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They Are Gearing up for War?

  • 12-09-2012 06:47AM
    #1
    OurLadyofKnock
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    Spent the weekend in Cambridge and the area is packed with US/NATO bases. My friends there were telling me that in the last few weeks the intensity of training flights and other military aviation flights has gone up to the same as it was before the invasion of Iraq. Lots of movement of US personal on the roads around the place. Real sense of urgency and tension has kicked in during the last month. Locals are convinced they are really going to have a go at Iran soon. Scary stuff.


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  • #2
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Way to go. So much for keeping secrets.

    You IP details have been requested and have been released to the appropriate authority.


  • #3
    Xavi6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,160 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Thought this was going to be about Donaghmede :o


  • #4
    Chuck Stone
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    Olympics.


  • #5
    OurLadyofKnock
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    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Olympics.


    Really now... Heavy bomber practice non-stop and F-16s in the air 24/7.

    Jeez, them shotputters must be a danger to global security.


  • #6
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    If they had the Internet back in '44, D-Day was so busted.


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  • #7
    cyrusdvirus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,752 ✭✭✭cyrusdvirus


    OurLadyofKnock wrote: »
    Really now... Heavy bomber practice non-stop and F-16s in the air 24/7.

    Jeez, them shotputters must be a danger to global security.

    It's the javelins you have to watch out for... remember poor Dieter Schmidt.

    Bonus points for anyone who gets the double meaning


  • #8
    Faolchu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,742 ✭✭✭Faolchu


    Could it also not be squards getting ready for their tours? Units that have arrived in the UK on TDY while waiting to head over to afganistan? Had this a lot in germany 20 years ago when I lived there and the same avianio in northern italy. Troops would come in spend up to 3 months them PCS off to the middle east


  • #9
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,289 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    Run_to_da_hills must have got his dates wrong


  • #10
    cyrusdvirus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,752 ✭✭✭cyrusdvirus


    godtabh wrote: »
    Run_to_da_hills must have got his dates wrong

    When did he say it was happening?

    I have to admit, i love his posts..... just the right mix of insanity and comic genius in them


  • #11
    Colmustard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭Colmustard


    A new verse they are adding to the star spangled banner.
    [Chorus]
    Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho
    It's home from war we go
    [Whistle]

    I don't believe they are going to war with Iran, it would be to daunting a prospect, it would make Afghanistan and Iraq look like a skirmish, it could even trigger a world war. But I was listening to Netanyahu call Obama chicken at a recent press conference, not good for the process of peace.


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  • #12
    [Deleted User]
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    Maybe they're training to blow the Western Rail Corridor to smithereens, & assassinating the West on Track ringleaders?

    Soc>Military>Walter Mitty forum this way.

    I call BS, unless you want to ask the *actual* military folk on Soc > Military

    -__-


  • #13
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    They probably chose east Anglia due to its proximity and similarity to the middle east.

    Somewhere hot and dusty like Arizona or Nevada would be no good.


  • #14
    danniemcq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    god forbid they might actually be getting ready for Syria.

    It'd be nice if the US used their power for good and not just for oil


  • #15
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    Personally, with five years of austerity now, billions squandered, a property tax about to be introduced, minimum wages under fire and the continual wastage of our natural resources..

    I'd be more worried about war on our own streets tbh. Things can't go on the way they are.

    Brace yourselves......


  • #16
    cyrusdvirus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,752 ✭✭✭cyrusdvirus


    Ghandee wrote: »
    Personally, with five years of austerity now, billions squandered, a property tax about to be introduced, minimum wages under fire and the continual wastage of our natural resources..

    I'd be more worried about war on our own streets tbh. Things can't go on the way they are.

    Brace yourselves......

    So the merry-cans are gonna invade us??

    We should make a movie out of this.... call it the mouse that roared or something...


  • #17
    Ghandee
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    gatecrash wrote: »
    So the merry-cans are gonna invade us??

    We should make a movie out of this.... call it the mouse that roared or something...

    No, not at all.

    I'd be more of the notion that Irish men and women take to the streets, there's a social class war taking place at the min I think.

    The rich are getting richer. One class of people are only protecting the interests of themselves.


  • #18
    Colmustard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭Colmustard


    Let's really go conspiracy, they are readying themselves for what the aliens told the American government about 21/12/12.


  • #19
    cyrusdvirus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,752 ✭✭✭cyrusdvirus


    Ghandee wrote: »
    No, not at all.

    I'd be more of the notion that Irish men and women take to the streets, there's a social class war taking place at the min I think.

    The rich are getting richer. One class of people are only protecting the interests of themselves.

    So we're not getting invaded?

    Damn... I was practising my sultry french accent too
    'listen very carefully, for i shall say this only wonce...


  • #20
    cyrusdvirus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,752 ✭✭✭cyrusdvirus


    Colmustard wrote: »
    Let's really go conspiracy, they are readying themselves for what the aliens told the American government about 21/12/12.

    i think the mayans got it wrong... it'd look MUCH better if it was 21-12 2112

    someone forgot to carry the 1 or something, cos they're a century out


  • #21
    Colmustard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭Colmustard


    gatecrash wrote: »
    i think the mayans got it wrong... it'd look MUCH better if it was 21-12 2112

    someone forgot to carry the 1 or something, cos they're a century out

    Good point I will go with that,

    Or it could have been 21/12/12/21

    So it all happens a 9pm on that day, so be afraid, be very afraid.

    Seriously, there are always exercises and war games in that area and your mate is probably just thinking there is increased activity because of speculation. Besides the British and the Americans are at war.


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  • #22
    Davidth88
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    OurLadyofKnock wrote: »
    Spent the weekend in Cambridge and the area is packed with US/NATO bases. My friends there were telling me that in the last few weeks the intensity of training flights and other military aviation flights has gone up to the same as it was before the invasion of Iraq. Lots of movement of US personal on the roads around the place. Real sense of urgency and tension has kicked in during the last month. Locals are convinced they are really going to have a go at Iran soon. Scary stuff.

    Autumn is the traditional time for exercises , Sept/Oct time often sees an upturn in activity.

    Now where did I leave those iodine tablets ............


  • #23
    cyrusdvirus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,752 ✭✭✭cyrusdvirus


    Colmustard wrote: »
    Good point I will go with that,

    Or it could have been 21/12/12/21

    So it all happens a 9pm on that day, so be afraid, be very afraid.

    Seriously, there are always exercises and war games in that area and your mate is probably just thinking there is increased activity because of speculation. Besides the British and the Americans are at war.

    I was across in the UK last year at my cousins wedding, and was doing the touristy thing in the couplr of days beforehand, stonehenge etc...

    Driving along this road i see a road sign in the distance..

    http://goo.gl/maps/H5fvk

    Me, in a car versus one of them things and I'M the one who has to watch out!!:D


  • #24
    OurLadyofKnock
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Maybe they're training to blow the Western Rail Corridor to smithereens, & assassinating the West on Track ringleaders?


    Well considering how fanatical they are while constantly issuing fathwahs in the direction of the "Dublin Government" you could be on to something alright.


  • #25
    OurLadyofKnock
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    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    They probably chose east Anglia due to its proximity and similarity to the middle east.

    Somewhere hot and dusty like Arizona or Nevada would be no good.

    They do not actually drop bombs - they press a button over the target and gone "boom!"


  • #26
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Ghandee wrote: »
    Brace yourselves......

    You bend over first.

    Seriously though, the US is probably gearing up for war with Iran.


  • #27
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    OurLadyofKnock wrote: »
    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    They probably chose east Anglia due to its proximity and similarity to the middle east. Somewhere hot and dusty like Arizona or Nevada would be no good.
    They do not actually drop bombs - they press a button over the target and gone "boom!"

    When you train for a war, you do it in an area similar to where you intend on fighting.

    Prince Harry wasn't in Nevada just to play strip pool, the British army.go to Edwards airforce base (which is about the size of Cork) for training, because it is hot, dusty and at altitude similar to Afghanistan.

    Cambridge is cold, wet and flatter than a hedgehog on the M50.


  • #28
    ejmaztec
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    They're probably gearing up for a Nato exercise, so they can play war-games for a few days.


  • #29
    Overheal
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    The military isn't constantly running wargames or training programs. Sounds like the ramp up may have just been from that.

    Charleston is for instance always abuzz with C-17s. Numbers aren't easy to spot online, but as many as 120 C-17s are based out of Charleston AFB at any one time, or have been assigned to CHS AFB in total. That's more than half the US contingent; only 241 have ever been made and it's operated by other countries as well.

    Flights in and out are extremely regular, other times of year it ramps up, often with no particular correlation in world affairs. Every once in a while you will catch the Combat Air Patrol coming in and out, which for the most part consists of one or two loosely formed superhornets, though I think I've sometimes spotted an F-15 also. The military regularly does training programs though at differing times of year: I have a friend ready to begin Pararescue basic down in Georgia, but that isn't until November that they are starting up the next program. The full course for Pararescue training lasts about 2 years.


  • #30
    holystungun9
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    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    If they had the Internet back in '44, D-Day was so busted.

    @Hitler Dafuq???


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  • #31
    Border-Rat
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    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    When you train for a war, you do it in an area similar to where you intend on fighting.

    Prince Harry wasn't in Nevada just to play strip pool, the British army.go to Edwards airforce base (which is about the size of Cork) for training, because it is hot, dusty and at altitude similar to Afghanistan.

    Cambridge is cold, wet and flatter than a hedgehog on the M50.

    And is this the voice of experience?


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