today i was driving down the freeway and saw a military vehicle w/ men on top and they had their BIG guns out?
it looked like the pics you see of the men and women patrolling the streets of iraq, on the big tank-type vehicles (but the kind w/ actual wheels, not those weird chain thingies) where they’re standing on top with their m-16’s or whatever big guns out and ready, just in case, only it was on a california freeway! we’re far from any base that i know of, they were headed north, and san diego is south of me. 29 palms and all that, im not sure what direction that is from me, but its a good 1.5 hrs away. so what im basically wondering is, i’ve seen military vehicles before, but never w/ the boys on top with their giant guns out in their hands! does anyone know what this was? i assume the guns werent loaded and it was some kind of training activity, but i grew up in a HEAVILY military populated area and have never seen this before, especially not on the freeway and not w/ the guns out!
lol i was NOT being paranoid, i could plainly see them, and im very used to seeing military vehicles on the road. like i said, i grew up in norfolk, va, look it up, world’s largest naval base, but anyway, i’ve seen a million convoys and military vehicles by themselves, and w/ the boys standing on top, but never holding guns. they weren’t small guns, they were BIG, so i didn’t imagine them. and im not being paranoid b/c i didn’t find this sight worrisome in the least, i just am curious to know if anyone w/ any military background whatsoever knows why they would have been there like that. like i said, i assume it was training, but what a long way from base they were!
it wasn’t a tank w/ a mounted gun, they were guns the boys were holding. and i highly doubt it was a movie shoot, although a good theory, because we were in rush hour on friday afternoon in heavy traffic on the 15 freeway. about 2 hours north of camp pendleton.
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I’ve seen 18-wheel transports in a caravan style with humvees and armed soldiers, guarding radioactive material, but i doubt they were nukes. The radioactive warning sign were on the transports that they were guarding.
U.S. nuclear weapons, components and
special nuclear materials require armed escorts…. The last train transport of nukes was in 1985, most are on designated interstates…..
Hmmmm… maybe they have declared martial law and we haven’t gotten the word on it yet.
I think it may be people are becoming to paranoid. Either that or a late April Fools Day prank.
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…I was talking about the military people. They were being paranoid of an incoming attack.
They were trying to impress you with their BIG GUNS!!!
Did you flash them your bigguns?
Camp Pendleton is just north of San Diego so they may have been conducting some kind of exercise. Now if they were shooting out the engine block of anyone who came near then you should start worrying.
coulda been a movie shoot.
Although they look like regular guns , those guns r mounted, the ones on top of the "tank-type" vehicles. They don’t really come off.
There are more basis in California than you are aware of, and even more than some of the life long residents of the state are aware of. They also could have been in a convoy that was heading up to San Fran gay bay to get loaded up onto a ship. The guns could have been anything from a 50 cal to a big 105 mm ou saw the guns, not us. I suggest ta simple look into military weaponry in a google search to identify the guns.
OH BOY, LOL< LOL, Semper Fi, we are going to Iran!!!!!!
It sounds like you got a peek at some strykers; they’ve got 8 wheels and guys that stick out of the hatches. Yes, it sounds like a training mission. They travel highways a lot. The guys have to stick out of the hatches to help the driver. The guns were probably just part of the training mission. Wouldn’t worry about it much.
I don’t understand what the big deal is. THey were probably heading off to train somewhere, or heading back from training somewhere and you happen to pass them on their way. I don’t see anything abnormal about it. Granted, I live in a miliary town, but this is a daily thing around here.
This is war time. We are at war with the "terrorist" so that’s probably common espcially post 9/11.