This may or may not be interesting:

[PCIntern]

I live under the flight path of an Air Force base and have since the early 1980’s. We are used to the typical ebb and flow-during the two Iraq episodes it was a continuous stream of cargo planes and fighters, along with bombers and tactical aircraft. Generally however it’s fairly quiet with sporadic slight surges.

But in the last few weeks the volume has markedly increased with lots of fighters all day, punctuated by a couple of C-5 Galaxies here and there.

Many people wonder what’s going on...or not.

[idziak4ever1234]

1. Can you keep an eye on it a report back occasionally?

[SoonerPride]

3. Welcome to DU!

[jberryhill]

2. "in the last few weeks the volume has markedly increased with lots of fighters all day"

How would you know that the weekday volume had "markedly increased"?

Prior to the last few weeks, were you working part time, and spending a lot of your weekdays at home?

[PCIntern]

4. I am off one or two days during the week and work Saturdays.

I’ll make sure to keep you apprised of my work schedule however...

[jberryhill]

14. I'm not asking you to keep me apprised of your work schedule

You don't seem to have understood the point of my comment.

BEFORE covid-19, how many weekdays were you typically spending at home?

SINCE covid-19 are you spending more weekdays at home?

Obviously your schedule has changed. That would seem to be the most important variable here.

You weren't spending all week at home before, and now you believe that there is some unusual amount of air traffic at Willow Grove because you are home more often to see it.

Now there are, and certainly have been, these bullshit memes on social media with stock footage of tanks on trains and other nonsense, include a picture of a Drexel ROTC exercise in Philly, being used to suggest that there are some large scale military maneuvers going on.

One of the reasons why it is obviously bullshit is that it is not possible to conduct any sort of large scale military mobilization in this country without a lot of people knowing about it because their families are directly impacted. However, people who do not seem to have any connection to military families think that the US armed forces live in some kind of enormous bubble somewhere, so the only way to know if something unusual is going on is through entirely subjective assertions based on changes to the circumstances of the observer, or social media bullshit.

[PCIntern]

16. I did not miss the point of your post

And you needn’t be so argumentative.

I said it MAY be unimportant AND I am aware that I’m home more days but the flights are every day and I am often home during the week.

You know, when you live next to a busy road you get used to the ambient noise and it almost disappears. But when that road is used as a detour for other roads you notice how much more noise than you’re used to coming from the road.

Same with this...

And I did say in my subject line that it may be unimportant but I’m noting it.

[hlthe2b]

5. No idea, but AF Thunderbirds flew over Fort Collins, Boulder and on to Las Vegas Saturday

to honor health care workers. Flew low and scared the living .... out of me before I realized what was going on.

So, maybe nothing?

[PCIntern]

8. These are not for that purpose...

These are high and only visible on clear days: I’ve seen them take off, they climb at a fantastic speed so they have significant altitude earlY in their flight.

[Siwsan]

6. Those C-5 are massive.

We used to see them when I was stationed in Iceland.

[nolabear]

7. Speculating here but it might be because so few commercial flights are flying.

They’ve got a lot of open air space to do exercises they don’t often get to do. As an old AF brat I recall there being constant monitoring of opportunities when we were at Keesler and they were training pilots.

[PCIntern]

9. Understood but very little commercial here...

Hint: I have a home sixty miles outside Philly and commute daily. When I’m working that is....😳

[nolabear]

10. Ah...I get your point. Well, keep us posted.

[PCIntern]

11. Will do...

[WhiskeyGrinder]

12. Oh god I love these posts.

[jberryhill]

17. "Many people wonder what's going on"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213141088

[rzemanfl]

13. Could it be because fuel is cheap and they don't want to be as bored as the rest of us? n/t

[SheltieLover]

15. Maybe they are hauling all the confisgated PPE from states?

Just guessing, but C5s are cargo planes.

[cayugafalls]

18. Bingo! That was my thought as well.

Going off to gather some PPE that was recently pirated.

[SheltieLover]

20. Likely

given the shit gibbon's MO. How do they get people to do shit like that? Putin must have paid off a LOT of people. 🤬

[Midnight Writer]

19. Great minds think alike.

[SheltieLover]

21. 😊