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iyaayas01 posted:Except for the graduation the F-16s are always the T-Birds, so in that specific case no the AF paid money specifically to fly a six (probably seven since I'm sure they bring the spare) ship of jet fighters a third of the way across the country for a 30 second fly-by because zoomies. Yeah, that is the glaring exception to the rule. Possibly stuff at the Super Bowl level...let's face it, nobody is scheduling a loving 2v2 45 minutes before kickoff. But they do use local assets, usually from a nearby NAS or ANG base. I was curious if you'd recognize that photo. I wish the video still existed, but apparently all copies were destroyed.
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We had flyovers at a lot of Virginia Tech games. I only remember boring C17s(because I was blacked out by noon for games) but I want to say there was one b-1 flyover. In Iraq we got an F-18 to buzz us once and Cobras to practice gun runs on. That was cool.
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Apparently flyovers used to only require the most cursory of coordination, so it was pretty easy to decide to take your four-ship to visit your alma mater. I can't recall what oopsie or flagrant waste of taxpayer money brought the hammer down (although I remember hearing a rumor that it was a fighter coming in level with the stadium lights while someone important was watching) but the DoD started requiring much higher levels of justification and approval, and now that they're tracking our fuel use on a per-sortie basis, those days are probably never coming back.
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JSTARS (lol) did a flyover for some game or whatever a while back in Georgia. I guess the bird was supposed to fly over exactly at the end of the national anthem but they screwed up and arrived substantially late and it was all awkward. Getting an ISR asset for a flyover is the equivalent of getting one of those lovely Tiger handheld games instead of a Gameboy for Christmas.
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Dead Reckoning posted:Apparently flyovers used to only require the most cursory of coordination, so it was pretty easy to decide to take your four-ship to visit your alma mater. I can't recall what oopsie or flagrant waste of taxpayer money brought the hammer down (although I remember hearing a rumor that it was a fighter coming in level with the stadium lights while someone important was watching) but the DoD started requiring much higher levels of justification and approval, and now that they're tracking our fuel use on a per-sortie basis, those days are probably never coming back. Well there was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvlX2Fb0kZM I don't think it was so much that someone important was watching as it was that the poo poo was all over youtube. I think there may have been another incident involving a flyby at a considerably higher rate of speed with a similar altitude deviation.
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iyaayas01 posted:Well there was this:
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Spicy Guacamole posted:Seriously? Some Navy brass gettin' their panties in a bunch over this? Big loving whoop. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalese_cable_car_disaster_%281998%29 Rules exist because someone did something stupid and broke something, hurt someone or killed someone.
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Pat McNamara (the ex delta guy who runs a tactical shooting course) talking about his military time, his life, and how he enjoys birdwatching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOliF5FoAA8
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Helldump Immunity. posted:JSTARS (lol) did a flyover for some game or whatever a while back in Georgia. I guess the bird was supposed to fly over exactly at the end of the national anthem but they screwed up and arrived substantially late and it was all awkward. 
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I don't get the NSA icons
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terrez posted:Pat McNamara (the ex delta guy who runs a tactical shooting course) talking about his military time, his life, and how he enjoys birdwatching: http://youtu.be/hOliF5FoAA8?t=2m17s Loving that picture
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Zeris posted:I don't get the NSA icons 
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Zeris posted:I don't get the NSA icons  smiley face is at the bottom.
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Haha holy poo poo
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SWAT entry, french style https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZX6Bjp--VU EDIT: better angle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hISqLRi2w28 boner penis fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Jan 9, 2015 |
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Should have called the GhostBusters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3zo-co8BPg
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boner penis posted:EDIT: better angle Ah yes, the highly effective gaggle formation. I like how one dude runs in with a shield and cuts off everyone else's field of fire before they all leave him hanging for the next minute, then kinda trickle in as they work up the courage.
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I thought GIGN was supposed to be high-speed. 
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Spicy Guacamole posted:I thought GIGN was supposed to be high-speed. I think that is the GIPN and other police forces and not the GIGN.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y_eUbRdodA
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If less lives (innocent or otherwise) meant more potatoes for everybody else I'm sure that US SWAT teams would act like that too.
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Helldump Immunity. posted:Getting an ISR asset for a flyover is the equivalent of getting one of those lovely Tiger handheld games instead of a Gameboy for Christmas. Results of two attempts at Hawkeye flyovers: 1) Flew over completely the wrong pier. 2) Flew over a ceremony about ten minutes after the national anthem finished, right in the middle of a speech. And it's not over quickly, like a jet. No, you get plenty of time to appreciate the BBBBBBZZZZZZZZZRRRRRRRRR as it hums by. For some reason we don't get asked to do flyovers any more. 
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Even a c-130 would make for a cooler flyover than a predator, sorry but your rc plane is too dorky to be impressive.
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Lol if you think a fly over is wasting money. If they weren't flying there they'd be somewhere else doing the same thing
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Die in a loving Osprey crash already jesus
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Bolow posted:Die in a loving Osprey crash already jesus lmfbo
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Bolow posted:Die in a loving Osprey crash already jesus
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Bob A Feet posted:Lol if you think a fly over is wasting money. If they weren't flying there they'd be somewhere else doing the same thing lol shut the gently caress up
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Spicy Guacamole posted:Seriously? Some Navy brass gettin' their panties in a bunch over this? Big loving whoop. Pretend I posted a bunch of videos here of planes crashing doing relatively mundane things at low altitude. Then imagine that happening in a stadium full of people. Safety margins exist for a reason. Slim Pickens posted:Even a c-130 would make for a cooler flyover than a predator, sorry but your rc plane is too dorky to be impressive. The sound of one flying around in the pattern seriously isn't much different from the sound you hear at a field where people are flying R/C planes. At least a Reaper mostly sounds like a real plane.
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A Herk flyover would be loving awesome.
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iyaayas01 posted:Safety margins exist for a reason. Yeah, the reason being that a lot of people are total pussies.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Yeah, the reason being that a lot of people are total pussies.
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boner penis posted:SWAT entry, french style This video makes me glad France quits at war. Holly poo poo that is embarrassing.
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boner penis posted:SWAT entry, french style The uncensored video is here if you don't mind seeing the guy get blasted so hard he ends up in the air ricocheting off the doorframe. I don't think anyone's taken that many bullets since Bonnie & Clyde.
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lmao he probably got shot 100 times right there. RIP in piss
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iceslice posted:This video makes me glad France quits at war. Holly poo poo that is embarrassing. Is "wall of gunfire" not a viable tactic?
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Seeing all those swat bunnies gaggled up there brought out my GTA2 urges to run in with a flamethrower and get em all. Like look at how clustered they are thats like $5000 and immediate 5 stars.
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holocaust bloopers posted:Is "wall of gunfire" not a viable tactic? I'm more impressed by how not only did the shield guy try his hardest to run in front of as many of his buddies as he could, they kept shooting as the terrorist ran between them.
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terrez posted:Seeing all those swat bunnies gaggled up there ... I don't know nothin' from nothin', but that sure looks to my eye to be not the best way to do that. How long before those angry jihadi dudes start including grenades in their load-out. Gonna face the man, gonna make them pay. Derka Derka
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