Warships off Pendleton, I-5 closed

[Bobstandard]

Trump is going through with his ‘see what a tough dictator I am” vanity parade after all. It seems such a stupid, useless display of ego that I didn’t think it would happen. Wrong again

A friend has bicycled in to Trestles beach and captured this photo of one of the four big warships in view a few minutes ago. He also reports I-5 is a parking lot filled with pissed off motorists.

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[pdxflyboy]

1. I'm staying at the Marbrisa Hilton.

I can see out of my living room a flight of 3 USMC CH-53 Super Sea Stallion helicopters flying from south to north at about 300 ft above the sea. Wasting taxpayer dollars.

[FHRRK]

2. Not all that uncommon to see ships just offshore

What is uncommon is shooting live ammo over the I5.

If we had a functioning Govt., this alone is an impeachable offense.

[stollen]

4. WTF?

[FHRRK]

7. not clear with your WTF

Navy ships are offshore quite often in this area. Pendleton is a huge base. What doesn't occur is ships sending Sea to Land live ammo.

[Bobstandard]

13. Are you suggesting it's a coincidence or are you bragging?

Normalizing this should be left to The NY Times, The Post and Fox News.

[sdfernando]

16. I live in San Diego and would drive to

Orange Couny and LA quite often when I was working. As stated above, it is not unusual to see large warships and hovercraft off shore in the Camp Pendleton area. Also not unusual to see helicopters and units training right beside I5 and the ocean. The unusual thing is live ordinance fire from ship to shore. I've never seen that happen and IT SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN!

[FHRRK]

17. Thank you

There seems to basic reading comprehension by some.

Military activities along this stretch of the I5 are almost a daily occcurance.

Using live Ammo is not.

To the OP, I didn’t normalize anything. Read again and apologize.

[miyazaki]

18. Also San Clemente Island not far offshore is Navy owned. They probably

still blow the shit out of it I suppose as it's used for live fire exercises.

[Bobstandard]

20. I read it again. Context is everything.

Your comment made it clear that in other circumstances, the appearance of war vessels off shore is not unusual. I hope you’ll agree that the circumstances here are different.

[FHRRK]

24. I will try one more time

Military activity and training off this stretch of coastline are normal, using live ammo is NOT.

Is this an attempt at intimidation, without a doubt.

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

28. The circumstances here are coincidence

Naval ship movements are planned months in advance, if not years. Port rotations, crew rotations, maintenance, exercises, all of it is a choreographed far in advance, beyond when the protests were scheduled. The 250th anniversary would have been planned years in advance. What ships they have there now would have had been pre planned to ensure they were not going to be at some other port or base and were in drydock or under maintenance a this time. Depending on the ship, its function, and ongoing naval operations, its presence there would have to have been accounted for elsewhere in the fleet.

Now the use of live ammo, that's not coincidence nor normal. Live fire is in designated ranges away from the public typically.

[chia]

29. I live in San Diego. Navy town. Yes, the appearance of war vessels offshore is not unusual.

Camp Pendleton regularly issues live fire noise advisories, here's the current one:

https://www.pendleton.marines.mil/Portals/98/Docs/1%20Noise%20Reports/Noise%20Report%2018%20TO%2026%20OCT%20%202025.pdf?ver=VrtDxeoLmpmUzICFMYrxUw%3d%3d

They also shoot across the 5, so I'm not sure why the closure this time.

[maveric]

12. See them all the time in San Diego.

We got a lot o them here.

[haele]

15. Not Impeachable, but certainly dangerous, and against training regs.

Navy Ships haven't done shore bombardment at Camp Pendleton since the 60's, but it has been done before.
During WWII, they used to do live fire practice all over San Diego County. There are still places you can find WWI and WWII era UXA in the canyons near more modern housing developments, and warnings still up where old ranges were located.
On Edit:
Camp Pendleton hosts Shore Landing training for the Marines Several times a year. Typically, if there's "Shore Bombardment" drill for the troop carriers, it's firing dud casings designed to shatter apart after a certain distance, to reduce possible injury or damage to the landing troops. There's typically an alert issued for shoreline and inland valley communities nearby that there's going to be a lot of noise and "booms" between roughly 10 pm and 1 am over a week period when training is occuring.
Any live fire practice is done on deserted islands in the missile range 200+ miles out.

[petronius]

33. I don't think it's ship-to-shore fire, it's artillery on land firing eastwards over I-5 (nt)

[irisblue]

3. Vaguely looks like the opening of the SciFi flick

Battle: Los Angeles, 2011 a favorite popcorn flick of mine.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Trump is trying to intimidate, bully, stalk the citizens of CA.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

21. And try to deflect from the No Kings protests

Because he's a chicken shit, eggshell ego baby.

[Irish_Dem]

22. I know ten year old kids with more wisdom, manners, strength than Trump will ever have.

[markodochartaigh]

23. Exactly.

Whether or not warships off shore, or firing towards shore are normal or not is a red herring.
The intent is what is completely new.

If your neighbor has a gun range in the backyard and your house is hit by the occasional stray bullet that is a problem. But it is nowhere near the problem of your neighbor aiming at your kitchen window with malice.

[Irish_Dem]

25. US military firing on the people they are supposed to protect.

I am glad my US career military is not here to see it.

[vapor2]

6. Seriously is there ammo being fired and by 47?

[oasis]

8. By Trump's orders or War Sec. Hogshit?

[dalton99a]

9. The tyrant is in a constant search for new ways to amuse himself and terrorize Americans.

[mwmisses4289]

10. But many Americans refuse to be terrorized.

[Celerity]

11. here is your pic (you need to right click on your pic and 'copy image address' and then paste that, to make it display)

[Bobstandard]

14. Thank you. I've rarely posted pics. nt

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

19. Short Live the King. And then we will eat, drink and be merry!

[BidenRocks]

26. The Marine Corps does NOT celebrate anniversaries!

This is Chump and Just Dance fucking up California!

I will celebrate with my fellow Marines on our true anniversary, November 10!

On November 10, 1775, a Corps of Marines was created by a resolution of Continental Congress. Since that date many thousand men have borne the name "Marine". In memory of them it is fitting that we who are Marines should commemorate the birthday of our corps by calling to mind the glories of its long and illustrious history. - John A. Lejeune
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps_Birthday

Like ANTIFA, a Marine Corp anniversary per se does not exist!

Semper Fi
No Kings No Diktators

[usonian]

27. Imgbb was really mean to you. Here's a better one.

Add an h

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It was 2.8 MB. Deserves better. I posted to postimages and asked for "large"

Nice (photo) shot.

TITLE:

United States Forces fire upon United States.

[librechik]

30. They say it's an anniversary celebration.

Hope those are only popguns offshore...

[BidenRocks]

32. They lie!

Today is not 11/10.

[Diraven]

31. The have a firing range on San Clemente Island

Literally just a few miles from there. There is no legitimate reason for the Navy to be firing artillery into the mainland now.