Hey, that's actually not bad

MARTIAL LAW COMING TO THE HOOD TO KILL YOU, WHILE YOU HANG YO FLAG OUT YOUR PROJECT WINDOW.

In all caps.

Aight TECHNIQUE!

C-130s are typically used as transport for heavy payloads.

AC-130s are used in warfare. The "A" designation meaning "Attack"

Did you happen to notice any helicopters in the mix?

I was curious if that may have anything to do with the national gaurds apache exodus.

Edit : http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/9/national-guard-loses-war-army-over-apache-transfer/

If they are taking apaches from the National Guard (Your actual constitutional militia) I wonder what else they are taking?

Edit: I just looked up the AC-130. Although I'm not positive of anything, they could have been AC-130s. Fucking shit, I wish I would have ran inside and grabbed my phone:(

It might be difficult to really distinguish the two from the ground while they are in flight.

Essentially its the same airplane, just one has been outfitted with firepower and countermeasures and the other is not.

Its been almost ten years since I was on a military air base, hard to recall the exact differences besides the gun barrels protruding from the sides.

I work for ASU. It happens all the time. I saw 3 last semester do the same thing.

With a username like that, how can I trust anything you say? :)

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You telling me I can't trust you means I have to trust you. Shit, you're a happy Appy so you can't be too bad.

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Oh, I know. I know just what it means.

Also, trees

I used to live about five miles from a National Guard base and still live in the area just a different town. The amount of Blackhawk type helicopters that are flying over has definitely increased in the last two years. I even noticed it before I became aware of this stuff. Its very eery to say the least.

I live near an Air National Guard base, and maybe once or twice a week I'd hear a jet doing a fly-by. You could tell it's not a commercial jet because it's much louder (I'm also near a small airport).

These past couple months, I hear them several times a day now. A definite increase in activity. Also more high altitude fly-overs. I mainly notice them at night, might be commercial flights, but they aren't going or coming from the direction of the airport, so I dunno. Makes me wonder if they are surveillance flights.

All in all, it's probably just training, but the fact that they're training at an increased level with air assets suggests they are dusting off the cobwebs in preparation to deal with the threat of an actual modern army, and not just Arabs with AK-47s.

I agree this would be an odd occurrence, but what do you think is "up"?

Could it be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Special_Forces_selection_and_training#UW_CULEX_.28Robin_Sage.29_Phase_V_.284_weeks.29 ?

Since 1974, Robin Sage, the culmination exercise for the SFQC, has been the litmus test for Soldiers striving to earn the coveted Green Beret. (Prior to 1974, similar exercises were held under the name Devil's Arrow, Swift Strike, and Guerrilla USA.)[8] It is during Robin Sage, held in 15 rural North Carolina counties, that Soldiers must put all of the skills they have learned throughout the SFQC to the test in an unconventional-warfare training exercise. The exercise, broken into two phases, puts students on their first SFODA. The SFODA is trained, advised and mentored throughout the entire exercise from mission receipt through planning and infiltration. During the first week, the students are taught the necessary skills to survive and succeed in a UW environment utilizing the small group instruction teaching methodology. The remaining three weeks focus on their planning and application during Robin Sage. The students are placed into an environment of political instability characterized by armed conflict that forces Soldiers to exercise both individual and collective problem solving. A key to the success of the Robin Sage training is its real-world feel that is established by the use of guerrilla forces. The SFODA must assess the combat effectiveness of the G-forces, and then train them in basic individual tasks from each of the MOSs as well as collective tasks in basic small-unit tactics, while remaining responsive to asymmetrical challenges. Just as language plays a key role in all other phases of the pipeline, language skills will be put to the test during Robin Sage. During this training, the SFODA must demonstrate its knowledge of UW doctrine and operational techniques.

I wouldn't panic. Two years ago, my friend and I found dozens of military vehicles, including personell vehicles and tanks, just chilling in a secluded empty lot on the outskirts of our town (our town was the county seat). Being young and voracious readers of infowars at the time, we fully shit ourselves and prepared to bug out if anything went down. Nothing ever did. Turns out the National Guard was doing some training that weekend. So don't panic.

Dude, that's insane! The scene we came across was very similar.

I live in the midwest, seeing a lot of chinook helicopters, increased police presence all over the city, have spotted 2 drones flying overhead in the past 6 months. (so much so, that I now keep my camera, a high quality super zoom cam, near the front door), is it training? maybe, maybe not, it's not like they are forthcoming with information pertaining to the topic. Not to mention the recent 'confiscation' of apache helicopters from all US governors, the increase of arms purchases from a wide variety of odd government offices ie. postal service and the oceanic division. Just all taken together, seems a bit odd on face value, and each sector involved is less than forthcoming with actual evidence based information for the public...

Flight training for payload and airborne troop drops.

There is no fucking way in hell they were flying 1000 feet off the ground. This is why eye witness testimonies are bad

Went to a football camp at App State a couple years ago, got to be the team that "broke in" the new field you guys got. Really, really nice area, ever been to trashcan falls?

Anyway, that's interesting, although I believe it may intensify in the coming months.

Same exact thing happened here a few weeks ago. And I'm halfway across the country from you. I was driving and about 10 C-130's were headed northbound at about 1000ft about me. They came over the mountains to the south, then lowered altitude and flew in formation above the city. We do have a very active military base to the south of us, about 200 miles.