Post B0k2sDqHbm9Z9M7UPo by j12t@j12t.social
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 (DIR) Post #B0jG3coKDlpq1H0meW by j12t@j12t.social
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       When visiting my grandmother during the Cold War, fighter jets flying overhead so low you’d sometimes duck involuntarily, making you cover your ears and all conversation impossible, was a frequent occurrence.Now Germany is reopening those areas for low flying practice again.It was not fun then, it won’t be fun now. But probably just as necessary. Humanity is stupid.https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/bundeswehr-uebt-tieffluege-diese-regionen-sind-besonders-betroffen-a-1221b445-5d1a-4a9e-9855-8a7448fdbd5d (in German)
       
 (DIR) Post #B0jG3kLYCdZVOLbuue by sturmsucht@mastodon.social
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       @j12t I still remember how the US Army regularly conducted low flight training behind our house in the Fulda Gap. Totally fascinating as a child. Worrying as an adult.
       
 (DIR) Post #B0k2sDqHbm9Z9M7UPo by j12t@j12t.social
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       @sturmsucht Yep, and our walks through the woods we found US MRE's all the time -- including dried milk, not something we otherwise knew.