Helicopters and loud booms 2 weeknights in a row, really?? Why can't they do this during the day, or on weekend nights? And why do they need to do this at all.....

Not very happy ! We are right next to Monmouth fort. It is really loud booms. Hope I will get some sleep, because my 1,5 yo keeps wailing up. 11:03 pm

11:18 and still goong on. Perhaps training on noise ordinances would have been more appropriate.

Thanks for the warning there Skadopy NOT...What an idiot....

This should have been done over fort monmouth and not residential homes. Once again the tax payers are left in the dark. Thanks for nothing Mayor Skadopy

I can't sleep thanks for this mayor! We need leaders like that Dr. Andrew Mayer to take charge bring him back.

12:22am and the choppers keep flying by super low and loud as all get out.. and the "bombs" keep dropping too. They really think it's ok to keep going like this all night, 2 nights in a row?? Seriously?!

State police training, at midnight, with explosions? Odd to say the least.

And the choppers are flying almost low enough to throw stones at, so low I could smell the exhaust fumes when one flew over my car while driving just now. Very odd.

Why does my post say reject?

It's not the state police. That photo above is not the chopper I saw

ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE! All these people in the news eating other people.

ZOMBIES!

IB I can't see the choppers well enough, but I've heard that as well - that this is likely more Army exercises, not really State Police. Either way, it's concerning, and I hope they knock it off soon so we can all sleep.

I contacted local police and they were told that this "Apocalypse Now" scene was due to be over at Midnight. It is 1237!

still going on...i was getting used to the helicopters, but the loud booms are where I draw the line. No matter how many times I try to tell myself its just an army exercise, it still freaks me out. Please stop! It's almost 1 AM!

1:57 am. Still very loud helicopters above our heads. Rediculos :-(

What a bunch of whiners....One or two nights of lost sleep to let our military and police train is a small price to pay for our freedom. God Bless America.

The administrators in this town really suck. Thanks for keeping the tax payers awake till almost 2am. What a bounch of re-re's we have running this town. Time to get out and vote for new people and send them all a message. Bye Bye Skadopy and the rest of your clan.

Mayor Skadopy, administrators, or any local governement can careless about your precious sleep, Let them do what they need to do to train our military & police. These same whiners will be the same whiners to cry first that military & police didnt prepare for the zombie Apocalypse!

Keep on training long, hard, and LOUD thru the nights!!!

Try to explained this to our kids . All night were waiking up and crying. No rest for all family!

Whiners i welcome the training

Be grateful it's an exercise. Think of all our troops living thru this every night!

REDICULOUS to conduct simulated explosions until 2am on a week night. Some people have to get up and work you know.

Oh and by the way, those werent NJSP helos - unless they are now flying cammo BlackHawks

Rediculous is right! Lasted till 2:15am! Flying over my house all night!

Oh and I forgot the explosions!

This is necessary training a couple hours of lost sleep is a good price to pay for your freedom people stop complaining about it

The Military protects and serves the people, remember they work 24/7. so you lost some sleep, get over it.

The only thing I kept thinking was wow, our troops go through this every night.. Kudos to them! & the only time I got freaked out was when my house was shaking but besides that my family was fine..

I don't believe it was necessary to do it at night and disturb people trying to sleep. A lot of people around the area are not in the military & don't work 24/7. They have jobs that they need to have sleep for. There is a lot of area that they could have used and not bothered a populated area. Not to mention, it felt like we were being invaded & quite scary.

A little bit of lost sleep isn't gonna kill anyone, but the Taliban might!!

I have no problem with the police exercise but it would have been nice to know before hand what it was all about. Posting on a website is useless. A code red could have been sent to all Eatontown residents. And yes, I found watching the helicopters exciting and I didn't hear a lot of booms. I say practice to protect!

I'm all for training. And I'm very patriotic and have family in the military. All I'm saying is if its going to be until 2am, at least do it on a weekend night. You can't blast your stereo past 10pm, so why are simulated bombs and low flying helos ok until 2am???

So now we are outside and 2 helicopters fly over our house so close that they are waiving to us and we can see inside the helicopter! I so hope this doesn't continue into the night again and obviously those of you who aren't concerned are not in their path! Why can't they do this in Ft Dix where no one lives for miles!

You know you all complain. BUT! If this was a real situation and you needed aid, you would all be screaming for help ASAP! This is what I see and I WELCOME it! Ft. Monmouth is closed and lends itself open space, access for this kind of excercise, not to mention the open space to use for training. I feel it's a VERY small price to pay for our security and you should all be ashamed of yourselfs for whining! Yes, I said whining! Wake up folks! I thank the people that are training to keep us all safe and God bless them all!

If you see one of our fine military members, you should thank them for giving you the freedom to post the most uninformed info I read on the Internet to date.

Here we go one more sleepless night. ..

Obviously our military needs LOTS and LOTS of more training. We gave them hundreds of billions of dollars worth of the best weapons this planet to use and a 10 to 1 manpower superiority ratio____and yet in the past 9 years they could not even defeat a handful of cave dwellers in Afghanistan who are fighting with 40 year old rusty weapons and no air support, no drones, no body armor, no satellites, no helicopters and no military vehicles etc. and yet our military with UN backing has been ineffective against cave dwellers. More Training in Long Branch, Eatontown, Fairhaven etc. has zero relationship to fighting in the remote mountains of Afghanistan.

I'm all for the training...but to have less than 24hrs notice and very little detail as to "why" is a little disconcerning. I'm also not comfortable with doing it in such heavily populated areas where God forbid even a minor mechanical malfunction could cause a major disaster. Considering I sit in the flight path between Fort Monouth and Naval Station Earl (where it appears they're staging from)...I'm not comfortable. Something is going on that they're not telling us. They also gave less than 24hr warming to residents close to Oyster Creek Power Plant that a major alarm test was going to happen the other day. I live in Monmouth County but also have a house in Forked River since 1989...and I've only heard them testing that alarm one other time. Something isn't right.

Some of us are not the only ones concerned- read the front page of the APP- no one wants to own up to who is conducting these "drills" (State Police say its not them-army said its not them) could have put a warning on the TV news - not all people have access to a computer- thank god they stopped earlier last night and at 11:30pm they were at least flying higher

We received notice via reverse 911 at 6:20 last evening from EPD. What are we going to do, put a curfew on the military/first responders who need to train for real world conditions? Our troops and police have to be prepared for anything, 24/7/365.