The 12th of April, 2025, was the first cruise of the year by the Pocatello Car Club. It also became a memorial cruise for a couple of people; one killed in a crash and another killed in a tragic shooting.
The cruise was down United States Route 91 (aka Highway 91), through Pocatello, Idaho. Highway […] Continue Reading…
This old car has been around town, appearing at last year’s “…car-show that almost wasn’t?!” And on 12APR2025, the bomber DeSoto arrived for a Pocatello Car Club cruise that doubled as a memorial event:
The original DeSotos were actually Chryslers, and at first were called Series-K and were simply remodeled Plymouths.
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The pland-emic didn’t stop the U.S. Marine Corps from conducting ‘Gator Week’ on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, 06APR2023. The event included crushing cars with an AAV7A1 (Amphibious Assault Vehicles-7A1).
U.S. Army M1A2 SEP wows the crowd on the Bemowo Piskie Training Area, in Poland.Polish Leopard 2A5(?) and United Kingdom Challenger-2 battle-tanks […] Continue Reading…
The use of crop-duster aircraft as combat aircraft is nothing new, and it seems the United States is simply following a global trend, because the agricultural aircraft are relatively cheap and easy to maintain.
U.S. Air Force (USAF) Special Operations Command (SOC) loves its latest crop-duster, the OA-1K, which is actually based on the Air […] Continue Reading…
Development of the M88A2 was started in 1991, after it was realized the A1 version could not tow the M1 Abrams by itself; it required two M88A1s to tow the 70-ton battle-tank. The first M88A2 went into service in July 1997. Only the A2 is called the HERCULES, which stands for Heavy Equipment Recovery […] Continue Reading…
Although the first official United States Army (USA) Airborne unit was created in 1943 (82nd Airborne Division), the USA had been experimenting with the idea of having Soldiers jump out of perfectly good aircraft since the end of World War One.
Most of the early Airborne training took place on Fort Benning (recently called Fort […] Continue Reading…
The federal U.S. Army Reserve is having a new training center built on the Utah Army National Guard’s Camp Williams. Army Reserve training personnel will be redeploying from their home on Fort Douglas, Utah, to Camp Williams.
Fort Douglas was one of many locations, during World War One, where German prisoners […] Continue Reading…
To boost lagging recruitment (and apparent lack of desire to deploy to Japan), the U.S. Air Force is promoting its Auto Hobby Shop on Yokota Air Base. It is open seven days per week, with six self-service lift bays, an oil-change pit, and they provide the tools!
U.S. Armed Forces Network video report released 17MAR2025:
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On 21MAR2025, U.S. President Donald John Trump announced the purchase of a top secret fighter jet for the U.S. Air Force (USAF), called the F-47. He also revealed that the cost of the aircraft is ‘top secret’, ostensibly claiming that revealing the cost would also reveal the latest and greatest ‘top secret’ technologies used […] Continue Reading…
On 20MAR2025, United States President Donald John Trump issued Executive Order “Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities.”
The purpose of the order is to reduce taxpayer funding of a system that has failed to meet even international standards (for decades) by returning direct control of public education to each State (prior to […] Continue Reading…