Weld County-"Operation Thunderbird"

[nocophotog]

FYI....should be some interesting listening on WINTAG 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 with a possibility of additional MAC and Mutual Aid channels as well. Here is just a small portion of the press release.


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
July 21, 2009


Local guardsmen, law enforcement officials conduct Operation Thunderbird

GREELEY, Colo. – Colorado Air National Guard members assigned to the 137th Space Warning Squadron, along with Weld County and Greeley Police Department SWAT and Weld/Greeley Bomb Squad will participate in an antiterrorism exercise for interoperability training of civilian law enforcement and military concurrent jurisdiction.

Operation Thunderbird, will take place on July 22nd between 11:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. at Greeley Air National Guard Station.

The exercise will consist of three separate events which include a suspicious package scenario and a hostage situation involving an active shooter.

 

[dracer777]

Anyone know of the furthest south tower these can be heard on?

 

[GrayJeep]

Anyone know of the furthest south tower these can be heard on?

Don't know the answer to THAT question but- I can hear Weld County TGs on the Bald Mtn North tower which I can hear quite well in north Boulder.

 

[captaincraig44]

Greeley has an Air National Guard station?? Is this at Weld Co Airport?

 

[GrayJeep]

Greeley has an Air National Guard station?? Is this at Weld Co Airport?

Yes. North side of the road as you drive in. Lots of physical barriers to protect against driveups makes it pretty obvious.

Might be why Greeley has a 10,000' runway.

 

[dracer777]

Wirelessly posted (MOT-QA30/00.72 UP.Browser/7.2.7.5.610 (GUI) MMP/2.0)

Greeley has an Air National Guard station?? Is this at Weld Co Airport?

Yes. North side of the road as you drive in. Lots of physical barriers to protect against driveups makes it pretty obvious.

Might be why Greeley has a 10,000' runway.

lol, yea... idk if you huys know the area well, but i used to live just down the road from it. 24th st and 1st ave were closest major cross streets to me. i never put too much research into it, but could never figure out what freqs they used. prolly in the DB somewhere. oh well...

 

[GrayJeep]

Don't know the answer to THAT question but- I can hear Weld County TGs on the Bald Mtn North tower which I can hear quite well in north Boulder.

While the Weld SO groups show up on Bald Mtn, the WINTAGs don't. I heard the SO announce he was going to WINTAG 6 and haven't heard him since. Nor any of the exercise traffic. Oh well.

 

[nocophotog]

SWAT working on Wintag 5 and the rest on Wintag 6. Right now, sounds as if there's heavily armed suspects holding a group of hostages.

 

[scanlist]

North Greeley "O Street" site appears to be primary with all and some activity showing up on the South Greeley 35th site. This is usually the case when they do special ops training exercises.

Weld dispatch is experiencing "busys" as a result of the extra site loading.

 

[dracer777]

Wirelessly posted (MOT-QA30/00.72 UP.Browser/7.2.7.5.610 (GUI) MMP/2.0)

anyone heard anything worth noting?