multiple blackhawks overhead

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last friday afternoon,,,late...maybe 4pm pst,four UH-60 blackhawks passed over the house,they were pretty low and were moving pretty fast,then sunday,midday sometime,7 of them came back southbound over the river canyon,moving slower but were making even more noise....there were NO red cross/medivac markings on them,and the doors were closed.....

any ideas of what they may have been doing?...

auburn,placer county,california
 
Probably doing TERF's (field landings), and tactical formation practice. A four ship formation probably is troop insertion/extraction with an aircraft for possible CSAR (combat search and rescue) as a backup. There really is a limitless combination of what they could have been doing. Or they simply could have just been on a joy flight. :icon_lol: In the Navy we do that from time to time as well with our H-60's.
 
We've had a couple months of unscheduled dusk and night helo sorties as various agencies ramp up for possible responses to whatever terrorists or nutbag shooters cough out their rear ends. It's been a mix of Blackhawks, Lakotas and Bell 206s and not being an area accustomed to this sort of thing, the citizenry were advised several times so as not to be alarmed. Might be what's going out there?
 
Probably a drill weekend for a NG or Reserve unit. Being a 4 ship, most likely air assault training (Army doesn't do CSAR).
 
You come in fast, you come in low, you come in the dark, and it's loud as hell.

You see only the streaks of light from the rotors, you step out into complete dark and hope there's ground beneath you. The guy behind you falls right on top of you. You smell the fuel and feel the heat from the engines. You double time out 20 meters or so and drop on your belly, tossing your ruck in front of you. You listen as the tranny engages on the ships and they go airborne again.....


.....and then....







.....nothing but silence.
 
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