Howard County event tomorrow?

[pepperpot]

Anyone else catch the dry-run comms and other testing today on SOB 1 & 2 involving Air-30, ground units, "the big cheese's" name and his being 10-42 in the exercise just before noon? It's in prep for ??? tomorrow. Insights? The timing of Air-30's approach will be kind of precise for the real thing. Today's dry-run was out on a "plot" off Rt 32/Seneca. I'm thinking it's going to be a CMARC show off demo to biggies and the "cheese" will be in charge. I donno. Or, is the "cheese" retiring re the 10-42 at the end of the exercise?

 

[markgrutz]

It is a funeral detail. If I can get any more information I'll post it. I know the viewing is tonight at the funeral home off of Old Columbia Pike.

Mark

 

[pepperpot]

The answer

OK, my last guess is correct. It's a ceremony for the "big cheese" retiring. So, Air-30 will be doing a fly-by salute to him and that's why it had to be precise timing. Then I guess dispatch will announce at the end to all radios that Chief M is now 10-42. Just don't know where and when it's going to be. Am guessing at the District Court. Right now they are trying to scare up a last minute honor guard. Sounds like a fun thing to go watch.

 

[pepperpot]

Hmm?

Mark, from what you say it sounds like the "big retirement" if you catch my drift.

 

[pepperpot]

Hmm? II

Just checked the HC Times and the HCPD site, and think you are right, Mark. What a nice funeral send off with the fly-by and for dispatch to give his name and say he is 10-42 "Ending tour of duty" to his comrade in arms. Amen. If we're right about this, obit should be in Thurs. Times.

 

[bear105]

Well...listening right now they are quicly running out of available officers. I can understand letting some of the traffic duty in front of schools go, but the dispatcher was telling one officer there was no backup for a suspicious traffic stop.

 

[Metro174]

Missed something somewhere. Who passed away?

 

[pepperpot]

The mystery for tomorrow

Metro, the facts and evidence are not all in yet. It's either a big retirement salute or the final "10-42" for a former chief. Name withheld for obvious reasons. Since there have been no recent chief changes that I know of, I'm thinking the latter.

 

[pepperpot]

Evidence

Sounds like I'm talking to myself, but just trying to get to the "bottom" of this. In my initial posting, I heard the comms guys being at the "plot" for Air-30 to fly-by . Now I'm thinking cemetary???

 

[Llwellyn]

Does the channel that this traffic was on have a VHF/UHF simulcast? This kind of detail is EXACTLY the kind of traffic I record and archive when I get the chance, and I don't have a digital card to pull it off the trunk!

 

[pepperpot]

Simulcast

No, not from I heard today in the practice. It was on Special Ops 1 & 2 (TGs 45808 & 45840). If a funeral then I would expect between 10 - 12 in the morning for the fly-by and salute. All still speculation. If it's what I think, then there will be a tear in my eye with the dispatch announcing the 10-42.

 

[pepperpot]

Farewell

Farewell to HC's 1st Police Chief. Obit in today's Sun. Services at 10 and guessing that Air-30 will be waiting for the call to fly 5 minutes from Balt. to do the salute around 11:30.

 

[markgrutz]

It is a funeral detail. Chief Edgar Moxley was the first Chief of Police in Howard County. He served from the begining till 1971, some 40 plus years serving Howard County as a police officer and a Chief. He just recently died at the age of 98. It is a funeral detail.

Mark

 

[pepperpot]

Laid to rest

At approx. 11:50 a.m. today Air-1 gave the fly-by salute, after which Dispatch called out twice to the Chief, then announced that he was 10-42.

 

[mlevin]