Likely just some kind of big unnanounced exercise (we usually get notice so as not to start panics), but speaking as someone who lives between the White House, the Andrews AFB flight path and Fort Belvoir and on the Langley AFB-DC flight path, something is up this afternoon. There have been tons of Army & USMC helicopters racing back and forth, flights of obviously armed Apaches circling here south of DC, USAF F-16s & USN/MC F-18s overhead, etc. I've seen this twice-- on 9/11 and to a lesser extent the night the Shock & Awe campaign started. Flights of armed helicopter gunships with Kiowa scout choppers attendant, though, is just weird, only seen that once before a few months back, but figured that was some kind of a photo promo flight. Military copters are a daily, usually hourly, sight around here. This is something else.
Here's for hoping it's a drill.
Here's for hoping it's a drill.
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