Military vehicles on Interstates

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My wife and I just drove from East Texas to New York to be there for my sister-n-laws birth of her first baby. We drove 3,600 miles round trip on mostly Interstates. We went through Kentucky, Ohio, Penns. on the way up and Virginia, Tenn., Ark. on the way back. In Ohio and Tennessee, we saw lots of those funny blue signs coming into major cities. Nashville and Knoxville Tenn. both had them. But I kept watching the road for military vehicles since I was on the road for about 60 hours or so. Over and over, I kept pointing out military trucks hauling 3 or 4 empty flatbed trailers. These were not large convoys usually, but spaced out an hour or so. Here in my home town of Mount Pleasant, Tx, right off of I-30, 15 military trucks hauling empty flatbed trailers stopped at our Days Inn and spent the night. I called the Day's Inn and confirmed their stay. I didn't have a camera to take their picture, but you can call the Day's Inn to comfirm it. (I am not recommending that you flood them with calls, but if you have to check, you can). They were painting green from bumper to bumper with no Army, Navy, etc. identifying marks. Just some white chalked on letters and numbers on the doors that looked like KY1990346. I am guessing about the numbers, but they all started with the letters KY. I've been talking to some military friends of mine and they were saying that the military usually hauls equipment around, not empty trailers. I think they are getting ready to distribute food or something. By the way, I talked to the local TxDOT here and they know nothing about those funny blue highway signs in various states. I think they are obviously some sort of coordinate system for military purposes. I know you've talked those blue signs to death. Drive through Tennessee and Ohio, you'll see lots of them.

The military is getting ready, despite what the media says or does.

-- James Chancellor, PE. (publicworks1@bluebonnet.net), August 26, 1999

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Yes, saw the same thing. Figure its going to start happening very soon.

-- witness (witness@sawitall.com), August 26, 1999.

I'm not a conspiracy type of guy. I am curious, though, if the blue signs I see mentioned from time to time look anything like the one in the picture at this link:

http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/1998/9812/22/981222sign.html

If the picture of the blue sign at the link is what people are wondering about, it appears to be non-military related.

-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), August 26, 1999.


" I think they are getting ready to distribute food or something."

You have no idea what they are doing, you are simply super imposing your "Tinfoil Logic" to an every day occurence. How a mouth-breathing, tabacky chewing moron like yourself figured out how to turn your computer has to be considered an astonishing feat...

-- Y2K Pro (y2kpro1@hotmail.com), August 26, 1999.


Um. The TRIMARC road-sign system (the funny blue signs) incorporates a camera system for watching the road, or so the linked article above says. Why do you need a camera system for signs that are supposed to help cars running out of gas gauge the distance to an off ramp? Also, pretty cryptic phrasing on the suckers.

-- PH (spin@on.ca), August 26, 1999.

All I can figure is you folks never paid attention to anything before now. My work has taken me all over the country for the past 13 years. I tend to make about 6 long drives a year (Have to haul a trailer with our supplies, to much to fly with) to various parts of the country. I have seen more military vehicles, including flat beds than you can shake a stick at. They are always on the move, have been for years.

As for these blue signs, I wish someone would post a pic of them somewhere because I sure haven't seen them anywhere yet. Betweem mpw amd the emd of the year I have long hauls planned to both Denver and Atlanta (I am in Missouri) so I will keep my eyes open, but I still have no idea what youa ll are talking about on those.

This reminds me a lot of the other day when everyone on here was discussing white, unmarked vehicles. Well that got them on my mind. When I drove to work thw next day I spotted 11 white unmarked vehicles. No decorations of any kind on them. Was I concerned these were UN vehicles? Nope. Being as this is a small town I knew each and every person who was driving them. However, I had never noticed what they were driving until this forum made me think about it.

Get the idea yet?

-- b (b@b.b), August 26, 1999.



This blue sign business has been discussed before and dismissed. This is a TROLL ALERT. It looks like someone's playing 2nd banana for Y2KPro again.

-- Sandmann (Sandmann@alasbab.com), August 26, 1999.

Thanks for the update James. Nice to here from you. Some people hurl insults as arguments. Ignore them.

-- Mike Lang (webflier@erols.com), August 26, 1999.

...yah? Well there's usually a new player every day...

-- Y2K Pro (y2kpro1@hotmail.com), August 26, 1999.

bbbbbb,

Click on the hotlink 3 posts up from yours. And the thing w/ the white trucks? I believe they all had 'UN' on the side. I'll go find the link when I have a minute...

-- PH (sipn@on.ca), August 26, 1999.


Y2kPro,

Your reputation always preceeds you. If anyone had lurked here for any length of time, they have read the quality of your posts and they speak for themselves. Sorry, but you've dug your own ditch, can't help you out.

Thanks others for your comments, read that link about the blue signs, sounds reasonable but I'll keep checking it. I became y2k aware in Feb. 1998 and have spent more time researching it than most of you newbies.

I still remember when just a few well known names used to be the only ones here. I really enjoy serious discussion whether you agree with someone or not. It doesn't have to get personal. I guess that why I like euy2k.com so much.

Keep looking folks and get your rice.

-- James Chancellor (publicworks1@bluebonnet.net), August 26, 1999.



I usually try to stay out of the "The U.N. is coming," "Blue Highway Signs" and "Martial Law" discussions, but I wanted to throw in one thing about the military vehicles.

Remember the reserves? "One weekend a month and two weeks each summer?" An uncle of mine who spent over 20 years in the Army Reserve tells me that there is a much higher incidence of materiale movement during the summer months to support all of the various reservist training and active duty activities. Right about now would be when that activity is nearing an end, and all the equipment that was re-positioned during the summer is being moved back to it's permanent locations.

This could very well account for a good deal of the activity that you saw. Also, all that equipment that the militarty uses doesn't just spring into existence on the various bases, does it? It's got to get there somehow, and trucks as as useful to the military as they are to rest of the world.

-- Paul Neuhardt (neuhardt@ultranet.com), August 26, 1999.


Y2kPro,

Your reputation always preceeds you. If anyone had lurked here for any length of time, they have read the quality of your posts and they speak for themselves. Sorry, but you've dug your own ditch, can't help you out.

Thanks to others for your comments, I read that link about the blue signs, sounds reasonable but I'll keep checking it. I became y2k aware in Feb. 1998 and have spent more time researching it than anyone around me.

I still remember when just a few well known names used to be the only ones here. I really enjoy serious discussion whether you agree with someone or not. It doesn't have to get personal. I guess that's why I like euy2k.com so much.

Keep looking folks and get your rice.

-- James Chancellor (publicworks1@bluebonnet.net), August 26, 1999.


Oh, what a fantastic post! For me to poop on!

-- triumph the insult comic dog (triumphthedog@obrien.com), August 26, 1999.

James,

The funny blue signs have been here, in Ohio, since about 1992. The report card for Ohio Y2K readiness doesn't look that good. This state is barely getting things done now, let alone, in 1992. I don't think there's any connection between those signs and Y2K.

-- Bokonon (bokonon@my-Deja.com), August 26, 1999.


I have to jump in with a cautionary note about the veracity of photographs. There are such very good photo manipulation tools available, and there are so very many people who can use them skillfully, EVEN ME, that the authenticity of any photograph you see MUST BE QUESTIONED if you aren't absolutely certain of the integrity of the source. Now that journalism seems to have died we must be our own journalists.

Just because we all saw walking dinosaurs in Jurassic Park doesn't mean someone photographed them at Wild African Safari. Same thing applies to stills.

I could go into photoshop and paint my face white with a UN on the side, but it wouldn't indicate a conspiracy of any sort, except maybe to make me look younger ;-).

Okay, I feel better now. Back to my preps... Remember, the military is preparing, and so should you. Just watch out believing in photos, they lie and they lie easily.

-- mommacarestx (harringtondesignX@earthlink.net), August 26, 1999.



I've been driving from Atlanta to Cincinnati (and return) on the average of once a month for the last ten years. I first noticed the little blue signs, like the one shown in the Louisville Courier- Journal article linked above, a couple of years ago, in Northern Kentucky. Most of them just identify the highway or ramp and show the interstate mileage every tenth of a mile or so. If you're stranded on the road, or want to report an accident, the signs help you pin it down pretty close.

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), August 27, 1999.

As I've pointed out before when the idea that the "blue highway signs" were for some military purpose has been proposed:

Why in the world would anyone suspecting the military of nefarious plans think that military would be so dumb as to rely upon signs that anyone with a spray paint can could rapidly obliterate at low cost?

-- No Spam Please (nos_pam_please@hotmail.com), August 27, 1999.


PH - THanks for pointing out the hotlink. It got posted while I was typing my reply out. (is what I get for trying to post at work;) As for the white vehicles, I was thinking of the pictures from Texas of all the white vehicles at a prison

Paul Neuhardt - Just so happens a Reservist came into where I work today not long after I posted. The two weeks every Summer popped into my head right away. You beat me to it!;)

mommacarestx - Great point about Photoshop!

Now that I have finally seen a pic of the "infamous" blue signs...*sigh* you conspiracy nuts truly are tinfoils. Those signs have been up for ages. They are just plain old road signs! yeesh!

-- b (b@b.b), August 27, 1999.


These military trucks "were painting [sic] green from bumper to bumper with no Army, Navy, etc. identifying marks. Just some white chalked on letters and numbers on the doors that looked like KY1990346. I am guessing about the numbers, but they all started with the letters KY."

I'd say the numbers beginning with the letters KY merely means that the military is preparing for a massive transport of KY Jelly to those who need it between now and January 2000; i.e. those who are being SCREWED by listening to bogus Doomer advice.

-- Chicken Little (panic@forthebirds.net), August 27, 1999.


This is FLAT AMAZING!!!!! Haven't ANY of you checked the Interstate Highway Sign Conventions?????? Green ones are for the Highway itself, andf blue ones are for locally interesting places, etc. Brown ones are for directions to specific locations. SHEESH

Chuck

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), August 27, 1999.

Thanks for a refreshing bit of sanity and commmon sense, Chuck.

Keep it up.

-- Chicken Little (panic@forthebirds.net), August 27, 1999.


but...but...but Chuck...they're "blue"! The UN uses blue, that means these signs are UN signs, that means the UN is taking over the country. My goodness, can't you follow "logic"?;)

-- b (b@b.b), August 27, 1999.

Chicken Little since you brought it up, KY Jelly is now Y2K compliant. You can now get four digits in your date instead of two.

-- ~ (abc@def.gov), August 27, 1999.

Gork calling base, Gork calling base. We have reviewed the humans based on this website. No signs of intelligent life here. Destroy planet, I repeat, destroy planet.

-- Gork Johnson (gork2@alpha5.com), August 27, 1999.

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