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I live close-ish (18 miles) to an air force base, and when we first moved to the area, they did maneuvers about 1 to 2 times a week for maybe 2 hours each, but they always stopped by about 9pm.
It picked up over the years, but since 2020 it's almost every day that they're out and it's almost all day and into the night. Sometimes as late as 2am.
The older fighter jets were loud but easy to ignore inside the house.
These new ones they started using in the last 2 years are so ridiculously loud that standing outside while they're doing flyovers in a regular neighborhood can cause hearing damage. I have a decibel meter and have confirmed this.
That's not even legal over neighborhoods and is the reason why the air force base was built near open desert, but the air force doesn't give a fuck and flies over neighborhoods anyway.
The weirdest part about the newer fighter jets is when they get close enough there's this piercingly loud high-pitched scream it does that sounds like someone is whistling or a little kid is doing one of those super high screams right behind your head.
It's loud enough you can hear it over the roar of the jet itself.
Today they started at 6am and they're still going at 10am. Last night they were still going at midnight.
Last year our neighbor got a new car, and the asshole got a sensitive car alarm even though there's almost no car theft in our neighborhood or the surrounding ones.
Every. Single. Time. A jet flies overhead, his car alarm goes off, and it takes a few minutes for the guy to get off his ass and shut it off.
The military says their jets don't set off car alarms (oh no we're not THAT loud!!), but at least two go off in the neighborhood every single time.
Inside the house with all the doors and windows closed you literally can't hear someone talking to you in the same room while they're flying overhead.
I get that the air force needs to train, but there's a huge desert out there! Go fly over it!