I live 2-miles from a helicopter base. A day or two (can’t remember exactly) before the 2020 election, the military ran one-way helicopters sorties, for 24-hours.
I asked on Nextdoor.com if anyone had the skinny. Every reply was a brush off saying, “They’re just training, perfectly normal.”
No, it was not normal. I’ve been here for 6-years and have never before or since seen anything like it. A couple or three dozen sorties? Every day. Hundreds and hundreds? Non-stop for a full day?! Never.
The Navy had to have cleared that base out. I believe that in preparation for election day violence they literally moved all the gear and personal to their sister base in town, or other military installations in the area.
If they do it again for 2024, I’ll have my answer.
I’ll let you know if they turn the local strip mall into a national guard staging area again. Been here forty years and 2020’s the first (and only) election they did it. 2022 wasn’t big enough.
I’ll add my paranoid take:
I live 2-miles from a helicopter base. A day or two (can’t remember exactly) before the 2020 election, the military ran one-way helicopters sorties, for 24-hours.
I asked on Nextdoor.com if anyone had the skinny. Every reply was a brush off saying, “They’re just training, perfectly normal.”
No, it was not normal. I’ve been here for 6-years and have never before or since seen anything like it. A couple or three dozen sorties? Every day. Hundreds and hundreds? Non-stop for a full day?! Never.
The Navy had to have cleared that base out. I believe that in preparation for election day violence they literally moved all the gear and personal to their sister base in town, or other military installations in the area.
If they do it again for 2024, I’ll have my answer.
I’ll let you know if they turn the local strip mall into a national guard staging area again. Been here forty years and 2020’s the first (and only) election they did it. 2022 wasn’t big enough.