05 August 2016 (01:32 UTC-07 Tango 01) 15 Mordad 1395/01 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/03 Bing-Shen 4714
The old U-2 and TR-1 super high altitude spy planes are still in use today, and this video shows you why:
U-2s are based at Beale AFB, California.
Category Archives: Technology
Vehicle I-D: USAF Florida ‘Surge Week’ F-35A Lightning-2
05 August 2016 (00:43 UTC-07 Tango 01) 15 Mordad 1395/01 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/03 Bing-Shen 4714
Crews of the expensive, and long delayed, F-35 completed extensive mission training at Eglin AFB, Florida:
TAXPAYER PARIAH F-35A CALLS IDAHO HOME!
USAF personnel explain how air strikes are done
01 August 2016 (17:47 UTC-07 Tango 01) 11 Mordad 1395/26 Shawwal 1437/29 Yi-Wei 4714
U.S. Air Force personnel explain just how complicated (and expensive) it is to drop just one high-tech bomb on Islamic State, aka DAIISH (DA for al-DAwla, I for al-Islamiya, I for al-Iraq, SH al-SHam [al-Sham=Syria]). In our age of high-tech weaponry one wrong data input guarantees the wrong person(s) get killed:
IDAHO AIR NATIONAL GUARD SURROUNDED BY TURKISH TROOPS!
TURKEY HALTS IDAHO AIRSTRIKES AGAINST ISLAMIC STATE!
BRITISH EMPIRE, LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR: ISLAMIC STATE DAIISH
Brand new Black Hawks: Canucks join Snake River militia, Air Assault Move to Contact, Romania!
01 August 2016 (17:12 UTC-07 Tango 01) 11 Mordad 1395/26 Shawwal 1437/29 Yi-Wei 4714
Idaho Army National Guard photo by Private First Class Jessica L. Pauley, 31JUL2016.
Saber Guardian 2016: British empire’s Charlie Company, 1st Battalion Royal Canadian Regiment, links up with Snake River’s Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 1/116th CBCT in Sibu, Romania. FYI, the British empire spells Saber S-A-B-R-E.
The new UH-60M had almost everybody’s attention. Oregon Army National Guard photo by Captain John Farmer, 30JUL2016.
UH-60M Air Assault load up:
The below boring Move to Contact Vid is mainly Snake River guys, the Canucks wearing the darker green camo. Move to Contact is usually boring, unless you actually make contact:
Oregon Army National Guard photo by Captain John Farmer, 30JUL2016.
Black Hawk pilot explains the brand new UH-60M (and the company commander gives the usual ‘It’s so great to work with other country’s militaries’ speech):
Oregon Army National Guard photo by Captain John Farmer, 30JUL2016.
MONTANA MILITIA ENJOYS BEING THE ‘BAD GUY’ IN ROMANIA!
VEHICLE ID: SNAKE RIVER IFVs INVADE ROMANIA!
VEHICLE ID: OREGON CAPTAIN EXPLAINS WHY IDAHO BASED MILITIA INVADED ROMANIA!
BLACK HAWK DOWN JAPAN: U.S. ARMY TRAINS YOKOHAMA TO RESCUE DOWNED UH-60 CREWS
SIGN OF THINGS TO COME: KENTUCKY MILITIA BLACK HAWKS TRAINS FOR WATER RESCUES IN INDIANA!
116TH SNAKE RIVER’S 2015 NTC ROTATION, with CALFEX video
Taxpayer pariah F-35 calls Idaho home!
01 August 2016 (16:37 UTC-07 Tango 01) 11 Mordad 1395/26 Shawwal 1437/29 Yi-Wei 4714
The outrageously overpriced and repeatedly delayed F-35 calls Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, home:
Maryland based tax-sucker Lockheed Martin is pushing 1-thousand employees to suffer “voluntary layoffs”! Never mind that fact the at least 16 years old F-35 project has cost taxpayers $400-billion USD so far!
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE VIOLATES FEDERAL LAW AND BUYS F-35 PARTS FROM CHINA!
JAPAN THREATENS TO CANCEL U.S. F-35 DEAL!
DESPERATE FOR SALES, LOCKHEED PUSHES JAPAN TO BUY CONTROVERSAL F-35
U.S. military says Pokémon Go is a No Go for National Security!
Is there such a thing as a situationally deficient Pokémon? Maybe you’re it?
U.S. ALLY SAUDI SHARI POLICE ENFORCE ANTI- POKEMON LAW!
45 years of C-130 MAFFS ops. Who would’ve known wildfires would become such a problem?
31 July 2016 (14:35 UTC-07 Tango 01) 10 Mordad 1395/25 Shawwal 1437/28 Yi-Wei 4714
IDAHO WILDFIRES 16 AUGUST 2012: MAFFS C-130s RETURN TO POCATELLO AIRPORT
MAFFS 2 & 6: USAF RESERVE & NATIONAL GUARD C-130 WATER BOMBERS @ POCATELLO AIRPORT
Me sleeping on Idaho militia C-130 mattress, on the way back from a ‘friendly’ with Canadian armor in Alberta, 2002.
Some of my other C-130 trips (click pics to make bigger):
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- 1971: Preppin’ for our first C-130E trip, Rhein Main AFB, Germany. You might be able to make out my younger sister’s (Tina) head in lower right corner. Photo by William L. Hutchins.
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- 1977: My little brother, Ernie, enjoying his tour of a C-130 during the Edwards AFB ‘Open House’. Photo by William L. Hutchins.
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- 1986: C-130H on the flight line, Dyess AFB, where I was a C-130 IsoDock Crew Chief.
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- 1995: Me and fellow Delta Company 1/185th Armor personnel loading up C-130 for our trip to Idaho, for M1 Abrams Transition training.
“C-130 rolling down the strip!
Airborne Ranger gonna take a little trip!
We gonna stand up, hook up, shuffle to the door!
We gonna jump right out, and then count to four!
My main don’t open, I use my reserve!
My reserve don’t open, I loose my nerve!”-U.S. Army running cadence I used to sing during Army Basic Training at Fort Leonard Wood in 1982
Vehicle I-D: C-17 dumps HMMWVs on South Carolina, awesome vid!
Hummvees look like toys being tossed out the back of a C-17, includes point of view from a HUMMWV:
Vehicle I-D: Arctic Thunder 2016 air show Alaska
Operation Pacman: U.S. Army takes NAZI era robot tanks to new levels!
30 July 2016 (16:17 UTC-07 Tango 01) 09 Mordad 1395/24 Shawwal 1437/27 Yi-Wei 4714
During the Second World War the Germans used several types of small robot kamikaze tanks to blow up enemy fortifications.
A damaged German R-C Goliath demolition tank, somewhere in the Balkans, 1943(?). Photo via Bundesarchiv.
In Hawaii, the U.S. Army is testing advanced versions of similar robot tanks during the Tiger Balm Command Post Exercise. But instead of being used as bombs they’re being used for more practical things like heavy machine gun carriers. By the way, the program is officially called PACMAN-1.
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Christopher Hubenthal.
And any garage mechanic/R-C hobbyist could build one in their own home! Is that why Australia declared R-C toys to be weapons of terror in 2014?