is the last straw.... IMPEACH OBAMA before Americans DIE.


346 posted on 09/11/2009 8:58:51 AM PDT by Typical_Whitey (Joe Wilson was speaking truth to power in the Peoples House. I am Joe !)
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To: All

Anyone here...

...have any idea...

...what the Secret Service would do to ANYone firing shots, or holding drills...

..in a Presidential Motorcade Security Zone?

Folks, the curtain has dropped.

We’ve seen all we are going to.

Speculation about a possible run on Obama’s car...or anything that looked remotely like that...won’t get much further past the coverup, media participating willingly, now falling into place.


347 posted on 09/11/2009 9:00:27 AM PDT by jeffers
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To: Cold Heat

NOPE>... The Coast Guard and BIG SIS blew it by not notifiying people of what is going on.


348 posted on 09/11/2009 9:00:57 AM PDT by Typical_Whitey (Joe Wilson was speaking truth to power in the Peoples House. I am Joe !)
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To: SueRae

Good point...Anybody try to contact our folks on the bus???

This ought to be good!


349 posted on 09/11/2009 9:02:00 AM PDT by stevie_d_64
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To: LibertyRocks
Just buy some ammunition if you need it, stock some food, and be prepared.

I was once a Boy Scout.

Yes, something is going to happen. This country is going to learn a lesson. Knowledge once learned has been forgotten and needs to be refreshed.

I don't know how you prepare for this exactly. You just need to be prepared. I have been prepared for decades. I thought Carter was bad and would be the lesson, but it was not to be. I thought the fall of the Russian empire would cause a world war, but it did not.

I had my guns loaded for weeks after the 2000 election and nothing happened. On 9/11 I was prepared, something did happen but I could not help. I remained prepared.

Here I am again, prepping for something I can't see, and there is a good chance nothing will happen, but I am prepared, none the less.

That's all you can do.

350 posted on 09/11/2009 9:04:33 AM PDT by Cold Heat
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To: BJClinton

Better close that valve dude...;-)

Losing too much air!!!

hehehe


351 posted on 09/11/2009 9:08:46 AM PDT by stevie_d_64
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To: Typical_Whitey
This happens every day! These are just short 15 minute scenarios and are not pre-planned. They do them when they have time. It is not a scheduled item.

The military, the Coast Guard, and all branches, and even civilians like hospitals and first responders do these short scenario training things. You do them when you have time.

CNN blew this. Not the guard or the LEO's.

352 posted on 09/11/2009 9:09:07 AM PDT by Cold Heat
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To: TLI
I'd love to know what has become of the boat that was the subject of all this hoopla.

If it was a drill, then the boat has likely returned to its marina. If it was not, then surely it has been impounded.

353 posted on 09/11/2009 9:09:08 AM PDT by Ol' Sox
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To: maggief
-- Who are these idiots!!! --

Apparently, the press for taking radio traffic (not a first time use of "bang bang" in training) as conclusive evidence of an intercept and live fire.

354 posted on 09/11/2009 9:11:13 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: TLI

Did Beck take a boat or something?


355 posted on 09/11/2009 9:11:37 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Ol' Sox
If it was a drill, then the boat has likely returned to its marina.

LOL....Your not getting the picture. The Boat was one of the other patrol boats. It even had blue lights on it, but CNN did not wait long enough to air their crap.

They simply used one of the other boats for the drill.

356 posted on 09/11/2009 9:12:10 AM PDT by Cold Heat
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To: Cold Heat

Are we sure CNN reported first? I thought the wires had it first.


357 posted on 09/11/2009 9:12:22 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
This happens every day! These are just short 15 minute scenarios and are not pre-planned. They do them when they have time. It is not a scheduled item

I would hope that those in charge had forethought and would know this would create havoc.

There are 364 other days of the year to do this.

Who ever started this exercise was damn stupid.

358 posted on 09/11/2009 9:12:28 AM PDT by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for nothing.....except not doing it sooner!)
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To: LibertyRocks
They train daily...and while training the use open channels. If real it would have been encrypted....The airport was reacting just as a precaution to the news broadcast, that picked up the training mission. If (real)security zone was established it would have been coordinated with other agencies....

Answers to questions:
Will back through and ask press for advice so confusion doesn't happen again.
Articulate round instead of firing actual rounds..... Normally notify at the beginning of drill that it was a drill, will check to see that this practice was done...Possible that news agency did not have radio on at beginning of training exercise.

359 posted on 09/11/2009 9:13:24 AM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: Cold Heat
LOL....Your not getting the picture.

Oops. Serves me right for being at work and not getting the full picture. Thanks for the info.

360 posted on 09/11/2009 9:14:45 AM PDT by Ol' Sox
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