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Air Mobility Command Removes Tail Numbers and Unit Info from Planes, Alarming Watchdogs
Military.com ^ | 1 Mar 2023 | Thomas Novelly

Posted on 03/03/2023 9:06:54 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT

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To: DUMBGRUNT

SOF had an article about how the VC dug some kind of a bell-shaped room to detect vibrations from B-52s or something along those lines.

That is all I remember and I can’t find anything online about it.


21 posted on 03/03/2023 10:05:05 AM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

So when we see black planes and helicopters and tell people we saw them they aren’t entitled to tell us we wear tin foil hats.


22 posted on 03/03/2023 10:15:56 AM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: MeganC

“This indicates to me that the USAF and DOD believe that people in the service are feeding information to Russia on the movements of our aircraft.”

Maybe, but likely not. There is an entire subculture of people who watch and studiously note the movements at airports and railyards. It isn’t nefarious, it’s literally their nerdy hobby. Their dopamine thrill is seeing something new or unique.

BTW, last I checked we are not at war with Russia. So no treason and execution is in the cards. Not only no declaration of War as the Constitution spells out, but no War Powers Act notification to Congress.
No American war exists in Europe.

See also, “autism”.


23 posted on 03/03/2023 10:16:11 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: MeganC

Oh yes, at bases. And don’t forget, a huge majority of Air Force bases share a runway with a local civil airport.
And transports are prime candidates for such sharing.


24 posted on 03/03/2023 10:19:51 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: MeganC
At US Air Force bases?

Yup. Same as at airports. They find a location close enough to observe the comings and goings but not breaching the fence. Hell, there are several locations near Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque that are closer to the flight line, but outside the wire, than many locations on base.

25 posted on 03/03/2023 10:21:10 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: IYAS9YAS

At Kirtland, that spot is literally labelled with signs designating it as the “Aircraft Viewing Area”.


26 posted on 03/03/2023 10:23:16 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: markomalley; DYngbld; TADSLOS; xsrdx; big'ol_freeper; Mark17; mikefive; JDoutrider; ...

Ping.


27 posted on 03/03/2023 10:25:17 AM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Using Air Force planes for non-Air Force missions and flying them over (or from) countries that do not publicly admit to supporting the United States.


28 posted on 03/03/2023 10:26:05 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: ansel12

—”the VC dug some kind of a bell-shaped room to detect vibrations from B-52s”

The Vietnamese are clever and industrious people.

A friend employed some papa sans to make bar stools for the “club”. He gave them a piece of plywood with circles carefully laid out and a regular hand saw, for cutting 2x4s. Start with squares... octagons...like forever.
Soon it was two old men squatting with a scrap of wood and two nails, center point and OD. Pass it back and forth and strike the OD nail a bit deeper with each pass.

Typical for the area.


29 posted on 03/03/2023 10:33:34 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last messa)
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To: Lockbox

Flying political undesirables into foreign countries where interrogations can occur?


30 posted on 03/03/2023 10:40:58 AM PST by Bayard
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To: DesertRhino
At Kirtland, that spot is literally labelled with signs designating it as the “Aircraft Viewing Area”.

Yeah. Forgot about that. Up closer to the Albuquerque Sunport terminal.

31 posted on 03/03/2023 10:46:52 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

USAF likely will start secret refueling mission for Ukraine. Only reason they would do this.


32 posted on 03/03/2023 11:25:17 AM PST by Intar
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To: DesertRhino

“There is an entire subculture of people who watch and studiously note the movements at airports and railyards. It isn’t nefarious, it’s literally their nerdy hobby. Their dopamine thrill is seeing something new or unique.”

That’s true.


33 posted on 03/03/2023 11:29:27 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: MeganC

“ This indicates to me that the USAF and DOD believe that people in the service are feeding information to Russia on the movements of our aircraft.

Those people would be called traitors and I do sincerely hope they get rooted out, prosecuted, and executed.”
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IGNORANCE ABOUNDS. I’m guessing that you’ve never been involved with or on the periphery of “black ops”. So you’re forgiven for your ignorance.


34 posted on 03/03/2023 11:55:18 AM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAXI)
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To: Bayard

#3 on list ☑️


35 posted on 03/03/2023 3:19:05 PM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
At the time it was thought to be Russian spies.

Maybe it was. The Walker spy ring was working then. When I was in Vietnam, the fighter pilots said, no matter where they went, the North Vietnamese seemed to know where they were going. Years later, I thought more about it, and I think it really WAS the Walker spy ring.

36 posted on 03/03/2023 8:09:41 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: ClearCase_guy

🤔🤔


37 posted on 03/04/2023 2:18:15 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: ought-six

Like those autistics who located that Shia Labeuf camera where morons stepped in front and gripped about Trump or something. And then he aimed the camera at a flag in the sky. I mean nothing but an anti trump flag and blue sky. And 4chan found it.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/d7eddj/4chan-does-first-good-thing-pulls-off-the-heist-of-the-century1

Just watch, these weirdos will start cataloging minor, trivial, nearly invisible differences between each individual cargo plane. A paint chip flaked off here, one differently colored antenna there, they will know each tail number as though it was their child. Weird but I -know- it exists.


38 posted on 03/04/2023 8:23:47 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: MeganC
USAF and DOD believe that people in the service and DC are feeding information to Russia on the movements of our aircraft.

Gives Idiot Joe one more thing to divulge and get our troops killed like he did Seal Team Six.

39 posted on 03/04/2023 11:41:19 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Ultra MAGA in Biden's Post Constitutional United Socialist States of Amerika!)
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