Even after reflection, I’m not sure how to take this. I listened to the commands, and this was a tactical exercise in how to move across the terrain if your group was under fire. I found it just plain creepy. Not the training, but that it was going on in the park.
The Guru and I came up with two theories we leaned toward about this exercise: 1) ROTC group from the HS across the street; or, 2) movie training.
3 February 2012 at 11:55 am
kayak woman says:
One time I had [baby] Liz at a neighborhood playground and a big army chopper buzzed it. I knew intellectually that we weren’t in any danger but it still scared the bejabbers out of me.
Later on, I said to Liz, “Tell dad what we saw at the yellow-slide playground today.” She couldn’t even manage to say “ca-ca-ca”, just got wide-eyed and started circling her arms.
3 February 2012 at 10:27 pm
Mary Jo says:
They look eerily like the little army men toys my brothers played with, and burned up into globs of melted plastic (it was Vietnam War era, napalm and all that).