June 3, 2009
JL

Yesterday I had to head from Kingman to Flagstaff Arizona to get some Dental work done. Imagine my surprise at reaching the main rest area (rest area for east and west bound traffic) near Belmont Arizona (where there is a Navajo national guard station), very close to Flagstaff. Both sides of the road contained nearly 100 Police cars (Split about 50 on each side east and west bound) and what appeared to be a swat team on the east bound (toward flagstaff) side. They also had up signs that said all Commercial Vehicles are to stop. That's going both into Flagstaff and away from Flagstaff (which makes no sense at all). They were basically pulling off all trucks (and it appeared tour buses as well) and having them open the engines for inspection and were using the big mirror carts to check the whole underneath portion of all rigs and it appeared they were opening the containers as well. Any truck that did not pull off was run down by a car and pulled over, nearly 15 trucks were pulled over for about a 10 mile stretch heading into Flagstaff, presumably because they ignored the signs and went past the check point.

Now I've been in the military long enough to know a bomb search when I see one, there were no drug sniffing dogs that I could see anywhere. This was not a drug/contraband search, it was a bomb search of some kind and it was one of the most massive I've ever seen for Arizona. 

Well to add to that, after I got my dental work completed, I went to wall mart in Flagstaff to get some items for my Mom, and guess what I see? 7 US ARMY Airborne troopers in the store. There is no Regular Army Base anywhere near Flagstaff Arizona and the base at Belmont Arizona is a National Guard Navajo base only. I know the Regular Army Airborne when I see them (was one myself nearly 40 years ago). This adds up to nothing I can see that's any good for the folks in this country.

Just a heads up for you, as I know you are trying to keep track of this type of information. I have a feeling that sometime before July 4th, we are going to be in really big trouble.

JL