All posts by Hutchins AAron

Born in Deutschland 1965, hometown was Bütthart, parents were not U.S. government employees. However, when father was tricked into joining the U.S. Air Force Civil Service, in 1969, with the promise that we could remain in Germany, we were promptly shipped off to Iran. Due to one of my Iranian educators being disappeared, along with her husband, by the U.S. ally Shah of Iran's Israeli & U.S. created Savak (for the then official terrorist act of promoting the idea that women can vote), and due to my U.S. citizen mother being placed on Savak's Terrorist Arrest List (for supporting the idea that women should vote, at that time the U.S. ally Shah of Iran did not allow women to vote, now they can) we left Iran for the United States in 1973, literally in the middle of the night. At the U.S. Embassy airbase the CIA operated Gooney Bird (C-47) was so packed with other U.S. citizens fleeing our ally Iran (because the Shah gave the OK to arrest any U.S. citizen for such terrorist acts as promoting the concept of voting) that we were turned away by the Loadmaster and had to take a chance on a civilian flight out of Tehran's airport. My father told me he and my mother had three culture shocks; first when they arrived in Germany as civilians, then after being shipped off to Iran as U.S. government employees, then again returning to the United States as unemployed civilians (because so much had changed in the U.S. while they were gone, their only news source was the U.S. Armed Forces Radio & Television Service which heavily censored information about the home front). Since I graduated high school in 1982 I've worked for U.S. government contractors and state & local government agencies (in California), convenience store manager in California, retail/property management in Georgia, California and Idaho. Spent the 1990s in the TV news business producing number one rated local news programs in California, Arizona and Idaho. 14+ years with California and Idaho Army National Guard and the U.S. Air Force. Obtained a BA degree in International Studies from Idaho State University at the age of 42. Unemployed since 2015, so don't tell me the economy has recovered.

13APR2024: WAR! Iran confirms it is attacking Israel!

Qatar and Kuwait close their air-space!

U.S. officials claim as many as 5-hundred drones launched against Israel!

Iran says any country helping Israel or U.S. to attack Iran will suffer retaliation by Iran!

Israel Defense Forces reports at least 1-hundred Iranian drones detected, plus cruise missiles!

Iraq closes its air-space!

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced that they have launched “dozens” of combat drones (Shahed 136) and long range missiles against Israel, in response for Israel’s attack on Iran’s embassy in Syria!  Israel warns it will attack Iran directly if any Iranian drone strikes Israel!

Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu thanks NATO members for their support!

13APR2024: WAR? ISRAEL SAYS IRAN HAS LAUNCHED AIR ATTACK!

13APR2024: WAR? Israel says Iran has launched air attack!

Kingdom of Jordan states they are prepared to shoot down Iranian aircraft!

University of Tehran professor indicates this is just the beginning of Iran’s vengeance attacks for Israel’s attack on the embassy in Syria!  Says if the U.S. attacks Iran then “they will lose Iraq”!

Israel’s El Al airline cancels flights!  Airline flights are being diverted around the air-space of Lebanon, Iraq, Israel, Jordan and Syria!

U.S. and Israel now jamming GPS satellite signals in The Middle East! Kingdom of Jordan closes their airspace to air-traffic!  Israel claims Iran has launched multiple drones towards Israel!

U.S. President Joseph Robinette Biden Junior, and other officials, on way to emergency security meeting!

Israel’s Home Front Command (HFC) bans public gatherings, shuts down schools, asks Israelis to obey orders of HFC!

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps captures cargo ship in Persian Gulf! Cargo ship is co-owned by an Israeli businessman.  Iranian government says they are prepared to shutdown the Straight of Hormuz, blocking 1/5th of global shipping!

05APR2024: UN DENOUNCES USE OF A-I & STARVATION AS WEAPONS OF ISRAEL, CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL WEAPONS BAN ON ISRAEL!

Holt Arena 2024: Couple of cool Fords for the Hot Summer.

On the 15th-16th of March 2024, Idaho State University (ISU)-College of Technology Automotive Program held its ‘Chrome in the Dome’ car show.

1967 Ford Galaxie XL.

My walk-around video:

1949 Ford ‘shoebox’ woodie wagon.

My walk-around video:

Holt Arena 2024: HOT RODS ‘ATTITUDE CHECK!’

Part-3 Chrome in the Dome, March 2024.

On the 15th-16th of March 2024, Idaho State University (ISU)-College of Technology Automotive Program held its ‘Chrome in the Dome’ car show.

Video part-3a:

Video part-3b:

Video part-3c:

Video part-3d:

Video part-3e:

 

In 1970 (Cold War), the first in the U.S. fully enclosed colligate sports arena opened; the ASISU (Associated Students of Idaho State University) Minidome.  In 1988 (Cold War), the name was changed to Holt Arena to honor the athletic director who pushed for the creation of the Minidome.  In January 2024 the name was changed, again, to ICCU (Idaho Central Credit Union) Dome, due to the arena’s recent refreshment being funded mostly by the financial institution.

Part-2: 2024, HOLT ARENA-ICCU CHROME IN THE DOME

Holt Arena 2024: HOT RODS ‘ATTITUDE CHECK!’ (Now improved with more videos!)

RATROD 1932 CHEVY

Operation Jupiter: U.S. Navy fires commander of bio-research labs!

08 April 2024 (11:01-UTC-07 Tango 06) 20 Farvardin 1403/29 Ramadan 1445/30 Wu-Chen 4722/08 апрель 2024 года

The ‘woke’ U.S. Navy (USN) continues to clean house, removing yet another senior officer from a command position.  This time it is the commander of Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU)-South (aka Unit-6, in operation since 1983)!

Attending the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting in October 2023. From left to right: Captain Abigail Marter, NAMRU-South, Captain Franca Jones, commander Naval Medical Research Command, Captain Virginia Blackman, NAMRU-Europe-Africa-Central, and Captain Jonathan Stahl, NAMRU-Indo Pacific. U.S. Navy photo by Commander Kimberly Edgel, 20OCT2023.

Captain Abigail Y. Marter was removed from command officially “due to a loss of confidence”, which has become the standard ‘official’ reason why the new ‘woke’ USN is getting rid of officers and enlisted.  The USN did not give details about the decision, U.S. federal law does not require the Department of Defense to make public the reasons for commanders being removed from their jobs.

Captain Abigail Marter during her Unit-6 command ceremony, 07JUL2023.
USN photo by Monica Barrera.

Captain Abigail Y. Marter, a family nurse practitioner, had been in command of Research Lab Unit South since only July 2023!  But wait, she will continue to sail-on (at least temporarily), working for the USN’s Naval Medical Research Command.

Collecting mosquito larvae near Tumbes, Peru, 09AUG2023. USN photo by Kahoma Villaizan.

Unit-South (formerly Unit-6, until July 2023) operates biomedical labs in Callao and the Naval Clinic base in Iquitos, Peru, as well as on Soto Cano Air Base in Honduras.   The USN boasts that Unit-South researches and monitors various infectious diseases in Central and South America, such as malaria, dengue fever, zika, diarrheal diseases, sexually transmitted infections, and monitors for antimicrobial resistance in pathogens.

Note: the USN has both a rank of Commander, and a position of commander.  You do not have to be the rank of Commander to be assigned the position of a commander.

Operation Jupiter 2023: ANOTHER STATE CAUGHT ILLEGALLY SELLING BABY BLOOD TO DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE!?

U.S. Department of Defense BAT RESEARCH AND HEMORRHAGIC DISEASES!

Operation Jupiter 2021: PROJECT SEA RAVEN, U.S. Navy SEARCHING FOR NEW DISEASES IN CAPE VERDE

Operation Jupiter 2015: A SMALL PART OF A LARGER MILITARY OPERATION SPREADING DISEASE AT A HOSPITAL NEAR YOU!

Autumn 2023, and I’m up a creek in Idaho!

It has been more than a decade since I hiked up the City Creek Trails in Pocatello, Idaho. I had gotten out of shape and gained a lot of weight, but I’ve recently lost some weight and felt like getting back on the trails. Unfortunately I discovered that my favorite part of the trail is now permanently closed to allow for ‘natural restoration’:

South Trail 2024: CHERRY SPRINGS NATURE AREA, IDAHO, THAWING

Model Gift Build: Finally, the Final Xmas build!

Finally, the final (late) Christmas car gift build, for 2023, is done!  And it is a fine example of why, back-in-the-day, some kit builders did not like AMT.

Video-1, a little late, but finally!:

Video-2, stories of Subaru hell!:

Video-3, it’s a Brat!:

Video-4, Subaru hell never ends!:

Video-5, updates? What updates, where’s the spare?:

Video-6, a rushed job:

Video-7, finagle-y:

Video-8, if play with it you break it, you bought it:

Video-9, recommendations?:

Model Gift Build: LATE #4 IS DONE, BAD REVELL, BAD!

South Trail: Cherry Springs Nature Area, Idaho, March 2024 Thawing

On 22MAR2024, my middle daughter Aryssa, along with my dog Struppi (and I) took a hike through the thawing Cherry Springs Nature Area, in Southeastern Idaho.

The Cherry Springs Nature Area is part of the larger multi-state Caribou-Targhee National Forest (Idaho, Montana, Utah & Wyoming), and is located in the Westside Ranger District of Southeastern Idaho.  It is two miles of hiking trails, a north trail and a south trail.

There was a heavy-wet snow storm a few weeks prior, causing power poles and trees across the region to snap, the South Trail was littered with downed branches and trees:

Cherry Springs Nature Area: March 2024 Thawing, North Trail

September 2023: Trippin’ through the Pocatello’s Center Street Ped-Tunnel

Holt Arena 2024: Hot Rods ‘Attitude check!’

I went through U.S. Army basic training in 1982 (Fort ‘Lost-in-the-Woods’, Missouri), and at the end of a rough day the Drill Sergeants would yell “Attitude check!”, and we would always respond “Fuck it!”.  In many ways those were better days than today.

On the 15th-16th of March 2024, Idaho State University (ISU)-College of Technology Automotive Program held its ‘Chrome in the Dome’ car show.  This is just a couple of the many Hot-Rods in the show.

1934 Ford 5-window coupe:

1935 International:

More Hot Rods with attitude:

More Rods with ‘tude:

Holt Arena 2024: COLD-WAR MOPARS INVADE CHROME IN THE DOME!

05APR2024: Following Israel’s example, Ecuador attacks Mexico’s embassy!

06 April 2024 (01:01-UTC-07 Tango 06) 18 Farvardin 1403/27 Ramadan 1445/28 Wu-Chen 4722/06 апрель 2024 года

“This is a flagrant violation of international law and the sovereignty of Mexico…”-Andrés Manuel López Obrador (aka AMLO), President of Mexico

On the evening of 05APR2024, Ecuador conducted a police raid of Mexico’s embassy, in violation of international law!  Mexico says it is now ending diplomatic relations with Ecuador.

Ecuadorian police raided Mexico’s embassy because former Ecuadorian vice-president Jorge Glas had been taking refuge in the embassy since December 2023: “I am very worried because they could kill him. There is no basis to do this, this is totally outside the norm!”-Roberto M. Canseco, Mexican Chancellery & Political Affairs

Ecuador has declared the Mexican ambassador Raquel Serur Smeke ‘persona non grata’.

“Me acaba de informar Alicia Bárcena, nuestra secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores que policías de Ecuador entraron por la fuerza a nuestra embajada y se llevaron detenido al exvicepresidente de ese país quien se encontraba refugiado y tramitando asilo por la persecución y el acoso que enfrenta. Se trata de una violación flagrante al derecho internacional y a la soberanía de México, por lo cual le he instruido a nuestra canciller que emita un comunicado sobre este hecho autoritario, proceda de manera legal y de inmediato declare la suspensión de relaciones diplomáticas con el gobierno de Ecuador.”Andrés Manuel López Obrador (aka AMLO), President of Mexico

02APR2024: SWITZERLAND CONDEMNS ISRAEL’S BOMBING OF IRANIAN EMBASSY!

 JOHN KIRBY WHITE-WASHES WCK, GAZA, IRAN, ISRAEL, SYRIA.