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Pacific Ring of Fire, 19-25 January 2020

Incomplete list of links to seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, days 19 to 25 of Gregorian January 2020.

Earth’s $40-Billion Weather Disasters of 2019: 4th Most Billion-Dollar Events on Record
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ARGENTINA: 4.8 quake

5.5 quake

CANADA:  4.5-magnitude earthquake strikes off Vancouver Island

FIJI: 4.3 quake, 24 January

JAPAN:  new Nankai trough quake tsunami predictions

Animals are thriving in nuke disaster area

Diet considers an extra 4.47 trillion yen (U.S.$40.8-billion) for disaster recovery efforts

MEXICO:  Yet another quake hits Oaxaca

NEW ZEALAND:  5.4 quake northwest of Wellington

RUSSIA: 5.6 earthquake – Near East Coast of Kamchatka

UNITED STATES:

Alaska; 6.1 quake Andreanof Islands 

6.2 Magnitude earthquake felt in Adak

 U.S. Coast Guard investigating reason why a group of S-O-S radio towers are now in a communications ‘dead-zone’

Arizona; Mesa settles lawsuit from massive 2014 flooding; homeowners receive $1.6M payout

California; Quake and aftershock near Barstow

Pacific Gas & Electric opens new Vacaville Emergency Response Center

Granada Hills Struck by 3.6 Magnitude Shake
Folsom Dam Raise Project groundbreaking, at the Folsom Point Boat Launch near Dike 8, 21JAN2020.  In a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers directed project the Folsom Dam is going to be raised as part of a plan to both increase water storage and prevent future flooding.
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Hawaii; Minor earthquake – Honaunau-napoopoo

Mauna Loa Volcano Activity Update
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Idaho;  3.4 quake Soda Springs area

Oregon; Could you survive for two weeks if ‘The Big One’ hits?

Utah; Small earthquake hits Box Elder County

Washington;  All of Lewis County Now Included in Flood Watch

King County’s Flood Warning Center shutdown, this report doesn’t give a clear reason why but says Flood Warning employees will still be monitoring the ongoing flooding.

Property owners in Island County hit with surprise U.S.$50 flood insurance surcharge, blamed on FEMA

Washington National Guard’s Homeland Response Force toured the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Western Regional Center in Seattle: “The information provided by these resources is critical to anticipating weather’s effects on hazardous material incidents and our response operations during an incident.”-Sergeant First Class James Peters

Washington National Guard also showed-off its disaster response communications equipment, along with AT&T’s First Net.

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE, 12-18 JANUARY 2020: “THE FIRE BREATHING DRAGON OF CLOUDS.”

CLIMATE CHANGE, 19-25 JANUARY 2020:  OPERATION SUDDEN RESPONSE

U.S.

“This is not a request, it’s a demand!”: Immigrant Invasion U.S.A., 19-25 January 2020

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Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of main-stream-news links about global immigrant/border operations affecting the United States taxpayers, days of 19 to 25 of Gregorian January 2020.

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Tensions Rise at Mexico’s Southern Border With Guatemala

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Lawyers accuse government of not complying with a federal court order that protects mentally disabled immigrants in California, Arizona and Washington.

Meet the Boy Scouts of the Border Patrol

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Professional Bull Riders get millions from Border Patrol for recruitment campaign

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ALASKA: Idaho man fined, banned for guiding illegal Alaska hunts

 

ALABAMA: The refugee question in Alabama

ARIZONA: Murder convictions upheld for 2 men in border agent’s death

Deadly Vaping oils flooding across border: ‘Everyone should be concerned’

Replacing older sections of the Tucson 1 border wall (from before President Trump’s time) near Ajo, 20JAN2020.

ARKANSAS: Three law enforcement agencies participate in 287(g) program.

CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles bans for-profit privately run immigrant ‘service centers’. 

Migrant parents separated from children since 2018 are reunited
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection capture a U.S. citizen whose truck’s gas tank was filled with liquid meth from Mexico. 

Hi-tech data company Palantir admits it actively searches for illegal immigrants for ICE

COLORADO:  Updated overtime protections will expand to more workers 

Colorado is losing about 2-thousand jobs due to industry shutdowns, politician Matt Soper is now begging farmers to stop hiring migrants and hire citizens, saying “at least give them a shot”!

CONNECTICUT:  Record number of illegal immigrant children arriving by themselves

FLORIDA:  ICE captures four of 12 of the illegals who washed ashore at Palm Beach

ICE dispatching agents to Super Bowl to catch human traffickers and rescue slave sex workers

U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Air and Marine Operations partners with Miami-Dade Police Department for security ops for Super Bowl LIV in Miami, Florida.

U.S. Customs & Border Protection reveal taxpayer sucking technology used to keep Super Bowl safe

GEORGIA: Former cop threatens illegal immigrant after car accident

GUAM: The island territory is apparently having trouble with migrants from Micronesia

IDAHO:  Canyon County reimbursed for more than U.S.$43-thousand spent holding illegal migrants in jail

ILLINOIS: Hundreds of non-citizens registered to vote due to technical glitch

MAINE:  Customs and Border Protection Officer sentenced to prison for possessing child porn

MARYLAND: Illegal immigrant captured with child porn

MASSACHUSETTS: Iranian student deported from Boston by Customs and Border Protection despite court order

MINNESOTA:  More proof unchecked immigration is not about providing migrants a better life; now shuttered mom-n-pop drywall company owes money to dozens of illegal workers: “I’ve done other work comp fraud cases but not of this magnitude. It cheats the workers from the health care insurance they’re entitled to; second, it cheats the insurance company who is supposed to provide the coverage; and third, it cheats the companies that compete with a fraudulent corporation.”-Mike Freeman, Hennepin County Attorney

NEVADA: ICE prison guard fired for speaking his mind

NEW MEXICO: The town of Chaparral is mostly illegal immigrants, the main employer in the area is a for-profit privately run ICE prison

NEW YORK:  ICE subpoenas the city of New York: “This is not a request, it’s a demand….   …Dangerous criminals are being released every single day in New York.”-Henry Lucero, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

  ICE issues list of ‘fugitive’ illegals freed by New York City’s sanctuary city policies

A convicted felon from Kentucky, with a gun in his truck-trailer, takes wrong turn while driving through New York, ends up in Canada where the Canadian border guards allow him to turn around without checking his truck-trailer, tries to get back into the U.S. but his truck-trailer was searched because he didn’t have a passport and he was arrested for illegal possession of a gun.

Interesting that Puerto Ricans have been citizens of the U.S. since 1917, yet in The Big Apple they are still considered immigrants, even by the politicians who represent them, and the local news media!

And even more interesting, the Puerto Ricans living in The Big Apple have avoided taking part in the U.S. Census, even though since 1917 they’re considered citizens!

OHIO:  U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists at the Port of Cincinnati intercepted 51 shipments of invasive mitten crabs

OREGON: In immigrant loving state migrant students struggle to graduate from local high schools

PENNSYLVANIA: ICE deports convicted gun runner from Kazakhstan

TENNESSEE: Illegal immigrant teenager charged with kidnapping 

TEXAS: Mexican murder suspect arrested while trying to enter the United States

16 pregnant illegals captured by ICE

U.S. citizen is building his own version of the border wall

U.S. Customs and Border Protection arrested a man at the Anzalduas International Bridge with $229,000 worth of alleged cocaine 

UTAH:  Supposedly there’s such a labor shortage in Salt Lake City that even illegal workers are getting paid $15 per hour to start!

VERMONT:  Middlebury College pledges to help illegal dairy farm workers

Washington DC: Trump immigration policies showing results, with illegal border crossings plummeting

ICE Quietly Lowers (Already Low) Standards at Some Immigrant Detention Facilities
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IMMIGRANT INVASION U.S.A., 12-18 JANUARY 2020: “BETTER OFF NOT BEING A CITIZEN”

International

Operation Sudden Response: Climate Change, 19-25 January 2020

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Incomplete list of links to news articles concerning climate change events during the days of 19 to 25 of the Gregorian month of January 2020.

“People are tired of hearing about climate problems. We need solutions, especially farmers whose families, livestock and livelihoods depend on them.”-Oluyede Ajayi, Technical Center for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation

Africa Climate Change Fund approves seven projects worth U.S.$4.7-million
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The plot to profit from a bee-killing pesticide

 

France And Germany Miss EU Climate Plan Deadline

climate change fears are reviving Europe’s sleeper trains
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Locusts, the latest curse of East Africa weather extremes
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 HFC emissions are ‘rapidly’ rising and China and India could be to blame
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Be wary before donating to fire, earthquake funds

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AUSTRALIA: Bushfires, ash rain, dust storms and flash floods: two weeks of apocalypse

BRAZIL:   Brazil Listed Among Climate Change Culprits

CANADA:  Taxpayers funding CAD$20-million climate change think tank

CHINA:  China Suspends Tours Abroad as Xi Jinping Warns of ‘Grave Situation’ from new virus

  the world’s largest greenhouse gas emission emitter

economic woes threaten to derail China’s climate actions

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ETHIOPIA: Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt are moving towards resolving disputes in order to build the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.

FRANCE: New killer virus from China arrives

GERMANY:  Youth lawsuit challenges newest climate law

 15 personnel heading to operations with U.S. Africa Command (USAfriCom) went through humanitarian aid training at Kelley Barracks/Helenen-Kaserne: “We provide training to units like AfriCom to prepare them for when they might be called to provide humanitarian assistance to help the allies and partners that are within their area of operations as opposed to other military operations which are their main mission.”-Jenny Caruso, Humanitarian Assistance Response Training manager

GREENLAND:  For more proof climate change is a constant, scientists now say the demise of Viking colonies, in the Gregorian 15th Century, was the result of depleted resources and volatile prices, exacerbated by climate change.

Climate change resulting in skyrocketing cod fish:  “The Cod is coming back to Greenland strong.”-Bo Lings, fishing boat owner

HAITI: Scientists warn the next quake will be worse than the 2010 quake

ISRAEL:  UBQ Materials is an Israeli company which has developed a process to convert unsorted household waste into a plastic substitute, Germany’s Diamler agrees to test the household waste plastic in new cars. 

IVORY COAST:  How climate change has altered cocoa farming

SPAIN: Storm Gloria claims 12 lives in Spain, four missing

 Sea foam floods streets during deadly storm

TAJIKASTAN: 5.5 quake, 23JAN2020

TURKEY:  NEW earthquake hits already quake-devastated E. Turkish province

At Least 4 Killed, Buildings Collapse in Strong Earthquake

UGANDA:  Reforestation project considered a success, as forest employees live off revenues from Carbon Credits

UNITED KINGDOM:  Tremor shakes homes on Teesside

Taunton’s £6m flood defense plan approved

‘Hypocrisy’: 90% of UK-Africa summit’s energy deals were in fossil fuels
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UNITED STATES:  Is climate change making it easier to get syrup from the rare Pacific Northwest Big Leaf Maple?  Production is on the rise.

As Climate Risks Worsen, U.S. Government Flood Buyouts Fail 

Residents of Minnesota urged to get flood insurance after warning of massive flood from National Weather Service

Pennsylvania lumber mill shutdown due to three years in a row of flood damage

  It was revealed that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers held a training session on how to deal with a “hypothetical scenario” with Youghiogheny River Lake, in Pennsylvania.

More flooding predicted for Iowa 

Puerto Rico’s Air National Guard’s (PRANG) 156th Mission Support Group are the ‘gateway’ for all U.S. military support entering the territory for quake relief.  The above pic shows PRANG  personnel explaining the Joint Reception, Staging, Onward Movement and Integration process at Muñiz Air National Guard Base.

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) conducted ‘door-to-door’ wellness checks in Yauco, Puerto Rico, 19JAN2020.

More than 1-thousand-3-hundred military personnel supporting quake relief in Puerto Rico

Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, 19JAN2020.

Volunteer veterinarians from the Clinica Veterenaria tend to earthquake survivors’ pets, Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, 19JAN2020.

 Rescued pets from earthquake-ravaged Puerto Rico end up at East Coast shelters

Puerto Rico Is Welcoming Tourists As Island Recovers From Earthquake Damage

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3.8 magnitude earthquake felt in southern Kentucky

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In Mississippi, loud booms hear, authorities say it’s not an earthquake

Mississippi Fights With Army Corps of Engineers Over Flood Control
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Third earthquake hits near same area of Tennessee this week

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2.7 quake in Pecos County, Texas, 24JAN2020

3.0 earthquake shakes west Texas, 23JAN2020 
Exercise ‘Sudden Response’, involving military units located at Killeen, Austin and Fort Hood, Texas.  The exercise preps military responders for equipment deployment, life-saving operations and web-based command and control.
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CLIMATE CHANGE, 12-18 JANUARY 2020: “ON SCALE WE’VE NOT SEEN BEFORE”

International, Technology

U.S. taxpayers to rescue “donated” C-130

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24 January 2020 / 21:35 UTC-07 Tango 06 (05 Bahman 1398/29 Jumada l-Ula 1441/01 Ding-Chou 4718)

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Sarah Brice, 14JAN2020.

“The U.S. commitment to this partnership is stronger than ever, and I look forward to building upon it in the days ahead.”-Michael Raynor, U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia, during the June 2018 C-130E hand-over, he obviously didn’t realize the Ethiopians couldn’t handle the U.S. taxpayer funded ‘gift’

Poorly thought-out hand-over of donated C-130E, June 2018.

A year-and-a-half ago the U.S. government “donated” a C-130 Hercules to the struggling Ethiopian air force, and without much forethought, it turns out, as it was discovered that the Ethiopian military personnel lacked the knowledge to maintain or operate the transport.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Sarah Brice, 14JAN2020.

In January 2020, U.S. military officials realized the Ethiopians needed help with their U.S. taxpayer funded gift, so the U.S. Air Force’s 818th Mobility Support Advisory Squadron (MSAS) went in.

U.S. Air Force maintenance personnel check-out the landing gear on the donated C-130E. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Sarah Brice, 14JAN2020.

Explainer video, 23JAN2020:

So far the old C-130E has completed taxi runs, hopefully will be flying soon.

Between 1998 and 2014, Ethiopia got two C-130Bs, and a C-130E.  The above pic is of tail #1562 seen wasting away.  The other B model and the E model are listed as active, which is hard to believe since Ethiopia had so much trouble maintaining the C-130E donated in June 2018.

In the cockpit, USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Sarah Brice, 14JAN2020.

In the cargo bay, USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Sarah Brice, 14JAN2020.

The intent of the donation of the C-130E was to help Ethiopia conduct ‘peacekeeping’ missions in Africa.

Taxpayer rip-offs: U.S. TAXPAYERS DELIVER MD-530F CAYUSE WARRIOR TO KENYA

BARE METAL: C-130 PAINT PREP, OR THE EMPEROR GETS SOME NEW CLOTHES

Technology

NATO Vehicle I-D: Challenger vs Leclerc

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NATO’s 2020 anti-Russia training was held in the eastern European country of Latvia (right on Russia’s border).

NATO promo-video, NATO’s Adazi Training Base, Latvia, 23JAN2020:

LECLERC, NATO-France:

French Leclercs invade NATO-Germany, 29MAY2018. U.S. Army photo by Kevin S. Abel.

U.S. Army (USA) video by Kevin S. Abel, May 2018, France ‘invades’ Germany for Strong Europe Tank Challenge:

The Leclerc does not have a bore evacuator (fume extractor) on its NATO compatible 120mm F1 smoothbore main-gun.  It uses interior overpressure, or a compressed air system, for gun-tube fume extraction.

USA photo by Specialist Craig Carter, 05JUN2018.

USA video by Matthias Fruth, Leclercs blasting away during NATO’s Strong Europe Tank Challenge at the 7th U.S. Army Training Command’s Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, June 2018:

Simulated CBRN attack. USA photo by Specialist Craig Carter, 05JUN2018.

Push-me-pull-you action, towing away a ‘broke-dick’ Leclerc. USA photo by Specialist Craig Carter, 05JUN2018.

Leclerc’s butt. USA photo by Lacey Justinger, 04JUN2018.

Leclerc has a single exhaust that looks like a giant water-pipe elbow pointing skyward. The ‘things’ on the back-end of the tank are racks for external fuel drums, à la Soviet style.

CHALLENGER:  No, not my (snow)drifting Challenger!

NATO-United Kingdom:

USA photo by Gertrud Zach, 07JUN2018.

This is the Challenger I’m talking about, the United Kingdom’s Challenger-2.  The Challenger has a ‘coffee-can’ bore evacuator on its non-NATO compatible 120mm L30A1 rifled-bore main-gun.

USA photo by Gertrud Zach, 07JUN2018.

It also has fuel drum racks on its butt.  The exhaust ports are square looking boxes towards the rear on each side of the vehicle.

Pistol shoot. USA photo by Gertrud Zach, 06JUN2018.

Video, shooting a pistol from the turret of a Challenger-2, Strong Europe Tank Challenge,  Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, June 2018:

USA photo by Gertrud Zach, 07JUN2018.

Somebody lit a fire under this Challenger-2’s ass!  I suspect that it is one of the smoke grenades used to simulate a CBRN attack.

USA silent video, by Elliott Banks, of Royal Red Coats uploading their unique three-part-ammo:

USA video of Challenger-2 blasting away (this time Elliott recorded the audio), 06JUN2018:

VEHICLE I-D: MODEL T & WHITE MOTOR WARRIORS

JOIN THE U.S. MILITARY GET A CLASSIC CAR?

 ZOMBIE TANK T-55, THEY’RE EVERYWHERE! (and they keep coming back from the dead)

International, Technology

U.S. taxpayers deliver MD-530F Cayuse Warrior to Kenya

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24 January 2020 (01:55 UTC-07 Tango 06) 04 Bahman 1398/28 Jumada l-Ula 1441/30 Yi-Chou 4717

Handover Ceremony at Embakasi Barracks, Kenya, 23JAN2020.

It’s a few months late (first promised delivery was for mid-2019, then pushed back to the end of 2019) but the first six of 12 taxpayer funded MD-530F Cayuse Warrior helicopters are now in Kenya.

The helicopters will be used against ‘extremists’ in Somalia.  MD Helicopters was issued a five years  U.S.$1.4-billion IDIQ contract from U.S. Army Contracting Command-Redstone Arsenal-Multinational Aviation Special Project Office.

IDIQ means Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity, it is a U.S. government phrase referring to contracts that require unknown quantities over a specified time period.

Multinational Aviation Special Project Office states on its website that it “provides aircraft procurement and support activities for customers around the world and services a fleet that includes a wide variety of rotary and fixed wing aircraft such as the Mi-17s, MD-500Es, MD-530Fs, MD-600Ns, AH-1Fs, AH-6i’s, IA-407s, Bell 412s, S-333s, Bell 206s, UH-1s, Huey IIs and AW-139s.”  In other words, taxpayers are paying for other countries’ helicopters.

MD Helicopters claims the upgraded MD-530 has the Rolls-Royce 250-C30 650shp turbine engine, advanced all-digital glass cockpit, ballistically tolerant crash-worthy fuel system, Harris RF-7850A tactical radio, Rockwell Collins HF-9000D, FN Herstal Weapons Management System, DillonAero Mission Configurable Armament System (MCAS), DillonAero Fixed-Forward Sighting System, 62mm ballistic armor protection, FN Herstal .50 caliber HMP 400 Machine Gun Pods, and M260 7-shot rocket pods.

VEHICLE I-D video: MD-530F CAYUSE WARRIOR, AFGHANISTAN

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

Kit Bashing, Technology

Vehicle I-D: Cold War and beyond, C-2A to C-2A(R) Greyhound, now ‘On Final’! Can you get a kit of it?

Video

Nice, Italy, 1970. Photo via U.S. Navy’s VR-24.

The Grumman C-2A Greyhound has been around for a long time, joining the U.S. Navy in 1966 (production started in 1965).

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, October 1990. USN photo by Don S. Montgomery.

Somewhere over the Pacific Ocean, February 2005. USN photo by Photographer’s Mate Justin Blake.

It was developed from the E-2 Hawkeye early warning aircraft, and eventually replaced the older C-1 Trader.

C-1A Trader, Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia, August 1983. USN photo by Journalist Senior Chief Petty Officer Kirby Harrison.

C-2 Greyhound somewhere over the Indian Ocean, Summer of 1980. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate First Class David Maclean.

Somewhere over the Mediterranean Sea, Summer 1988. USN photo by Commander Leenhouts.

C-2A over Naval Air Station Norfolk, September 1989. USN photo by Photographer’s Mate Third Class Stephen L. Batiz.

Seven little Greyhounds over Naval Base San Diego, California, August 1990. USN photo by Photographer’s Mate Second Class Patrick Muscutt.

News media board a C-2A Greyhound, during Operation Desert Shield, August 1990. USN photo by Journalist Petty Officer Second Class Bartlett.

Hurghada, Egypt, a Greyhound being loaded with supplies for an aircraft carrier in the Red Sea, post Operation Desert Storm. USN photo by Photographer’s Mate Second Class Savage, May/April 1991.

Official USN website history of the C-2A Greyhound: C-2A Greyhound Logistics Aircraft

Operation Enduring Freedom logo painted on the underside of the tail-end of a C-2A. Naval Air Station Norfolk, July 2002. USN photo by Photographer’s Mate First Class Shawn P. Eklund.

Naval Air Station Norfolk, July 2002. USN photo by Photographer’s Mate First Class Shawn P. Eklund.

Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Jacqueline Diaz, 18MAR2009.

It has gone through many upgrades, the current Greyhounds are known as C-2A(R) and are identifiable by their NP2000 propellers.

U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. USN photo by Petty Officer Third Class Joshua Nistas, 15JAN2010.

USN video,  Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch Systems (EMALS) and Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) testing aboard USS Gerald R. Ford’s (CVN 78), 17JAN2020:

Another Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch Systems (EMALS) and Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) testing aboard USS Gerald R. Ford’s (CVN 78) video:

Video, Rawhindes of Fleet Logistics Support Squadron (VRC) 40 conduct their first flight operations from aboard USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), April 2019:

Carrier Onboard Delivery, aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) November 2017:

More Rawhides video from February 2017,  operations aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69):

Video, Horsemen of Detachment IV of Fleet Logistics Support Squadron (VRC) 40, takes off and lands on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) October 2016 (warning, includes slow-mo-video, do not adjust your set):

Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, video of Greyhound prepping for trip to USS George Washington (CVN-73), September 2014:

Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California, 11DEC2013. USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Stacy Atkins Ricks.

On Final: The U.S. Navy has tried several times to replace the Greyhound, but potential replacements failed to measure up, or never materialized. In 2015, the USN stated that it intended to replace the Greyhound with the much more expensive, less load carrying ability, tilt-rotary wing CMV-22B Osprey, possibly starting in 2024.

Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, 19MAR2020. USN photo by Steve Wolff/Paul Lagasse.

On 19MAR2020, C-2A Greyhound Bureau Number (not ‘build number’ as many people/authors incorrectly call it) 162142 took its final flight.

Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, 19MAR2020. USN photo by Erik Hildebrandt/Paul Lagasse.

BuNu 162142 had flown with VX-20 for just short of 30 years.

Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, 19MAR2020. USN photo by Erik Hildebrandt/Brittany Dickerson.

BuNu 162142 retired to the Patuxent River Naval Air Museum.

USN photo by Christopher D Nette, 18AUG2020.

On 17AUG2020, the last C-2A(R) to undergo planned maintenance interval three (PMI-3) arrived on Fleet Readiness Center Southwest (FRCSW), North Island Naval Air Station, California. PMI-3 for the Greyhound costs just under $4-million: “Other C-2s will induct for the much smaller PMI-1 and 2 events and most likely will also have in-service repairs. Field events for PMI-1 and 2 are scheduled out to Fiscal Year 2022.”-Jorge Gutierrez-Lopez, FRCSW Props IPT program scheduler

28NOV2020, somewhere over the Arabian Sea. USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Keenan Daniels.

28NOV2020, somewhere over the Arabian Sea. USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Keenan Daniels.

In 1:72 scale; I-D Models made a vacform kit in the mid-1970s.  Falcon began issuing a Triple conversion set in the 1990s that included a C-2A fuselage for the Fujimi or Hasegawa E-2 Hawkey.  Resin kit maker RVHP Models currently has an outrageously expensive full-kit (you can buy a couple of the 1:48 Kinetic kits for one RVHP kit).

Trumpeter offers a detailed 1:350 scale kit for your aircraft carrier.

Fox One Design Studio offers 1:144 scale versions.

In 1:48 scale the rare resin Collect Aire kit comes with four blade prop, while Kinetic’s more affordable plastic kits come with either four or eight blade props.

VEHICLE I-D: USN GOSHAWK T-45

Technology

Vehicle I-D: USN Goshawk T-45

Video

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Connor Loessin, 20JAN2020.

The U.S. Navy (USN) is currently testing its new Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) and Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG), and the venerable T-45 Goshawk is one of the guinea pigs.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Zack Guth, 18JAN2020.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Connor Loessin, 20JAN2020.

USN video, Goshawk touch-n-go (wait for it) aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), 18JAN2020:

 

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jesus O. Aguiar, 18JAN2020.

The T-45 is now an old plane, its origins go back to the 1970s British empire Hawk trainer.  The USN asked for a navalized version and began using it in 1991, calling it the T-45 Goshawk.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Zachary Melvin, 18JAN2020.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Zachary Melvin, 18JAN2020.

USN video, fueling the Goshawk, take-off & landing aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), 18JAN2020:

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jesus O. Aguiar, 18JAN2020.

Interestingly, model kit builders were able to get a Goshawk before the USN officially started using it.  In 1989, Italeri (eh-taal-ery) began selling 1:72 scale kits of the T-45A Goshawk.  In 1990, Testors reboxed the Italeri kit.  Italeri reissued the kit in 2019.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Ryan Carter, 17JAN2020.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Ruben Reed, 17JAN2020.

Another fueling video:

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Ryan Carter, 17JAN2020.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Ryan Carter, 17JAN2020

VEHICLE I-D: MODEL T & WHITE MOTOR WARRIORS

NEW F-16 WRAITH! NIGHT FIGHTER WW-2 STYLE!

F-8 DFBW, OR ANOTHER REASON WHY TODAY’S TECHIE GENERATION OWES THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX!

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

U.S.

Puerto Rico Militia creates tent cities for thousands of survivors!

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Puerto Rico has deployed more than 650 of its own National Guard personnel, in response to the ongoing earthquakes, building tent cities that can house thousands of survivors.

Tent cities have been established in the municipalities of Yauco, Ponce, Peñuelas, Guanica and Guayanilla.  Each can provide shelter for up to 1-thousand-5-hundred people, with showers, toilets and laundry facilities.

FAILED STATE: OHIO JOINS NEW YORK IN DEPLOYING MILITIA TO PUERTO RICO

U.S.

Failed State: Ohio joins New York in deploying Militia to Puerto Rico

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16 January 2020 (23:44 UTC-07 Tango 06) 27 Dey 1398/21 Jumada l-Ula 1441/23 Yi-Chou 4717

“Our Ohio Air National Guard Airmen at the 200th RED
HORSE Squadron are ready and anxious to support earthquake relief efforts in Puerto Rico. This is what we do.”-Major General John C. Harris Jr., Ohio adjutant general

What Major General Harris said is true, but in the past each state’s National Guard took care of their own, deploying National Guard units across state lines might be unprecedented: “Being able to support another state for domestic response is exciting.”-Colonel Michael Hrynciw, commander 200th RED HORSE Squadron

Ohio is sending its Air National Guard’s 179th Airlift Wing and 200th RED HORSE Squadron to Puerto Rico.

They’re taking ‘beddown units’ which contain organic power and potable water (potable means you can use it in a cooking pot for consumption).  Each beddown unit can hold 150 people.

In 2017, the 200th Red Horse deployed to the U.S. Virgin Islands in response to Hurricane Irma.

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Failed State: A state/country whose political/economic system has become so weak that the government is no longer in control.

FAILED STATE: NEW YORK DEPLOYS ITS MILITIA TO SAVE PUERTO RICO!