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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: maggief

Rush talking about this now. It’s pretty funny...LOL! He is playing the clips from CNN.


401 posted on 09/11/2009 9:43:31 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: _Jim

Fair enough. I don’t want you involved in anything I’m in charge of either. I’d hate for September 11th to be a day to remember the victims but forget that we’re still at war.


402 posted on 09/11/2009 9:43:36 AM PDT by The Pack Knight (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: TLI
This should be easy enough to prove or disprove. The Coast Guard says these exercises are done daily & that included today. People living in that area can tell us if this exercise does happen daily.

They use the radio to co-ordinate the drills & it is not scrambled or encoded during routine drills. That only happens in a real emergency.

CNN picked it up from the radio transmissions - or someone alerted it to them. There were no shots fired or supspect boats. It was all just words being said & the action was manufactured by the news media.

The police and any outside activity added to the scene was a normal emergency response generated by the news reports.

I think this is a big frightened reaction to something that never happened, only because it's 9/11.

403 posted on 09/11/2009 9:44:02 AM PDT by LADY J (Change your thoughts and you change your world. - Norman Vincent Peale)
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To: bcsco

It doesn’t really matter if there are or not.


404 posted on 09/11/2009 9:44:04 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a U.S. Army Infantry Soldier whose wife is expecting twins.)
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To: Red_Devil 232
I just love people who expose themselves early on - easier to avoid them later when something important actually happens.
That's the way I feel "Red_Devil 232" ...
405 posted on 09/11/2009 9:44:43 AM PDT by _Jim
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To: Cold Heat
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 - I certainly don't want to jump to conclusions - but I can't think of what that would be.

It's not so much that I'm afraid of some yahoo listening in and doing what he did today. I'm more afraid of the wrong people listening in in order to gather intelligence on the Coast Guard's tactics and procedures for dealing with potential hostiles.
406 posted on 09/11/2009 9:47:05 AM PDT by The Pack Knight (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: bcsco

Perhaps not meant as sarcasm, but resulted in sarcasm when certain posts were made.


407 posted on 09/11/2009 9:47:07 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a U.S. Army Infantry Soldier whose wife is expecting twins.)
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To: _Jim
Look man.......They do these everyday, time available. They don't have any days that they don't do them. There is no reason to tell them not to, even after this. This was the fault of the media running with unconfirmed errant reports.

Just bad reportage. Nothing new, unfortunately. If I had my way, I would burn them all to the ground.....Almost all, that is. There are a precious few that still have scruples.

408 posted on 09/11/2009 9:48:07 AM PDT by Cold Heat
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To: Cold Heat
Look man.......They do these ...
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Just bad reportage ...
Right. I think you missed my post with the last line of that CG memo too. I think its still there, scoll up the screen and re-read it.
409 posted on 09/11/2009 9:50:37 AM PDT by _Jim
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To: MizSterious

No, I don’t believe every word uttered during a presser. I posted “regardless who delivers it,” including the USCG.

(FWIW, I don’t buy the USAF AF1 NYC flyover story either, and their heavily redacted flight manifest.)

I question everything. :)


410 posted on 09/11/2009 9:50:39 AM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

The left will pick up the ‘planned news’ and run with it in order to blame our military and fret about the Messiah’s safety from ‘right wing racists’. Mark my word. They are already writing the copy...LOL.


411 posted on 09/11/2009 9:50:46 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: SaraJohnson
Since The One has been in office, we have had two Muslim led terrorist events conductedagainst the American people.

Let's not forget the shooting of the soldiers in Little Rock.

http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0609/627959.html

412 posted on 09/11/2009 9:51:11 AM PDT by TankerKC (USAF...retired.)
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To: PghBaldy

Totally noncommital, “I know nuthink”.....

Someone in the WH is really stoopid. Air Force One buzzed Manhattan, now this.....


413 posted on 09/11/2009 9:51:14 AM PDT by fivecatsandadog (You better HOPE you end up with more than a little CHANGE in your pocket when he's finished.)
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To: The Pack Knight
Rush just reiterated almost exactly what I wrote above....essentially that the slavering media was making a stupidly dramatic mountain out of a molehill.

Leni

414 posted on 09/11/2009 9:51:27 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Hey, Dum-Dem..........Are You Better Off Than You Were Nine Months Ago?)
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To: _Jim

You don’t need a license to listen. Just buy a receiver, or a transceiver for that matter, and just listen to it(need an antenna though). A short wave band radio will work just fine.


415 posted on 09/11/2009 9:51:48 AM PDT by calex59 (Hope for a new job counts for creating a job! The dimwits are truly insane.)
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To: The Pack Knight
I don’t want you involved in anything I’m in charge of either.
Well, its too late. I've had had my hand in a number of activities/designs/systems in the past ... and they worked/are still working ...
416 posted on 09/11/2009 9:52:46 AM PDT by _Jim
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To: TLI
Photobucket "THIS JUST IN...COAST GUARD JUST SHOWED THE TARGET OF THE WARNING SHOTS"
417 posted on 09/11/2009 9:53:05 AM PDT by RetSignman (Townhalls ..."We have seen the Patriots and they are us")
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To: cajungirl
I have never heard of coast guard firing on boat in domestic waters,,does anyone?

Happens all the time here in South Florida. Those pesky GO FAST doper boats always try to outrun a Cutter and it's deck gun or a Blackhawk chopper and it's miniguns....

418 posted on 09/11/2009 9:53:48 AM PDT by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: penelopesire

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/09/11/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5303360.shtml

After the early media reports, departures from nearby Reagan National Airport were temporarily halted as a precaution, the Federal Aviation Administration said. FBI agents rushed to the scene, unaware that a training exercise was underway.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said following the reports that “we’re safer” because of such exercises, adding that he does not question law enforcement efforts to keep the city safe.

In a shot at the media outlets that initially reported the incident, he said, “before reporting things, checking would be good.”

“It appears as if a lot of this could have been avoided,” said Gibbs.

The Coast Guard vowed to review how it conducts its exercises in the wake of the uproar.

Senator George Voinovich released a statement saying he is “extremely concerned about the report of a Coast Guard training exercise being conducted on the Potomac River as September 11 memorial ceremonies were in progress nearby at the Pentagon.”

“The anxiety caused by this situation on such a solemn day is extremely disturbing,” he said. “I look forward to hearing from [Homeland] Secretary [Janet] Napolitano about the decision-making process leading up to today’s events. It sounds very much like the left hand didn’t know what the right hand was doing.”


419 posted on 09/11/2009 9:55:18 AM PDT by maggief
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To: toldyou
On 23 September, Canada To Stage Mock Afghan IED Attack in Washington

Interesting timing of this event. Here are some things that are scheduled between September 22 and 24.

Obama-Netanyahu-Abbas summit scheduled for Sept. 22 in New York. The Obama administration early Wednesday Sept 9 decided to schedule a tripartite US-Israeli-Palestinian summit at UN center in New York for Sept 22, DEBKAfile's Washington sources report, the day before the US president meets Russian president Dmitry Medvedev at the UN General Assembly.

The three leaders will declare Middle East peace talks resumed from that point. Defense minister Ehud Barak was referring to this development when he warned Tuesday night that Israel must brace for hard decisions.

UN Freedom Caravans for Iran (September 23 & 24, 2009). The Caravans for Peace and Freedom in Iran will gather at the United Nations on September 23-24 to support the Iranian people’s demand for democracy and human rights and to protest the presence of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the United Nations.

420 posted on 09/11/2009 9:55:24 AM PDT by JesusBmyGod (Baruch ha'ba B'Shem Yahweh)
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