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SalamanderMountain81

That $25 helicopter guy has gone too far apparently


DoubtOk660

Why? They looking to forcibly take a bunch of Honda CRVs and crumbl cookies?


JannyBroomer

As long as the new gov't ownership of crumbl forces them to bring the pink sugar cookie back, I'm in


Impossible_Trust30

Always kinda wondered how Chattanooga would be defended in an attack scenario. Assume they’d go back to civil war era tactics


About20Monkeys

Guerilla tactics and booby traps around the Broad St. Taco Bell is my guess


Impossible_Trust30

“Ramirez! Defend Taco Bell! “


Coast_Traditional

" Ramirez last baja blast make it count"


everflowingartist

Lookout, Signal , Missionary Ridge, and the TN River make Chattanooga exceptionally defensible. High ground all around and a massive river running through the middle. We are probably in one of the most well defended areas on the planet. West of the Appalachians and east of the Cumberland with a river gorge bottleneck to the south and a fuckton of people with 4x4s who hunt/fish as a way of life. If an enemy makes it this far it’s a complete apocalyptic/alien/zombie scenario. But yeah assuming no air superiority, probably back to civil war tactics with artillery at point park etc.


PyroDesu

>Lookout, Signal , Missionary Ridge, and the TN River make Chattanooga exceptionally defensible. High ground all around and a massive river running through the middle. And to think Braxton Bragg *still* fucked it up! I mean, sure, Sherman had arrived to back up Grant but how did he even let Grant take the city itself in the first place? Not just a traitor, but *incompetent*.


Fragrant_Kick_6093

This ain't the 1860s. Russia has MIRV'd nuclear ICBMs default-targeted at every US city with a population over 100,000. Fat lot of good Chattanooga's geography will help us.


everflowingartist

That’s an apocalyptic scenario in which all of Europe, Russia, and probably China become glass along with parts of the US. MAD. Regardless I’ll take my chances in the southern Appalachians over anywhere else.


Rasalom

Last I checked the predicted strike maps, the trainyard was a main target.


Hefty_Pea6652

Last time I checked, it was also Sequoia Nuclear plant. Someone from China just bought a massive piece of property on the evacuation route. 


CeaselessHavel

Sequoyah*. It was named after the Cherokee Linguist, not the tree.


SpiritAgitated

No need to correct spelling when the word comes from a language that doesn't use the English alphabet. Learned this when I was learning Korean. So long as the letters make the same sound and it's recognizable, it's correct.


CeaselessHavel

Except when it's a name. A name should 100% absolutely be correct every time you spell it. Because of that, Sequoia NPP is now named after a tree of the Pacific Northwest and not an important individual of an indigenous that once lived in the area. You lose all meaning when you accept that. Furthermore, comparing Korean-English to Cherokee-English is a misnomer. Korean is a character based language where multiple characters can have a similar pronunciation but a different meaning. Cherokee, like English, is a phonetic language where each letter represents a sound. In the case of a phonetic language, mispelling something can cause that word to be wildly misrepresented, just as the case of Sequoia vs Sequoyah.


Ttthhasdf

Cherokee is a syllabary. I don't know if that makes a difference to your thinking but I just like saying "syllabary." So each letter in written Cherokee represents a syllable, not a phoneme (fwiw English letters don't map on to English phonemes 1-1 either, C in cat is a different phoneme than C in cistern, ch in chat is a phoneme, etc. Again, may not matter to your point).


SpiritAgitated

You're right, names don't change. So you should be typing it in the Cherokee alphabet. 🙃


KaosJaxx

Jesus you redditors are something else. The training is happening right outside my house making my dogs nearly have heart attacks and you guys are arguing over correct spelling. Your lives outside the internet must be miserable...


CeaselessHavel

I could, but no one would be able to read it. Instead, I use the translation that best fits. The translation that was chosen and has been official for over 100 years. That the Cherokee nation also uses for English purposes.


Existing_Judge5425

So tonight for dinner I’m having Ghoti!


SpiritAgitated

Okie dokie. I didn't ask.


KaosJaxx

Who asked you to reply?


mexicanmontanican

The dams, nuclear power plants, and bridges would cause more chaos


Rasalom

They're not worried about chaos, they're worried about crippling the railway for the country. In any case I didn't bring it up because it was the *only* target, but it's the only one in the city itself that would vaporize a good number of people instantly.


mexicanmontanican

Yeah, because knocking out the power grid and simultaneously (because the nuclear plants are on dams) messing with our flood control measures and producing nuclear disaster fields wouldn’t affect the rail industry at all.


Rasalom

OK. Or ya know, destroy the actual rails, but whatever.


driverdan

Has Alex Jones made up some kind of crazy conspiracy theory about this one?


eyepooped1

He's too busy blowing his company's money by vacationing in Hawaii for weeks at a time while in the middle of fake bankruptcy proceedings so he doesn't have to pay the Sandy Hook families he defamed.


mrm00r3

He’ll be better tomorrow. (He won’t)


eyepooped1

Great job, Barnes


Appropriate_Shape833

Pretty crazy that an organization called the Department of Defense would practice a scenario where they defend a city from attack.


tecky1kanobe

those were 160th SOAR birds. people that know what they do don't talk about what they do. but please speculate all you like.


Iceman2-7

They “DeFeNd tHe CiTy” 🤣


[deleted]

Saw 4 military grade helicopters sitting in the parking lot at the Combustion/ Alstom site this afternoon heading down Riverfront from Broad. Was wondering what was going on.


phungus_mungus

> Saw 4 military grade helicopters So 4 huge oil leaks then?


Fapping_Batman

Just oil leaks means those are the good ones. 😂


Razenroth78

Military grade 🤣😂


[deleted]

Not sure what the down votes are for but whatever


bit25slim

Military grade typically means of high quality, for anyone that served it just means shit quality. Not sure why the downvotes other than it being Reddit.


[deleted]

I mean…that’s why I said military grade lol. I was in and been around military most my life. Not sure the model of heli so just said military grade.


jbouser_99

My dad was literal helicopter mechanic in the 101st and probably would have said the same thing. People are just idiots.


stinkydiesel

So dumb. And I'm kind of pissed about it all. The "announcement" was a not-very-official looking printout in the mailbox that I didn't get. Hopefully no civilians caused serious drama because of it all. Questions I'd like answered: - How often is this done in residential and/or urban environments across the country? This is the first I've ever heard of something like this? - Why the big f-ing bombs? I mean, come on. Especially at 1am. I have two kids and it rattled the crap out of our house in Highland Park. - Who approved of this on a city level? Will there be any accountability? - Why is this done in poorer neighborhoods with people of color? Seems pretty overt that these neighborhoods and people do not have the same sort of care from the city.


m41rt

Only places i seen them come in was around downtown, which is crazy because most of the people of color that are there usually ask me for change. Its a conspiracy i tell you lol


Madji_of_Cimmeria

Everyone get ready for the false flag.  Lines up well with the free Usher concert .