She apparently drove from Mineola to Westhamptom for two reasons: First, this is the United State of America and believe it or not, the right to travel is still a right guaranteed by the Constitution. Second, the Long Island Shooting Range in the Town of Brookhaven, where she had been earlier that day, is the only public shooting range on Long Island. The Air National Guard base is located only a few miles from the shooting range, and if I recall correctly, the inactive helicopter that she photographed is (or was) clearly visible from the public roadway that runs by the base.
I also note that the distance from Mineola to the shooting range is about 45 miles and takes less than an hour; and the drive from Mineola to the air base is only slightly longer.
Are you her? Sounds like it. Yeah it’s 45 minutes if you speed and you’re lucky and hit no traffic. I live in Riverhead and just to drive to Ronkonkoma takes me an hour. Well I still don’t buy it, I think she is full of BS. There is not a cop or a vet I know who would act like a leftist the way they are saying “We’re going to make an example of you for other right wingers” That is such absolute crap. No, she had to be doing something else there. A good friend of mine is a Suffolk county cop and there is no way in hell he would ever arrest someone just for taking a photo of a chopper, and he sure as hell wouldn’t say “Im going to teach you right wingers a lesson”