This cold air is really carrying the percussion. Training time. It's enough you can feel and hear the house vibrate after the impact.

But in today's political climate. Every boom you feel. You sure do hope it's ours. Not anybody else's.

The 1st night I lived in Killeen I thought the Russians were bombing us. Loudest, scariest sounds you've ever heard when they're in the field. Finally got used to it.

Oh Yeah. It's normal around here. You can feel it all the way to Belton. Heck, AH-64 Apache gunships fly over my house all the time. Chinook too.

It's the artillery that rocks this place. Besides Fort Hood shooting the cannon off every day.

Merica

I live 35+ miles as the crow flies from Fort Campbell.

It is common to hear the rumblings of the big guns when the Army is firing. Sounds like distant thunder.

Helicopter traffic up and down the river is also very common late at night. In summer, it’s cool to watch the special forces guys deployed into the water, chopper flies off….the picks them up again in twenty minutes or so.

Army has been busy of late. Upcoming deployments???

You get used to it, and it fades into unacknowledged background noise. I still remember vividly landing in Viet Nam. Mixed branches; mostly Army, mostly just out of training. It was early morning, still dark, and they were loading us on buses at the airstrip. With our duffel bags, getting through the door on the bus was a tight squeeze. The bus was probably half loaded when we heard that loud "crunch" like a mortar round detonating. Everybody was thinking, "There goes the mortar platoon, training again." Then, all in the same instant, everybody realized through the jet lag haze that we were in RVN and that was incoming rounds. Two at a time were going out that door easier than one coming in a few seconds earlier. I still get a giggle out of that memory. We all bailed out and hit the ground, and I remember an Air Force guy lying on the tarmac with his .38 revolver out. I guess he thought he was going to shoot down the rockets and mortars........... In the dark........ with a .38 Special.........

Parts of 1stCav have already been deployed around 6 months ago. Neighbor was infantry but was getting out. He's who mentioned being deployed. Saying he going to miss it.

You can tell there's a bunch of soldiers not around. There's empty houses for rent and those are usually filled with soldiers. 10,000 troops(?).

I lived behind Killeen HS past Long Branch Park off of Lake Road. I was real close to Ft. Hood. I was coaching there during the Gulf War and Desert Storm.

I live just north of cove right next door to hood. It’s the sound of freedom.

Lived within miles from the Camp Pendleton gate in CA. You would get warnings via email from the City of Oceanside warning of training. Sound or freedom rang every month there. It was awesome seeing the planes. helicopters, artillery at night, etc. where we lived.

I am just south of cove on hwy 116 and have not heard much today.. but that is probably because my wife has talked non-stop.

Warnings? For real? That definitely doesn't happen here. They've stopped exploding things for now. Sometimes is a single event. Other times it's most the day. Different things. You can hear some kind machine gun going off. "Chug, Chug, Chug".


*Oops never mind. I guess they were reloading. KA-Boom...

Way back around 2005 I was up in Cowhouse Creek. Having never been on the lake I was scouting it.

I came to a spot where the bridge crossed it and several people were fishing. After passing and fishing up the creek, Ron who was fishing with me said he thought that was tank fire that we were hearing. I told him no, it was probably mining. In between we heard rat a tat a tat a tat and Ron said that sounds like machine gun fire too. Noting that the creek had gotten real narrow we turned around.
As we passed the bridge on the way out, someone told us we better get out of there. An MP had just gone by looking for me.

Not sure exactly what you said, but thanks for your service.

Dang Jim-
That has to be a strong vivid memory-