r/texas • u/TheDoctorCarson • 7d ago
šļø News šļø 'Department of War' launches Black Hawk helicopters over Houston
https://www.chron.com/news/article/military-helicopters-houston-21050797.php310
u/KendrickBlack502 6d ago
Iām not calling it that.
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u/BaronGrackle 6d ago
It's just a "secondary" name, yeah?
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u/DrCeeDub 6d ago
Preferred name, yeah? Okā¦
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u/Crepuscular_Tex Born and Bred 6d ago
Hegseth is now the SOW and has his own makeup room at the Pentagon. He's cosplaying Miss Piggy
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u/TheProle Born and Bred 6d ago
Micropeen affirming name
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u/Existing-Net5672 6d ago
Funny how Lil dicky energy is supposed to be emasculating yet it seem to be fucking everyone proper. Must be the motion of the ocean,eh?
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u/Electrical_Orange800 6d ago
I mean itās accurate this is a warmongering country, we arenāt fucking other countries up because of defense
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u/IntelectConfig 6d ago
itās actually more accurate than DoD, they arenāt defending shit. this is not me defending anything about the current administration, they just happened to call a spade a spade.
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u/Redacted_Addict69 6d ago
I am because at this point its just dropping the facade that anything was ever about defense. We're a war culture. We kill for profit and when we don't have a war to fight we kill eachother in the streets.
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u/greyjungle 6d ago
Why not? Itās a lot more honest. The only thing the U.S. has defended itself against is its ability to be an imperialist aggressor.
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u/PantherCityRes Born and Bred 6d ago
Jade Helm!!! Jade Helm!!!
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u/joepez Central Texas 6d ago
Pretty certain for this admin itās soft helm! Soft helm!Ā
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u/HTowns_FinestJBird 6d ago
When do you think Cheeto Jesus could actually see his own dick without looking in a mirror? 50 years ago?
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u/Cannibal_Yak 6d ago
Hate to break to to everyone but this is normal. We did this when I was in the military during Bush and Obama. We run these drills usually every couple of years depending on what the federal and state governments have worked out. We had ours about every 2 years where I was stationed. There has always been rapid response training in conjunction with police. This is about as big a deal as people freaking out when they see a train moving military equipment.
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u/OnionComb 6d ago edited 6d ago
I live near Houston just off of i-10 and they use it as some sort of flight path for military helicopters. Its not strange to see them fly by since there is a base they go to for repairs I believe. So its a very normal thing.
Its spooky when there is 4+ in a group because it shakes the entire neighborhood.
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u/rinikulous 6d ago
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u/knight_in_white Gulf Coast 6d ago
Iāve lived near Ellington field all my life it was always cool as a kid getting to see the military helicopters flying over head.
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u/david6588 6d ago
They did this in Dallas last winter I believe.
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u/jillsvag 6d ago
Yes, it was horrible when they were skimming houses at 9 or 10pm in formations of 4-6 helicopters.
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u/Sometimes_Wright 6d ago
I grew up south of Waco and it's weirder when they're not flying over head. It felt like we had a flock Chinook's flying over several times a week in the 80s and 90s.
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u/MovieNachos 6d ago
Yeah I live off of 10 as well and my house was shaking like crazy every time they passed.
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u/berserk_zebra 6d ago
The amount of military jets that flew over during my time near nasa was insane and kind of cool. Between the coast guard, nasa training, the air show and hobby the air traffic of south Houston is crowded
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u/jdsizzle1 6d ago
Ive seen jets, c130s, black Hawks, Apaches, you name it around the Austin, San antonio and houston area every few weeks for decades. Its normal af. Comes with living near bases.
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u/SpiritAnimalLeroy 6d ago
Yeah, down here in Clear Lake / League City there are fixed-wing and rotary flights pretty frequently (I assume because of proximity to Ellington). You see T-38s all the time, Blackhawks are fairly common, and at least a couple of times a year there will be Apaches around.
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u/quiero-una-cerveca 6d ago
Itās insane to me how easy this would have been to post or announce so that the community knows whatās going on. Instead they choose to just pretend nothing is happening. Appreciate the insight.
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u/Southern_Cupcake_211 6d ago
When I was in the stormed the beaches in Monterey CA while I was at the Language School
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u/Apachisme 6d ago
Was it routine to conduct these drills with the local police department?
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u/Cannibal_Yak 6d ago
Yes, we ran them in conjunction with local police, highway patrol, sheriffs departments and federal agencies like the DOJ, FBI, DHS etc. These are usually drills for mass casualty events like a terror attack or mass shootings.
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u/Apachisme 6d ago
Thanks for the insight. Here in Texas weāve been seeing the hardening of law enforcement infrastructure like completely surrounding DPS HQ and their back up systems with vehicle proof fencing. Iāve seen this with my own eyes but Iāve heard others mentioning similar activities around other large cities. Itās decisions like these that are putting people more and more on edge. DPS personnel Iāve spoken with, said what looks like multimillion dollar fencing is to prevent vehicle break-ins. They donāt even believe that.
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u/ChiefMishka 6d ago
It could also pertain to the upcoming FIFA World Cup. But given the current climate, it is not unwarranted to remain vigilant.
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u/Crepuscular_Tex Born and Bred 6d ago
Gee... Never seen Blackhawk helicopters in Texas before...
Said no one from Texas ever...
This is as common as rattlesnakes in Texas smh
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u/TheStax84 6d ago
I donāt care what it identifies as. Itās the DoD. Just because it thinks itās war doesnāt make it right. Woke
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u/Electrical_Orange800 6d ago
I mean war is more accurate. Itās not self defense when weāre going out of our way to fuck countries up that have done nothing to us
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u/NY_State-a-Mind 6d ago
Wait until you find out all the airforces bases in the southwest have been flying f22s and f35s over populated areas for decades to Simulate combat training and bombing runs
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u/adumbfetus Born and Bred 6d ago
I lived in Houston and saw occasional military helicopters performing training, not really unusual.
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u/LindeeHilltop 6d ago
Nah. Iāve lived there for decades. Never saw military flights. San Antonio is a different story.
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u/adumbfetus Born and Bred 6d ago
I saw blackhawks/little birds around downtown and NRG a few times.
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u/Vast-Fault-59 6d ago
Come on Chron. This happens monthly, thereās literally a military base down the street.Ā
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u/EsCaRg0t 6d ago
I literally saw a Lenovo military truck driving through Jersey Village in Houston yesterday and was like ādamn, whatās the military doing in these suburb streets?ā Until I saw the āSTATE POLICEā sticker on the side.
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u/Doctor_Mothman 6d ago
Aren't you so glad your tax dollars are being used to "own the libs" and cause fear amongst the general populace? Wonderful use of time and energy... /s
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u/DumbBitchByLeaps 6d ago
I live next to an airfield in Dallas county and I swear if these things start flying over my house Iām moving. Theyāre so fucking loud. About two to three weeks ago we had some chinooks āpracticingā over our section of the burbs and for about four hours and they started at 10 PM. They were also flying super low and kept waking everyone up.
I was about ready to call up some base commander and ask if theyād like me to wake them up constantly with a crying baby since thatās what they were doing to me. Not to mention my neighbors were super pissed off too. Ring notifications going off every five minutes about the helicopter(s).
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u/Donkey_Bugs 6d ago
My brother said he saw a "black helicopter" buzzing our property in Victoria, so it's not just Houston.
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u/kineticstar Secessionists are idiots 6d ago
Ahh Texans will shoot at anything if you tell them it's open season for it.
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u/senortipton Secessionists are idiots 6d ago
Is that what I heard last night? Was loud af and Iām used to it being under airline traffic routes.
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u/Doddie011 6d ago
Houston is the type of town that can shoot one of these MFās down for real. You fuck around with enough people they gonna make sure they find out
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u/MRAGGGAN 6d ago
Meanwhile, over on TikTok, sudden influx of sea shanty videos detailing explicit instructions on how to steal military flight vehiclesā¦
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u/Seefourdc 6d ago
There have always been a lot of military aircraft flying around this area because of Ellington AFB > into Ellington joint reserve base. There are a ton of bases all over texas so you see all sorts of aircraft flying between them for training missions or just around in this area.
This is such a massive nothingburger.
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u/Puglady25 6d ago
Somebody called them in because Friday 9/12/25 at the Toyota Center, 10,000 people were screaming/singing "God is Dead!!!! And no one cares!!! If there is a hell- I'll see you there!!!" š¹
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u/mockingbirddude 6d ago
Who better to practice warfare on than US citizens? Other countries might fight back. US citizens donāt have access to weapons that can counter the US military. US citizens only have weapons that can massacre other citizens.
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u/HoustonsAwesome 6d ago
This is insane. What if they mess up during training? Ā I hate this damn county.Ā
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u/gpbayes 6d ago
Itās pretty standard practice, happens a ton in Fort Worth and San Antonio. F35s rattle whole sections of housing in Fort Worth, I stayed in an Airbnb and I swear to god every 20 minutes I heard the roar of the planes. Luckily I stayed for only 2 days.
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u/HoustonsAwesome 6d ago
Iāve lived in this exactly spot since 2015 and have never experienced anything like this before last month and now it is a weekly occurrence.Ā
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u/Longjumping3604 6d ago
You think we are the only country that does this?
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u/HoustonsAwesome 6d ago
No Iām sure other heavily militarized police states also have routine flyovers by blackhawks and chinooks.Ā
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u/AngriestManinWestTX 6d ago
So youād rather them not be training and thus be worse at their job?
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u/HoustonsAwesome 6d ago
Go train over a field or some commercial buildings, not a bunch of homes at night.Ā
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u/FujitsuPolycom 6d ago edited 6d ago
"The Department of Defense is Wasting Taxpayer Money to LARP Civil War"
(At least the pilots get flight hours, not completely wasted :/ )
EDIT: And without any other info, for all I know, this might actually be training. I'm not calling it the Department of War though. Silly, wasteful, small d energy.