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Air Force helicopter shot at from ground while flying over Virginia, crew injured
McClatchy DC ^ | 8/12/2020 | Tara Copp

Posted on 08/12/2020 9:31:13 AM PDT by Skywise

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To: Skywise

Prayers for the injured service member....but it’s probably not the first time this Huey has been shot at if it’s a leftover from Vietnam.


41 posted on 08/12/2020 10:05:22 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Don Corleone

I have been waiting for it to blow up for years now. Problem is..these little pricks aint got the guts to go into the rural and urban conservative areas to do their wicked work.

If they ever do get the guts, it wont be funny or cute anymore.

I would kill them and feel about as bad about it as shooting a DAM SNAKE!


42 posted on 08/12/2020 10:05:43 AM PDT by crz
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To: Skywise

Y’all might agree this was probably some Leftist, but today’s media actually LIE to promote their politics.

Watch them say it was some Alt-Right Boogaloo boys.

You know they WANT to. It’s just a matter of voicing their inner desires out loud.


43 posted on 08/12/2020 10:06:00 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: Skywise
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into the incident.

LOL

44 posted on 08/12/2020 10:06:01 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: Skywise

Question comes to mind...does this service member get a Purple Heart?

He/she should.


45 posted on 08/12/2020 10:07:24 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Magnum44
From Maryland, over Virginia.

Any chance they flew over Biden's house and he came out on the porch and fired his shotgun up into the sky to scare them away?

46 posted on 08/12/2020 10:10:19 AM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: Lockbar

That’s what I’m thinkin’. August was when they ran here, back before legalization. Hid from them once while bow-hunting. Could see the troop in the door with an M-16.


47 posted on 08/12/2020 10:10:20 AM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: moovova

Probably, not, actually.

Most of the USAF UH-1N’s were bought in the mid to late 70s to ferry Missile combat crews and maintainers to the thousands of Minuteman II, Atlas, and Peacekeeper missiles sites. Of course, there are a lot few of them, as both Atlas and Peacekeepers are gone.

I’ll bet it’s one of those.


48 posted on 08/12/2020 10:10:55 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: Shark24

If you were not hit, how could you know you were fired upon?


49 posted on 08/12/2020 10:14:54 AM PDT by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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To: Skywise

I wonder what altitude it was at, what airspeed? And cloudy, rainy conditions, too?


50 posted on 08/12/2020 10:16:20 AM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: 1Old Pro

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into the incident.

LOL
= = =

Are they trying to determine a motive?


51 posted on 08/12/2020 10:18:09 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
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To: 1Old Pro

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into the incident.

Somebody point them in the right direction, please!


52 posted on 08/12/2020 10:18:09 AM PDT by JayAr36 (Do you want to be a subject or a citizen.)
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To: Skywise
Video: Boomerang III proves a hit with troops
53 posted on 08/12/2020 10:18:09 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: crz

Eventually they will.

They will plan on outnumbring the small town cops.

PProbably night time sneak attacks.


54 posted on 08/12/2020 10:19:19 AM PDT by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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To: Don Corleone
Ft. Sumter 2.0 cannot be far away now

Not quite, nossir. But I do put forth that we now have, in much the same vein as Afghanistan, a domestic insurgency.

55 posted on 08/12/2020 10:20:35 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("Black Lives Matter" becomes "Terse TV Blackmail"..... #AnagramsNeverLie)
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To: Skywise

Northam’s people are already drafting his response - about right wing extremists with “AR-14s” attacking the benevolent government.


56 posted on 08/12/2020 10:21:36 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: circlecity
“Easy, ya just don’t lead them as much....”

"HAAHAAHAHHAHHA AIN'T WAR HELL???"

57 posted on 08/12/2020 10:22:16 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("Black Lives Matter" becomes "Terse TV Blackmail"..... #AnagramsNeverLie)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; azishot; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; ..

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58 posted on 08/12/2020 10:26:21 AM PDT by bitt (Our rights donÂ’t end where your feelings begin.)
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To: steve86

Last night was pretty clear, they buzz by my place on occasion. Manassass can be rural about 12 miles as the crow fly’s from me. Usually they fly pretty low and slow. I always wave. Prayers up.


59 posted on 08/12/2020 10:31:27 AM PDT by CJ Wolf ( #wwg1wga #Godwins #150Kclub)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“Probably. Joint Base Andrews is where his helicopters normally take him to board Air Force One. Some bad actor probably thought he was taking out Trump here.”

These UH-1’s are marked totally different than the Marine One fleet.

And I can tell you that they are “on the deck” and flying as fast as the helicopter can fly. Last time I was in D.C. I was standing on the river side of the Lincoln Memorial, and was just about looking down at Marine One, and the Airforce VIP helicopter as they flew along the Potomac.


60 posted on 08/12/2020 10:33:13 AM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Political Science degrees, so easy Obama has one.)
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