Defense Dept. Training in Tinley Rattles Nerves in L-W Communities: Helicopters Overhead
Tinley Park's closed mental health center was the site of urban warfare training Wednesday night. The exercises, which included small, controlled explosions and low-flying helicopter drills, were heard throughout the Lincoln-Way communities.
Residents in Tinley Park, Frankfort, Mokena and New Lenox were rattled by the sights and sounds of low-flying military helicopters that flew overhead beginning around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday night. Turns out it wasn't an invasion or a response to some catastrophe. It was Day No. 2 of a Defense Department training exercise on the site of the now-closed Tinley Park Mental Health Center, 183rd Street and Harlem Avenue. The communities to the southwest of the 1,000-acre facility got the brunt of the helicopter exercise. Many Frankfort residents heard the explosions as well. For the reactions to the drill that were circling around social media Wednesday night and early morning hours today in Tinley Park, read these stories from Tinley Park Patch: …
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Linda R. Wielgos Atkinson
10:13 pm on Friday, April 26, 2013
Are they in Joliet tonight??? Thought they were going to land on my house. more ›