Blackhawk Choppers Buzz Chicago Skyscrapers
OEMC says military is conducting training sessions
Tuesday, Apr 17, 2012 | Updated 9:24 AM CDT
Workers in Chicago's Loop business district were distracted from their work as Blackhawk helicopters rattled windows as they flew among the city's skyscrapers.
The city's Office of Emergency Management and Communications on Monday announced that Chicago is the site of a military training exercise this week involving personnel and at least three helicopters.
Calling it routine training, city officials say in a statement such exercises are conducted by military personnel in various cities around the country. They say the exercises are designed to improve the military's ability to operate in urban environments.
Emergency management officials say the training sites have been selected to minimize the impact on residents' daily routines.
Military Blackhawks Descend Over Chicago – Video
April 17, 2012
By LBG1
[Photo-Image: U.S. military Blackhawk helicopters descend into Chicago Monday night, April 16, 2012, Source: Chicago Fox News report video]
You can add Chicago to the disturbing trend of military training exercises in large metropolitan areas in the United States after U.S. military Blackhawk helicopters with ‘heavily armed’ men flew around downtown Chicago Monday night. Even more shocking the speculation the U.S. military may have been in training for next month’s NATO summit.
Under what authority would the U.S. military be involved in ‘security’ during the NATO summit held in Chicago?
Under the Posse Comitatus Act the United States Army cannot be used as law enforcement against United States citizens. The majority of the military exercises in metropolitan areas, U.S. Army Special Forces.
According to a FOX News report Chicago city officials stated the military exercises were ‘routine’. Since when has it become ‘routine’ for the U.S. Army to hold military exercises–Blackhawk helicopters with heavily armed troops–in major metropolitan areas?
Blackhawks Circle Low Through Chicago Skies as Secret Service Releases Security Details: MyFoxCHICAGO.com
Residents of Chicago were given a less than 24 hour notice; the same scenario in earlier joint-military exercises held in Los Angeles, Boston, and Little Rock; city governments who posted notices of the joint military exercises on their websites.
How many people look at their local city website for press releases on upcoming military exercises in their city; city governments failed to notify the local media?
So far, the national mainstream news media has ignored all reports from local media of the military exercises in large metropolitan areas.
If we were conspiracy theorists we’d wonder, are the military exercises possible false flag operations; a ‘conditioning of the public’? The military exercises, a forerunner to a large-scale de facto overthrow of the Posse Comitatus Act?
Loop turned into military training ground
Photo by Steven Dahlman
16-Apr-12 – (Above) Seen from Marina City, a Sikorsky HH-60 Pave Hawk, the U.S. Air Force version of the Army’s Black Hawk, flies past 55 West Wacker late Monday afternoon. Traveling with two other helicopters, it made at least three passes over the main branch of the Chicago River, turning south each time and riding off into the sunset.
The Pave Hawk – notice the forward-looking infrared gear on the nose that the Black Hawk does not have – was in town for a routine military training exercise.
According to a news release on Monday from Chicago’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications, Chicago is providing support for the exercise through Thursday.
“This routine training is conducted by military personnel in cities across the country, designed to ensure the military’s ability to operate in urban environments as service members meet mandatory training certification requirements and prepare for upcoming overseas deployments.”
The Pave Hawk can fly as fast as 183 miles per hour, as high as 14,000 feet, and has a range of 445 miles. It currently serves in Afghanistan and Iraq and saw action in Panama and Desert Storm. Also seen buzzing downtown were MH-6 Little Bird helicopters, used by the Army for observation.
(Below) Another view of one of the helicopters passing LaSalle and Wacker, captured by Anita Lambert. (Click on images to view larger versions.)
Photo by Anita Lambert
