Military Helicopters Conducting Covert Exercises Over Los Angeles

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The War Zone @thewarzonewire 1h1 hour ago
Amazing video of blacked out Night Stalker helicopters buzzing low over Downtown LA street: http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/26360/amazing-video-of-blacked-out-night-stalker-helicopters-buzzing-low-over-downtown-la-street

from The Drive:

In the face of rain and wind, the helicopters got down to very low altitude, surprising many people on the street.

New video has emerged from yesterday's special operations forces realistic training exercise right in downtown Los Angeles, California. We have never seen MH-6 Little Birds from the Army's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment fly so low during one of these urban warfare drills that occur in cities that are very much going about its usual business, a feat made all the more impressive given the rain and wind at the time.

The Los Angeles Police Department issued a public statement about the exercise late on Feb. 4, 2019, as it was going on, with MH-6s, as well as MH-60 Black Hawks, carrying special operators through the skies of L.A. There may be more drills yet to come through Feb. 9, 2019, across the greater Los Angeles and Long Beach areas, according to the press release.

But some residents didn't need a press release to tell them the helicopters would be flying by, as the video below shows. If the people on the street weren't aware of what was going on at the time, they certainly got a surprise as a pair of blacked out MH-6s went buzzing by at extremely low altitude.

Separately, an MH-60 touched down in the middle of the street to pick up a number of special operators as they rushed out of a building. News crews had already spotted Black Hawks and Little Birds depositing forces on top of various structures, where they would have worked there way down to the assigned objective before exiting at street level...

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[avebury]

1. I remember hearing about military exercises in Detroit I believe

so that the military could practice urban warfare and they did not provide the people with advance notice of what they were going to do.

[brooklynite]

2. Meh...

I discovered a military helicopter outside my hotel room in San Diego last year:

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[yortsed snacilbuper]

3. Military Helicopters Performing Training Exercises Over Pittsburgh

They flew over my house very low?

https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/07/31/military-helicopters-training-exercises-pittsburgh/

[bigtree]

4. looks similar

...

[nykym]

5. The test run of the

small fingered vulgarian's escape plan.

[onethatcares]

6. and the wall is

to keep people out?

Sometimes this shizzit gets really out there.

[bigtree]

7. .

[912gdm]

8. they really need to stop these surprise exercises.

give a month's notice so the news orgs can pump out the info..


All this does is freak people out and give conspiracy theory nutters fuel..

[bigtree]

9. to me it's a larger issue

...of military ops inside the U.S..

They're perhaps unavoidable, but as you say, there should be public notice and more transparency.

I believe there should always be pushback on military operations within our borders, even practice exercises. In this day and age, given what we've experienced with government, accepting there's some overriding purpose in all of this without question is an invitation to the military to operate with impunity.

[EX500rider]

12. "...even practice exercises." Seems unrealistic to have them leave the country for exercises. nt

[bigtree]

13. then more accountability

...including more public determination of efficacy and purpose.

[denbot]

10. For the safety of our service personnel keep the exercises secret

LA is my home and the place of my birth.

There are a fuck-ton of auto, and semi-auto weapons all over the city. Don’t give the gun toting dumbasses an excuse to play with their toys.

[A HERETIC I AM]

11. Just a minor point, but if it's out in the open and everybody can see it...

It’s not “covert”.

co·vert
adjective
/ˈkōvərt,kōˈvərt/Submit
1.
not openly acknowledged or displayed.
"covert operations against the dictatorship