National Guard units

cooper9411 · **Posted:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 8:57 pm

This may be the wrong area to post this. Has anyone noticed lately that National Guard units have been flying more than usual? The guard base around here has been very active here lately. Normally the F-16's would only fly on Tuesday and maybe Saturday, this past week and a half they have been flying everyday and most nights. I wonder whats up!

cco23i · **Posted:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 9:17 pm

They could be in the middle of an inspection, or their two week drill or just needing flying hours.

Scott

CAPFlyer · **Posted:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 11:31 pm

As indicated before, the most likely suspects are - they're about to be activated for deployment, they're on their readiness inspection, or they're flying off hours that they need to return to currency now that the DoD budget has finally been signed and they have money with which to get their currency with that's been missing for most of a year.

The Inspector · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 2:05 am

I've always got VAQ's flying over the house from N.A.S. Ault @ Whidbey Island with squadrons returning and other outfits converting from EA 6B's to the much noisier EAF-18E 'GROWLER'. The biggest noise was last July when John Sessions was out in the area learning to fly the Mig-29 he sold to FHC, that puppy is NOISY! :wink:

cco23i · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 9:46 am

We had one of the Osprey's fly over a couple weeks ago and MAN that thing sounds strange, mmmm, part airplane and part demonic device!

Scott

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