[Scan-DC] Tuesday night's Capitol drill

[Alan Henney]

A few interesting observations from Tuesday night's drill on Capitol Hill.

It sounds as if Eagle and Falcon have U.S. Capitol PD radios.  Here is a
conversation between the two talking about Ops2.  What is meant by "dropped
a fill?"

http://radio.copterspotter.com/alpha/20220419_195924.mp3

Several of the military helos appeared to come from the 12th Aviation
Battalion, which left me wondering, are we aware of any mil-air or NCR
trunked talkgroups for that unit?  They seem to have such an important
mission a bit like the 1st Helo Squadron.  They must have some
discrete freqs of their own?

https://mdwhome.mdw.army.mil/taab/12aviation

There was quite a bit of helo coordination on 123.025 among those aircraft
involved in the exercise.  But wouldn't it make sense for the U.S. Capitol
to have an "LZ" or even a "tower" freq of its own, a bit like the Pentagon,
Walter Reed, Washington Hospital Center?  Perhaps they do and it is not
common knowledge?

Here are some helo photos posted by USCPD:

https://twitter.com/CapitolPolice/status/1516765292222947329?s=20&t=gyJyh6-2xqRaNxMscG2WZw

https://twitter.com/CapitolPolice/status/1516771318355664897?s=20&t=gyJyh6-2xqRaNxMscG2WZw