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    Quote Originally Posted by rondog View Post
    Nah, bullshit. It was aliens, bringing in supplies to one of their bases!
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    12 aircraft for HALO? That’s a lot of jumpers. Train up for N Korea?
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    Quote Originally Posted by CavSct1983 View Post
    12 aircraft for HALO? That’s a lot of jumpers. Train up for N Korea?
    I was thinking it was a lot of aircraft, but I was never HALO certified so I don't know.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BPTactical View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by CavSct1983 View Post
    12 aircraft for HALO? That’s a lot of jumpers. Train up for N Korea?
    12 aircraft doing HALO makes no sense. HALO is for covert insertions and there's nothing covert about 12 C-17's.

    May be that HALO was part of the operation (like scouts or pathfinders HALO'ing in to set up the DZ) but the rest of the drop was S/L (Static Line.)

    HALO sounds sexy and cool like a video game (you know, like HALO ) but any mass airborne insertion would be done with S/L jumpers. The person reporting it simply might have chosen to ignore the S/L part because nobody ever created a video game called "Static Line."

    Possibly an EDRE (Emergency Deployment Readiness Excercise) for the 82nd?

    I was never in the 'Deuce but my understanding is that the "Division Ready Brigade" had to be on 12 hour standby and that sometimes they would alert the standby unit, have them draw weapons and equipment, load onto aircraft and fly to a location, jump in and practice seizing an airfield or something similar. They'd fly to places like Eglin AFB in FL, Fort Polk, LA, or sometimes even all the way across the country to the NTC at Ft Irwin, CA., jump in, do the excercise for a few days and then fly back.
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    Right, my thoughts too. When we lived in the neighborhood just south of the airport/Peterson, I could hear those 17's warming up on the tarmac. Loud. Very, very loud. Covert status = not.
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    The updated article said "The large aircraft went cross-country to Nevada for a training exercise involving HALO drop--high altitude military parachuting. The exercise was done in coordination with multiple air military installations and groups, including the 82nd Airborne."

    So the large number of aircraft was needed for a large training exercise involving multiple bases and groups. It just said HALO was involved, not that the entire exercise was HALO -- and THAT assumes the reporting on the webpage is accurate. I don't think KDVR is MSNBC or CNN (with their deliberately false reporting) but my experience has been that reporters and copy editors frequently get details (sometimes even major points) wrong even when they have the best intentions.

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