Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the helicopter involved in Wednesday’s collision with a passenger jet over the Potomac River was due to a mistake made as part of a training exercise for a Continuity of Government (COG) mission.
💥Pete Hegseth talks about COG.
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Continuity of Government
A coordinated effort to ensure that the government can continue to function during emergencies. pic.twitter.com/8rlUVYk1hx
“They were on a routine annual retraining night flights on a standard corridor for a Continuity of Government mission. The military does dangerous things, it does routine things, on the regular basis. Tragically, last night a mistake was made,” Hegseth told reporters Thursday. “And I think the president is right. There was some sort of an elevation issue that we have immediately begun investigating at the DOD and Army level.”
“Army CID is on the ground investigation, top-tier aviation assets inside the DOD are investigating, to get to the bottom of it so it does not happen again, because it’s absolutely unacceptable.”
Infowars has previously reported that the Continuity of Government (COG) protocol is a mostly classified process by which the federal government can maintain control over essential functions in the event of nuclear war, natural disaster or other catastrophe that affects high level government officials.
As of this writing, the names of the three service members killed in the Black Hawk helicopter have not been released.
Hegseth’s comment was giving during President Trump’s press conference on the tragedy.
The president was later asked by a reporter to clarify Hegseth’s comment, to which he responded he didn’t know what it referred to.
Watch: Trump Responds to Continuity of Government (COG) question: "I don't know what that refers to…" pic.twitter.com/1F5ECylXoM
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“I don’t know what that refers to,” responded Trump. “But they were practicing … it’s only ‘continuity’ in the sense that we want to have very good people and that has to be ‘in continuity’ and that’s what they’re referred to.”
“But it was basically practice, and it was a practice that worked out very very badly.”
Alex Jones took calls from air traffic controllers and pilots on this incident during Thursday’s broadcast:
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Veteran, Military, And Civilian Air Traffic Controllers Say The DC Helicopter Disaster Is Extremely Suspicious & Beyond Highly Irregular
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) January 30, 2025
Secretary Of Defense Hegseth Has Now Confirmed The Doomed Army Blackhawk Was Participating In A Secret COG Operation
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Also, watch an earlier appearance by “Dark Journalist” Daniel Liszt on The Alex Jones Show discussing COG contingencies that the government might employ to stay in power.
This story is developing…