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2023-04-07 -Short Attention Span Theater-

FBI handcuffs, interrogates innocent Delta Air Lines pilot in botched Boston training exercise

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Posted by Beavis 2023-04-07 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Send in the clowns…

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2023-04-07 00:45|| 2023-04-07 00:45|| Front Page Top

#2 LAX remote ramp some years ago. A newly formed FBI HRT rolls out onto the tarmac with camo, pickle suits, MP5's, latest coms gear, and flash-bangs for an exercise assault on a terrorist captured 737.

Team reaches aircraft underbelly and landing gear. Lots of arm & hand signals, no action. Someone had forgotten to pack the boarding ladders.

Fort Bragg trainers call ENDEX for impromptu block of instruction on equipment check-lists.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-04-07 02:02|| 2023-04-07 02:02|| Front Page Top

#3 The military has been doing this for decades. MEUs used to do this before deployments and Force Recon would do long range hits from 29 Palms to San Diego. My hunch was all was going well until the Feebs got involved in these exercises.

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2023-04-07 03:22|| 2023-04-07 03:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Please, please let the pilot be a minority or other woke protected class.

Posted by Airandee 2023-04-07 06:23|| 2023-04-07 06:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Just tossing a thought out there, considering this new normal FBI/DOJ.

What if they weren't doing a training session and there was political target they got the wrong hotel on?

Posted by NN2N1 2023-04-07 08:27|| 2023-04-07 08:27|| Front Page Top

#6 If only hotels would put numbers on the doors so you could tell the rooms apart.

Posted by SteveS 2023-04-07 08:57|| 2023-04-07 08:57|| Front Page Top

Hmmm, Boston. The FBI is really on the ball there, aren't they? [Insert photo from Boston Marathon killers here.]

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-04-07 09:03|| 2023-04-07 09:03|| Front Page Top

#8 Don't forget Dennis Condon, H. Paul Rico, John Connolly or John Morris - they were either Steve Flemmi's or Whitey Bulger's FBI 'handlers'.

Posted by Raj 2023-04-07 09:31|| 2023-04-07 09:31|| Front Page Top

#9 What if they weren't doing a training session and there was political target they got the wrong hotel on?

Where do you suppose the credibility level is at the moment?

Well, we wonder if the pilot posted something about Covid shots.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-04-07 10:31|| 2023-04-07 10:31|| Front Page Top

#10 In 1974 I was involved as a Team Chief of a USMC Counter-Intelligence unit assigned to an exercise at Camp Pendleton. The scenario involved a mythical Latin American country we had entered involving assisting an allied local government stopping a communist overthrow (imagine that mindset today).

In any event, among the role players in the OPFOR were USMC Reservists from Miami who were playing the insurgent communist ringleaders, and were to be brought in for interrogation. About 3 AM the Marine MPs involved in the exercise dutifly brought in four or five men who were hog-tied, gagged and had hoods over their heads. It was explained that they had been picked up along the planned "infiltration route" for the exercise, right along I-5, and had been kept in a wire POW compound for several hours before being brought in for questioning. We started the process of separating them and beginning the questioning, and discovered the most frightened illegal aliens in history. When the USBP agents came to pick them up, we learned later they were begging to be returned to the border and apoplectic in their apology for entering the US illegally. One Agent asked if we could stay on permanently.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-04-07 11:49|| 2023-04-07 11:49|| Front Page Top

#11 The worst training exercise that I am aware of:

TCG Muavenet (DM-357) (previously USS Gwin, transferred in 1971) was a destroyer minelayer of the Turkish Navy crippled by two Sea Sparrow missiles fired from the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga during a NATO exercise in Saros Bay, Turkey in 1992, resulting in five deaths and 22 injured among its crew.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-04-07 15:20|| 2023-04-07 15:20|| Front Page Top

#12 I have been on the HRT training with SOF back in 97. It was run pretty smoothly. We hit a building next to Fenway. The owner of the soon to be torn down warehouse showed up with his family and demanded to watch from inside. I called the TOC and legal that was in the TOC. I could not stop him from entering the building. When the team blew a hole from the fourth floor to the second he came running out at full tilt, leaving his wife and kids inside. We went in and got her and the kids out. No one was hurt, but she was pissed as a hornet. And probably a little sad that her husband was a coward...

Posted by 49 Pan 2023-04-07 16:11|| 2023-04-07 16:11|| Front Page Top

#13 Been chipping away at that SDGE soap opera and was immediately reminded of a hilarious (hopefully intentionally so) scene I happened to see last night...

Bureau des Légendes

Four angels of death on the loose
From Vivendi and Groupe Canal+
Swooped down like two walls
On a goose in Les Halles...
"It's for you... Happy Passover, Juice!"

Posted by Ulineting Schwarzeneggar3331 2023-04-07 23:32|| 2023-04-07 23:32|| Front Page Top

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