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Follower of God User ID: 79247641 United States 10/22/2020 12:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Of a patriot system showed up at my nearest podunk airport I would definetly wonder why. They have plenty of military strips to setup on. Quoting: Woogy College Station is home to Texas A&M University. The Aggies have a huge military cadet corp who use the airport for missile training classes for operation & maintenance. Live fire is conducted at Ft. Bliss in El Paso, TX. Sorry but the Doom is off. Just a bunch of college kids learning about the Patriot System with inert missiles. A training operation for practice is always the most likely explanation. The Battery was delivered to Easterwood Airport right before classes started at the campus. My kid goes to school at Texas A&M is why I know this tidbit. GIG'EM |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 79412508 United States 10/22/2020 12:40 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | How is one missile battery going to protect us from an invasion by the Chinese/Russian/Islamic/Mexican/LGBTQ/BLM/Pygmy hordes? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78915836 Ypu would be suprised how good patriot missiles are Not when it first came out in 1976. It was partly the inspiration for this movie 7 years later. [link to en.m.wikipedia.org (secure)] "Muntz's efforts are complicated by tensions with Luckup, Ray's religious conversion, "The Peacemaker's" many technical glitches, and his own growing moral reservations." . |
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User ID: 73760675 United States 10/22/2020 12:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Oh wow. I drive through CS all the time. Bless my fuck "It’s in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.” — Hunter S. Thompson "I've got the spirit, but lose the feeling!" :rockon: |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 79187900 United States 10/22/2020 12:56 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A bit eerie, I must say. Especially that they're deployed. I mean it's probably a drill, but I imagine all the red tape involved in setting up a drill next to a civilian airport runway... The optics for the airport are bad as it'll scare business away - who wants to land their airplane or be a passenger of one who lands/takes off there? You'll think they're expecting terrorists targeting the airspace. The liability for both the workers and the military personell involved having those big ass vehicles rumbling around inside, again, the controlled area of an airport...running from legal to safety to FAA regulations. Prolly reading too much into it. Still, with this year I'm suspicious. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 78221742 Greece 10/22/2020 01:16 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This one is kind of spooky to me considering I just got done re-reading Alas Babylon. Right before the nuclear war, Strategic Air Command dispersed many of their aircraft to small regional airports away from bases and cities...like College Station. Probably not why this is happening, but still spooky. Quoting: Bud Fox Also, it seems strange to me that they did it at this airport, without telling anyone. Couldn't the same drill be accomplished at any number of abandoned fields without disturbing civilian air traffic? I honestly have no idea, maybe it is just a drill, but this one seems odd. Anyone near other airports got anything to add? |
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User ID: 13652864 United States 10/22/2020 01:16 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A bit eerie, I must say. Especially that they're deployed. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79187900 I mean it's probably a drill, but I imagine all the red tape involved in setting up a drill next to a civilian airport runway... The optics for the airport are bad as it'll scare business away - who wants to land their airplane or be a passenger of one who lands/takes off there? You'll think they're expecting terrorists targeting the airspace. The liability for both the workers and the military personell involved having those big ass vehicles rumbling around inside, again, the controlled area of an airport...running from legal to safety to FAA regulations. Prolly reading too much into it. Still, with this year I'm suspicious. Plus if one of those things goes off it could suck the paint off your car. A legend in my own mind |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 79404791 Greece 10/22/2020 01:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Apparently, very few people, if anyone, at Easterwood Airport in College Station, Texas knew exactly what was going on with the sudden deployment of the Army's preeminent air defense system, either. Quoting: AggregateThreat "Nobody knows anything, they just showed up" one commercial pilot that flies in and out of Easterwood daily told The War Zone. [link to www.thedrive.com (secure)] they're watching for Chinese Lanterns. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76247621 United States 10/22/2020 01:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Could it be stationed there to take out any cruise missiles launched from the Gulf of Mexico... Quoting: DuckNCover This is just one Patriot Missile Battery. Would be interesting if it were occurring at other small regional airports that ring the Gulf of Mexico... Just imagine Tankers or Merchant ships launching cruise missiles (Club-K) off their decks. It would be a very short response time before they hit their intended targets. If the military positions enough of these missile batteries, in key areas, it could provide a small level of protection and limit the damage done by a cruise missile attack... Saw an article yesterday about the cop arming Venezuela with sophisticated arms maybe that has something to do with it |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76247621 United States 10/22/2020 01:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Could it be stationed there to take out any cruise missiles launched from the Gulf of Mexico... Quoting: DuckNCover This is just one Patriot Missile Battery. Would be interesting if it were occurring at other small regional airports that ring the Gulf of Mexico... Just imagine Tankers or Merchant ships launching cruise missiles (Club-K) off their decks. It would be a very short response time before they hit their intended targets. If the military positions enough of these missile batteries, in key areas, it could provide a small level of protection and limit the damage done by a cruise missile attack... Saw an article yesterday about the cop arming Venezuela with sophisticated arms maybe that has something to do with it |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76247621 United States 10/22/2020 01:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Could it be stationed there to take out any cruise missiles launched from the Gulf of Mexico... Quoting: DuckNCover This is just one Patriot Missile Battery. Would be interesting if it were occurring at other small regional airports that ring the Gulf of Mexico... Just imagine Tankers or Merchant ships launching cruise missiles (Club-K) off their decks. It would be a very short response time before they hit their intended targets. If the military positions enough of these missile batteries, in key areas, it could provide a small level of protection and limit the damage done by a cruise missile attack... Saw an article yesterday about the cop arming Venezuela with sophisticated arms maybe that has something to do with it Oops the ccp |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 78418690 United States 10/22/2020 01:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | most of us don't know the area. what do you think it means? . I don't live there, but I did spend some significant time in that area years ago. College Station is right between Houston, Austin, and Fort Hood, all of which would be targets in a war. Maybe that is what they are alluding to? Maybe it would be where they would stage outside target areas? Weird, I read this thread about several military birds up in the air around that area. Thread: Several military aircraft flying over US now |
panther0621
User ID: 27944307 United States 10/22/2020 02:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | No, this is normal. Locals get it, the big city news folks freakout. It’s an EXERCISE! That’s what the military does when we aren’t fighting a war (like under Bush, Clinton, Bush, O’Bamma) they exercise for the next one. Check out how the 22nd 24th and 26th MEU does exercises in cities all the time. Did 2 myself. it is part of keeping the edge sharp. always practising. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 79177351 Canada 10/22/2020 02:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Apparently, very few people, if anyone, at Easterwood Airport in College Station, Texas knew exactly what was going on with the sudden deployment of the Army's preeminent air defense system, either. Quoting: AggregateThreat "Nobody knows anything, they just showed up" one commercial pilot that flies in and out of Easterwood daily told The War Zone. [link to www.thedrive.com (secure)] That "preminent" air defense system is over 30 years old. |
Pooka
User ID: 77917430 Switzerland 10/22/2020 02:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | How is one missile battery going to protect us from an invasion by the Chinese/Russian/Islamic/Mexican/LGBTQ/BLM/Pygmy hordes? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78915836 As well as the Panamanian Parachuting Political Police. Prayer is the most powerful force on earth. “I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.” Abraham Lincoln I sign all karma given. Would that those giving it to me followed suit. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 79404791 Greece 10/22/2020 02:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | How is one missile battery going to protect us from an invasion by the Chinese/Russian/Islamic/Mexican/LGBTQ/BLM/Pygmy hordes? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78915836 As well as the Panamanian Parachuting Political Police. you mean like the Chinese PLA come blasting across the Yalu River and driving the U.S. Troops clear down to Pusan. |
Cartel™
User ID: 79503444 Canada 10/22/2020 02:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Nuclear Science Center right next door on the other side of the fence.... maybe they received threats? The Nuclear Science Center The Nuclear Science Center houses a 1 MW research reactor and associated research facilities. The center provides services to researchers and/or faculty from Texas A&M University, other colleges and universities, government agencies and private industry. The center is recognized primarily for providing radioisotopes and other nuclear irradiation services for research, academic, medical and industrial applications and as a teaching and nuclear training facility. [link to nsc.tamu.edu (secure)] Last Edited by Cartel™ on 10/22/2020 02:35 AM Imagine a group of people so disgusting they have to make laws preventing you from hating them :candp2: |
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