In Southeastern Idaho, Pocatello’s Center Street Tunnel (underpass) has been around since The Great Depression (1934 to be exact). The Tunnel was built underneath a very busy Union Pacific railyard. The City of Pocatello is supposedly, constantly, repairing the Tunnel. The repair work never lasts long and recently the Tunnel is looking so bad […] Continue Reading…
Great Patriotic War/World War Two: 1941 to 1945.
U.S. World War Two era M101 105-millimeter (105mm) ‘howitzer’ (short gun tube [barrel] artillery) still in use by Philippines.
I edited together several videos via U.S. Marine Corps, recorded during the October 2019 KAMANDAG wargame. KAMANDAG is an acronym for the Filipino phrase Kaagapay Ng Mga Mandirigma Ng Dagat, […] Continue Reading…
The word howitzer refers to a short tubed artillery piece, the M109 obviously does not qualify as a ‘howitzer’!
Definitely not a short ‘tubed’ gun.Gunners of the 2nd Battalion-222nd Field Artillery Regiment, Utah Army National Guard, and with 214 (Worcestershire) Battery-104th Regiment Royal Artillery from United Kingdom, joined forces during wargame […] Continue Reading…
Naderi Pomegranate harvest time in Badroud, Isfahan Province, early November 2025. The Naderi is considered to be among the top five most popular varieties of pomegranates in Iran. Video via Fars News, 08NOV2025:
If sanctions on Iran are so punishing why is Iran cracking down on people smuggling household products into Iran? […] Continue Reading…
“It demonstrates a significant leap in Iran’s missile capabilities.”-Uzi Rubin, former director of Israel’s Ballistic Missile Defense Organization
Iran developed its Shahab-3 liquid fueled ballistic missile into newer, more accurate, solid fueled replacements called Sejil-1 and Sejil-2.
Sejil is the Farsi word for brimstone. It has been spelled in several ways in English.
Fars News Sejil explainer:
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My old polling place (in Chubbuck, Idaho) was torn down this Summer, I had a new polling place in a new business:
Who did you vote for?
On 06SEP2012, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen gave a speech at the Yerevan University, Armenia:
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Part-2:
“Rector Simonyan, Ladies and gentlemen, Dear friends, thank you Rector Simonyan, for that kind introduction.
It is indeed a great to be in Armenia. I am also happy to see a lot of young people and […] Continue Reading…
Here is just a sampling of videos:
On 04SEP2025, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations, U.S. Department of Labor Office of Inspector General, FBI, DEA, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP, aka Border Patrol), U.S. Bureau of Alcohol-Tobacco-Firearms and Explosives, IRS, and the Georgia State Patrol executed a federal search warrant […] Continue Reading…
From September 22rd through 24th, 2025, the Air & Space Forces Association (AFA) conducted their Air, Space & Cyber Conference. The conference took place in the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, Maryland. The theme of the military dominated conference was, of course, ‘Achieving Decisive Advantage in an Age of Growing Threats’.
I […] Continue Reading…
U.S. Space Force reveals their Mission (Space) Delta-4 and System Delta-84 early warning platforms came online just in time for Iran’s massive missile attacks! They also admit they did not expect such a massive attack from Iran!
Video report via Tenelle Marshall, recorded on 22SEP2025:
System Delta-84/FORGE (Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution) is […] Continue Reading…