Bradley Fighting Vehicles in Uptown Columbus (GA)
Posted June 3rd, 2008 by primo1
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Instruments of war display good for economic development. Love it!
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On Thursday morning Bradley Fighting Vehicles from Fort Benning will be rolling up and down Front Avenue.
It's a training exercise to test out new cameras on board.
The Cannon Brew Pub sits on Broadway, just a block away from Front Avenue. That's where the Bradley Fighting Vehicles will be rolling through town. The Cannon Brew Pub is known for their military menu, and they say they are expecting big business from the Thursday's crowd.
The exercise will take place on Front Avenue between 9th Street and the 13th Street bridge. The purpose of the training exercise is to see how soldiers operate the Bradley Vehicles while using new camera vision. The cameras are designed to help soldiers distinguish between civilians and enemies in crowded urban areas. That's why Fort Benning wants the public to come out and be apart of the crowd.
Major Shane Sims works with the Soldier Battle Lab at Fort Benning. He is directing the experiment. He says, “You can imagine millions of people and millions of cars. That affects the way things look on the outside of a vehicle, we simply can not replicate that on Fort Benning.”
Jack McGraw is the Front of the House Manager at The Cannon Brew Pub. He says, “I think it will be really good for downtown. It could get a lot of people who haven't been down this way familiar with the area, bring new people down, new people from Fort Benning.”
The Cannon Brew Pub is just one of the businesses on Broadway prepping for crowds on Thursday. No roads in uptown Columbus will be closed. Fort Benning officials want the traffic to be part of the exercise.
The Bradley fighting vehicles will rumble down Front Avenue beginning at 9 AM on Thursday. At 2 PM, the vehicles will stop so the public can take a closer look.
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So easy to see why
Wonder how many in the town realize the real reason for this?
Make sure if you live in Columbus, Georgia
to have a couple of "The Revolution, A Manifesto" on hand to hand to these soldiers, as I am sure they will come out of their vehicles at some point.
Free pictures and coffee mugs.
Free picture day! Courtesy of the United States Army. Bring the entire family. There will be balloons, cake, ice cream, and beer! All we need from you is the consent to roll a 50000 pound picture taking machine (also known as a BFV) into the middle of your town. Don't worry about the treads left in our wake, a new thin coat of asphalt is all that's needed to repair the damage. So come on out and enjoy a day the whole family can enjoy. There will be a camouflage theme for this event so please dress up in camo to add to the festivities.
Everyone needs to stay home:
and not give them what they want. They want you to get used to having a military presents. We should not volunteer ourselves to anything they wish.
The streets should remain empty until they are gone. This kind of crap really pi#%es me off.
LOL
Hard to distinguish between Civilians and Insurgents when there are none. Also "military presents" sound fun.