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.
Due to some instigation (possibly by a secret society of conspiratorial automotive Sith Lords posing as Jedi Masters), the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck, Idaho, held its inaugural indoor Winter/New Year automobile show.
It was the weekend of January 13th & 14th, 2024.
NORTH WING:
How all those cars got into the mall, video by me:
It was the weekend of January 13th & 14th, 2024, the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck, Idaho, held its inaugural indoor Winter/New Year automobile show.
The family that built this minitruck claims they paid a whopping $500 for the first generation Ranger (they don’t say how much it cost them to re-build it). They even used homemade interior parts. Video by me, 13JAN2024:
Due to some instigation (possibly by a secret society of conspiratorial automotive Sith Lords posing as Jedi Masters), the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck, Idaho, held its inaugural indoor Winter/New Year automobile show.
It was the weekend of January 13th & 14th, 2024. Video by me:
Due to some instigation (possibly by a secret society of conspiratorial automotive Sith Lords posing as Jedi Masters), the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck, Idaho, held its inaugural indoor Winter/New Year automobile show.
Watch out, it’s a Hostile ’55!
It was the weekend of January 13th & 14th, 2024.
I didn’t know 1955 was such a Hostile year?
Is it ‘Hostile’ because it’s not a Bel Air? Video (by me), 13JAN2024:
Possibly by the Jedi Mind Tricks of a secret society of conspiratorial automotive enthusiasts, the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck, Idaho, held its inaugural indoor Winter/New Year automobile show. It was the weekend of January 13th & 14th, 2024.
Video (by me), Lowrider Bicycles Part-1:
Video (by me), Lowrider Bicycles Part-2:
Were these twisted, bent and stretched pieces of two and three wheeled conveyances the work of some Sith Lord posing as a Jedi Master?
Due to some instigation (possibly by a secret society of conspiratorial automotive enthusiasts), the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck, Idaho, held its inaugural indoor Winter/New Year automobile show. It was the weekend of January 13th & 14th, 2024.
One of the possible conspirators, practicing his Jedi Mind Tricks on some mall-goers!
Possibly at the behest of a Motor-Gear-Head Instigator, the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck, Idaho, held its first ever indoor Winter/New Year automobile show. It was the weekend of January 13th & 14th, 2024.
The Instigator, giving Ol’ Midnight a rub-down for the Pine Ridge Mall auto-show, 14JAN2024.
This lady couldn’t get enough of Midnight, her eyeballs were all over that paint-job.
Video (by me) of the magnificent 1976 Midnight ‘Vette, 14JAN2024:
Some ‘Rock-Star’ guy ‘splains to me why his fiberglass steed is called Midnight, 13JAN2024:
This is a 14JAN2024 update to the 01JAN2024, 7.6 magnitude Richter scale (7 Japan Meteorological Agency [JMA] scale) earthquake in Japan.
Deaths of people that happened during the quake are now at 221, at least 22 people are still missing. Almost 5-hundred people in 15 communities across Ishikawa Prefecture remain cut off because of damaged roads.
Israel occupied The Gaza Strip during the Cold War, in 1967 (what is known in the U.S. as the 1967 War). 1967 is also the year that the U.S. became imbedded into the Tar-Baby called Israel, with a visit, and promise of support, from a politician who would later become the President of the United States:
Today, history being made again. On 11JAN2024, South Africa presented its accusations of a “pattern of genocidal conduct” by Israel to the International Court of Justice, stating that “This killing is nothing short of destruction of Palestinian life. It is inflicted deliberately, no-one is spared, not even newborn babies.”
Incomplete list of Regular/Active Duty, Reserve and state National Guard (state militia) unit deployments revealed during December 2023 and the first week of January 2024.
ARIZONA:
U.S. Army Reserve photo by Captain Fernando Ochoa, 02DEC2023.
Army Reserve unit Bravo Company-98th Signal Battalion conducted a deployment ceremony on the Arizona State University campus, 02DEC2023. They are deploying to NATO-Poland.
CALIFORNIA:
On 04JAN2024, the California Air National Guard’s 129th Rescue Wing deployed for The Middle East:
Photo by Captain Fernando Ochoa, 06JAN2024.
Army Reserve unit Charlie Company-98th Signal Battalion conducted a deployment ceremony on Camp Pendleton, 06JAN2024. They are being deployed to The Middle East.
COLORADO:
Space Force photo by Emily Peacock, 07DEC2023.
On 07DEC2023, the Space Force conducted a flag ceremony on Peterson Space Force Base, prior to the deployments of 160th, 161st, and 162nd Electromagnetic Warfare (EW) Combat Detachments.
GEORGIA:
Georgia Army National Guard photo by Captain Amanda Russell, 12DEC2023.
Militia personnel with the 1st Battalion-118th Field Artillery Regiment deploying to The Middle East (CentCom area of responsibility). They will be focusing on counter-artillery and counter-drone missions.
HAWAI’I:
The state militia’s (National Guard) 1st Battalion-487th Field Artillery Regiment-Target Acquisition Section-29th Brigade Support Battalion announced they are “about to go downrange” to The Middle East. Hawai’i Army National Guard video by Corporal Casandra B. Ancheta, 06JAN2024:
USAFR photo by James Bowman, 13DEC2023.
On 13DEC2023, U.S. Air Force Reserve Airmen conducted a ‘Pre-Deployment Function’ (PDF) on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, to make sure everybody is caught-up on red-tape and vaccinations for future deployments.
ILLINOIS: State Militia personnel with Chicago-based 1863rd Financial Management Support Detachment are deploying to NATO-Europe.
Photo by Senior Master Sergeant Daniel Farrell, 03DEC2023.
On top of that, the Louisiana Air National Guard deploying about 3-hundred militia Airmen (from the 159th Fighter Wing) to the Indo-Pacific region.
MINNESOTA: The state militia deploying personnel assigned to the 34th Red Bull Infantry Division, along with militia personnel who live in Iowa, Wisconsin, North & South Dakota, and several other states, are deploying to The Middle East. Minnesota Army National Guard video by Specialist Tyler Becker, showing a so-called Family Preparation Academy for deployment, 02DEC2023:
OKLAHOMA:
Oklahoma Army National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Reece Heck, 30DEC2023.
USAFR photo by Technical Sergeant Monica Ricci, 05DEC2023.
On 05DEC2023, 514th Aeromedical Airmen flying home from their deployment to Kuwait had to employ their training when a fellow airline passenger went down.
Army National Guard’s 2nd Battalion-112th Infantry Regiment-56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team-28th Infantry Division conducts deployment ceremony on 17DEC2023. They are deploying to the African Continent:
VIRGINIA:
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Raymond Maddocks, 01DEC2023.
On 01DEC2023, the U.S. Navy officially launched the new Mobilization and Deployment Support Command (MDSC), on Naval Station Norfolk: “MDSC is being established to provide oversight of all Reserve Component mobilizations and Active Component Individual Augmented mobilizations. This is a wholesale re-imagining of the legacy, centralized mobilization process and is the realization of the Reserve’s shift from operational support through a centralized center of excellence to strategic reserve via adaptive, distributed mobilizations.”-Rear Admiral Michael J. Steffen, Commander, Navy Reserve Forces Command