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Did you heard the loud rumbling of rotors overhead or seen green lights in the sky at night this week?
Yes, some military helicopters were in the area. Community forums have been abuzz with spotting the aircraft, including the Vermont Air National Guard Friends Facebook group where commenters shared their sightings, photos and video on a May 23 post. Right now all I know is that the MV-22’s that have been seen and heard in the area the last few days are Osprey s from MCAS New River in North Carolina, Major J. Scott Detweiler, the Acting State Public Affairs Officer for the Vermont National Guard confirmed in an email.
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Row of military vehicles in Berlin. Photo by Carla Occaso.
For the past year, the Vermont National Guard has been serving on the frontlines aiding locally in coronavirus relief efforts, federally to support Operation Capitol Response in Washington, D.C., and globally with deployments to various locations in the U.S. Central Command and in Africa and Europe. This makes for their most active year since the 2010 Afghanistan deployments, reported Maj. Scott Detweiller, Acting State Public Affairs Officer for the Vermont Guard.
The Bridge’s readership has a Guard base in Berlin.
Coronavirus relief efforts started in March 2020, when Task Force Coyote a unit serving Vermonters throughout the pandemic established three different sites around the state in case of emergency overflow, set up an alternate health care facility in Essex in only a week to divert less acute needs from overwhelmed hospitals, and assembled and shipped over 160,000 test k