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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FWIW I’m hearing it was simulating getting a govt official to safety as it was a COG (continuity of government) exercise.

“The missions are routine: In the event of a catastrophe, helicopters are often employed to usher government officials to safety.”[/quote]

This is not secret intel, it's a direct CNN quote, so why not say so? These routine simulation exercises were widely covered in the news in the past couple of days.

[i]"The soldiers on the Black Hawk were conducting what Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth described as an annual nighttime training on 'a continuity of government mission.' The missions are routine: In the event of a catastrophe, helicopters are often employed to usher government officials to safety. Crew members had night vision goggles, the defense secretary said."[/i]

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Ok … even if training to evacuate VIP’s is necessary, why tf was it necessary for the evacuation route to go through DCA? Makes no sense. [/quote]

Since you seem to know definitively that it makes no sense, please tell us where does the evacuation route they were training on go from and to (such that it makes no sense to pass by DCA)? [/quote]

There are published helicopter routes, which go right by DCA every day. They’ve been talking about this in the news since day one. It’s not that they “just decided” to go by DCA, this was one of the approved helicopter routes… training or not.  [/quote]

They were outside that route-- too close to DCA and too high.[/quote]

… and that’s the consequence of having a training route next to a civilian airport. [/quote]

Are you saying they’re all that incompetent they can’t stay on a river bank path at a consistent altitude on a clear night?

Cancel the whole program then. Call DOGE. [/quote]

Have you not read any of the news reports explaining that actually yes this is a persistent problem and that there have been many near misses over the years with helicopters around DCA?

You don't have to "call DOGE" to "cancel the whole program." There are already procedures in place for stopping the practice of sending military helicopters past DCA at all hours. Sadly, it has taken a deadline incident to actually engage those procedures.

Speaking of DOGE though, I wonder what kind of deadly incident SpaceX will wind up experiencing to finally make Musk realize that the "unnecessary regulation" imposed on him by the FAA might actually be saving lives. Because rather than just follow regulations imposed by the FAA, he has instead bought the influence over the current president so that he can bully the last head of the FAA into resigning so he can get his way. Is DOGE going to "cancel the whole program" when it turns out that the regulations SpaceX is being asked to follow are actually necessary for civilian safety?[/quote]

I thought he bought influence not for aviation but to avoid a court case that stated he was doing too many drugs to be a trusted government contractor.

Now that he has control over the government, he can become the main contractor for everything. [/quote]

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