There's nothing that reinforces the stupidity of mankind like Facebook drama.
Two #USAF C-17 Globemasters (09-9212 #AE49C8 #RCH745 & 10-0214 #AE4D67 #RCH435) landed at in Calgary YYC and the USAF asked the Ground Handling Company to enforce a ban on pictures and video of the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Our review starts on 2023-05-13 when #RCH435 took off from Charleston and flew to JBA. #AE4D67
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On 2023-05-14 #RCH705 departed Charleston heading NW, and #RCH435 departed JBA heading NW too.
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#AE49C8 #AE4D67
#USAF C-17 10-0214 #RCH435 beat #RCH705 to South Korea, arriving on 2023-05-15 while 09-9212 was still somewhere around Alaska. Both are using Mode-S and ADS-C, not ADS-B.
#RCH705 arrived in South Korea on 2023-05-16.
#USAF C-17 09-9212 (now #RCH745) and 10-0214 (still #RCH435) arrived in Calgary #YYC #CYYC on 2023-05-17, and the USAF asked that nobody take any pictures. 😂
#AE49C8 #AE4D67
After taking a whole day off, they departed on 2023-05-19 for JBA and Charleston.
NONE of that was a secret, none of it needed Facebook admin "moderation".
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As I told Vice Motherboard's Ben Sullivan in 2017, Facebook is garbage for OSINT research collaboration. It's not just that I might not search and find the content, overzealous moderators will deliberately block your access to public information, as they did in Calgary on May 17.
An American military VIP seems to have flown in on the day they were on the ground, which is not a regular occurrence and is likely related. Americans were training at Wainwright with the CAF, but why wouldn't they get picked up in Edmonton?
Also, if it was a big ammo shipment I'd expect it to go to CFAD Dundurn, I'm sure Calgary wouldn't be the most convenient drop off.
By the way, I'm guessing they kept on course and landed in South Korea. They appear to have gone out of MLAT range and were only picked up again flying toward Alaska when they left, then appeared near Calgary - there are gaps in coverage, but they certainly weren't shipping… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
They landed about a half hour apart on May 17 ~17:15Z/17:45Z which is just before noon, it couldn't have been a more noticeable landing.
I wonder how many pictures were taken of them from satellites as they passed over YYC? No, I don't mean our satellites. 😂
#USAF C-37A 97-01944 #AE0405 bizjet landed about 24 hours later, which seems weird if it was a coordinated stop as #PAT94
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