Gunships fire over Miami in "training exercise"

[Thegeek]

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I'm skeptical this was a training exercise. This was either something they don't want the public to know about, or a huge unnecessary risk to the public.

I can't find a date on the vid, but it was uploaded recently.

 

[9mmfan]

Nothing to see here.....move on, move on....

 

[KLB]

Wait until one crashes in a city.

 

[indykid]

How does that go, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain? Pay no attention to the helicopters and other instruments of war practicing for ???

 

[inrunner]

Why do that before a Miami heat game going to let out? more traffic more People?

 

[poptab]

How does that go, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain? Pay no attention to the helicopters and other instruments of war practicing for ???

These arent the droids you're looking for.

 

[Fishersjohn48]

Don’t mind the helicopters, it’s just practice, Miami-Dade police say - Miami-Dade - MiamiHerald.com

Miami papers had warned residents on 1/21 apparently.

 

[Thegeek]

Still inappropriate place for an exercise. Besides that, isn't pairing of the military and local LE not allowed?

 

[fullauto 45]

Suprised some of the "locals" didn't start firing back!

 

[johnny45]

More operant conditioning.

 

[EnochRoot43]

Still inappropriate place for an exercise. Besides that, isn't pairing of the military and local LE not allowed?

In this day and age of paramilitary equipped local LE, Fusion Centers, and integrated DHS, that is a quaint concept.

 

[No2rdame]

Bienvenidos a Miami. Hearing automatic gunfire probably isn't that abnormal down there.

 

[RabbleRouser]

 

[Jarhead77]

Wow. Just wow. This is really a fail as far as I'm concerned. I wonder who signed off in it.

 

[gunman41mag]

Maybe they were looking for me

 

[NYFelon]

desensitization

 

[45calibre]

just a few strafing runs nothing to see here.

 

[NYFelon]

Anyone else reminded of the opening scene from The Running Man?

 

[Archer46176]

The conditioning thing happens here in Indiana nearly everyday, especially if you live near Atterbury. I remember years ago riding the school bus home from Southwestern Schools and watching a C-130 doing practice drops in fields near the school. They were EXTREMELY low and "dragging tail" as they do when dropping equipment.
A-10s also used to "practice" their runs on different thinga throughout our county. The Blackhawks and Kiowa class helicopters are ever present even though skme of them are deployed from Shelbyville right now they are still flying. I watched several jumpers one day over Atterbury from Chinooks which was pretty cool actually. Just last week I watched 3 Apache Helicopters heading towards Atterbury over our residential neighborhood here in Franklin. They were low enough I could see detail of the empty weapon pylons and the helmets of the occupants.

I also think the "military look" of many local S.W.A.T, S.R.T, F.A.S.T ect teams are a type of conditioning for the general public. Same goes for the SRT teams of federal agencies.

 

[BravoMike]

Nothing could ever go wrong with helicopters flying through populated downtown!

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