Who you be...in the E6B? (Jade Helm)
Jul 14, 2015 20:25:08 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2015 20:25:08 GMT -6
For those who don't know the designation alone, the E6B TACAMO aircraft has had a few names over the years and in popular culture. Among them have been 'Doomsday Plane' and 'Looking Glass'. It seems....it's been seen at a higher rate then normal around Grand Junction, Colorado.
Source: Strategic Command (Military Site)
It isn't necessarily a smoking gun to anything, but it does seem to suggest patterns of use for those aircraft have changed a bit. A contributor to Cryptome posted this earlier (They have some they take write-ins from as straight content..and I'm not sure how that works):
Now he goes on to talk about the use of the Puma helicopter recently being used out of Rifle, Colorado. That is a community further East on I-70 and higher in elevation starting into the real climb to the mountains, and here is the included link on that: Rifle airport's height, heat seen as big bonuses by test pilots of British helicopter. That one makes sense, and there is a difference between the institutional knowledge of the RAF with the Puma vs. these individual pilots having the opportunity to train somewhere they won't get shot at.
Still... Another plane is what got this noted where it was for content, and photographed.
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Apparently...this plane and a tiny slice of history with it is known, to have cross referenced. The rest is a mystery, but not the bare bones basics anyway.
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Grand Junction seems to be getting busy here lately. Hmmmm... It sounds like the residents there might have some interesting days this summer to be plane watchers, at the very least.
(sniff sniff) are those VIPs, perhaps?
The E-6B is a Boeing 707 airframe loaded with high-tech communication equipment. The E-6B has the ability to communicate directly with the nation's ballistic submarine fleet. Its battle staff, when airborne, is under the command of a flag officer -- an Air Force general officer or a Navy admiral. General and flag officers are from USSTRATCOM, Joint Functional Component Command-Global Strike (JFCC-GS), the United State Air Force's Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC), Air Mobility Command (AMC), Air Combat Command (ACC), Air Force Space Command (AFSPC), Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC), and the Air National Guard (ANG), the Navy's Commander Submarine Group NINE, Pacific (COMSUBGRU NINE) and Commander Submarine Group TEN, Atlantic (COMSUBGRU TEN).
It isn't necessarily a smoking gun to anything, but it does seem to suggest patterns of use for those aircraft have changed a bit. A contributor to Cryptome posted this earlier (They have some they take write-ins from as straight content..and I'm not sure how that works):
Also of interest are regular appearances of a USN E-6B Mercury doing 'touch-and-go" flight patterns around Grand Junction Regional Airport.
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I've seen the E-6B show up here at least 4 times in the last year. Prior to that, I can only recall seeing it twice in the last 10 years. GJRA has an FBO that services transient Navy aircraft. Mostly F-18's on cross country hops but the E-6B never lands for fuel.
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I've seen the E-6B show up here at least 4 times in the last year. Prior to that, I can only recall seeing it twice in the last 10 years. GJRA has an FBO that services transient Navy aircraft. Mostly F-18's on cross country hops but the E-6B never lands for fuel.
Now he goes on to talk about the use of the Puma helicopter recently being used out of Rifle, Colorado. That is a community further East on I-70 and higher in elevation starting into the real climb to the mountains, and here is the included link on that: Rifle airport's height, heat seen as big bonuses by test pilots of British helicopter. That one makes sense, and there is a difference between the institutional knowledge of the RAF with the Puma vs. these individual pilots having the opportunity to train somewhere they won't get shot at.
Still... Another plane is what got this noted where it was for content, and photographed.
(Source)
Apparently...this plane and a tiny slice of history with it is known, to have cross referenced. The rest is a mystery, but not the bare bones basics anyway.
Tucked away at Gate 42, which is where the chartered aircraft that transport US troops through Shannon normally park, Shannonwatch also spotted a white Boeing 737, registration N661CS. This is owned by a Texas company called Spectre Air Capital LLC but is operated by an airline called Vision Airlines. The name may not mean a lot to people who watch planes come in and out of Shannon but for a period between 2005 and 2010 their jets averaged two flights a week from Dulles, Virginia to Iraq and Afghanistan. These flights were linked to the US government's "Air Bridge Program" which assisted the flow of military personnel, equipment and materiel needed to support the war in Afghanistan and the continuing operations in Iraq.
Grand Junction seems to be getting busy here lately. Hmmmm... It sounds like the residents there might have some interesting days this summer to be plane watchers, at the very least.
(sniff sniff) are those VIPs, perhaps?
