Sticky Thread For Mid-Atlantic MilAir 2022

[mdmonitor]

Guys

Posted on another list

https://www.stratcom.mil/Portals/8/Documents/FOIA/CONPLAN_8888-11.pdf

 

[mdmonitor]

Guys,

This was posted on another list yesterday

An interesting and somewhat irregular HFGCS Force Directional Message (FDM) / Emergency Action Message (EAM) message worth mentioning was broadcast on 18 NOV 2022 at 18:37 UTC.

TO: ALL STATIONS
FROM: RETALIATE
888800 // 18183 1AAEE GGKKN NXXZZ 8888

I've never heard an EAM/FDM like this in my 20+ years of milair monitoring.

I'm curious is any of you guys heard this msg from one of the E-6Bs we see in our area?

 

[Mark]

Guys,

TO: ALL STATIONS
FROM: RETALIATE
888800 // 18183 1AAEE GGKKN NXXZZ 8888
I've never heard an EAM/FDM like this in my 20+ years of milair monitoring.
I'm curious is any of you guys heard this msg from one of the E-6Bs we see in our area?

Thats a odd one for me.Never heard repeated same numbers,letters like that before..

Seems the NH ANG keep setting records with their KC-46's.
Checking online data this appeared to be PACK-93 #18-46047 that went out past Guam the other day.
Looks like they did A/R just West of Hawaii on AR-903.
DVIDS - News - Pease crew flies record-breaking KC-46 endurance mission (dvidshub.net)

 

[mdmonitor]

VIP Movement Summary (does not include POTUS, VPOTUS, FLOTUS travel)

DATE: 18 Nov

SAM 394 (C-40 # 01-0040) West Coast??-ADW
SAM 622 C-37 # 99-0402) St Louis-ADW-Colorado or West Coast?
SAM 95 (C-32 # 09-0015) West Coast??-ADW
SAM 362 (C-32 # 98-0001) Japan-Anchorage-ADW
SAM 606 (C-37 # 09-0525) ADW-Cape Canaveral-ADW
Coast Guard 101 (C-37 # 01) DCA- ??? (track stop over Halifax Nova Scotia)

 

[mdmonitor]

0910- Deed 190 (C-130J # 15-5796) looks to be inbound to ADW. Departed from Little Rock AFB. Usually see Deed callsign assoc with POTUS support C-17 flts. At 0930 he's descending & appears to be going to Quantico.

0930- Deed 201 (C-17 # 03-3125 6th AS) off McGuire heading due east. Going to pick up left over stuff from POTUS visit?

 

[mdmonitor]

Guys

Posted on another list

https://www.stratcom.mil/Portals/8/Documents/FOIA/CONPLAN_8888-11.pdf

Sorry, I just read the title and thought it was a good document. Seems it was a exercise developed document and not real world.

 

[Mark]

0910- Deed 190 (C-130J # 15-5796) looks to be inbound to ADW. Departed from Little Rock AFB. Usually see Deed callsign assoc with POTUS support C-17 flts. At 0930 he's descending & appears to be going to Quantico.

0930- Deed 201 (C-17 # 03-3125 6th AS) off McGuire heading due east. Going to pick up left over stuff from POTUS visit?

McGuire Space A yesterday and today show flights to Nantuckett... Maybe someone spending Turkey day weekend up there.

RAF C-130J seems to be avoiding Maine US airspace or maybe just the Buffalo area wx?
Lot of Civ traffic up that way today so maybe easier.


Saturday Ron.. Guess the ANG folks around here have the week off? Usually busy Sat mornings.

 

[Mark]

Sure a mess of Little Rock C-130's headed West today. Looks like THUG/OUTLAW type training coming up out West.


KING-02 Pax River CH-53K going to FL 14k over the Bay.. Don't get many choppers up that high

 

[wbagley]

Sorry, I just read the title and thought it was a good document. Seems it was a exercise developed document and not real world.

This document apparently picked up on the 'Zombie Apocalypse' meme that was in fashion a decade or so ago. If you wrote it today, you would probably be castigated for culturally appropriating tired old tropes of BIPOC enslaved Haitians and their Voodoo religion.

DISCLAIMER: This fictitious plan was created by junior military officers undergoing training related to the Department of Defense's Joint Operational Planning and Execution System (JOPES), the formalized process by which the Department conducts all contingency planning and execution. In an effort to learn the JOPES process, and to do so in a more interesting way, the students were assigned this completely fictitious scenario and directed to use JOPES to develop a written contingency plan. Using this fictitious scenario avoided concerns over the use of classified information, it resolved sensitivity to using real-world nations or scenarios, and it better engaged the students.

(U) CONPLAN 8888 DISCLAIMER: This plan was not actually designed as a joke. During the summers of 2009 and 2010, while training augmentees from a local training squadron about the JOPP, members of a USSTRATCOM component found out (by accident) that the hyperbole involved in writing a "zombie survival plan" actually provided a very useful and effective training tool. Planners who attended JPME II at the Joint Combined Warfighting School also realized that training examples for plans must accommodate the political fallout that occurs if the general public mistakenly believes that a fictional training scenario is actually a real plan. Rather than risk such an outcome by teaching our augmentees using the fictional 'Tunisia" or "Nigeria" scenarios used at JCWS, we elected to use a completely-impossible scenario that could never be mistaken as a real plan.

'2. (U) Purpose:' This plan fulfills fictional Contingency Planning Guidance (CPG) tasking for USSTRATCOM to develop a comprehensive JOPES Level 3 plan to undertake military operations to preserve "non-zombie" humans from the threats posed by a zombie horde. Because zombies pose a threat to all "non-zombie" human life (hereafter referred to as "humans"), USSTRATCOM will be prepared to preserve the sanctity of human life and conduct operations in support of any human population-including traditional adversaries.

 

[mdmonitor]

McGuire Space A yesterday and today show flights to Nantuckett... Maybe someone spending Turkey day weekend up there.

RAF C-130J seems to be avoiding Maine US airspace or maybe just the Buffalo area wx?
Lot of Civ traffic up that way today so maybe easier.
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Saturday Ron.. Guess the ANG folks around here have the week off? Usually busy Sat mornings.

MarkI thought this weekend was a drill weekend?????

Ascot 5704 still chugging along--he's over northern Michigan (1130)

 

[Mark]

MarkI thought this weekend was a drill weekend?????
Ascot 5704 still chugging along--he's over northern Michigan (1130)

I think ASCOT-5704 was just dodging headwinds up that way.. His speed picked up 30-40 knots after
he turned Southwest..
Dover tail chipping in on THUG exercise out West.. THUG-82 C-17 just off Dover #06-6166.
THUG/OUTLAW is the USAF Weapons Course for C-17's and C-130J's primarily. McGuire used to host them some years ago
but just not enough room so exercise stays out West.They will learn advanced combat tactics in their transports.

 

[mdmonitor]

1200- Deed 180 is off Quantico and heading northeast at FL270.

 

[Tech792]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1593657813586350082

KC-46 flyover in Queens, NY on 11/19/2022 at 12:00 PM for the memorial service of 1st Lt. John J. Heffernan Jr. of the USAAF. More info here:

1st Lt JOHN JOSEPH HEFFERNAN - Service Member Profile

As part of its mission to provide the fullest possible accounting to their families and the nation, DPAA publishes brief profiles of lost service members.

dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil

1230- Saw KC-46A VOLVO 80 (17-46037) doing low level flights over central NJ. Looks like part of the ADSB track got messed up so never saw him go into Queens, NY. He circled over NWS Earl, then down the NJ coast, circled back over Cape May now going back up the NJ coast.
1254- They must have told him to kill some time. He now heading for Queens at 2k ft. Over Monmouth County right now. Going towards Hudson River at 2k ft.
1300- Flew over St Johns Cemetery at 1k ft.

 

[mdmonitor]

1238- Hearing some A2A chat on 348.1 which I have as an AAR freq. Sounds like a couple of tankers. Chatting about how much they can offload and how much they need for their bingo fuel. Not seeing anything on ADS-B that correlates.

 

[Mark]

1238- Hearing some A2A chat on 348.1 which I have as an AAR freq.

Ron see my post yesterday about A/A on VMGR-252 .Belongs to them.

 

[mdmonitor]

Ron see my post yesterday about A/A on VMGR-252 .Belongs to them.

Mark

Thanks for the reminder. I do see one Otis offshore near Ocean City MD but he's only showing as one acft.

 

[wbagley]

1230- Saw KC-46A VOLVO 80 (17-46037) doing low level flights over central NJ. Looks like part of the ADSB track got messed up so never saw him go into Queens, NY. He circled over NWS Earl, then down the NJ coast, circled back over Cape May now going back up the NJ coast.
1254- They must have told him to kill some time. He now heading for Queens at 2k ft. Over Monmouth County right now. Going towards Hudson River at 2k ft.

VOLVO 80 with a TIS-B wingman does the pass over St. John [sic] Cemetery in Queens, New York right on the hour at 1 pm EST.

 

[Mark]

1200- Deed 180 is off Quantico and heading northeast at FL270.

I was out did DEED-180 make Nantucket? DEED-201 C-17 off Nantucket back to McGuire.
Wash Post examines climate impact due to your Thanksgiving dinner.. Those loonies never stop do they?
Course they will never question VIP's going to Nantucket for the Holiday weekend.

 

[Mark]

Rgr just saw DEED-180 departing a while ago. DEED-201 back to Nantucket now.
Gonna be a long Holiday CAP up that way or not needed since on a Island?
2/5146 NOTAM Details (faa.gov)

 

[JetWash]

Mark......I have 236.6 listed as a McGuire tower alternate

I just found a reference in the FAA's TWR.TXT document for 236.6 as a Langley Tower secondary.