Another Massive Military ‘Training Drill’ Involving Helicopters Spotted in Houston, Texas — Watch the Raw Footage
(KTRK-TV)
Following reports of a military exercise occurring in Miami this week, KTRK-TV shot video of military-style helicopters roaming the skies in Houston, Texas. There have also been several reports of gunfire in the area.
The U.S. Army tells KTRK-TV that they are overseeing a “multi-agency training drill” at the old Carnegie High School on Houston’s south side. There were reportedly armed men in fatigues, a lot of firearms and what many believed were real live rounds.
The Army did not give any additional details regarding what the training is all about or why it is being conducted in Houston.
(KTRK-TV)
KTRK-TV provides some raw footage of the apparent training drill:
One local resident, Frances Jerrals, didn’t understand what was happening when she saw military helicopters flying over her southeast Houston neighborhood.
“When you see this, you think the worst. When you hear this, you think the worst,” Jerrals told KTRK-TV.
“I felt like I was in a war zone…It was nonstop. I was terrified,” she added.
Another resident said the Army should do a better job of alerting the locals before they conduct such an alarming training drill.
A statement from police in Miami-Dade County argued the training exercise in Miami was “routine” and “designed to ensure the military’s ability to operate in urban environments, prepare forces for upcoming overseas deployments and meet mandatory certification requirement.”
This story may be updated with additional information.
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bigbear_awake
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:17amhttp://freedomoutpost.com/2013/01/none-dare-call-it-treason/
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midnightsun
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:15amMy husband was stationed at Ft. Hood which is a huge army base with lots of helicopters and they were always doing manuevers and that was back in the 1980′s.
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Mike76
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 4:59amSorry, but I don’t buy that this is just some innocent training mission.
1. The military has bases appropriate for any training scenario they might need to run. Why are they doing this in populated cities? What can the landscape of Houston or Miami possibly teach them about the Middle East or other hot spots?
2. Not all members of the U.S. military are American citizens – even SF Operators, so don’t assume loyalty.
3. Not all members of Special Operations teams are U.S. military – Spec-Ops teams are global nowadays – so don’t assume loyalty.
4. THERE IS NO LEGITIMATE REASON AT ALL FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT TO BE PART OF THIS TRAINING (If it is truly just for operational readiness in foreign theaters.)
When they kick in your front door, how you gonna come? With your hands on your head, or on the trigger of your gun? – The Clash.
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clinker
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 4:58amTraining for _____________.
Pretty easy to figure it out folks.
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Rayblue
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 4:53amBeen happening around the oil and gas refineries for a long time.
If the military wants to make a mistake
then they’re welcoming in a beast
bred beyond the third world scenario they take for an example.
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ncix
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 3:50amThis coupled with the recent purchase/ordering of close to a billion rounds of small caliber rounds by the Department of Homeland Security. Makes you wonder.
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Case_Logic
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 3:36amRed Dawn comes to mind.
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Gripegut
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 3:17amI am a Army veteran both as enlisted and as an officer and it is clear to me that this is an Army Special Operations Group, most probably Green Berets (by the helicopters) doing a school mass murderer scenario using “simunitions” which are paint balls that shoot out of a cartridge so they can be fired out of their actual weapons. BTW, these thisgs hurt like crazy and can often draw blood and leave scars.
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Metalstr8jckt
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 3:28am@GRIPEGUTS: You and your “forces” rappelled out of the “Little choppers” right?
Forest junior liked the little chopper driver…She knew he was smart.
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Metalstr8jckt
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 4:03am@GRIPGUT: Rubber bullets “hurt” too. More than one individual in some “Centralized socialist” system has ended up in a morgue for their family to identify, and then the government officials can further discredit the entire family for raising a subversive.
When water cannons and CS gas no longer are effective, what steps does a government take for a population they can no longer manage?
Hint: When economists project we are headed down the same path as Greece, don’t just think about massive unemployment.
Worry about your “Untouchable retirement account.” Then Greece becomes clear, with overturned vehicles on fire, and the sudden realization that you will:
Eke out a hand to mouth existence till you die.
Greece is the word(Evoke image of Travolta and Olivia Newton- John on public transportation) Not in cool Street rod.
Ramping up….Hot summers, and Colder winters on the way. BBBRRR. Siberian chills.
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repairsea
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 2:53amThat is old news. It has been going on since 2002 when I heard about it.
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Metalstr8jckt
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 3:17am@REPAIRSEA: Black-ops over Civilian areas Pre-dates McVeigh and OKC. circa 1995.
That youngster loose nut started the anti-society wake-up the same as everyone since. “Free speech” by shock value is always suppressed and dismissed as the lunacy in action it is.
Always ending in tragedy.
Black-ops are several decades old.
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katzkiner
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 2:00amRemember this one? Two skinny buzzards sitting on a telegraph post. One skinny buzzard says to the other skinny buzzard, “Patience hell, I’m gonna kill something.” You guys are gettin edgy. Chill.
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Metalstr8jckt
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 3:04am@KATZKINER: Two buzzards on the pole is merely the viewpoint from one perspective. From a larger field of view it may be possible to see many more circling overhead.
Sort of like our current immigration problem.
The President is continuing with the Nation’s Business; Aside from gun control and security issues He is fostering economic growth in the energy sector again. His predecessor stubbornly refused The Chinese government access to the Oil/and natural gas markets in the CONUS, but Obama is reversing that policy!
Even Bible thumping second amendment loving Texans are now “showing the love” to Obama’s favorite trading partner.
Most favored nation Status to a country with a centralized communist government is not what Tricky Richard Nixon had in mind when he sent Herr Kissinger into Ping Pong diplomacy with Red China.
But “Forest” is nowhere to be seen, and Bubba is somehow “Zombiefied” and reanimated, and we are all cursing the wind like Lt. Dan.
Now since we are on the time travel “Backwards” – hindsight 20/20 scenario,,..Go backward from 1972 to 1958.
With much less than “One point twenty one gigawatts of power.” We see the outlining of the Communist manifesto detailing the 50+plus year and the, steps necessary to morally, economically, and militarily unravel America (We are the last Populace on Earth with civilian capability to oppose invasion) and Naked communism.
Destined to repeat history or forge on in America? Revelation is open
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kentuck
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 1:35amHey Glenn how’s all that cabling you had laid a while back and the guard dogs and armed security patrolling the grounds working with those helicopters in the sky ?
We all know what’s up with all these “training exercises” and it’s not for work in foreign countries.
Buy a lot of uniforms , make dummies to dress up and put heaters in them to draw in the infra-red scopes … dig a hole and pull the dirt over your head until the action is over.
If they use bunker busters , wait ’til the rain fills in the hole then stock it with fish and open a pay lake and remember to thank big O for saving you the construction cost !
…ordering more lead ….
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Metalstr8jckt
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 1:32am@FLYOVERMAN and EM2T93: Both points well taken. Funding for ‘Eye in the sky” border surveillance at the U.S./Mexico border is apparently one of the programs that Panetta was ordered to quietly slide under the rug.
“Hometown” security is apparently the message that the new DHS wishes to convey.
Maybe an “official” explanation will be forthcoming. I can most assuredly guarantee that it will be spun as a measured proactive rehearsal to respond as action, which the public demanded from Washington.
Cameras, Drones and twenty-four hour surveillance to keep you safe. Our big brother is done with our getting bloodied. He will do whatever it takes, to protect our over-medicated, outcome based education, insecure little, one parent, latchkey children, from commiting heinous things again.
Grief counselors and major depression medications will continue to be provided to those unable to cope. (My facetiousness is not meant to be cruel, but merely to point out that “medication” is now the new normal.)
It doesn’t matter if people are abusing prescriptions, or self medicating with alcohol or the curb store pharmacy. This society has become extremely dysfunctional.
Big government and big medicine. big trouble.
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Efrem
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 1:10amIts time to start assembling militias and coming up with a plan to unite. If we are unorganized we dont stand a chance. We’d amount to nothing but scattered resistance. I believe thats what they’re expecting.
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katzkiner
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 1:43amI would prepare some fighting positions in the hood fer sure boys. 1 sandbag will stop a 223, at least two for the 7.62, don’t forget the grenade sump and the overhead cover. Fill out your range cards and lay your sectors of fire. This is it boys, this is war! Blow up 99 red balloons with white flags attached too. ROTFL!!!!!!!!! My sides hurt.
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Metalstr8jckt
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 1:58am@EFREM; The town square, county seat or city hall are the officially recognized locales the founding fathers spoke of for “Free assembly.”
Those are your local assembly points legally provided by the Constitution of the United Stated of America. No matter if any liberal mayor or socialistic city council decree attempts to disband, even by force, it is fraudulent. You are allowed to assemble as local citizens, Day or Night.
This shall not be infringed upon. You are allowed to organize, appoint your own spokespeople, and any grievances you have must be officially given a hearing in a public forum, with reasonable accommodations made to any and all parties having an interest in their government and it’s elected or appointed officials. “Timely” is one day.
A consortium of townships, cities and municipalities may then take their grievances to the State, Executive, Legislative, and Judicial level, if the issue or grievance was not resolved or addressed at the local level.
Next would be petition by the Governor to an appointee agreed upon by each of the original consortium, to bring the matter to The speaker of the House, as a “matter of great importance to the people of the State of: (Your State here).”
A failure to attempt the “preeminence of the state” provision by failure to petition through delegation first will open up a can of worms of: CIVIL INSURRECTION and Invocation of Executive order to quell a rebellion. Tyranny only has to appear to have the fac
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plainolamerican
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 12:59amEvery time this happens hundreds of armed PATRIOTS should block their streets with automobiles then take cover behind them, you know just for training. Or thousands if possible.
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GuruMeditation
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 6:19amThe folks need practice too ;-)
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Thornyrose13
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 12:58amDuring the bush years such an exercise was carried out in Richmond, Va. But that was advertised in advance, though specific details were not released. Either the same consideration is not being given to these other venues, or people are not paying attention to their local news. But i do find the sheer number of such training exercises a bit disturbing. I would think the feds could build training sites that would not impinge on the daily activities of urban areas.
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SacredHonor1776
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 10:02amhttp://www.mountainx.com/article/11701/Ground-zero-Asheville
They didn’t always ‘announce’ very well.
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Metalstr8jckt
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 12:56amWhatever the underlying motivation for this training exercise…The reality is that it took place in view of cameras which are not usually privileged to any covert ops training.
The military has at their disposal, mock-up urban environments, and have had them for decades.
The waters are being tested for public acceptance of the physical presence of “military type” operations in traditional American Backyards.
A future operation would only have to appear as actual U.S. Combat/ or Guard Troops. Sort of like a 100 foot paint job on a used car, it looks convincingly legit–But only from a distance.
With Gun control a front and center issue, and School Children’s safety at the front of the National debate on second amendment rights, now would be the time to(feign)-Implementing additional “security” measures while promoting the “general welfare of the public.”
The tragic deaths of innocent children has torn at the hearts of all, but even though we shed tears for the victims of these crimes, we must not become blinded from the smoke of those whose agenda consider it fortuitous. Relying on public anguish may be the catalyst necessary to disarm one-third of the country, with a rush of hasty ill conceived legislation to solve the epidemic of violence against the young people of this country.
Interestingly more than one professional physician has pointed out the most telling common denominator in these mass murders: Prior Med treatment for behavioral disorders,
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katzkiner
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 3:09amNone of Obama’s crap is hasty, the stimulus bill was written by the Apollo Group around 2003, Feinstein AWB has been sitting in a drawer for 10 years, the $ 3 trillion dollar Affordable Healthcare Act has been written for at least 10 years. They have been scheming a communist takeover of the USA since about 1949. Read “Manchurian President” by Arron Klein.
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jcldwl
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 7:45am@Katz
And McCarthy was on to them and exposing them. They destroyed him because he stood along.
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plainolamerican
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 12:53amFrom Plato’s book:
”Won’t he smile in welcome at anyone he meets, saying that he’s no tyrant, making all sorts of promises both in public and in private, freeing the people from debt, redistributing land to them, his followers, and pretending to be gracious and gentle to all?”
However after a series of unpopular actions, including stirring up a war, the leader begins to alienate some of his most ardent advisers who begin to voice their misgivings in private. Following a purge of these advisors the tyrant attracts some of the worst elements of the state to help him rule.
As the citizens grow weary of his tenure the tyrant chooses to attract foreigners to resupply his dwindling bodyguards. The citizens finally decide they’ve had enough and begin to discuss rebellion.
At this point in the story the student asks his teacher incredulously: “What do you mean? Will the tyrant dare to use violence against [the people] imprison or to hit [them] if [they] don’t obey? The teacher answers,
”Yes – once he’s taken away [the people's] weapons.”
The name of book 8 in the 10 book series from Plato Is THE REPUBLIC
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Metalstr8jckt
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 1:07am@PLAINOLAMERICAN: I do not have copies of Plato’s works available but he also mentioned that tyrants could rise to power by making the populace aware of the benefits of voting themselves “entitlements.” Choosing the leader that initially provided the good things in life.
The Republic “experiment” is Greek, in it’s origin and lamentably cyclical in it’s birth, life and death.
A bloodletting has always followed it’s beginning birth pangs and death throes.
Historians will chronicle the twenty first century as the pinnacle of technological achievement of mankind’s ability to destroy itself.
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dee76
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 12:49amLooks like they “confiscated” some big guns
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jvrat
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 12:47amA wasted cost for tax payers. for this is lame and easily shut down. So -good thing no one was dropped- or hurt from yet-mixed feelings because of intent
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topazmarie
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 12:47amPerhaps they will come to Steubenville Ohio and clean out all the gangbanger druggies that are destroying whats’s left of our town. Somebody’s gotta do it ’cause local law enforcement can’t seem to get very serious about it.
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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 4:20amThey did manage to produce Dean Martin. That is a plus.
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marine249
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 12:41amthe obummercrast {or rats} are coming for you
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stopprintn
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 12:35amPlease relaxe, there is no problem. I’ve trained on both sides of the fence and will assure you, the american conservative is without question, the largest force on earth. If the time ever came that some dimwit truly challenges that force, sorry for them.
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1911a1
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 12:32amyrah they are just trying to keep everyone on edge so it is easy to play it up if there is a crisis *yawn* their nt ready for operations just yet /
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spfoam1
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 12:30amSome people here need to get some fresh air. These police and military exercises are probably preparations for the inevitable showdown with Iran. It’s probably going to happen. When it does, we will be dealing with hezbollah right here in the USA, with many of them being US citizens. They are the preferred weapon of Iran. Think about things like truck bombs in bad places, dirty bombs, biological agents, power grid disruptions, and so on. It will be necessary to shoot US citizens, and round up US citizens, and quarantine large areas where people won’t necessarily want to stay. Somebody has to be ready to deal with it. Obama will try to use this for political gain, but with mass casualties he will have to worry about a lot more than political points.
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EM2T93
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 1:05amWell then, it seems to me they might make the same effort on the border considering hezbollah and hamas have operations going on down there via infilitration/partnerships with drug cartels, and setting up shop in the South American region. That might be the most reasonable approach, first.
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OperationNorthwoods
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 1:10am@SPFOAM1 Our government’s Al-Qeada forces could woop Iran’s Hezbollah any day of the week. So don’t worry and please don’t feel the need to create a police state. Our boys in Al-Qeada will get things done in Iran just like in Lybia and Syria.
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Mike76
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:06amWhy would the police need to get ready for a showdown with Iran? If this was strictly military, maybe I’d buy it. LEO involvement is for one reason and one reason alone: domestic population control. Nobody’s sending the local Sheriff to Tehran.
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spfoam1
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 7:59am@EM2T93…I agree, the border policy sucks. Politicians are more worried about votes than anything else, especially the democrats.
@OPERATIONNORTHWOODS…..I’m not sure what your rant is about. I did not express a need to create a police state, and preparing for a likely attack is not creating one. What would you do, sit there with your head up your arse and pretend hezbollah doesn’t exist?
@MIKE76….Hezbollah attacks enemies in their own counties, or in other words they will attack HERE. That is what they do, and we know they are already here. That being the case, why would the police not be involved? This is not WWII where our population will be insulated from the war.
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FLyoverman
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 12:29amUnless times have changed, only TF 160, the NIght Stalkers, from Ft. Campbell who only support Special Operations units fly the MH-6 helicopters you see in the video. Now why would that unit be there and operating in broad daylight? If they were there what Spec Ops units were they supporting?
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katzkiner
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 2:05amTF 160 evolved long ago. But they ain’t gonna shoot Americans. But they will steal your wife if she’s pretty. Got mine, damn heroes.
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