Category Archives: International

International, U.S.

Forever Wars: Russian ally Serbia allows NATO wargame? Ohio sends troops!

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07 July 2023 (21:41-UTC-07 Tango 06) 16 Tir 1402/18 Dhu l-Hijja 1444/20 Ji-Wei 4721/07 июль 2023 года

While Serbia is not a member of NATO, it is a ‘partner’ in NATO’s Partnership for Peace program.  Alliances between Serbia and Russia can be traced all the way back to the 14th Century.

Photo by Sergeant First Class Zach Sheely, 07JUN2023.

U.S. National Guard Bureau General Daniel Hokanson shakes hands with Serbia’s President, Aleksandar Vučić, 07JUN2023.

On 15JUN2023, Serbia hosted the U.S./NATO Platinum Wolf wargame, for the first time since 2021. Serbia halted the Platinum Wolf wargame due to NATO’s support for Ukraine, but, after a meeting with U.S. military officials in March 2023, Serbia agreed to continue Platinum Wolf.

On 16JUN2023, it was announced that a Serbian Sergeant First Class had been killed in a vehicle accident near the disputed boundary line with Kosovo and Metohija, in the village of Drenovac.  Metohija is the province claimed by Serbia, yet disputed by Kosovo and NATO. Apparently, rumors were being spread that the accident actually happened during the Platinum Wolf wargame.

Ministry of Defense Republic of Serbia photo of Ohio Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk, 22JUN2023.

It should be realized that U.S./NATO wargames almost always have a scenario involving social collapse, where the public turns against the government! Ministry of Defense Republic of Serbia video, Platinum Wolf VIP (very important person) display, 22JUN2023:

Serbia has hosted Platinum Wolf since 2014.  This year’s wargame ended on 27JUN2023.

Ministry of Defense Republic of Serbia photo of U.S. Ambassador Christopher R. Hill, 22JUN2023.

U.S. Ambassador to Serbia, Christopher R. Hill, attended the VIP ceremony.

NATO members who participated are Greece, Hungary, Italy, North Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia, United Kingdom,  and the United States (including the Ohio Army National Guard, which has operated inside Serbia since 2006).  NATO ‘partners’ Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Serbia also participated.

Forever Wars:U.S. NATIONAL GUARD PREPS FOR GLOBAL WAR!

Vehicle I-D:SERBIA’S UP-ARMORED BRDM-2MS

SERBIA’S NEW T-72MS

International, Technology

Forever Wars: How to escape a blown-up Bradley, Ukrainian style!

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A video was released on an anonymous Ukrainian ‘Telegram’ channel of a firefight involving recently delivered U.S. made M2A2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFV). The video was recorded by an onboard camera, on what I believe is probably the platoon commanders Bradley.

The battle happened in Zaporizka Oblast (aka Zaporizhzhia), on 08JUN2023, the platoon of Bradleys made contact with enemy forces, which apparently were too powerful as the IFVs are attempting to fall back. The platoon commander is using the 25mm gun to provide covering fire as M2A2s retreat, unfortunately the retreating IFVs are driving in front of the Bradley providing covering fire!

Impressively, the gunner is able to control his trigger pulls missing the retreating vehicles, but one of the retreating Bradleys is either hit by enemy fire, or runs over a land mine.  You might think the crew are dead, but amazingly the crew emerges from the back with their M4 assault rifles. A smoke grenade is thrown, then the platoon commander fires-off his smoke grenade launcher, the homeless IFV crew uses the smoke as cover while they scramble onto the platoon commander’s Bradley.

The anonymous poster of the video added crappy music, so I edited out the audio:

Interestingly, while Russian news sources made fun of the Ukrainians’ apparently failed attempt to use M2A2 Bradleys in battle, some Russian news sources also praised the Bradleys for ‘crew survivability’ admitting that the crews operating Soviet/Cold War era BMPs (Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoty, Боевая Машина Пехоты, Combat Vehicle Infantry) would not have survived the same incident!

When I first joined the U.S. military during the last decade of the Cold War, crew survivability was one of the main drivers of ‘Western’/NATO combat vehicle design.

Forever Wars: SNAKE RIVER M1A2 SEP, BORESIGHT MOROCCO!

NATO GREATLY INCREASES TAXPAYER FUNDING, EXPANDS GLOBAL AMMO SUPPLY, FORMS ‘BIRDS COALITION’ WITH UKRAINE!

NATO-SLOVAK BMP (BVP) & OT-90, Cold War to Battle for Ukraine

Idaho, International

It’s not just wargames, Idaho’s Bold Tigers invade Japan?

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30 June 2023 (20:30-UTC-07 Tango 06) 09 Tir 1402/11 Dhu l-Hijja 1444/13 Wu-Wu(5th month) 4721/30 Июнь 2023 года

U.S. Air Force (USAF) F-15E Strike Eagles from the ‘Bold Tigers’ 391st Fighter Squadron(FS)/366th Fighter Wing(FW), based on Mountain Home Air Force Base (AFB), Idaho, arrived on U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, 29JUN2023. They will be taking part in wargame Northern Edge 2023-2 (NE23-2), which will take place during most of the month of July. USMC video by Corporal Evan Jones:

This isn’t the first time this year that the Bold Tigers were in Japan. Video by Airman First Class Jonathan R. Sifuentes, 391st FS Strike Eagles take off from Okinawa, for wargame Southern Beach, 16MAY2023:

It is not just the wargames, Idaho’s Strike Eagles have been called to duty in Japan as many of the F-15C/D Eagles (based on Kadena Air Base) are being sent back to the United States.  Idaho’s Strike Eagles join F-15Es from Seymour Johnson AFB in North Carolina, in maintaining an F-15 presence in the Indo-Pacific.

Over Kadena AB, Japan, 15MAY2023, photo by Staff Sergeant Jessi Roth.

The F-15C/Ds on Kadena are being retired to Air National Guard units in the U.S. Their first stop is Kingsley Field Air National Guard Base in Oregon.  The Oregon Air National Guard is itself retiring their F-15Cs (F-15 50TH ANNIVERSARY: LAST HURRAH FOR OREGON’S 173RD FW?).

Airmen load their gear onboard a C-5 Galaxy, for the trip from Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, to Kadena AB, Japan, 24APR2023.
USAF photo by Airman First Class Krista Reed Choate.

March 2023: NEW F-15EX/QA EAGLE FORCES QATAR TO INVADE IDAHO?

2022: F-15 EAGLE NOW 50 YEARS OLD

March 2021: SINGAPORE’S IDAHO BASED SKY PIRATES BOMB LAS VEGAS?

2020: IDAHO’S TIGERS & THUNDERBOLTS BLAST THE SKIES OVER FLORIDA!

January 2019: LOCATION OF MISSING IDAHO F-15E STRIKE EAGLES REVEALED?

2018: MOUNTAIN HOME AFB, F-15E WALK-AROUND

SINGAPORE’S INVASION OF IDAHO’S MOUNTAIN HOME AFB!

International, Technology, U.S.

African Lion 2023: C-130H Hercules

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The Lockheed C-130H Hercules is a Cold War era cargo plane still in use today.  The first C-130s began arriving for military service in 1956, the ‘H’ version of the Hercules began service in the mid-1970s.

1971: Prepping for our first ‘Space Available’ C-130E trip, Rhein Main AFB, West Germany. You might be able to make out my younger sister’s (Tina) head in lower right corner. Photo by William L. Hutchins.

In the early 1970s I got my first ride on a U.S. Air Force C-130E, flying from West Germany to Iran with my parents (part of the Space Available service offered by the USAF).

1977: My little brother, Ernie, enjoying his tour of a C-130 during the Edwards AFB ‘Open House’. Photo by William L. Hutchins.

In the mid-1980s I was an Iso-Dock Crew Chief for C-130Hs on Dyess Air Force Base, in Texas.  Even after my time in the USAF, as a California, and later a Idaho, Army National Guardsman I continued to catch rides on the C-130H.

Last ride on a C-130H, this time as a M1A2 TC with the Idaho Army National Guard, on the way back from a ‘friendly’ with Canadian armor in Alberta, 2002.

U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Steven Adkins, 10JUN2023.

In the above photo you see two types of C-130H; one is the older type used by the Kingdom of Morocco, the other is an upgraded type used by the United States. The older C-130H has four propeller blades per engine, the upgraded type has eight.

94th AW’s upgraded C-130H sits on the flightline of Kenitra AFB, Morocco. USAF photo by Senior Airman Jan K. Valle, 14JUN2023.

African Lion is the largest wargame on the African continent, involving the United States and other NATO members, as well as Ghana, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia, from 13MAY-18JUN2023.

The 86th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, help show you how to setup a C-130 for medical evacuation. U.S. Air Force (USAF) video by Technical Sergeant Steven Adkins, 07JUN2023:

Emergency medical treatment onboard a C-130H. USAF video by Technical Sergeant Steven Adkins, 08JUN2023:

Moroccan C-130H cargo planes take part in para-drop during African Lion 2023, USAF video recorded by Technical Sergeant Steven Adkins, 10JUN2023:

USA video by Sergeant Christian Dela Cruz, 10JUN2023:

U.S. Air Force Reserve’s Cold War era C-130H based on Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Georgia, flew all the way to Morocco to play in the dirt! USA video by Sergeant Christian Dela Cruz, 15JUN2023:

94th Airlift Wing, Dobbins Air Reserve Base, USAF report by Senior Airman Jan Valle:

For all you happy taxpayers, African Lion wargames have been conducted since 2008.

African Lion 2023: ARTILLERY

SNAKE RIVER M1A2 SEP, BORESIGHT MOROCCO!

NATO Vehicle I-D, 2018:

U.S. Air Force photo by Samuel King Junior, 11JAN2018.

THAT’S NOT A C-130J, IT’S STILL THE OLD C-130H!

Kawaii, 2013: NORTH CAROLINA’S BABY C-130 GOBBLES-UP YOUR CHILDREN

My family’s connection to the old M4 Sherman tank:

My grandfather, O.G. Hutchins, on his newly arrived USMC Sherman, sometime before shipping out against the Japanese.

M4 SHERMAN, WW2 TO IRAN-IRAQ WAR

Idaho, International, Technology, U.S.

Forever Wars: Snake River M1A2 SEP, boresight Morocco!

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Oregon’s 3-116th Combined Arms Battalion (one of three CABs belonging to Idaho based 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team [CBCT], aka Snake River Brigade) is taking part in this year’s African Lion 2023.

Bore-sighting the M1A2 SEP, in Tan-Tan, Morocco. Oregon National Guard video by Staff Sergeant Ariel J. Solomon, 08JUN2023:

African Lion took place in Ghana, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia from 13MAY-18JUN2023. African Lion is the largest wargame on the African continent, involving the United States and other NATO members, as well as Ghana, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia.

Bore-sighting aligns the Gunner’s sights with the end of the main gun tube, greatly increasing the chance of a ‘first-round-hit’.

More boring bore-sighting video from Staff Sergeant Ariel J. Solomon, 08JUN2023:

Photo by Staff Sergeant Ariel J. Solomon, 10JUN2023.

January 2023: IDAHO INVADES MOROCCO, SWAN SONG OF THE M109A6?

Forever Wars, 2023: NATO GREATLY INCREASES TAXPAYER FUNDING, EXPANDS GLOBAL AMMO SUPPLY, FORMS ‘BIRDS COALITION’ WITH UKRAINE!

New Cold War 2022:  RUSSIAN T-72B3M LIVE FIRE CRIMEA!

February 2019: M1A2-SEP-V2 ABRAMS, IDAHO LIVE FIRE

International, Technology, U.S.

African Lion 2023: Artillery

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African Lion is the largest wargame on the African continent, involving the United States and other NATO members, as well as Ghana, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia, from 13MAY-18JUN2023.

Tunisia’s old U.S. made M198 towed artillery guns arrive, U.S. Army video by First Sergeant HollyAnn Nicom, 27MAY2023:

Pennsylvania Army National Guard’s Charlie Battery/1-107th Field Artillery Regiment/2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team/28th Infantry Division uses their United Kingdom made (BAE Systems) M777 cannons to pound the sands of Tunisia. U.S. Army video by First Sergeant HollyAnn Nicom, 27MAY2023:

M142 HiMARS, photo by Specialist Lukas Sparks, 25MAY2023.

M142 HiMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) arrives on Ben Ghilouf Training Area, Tunisia, 25MAY2023.

U.S. Marine Corps’ Hotel Battery/2nd Battalion/10th Marines/2nd Marine Division launch a rocket round from the M142 HiMARS, in the Kingdom of Morocco during African Lion 2023. U.S. Army video by Specialist Raymond Randall, 31MAY2023:

Utah Army National Guard M109A6. Photo by Specialist Raymond Randall, 21MAY2023.

Utah Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion/145th Field Artillery  sent their M109A6 Paladins. Video by Specialist Raymond Randal, 21MAY2023:

U.S. military personnel take part in launching rounds from Kingdom of Morocco’s old M109A5 self propelled artillery, during African Lion 2023. Video by Staff Sergeant Ariel Solomon, 09JUN2023:

African Lion 2022: IDAHO INVADES MOROCCO, SWAN SONG OF THE M109A6?

Vehicle I-D: M109, COLD WAR AND BEYOND

Proof the U.S. is the ‘tool’ of the British empire: The M777!

Idaho, International, U.S.

Biden’s Borderland/Labor Shenanigans: Global ‘Tent for Refugees’ supplies U.S. companies with cheap labor!

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On 19JUN2023, the U.S. Department of State revealed a new refugee system, as part of a 2016 global deal called the Tent Partnership for Refugees. ‘Tent’, as it is also officially known, is essentially an international government sanctioned legal human trafficking operation.

Since January 2023, the U.S. government is now supporting individual citizens to take in refugees currently living in European countries: “In January, the U.S. launched the Welcome Corps, a new private sponsorship program that enables everyday American citizens to help refugees get settled around the country. Already, Americans in 37 states are establishing groups to welcome refugees. And together, we’re working toward the broader goal that President Biden set to resettle 125,000 refugees in the United States this year.”-Anthony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

Official Department of State video, in which it is admitted that the government is helping more than 3-hundred U.S. employers hire refugees still living in other countries:

Click here to read the latest list (as of 19JUN2023) of U.S. companies hiring refugees from Europe.

And by the way, all you Idahoans, on 10MAY2023 Chobani joined the global ‘Tent’ refugee hiring system.

My Immigrant Idaho, 2021: CHOBANI TO HIRE AFGHAN REFUGEES, PAR FOR THE COURSE FOR BIDEN, AND A TURKISH OWNED COMPANY!

Biden’s Borderland: DEPORTATION FLIGHTS CONTINUE, DESPITE BIDEN’S EFFORTS TO BLOCK!

International, U.S.

Forever Wars: NATO greatly increases taxpayer funding, expands global ammo supply, forms ‘Birds Coalition’ with Ukraine!

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NATO=North Atlantic Treaty Organization, “…was founded in the aftermath of the Second World War.   …countering the threat posed at the time by the Soviet Union.” The Soviet Union ceased to exist on 25DEC1991, yet it seems NATO is still fighting that war.

“The biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War.”-George H. W. Bush, President of the United States, 1992 State of the Union Address

Joint statements by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin the Third, in which it is revealed that taxpayer funding for NATO is being greatly increased; the original 2% maximum of GDP funding is now considered “a minimum” for defense spending. NATO video released 15JUN2023:

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says “All allies stand by Ukraine for as long as it takes.” Ukrainian Minister of Defense, Oleksii Reznikov, reveals formation of ‘Birds Coalition’ to begin training on F-16 Falcon aircraft in Netherlands and Denmark, as well as yet-to-be specified ‘testing’ with Sweden. NATO video released on 15JUN2023:

NATO Deputy Secretary General, Mircea Geoană, praises the expansion of NATO’s Multinational Ammunition Warehousing Initiative (MAWI). It is not just about the war with Russia, but the fact that NATO is rapidly expanding its operation around the world. NATO video released 15JUN2023:

World War Three, 13JUN2023: THE ONLY GLOBAL MILITARY ALLIANCE (NATO) SAYS THE WAR WITH RUSSIA IS IN “BEGINNING STAGES”!

Forever Wars:

International, U.S.

World War 3: The only global military alliance says the war with Russia is in “beginning stages”!

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Joint statements by the NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, and the Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, in Washington DC, 13JUN2023:

THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM: MAINTAINING POWER THROUGH A CONTINUOUS WAR ON TERROR, OR WAR IS A COMPETITION TO CONTROL THE MOST SLAVE WAGE WORKERS

Orwell’s 1984 for reals, March 2022: NATO BULGARIA TO LEAD ANTI-RUSSIA OPERATION, WITH BIDEN’S BLESSINGS!

World War Three, December 2013: JAPAN and OFFICIAL ORWELLIAN DOUBLE-SPEAK PRO-WAR PROPAGANDA PROGRAM HAS BEGUN, MILITARY FORCES INCREASING!

Influenza, International

PANDĒMUS TOTALITARIAN: UN-WHO adopts EU Digital Health passport!

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On 05JUN2023, the United Nations-World Health Organization (UN-WHO) proudly announced “the launch of a landmark digital health partnership” with the European Union.

“…WHO will take up the European Union (EU) system of digital COVID-19 certification to establish a global system…  This is the first building block of the WHO Global Digital Health Certification Network (GDHCN)… One of the key elements in the European Union’s work against the COVID-19 pandemic has been digital COVID-19 certificates. To facilitate free movement within its borders… The first building block of the global WHO system…aims to be progressively developed in the coming months.” 

UN-WHO and EU sign global Digital Health Initiative:

Click here to learn more about the EU’s Digital COVID certificate.

PANDĒMUS TOTALITARIAN: UN AUTHORITARIANISM THROUGH GLOBAL HEALTHCARE!

Pandemic Perfidy: EMPIRICAL (real world, not computer/A-I modeling) DATA PROVES LOCKDOWNS ARE A “FAILURE OF GIGANTIC PROPORTIONS”!