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Patriot Missile Battery Suddenly Appears At Small Regional Airport In Texas

 
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These guys trained to be battle-ready anywhere and anyhow. Good.
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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.
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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.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76690070


A training operation for practice is always the most likely explanation.
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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.
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How is one missile battery going to protect us from an invasion by the Chinese/Russian/Islamic/Mexican/LGBTQ/BLM/Pygmy hordes?
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Ypu would be suprised how good patriot missiles are
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Not when it first came out in 1976.

It was partly the inspiration for this movie 7 years later.

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Oh wow. I drive through CS all the time. blink
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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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Readiness drill. The kind of thing professional militaries do. They may be getting ready to deploy overseas.
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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.

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.
 Quoting: Bud Fox


Anyone near other airports got anything to add?
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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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Plus if one of those things goes off it could suck the paint off your car. cruisewuflu
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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.

"Nobody knows anything, they just showed up" one commercial pilot that flies in and out of Easterwood daily told The War Zone.

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 Quoting: AggregateThreat


they're watching for Chinese Lanterns.
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Could it be stationed there to take out any cruise missiles launched from the Gulf of Mexico...

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...
 Quoting: DuckNCover


Saw an article yesterday about the cop arming Venezuela with sophisticated arms maybe that has something to do with it
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Could it be stationed there to take out any cruise missiles launched from the Gulf of Mexico...

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...
 Quoting: DuckNCover


Saw an article yesterday about the cop arming Venezuela with sophisticated arms maybe that has something to do with it
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Could it be stationed there to take out any cruise missiles launched from the Gulf of Mexico...

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...
 Quoting: DuckNCover


Saw an article yesterday about the cop arming Venezuela with sophisticated arms maybe that has something to do with it
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Oops the ccp
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Don't worry, it is just a training drill!

The whole world is a stage and it is being set right now.

Enjoy the show!
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Two small airports?
look on google maps, sattalits!
and not just the airports.

It looks like a fake town.
that is a secret gov test base.
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Don't worry, it is just a training drill!

The whole world is a stage and it is being set right now.

Enjoy the show!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79439184


Coming soon...

Don't worry!

Those military troops setting up checkpoints are just for COVID vaccine deployment.
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I know exactly what this is about and it’s not good
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79186282


If you know the area you will understand
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79186282


most of us don't know the area.

what do you think it means?

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 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69352590



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?
 Quoting: Bud Fox


Weird, I read this thread about several military birds up in the air around that area.

Thread: Several military aircraft flying over US now
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we live in odd odd times
 Quoting: beeches


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.
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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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we live in odd odd times
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Indeed we sooo do!!!
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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.

"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)]
 Quoting: AggregateThreat


That "preminent" air defense system is over 30 years old.
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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.
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Lose lips sink ships. If the folks down there get nukeed, buy yourselves a beer
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Club K credible threat I assume.
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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.
 Quoting: Pooka


you mean like the Chinese PLA come blasting across
the Yalu River and driving the U.S. Troops clear down to Pusan.
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Nuclear Science Center right next door on the other side of the fence....

maybe they received threats?

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