Army Lets Slip That It's Conducting Secret Operation Around D.C.

[RandySF]

The Pentagon has revealed a few details about a secret Army mission that has Black Hawk helicopters flying missions over the Washington, D.C., area backed by active-duty and reserve soldiers.

The mysterious classified operation was disclosed when the Army asked Congress for approval to shift funds to provide an extra $1.55 million for aircraft maintenance, air crews and travel in support of an “emerging classified flight mission.”

It’s part of a $2.5 billion request this month to “reprogram” funds in the current fiscal year’s budget to programs considered high priorities. “Without additional funding, the Army will not be able to perform this classified mission,” the Defense Department said.

“Soldiers from assault helicopter company and aviation maintenance units will be supporting the mission with 10 UH-60s and maintenance capabilities for four months,” according to the document, referring to the Black Hawks. The money will also pay for a specialized “Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility” at Davison Army Airfield at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, just outside Washington.

Army spokesman Wayne Hall declined in an email to comment on some possibilities -- including whether the mission involved protecting the White House or other federal buildings and whether it’s making use of specialized commando units of the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations Command, which includes the Army’s Delta unit and Navy’s Seal Team Six.


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-22/army-lets-slip-that-it-s-conducting-secret-operation-around-d-c

[democratisphere]

1. WTF is THIS about?

[kimbutgar]

2. Or maybe they know fat donnie is a Russian asset and plan to remove him.

I just don’t see the military supporting him with his Russian influence.

Unless they are are fully immersed in the cult. Then ho le shite

[ProudLib72]

4. Something timed to the Mueller testimony?

[kwassa]

3. Not the black helicopters! Any chemtrails?

[myohmy2]

5. hmmm...

...maybe they're making ready Air Force One to fly 'da boss' on a secret mission to Tehran?

...maybe Melania needs a new Persian rug for Mar-A-Lago and Pence wants a new hookah for the Oval Office?


" “Without additional funding, the Army will not be able to perform this classified mission,” the Defense Department said. "

...this could be serious...

[Ilsa]

11. "Pence wants a new hookah for the Oval Office?"

We could only hope! A good hookah might help dissolve the big stick up his ass.

[moondust]

6. Martial law rehearsals?

[uponit7771]

8. We'll need it after Red Don wins all 49 states

[nitpicker]

7. Is that why we were jolted out of our beds Sunday morning?

I had thought that maybe EMS was responding to an incident.

Or maybe the secret is that the crews weren't logging enough flight hours and they had to fund remediation work.

[HAB911]

9. Are the Jade Helm wingnuts up in arms?

[DFW]

10. Maybe they are rehearsing Trump's evacuation

Preparing for the day that an unruly million person mob storms the White House, demanding that Trump be handed over to them, limb by limb, and over a period of four days.

[Ilsa]

12. I'm more concerned it'll be more like a soft Red Dawn with

the Cubans. But, I'm an alarmist.

[DFW]

13. Trump isn't too cool with Cubans these days

More likely a repeat of the War Of 1812 and Boris Johnson's British.