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U.S. Medical & Food Disaster: This is not a drill! Military drug dealers take over local high schools?

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New Mexico Air National Guard photo by Airman First Class Lauren McMullen.

On 07JUL2021, active duty military, and National Guard medical personnel from across the United States, took over Greenville High School, in Mississippi.

New Mexico ANG photo by Airman First Class Lauren McMullen.

New Mexico ANG photo by Airman First Class Lauren McMullen.

Operations involving food service, dentistry, ambulance service, optometry, psychiatric care, and even drug distribution (pharmacy) were carried out as part of Delta Wellness Mission 2021.  Greenville High School was one of three locations used for the Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) operation.

New Mexico ANG photo by Airman First Class Lauren McMullen.

The military uses IRTs as one way to train for disaster response, but Delta Wellness Mission 2021 is not a drill or training exercise, it is a continuation, under a new name, of a program started under the Obama Administration to provide free healthcare and food service to local residents.

New Mexico ANG photo by Airman First Class Lauren McMullen.

The taxpayer funded military medical service for silly-vilians program was started in 2014 (OPERATION APPALACHIAN CARE; PROOF OBAMACARE-ACA FAILED, AND OBAMA KNEW IT DID!).

New Mexico ANG photo by Airman First Class Lauren McMullen.

Greenville High School was not the only school to be taken over under Delta Wellness Mission 2021.

New Mexico ANG photo Senior Master Sergeant Daniel Butterfield.

The General Trass High School, Arkansas, was taken over on 05JUL2021.

Air Force Reserve video report; 24JUN2021 East Central Georgia Medical IRT mission, which included Burke County High School:

Army Reserve promo video; medical personnel from Ohio deployed to Knox and Clay County, Kentucky, to provide free services to humans and animals, 20JUN2021.  The ‘Coal Country’ IRT was requested by local county officials:

South Carolina ANG photo by Lieutenant Colonel Jim Saint Clair.

The South Carolina National Guard deployed for Operation Healthy Delta 2021.  The IRT provided medical and food service to two locations in Missouri, and one in Illinois, from June 14th to the 24th.

South Carolina ANG photo by Lieutenant Colonel Jim Saint Clair.

Army Reserve video report, IRT used as excuse to provide animal and human medical services to Turtle Mountain Reservation, North Dakota, 09MAY2021:

U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sergeant Karen J. Tomasik.

05MAY2021, IRT Arctic Care Kodiak Island 2021 was conducted to provide medical, dental, optometry, and veterinary care across communities on the island of Kodiak, Alaska.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sergeant Frans Labranche.

On 04MAY2021, military active duty, Reserve and National Guard medical personnel took over Lakeside High School, in Arkansas, apparently the first for the Delta Wellness Mission 2021 IRT.

U.S. Food Crisis 2021: “…A PERFECT TERRIBLE STORM.” CRAWLING MORMON CRICKETS & FLYING GRASSHOPPERS JOIN FORCES?

U.S. Hurricane prep 2021: GEORGIA MILITIA WARMS-UP THE D-R-M-K-T

U.S. Wildfires 2021: FOR FIRST TIME, IDAHO MOBILIZES MILITIA FOR FIRE DUTY!

Cascadia Rising: PREP FOR 2022, “…EXTRAORDINARY LEVELS OF MASS CASUALTIES…”!

Typhoon 2021: T-C-C-O-R PREP

Technology, U.S.

Total Force/Pivot to Asia: Operation Turning Point

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07 February 2021 (02:38-UTC-07 Tango 06) 19 Bahman 1399/24 Jumada t-Tania 1442/26 Wu-Yin 4718

Since the presidency of Barack Obama, the U.S. Department of Defense is steadily shifting focus towards the Asia/Pacific region.  Sometimes known as Pivot to Asia, Pivot to Pacific, Total Force training for Near Peer Threats, maybe they should just bring back the phrase Cold War.

All photos by Petty Officer Second Class Michael Schutt.

It will be interesting to see how the new U.S. president, Joe ‘flip-flop’ Biden, handles the Department of Defense.  This month, the U.S. Navy SeaBees (construction engineers) and U.S. Marine Corps engineers have begun training to quickly build Expeditionary Advanced Bases (EAB) and Advanced Naval Bases (ANB), in case a major war in the Pacific breaks out.  (The U.S. Navy also just completed multinational Pacific region wargame Sea Dragon 2021)

On-loading of personnel and equipment, USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52), 04FEB2021.  The training is called Exercise Turning Point, and is held every year by the Pacific Naval Construction Force (PacNCF). 

Photo by Petty Officer Second Class Michael Schutt.

USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52) heads towards San Clemente Island from Port Hueneme, 04FEB2021.

Photo by Petty Officer Second Class Michael Schutt.

 06FEB2021, an Assault Craft Unit ONE (ACU-1) landed on San Clemente.

Obama era Force Design 2030: U.S. Marines get rid of all their main battle tanks!

Vehicle I-D: The Real Avengers, with the return to ‘Cold War’ mentality, many ‘force-on-force’ weapon systems are making a come-back. 

Pacific Partnership 2017: U.S. TAXPAYERS FUND POLICE TRAINING & CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN VIETNAM!

Great Reneger: TEXAS ARMOR DEPLOYS TO POLAND, PROOF WORLD WAR 3 IS NEAR?

World War 3: “NEAR PEER THREATS”, CODE FOR RUSSIA & CHINA AND THE COMING 3RD WORLD WAR?

World War 3: ICT is the USAF’s version of Total Force warfare

World War 3: “This is where armor fights!” Idaho Army National Guard returns to Total Force warfare

May 2015: According to the U.S. Naval War College “Starting in 2010, the U.S. and Vietnam accelerated this process effectively forming a partnership on several fronts. The Obama administration identified Vietnam as one of the new partners to cultivate as part of its ‘rebalancing’ of U.S. priorities toward the Asia-Pacific region, a move commonly referred to as the U.S.’s ‘pivot’ to the Pacific.” 

October 2013: “Although Mr. Obama has cut military spending in various parts of the world, it has remained largely unchanged in Asia. By 2020 the Pentagon plans to deploy 60 percent of its warships in the Pacific and 40 percent in the Atlantic, compared with the current 50-50 split.”-New York Times

Vehicle I-D:

U.S. Navy’s 1967 purchase price.

RAT ROD 1967 BLH AUSTIN-WESTERN USN SEABEES ROAD GRADER $14,794

International, Technology

Vehicle I-D: Afghan 8/17 Mils

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NATO reporting name Hip.

The primary identifying feature between Mil 8 and 17 versions is; the Mil 8 has the tail rotor on the pilot’s right side, the Mil 17 has the tail rotor on the pilot’s left side.  All other details are subject to change.

Video by Bob Ditchey, Hip door gunner live-fire, 13MAY2018:

2014 video, Mil 17B(V)-5 helicopters inflight over Afghanistan:

2014 video, by Senior Airman Brandi Hansen, of NATO member Czech Republic advisers on a training flight, with live-fire door gunning, in an Afghan Mil 17B(V)-5 helicopter.  Czech Republic has a long history of using Mil helicopters and was sent to help train Afghans:

2013 NATO video report; Uruzgan based 4th Brigade of the Afghan National Army conducted resupply and casualty evacuations:

Forward Operating Base Shank in Logar province, 04AUG2012. U.S. Army photo by Specialist Austin Berner.

Photo by Technical Sergeant Dennis Henry.

In 2012, NATO member Czech Republic deployed air-crews to Afghanistan.  They got acquainted with the terrain by taking rides in Afghan Mil 17B(V)-5.

Photo by Technical Sergeant Dennis Henry.

Photo by Technical Sergeant Dennis Henry.

Photo by Technical Sergeant Dennis Henry

U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer Second Class Jonathan David Chandler. Sun rises on a Mil-8 helicopter on Camp Bastion, Helmand province, 23OCT2011.

Photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Smith.

Photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Smith.

Forward Operating Base (FOB) Bostick, 09OCT2011.

Photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Smith.

FOB Fenty, Jalalabad, 09OCT2011.

Photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Smith.

Mil 17B(V)-5 over FOB Fenty, 08OCT2011.

Photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Smith.

Photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Smith.

May 2011: Mil 17B(V)-5 crash & burn.

Photo by Petty Officer Third Class Jared Walker.

Video, February 2011, rocket training:

Video by Sergeant Bryan Spradlin, October 2010, showing U.S. and Afghan forces refueling and rearming a Hip:

During Afghan national elections Hip helicopters are used to deliver empty ballot boxes, and then retrieve full ballot boxes after voting.  These pics are from September 2010.

Maybe it’s time the United States use its military to control ballots during national level elections?

Photo by Petty Officer Second Class Ernesto Hernandez Fonte.

August 2010, U.S. advisers fire the rockets of a Mil 17.  U.S. advisers were prepping to train-up Afghan aircrews in using the Hip as a gunship.

Photo by Staff Sergeant Teddy Wade.
Contracted Mil Mi-8 helicopter lands at FOB Airborne, 25NOV2009.

Hip door gunners, 03OCT2009. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Angelita Lawrence.

By November 2008, Afghanistan had received three new U.S. taxpayer funded Mi-17 Hips. U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sergeant Keith Brown, 25NOV2008.

Vehicle I-D: UH-60 FOR AFGHANISTAN, KILLED-OFF BY THE MIL 17?

Afghan Mi-24 Hind-D.

MAINTAINING SATAN’S CHARIOT

See how the CH-47 loves to collect ‘Hip’ bones

International, Technology

NATO 2013: F-15 Eagles over Norge

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U.S. Air Force photo by First Lieutenant Christopher Mesnard, 20SEP2013.

In September 2013, U.S. Air Force F-15C Eagles and E Strike Eagles joined USAF KC-135 tankers, and Norwegian F-16 Fighting Falcons, Swedish JAS-39 Gripens, Finish F-18 Hornets, U.K. Eurofighter Typhoons, and NATO E-3A AWACS, for the first ever Arctic Challenge over Norway.

USAF photo by Master Sergeant Lee Osberry, 23SEP2013.

Video, by Airman 1st Class Amanda Sampson, F-15C and E Eagles taking off and landing at Bodø Main Air Station, during NATO’s Arctic Challenge, September 2013.  Good vibrations turbine sounds:

USAF photo by Master Sergeant Lee Osberry, 24SEP2013.

Video by First Lieutenant Christopher Mesnard of airborne fueling operations, Arctic Challenge September 2013:

USAF photo by First Lieutenant Christopher Mesnard, 12SEP2013.

Air Force Report, Arctic Challenge:

 

2020: NEW TAIL FEATHERS FOR OREGON EAGLE, B-17 BOMBER STYLE! PLUS, MINI-EAGLE.

2019: 

D-DAY F-15E STRIKE EAGLE

International, Technology, U.S.

U.S. Border Wall milestones of 2020

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During the decades of sporadic wall construction it should be noted that both Republican and Democrat politicians supported it.    The first wall section was built by the United States between 1909 and 1911.  Mexico built a wall section in 1918.  The walls were extended in the 1920s and in the 1940s.  President George H.W. Bush (senior) began new wall construction in the 1990s.  President Bill Clinton expanded funding for wall construction, in fact one book says it was under Clinton that wall construction became more focused in an attempt to stop drug and human smuggling.  President George W. Bush (junior) began new wall construction supposedly at the behest of California politicians.   President Barack Obama supposedly declared wall construction complete in 2011, yet quietly (secretly?) built an additional 128-miles (206-km) of wall.   In 2017, President Donald Trump officially restarted wall construction.  I predict President elect Joe Biden will not halt border wall construction.

Video, trench being dug for construction of wall near Columbus, New Mexico, April 2020:

Video, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) explaining why the U.S. needs a wall, June 2020:

 

Near El Paso, Texas, August 2020.

Video showing that wall construction continued at night in the South Pacific Border District, Arizona, September 2020:

Video, wall construction South Pacific Border District, California, September 2020:

Border wall slowly stretches across the desert near Columbus, New Mexico, October 2020.

Wall construction over mountains on the Barry M. Goldwater Range aboard Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, October 2020.

New wall completed near Tucson, Arizona, 02NOV2020.

17DEC2020, Tucson 10/28 Border Barrier near Nogales, Arizona.

21DEC2020, the final section of Yuma 10/27 Border Barrier is installed, in Arizona.

Operation CoViD-19, March 2020: BORDER GUARDS

New War on Drugs: U.S. BORDER PATROL PROMOTES TRUMP’S WALL!

International, Technology

End of the Cold War to Ukraine Crisis: No more Open Skies, or whatever happened to the OC-135B?

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U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sergeant Keith Reed the Third, 17JUL1997.

On 24MAR1992, the Treaty on Open Skies was created as a way of being sure that countries that have military weapons (military-grade arms) control agreements are complying.  However, it wouldn’t be until 01JAN2002 that Open Skies actually went into effect, with 34 countries signed-on (but only 20 ratified).  Interestingly, the first OC-135B was ready to launch in June 1993!

Newly independent Ukrainian Air Force personnel get their photo taken in front of their Open Skies Antonov An-30. Photo by Technical Sergeant Brad Fallin, 14APR1997.

Russian Open Skies Antonov An-30, 25SEP2009. Photo by Alan Lebeda.

On 22NOV2020, the United States officially withdrew from the Treaty on Open Skies, so far the only country to do so.  It’s interesting that the many countries who did not sign-on to Open Skies, like nuclear armed China, condemned the U.S. withdrawal.

Photo by Kelly White. 23APR2020, U.S. Air Force OC-135B (6-12670) stripped and awaiting what would become its final Open Skies livery.

But it is more complicated than U.S. President Donald Trump being a mean old ‘orange man’, it’s about other treaty signators not complying, and the fact that updating the now ‘ancient’ observation technology is just too cost prohibitive for taxpayers.

A naked OC-135B anticipates its final Open Skies paint job on Tinker AFB, Oklahoma. Photo by Kelly White, 23APR2020.

Here’s a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) video, 22MAY2020, in which NATO accuses Russia (Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) of violating the Open Skies agreement:

Photo by Charles Haymond. An OC-135B Open Skies (converted WC-135 weather research) aircraft takes off from Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska,14SEP2018.

Photo by Technical Sergeant Heather Salazar. Voyenno-Vozdushnye Sily Rossii (Military Air Forces of Russia) Open Skies Tupolev Tu-154M RF-85655, lands at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, 14AUG2019.

From 1992-93, three WC-135B aircraft were modified for the Open Skies mission, re-designated OC-135B.   For some reason, after only a few years based at Offutt Air Force Base (AFB), Nebraska, the first OC-135B was sent straight to ‘moth-balls’ at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, in 1997.

Photo by Charles J. Haymond, 14SEP2018.

This OC-135B conducted observation flights over Haiti, after the 7.0 earthquake in 2010. Photo by Senior Airman Perry Aston, 16JAN2010.

Despite the OC-135Bs being used on other non-Open Skies observations, such as natural disasters, according to some reports the remaining two OC-135Bs are now available for sale as a result of the U.S. exit from Open Skies: “We’ve started liquidating the equipment. Other countries can come purchase or just take the airframes. They are really old and cost-prohibitive for us to maintain. We don’t have a use for them anymore.”

Photo by Staff Sergeant John Hillier. 01FEB2018, a Commonwealth of Nations (aka British Empire) Royal Canadian Air Force C-130J arrives at Rosecrans Memorial Airport, Missouri, joining units from France and Czech Republic for Open Skies training with the Missouri Air National Guard.

What many people might not know is that the Open Skies operation required the use of old school film technology.  In this 2015 U.S. Air Force video report, by John Harrington, it’s revealed that the old technology was getting difficult to maintain due to no new parts:

Here is an October 2016 USAF video (by John Harrington) explaining how the imagery captured by the OC-135Bs are processed:

Photo by Delanie Stafford. Snow removal from Open Skies OC-135B, 03FEB2015, Offutt AFB.

Via Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Russian examine a U.S. OC-135B, 27FEB2007.

Via Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Italian C-130 with SAMSON observation pod.

23NOV2020: Russia warns remaining Open Skies members not to share data with United States

11NOV2020: French personnel to use Romanian An-30 for Open Skies flyover of Russia

Realize that the United States and Russia have always conducted observation flights of each other, Open Skies was just an attempt to make it more militarily non-threatening.

28NOV2020: Russian Sukhoi 27 scrambled to intercept U.S. RC-135 over Black Sea

27NOV2020: Russia accuses NATO of conducting more than 1300 non-Open Skies spy flights

There were rumors that the two remaining Open Skies OC-13Bs were up for sale in 2020, however, the aircraft were given a fresh ‘Open Skies’ paint job and sent to the ‘boneyard’ in Arizona. USAF video by David Farley, 13MAY2021:

OC-135B Open Skies on Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, 09JUN2021. USAF photo by Senior Airman Alex Miller.

July 2022: NATO-Romania puts to use an ex-Open Skies Antonov 30.

U.S. taxpayer expense: NASA’S Russian Tupolev 144 SST

Pandemic Overflight: KC-135

Bare Metal: KC-135R GETS STRIPPED

EC-135E FIRE-BIRD, 10329 COMES BACK TO LIFE, AGAIN! OR, WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR EXTRA KC-135 KIT.

HOW TO MUMMIFY YOUR KC-10, OR, LAST FLIGHT OF 86-0036

Terminator: SpaceX satellites helping the new U.S. Space Force to target you from above

Technology

Wrecked F-111E finds new home in South Carolina

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Photo by Master Sergeant Cohen Young.

In February 2012, a U.S. Air Force F-111E Aardvark found its way home to its old unit, the 20th Fighter Wing.

The 20th FW was born in South Carolina a couple of years after World War Two.

After many changes, the 20th FW was sent to the Commonwealth of Nations‘ (formerly British Empire)-United Kingdom member of England, from 1970 to January 1994, on the Royal Air Force’s Upper Heyford base.

In 1991, the 20th FW’s F-111s  went to Turkey to take part in Operation Desert Storm, with this specific Aardvark logging 21 combat missions.  When RAF Upper Heyford was shutdown the 20th FW finally returned to its birthplace of South Carolina.

Note the swing wing hinge.

Note the vortex generators inside the air intake.  (Read NASA report Flight-Determined Characteristics of an Air Intake System on an F-111A Airplane. The F-111 suffered from Mach speed induced engine stall due to the interaction between the sonic shock wave and the air intake, thus many things were adapted to reduce this phenomena, including vortex generators shown in Figure 5 of the report.)

Video report by Airman First Class Blake Hubbard, 03FEB2012:

The 20th FW historians say this particular F-111E spent its entire service life with the 20th FW in England from 1970 until the end of 1993.   This specific F-111E was imprisoned at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (AFB) from 1994 to January 2012.  In 2009, discussions began with the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force to negotiate the release of the Aardvark from Davis-Monthan.

Photo by Airman First Class Hunter Brady.

After four or five months (depending on which official report you read) of restoration work, the F-111E was ready to take on its new job as Shaw AFB gate guard.

Video report by Airman First Class Blake Hubbard, 12SEP2012:

Shaw AFB: A FLYING M48A1 TANK?

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Green Mountain Boys find a new home for an old F-4D Phantom-2

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Photos by Technical Sergeant Sarah Mattison.

At the end of May 2015, the Vermont Air National Guard moved a former 158th FW F-4D (65-712) Phantom-2 to a new, and supposedly phinal home; guarding the entrance to Camp Johnson.

Video by Staff Sergeant Jason Brace:

The F-4D was located on the grounds of the Camp Johnson Vermont National Guard Museum and Library (aka Vermont Military Museum).  That former location now being held by an F-16.

 

PHINAL UN-MANNED PHANTOM PHLIGHT

1/1 SCALE F-4 PHANTOM-2 MODEL

Utah: PHINAL PHANTOM PHLIGHT, NO MORE USAF F-4 PHANTOMS!

Technology, U.S.

National Guard teaching a baby three horned dinosaur to fly?

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13 September 2020 / 04:18 (UTC-07 Tango 06)/ 23 Shahrivar 1399/25 Muharram 1442/26 Yi-You 4718

National Guard photos by Second Lieutenant Anna Doo and Sergeant John Montoya.  Videos by Second Lieutenant Anna Doo and Sergeant Zechariah Freeman.  Dig photos via New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.

New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Image

In October 2015, the New Mexico Army National Guard was called-up for a mission unlike any other; sling-load a 65-million years old baby Pentaceratops out of the desert: “This ranks very high in the importance of Pentaceratops discoveries because it is the first baby skeleton, including the skull, ever recovered, and one of less than 10 adult Pentaceratops skulls unearthed.”-Spencer Lucas, Chief Curator of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science

The baby three horned dinosaur was actually discovered back in 2011, in the Bisti/De-na-zin Wilderness Area south of Farmington. In 2013, an adult was found in the Ah-shi-sle-pah Wilderness Study Area, 10 miles (16 kilometers) away.  The paleontologists had a problem; no wheeled vehicles are allowed in those federally controlled areas, and once encased in protective plaster, the two dinosaur skeletons could weight as much as one U.S. ton.

In 2014, administrators with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, New Mexico National Guard, New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, agreed to airlift the bones using UH-60 Blackhawks from New Mexico National Guard’s Company C, 1st Battalion, 171st Aviation.

It took four hours to position just the encased baby skeleton for sling-load by the Blackhawk: “The process, since it was an unconventional load, took some different planning. We had the right personnel here and were able to brainstorm together. There was never really a set way that we had. We knew once we got in there we’d take a look at everything and figure out the best option. My favorite part was getting the jackets onto the sling loads. That was something we hadn’t had experience with and we knew it was going to be a difficult process. That was our biggest hurdle. Once we got past that we knew we had the capability to do everything else that we needed to.”-Staff Sergeant Jonathon Velarde, 1st Battalion-200th Infantry, National Guard site leader at the Bisti location

But when the day came for the airlift, it was discovered that the plaster surrounding the baby and adult Pentaceratops skeletons were water damaged from recent rain storms and could not be airlifted, only the skulls could be sling-loaded. However, it was soon discovered that the plaster jacketed skulls were much heavier than estimated.  The Blackhawk crew trying to lift the adult skull reported it weighed 5-thousand-5-hundred pounds (2494.8 kilograms) and the UH-60 was not able to safely lift it.  The jacketed baby skull weighed 4-thousand-5-hundred pounds (2041 kilograms), more than twice the estimate.

To make the lift the Blackhawk helicopters flew around burning off expensive fuel to lighten themselves.  Keep in mind that the National Guard personnel on the ground, heaving the heavy skulls into positions, even pushing one uphill, were unaware that they were dealing with weights that were more than twice what they were expecting.

Video, baby skull flip:

Apparently it took two days (28-29OCT2015) of struggling to position the two skulls for sling-load.

Video, adult skull flip:

Video interview, Staff Sergeant Jonathon Velarde explains the proper positioning of the sling-load net:

Video, skull lift:

Video, incoming skull:

The skulls were flown out of the ground vehicle restricted areas to a location where a M984 HEMTT (Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck) was waiting to take them to the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science: “The mission went really well and it was good training for the traditional Soldiers. The mission was accomplished and everyone was safe. We were able to really show the capabilities of the National Guard as far as our air assets, the Infantry piece as far as them having to go out there and rig it, and our transportation assets as far as being able to move it, as well as working with the civilians and the general public.”-First Lieutenant Jerome Bustamante, 116th Transportation Company, New Mexico National Guard

HEMTT dino-load video:

The skulls are part of dinosaur displays at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, unfortunately the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs used the CoViD-19 fear-mongering to shutdown all taxpayer funded museums in New Mexico, until further notice.   

Just before the CoViD-19 BS started: BLACK HELICOPTERS SWARM SUPER BOWL-54

IDAHO BLACKHAWKS HEAD SOUTH, DOWN CENTRAL AMERICA WAY, YOU PAID FOR IT!

U.S. government shenanigans, January 2019: MULTI-AGENCY SUPER SURGE

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Mil 17 crash & burn

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In early May 2011, one of the U.S. taxpayer funded Russian built Afghan Mil 17B(V)-5 crashed in Nuristan Province, Afghanistan.  Nine people onboard were slightly injured.

The Hip was part of the first deliveries of U.S. taxpayer funded Russian made helicopters between 2009 and 2010.  NATO/ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) reported the Mil-17s sent to Afghanistan cost about $15-million each!  Dozens more were given to Afghanistan in the years after this crash, in fact the United States signed a new delivery contract with Russia about a week after this crash.

U.S. Army Pathfinders were ordered to remove ‘sensitive’ equipment from the  NATO reporting-name Hip, and then dismantle and burn it to the ground.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Brian Christiansen, 12MAY2011.

Parts of the Mi-17, that could be reused, were sling loaded away by CH-47 Chinook.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Brian Christiansen, 12MAY2011.

The fire was started using phosphorus grenades.  When aluminum gets hot enough it burns like paper, almost nothing is left but ash.

This was not the first time a U.S. taxpayer funded ‘Hip’ was blown-up by U.S. forces.

U.S. Army photo by Corporal Patrick Gleason, 23DEC2010.

On 23DEC2010, a contracted Mi-17 was blown-up by U.S. forces on Combat Out-Post (COP) Spera in Khowst Province.  The Hip actually crashed on COP Spera several years earlier.

The result of packing an Mi-17 with excess ammo, and then blowing it up. USA photo by Corporal Patrick Gleason, 23DEC2010.

The Hip was packed with ‘left-over’ munitions, which were detonated.  The destruction of the derelict Hip was an excuse to get rid of excess ammo, as COP Spera was being shut-down.

CH-47 CHINOOK LOVES COLLECTING MIL 8 ‘HIP’ BONES

MAINTAINING SATAN’S CHARIOT (Afghan Mi-24V)

AFGHANISTAN GETS MORE U.S. TAXPAYER FUNDED HELICOPTERS & GUNS!

TAXPAYER FUNDED AIRCRAFT ABANDONED THEN TURNED INTO SCRAP METAL! 

U.S. TAXPAYERS TO RESCUE “DONATED” C-130

U.S. TAXPAYERS DELIVER MD-530F CAYUSE WARRIOR TO KENYA

U.S. TAXPAYERS SEND AUSSIE PRIME MINISTER A MODEL BOAT!

U.S. TAXPAYERS FUND POLICE TRAINING & CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN VIETNAM!