At one time Tinker AFB was used to store more than 2-thousand World War Two aircraft. The Twin Twister hit several of the P-47 Thunderbolts.
The first tornado struck on 20MAR1948, the second on 25MAR1948. The U.S. Air Force (USAF) weather (wx) forecasters on duty that day were new to the area, and were using an early form of wx radar that was actually a cannibalized bombing/navigation radar (AN-PQ-13) off a B-29 bomber! They had forecasted gusty winds, but 30 minutes after their forecast a storm popped-up on their bombing radar, and it produced a tornado.
This photo is dated 20MAR1948. C-54 transports now fraternizing with B-29 bombers.
Final damage cost estimate of the 20MAR1948 tornado was $10.25-million (in 1948 dollars), six people injured. The based commander, Major General Fred S. ‘Fritz’ Borum, was outraged at the lack of warning. The Major General was an armchair scientist, and known as an innovator and experimenter. Major General Borum ordered the creation of the first official tornado disaster preparedness plan, then he ordered the two top wx officers on base to do something never done before; forecast tornadoes.
Major Ernest J. Fawbush and Captain Robert C. Miller, the first to predict a tornado on 25MAR1948. Photo by April McDonald.
Major Ernest J. Fawbush and Captain Robert C. Miller were literal veteran wx-men, serving in the Pacific Theater of the Second World War. Going by what James Crowder wrote, they seemed obsessed with the idea of formulating a way to determine if a thunderstorm would produce tornadoes. They worked almost non stop gathering as much data as they could, their ‘shop’ became the first severe wx warning research center in the United States. Then on 25MAR1948, while having lunch Fawbush and Miller noticed the wx changing much like it did five days prior, they notified their ‘higher-ups’. They, and the base commander, watched on that former B-29 radar as the storm system grew bigger. The Major General demanded a definite prediction about a possible tornado, “Are we going to have another tornado or not?”, they responded by giving the first ever tornado alert by simply saying “Yes; yes, sir. We are.”
However, almost two hours went by without a tornado, the USAF wx forecasters thought for sure their careers were over, then another hour went by and boom, the second tornado hit. While everybody was sheltering, the base commander stood in the doorway of his living quarters and watch the twister tear through even more aircraft.
Altus AFB, Oklahoma, a tornado shoved two massive C-5A Galaxy into each other. 49 buildings damaged, 27 people injured. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Philip Schmitter, 11MAY1982.
Major Fawbush and Captain Miller were soon flooded with data from private sector wx-men, the Oklahoma City Weather Bureau, the National Weather Bureau, as well as the USAF’s Air Weather Service, and the U.S. Navy’s weather organizations. In February 1951, they established the USAF’s Severe Weather Warning Center on Tinker AFB. Of the 75 tornado predictions they made, 67 of them actually happened. They both had long careers predicting wx for the U.S. military/government. Major General ‘Fritz’ Borum retired from the USAF in 1954.
One of several Langley AFB, Virginia, F-15 Eagles after getting swiped by a tornado. USAF photo, August 1993.
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) acquired three F-82E (P-82E) Twin Mustangs between 1947 and 1950.
NACA photo, 01APR1949.
The first F-82E (PQ-887) was used to test ramjet missiles over NACA Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory (now called NASA Glenn Research Center).
NACA photo, 1948.
With the creation of the U.S. Air Force in September 1947, the ‘P’ for pursuit was dropped for ‘F’ for fighter, and PQ-887 became FQ-887.
NACA photo, 1948.
The info that came with this photo says the ramjet tests took place over Wallops Island (Wallops Flight Facility), Virginia. NACA photo, 1948.
A 28MAY1951 Aviation Week article revealed the once secret Wallops Island operations, but stated that the ramjet craft were scale models of bigger things to come.
U.S. Army Air Force photo, XP-82 44-83887, 1945.
By April1949, FQ-887 became XFQ-887, and a NACA press release claimed the ‘X’ represented that this F-82E was actually one of the two North American prototype XP-82s (#44-83887)!
Skidded off the paved runway, and down into the mud. NACA photo, 14DEC1949.
XFQ-887 then suffered a ‘runway incident’ in December 1949 and was ‘transferred’ after that.
NACA photo, 14DEC1949.
NACA photo, 14DEC1949.
Jacked-up out of the mud. NACA photo, 14DEC1949.
In 1950 two more F-82E came onboard. By the end of 1951, a new designed F-4 ramjet missile was tried-out.
NACA photo, 01DEC1951.
NACA photo, 01DEC1951.
The new F-4 ramjet missile was mounted in the center of the aircraft, instead of on the outboard wings.
On 19MAR2022, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin the Third and the Prime Minister of NATO Bulgaria, Kiril Petkov, held a joint press conference in which they say things are about to ramp-up, with the creation of an anti-Russia NATO Battle Group which will be led by a Bulgarian general. They have already drawn-up logistical plans. Prime Minister Petkov straight-up said the anti-Russia NATO Battle Group will not have anything to do with defending Ukraine!
Statement by Prime Minister Kiril Petkov:
Statement by U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin the Third:
Question & answer session:
They are trying to create Orwell’s 1984 for reals!
Recent NATO reaction to Russia-Ukraine Crisis, from 01MAR2022 to 17MAR2022:
The first ever deployment of the NATO Response Force has just been assigned a year to its title: NATO Response Force 2022, indicating there will be more deployments past the Gregorian year 2022.
U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Kendall Stuckman, 07MAR2022.
It has been revealed that on 07MAR2022, the U.S. Armed Services Blood Program-Europe held the 2nd Annual Tri-Border Blood Drive at The Hub in Brunssum, Netherlands. The U.S. Department of Defense’s Armed Services Blood Program-Europe is based in Landstuhl, Germany.
A NATO France Rafale lands on the flight deck of the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), in the Ionian Sea. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Tate Cardinal, 11MAR2022.
NATO Germany has increased its military presence in NATO Lithuania, under the guise of defending against Russian aggression:
Members of NATO are officially called “member states” indicating that NATO is not just a ‘defensive’ military pact, but is a pseudo-government!
12MAR2022, U.S. Navy video, by Petty Officer First Class William Dodge, showing NATO French personnel packing up their vehicles in Rygge, NATO Norway, to travel to a new location to prepare the High Readiness Brigade in Norway 2022 for use in the NATO Response Force 2022:
13MAR2022, USN video by by Petty Officer First Class William Dodge, NATO Polish personnel arrive in NATO Norway for exercise Brilliant Jump 2022, part of the High Readiness Brigade in Norway 2022 to prep for possible use in the NATO Response Force 2022:
13MAR2022, USN video by by Petty Officer First Class William Dodge, NATO Spanish personnel arrive in NATO Norway for exercise Brilliant Jump 2022, part of the High Readiness Brigade in Norway 2022 to prep for possible use in the NATO Response Force 2022:
U.S. Army photo.
According to a report released 14MAR2022, by U.S. Army employee Cameron Porter, NATO Germany’s Deutsche Bahn (German Railway) is now helping the U.S. Army ship tanks and other vehicles from the open-air warehouse (Army Prepositioned Stocks-2, APS-2) in Germany to distribution locations such as Grafenwoehr Training Area.
U.S. Army photo by Jason Todd, 15MAR2022.
On 15MAR2022, the NATO German military (Bundeswehr) is now using its military logistics trucks to help the U.S. Army ship tanks and other vehicles from the open-air warehouse (APS-2) in Germany to distribution locations such as Grafenwoehr Training Area.
U.S. Department of Defense photo by Chad J. McNeeley, 16MAR2022.
On 16MAR2022, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin the Third and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg meet (again) at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, to discuss their plans against Russia. The day’s meeting also included the defense ministers of non-NATO countries of Finland, Georgia, Sweden and Ukraine. It also included reps from the European Union, which just happens to also be based in Brussels, Belgium. There are reports that Sweden and Finland might join NATO.
Also on 16MAR2022, NATO U.S. President Joe Biden’s promise of ‘unprecedented’ deliveries of antiaircraft systems to Ukraine actually involves U.S. taxpayers buying NATO Slovakia’s Russian made (ironic) S-300 system (NATO reporting name SA-10 Grumble), and giving it to Ukraine!
U.S. Department of Defense photo by Chad J. McNeeley, 17MAR2022.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin the Third just met with Slovakian Prime Minister Eduard Heger, 17MAR2022, concerning the Biden plan to spend U.S. taxes on buying NATO Slovakia’s Russian made S-300 antiaircraft missile system, and then give it to Ukraine! Slovakian officials say they will agree to the deal if only NATO replaces the S-300 antiaircraft system with a new antiaircraft system.
U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Miquel Jordan, 17MAR2022.
17MAR2022, NATO Croat MiG-21s are now flying ‘air policing’ operations alongside U.S. Air Force F-16s out of NATO Italy.
On 17MAR2022, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a live video speech to the German Bundestag, in which he essentially says he now realizes Ukraine was just a pawn, that the reason why the West/NATO dragged their feet on helping Ukraine was that there is a conspiracy between Russia and NATO to bring back the Cold War era Iron Curtain. He specifically used the word “wall” and said the true goal is to create a new “divided Europe”:
“We thank you for everything you’re doing for our staff and residents. Before the Idaho National Guard arrived, at one point we were down to 48% staffing. We realize this is a unique and uncertain environment, but you’ve provided a solid cadre of troops and we couldn’t ask for a better group at such a critical time.”-Warden Timothy Richardson, Idaho Department of Corrections
On 31JAN2022, the exalted gov’na Brad Little ordered the Idaho Army National Guard into state prisons!
At least 75 (various reports give differing numbers, some say 30 are going to State Corrections while others say 75, while others say the original 75 were split between prisons and hospitals but also say the State hired hundreds more Pandemic personnel) State Militia personnel are now working for the Idaho Department of Corrections facilities. It is part of Little’s fourth deployment order, made on 31JAN2022, to help out private sector hospitals with taxpayer funded workers! The private sector hospitals, and it turns out Idaho’s own prison system, claim the Pandemic has caused huge staffing shortages.
The Idaho Army National Guard’s current Pandemic mission is expected to conclude before the end of the month.
Many people don’t know that Japan and the Soviet Union never made peace with each other after the Second World War (which Japan started years before Germany fired a shot). Even after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991/92, Russian and Japanese officials could not bring themselves to settle their differences regarding the territorial disputes as a result of the end of the Second World War.
For the past decade, Russia has built-up military forces on islands that are almost a stone’s throw from Hokkaido.
On 16MAR2022, Japan threw its hat into the Ukraine Crisis ring, on the side of Ukraine, sending a shipment of supplies onboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globmaster-3.
Video, by U.S. Navy’s Petty Officer Second Class Jack Aistrup, of remarks made by U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel, Oniki Makoto from Japan’s Ministry of Defence, and Deputy Chief of Mission Embassy of Ukraine in Japan Oleksandr Semeniuk:
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“A severe interruption to a regional telecommunication link in King Salmon has resulted in the loss of data flow from seismic stations at nine volcanoes in the Katmai region and northern Alaska Peninsula over the past weeks. As a result, AVO can no longer seismically monitor the volcanoes listed below. Thus, we are unable to assess whether these volcanoes are at their normal background state, or to quickly confirm or dismiss reports of activity at these volcanoes.”–Alaska Volcano Observatory Information Statement, 16MAR2022
On the same day the Japan got a redux on its March 2011 quake/tsunami, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) revealed that it had lost connection with its volcano monitoring system in Alaska. What’s more sinister, USGS lost the connection to its volcano monitors several weeks prior!
List of volcanoes now ‘in the dark’: Griggs, Katmai, Mageik, Martin, Novarupta, Snowy Mountain, Trident, Ugashik-Peulik, Ukinrek-Maars.
The U.S. Army’s 3rd Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, based on Fort Stewart, Georgia, is playing with new M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams and new M2A4 Bradley Fighting Vehicles.
U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Trenton Lowery, 01FEB2022.
On 01FEB2022, the ‘Hound Battalion’ of the ‘Spartan Brigade’ got new upgraded M2A4s.
USA photo by Sergeant Trenton Lowery, 01FEB2022.
U.S. Army video interview, 01FEB2022, Lieutenant Colonel Mario Iglesias explains what is new about the new M2A4 Bradley:
It should be noted that profits made from the sale of Bradleys goes to the British empire, as the Bradley, once made by a U.S. company, is now made by United Kingdom’s BAE Systems. BAE began to aggressively take over U.S. defense companies in 2001, the same year that the undeclared War on Terror began.
USA photo by Sergeant Trenton Lowery, 11MAR2022.
Then on 11MAR2022, the Hound Battalion got new upgraded M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams battle tanks.
USA photo by Sergeant Trenton Lowery, 11MAR2022.
The Spartan Brigade has been chosen to become the most modernized U.S. Army combat unit, by 2023.
This is a ‘dramatic’ U.S. Army 1st Cavalry Division video, from July 2020, explaining the new M1A2 SEPv3:
M1 Abrams are currently made at the Lima Army Tank Plant, currently under contract with U.S. based General Dynamics Land Systems.
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