[newsperson999]

Dog,
I was thinking the same thing..they may just say that it is a threat to overseas people in order not to panic people at home.

[Nuke'm Glowing]

I think you're on the money. Why would you deploy SAM's around D.C. for an "exercise"???? When I was in the service, they never would deploy live-fire large weapons near a major U.S. city and as the brass used to say, it would only happen if TSHTF. We were always told they were afraid a newbie would blow a commercial plane out of the sky by accident...