Talisman Sabre 25

[william]

• "The U.S. teamed with Australia, South Korea, and Japan to conduct a major amphibious assault, an amphibious raid, surface warfare combat operations, and strike warfare on training areas across coastal Australia."

• "The pinnacle exercise saw Amphibious Task Group 1 land at Freshwater Beach in the Shoalwater Bay Training Area in central Queensland, while Amphibious Task Group 2 came ashore in Stanage Bay farther north. U.S. Marine Corps 3rd Assault Amphibious Battalion employed Amphibious Combat Vehicles for the major amphibious assault."

• "In what was a massive show of force, these amphibious lodgments put forces ashore to act as pincers of a blocking force, while a separate motorized force moved in to defeat the 'red force' from the fictitious People’s Republic of Olvana.

"U.S. Navy Participants: Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) 7, Amphibious Squadron (PHIBRON) 11, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), America Amphibious Ready Group (ARG), including USS America (LHA 6), USS Rushmore (LSD 47), and USS San Diego (LPD 22), USS Higgins (DDG 76) from DESRON-15, and expeditionary sea base USS John L. Canley (ESB 6).

https://twitter.com/x/status/1953256215338721655

 

[Dr Arthur]

And now I have peace again with nil fighters, heavy transports, ospreys or helicopters. Necessary exercise but always quiet when it ends.

 

[Torch]

And now I have peace again with nil fighters, heavy transports, ospreys or helicopters. Necessary exercise but always quiet when it ends.

I always felt the key was to let civilians know the exact start and approximate end time/date for exercises, especially with heavy aviation presence. Most people are interested and understand the need. They just hate getting woke up at 0330 (L) and not knowing what is happening..


It’s also handy to double check the location of commercial chicken houses.
Even with everyone grilling 200+ folks) , you just can’t cook and eat the things faster than a single aircraft once a day can kill them.

 

[Publius]

I always felt the key was to let civilians know the exact start and approximate end time/date for exercises, especially with heavy aviation presence. Most people are interested and understand the need. They just hate getting woke up at 0330 (L) and not knowing what is happening..


It’s also handy to double check the location of commercial chicken houses.
Even with everyone grilling 200+ folks) , you just can’t cook and eat the things faster than a single aircraft once a day can kill them.

I had a high school friend who joined the Illinois Air Gaurd. He and his brother made a career of it. Anyway he flew shithooks, and they were helping with some flooding along the river. On a return he passed over our hometown at dark something, it was late. He came into hover over his parents house and caused quite a commotion
It was a small town and everyone knew Basil and Wanda’s boys flew copters. Most of the town put it together before the sun was up. Small towns are great there like a living organism.

 

[Dr Arthur]

I always felt the key was to let civilians know the exact start and approximate end time/date for exercises, especially with heavy aviation presence. Most people are interested and understand the need. They just hate getting woke up at 0330 (L) and not knowing what is happening..

Under the flight path so every plane makes the roof vibrate. Antonov aircraft are worst. They use them to carry in the Singaporean helicopters with the rotors removed. When the fighter aircraft take off to the south they always bank and my bedroom windows get hit by the jet wash.

This has now all stopped.

 

[Publius]

Under the flight path so every plane makes the roof vibrate. Antonov aircraft are worst. They use them to carry in the Singaporean helicopters with the rotors removed. When the fighter aircraft take off to the south they always bank and my bedroom windows get hit by the jet wash.

This has now all stopped.

I can remember as a kid when the river was flooding and the guards chinooks were being used to move sandbags. I was in grade school and we would be in recess. The chinooks were using part of the playground to land and do whatever. We all would stop and watch the show barely 150 yards away. No instructions, no warnings no big deal.
Or working a field and spin around in the cab, look up and see a F-4 coming in low and fast doing a mock strafing run on my tractor. It was such a great distraction.
My girlfriend and I got buzzed while we were naked on a blanket in a pasture. Fortunately it was before flight cameras were a thing

 

[william]

I can remember as a kid when the river was flooding and the guards chinooks were being used to move sandbags. I was in grade school and we would be in recess. The chinooks were using part of the playground to land and do whatever. We all would stop and watch the show barely 150 yards away. No instructions, no warnings no big deal.
Or working a field and spin around in the cab, look up and see a F-4 coming in low and fast doing a mock strafing run on my tractor. It was such a great distraction.
My girlfriend and I got buzzed while we were naked on a blanket in a pasture. Fortunately it was before flight cameras were a thing

That's more information than I needed to know.

 

[william]

I had a high school friend who joined the Illinois Air Gaurd. He and his brother made a career of it. Anyway he flew shithooks, and they were helping with some flooding along the river. On a return he passed over our hometown at dark something, it was late. He came into hover over his parents house and caused quite a commotion
It was a small town and everyone knew Basil and Wanda’s boys flew copters. Most of the town put it together before the sun was up. Small towns are great there like a living organism.

In my town we had a family whose son flew F16s and his wingman and him used to buzz us and waggle his wings all the time.

 

[Torch]

My girlfriend and I got buzzed while we were naked on a blanket in a pasture.

That's more information than I needed to know.

It’s okay, pixel sized AI processing wasn’t a thing back then.

 

[Publius]

That's more information than I needed to know.

Oh it was the seventies, sunny summer days. Things like that were obligatory in those days.
Adults were so worn out with the teens of the 60’s and early 70’s. Even if you got caught it wasn’t the end of the world. You were just being teens

 

[Torch]

It was a small town and everyone knew Basil and Wanda’s boys flew copters. Most of the town put it together before the sun was up. Small towns are great there like a living organism.

My “town” was so small it wasn’t even a village.

It is just a geographical reference point.

My current town is nothing. We use the neighboring towns for addresses and mail. The cities for mail and voting and have changed and even the counties.