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Evacuations after truck tested positive for explosives at gate of Hanscom Air Force Base
NBC4 Columbus ^ | 7/6/3027

Posted on 07/06/2017 8:36:34 AM PDT by Lazamataz

#BREAKING LIVE: Evacuations are taking place after a vehicle tested positive for explosives at the gate of Hanscom Air Force Base near Boston, Massachusetts. http://nbc4i.co/2tMD3Ye


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: airforce; airforcebase; bombscare; boston; evacuation; evacuations; explosives; hanscom; hanscomafb; k9; massachusetts; truck; usaf; vehicle; workingdogs
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To: TomGuy
Driver and 1 passenger are being detained and questioned.

Are they 'swarthy' in their complexion?

LEOs are removing boxes from the truck. Seem to be separating boxes into 2 groups. Apparently, there were 2 positive reactions from bomb-sniffing dogs to explosive residue that caused alarm.

It was the 4th recently. Could simply be fireworks.

21 posted on 07/06/2017 9:39:09 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: Lazamataz

4th of July firework residues on hands which subsequently handled the boxes could be the causal factor.

Ask them if the stopped at South of the Border on the way up I-95.


22 posted on 07/06/2017 9:40:30 AM PDT by spiderpig (does whatever a SpiderPig does)
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To: blam

http://www.army-technology.com/features/feature-largest-military-bases-world-united-states/

Eglin is the largest military base in the world.


23 posted on 07/06/2017 9:41:21 AM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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To: blam

No, it is not. If you count range land bases control it is not even the largest Air Force base.


24 posted on 07/06/2017 9:42:06 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Lazamataz

Offer them a ham and bacon sandwich and see how they react.


25 posted on 07/06/2017 9:42:30 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: Lazamataz; RaceBannon

I gotta take a shower - can you keep me pinged on this?


26 posted on 07/06/2017 9:46:55 AM PDT by AAABEST (Got Traditional Catholicism? - Angelqueen.org)
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To: rdl6989

Dang, that sounds good. Gotta get some lunch.


27 posted on 07/06/2017 9:47:44 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

After an attack or coming back into the Green Zone we would first go to the wash rack & hose off the vehicles. We were known to set off detectors from time to time...residue was all over the place.


28 posted on 07/06/2017 9:53:52 AM PDT by LFOD (Formerly - Iraq, Afghanistan - back home in Dixie.)
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To: spiderpig

“4th of July firework residues on hands which subsequently handled the boxes could be the causal factor.”

I went to a fireworks display and they used a rental truck to bring the shells to the field. What a surprise for the next renter! “Potassium perchlorate residue, sodium nitrate, blackpowder residues, micron sized aluminum powder. Put your hands behind you. You have the right to remain silent...”


29 posted on 07/06/2017 9:58:40 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: SoCal Pubbie
TSA pulled my bags out for additional inspection once because I pulled them across my father-in-law’s lawn right after he had fertilized it and the sensor tagged them for the presence of explosives.

A co-worker of mine had that happen to her. She'd dragged her bag across the grass of hotel she'd stayed in and it picked up the residue.

She missed her flight and was not happy.

30 posted on 07/06/2017 10:00:22 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees! - Kipling)
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To: Lazamataz

No terrorist is going to wait at the gate. False positive.


31 posted on 07/06/2017 10:03:37 AM PDT by Husker24
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To: blam; eastforker

Actually, White Sands Missile Range is the largest military base in the US (in area) And especially if you add in Macgregor Range, Fort Bliss and Holloman AFB, which are all contiguous.


32 posted on 07/06/2017 10:10:46 AM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Husker24
"No terrorist is going to wait at the gate. False positive"

They do with military pointing guns their direction.....

However, I do believe it's probably a false positive....

33 posted on 07/06/2017 10:16:17 AM PDT by nevergore (I have a terrible rash on my covfefe....)
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To: Lazamataz

Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat (while the REAL attack is being set up somewhere else).


34 posted on 07/06/2017 10:19:58 AM PDT by fivecatsandadog (DRAIN THE SWAMP. BUILD THE WALL. EFF the rogue judges, Obama and the MSM.)
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To: TADSLOS

Another fine picture of Princess Summerfallwinterspring


35 posted on 07/06/2017 10:27:48 AM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: Freedom56v2

Usually the sensors t the gates are scanning for external residue- or for radiation. I’ve carried cans of smokeless powder through the gates w/ no ill effects, but a few sacks of lawn fertilizer pinged.

I shoot a lot, and often came through the gate with bags of fired brass in the cabin, no issues.

Had a nuke stress test off post, had a note from the docs office in case I set off the rad detectors, supposedly technicium can set off the detector. I didn’t so I didn’t tell the DA police either....

Standoff detection is a science & technology that still has a ways to go. Worked on a research project where lasers and a telescope linked to a spectrometer could detect ammonium nitrate in bulk at 300 m, trace amounts at 20 m. But you had to scan specific areas of a surface- it was not an “area” detector. The computer controlling it would shoot 30 pulses a second in a raster pattern on door handles, etc to excite the molecules and emit or fluoresce so the spec could “see” the residue and decide what it was. Algorithm city. Then we pulled out of IRQ and funding dried up.


36 posted on 07/06/2017 10:47:59 AM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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To: Manly Warrior
The computer controlling it would shoot 30 pulses a second in a raster pattern on door handles, etc to excite the molecules and emit or fluoresce so the spec could “see” the residue and decide what it was. Algorithm city. Then we pulled out of IRQ and funding dried up.

Interesting.

37 posted on 07/06/2017 11:31:50 AM PDT by GOPJ ( MSM Snowflakes: if you don't like President Trump's tweets don't read 'em.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

And there are also North Korean sleeper cells a plenty.


38 posted on 07/06/2017 11:45:22 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Manly Warrior

Wow! Lot of interesting information! Interesting job too. Thanks for providing this :)


39 posted on 07/06/2017 12:37:18 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out - D. Horowitz)
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To: spiderpig

Big Red chewing gum was always good for setting off the bomb sniffer portals at some of the Nuke Plants I used to work on.


40 posted on 07/06/2017 12:41:28 PM PDT by shotgun
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