From this morning’s apparent training exercise. That’s the Memorial Bridge leading to Arlington Cemetery, with Rosslyn in the background. The Pentagon is off frame, to the left. Click the photo for a larger view.
From this morning’s apparent training exercise. That’s the Memorial Bridge leading to Arlington Cemetery, with Rosslyn in the background. The Pentagon is off frame, to the left. Click the photo for a larger view.
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freewheel
The guy in the second pic, the one who has the machine gun perched in front of him, is looking in your direction.
Unnerving?
MB
No, unnerving would have been that same look down the barrel . . .
In the end, it was just five or six boats zooming around in circles. Albeit five or six boats with very large guns on the front of them. And a Coast Guard helicopter overhead.
A police boat did zoom over to check out a news crew shooting video near the 14th St. bridge, so I started to cross the street to listen in, but it quickly ended with a smile and a wave and they zoomed off. All relatively chill.
Joy
I miss when the CG was part of the Dept of Transportation. Yeah, yeah, so they were combined with the Navy in times of war and were always part of the drug/illegal alien stuff on the water, but still. It felt like the search and rescue and maritime safety functions were a tad more important then. (I’m a CG brat, in case you didn’t know.)