So much for the "Sound of Freedom" as the sheeple bleats in the message boards and on the news to justify the "horrific", aggressive jet noise buzzing the neighboring cities late at night and in early morning.

I don't believe the local corporate news propaganda cheerfully claiming the weather is to blame for the schedule change in exercise and landing runs. Neither should you.

This is very serious and not typical of a regional Air Force exercise conducted very late at night involving several F-16 jets, etc.

It's common for the air force aerial attacks to occur on New Moon night. Next new moon cycle is April 6.

According to William Lind's 3/26/08 column Operation Cassandra, he states:

[...] The State Department, OSD, the intelligence agencies, the Army, and the Marine Corps are all opposed to war with Iran. Of the armed services, only the Air Force reportedly is in favor, seeking an opportunity to show what air power can do. As always, it neglects to inform the decision-makers what it cannot do.

The purpose of this column is not to warn of an imminent assault on Iran, though personally I think it is coming, and soon. Rather, it is to warn of a possible consequence of such an attack. Let me state it here, again, as plainly as I can: an American attack on Iran could cost us the whole army we now have in Iraq.

Lots of people in Washington are pondering possible consequences of an air and missile assault on Iran, but few if any have thought about this one. The American military's endless "we're the greatest" propaganda has convinced most people that the U.S. armed forces cannot be beaten in the field. They are the last in a long line of armies that could not be beaten, until they were.

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Hill AFB fighter jets rattle Davis County Residents

Reported by: Brent Hunsaker
Last Update: 10:02 pm central, March 27, 2008

HILL AFB, Utah (ABC 4 News) - The folks in Layton and the other cities immediately surrounding Hill Air Force Base are used to the late night flights of F-16 fighter jets. They don’t fly every night, but they have this week.

But in Farmington, Centerville, Bountiful and Salt Lake City they’d never heard such a racket. They came roaring overhead just before 12:30 Thursday morning. “It definitely woke me up,” said Aaron Held of Farmington. He ran out onto his deck to see what was going on. Then Held went back inside to check if there was anything about it on the internet – make sure there wasn’t an invasion he said with a laugh. Held and his neighbors had never heard the jets from Hill make so much noise so late at night.

So what was different? Weather. Because of the storm that was moving onto the Wasatch Front, the jets were forced to charge their landing approach from the north to the south. What was unnerving to folks south of the base, was blessed quiet to people to the north.

Lt. Colonel Jeremy Sloan, commander of the 388th Operational Support Squadron, says the mission are absolutely necessarily to kept pilots and crews ready for whatever they might face in war. In fact, most of the night training missions these days are being taken by pilots with the 34th Fighter Squadron. Later this spring, the squadron is scheduled to deploy overseas.

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Change in flight landing path disturbs residents

Gene Kennedy reporting

The phones didn't stop ringing at the KSL newsroom last night. Callers had lots of complaints of planes flying over residential neighborhoods.

The noise was coming from F-16 fighter planes. The pilots are from the 388th Squadron out of Hill Air Force Base, and lately they've been doing night flights. The big question so many had: what were they doing flying over the Wasatch Front so late at night?

Kathy Craig put on a movie last night. She thought her surround sound could shut out the world. "For me to hear a noise outside it had to be very loud," she said. But what she heard wasn't a scene from "Michael Clayton". "It was a total disruption of my privacy. It sounded like a World War II movie, ya' know like fighter planes."

Craig described it as "very unsettling, very unsettling. I mean, I was frightened."

The peace inside her Millcreek home was disturbed from 8 o'clock to midnight. "Just on and off, on and off, just continuously," she said.

Officials at Hill Air Force Base say pilots were not training over urban areas, but they had to change their landing path.

Lt. Col Jeremy Sloan, a Commander with the 388th Squadron, said, "Typically we land from the north, and last night weather forced us to land from the south."

Davis and Weber County residents may be used to the sound, but several Salt Lake County residents fumed about the night flights.

KSL.com users had plenty to say about the situation. One commenter wrote, "I finally got to sleep after 11:30 and it was still going. This by no means is normal under ANY circumstance."

But the military says the night flights are crucial to polish up skills for the war on terror.

Lt. Col Sloan said, "Why it's so important is that we train with night vision goggles, and we train with precision-guided munitions and advanced targeting so we can provide support anytime, anywhere."

Craig says, "I mean what's the west desert for? Isn't that what that's for, isn't that where they're supposed to be?"

Other comments on ksl.com read, "suck it up" and "get over it."

The military says with winds shifting over the summer, pilots may have to use a southern approach for more landings.

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Excerpted from the message board amid nauseating display of "Sound of Freedom" propaganda noise

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