Late-night military training exercises with helicopters, simulated gunfire and flash grenades in Pasadena, Long Beach and other suburbs jolted residents this week as elite troops stormed vacant hospitals and malls.
City officials say they were given minimal details and little control over the operations, notifying the public only hours beforehand as angry neighbors flooded police and city hall with calls.
Pasadena leaders now want answers, questioning whether such war games in fire-scarred neighborhoods reflect new federal training priorities — or even an intimidation tactic — after President Trump urged using cities as military training grounds.
A series of military exercises taking place in empty buildings across the Southland are scaring residents and rattling neighbors as the sound of gunfire rings out in the dark and troops descend from helicopters.
Multiple nights this week, the sounds of simulated urban warfare have erupted in the middle of the night in parts of sleepy Pasadena and Long Beach and in an empty mall in the San Gabriel Valley.
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As some residents went to bed, video showed a helicopter thundering across the sky as soldiers jumped onto the roof of an empty hospital in the middle of a tree-lined residential neighborhood in Pasadena Wednesday night.
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just a coincidence
oh fuck off
i couldnt pest screen shots of
news articles of the drills the last 12hrs
including City of Industry
long beach and pasadena