U S gunships in Miami ?

[ELVIS]

With the vast budget that our military has and the access to world class training facilities, I wonder why there's a need to conduct exercises in our cities and towns...

To familiarize themselves with the territory...

[chefcraig]

To familiarize themselves with the territory...

If that's the case, they should have saved the money and used Google Image. Florida is fairly uniform in it's non-diversity: You have condos on the beach, a shopping district a few miles west, followed by cheap housing, auto dealerships, a bunch of strip malls, middle-class housing (with more strip malls), bigger malls, then swampland. Any sort of tactical training could be achieved by watching an old Miami Vice rerun.

[Kristy]

To familiarize themselves with the territory...

Then you have absolutely nothing to worry about. Most likely they'll go for the poor, the uneducated, the weak and the gullible.

Oh, right...


Then again, I was fly fishing in Waterton Canyon about a month back and military helicopters were skimming between the river and tree top lines. Strange, really. All the times I've been there I've never seen military-style helicopters before.

[DONNIEP]

To familiarize themselves with the territory...

Desensitization of the troops...

[PETE'S BROTHER]

No, they're gearing up to use mostly drones and military style checkpoints...

they are here to help...http://news.yahoo.com/drones-watch-o...155240670.html

[ZahZoo]

There were no helicopters over Miami...

[ELVIS]

[Headly1984]

huh, N.Korea is gonna do a nuke test, or has done one & they are developing long range ballistic missals

Iran may have sent a monkey to outer space and back but our media and government don;t care to comment if it really happened except to say they are not happy they could have broken an ICBM kind of treaty if they did so ..

Chine & Japan are getting scrappy over some small islands

one of the potus candidates called China a Currency manipulator..

USA is building a drone base in N. Africa ..

The world is going nutty

[ELVIS]

Then again, I was fly fishing in Waterton Canyon about a month back and military helicopters were skimming between the river and tree top lines. Strange, really.

The were probably trying to identify the Krusty stench in the alr...

[Nickdfresh]

When I was a kid, military UH-1 "Huey's" used to fly over my house every weekend. Then the Army Nat'l Guard unit sent them to South America and was transferred to Rochester...


STRAAAAANNNGGEE!!

[Kristy]

The were probably trying to identify the Krusty stench in the alr...

Highly unlikely, you racist dipshit.

[ZahZoo]

Surprised none of the gun nuts who are scooping up AR-15's and AK-47's and ammo like wild fire didn't start shooting back. Got to figure some of them nutcases are pissed they missed an opportunity to exercise their 2nd amendment rights against a tyrannical government...

[Nickdfresh]

When I was working at the Buffalo Airport around October 2001, about eight AH-1S "Huey" Cobra gunships took off!

Strange!!!!!

(Only this was after 9/11 and they were training to go to Afghanistan...)

[Kristy]

When I was a kid, military UH-1 "Huey's" used to fly over my house every weekend. Then the Army Nat'l Guard unit sent them to South America and was transferred to Rochester.

The ones that flew overhead in the canyon looked a lot like this



But...with no identifiable markings.

[chefcraig]

Surprised none of the gun nuts who are scooping up AR-15's and AK-47's and ammo like wild fire didn't start shooting back. Got to figure some of them nutcases are pissed they missed an opportunity to exercise their 2nd amendment rights against a tyrannical government...

That's why the exercise took place at the abandoned hotel location. The only people withing 5 miles of the place were octogenarian retirees, whose main weapon of choice is the condo association, a group far more terrifying than AL-Qaeda could ever be.