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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.

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”!

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

February 2022: U.S. DOLLARS CONTROLLED BY THE RED COATS?

September 2021:  BIDEN IS A BRITISH EMPIRE RED COAT? NEW ALLIANCE FOR FUTURE WAR WITH CHINA!

March 2021: BAE’s M109A7, DON’T CALL IT A PALADIN!

December 2020: RC-135V/W, YANKEE PATRIOT & RED COAT LOYALIST

2018: M777 artillery, more proof the Yankees are the Tools of the Red Coats!

2017: U.S. ARMY COMMANDED BY RED COATS?

Influenza, International, Technology

Facebook’s Fake News Fact Checkers in hot water after blocking respected Scientific Journal!

Wake up! There is no official certification for being a Fact Checker! Anybody can claim to be a Fact Checker. The renowned and respected British Medical Journal is outraged that Facebook’s Fact Checkers have labeled their scientific articles as false and even hoaxes, simply because they conflict with Facebook Fact Checker’s ideas about vaccinations! Internationally known doctor calls out the Fake News Fact Checkers, schools them on what true scientific research is! True scientific research is not the result of funding from for-profit pharmaceutical industry!

Vaccine Fail:  NEW YORK DISCOVERS M-R-N-A IN MOTHER’S MILK! FLORIDA WARNS INCREASE DEATHS FOR MEN FROM M-R-N-A!

Idaho, Technology, U.S.

Agent Orange/Chem-Trails: USAF dusts Idaho with chemicals, in the name of fighting wildfires!

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I discovered that in September 2020, of The Pandemic, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) conducted herbicide spraying over a part of Idaho, claiming that it was an attempt to prevent wildfires by killing Cheatgrass.

U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Christina Russo, 22SEP2020.

The operation was launched from Mountain Home Air Force Base (AFB), using a USAF Reserve 910th Airlift Wing (AW) C-130H Hercules ‘Weed Whacker’ out of Ohio.  The USAF also claimed that their herbicide mission would somehow not affect the endangered Sagebrush, and they were actually trying to protect the Sagebrush by targeting Cheatgrass.

Low-tech spray nozzles protruding from sides of the C-130H ‘Weed Whacker’. USAF photo by Senior Airman Christina Russo, 22SEP2020.

The spraying took place over the Saylor Creek bombing & gunnery range near Mountain Home AFB.

USAF video explainer, by Staff Sergeant Juliet Louden, how the mission of the C-130H Weed Whacker is planned:

USAF photo by Senior Airman Christina Russo, 22SEP2020.

Cheatgrass is considered an invasive species, brought into North America by European illegal immigrants, oops, I mean settlers.  Apparently animals do not like to eat Cheatgrass, due to its short life cycle and low nutrition, it is blamed as a major cause for the decline of a bird called Sage Grouse.  Once Cheatgrass gets established it prevents native plants from growing. A top problem associated with Cheatgrass is wildfires.  It is bad, mmm-kay.

USAF photo by Senior Airman Christina Russo, 22SEP2020.

From September 14th through 25th, the Weed Whacker flew 1-hundred feet above ground level, at 2-hundred knots ground speed, dumping 19-thousand-979 gallons of diluted herbicide over 3-thousand-50 acres.  The crop dusting over Saylor Creek Training Range takes place every year (has the Cheatgrass become resistant?).

Some Weed Whacker video by Staff Sergeant Juliet Louden, 23SEP2020:

The 910th AW’s C-130H Weed Whacker is also used for spraying insecticides, and oil dispersants onto oil spills.  It is the only ‘large aircraft’ used by the USAF to conduct spray missions.

USAF photo by Senior Airman Connor J. Marth, 17SEP2020.

But herbicides are bad, also.

2019: A LITTLE ROUNDUP WITH THAT BEER? 

2016: 500 YEARS OF GERMAN BEER PURITY FLUSHED BY HERBICIDES! Oh Ja! Angela Merkel liebt ihr Glyphosate Bier!

2014: ROUNDUP PROVEN TO CAUSE KIDNEY FAILURE! CAUSE OF GLUTEN ALLERGIES! BEEN GOING ON SINCE THE 1970S, WAKE UP YOU IDIOTS AND STOP USING GLYPHOSATE!

2012: MONSANTO FOUND GUILTY OF POISONING FARMERS! NEW STUDY CONFIRMS ROUNDUP DESTROYS SOIL, REDUCES CROP NUTRITION!

MYSTERY DISEASE KILLING CHILDREN IN CAMBODIA? REMEMBER VIENTAM’S KANUP/ROUNDUP/MONSANTO DISASTER?

MORE EVIDENCE THAT KANUP 480 SL RESPONSIBLE FOR MUTANT WILD DOGS IN VIETNAM!

Idaho, International, Technology, U.S.

Idaho invaded by Apaches from Arizona & Singapore?

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“The Peace Vanguard detachment has trained all over the United States and Idaho has one of the best training sites in the country.”-Master Sergeant Joel Mann, Arizona Army National Guard

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 26AUG2022.

From July 21st through August 29th, of 2022, Southwestern Idaho was invaded by AH-64D ‘Longbow’ Apaches from the state of Arizona and the tiny British empire member (Commonwealth of Nations) of Republic of Singapore.

Personnel with the Arizona Army National Guard and Singapore Air Force’s Peace Vanguard load rounds into the AH-64’s 30mm Chain Gun, on Idaho National Guard’s Orchard Combat Training Center. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 26AUG2022.

The Republic of Singapore Air Force has a unit based in Arizona called Peace Vanguard.  They are there to learn how to operate the Longbow from the Arizona Army National Guard.  Part of that training brings them to Idaho’s Orchard Combat Training Center (OCTC) for gunnery.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 26AUG2022.

Idaho is home of a new kind of gunnery range called DAGIR (Digital Air Ground Integrated Range), one of only three in the U.S., which was opened for testing in March 2021, and officially certified for use by AH-64s in March of 2022.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 26AUG2022.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 26AUG2022.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 26AUG2022.

2021: SINGAPORE APACHES TEST IDAHO’S NEW D-A-G-I-R SYSTEM

IDAHO HOME TO FIRST EVER NATIONAL GUARD D-A-G-I-R!

SINGAPORE’S IDAHO BASED SKY PIRATES BOMB LAS VEGAS?

2022: IDAHO NOW PREMIERE SITE FOR WAR-FIGHTER TRAINING! NATIONAL GUARD THE NEW QUICK REACTION FORCE!

Commonwealth of Nations covert invasion of United States: 

WHY IS A P-M OF A BRITISH EMPIRE MEMBER NATION INSPECTING A U.S. MILITARY BASE IN COLORADO?

‘ILLEGAL’ TRUCKS BEING SMUGGLED INTO U.S. FROM CANADA, THRU IDAHO?

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

Idaho, Technology, U.S.

Idaho now premiere site for War-Fighter training! National Guard the new Quick Reaction Force!

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August 2022:

More than 600 National Guard personnel deploy, again, from Idaho!

In 2022, National Guard combat units from California, Idaho, Iowa, North Carolina, Texas, Utah and Washington, assaulted the Orchard Combat Training Area (OCTC) in Southwestern Idaho.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 26AUG2022.

Between July and August 2022, the Arizona Army National Guard and the Republic of Singapore Air Force joined forces to shoot-up the OCTC with their AH-64 Apaches.

In July 2022, Oregon Army National Guard’s 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry Regiment conducted light machine gun training on the OCTC. Video by Major W. Chris Clyne (you’ll notice a paddle being held up that reads OTA, the OTCT used to be known as the OTA [Orchard Training Area] about 15 to 20 years ago):

Idaho Army National Guard promotional video about multi-state war game Western Strike 2022:

TACTICAL TOILETS, June 2022:

CALIFORNIA, IOWA, NORTH CAROLINA, TEXAS, UTAH, WASHINGTON INVADE REBEL IDAHO!?

In this Utah Army National Guard video explainer, from 16JUN2022, it is revealed that National Guard combat units are now the new Quick Reaction Force (QRF) for the U.S. Army, required to deploy within 90 days of activation:

In May 2022, Idaho’s 116th Brigade Engineer Battalion trained for demolition and explosive breaching, Idaho Air National Guard video by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur:

Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 19MAY2022.

Also in May 2022, the Idaho 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team’s Cavalry Scouts took part in the usual annual training (what we old timers used to call Summer Camp).  The unit later deployed to The Middle East in support of Operation Spartan Shield.

Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 11MAY2022.

Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 11MAY2022.

Idaho deploys, again, June 2022: IDAHO, MONTANA, OREGON STUCK IN A DEPLOYMENT LOOP!

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 21APR2022.

In April 2022, U.S. Marines JTAC (Joint Terminal Attack Controller) invaded Orchard Combat Training Center (OCTC). It was part of wargame Garnet Rattler, and the OCTC was described as being a premier training site, along with Idaho’s aerial gunnery range called Saylor Creek.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 28APR2022.

Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 30MAR2022.

Towards the end of March 2022, Idaho Army National Guard 2-116th Combined Arms Battalion’s Bravo Company conducted live fire with their M1A2 Abrams, Golf Company (attached) provided the meals.  The 2-116th Combined Arms Battalion was preparing for deployment to The Middle East.

Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 29MAR2022.

USA photo by Captain Kyle Abraham, 17MAR2022.

Also in March, the U.S. Army’s 1-229 Attack Battalion, 16th Combat Aviation Brigade (aka Tigersharks) sent their AH-64 Apache gunships (based on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington) to shoot-up Orchard Combat Training Center.

U.S. Army Photo by Captain Kyle Abraham, 17MAR2022.

February 2022:

IDAHO’S GOWEN FIELD UNDER GAS ATTACK!

OCTC-MATES:

IDAHO SHOWS YOU HOW TO ENGINE SWAP A 1:1 SCALE M113

Idaho Artillery 2021: GETS ‘SMART’ ARTILLERY ROUNDS, REVEALS “UPCOMING MOBILIZATIONS”

OCTC 2021: IDAHO HOME TO FIRST EVER NATIONAL GUARD D-A-G-I-R!

OCTC 2019:

M1A2-V2-SEP ABRAMS IDAHO LIVE FIRE

April 2018: Idaho Air & Army National Guards once again recognized as ‘Top Guns’

June 2017: “NEAR PEER THREATS”, CODE FOR RUSSIA & CHINA AND THE COMING 3RD WORLD WAR? “We’re going to continue to ask the……..Army National Guard to continue to make those sacrifices…..”-General Robert B. Abrams

Technology, U.S.

F-15 50th Anniversary: Last Hurrah for Oregon’s 173rd FW?

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Oregon Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Jennifer Shirar.

Oregon Air National Guard’s 173rd Fighter Wing (FW) trained with U.S. Marines, on Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, in California.  But this year might be the last time.

Oregon Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Jennifer Shirar, 14AUG2022.

In August 2022, Oregon’s F-15C Eagles (along with 125th FW F-15s out of Florida) played ‘bad guy’ against  USMC F/A-18C/D Hornets from Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 101 (VMFAT-101), and the F-35B Lightning-2 from Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 502 (VMFAT-502).

Oregon Air National Guard video report by Staff Sergeant Emily Copeland:

Oregon Air National Guard video interview by Senior Master Sergeant Jennifer Shirar, 23AUG2022:

Recently, it was revealed that the 173rd has been ordered to get rid of its F-15C Eagles.  That means this year’s deployment to Miramar might be the last, at least with their F-15C Eagles.

Oregon Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Jennifer Shirar, 14AUG2022.

For almost 40 years the 173rd FW’s Kingsley Field served as the only F-15C training base for the U.S. Air Force!  But starting in 2024, the 173rd will be using the brand new F-15EX Eagle-2.

Oregon Air National Guard music video, by Senior Master Sergeant Jennifer Shirar, point of view of an F-15C Crew Chief:

F-15 50th Anniversary: SANDMAN’S SWAN SONG?

Technology, U.S.

F-15 50th Anniversary: Sandman’s Swan Song?

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Oregon Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Jennifer Shirar, 01MAR2022.

On 01MAR2022, an F-15C Eagle named Sandman took part in a training session with the Oregon Air National Guard’s 173rd Fighter Wing.

Oregon Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Jennifer Shirar, 01MAR2022.

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Jacob T. Stephens, 25JUN2022.

Excerpt from 173rd Fighter Wing’s March 2022 video report, by Major Nikkie Jackson, explaining how Oregon’s F-15 Eagles are a key part of U.S. airspace defense, and revealing that Oregon will be home for the new “Eagle-2” (aka F-15EX):

Sandman flies over Crater Lake, Oregon, along with a restored B-17 Flying Fortress from World War 2. Oregon Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Penny Snoozy, 24JUN2022.

Oregon Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Penny Snoozy, 24JUN2022.

Then after a five years hiatus, on 24-25JUN2022, Oregon Air National Guard held its Sentry Eagle Open House and Airshow, over Kingsley Field.  Of course, Oregon’s F-15C Eagles were the main attraction, especially the one named Sandman.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Jacob T. Stephens, 25JUN2022.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Jacob T. Stephens, 25JUN2022.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Jacob T. Stephens, 25JUN2022.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Jacob T. Stephens, 25JUN2022.

Then, in September 2022, it was officially revealed that Oregon’s Air National Guard was retiring all of its F-15C Eagles!

Quick excerpt from 173rd Fighter Wing video report, by Staff Sergeant Emily Copeland, even though it is dated 09SEP2022, and boasts of how great the F-15C is, it does not mention the 2022-23 retirement of those aircraft:

There will still be Eagles in the air over Oregon, the F-15Cs are being replaced with new build F-15EXs (aka Eagle-2), hopefully starting in 2024.

F-15 50th Anniversary:  EAGLE GETS CANNIBALIZED, LEFTOVERS SENT TO THE BONEYARD, NO MORE OREGON EAGLES?