U.S. Air Force photo by Peter Borys, 02JUN2021.
At the beginning of June 2021, Canadian fire trucks rolled onto New York’s Niagara Falls International Airport where they were loaded onto a U.S. Air Force (USAF) C-5M Super Galaxy transport and flown to Nicaragua.
USAF photo by Peter Borys, 02JUN2021.
The fire trucks, as well as humanitarian supplies, came from an outfit called Global Medic in Toronto, Canada. The entire operation was coordinated through the Denton Humanitarian Assistance Program.
The Denton Program also includes other items listed as ‘humanitarian’. USAF photo by Peter Borys, 02JUN2021.
It’s not the first time, towards the end of July 2020 a firetruck and two ambulances from Canada got a ride on a USAF C-5M, bound for Nicaragua.
A new 44-passenger bus loaded onto a C-17 in North Carolina, 04JUN2021. North Carolina Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Nathan Clark.
North Carolina Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Laura Montgomery, 06MAY2017.
In 2017, the Denton Humanitarian Assistance Program got the help of the North Carolina Air National Guard, packing a fire truck and other vehicles into a C-17 Globemaster-3.
USAF Reserve Airman weigh an International Harvester water truck before shipment to Nicaragua, September 2017. USAF photo by Master Sergeant Eric Amidon.
The Denton Humanitarian Assistance Program is not an independent charity but a taxpayer/’donation’ funded operation of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Agency for International Development (USAID). It is also known as Denton Cargo Program or Denton Program, and was started in 1987, after a 1985 change to Title 10 United States Code. It allows private charities to use space-available on taxpayer funded U.S. military aircraft to deliver their humanitarian supplies, mainly to Central American countries.
In July 2020, the USAF issued a press release claiming the Denton Program was “unfunded”, which is a blatant lie because the fuel, maintenance, and pay for the military personnel, is in the millions of U.S. dollars for just one flight of those giant transports! The USAF rationalizes that it is ‘unfunded’ because it uses what is called ‘space available’. This means that if a military aircraft is flying to a certain destination and it has empty space in its cargo hold, then it can be used for the Denton Program, but reality-check, the flight is still funded by the taxpayers.
Another faux pas in justifying the Denton Program Central American operations is this 2020 statement by Technical Sergeant Ryan Padgett: “By providing them with these resources, they are more likely to thrive, their economy will receive a boost which has the potential to lead to better health care, education and an overall higher standard of living.”
Spartan Guardian fire trucks loaded onto a U.S Air Force C-5M Super Galaxy, in Montana, 06NOV2021. Montana Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant Joesph Davis.
If the covertly taxpayer/’donor’ funded Title 10 Denton Program (on-going since 1987) is helping Central American countries (Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua) improve life for their residents, then why are there record numbers of Central Americans (specifically from Guatemala) swarming into the United States?
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