Category Archives: Technology

Vehicle I-D: New ‘Smart’ J-L-T-V Ambulance, Oshkosh, B’ Gosh

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U.S. Army photo by T. T. Parish, 12SEP2022.

From the 12th through the 15th of September, 2022, the U.S. Army’s (USA) Medical Materiel Development Activity (MMDA) displayed a new ambulance ‘kit’, which uses the Oshkosh made Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JTLV) chassis.

USA photo by T. T. Parish, 12SEP2022.

It was revealed during the Military Health System Research Symposium, in Kissimmee, Florida.

USA photo by T. T. Parish, 12SEP2022.

The JLTV Ambulance is a prototype, and the only one so far.

USA photo by T.T. Parish, 12SEP2022.

USA photo by T. T. Parish, 12SEP2022.

It is part of the USA’s new ‘Smart Field Hospital’ interoperability Medical Automated Systems (iMAS).

A panoramic view of the interior of the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle Ambulance Kit. USA photo by T. T. Parish, 13SEP2022.

USA video by T. T. Parish, 13SEP2022:

A standard JLTV on Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, 20JUL2022. USA-Reserve photo by Zach Mott.

Vehicle I-D, 2018: USMC CANNIBALIZES HMMWV TO UPGRADE BRAND NEW JLTV

2014: POKEY AIRPORT, U.S. ARMY RESERVE FREIGHTLINER, OSHKOSH & CASE

Technology, U.S.

U.S. Army preps for “austere environments” using “phantom” dogs!

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U.S. Army photo, 29SEP2022.

At the end of September, 2022, U.S. Army’s (USA) Medical Materiel Development Activity (USA-MMDA)-Medical Test and Evaluation Activity-Medical Logistics Command-72nd Medical Veterinary Service Support Detachment (whew, is that enough titles?) tested some new experimental medical devices on a couple of dogs. The new equipment was developed for what the USA is preparing for; military operations in “austere environments”, I assume that means combat/disaster areas where all basic infrastructure has been wiped out.

USA photo, 29SEP2022.

Don’t worry, the so called dogs used in the testing are not real, they are themselves mechanical training devices. These fake-news dogs were developed, along with fake-news children, to specifically test a new experimental, and revolutionary, X-ray device. The fake dogs and children are officially called manikins, or more ominously “simulator phantoms”.

Small emaciated looking phantom dog gets x-rayed using a tablet device. USA photo, 29SEP2022.

They were testing an experimental medical device which looks like something you would see the future doctors of Star Trek using; a large tablet looking device called the Vet X-ray Apparatus-Small.

The x-ray tablet sends the image to your laptop or smart-phone. USA photo, 29SEP2022.

The testing was done on Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Apparently, the next phase for the x-ray tablet involves testing on those manikin Phantom Children.

U.S. Disaster 2022: SEARCH FOR SURVIVORS AFTER IAN RAVAGES FLORIDA, PEOPLE & PETS!

Biden’s Borderland: BOAT PEOPLE NOW BRINGING THEIR PETS?

Drugs, the American Way: EVEN PETS ARE GETTING UNINTENTIONALLY HIGH, DON’T EAT THE FISH!

Delta Pandemic: BLAME SOUTH EAST ASIAN BATS? MONEY TO BE MADE OFF OBESE INFECTED PETS!

2019: NEW JERSEY NATIONAL GUARD SAVING PETS IN QATAR!

U.S. Wildfire 2018: WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR PETS AFTER PARADISE IS DESTROYED BY THE FIRES OF HELL?

Hurricane Maria, 2017: FREE SHOTS FOR PUERTO RICO PETS!

Hurricane Harvey, 2017: WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR PETS?

Idaho, Opinion, Technology

Vehicle I-D: King of the Stallions stampedes Idaho!

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At least 50 wild horses roam the Saylor Creek Herd Management Area. Photo via the BLM.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is always complaining about the wild Mustangs that roam across Idaho, but this new King of the Stallions actually flies!

U.S. Marine Corps graphic by Corporal Lauren Salmon.

During the month of August 2022, the U.S. Marine Corps conducted the first ever live-fire ‘wargame’ for its new CH-53K King Stallion, over the Saylor Creek bombing/gunnery range in South-Central Idaho.

USMC photo by Corporal Adam Henke, 11AUG2022.

Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron (HMH) 461 had the honors, and launched out of the U.S. Air Force’s Mountain Home Air Force Base, in Southwestern Idaho. HMH-461 in based in North Carolina, they chose Idaho to test their new mount, because Idaho is geographically and climatically different from North Carolina.

USMC photo by Corporal Adam Henke, 17AUG2022.

USMC video, by Corporal Adam Henke, HMH-461 gets their King Stallion acquainted with the High Desert terrain of Idaho, 08AUG2022:

The USMC, and Lockheed-Sikorsky, claim the new-build CH-53K is more powerful, can fly higher, can stay airborne longer, is safer and easier to maintain than the older CH-53E Super Stallion.

USMC Corporal Adam Henke video of heavy lift operation, 17AUG2022:

In my opinion, the King Stallion is different enough that it should be considered its own helicopter family, apart from the CH-53 lineage.

USMC Corporal Adam Henke video of GAU-21 .50-cal ‘door-gunner’ live-fire, 17AUG2022:

USMC music video, by Corporal Adam Henke, of the first ‘exercise’ of the King Stallion, 30AUG2022:

March, 2021: CH-53K KING STALLION UPDATE

Weapon I-D, 2021: DOOR GUNNER .50 CAL

Idaho, Saylor Creek Range: 4TH TIME IS THE CHARM, IDAHO ‘HAWGSMOKES’ THE COMPETITION, AGAIN!

Idaho, OCTC: IDAHO INVADED BY APACHES FROM ARIZONA & SINGAPORE?

Cold War to Ukraine Crisis: USAF SENDS 27 BLOCK-25 FALCONS TO THE BONEYARD!

Vehicle I-D: SUKHOI-75, THE CHECKMATE, WILL THEY OR WON’T THEY?

JORDANIAN COBRAS الكوبرا الأردني, OR HOW TO REBUILD (and then sell) YOUR U.S. FUNDED AH-1S/F.

Technology

Cold War to Ukraine Crisis: USAF sends 27 Block-25 Falcons to the Boneyard!

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“It’s a little surreal, to be honest with you. I can remember as a lieutenant growing up, flying with a lot of guys in F-4s and watching that historic change from F-4s to F-16s. And here I am, 20 years later, watching an F-16 I’ve flown be retired. I’ve gone full circle, and it’s bittersweet. But it’s an awesome opportunity to be the last commander to fly this jet.”-Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Eldredge, 309th Fighter Squadron

On 07SEP2022, the last of 27 F-16C ‘Block 25’ Falcons was flown from Luke Air Force Base, in Arizona, to The Boneyard. The retirement ceremony was held on 06SEP2022.

U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman David Busby, 07SEP2022.

The 309th Fighter Squadron (FS) ‘Wild Ducks’ had been flying Block 25 F-16C/Ds for 28 years. The 309th FS has an interesting history, going back to World War Two, in that it has been based at various locations around the world and around the United States, and repeatedly in-activated and re-activated. The last time it was in-activated was in 1993, after the non-official, non-declared Cold War ended, yet was re-activated the very next year, in 1994. It also experienced a period of being officially “unmanned”, from May 2014 to July 2014.

USAF photo by Senior Airman David Busby, 07SEP2022.

Pilots, ground crew and honorary members of the 309th FS signed their names to the last Block-25 F-16C.

309th FS F-16Cs fly alongside F-35A Lightning-2s from the 63rd FS, 11NOV2017. USAF photo by Senior Airman James Hensley.

The 309th FS still uses the newer Block 42 ‘Night’ Falcons, but perhaps will eventually get the outrageously expensive, and long overdue, F-35A Lightning-2.

Airman First Class Keilani Durfey shakes the hand of the pilot who gets to take the final flight the 309th’s last F-16C, Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Eldredge. USAF photo by Senior Airman David Busby, 07SEP2022.

The Boneyard is part of Davis-Monthan AFB, also in Arizona, it is considered to be the largest military aircraft graveyard in the world.

How long will those signatures last in the Arizona Sun? USAF photo by Senior Airman David Busby, 07SEP2022.

The F-16 Falcon first flew in 1974, the first F-16’A’ in 1976, the first F-16’Cs’ began with production Block 25, in 1984. The first Block 42 Night Falcons appeared in 1988, so the 309th FS is still flying a Cold War era aircraft.

An F-16C of the Wild Ducks 309th FS, 12JUL2019. USAF photo by Airman First Class Aspen Reid.

Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).

309th FS F-16C, 14AUG2018. USAF photo by Airman First Class Zoie Rider.

USAF video by Senior Airman BreeAnn Sachs, showing 309th FS F-16C/Ds (Block 25 & 42) operating from Holloman AFB, New Mexico, 05AUG2016:

In the Cold War 1980s the Wild Ducks were known as the 309th Tactical Fighter Squadron (TFS), with a different tail code due to being based on Homestead AFB, Florida.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Nancy Smelser, 19DEC1986.

The first of the original F-16Bs to hit 1-million flight hours belonged to the 309th TFS, in 1986.

Cold War to Ukraine Crisis: EC-130H COMPASS CALL MAKES ITS LAST CALL?

Idaho, International, Technology, U.S.

Biden’s War: Idaho based Snake-River invades Texas, next stop; Kuwait & Iraq!

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Snake River M1A2SEPV2 Abrams. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 13SEP2022.

In September 2022, the Snake River Brigade’s 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team (CBCT) was busy in Texas, where it was transformed into Task Force Rattler, next stop Kuwait and Iraq.

The Army National Guard’s 116th CBCT is based in Idaho, but has units spread through Florida, Montana, Nevada and Oregon.

South Carolina MRAPs. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 13SEP2022.

Ohio’s HMMWV Ambulances. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 14SEP2022.

The 118th Infantry Regiment from South Carolina Army National Guard, as well as the 285th Medical Company from the Ohio Army National Guard, have joined with the 116th CBCT. They are all being deployed to relieve another 116th CBCT led unit which was deployed in November 2021.

Snake River M113 Mortar Carrier. It is basically an upgrade to the old M113 based M106/M125 mortar tracks. New version can carry the 120mm mortar. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 14SEP2022.

It is all part of the ongoing Operation Spartan Shield. The U.S. Army side of Operation Spartan Shield is called Task Force Spartan, which is dependent upon part time Army National Guard and Army Reserve units. Task Force Rattler will be the second, back to back, 12 months deployment for the 116th CBCT.

Snake River M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 15SEP2022.

Before they actually deploy to The Middle East, units must spend 45 days on Fort Bliss, Texas, conducting final deployment training, despite having trained in their home states for as long as two years, and very likely having been deployed many times before.

This AH-64 Apache was being used by the evaluation team out of Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 14SEP2022.

To make things more confusing, the U.S. Army evaluation team on Fort Bliss is not based in Texas. The U.S. Army evaluators are from the 189th Infantry Brigade Combined Arms Training Battalion, normally based on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.

Biden’s War: IDAHO, MONTANA, OREGON DEPLOY, YET AGAIN!

IDAHO, MONTANA, OREGON STUCK IN A DEPLOYMENT LOOP!

2017: IDAHO MILITIA HAS RECORD NUMBER OF DEPLOYMENTS IN ONE YEAR?

Idaho, Technology, U.S.

4th time is the charm, Idaho ‘HawgSmokes’ the competition, again!

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Idaho Air National Guard Photo by Staff Sergeant Joseph R. Morgan, 14OCT2022.

On 14OCT2022, the families of the Idaho Air National Guard’s 190th FW-124th FS were treated to some A-10C Thunderbolt-2 action on Saylor Creek bombing and gunnery range. Even enjoying the view from atop an Idaho Army National Guard M109.

Idaho Air National Guard Photo by Staff Sergeant Joseph R. Morgan, 14OCT2022.

The moment was sweeter because the 124th FS had just won its fourth Hawgsmoke competition, setting a new benchmark for number of wins.

Gowen Field (East end of Boise Airport), Idaho, 07SEP2022. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Mercedee Wilds.

Probably the most non-combat gathering of A-10C Thunderbolt-2s you will ever see! 37 ‘Warthogs’ from Air National Guard, as well as Reserve and Active U.S. Air Force units congregated on Idaho’s Gowen Field, hungry to chew on the Saylor Creek bomb/gun range, for the biennial (normally every other year, except during Pandemics) Hawgsmoke competition, from the 6th through the 8th of September, 2022.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Mercedee Wilds, 07SEP2022.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Mercedee Wilds, 06SEP2022.

On the official opening day of Hawgsmoke 2022, a P-40 Warhawk and a P-47 Thunderbolt (from Idaho’s Warhawk Museum) conducted a ‘heritage flyover’ as part of the opening ceremonies.

A 47th FS ‘Dogpatchers’ A-10C arrives from Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Mercedee Wilds, 06SEP2022.

A 354th FS ‘Bulldogs’ A-10C, also from Davis-Monthan AFB. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Mercedee Wilds, 06SEP2022.

104th FS Air National Guard A-10C out of Maryland. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 08SEP2022.

Air National Guard A-10C, 122nd FW ‘Blacksnakes’ out of Indiana. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 08SEP2022.

Missouri’s ‘KC Hawg’ of the 442nd FW. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 08SEP2022.

Air National Guard’s 124th FW ‘Red’ Idaho (there are ‘Blue’ ones) A-10C. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Joshua C. Allmaras, 08SEP2022.

A 124th FW A-10C lets one rip. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Joshua C. Allmaras, 08SEP2022.

Idaho Air National Guard video by Ryan White, A-10Cs passing gas all over the Saylor Creek range, 08SEP2022:

For the fourth time, and setting a new record for wins, Idaho Air National Guard 190th Fighter Squadron’s 124th Fighter Wing took the Overall Team Award. That is four wins: 2008, 2010, 2021, 2022.

Other winners of Hawgsmoke 2022: Top A-10 Overall Attack Pilot; Lieutenant Colonel John Marks, 303rd Fighter Squadron (FS)-442d Fighter Wing (FW), Whiteman Air Force Base (AFB), Missouri. Top Strafe Team; 303rd FS-442d FW, Whiteman AFB, Missouri. Top Tactical Team; 47th FS-442d FW, Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona. Top Bombing Team; 354th FS-355th FW, Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona.

In 1995 the decades old ‘Cold War’ era Gunsmoke ground attack competition came to an end, in 2000 a new ground attack competition was started called Hawgsmoke.

Hawgsmoke 2021: IDAHO AIR-MILITIA BRINGS HOME THE BACON!

Saylor Creek Range: USAF DUSTS IDAHO WITH CHEMICALS, IN THE NAME OF FIGHTING WILDFIRES!

HOW TO RESURRECT A DEAD A-10C. BELLY LANDINGS BECOMING COMMON PLACE?

IDAHO’S HERITAGE A-10C ‘8N’

INDIANA BLACKSNAKES A-10C GROWS NEW SKIN

March 2021: MORALE BOOSTER A-10C GUN-RUN IN IDAHO!

Pandemic Overflight 2020: A-10C (C FOR COVID?) THUNDERBOLT-2

Battle ‘Damage’ 2016: TURKEY DEPLOYMENT REVEALS IDAHO A-10Cs ARE A BUNCH OF DIRTY PIGS!

Technology

Cold War to Ukraine Crisis: EC-130H Compass Call makes its last call?

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Another U.S. Air Force EC-130H Compass Call retires at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, 28FEB2022. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Alex Miller.

USAF photo by Senior Airman Alex Miller, 28FEB2022.

To be replaced by the new British built EC-37B, EC-130H Compass Call aircraft are slowly being retired.

U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Kaitlyn Ergish, 08NOV2021.

USAF photo by Senior Airman Kaitlyn Ergish, 08NOV2021.

Retirements began in 2018 and are ongoing, as the new EC-37B is only now coming off the production line. Unfortunately, just like the EC-37B the British empire’s BAE System is also involved with the EC-130H (another Yankee taxpayer feather in the cap of the Red Coats). A total of 14 modified EC-130H served in the USAF.

An EC-130H Compass Call’s retirement flight, 31AUG2021. USAF photo by Senior Airman Alex Miller.

First flight 1981, entered service 1982, costs $165-million each. By October 2021, the EC-130H Compass Call had been flying for 40 years. However, keep in mind that the first Compass Calls were modified C-130Hs that had already been flying for at least a decade (known as Baseline 1 aircraft)!

On 31AUG2021, yet another Compass Call was retired to the ‘Boneyard’ on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (AFB), in Arizona. U.S. Air Force (USAF) video by Senior Airman Kaitlyn Ergish:

12JUN2019, the 43rd Electronic Combat Squadron (Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona) deployed to NATO Poland, for the first time in the Squadron’s history. Compass Call worked alongside fighter aircraft (in U.S. English the word aircraft is both singular and plural, do not add an ‘s’ at the end of the word aircraft) of the U.S. and Polish air forces. USAF video by Airman First Class Chanceler Nardone:

By December 2018, the EC-130H has been on-station over Afghanistan for 15 years, video interview by Senior Airman Jean-Paul Arnaud-Marquez:

USAF video by Senior Airman Kayla Palmer, an EC-130H retirement ceremony on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, 02AUG2018:

In 2018, the oldest EC-130H was retired, it was tail number was 65-0989. According to the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing, it was originally a C-130H built in 1965. 65-0989 was one of the first C-130Hs to be modified for the Compass Call mission. In 2018, the older Compass Calls were being replaced with newer/upgraded C-130s (known as Baseline 2, 5th generation electronic attack aircraft).

November 2017, night vision video by Technical Sergeant Justin Jacobs, of 41st Expeditionary Electronic Combat Squadron’s EC-130H operations on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan:

August 2017, Afghanistan, Airman explains his job maintaining Compass Call’s electronic warfare equipment, video by Senior Airman Joshua Crawley:

December 2016 video report, by Technical Sergeant Lance Daigle, explaining Compass Call’s mission over Iraq and Syria:

June 2012, Ohio Air National Guard refuel Compass Call over Utah, video by Senior Airman Robert Harnden:

Brand new EC-130H Compass Call Block 30 Baseline-1 arrives on Davis-Monthan AFB, 18FEB1997. USAF photo by Airman Elizabeth J. Harris.

This U.S. Navy photo by John Bouvia, incorrectly claims to show an early EC-130H Compass Call, on Mcdill AFB, Florida, 05DEC1993. It is an EC-130E Commando Solo.

An EC-130H Compass Call lands in NATO Germany, Sembach Air Base, after taking part in Desert Storm. USAF photo by Master Sergeant Dave Casey, 11MAR1991.

Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).

USAF photo by Master Sergeant Bill Thompson, December 1989.

Compass Call takes off from Sembach, NATO West Germany. USAF photo by Master Sergeant Dave Casey, 07JUN1989.

An EC-130H gets refueled over NATO West Germany by a KC-135 Stratotanker. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Fernando Serna, 30AUG1987.

Agent Orange/Chem-Trails: C-130H DUSTS IDAHO WITH CHEMICALS, IN THE NAME OF FIGHTING WILDFIRES!

C-130J: ONCE A RED COAT, NOW A BLUE ANGEL

Cold War to Ukraine Crisis: ANTONOV 2 BIPLANE, THE MOST PRACTICAL AIRCRAFT EVER?

Idaho, Technology

Florida Talons over Idaho Mountains

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U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Betty R. Chevalier, 14SEP2022.

Is Winter coming early in the Northern Hemisphere? In September 2022, Talons from Atlantic Southeast Florida decided to migrate to Pacific Northwest Idaho.

U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Betty R. Chevalier, 12SEP2022.

The U.S. Air Force’s (USAF) 2d Fighter Training Squadron is based on Tyndall Air Force Base (AFB), in Florida. From the 12th through to the 23rd, of September, the 3rd Generation T-38 Talons flew around Idaho, helping the USAF teach its youngest bird, the 5th Generation F-35A Lightning-2 (which had also flown north from Luke AFB, Arizona), how to fly.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Betty R. Chevalier, 12SEP2022.

The airspace over Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, is known as Gunfighter Country. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Betty R. Chevalier, 16SEP2022.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Betty R. Chevalier, 14SEP2022.

According to Captain Ryan ‘Joker’ McCooey, of the 61st Fighter Squadron’s B-Flight, the training over Mountain Home AFB is the final schooling of a long F-35 program taught mainly on Luke AFB: “At the end of their six-to-eight month basic course, students put together all the building blocks we have taught them throughout the course into these Capstone rides where they do both air-to-air and air-to-ground [tactics] during the same sortie. They get to practice all the things we taught them in a large force exercise, integrating with different assets that we don’t always have the ability to do at Luke.”

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Betty R. Chevalier, 16SEP2022.

Final F-35 training is usually done over Mountain Home AFB, against the F-15E Strike Eagle, but I believe this is the first time the T-38 Talon was involved.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Betty R. Chevalier, 12SEP2022.

While over Idaho, the Florida Talons play the ‘bad guy’ (Red Air) against the Arizona Lightning-2s. Playing the bad guy has been the forte of the T-38 trainer for decades, all the way back to the days of the non-declared, non-official, Cold War.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Betty R. Chevalier, 12SEP2022.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Betty R. Chevalier, 13SEP2022.

While launching from Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, the T-38 Talons helped qualify six F-35A pilots, and help upgrade the qualifications of four other pilots to instructor status.

3rd generation T-38 and a 5th Generation F-35A. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Betty R. Chevalier, 16SEP2022.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Betty R. Chevalier, 13SEP2022.

The concept of aircraft generations was started by U.S. air historian Richard P. Hallion, back in the 1990s, but it wasn’t until Russia adopted the concept that it became standard in the United States (apparently it was Russia who first referred to the USAF F-22 Raptor as a 5th Generation fighter).

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Betty R. Chevalier, 12SEP2022.

In April 2019, the Northrop T-38 Talon celebrated 60 years of service!

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Betty R. Chevalier, 13SEP2022.

MORE T-38 HERITAGE PAINT JOBS

IDAHO INVADED BY APACHES FROM ARIZONA & SINGAPORE?

International, Technology, U.S.

Facebook’s Fact Checkers are not “non-partisan”!

October 11, 2022 Hutchins AAron

Facebook (which is the one who labeled the British Medical Journal’s reports about problems with Pandemic immunizations as being false or hoaxes) uses a so called fact checking network that is run by Poynter Institute, in Florida.

Poynter Institute is a private 501(c)(3)non-profit institution, supposedly not part of the state of Florida’s taxpayer funded education system.

Facebook/Meta outright lies about Poynter Institute being “non-partisan”. Poynter Institute publishes its own newspapers/magazine and owns three fact checking operations; International Fact-Checking Network, MediaWise and PolitiFact. They are self certified fact checkers, no government institution blessed their fact checking abilities!

Also, the Columbia Review Journal labeled one of the newspapers of Poynter Institute to be “a liberal voice on Florida’s conservative west coast.” Not so non-partisan.

FACEBOOK’S FAKE NEWS FACT CHECKERS IN HOT WATER AFTER BLOCKING RESPECTED SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL!

International, Technology, U.S.

The new U.S. Electric Warrior, from the British Empire, with love!

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“Samuel, notify your men; the British are coming.”-General Oliver Prescott, 19APR1775

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Vaughn Weber, 17AUG2022.

Here’s another Yankee taxpayer feather in the cap of the British Empire’s (Commonwealth of Nations) military industrial complex; the new EC-37B has arrived!

USAF photo by Airman First Class Vaughn Weber, 17AUG2022.

Sometime in August 2022 (not sure because the date of the U.S. Air Force [USAF] video says the 3rd, but the photos are dated the 17th), a naked (not yet painted) EC-37B Cross Deck-Compass Call landed at Davis Monthan Air Force Base(AFB), in Arizona.

USAF video by Airman First Class Vaughn Weber:

The EC-37B Cross Deck-Compass Call electronic warfare aircraft is replacing the retiring EC-130H Compass Call. The EC-37B is made by the notorious United Kingdom based BAE Systems.

An EC-130H Compass Call’s retirement flight, 31AUG2021. USAF photo by Senior Airman Alex Miller.

The old, yet reliable, EC-130H is a military plane from the start, yet the new EC-37B is not; it is based on the Gulfstream G550 business jet. The U.S. Congress has already paid for at least four EC-37Bs, and has left the door open for additional purchases through 2025! Snake-oil salesmen claim the EC-37B is more survivable than a C-130H (what ever-dude, I used to Crew Chief C-130Hs, and rode on many C-130Es and Hs in my life, I know it is one the toughest aircraft in USAF inventory)!

USAF photo by Airman First Class Vaughn Weber, 17AUG2022.

Gulfstream is a U.S. company, but according to the USAF the EC-37B electronic warfare version is built by United Kingdom’s BAE.

Businesswire September 2022: BAE Systems makes milestone delivery for inaugural EC-37B Compass Call

(In the late 1990s, under the Bill Clinton regime, MES began taking over U.S. defense contractors. In 1999, MES and BAe merged to create BAE Systems, apparently to stop a U.S. defense contractor from taking over MES. In 2001, the same year the False Flag War on Terror began, BAE Systems aggressively invaded the U.S. defense industry, taking over many U.S. companies, including cyber security companies.)

The military version of the G550 platform has already been in use by the United States; the U.S. Navy has been using different versions of the C-37A/NC-37B, at a cost to Yankee taxpayers of $64-million for each plane! At least four aircraft in use, one C-37A since 2002, three C-37Bs since 2005, and one NC-37B since 2018. The USAF also uses the C-37A/B, spending as much as $55-million per aircraft (apparently they got a better deal)!

The Commonwealth of Nation’s Australia and Singapore already operate similar electronic warfare versions of the G550.

The Balfour Declaration of 1926 created a new form of the British Empire called The Commonwealth of Nations. Members are not truly independent, they are autonomous and supposedly ‘voluntary members’, yet they are required to maintain “allegiance to the Crown”.

In 1949, it was declared that the King/Queen of England is now the official boss of The Commonwealth.

And don’t think it isn’t expanding: “The Commonwealth’s roots go back to the British Empire. But today any country can join the modern Commonwealth. The last country to join the Commonwealth was Rwanda in 2009.”

Commonwealth of Nations covert invasion of United States, August 2022: IDAHO INVADED BY APACHES FROM BRITISH EMPIRE’S (Commonwealth of Nations) SINGAPORE?

March 2022: U.S. ARMY GETS NEW RED COAT VERSION OF THE BRADLEY