Mid-Air Collision Shines Light On Doomsday Plans For Nation's Capital

[usonian]

Cross-posted in GD.

The Army UH-60 Black Hawk that collided with an airliner was assigned to a specialized unit with a continuity of government mission.


https://www.twz.com/air/mid-air-collision-shines-light-on-doomsday-plans-for-nations-capital

The12th Aviation Battalion has its continuity of government mission, which is not a secret, but is also not well known or often publicized. There are continuity of government plans across the whole of the U.S. government to help ensure that key authorities can continue to perform their duties even in the worst of scenarios, as you can read more about here.

“12th Aviation [Battalion] obviously has a special mission set in the National Capital Region,” Jonathan Koziol, a subject matter expert and retired Army aviator now working for the Aviation Directorate Chief of Staff within the Department of the Army’s top headquarters at the Pentagon, told TWZ and other reporters during a press call today.

“Part of it is VIP flights for our senior leaders throughout the service to get them to and from certain areas,” Koziol continued. “But partly, some of their mission is to support the Department of Defense if something really bad happens in this area and we need to move our senior leaders.”


In the event of a major attack, or warning of an imminent one, as well as natural disasters and other similarly severe crises, the 12th Aviation Battalion’s helicopters could be tasked with flying senior U.S. officials and lawmakers from locations like the Pentagon, Capitol Building, and White House to more secure sites in the region. These include Camp David, Mount Weather, and Raven Rock. Many continuity of government sites remain classified.

Lots more at the link.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Are they being DOGE right-sized? Why not? /nt

[Ocelot II]

2. If the mission is to evacuate senior leaders from DC in the event of an attack

or other emergency, at this point I'd say fuck 'em, leave 'em there.

[C0RI0LANUS]

3. Thanks for posting, usonian.

C-o-G exercises take place regularly. One week, my team went to Site-R (Raven Rock) and operated out of there for five days. No sunshine. Each of us had to drive there as if we were in a genuine crisis. We were given special placards "Essential Personnel" for our cars. The next week another team went. Each major federal or DoD agency rotates teams to these C-O-G sites 1) to see how quickly they can get there; 2) and to check if the auxiliary systems work.

VIPs would use helicopters and this poor crew died during a training (or rehearsal) flight.