{"id":147326,"date":"2023-09-17T09:15:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T13:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=147326"},"modified":"2023-09-16T13:58:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T17:58:23","slug":"kansas-city-resident-startled-by-army-exercise-near-his-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=147326","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City resident startled by Army exercise near his neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Military-training-and-neighborhood-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-147327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Military-training-and-neighborhood-01-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Military-training-and-neighborhood-01-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Military-training-and-neighborhood-01-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Military-training-and-neighborhood-01-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Military-training-and-neighborhood-01-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Military-training-and-neighborhood-01.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Army units are conducting military training exercises in the Kansas City area through September 22. The Army coordinated with relevant city authorities as exercises in these areas could lead to confusion and routine activity conflicts with the impacted civilian communities. However, Stephen Flanery, 41, was one of the residents who was not aware of these exercises. When he heard an explosion, he sat up in his bed and thought that one of the vehicles in the area had exploded.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>From The Kansas City Star:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It was definitely unlike any explosion I&#8217;ve ever heard in my life,&#8221; Flanery told The Star on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>A quick bit of online research by his wife on the neighborhood Facebook page provided some assurance: Neighbors a few blocks away had been informed by police that there was a training exercise going on &#8212; and gunfire or helicopters heard that night were probably a part of it.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t make sense, Flanery said, how something like that could happen so suddenly and without warning. He said it was frustrating to learn that the operation was a planned one his family had no prior knowledge of.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because we hear gunshots. We hear stuff in our neighborhood and that stuff alarms you. But then if that was planned and intentional, and nobody tells you about it &#8212; it&#8217;s really disturbing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The topic was the stir of the neighborhood on Friday night. But residents of Waldo may not be the only ones surprised by the sounds of war this week.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first in a series of military training exercises being conducted in the Kansas City area through Sept. 22.<\/p>\n<p>Training will include air and ground mobility operations, plus close-quarter battle simulations, in urban areas meant to reflect the places troops may encounter when deployed, a spokesperson for the Army told The Star. The exercises include the use of controlled explosions for breaching doors, the spokesperson said, and simulated munitions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Kansas City Star provides additional information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/local\/article279396894.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Army units are conducting military training exercises in the Kansas City area through September 22. 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