Was there a large scale airborne C3I / NC3 exercise on Monday?

SO Monday was a bit slow at work so I popped on ADS-B exch around 1115 or so and was taken aback by the sheer number of C3I / NC3 platforms that were up over the CONUS at one point

1 E-4B Nightwatch Advanced Airborne Command Post
4 E-6 TACAMO Mercury (relays go codes to nuclear capable forces)
3 E-4 Sentry AWACS Radar Aircraft
2 RC-135W Rivet
1 RC-135S Cobra Ball
6-7 KC-10 Extenders
14-18 KC-135 Tankers

The Tacamo planes along with the Nightwatch were pretty much centered over the map. Travis had the KC-10's up which was quite a few over the west coast and 1 E-3 looked like it was pulling counter drug over Texas.

Coincidence? Sabre rattling? a drill?

Thoughts

a reply to: FredT

Some were moving to Nellis for Green Flag (I think). There's been a lot of movement into Nellis this week, but haven't checked the schedule. The E-3 over Texas is the one that was there last week I believe. I think it just came out of being upgraded and is testing near Dyess.

The tankers are pretty normal. The RCs, it just depends on where they were.

I’m not really a plane guy, but saw three C130’s following each other heading south Monday evening. They were pretty low for my area to be just moving around. (Late evening on a Monday?)
From NAS they fly around low training, but 60 miles away from base they usually have altitude for travel.

a reply to: TexasTruth

What general area?

originally posted by: TexasTruth
I’m not really a plane guy, but saw three C130’s following each other heading south Monday evening. They were pretty low for my area to be just moving around. (Late evening on a Monday?)
From NAS they fly around low training, but 60 miles away from base they usually have altitude for travel.

Training out of LRAFB of that sort is common practice.