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Night Ops - New Guy (TransHuman Edition)
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2017-11-09 at 6:03 AM UTCmeh ... night ops in the rural area where the average population falls asleep at 9pm is easy.
try doing it in city center and exploring guarded buildings and civilian off limits. explore train tunnels. sewerages. underground parking lots .... -
2017-11-09 at 8:03 AM UTC
Originally posted by Psychlonic Expanding upon some of the routes I had caught Xanatos up on prior during the 'Stroll', we decided on checking out some targets south from where we were at before. This time we'd be doing a full operation just to set the mood and keep ourselves busy.
I drove us near the edge of the area of operations where we'd fully gear up and move out toward the target. Our objective? A duo of rural building clusters in the middle of some open fields. For the operation I'd be wearing my old school subdued digital MARPAT since my multicam had failed on the last outing. No special gear to make note of really, just a good mega folder knife and a small flashlight.
At about 0200 we began to move toward the AO. As there was a house somewhat near the parking area, we moved north with haste along a road until I felt we could comfortably cross the barbed wire fence alongside of us without rousing suspicion. Afterward, we cut inward toward the field to create a buffer of space between us and anyone else who might drive by along the road. This would enable us to lay down and face them, making us practically invisible. Terrain was mostly dead grasses, rocks, and potholes. The moon was out bright so visibility was excellent in lieu of any artificial lighting.
Almost exactly a mile later we found ourselves near the first cluster of buildings so Xanatos and I began to move toward the road again as we were in fields on the opposite side. Once we neared the fence, we both found our own crossing points, leaped over, jogged across the road, then crossed the fence on the other side. This put us at the top of a small slope that went down into the field proper where there seemed to be some wetlands we'd have to navigate. As for the buildings themselves, we couldn't tell for sure but one seemed like it may have been occupied so we carefully encompassed the cluster, circling from the left. This brought us behind some of the buildings and gave us an opportunity to look around and assess the situation.
We decided to enter the first large building in the far back and look around. This building, like the others, was entirely wooden and this one was very open with a large first floor and a second floor that wrapped around against the wall. Actually, I know what kind of building this was but I can't tell you for PERSEC reasons. Anyway, we looked around for anything of interest but there really wasn't a whole lot. After we both explored the first floor, Xanatos decided to climb up to the second floor which required literally climbing up the wooden walls and posts. I would have joined, but not being used to my new-at-the-time weight I didn't want to cause a ton of noise stressing the wooden floors up there. Keep in mind I was something like 85 pounds heavier than Xanatos. Instead, I opted to post as lookout below for anything suspicious. Nothing, other than cattle noticing our presence in the adjacent field and drawing closer.
Once Xanatos returned back down to my level after having a look around, we left the building and decided to next visit other huge building in the northern-most area of the cluster. This building was designed nearly identical to the first building with a huge open first floor and a wrap-around second floor. There were also more rooms below, which we both checked out. One room contained refrigerators, lamps, and boxes of various "medical" instruments. Interesting. I made note of the room then resumed looking around. Once again, Xanatos climbed to the second floor while I posted lookout below. More nothingness. He came back down, we left making sure the door was shut the way we found it on the way out.
The remaining few outbuildings were extremely uneventful. After establishing that the suspicious building we thought might have been occupied was in fact empty, we decided to return back to the other side of the road into the rocky fields. The route we took was similar although not quite the same one, and soon enough we were back out in the middle of moonlight and emptiness, headed south again toward the next cluster of buildings. Having some prior knowledge of the general layout of the area, I explained that we'd eventually come across an old dirt/gravel road somewhere that would lead east toward the second cluster of buildings. A half, maybe three quarters of a mile later we found it and followed it back to the fence near the road. On our side was still barbed wire, but this time on the other side it was a wooden pole fence. Easy mode. We both crossed the barbed wire, trotted up to the wooden fence and simply climbed over.
We moved down another slope into the fields, trying to stay far enough away from the cluster so they couldn't see or hear us in the darkness because this one for SURE had occupied buildings. Eventually, we reached a gravel road cutting across the property with more wooden pole fences on either side. There was also what appeared to be dead and dried thistle plants on the ground nearby which were painfully loud to step on. Avoiding these, we crossed the first fence and found ourselves on the gravel road. In front of us, the road led into the cluster, there were a pair of buildings to our left, one big and one small. To our immediate right, a tunnel with a tractor inside of it. Further right attached to the tunnel, the backside of another out building and a small covered parking space. We began to move into the tunnel but the noise was unbearably loud from the gravel echoing everywhere. It was definitely within earshot of the occupied building so I didn't want to press it. Instead, we slowly moved along the outside of the tunnel along the gravel road, looking for anything of interest or alternate routes. Unfortunately, the cluster was extremely lit up and not having a good sense of what was around us, we decided to pull back from that way and return to where we had crossed the last wooden pole fence.
We slide under the next wooden pole fence on the other side of the road and moved into the shadows here. The idea here was to see if we couldn't access the largest building in front of us, which looked similar to the larger buildings from the last cluster we were at. This was a shit show of trying to climb over metal panel fencing that make a ruckus if you moved wrong on them, then treading more dead, loud weeds of some kind. While they provided good cover visually, the sound was paranoia inducing. We tried to enter through a side door but it just wouldn't open without making a huge amount of noise, so instead Xanatos circled around to a large sliding back door and began to see if he couldn't open it. It was latched shut somehow so he began to try to free it using his knife to manipulate. Unfortunately, we were running out of time. The operation had taken so much time trying to move safely, cover ground, and explore it was going to be daylight soon. It was time to pull back for now, we'd be back later.
Retracing our infiltration route backwards, we swiftly but quietly as possible moved back into the rocky fields and began moving at a quick pace toward our extraction vehicle. The sky was getting brighter and brighter, while the damn terrain made it difficult to move quickly in without feet and ankles taking a pounding, but you didn't want to be caught out here so we moved fast anyway. Eventually we got back to where I had parked, downgraded our gear enough to be passably civilian when driving by people, then we returned to base. It was sunrise as we arrived, not a moment too soon!
Some Google Earth searching of the property we were on revealed something pretty interesting - there was a third cluster of buildings I hadn't noticed! We planned on taking some improved routes, checking the third cluster, and fully exploring the second cluster then called it a night… morning… whatever. We'd be heading back again soon to finish what we started, either way! Till then.
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2017-11-09 at 6:14 PM UTC
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2017-11-09 at 6:52 PM UTC
Originally posted by benny vader meh … night ops in the rural area where the average population falls asleep at 9pm is easy.
try doing it in city center and exploring guarded buildings and civilian off limits. explore train tunnels. sewerages. underground parking lots ….
No worries, they'll get better. :) -
2017-11-09 at 6:55 PM UTC
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2017-11-10 at 2:45 AM UTC
Originally posted by benny vader have you explored military installation ????
i 'broke' into a swimming pool on-base at night with a couple of other people several times but i later found out it was 'their' pool to start with so no one was going to say anything about doing it.
i climbed over the fence to use the pool on another base at night on a regular basis. it was a very small base so either the base cops didnt care or never even knew i was doing it.
in boot camp wandered around the 'headquarters' building where recruits werent permitted while out of uniform. sounds gay but at the time it was a big deal.
climbed the water-tower at a base at night. was chased by base-cops. climbed down the other side. stole-ed their hats from the seats of their truck while they were working their way down.
along with someone else, pushed our 500-lbs bikes through about two miles of brush in full stealth-mode after evading off-base cops that radioed on-base cops to BOLO us. -
2017-11-10 at 4:30 AM UTCits funny watching military jets troll ppl flying so low everything shakes at 3aM lol
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2017-11-10 at 6:01 AM UTC
Originally posted by bling bling its funny watching military jets troll ppl flying so low everything shakes at 3aM lol
theyre not allowed to do that.
we used to circle the houses at very low altitude (low enough to make out facial features) of the flight crew that lived near the flight path and thered always be the sour-pus who would call the base complaining about it. nowadays i imagine its more difficult to do with everyone having cameras. we'd just deny it and chalk it up to some bitch who had nothing better to do than bitch.
the only time we were 'allowed' to do flight ops late-late is when it was mission-critical... and even then werent allowed to do anything to offend the proles.
when returning to base we'd also conveniently make the flight path down the main highway with the RWR gear running to see if any piggys were lying in wait for the drive home. -
2017-11-11 at 5:21 PM UTC
Originally posted by infinityshock i 'broke' into a swimming pool on-base at night with a couple of other people several times but i later found out it was 'their' pool to start with so no one was going to say anything about doing it.
i climbed over the fence to use the pool on another base at night on a regular basis. it was a very small base so either the base cops didnt care or never even knew i was doing it.
in boot camp wandered around the 'headquarters' building where recruits werent permitted while out of uniform. sounds gay but at the time it was a big deal.
climbed the water-tower at a base at night. was chased by base-cops. climbed down the other side. stole-ed their hats from the seats of their truck while they were working their way down.
along with someone else, pushed our 500-lbs bikes through about two miles of brush in full stealth-mode after evading off-base cops that radioed on-base cops to BOLO us.
what year were these taking place ???? -
2017-11-11 at 9:04 PM UTC
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2017-11-11 at 9:19 PM UTC
Originally posted by benny vader have you explored military installation ????
Not in the sense you're thinking, no. I've been on them legitimately and I've explored a few decommissioned areas (a radar base story will be coming when I can bother to write it) but an active base from the outside, no. Mostly just haven't felt a great need. The only actual night op I know of where it's some guy who didn't know the base at all that snuck in and explored around was enfadedserenicity way back in the mid 2000s, got into an Australian base, filmed the whole thing, and sent the video to "A Current Affair" where it aired for a short time. -
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