Inside the Air Force’s Secret PsyOps Plane

By Nathan Hodge May 27, 2010 | 11:31 am | Categories: Air Force


OFF THE EASTERN SEABOARD — Name a recent U.S. military operation, and you can pretty much guarantee that a specially modified Air Force plane was somewhere in the vicinity, trying to influencing the minds of the people below. It’s called the Commando Solo. Ordinarily, civilians are not allowed on board.

The 193rd Special Operations Wing operates a fleet of three of these EC-130J aircraft, cargo haulers that have been converted into flying radio and television stations. These “psychological operations” aircraft can broadcast their own signal over AM and FM radio, UHF and VHF television bands — or override broadcast stations on the ground, something they apparently did during operations in Bosnia and Iraq.

I recently accompanied a Commando Solo crew on a training mission. It was an unusual opportunity to see the crew at work testing their radio and television equipment at full power.

The crew calls it “200-mile work”: In order to avoid interference with domestic frequencies — the aircraft can crank up to 1,000 watts of effective radiated power — the aircraft flies more than 200 miles off the East Coast.

Once we’re safely out over the Atlantic, says Weapons Systems Officer Lt. Col. Mike Rice, “it’s game on.”



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...I about fell out of my seat when I read that, until I realized they were talking about the kind you cook food with. Lawn chair aviation experts have been talking about Js as likely testbeds for directed energy warfare for years. :D

allows people to hurt people for the feeling of the game. If you think in terms of winning a game, then winning becomes important not what you actually do.

In personal thought there are many things I could have, and still could do if I thought in terms of just winning some game, any game formed in my mind as what winning would be. Then by playing that game the goal becomes the winning of the game, not what is done.

Playing the game to win.

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Ends justify the means.

That is the effect of thinking something is a game. The method of what you do is your intent, and the effect is the outcome. If you only think on effect and are willing to use bad intents to get there, there will always be another mountain to climb to keep a person in bad intents. You would never reach the end better effect you think you are moving to, partly because of ever more, but also because the winning becomes the end, and to continue to win, you must continue to play. And playing to win does not think if an action to get there is better or worse.

Thank you for giving me an insight.

You get more daily Psy Ops from "legitimate" sources like the NYT & "Family Guy" than "Voice of America"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psy_ops