05 August 2016 (01:36 UTC-07 Tango 01) 15 Mordad 1395/01 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/03 Bing-Shen 4714
Hill AFB, Utah, hosting the F-35A Lightning-2s Initial Operational Capability Ceremony on 05 August 2016:
VEHICLE I-D: USAF FLORIDA ‘SURGE WEEK’ F-35A LIGHTNING-2
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.
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!
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
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
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
Is there such a thing as a situationally deficient Pokémon? Maybe you’re it?
U.S. ALLY SAUDI SHARI POLICE ENFORCE ANTI- POKEMON LAW!
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):
“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
Hummvees look like toys being tossed out the back of a C-17, includes point of view from a HUMMWV: