“After seeing the Abrams tank, I didn’t feel like I had another option…”-Second Lieutenant Brooke Berard
“When we get together and put rounds down range, and begin to maneuver as an element, there’s nothing more exhilarating…”-Second Lieutenant Lauren Bolt
The 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team has another first to report; the first time female armor officers qualified in the M1A2 Abrams main battle tank in Idaho Army National Guard’s history.
It happened in February 2019. Second Lieutenant Brooke Berard, Second Lieutenant Lauren Bolt , are now platoon leaders with Bravo Company, located in Nampa, Idaho. Since December 2015 the door was opened to female personnel to serve in combat positions.
Idaho Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Mason Cutrer.
Night fire of 116th’s M1A2 SEP at Orchard Training Area (aka Orchard Combat Training Center), 14FEB2019.
STOP YOUR BITCHIN’: WOMAN NOW COMMANDS OREGON’S SKY, SAYS WAR-FIGHTING RAMPING-UP!
STOP YOUR BITCHIN’: IDAHO WOMAN COMMANDS 1ST FEMALE COMBAT TEAM!
On 01NOV2018, non-profit AmeriCares set up ‘Clinic in a Can’ operations in conjunction with FEMA and Florida Department of Health. This is a fine example of how bad things are in the U.S. because AmeriCares was originally established to help people in poverty stricken countries.
Mandatory flu vaccines for U.S. Army personnel at Fort Stewart.
U.S. personnel of the USNS Comfort provide ‘free’ (U.S. taxpayer funded) medical care to Colombians, 17NOV2018.
U.S. Southern Command’s Medical Element Preventative Medicine operation tested the drinking water in Comayagua and Siguatepeque, 07NOV2018. It’s part of the U.S. military’s taxpayer funded foreign community outreach ops.
USN Captain Kevin Buckley, from the U.S. hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), presents donated medical supplies to the Peruvian Ministry of Health at one of two medical sites, 05NOV2018. Personnel aboard USNS Comfort also provided ‘free’ (U.S. taxpayer funded) medical care to Peruvians.
U.S. Army and Air Force personnel inspect the Rwanda Military Hospital, 30NOV2018.
U.S. Army personnel help plant a new Partners in Education sign in front of Hardaway High School in Columbus.
Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Tyler Richins poses for a photo with his father, Dwight Richins, after coaching Sugar-Salem High School to the Idaho 3A state football championship.
On the ‘associated U.S. state’ of Marshall Islands the U.S. Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 1 carried out taxpayer funded repairs to local schools, 07NOV2018.
On U.S. Marine Corps’ Camp Lejeune, a fire burned through the roof of Lejeune High School, 01NOV2018.
On the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands, a sixth grader at Hopwood Junior High School inspects the damage caused by Super Typhoon Yutu, 15NOV2018.
U.S. Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 1 ‘SeaBees’ connect a FEMA-owned (taxpayer owned) emergency power generator to the Tinian Elementary School, 05NOV2018.
U.S. Coast Guard personnel rebuild an elementary school in Guatemala (one of the Central American countries flooding the U.S. with migrants), 19NOV2018.
U.S. Navy SeaBees spend U.S. tax dollars building a new high school for the Federated States of Micronesia, 17NOV2018.
New layers of concertina wire added to the border wall near Nogales.
U.S. Army 52nd Brigade Engineer Battalion, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division’s Alpha Company (based at Fort Carson) deploy for operations along the southwest border with Mexico, 15FEB2019.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection used scanners to ‘look inside’ food trucks making deliveries to the Mercedes-Benz Stadium prior to Super Bowl 53, in Atlanta.
Officers of the U.S. military, Border Patrol and Texas Department of Public Safety inspect patrol training as it was being conducted at Camino Real International Bridge, 06FEB2019.
Somewhere in the East China Sea, U.S. Navy and Marines personnel conducted Nightingale, a mass casualty exercise aboard USS Wasp (LHD 1), 04FEB2019.
U.S. Marines and Sailors trained with Japanese forces on Okinawa, for Humanitarian Assistance-Disaster Relief, 01FEB2019.
At ‘Sector San Diego’ U.S. Coast Guard cutter Haddock conducted mass casualty training, 06FEB2019.
U.S. personnel board a Japanese Air Force C-130H at Andersen Air Force Base, in preparation to resume the humanitarian assistance and disaster relief portion of COPE North, 25FEB2019.
Operation Enduring Promise; As ObamaCare fails in the U.S., the U.S. Navy proudly created this graphic to show what your U.S. tax dollars were spent on providing ‘free’ medical care in Ecuador.
Border Operation Faithful Patriot; U.S. military personnel inspect spools of barbed wire at Defense Logistics Agency Distribution San Joaquin, 26OCT2018.
North American Aerospace Defense Command-U.S. Northern Command, Colorado Springs, conducts a ‘synchronizer’ meeting for Operation Faithful Patriot, 28OCT2018.
U.S. Coast Guard captured 84 illegal immigrants from Haiti, 28OCT2018, supposedly they returned all of them to Haiti.
Border Operation Faithful Patriot; U.S. Army’s 89th Military Police Brigade (part of Task Force Griffin) prep their gear for deployment to Arizona, 27OCT2018.
Border Operation Faithful Patriot; coordination meeting between U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Department of Defense, Brownsville, 26OCT2018.
Border Operation Faithful Patriot; U.S. Army’s 541st Engineering Company, 19th Engineering Battalion (part of Task Force Griffin), deployed from Kentucky to San Antonio, 30OCT2018.
U.S. taxpayers funding Operation Enduring Promise, in which USN hospital ship USNS Comfort (departing from Norfolk) will provide ‘free’ medical care to people in Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and Honduras.