The newly opened U.S. Army tank academy in NATO Poland is part of Poland’s agreement to purchase (? actually beg, borrow and possibly steal from U.S. taxpayers) the new M1A2 Abrams SEPv3 Battle Tank, and the M1074 Joint Assault Bridge (JAB) bridge-layer version (the M1074 actually being a NATO Italian & Israeli design). Since the beginning of 2022, news outlets and government officials have repeated stated that the deal is all about confronting Russia in Ukraine, however, Poland’s U.S. directed military expansion officially began in October 2019!
Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of National Defense, Mariusz Blaszczak, 15AUG2022. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Alvin Reeves.
The U.S. Army does not use the M1074 JAB operationally (the first JABs were used for testing/evaluation), a version called M1110 JAB is expected to eventually go into service with U.S. forces (production delayed by government Pandemic Panic attack mandates/lockdowns). NATO Italy’s Leonardo, through its Saint Louis, Missouri, based DRS division, has a contract with Anniston Army Depot, in Alabama, to convert old M1 Abrams tanks to the JAB configuration. Leonardo is the same company that makes U.S. Air Force’s new Grey Wolf helicopter (it is not made by Boeing, despite industry reports!). DRS used to be a U.S. owned company, but in 2008 was sold to Italian company Finmeccanica. Finmeccanica changed its name to Leonardo DRS. In June 2022, Leonardo DRS merged with Israel’s RADA Electronics Industries.
NATO-U.S. Army Abrams Partnership Program promotional video, 10AUG2022, announcing the tank academy:
This U.S. Army (USA) video, by Specialist Javen Owens, shows M1074 bridge-layer already in action (U.S. personnel operating) in NATO Poland on 28APR2022, just weeks after the M1A2 agreement:
More JAB action, 28APR2022, USA video by Specialist Ellison Schuman:
USA video report, dated 27APR2022, revealing that training of NATO Poland tankers on Abrams tanks began immediately:
U.S. Army video dated 26APR2022, by Specialist Hassani Ribera Soto, shows M1A2-SEP already operating (U.S. personnel at the controls) in NATO Poland:
Bucierz Range, Poland. Puerto Rico Army National Guard photo by Specialist Hedil Hernández, 22APR2022.
U.S. Army Security Assistance Command video, dated 01APR2022, announcing M1A2 agreement with NATO Poland:
The $6-billion 01APR2022 agreement will result in NATO Poland getting 250 M1A2-SEPv3 main battle tanks, 26 M88A2 Hercules recovery vehicles and 17 M1074 JABs. Does anybody believe that Poland has $6-billion?
U.S. Air Force photo by Samuel King Junior, 17AUG2022.
On 24AUG2022, the United States Air Force (USAF) boasted of acquiring its first ever USAF developed helicopter, except that was far from the truth. The truth is that the USAF spent two years assessing a 20+ years old helicopter design that is already in use by NATO members and even Russia! It is actually built by a NATO Italy aerospace company; Leonardo (aka Leonardo Helicopters).
USAF photo by Samuel King Junior, 17AUG2022.
On 17AUG2022, the MH-139A Grey Wolf took its first official flight as a USAF air asset, from Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. The assessment process began in December 2019.
Overly dramatic USAF video, by Staff Sergeant Philip Bryant, about the name Grey Wolf, and why it is so important to the USAF to buy a foreign helicopter, 19DEC2019:
The MH-139A will replace the USAF’s aging fleet of U.S. Army developed Viet Nam/Cold War era Bell (now known as Bell Textron) UH-1N ‘Huey’ rotary wings.
USAF photo by Samuel King Junior, 17AUG2022.
USAF video report by Jennifer Vollmer & Jaime Bishopp, 17AUG2022:
The USAF tries to make it sound like the MH-139A Grey Wolf is a U.S. helicopter, while the contract was issued to Boeing, even Boeing admits it isn’t the one building the helicopter! The Pratt & Whitney turbines are made in NATO Canada, the transmission parts are built in NATO United Kingdom and in Japan, NATO Turkey builds the major fuselage parts, and final assembly is done by Leonardo Helicopters! (Leonardo boasts about its international supply chain)
Over in NATO Europe it is known as the AW139 (AgustaWestland 139). The AW139 was the creation of AgustaWestland. During the Cold War, and the 1990s, Agusta and Westland were separate companies. In 2000 they merged into one company, and in 2016 the name was changed to Leonardo.
In the late 1990s, Bell Textron and AgustaWestland worked together to create a new helicopter to compete against rivals Sikorsky and Eurocopter. The first version was called AB139/BA309, then finally AW139. The first AW139 flew in 2001. AgustaWestland even opened a final assembly factory in the United States (now known as AgustaWestland Philadelphia Corporation, aka Leonardo Helicopters Pennsylvania), and changed the name of the helicopter to US139, to try and increase their competition with U.S. based Sikorsky, and NATO Europe based Eurocopter, for a U.S. Army contract. The competition was lost to Eurocopter’s UH-72 Lakota. In 2005, AgustaWestland bought out Bell Textron’s interest in the AW139. By the end of 2012, AgustaWestland began building AW139s in Russia, the sworn enemy of NATO! (On March 2022, Leonardo Helicopters halted production in Russia.)
On 23AUG2022, the U.S. Army released a video begging soldiers to voluntarily transfer to Republic of Korea (South Korea). The request coincides with the 72nd Anniversary of the U.S. Army’s deployment to Korea, but back then U.S. citizens were forced into the military (drafted, ask your grand parents or great grand parents), or sent to prison for refusing (ask Cassius Clay-Muhammad Ali about that).
U.S. 8th Army video, produced by Specialist Diana Rose Faulve, written by Sergeant Major Andrew Kosterman, presenting reasons why you should move to Korea:
During the first week of August 2022, a haggard looking Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, spent time in Korea, as part of a her Indo-Pacific tour. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Dwane R. Young.
The NATO letter blames it on the main stream U.S. news media, specifically Time magazine, for publishing statements made during a U.S. trial of a spy. But then, there was a journalist working for Time, who was onboard the aircraft carrier USS Independence (CVA-62) during the wargames, who claimed that somebody in NATO tipped-off the Soviets!
Apparently, NATO’s first Exercise Teamwork, off the coast of NATO Norway, was a diversion from an established NATO wargame called FALLEX (Fall [as in Autumn] Exercise). A once secret NATO letter discussing FALLEX 62 suggested making changes for the upcoming FALLEX 64. Apparently, FALLEX 64 became Exercise Teamwork 64, possibly because of what was publicized about the trial of a spy in the United States.
U.S. Navy film, dated 1964 and titled Exercise Teamwork, showing ‘Russian Spy Fishing Trawler’. The smoke stack on this ship is different than the Revell kit’s stack:
But 1969 is the year the U.S. Navy really took an interest in all the Soviet fishing trawlers hanging around NATO navies, and even off the coast of the United States.
USN film, February 1969, showing Soviet ‘spy’ fishing trawlers operating off the coast of the U.S. state of Virginia, at least three different ships according to the USN info:
On 09APR1969, the USN spied on Soviet Mediterranean fleet operations, near the Rock of Gibraltar, and interestingly among all those big Soviet warships was a lone Soviet fishing trawler (you can see it as the camera pans from warship to warship), I edited for just the trawler scenes:
A May 1969 USN film documenting what was believed to be various Soviet surveillance ships, showing a similar ‘spy trawler’, with a different stack, location not indicated:
Now you know where the tech term phishing originated, Cold War era spy fishing boats, fishing for your country’s military info.
In 1970, model kit company Revell issued its Russian Spy Fishing Trawler Volga. Revell’s spy ship kit seems to combine attributes of all the trawlers seen in the USN films.
Is this the trawler the Revell kit is based on? Image taken from USN film dated February 1969.
NATO called this a Okean class intelligence collection ship. USN photo by Photographer’s Mate First Class Jeff Hilton, August 1986.
NATO called this a Moma class intelligence collection ship. USN photo by Photographer’s Mate First Class Jeff Hilton, August 1986.
The kit is continuously re-issued, but in 1998 the name was changed to Northsea Fishing Trawler.
How many times has U.S. led NATO sworn that it is not expanding towards Russia? The first ever permanent U.S. military base in NATO Poland now has an official name: Camp Kościuszko.
U.S. Army Photo by Specialist Garrison Waites, 30JUL2022.
U.S. Army video by Specialist Devin Klecan, official base naming ceremony:
On 30JUL2022, a ceremony was held in Poland, announcing a name for the new U.S. base, named after Tadeusz Kościuszko, a Polish-Lithuanian military officer who joined the American Revolution against the British Empire in June 1776. After the war that created the United States, General Kościuszko returned to Poland in August 1784.
U.S. Army video explainer, by Specialist Devin Klecan:
“No one shall possess a firearm or firearms or a sword or swords.”-Japanese law, however, after a long permitting procedure a person can own a single-fire gun designed for hunting or sport-shooting (you must first own a shotgun for ten years without incident before owning a rifle)
In the past few years, I’ve posted many examples of how Japan’s anti-gun and anti-knife laws are massive failures. On 08JUL2022, former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo (in Japan the family name comes first, then the ‘given’ name) was shot twice in the neck during a Liberal Democratic Party political campaign event, he died about four hours later in the Nara Medical University.
At a press conference doctors revealed that Abe Shinzo was probably killed instantly, claims that he was shot in the neck with the bullets ending up in the heart (sniper attack from above?), admit that despite invasive surgery they could not find any bullets:
Welcome to borderland hell under the U.S. President, highly incomplete (just the tip of the iceberg) list of videos and links to news/government agency reports for June 2022:
Between 01-07JUN2022, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) called Operation Cross Check. More than 1-hundred illegals were captured (which is nothing compared to the thousands captured during previous year’s Cross Check operations), most have convictions for crimes including, but not limited to, aggravated assault with a gun, robbery, burglary, kidnapping, hit and run, drug trafficking, and child molestation. Operation Cross Check has been conducted yearly since 2011. ICE video by Charles Reed:
The U.S. Coast Guard District 7 PADET captured 23 illegals from Cuba, they were handed over to the Bahamas on 03JUN2022:
USCG District 7 (Air Station Clearwater) video of a boat overloaded with illegals from Haiti, approximately 16 miles from Great Inagua, Bahamas, 12JUN2022:
USCG District 8 photo by Petty Officer Third Class Seth Rentz, 24JUN2022.
Somewhere in The Caribbean Sea (for an unknown reason the USCG did not want to give an exact location), the USCG surrounds a boat overloaded with illegals from Haiti, 24JUN2022.
25JUN2022, immigrant posts video of passage into Canada via the United States:
Illegals boarding the Navy of the Dominican Republic patrol boat Aldebarán. USCG District 7 PADET photo, 26JUN2022.
On 26JUN2022, the USCG handed over 11 illegals to the Navy of the Dominican Republic, near Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
On 28JUN2022, for some reason the President of Mexico felt he had to issue an apology regarding the mass-murder of illegals, by Mexican human smugglers, in a truck in Texas:
ARIZONA:
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol photo by Jerry Glaser, 07JUN2022.
U.S. taxpayers are now being raped to fund heat stress ‘Go-Bag’ kits being handed out to illegals in Arizona’s Tucson Sector! It is part of a 90 days study to make Border Patrol’s mission more ‘humanitarian’, eventually the Go-Bags will be issued across the U.S. southern land border.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol reports 2-thousand-1-hundred-and-92 ‘rescues’ in the month of May! On 09JUN2022, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP, aka Border Patrol) issued a warning to illegals. The warning was about Mother Nature, and a 90 day ‘scale-up’ of border patrol operations, also, new taxpayer funded heat survival kits will be used to ‘rescue’ illegals. Video was edited for time reasons:
On 10JUN2022, citizens (what the USCG calls ‘good Samaritans’) reported a homemade boat (what the USCG calls a “rustic vessel”) about 7 miles south of Key West. The USCG says the illegals onboard are from Cuba, and claims they were returned on 14JUN2022.
Between 01JUN2022 and 12JUN2022, the USCG District 7 reported capturing at least 52 illegals from Cuba, who were using various forms of rustic vessels. The USCG claims they were returned on 14JUN2022.
USCG District 7 photo, 12JUN2022.
On 12JUN2022, ‘good Samaritans’ reported an obvious illegal’s boat, 13 miles south of Marquesas Key. The USCG says the illegals are from Cuba, and claims they were returned on 17JUN2022.
USCG District 7 photo, 17JUN2022.
A good Samaritan reported a rustic vessel filled with people, on 17JUN2022. The USCG captured the boat about 22 miles south of Big Pine Key. The illegals from Cuba were sent back home on 19JUN2022, along with other captured Cubans totaling 45.
USCG District 7 PADET Jacksonville photo, 23JUN2022.
On 20JUN2022, the USCG captured yet more illegals from Cuba, about 68 miles south of Key West. The USCG photo purports to show the return of 89 illegals to Cuba, on 23JUN2022.
Photo by crew of Coast Guard Cutter Joshua Applebly, 25JUN2022.
On 25JUN2022, the USCG captured this rustic vessel about five miles south of Marquesas Key. The illegals were returned to Cuba, on 27JUN2022, as part of a larger group of 106!
Coast Guard Station Islamorada video of USCG and CBP interception of a boat overloaded with illegals from Haiti, about 40 miles southeast of Islamorada, 25JUN2022. The USCG claims 98 illegals were returned to Haiti on 29JUN2022:
MICHIGAN: 29JUN2022, Fox 2
Detroit shows you the problems of patrolling the border with Canada; weapons & human smuggling, CBP operations along Mexican border distracts from problems along Canadian border. CBP says “It’s not just a mom and a pop….trying to come across….it’s organized.”:
PUERTO RICO:
USCG District 7 PADET photo, 17JUN2022.
The USCG says this boat was filled with 56 illegals from Dominican Republic, they were captured near Mona Island, 17JUN2022, and handed over to the Navy of the Dominican Republic the next day.
Photo by the crew of Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Doyle, 27JUN2022.
58 illegals from Dominican Republic and Haiti were captured near Desecheo Island, 27JUN2022. They were returned to the Dominican Republic the next day.
TEXAS:
USCG District 8 photo, courtesy Tim Oberle, 07JUN2022.
In Houston, on 07JUN2022, Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston, Homeland Security Investigations Houston (HSI), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Houston and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Houston established a new Joint Intelligence and Operations Coordination Center to support Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana.
On 09JUN2022, USCG-Air Station Corpus Christi videoed Mexicans illegally fishing in U.S. water. A total of two illegal fishing boats, and six people, from Mexico were captured:
On 15JUN2022, El Paso Sector Border Patrol Chief Patrol Agent in Charge Gloria Chavez joined with Mexican Consul General in El Paso Mauricio Ibarra Ponce de Leon, to issue a warning to anybody trying to cross from Mexico into the United States. Video by Greg L. Davis:
Only NATO Germany’s PanzerHaubite (PzH) 2000, and NATO France’s CAESAR (CAmion Equipé d’un Système d’ARtillerie), are the only artillery systems delivered to Ukraine, so far, that can outrange the Russian systems. However, the numbers of PzH 2000 and CAESARs promised are just a piddly fraction of what Ukraine needs, and have yet to be delivered.
Video posted 22JUN2022, showing Russian ‘V’ (?, maybe Z) forces using an old-skool Cold War era towed rocket launcher against Ukrainian forces in Ugledar area:
Some NATO countries are sending more artillery systems, but they are the old Soviet era systems, like the 2S1 and 2S3, which do not give Ukraine a tactical advantage.
Music video, posted 09JUN2022, of Cold War era BM-27 220mm Uragan rocket launcher being used by Russian ‘Z’ forces against Ukraine:
Russian ground forces are so not worried about the U.S./NATO artillery ‘support’, that they themselves are using outdated artillery systems against Ukraine. This video was posted on 23JUN2022, showing Russians using Cold War era 152mm towed guns and BM-21 rocket launchers:
Another major problem for the U.S./NATO is that many of the delivered weapon systems (like the Javelin) were captured by Russian forces and are now being used by them against Ukraine!
The Österreichs Bundesheer (Austrian Federal-army) Theresian Military Academy critiques the U.S./NATO weapon systems being sent to Ukraine, pointing out that the amount are far below what Ukraine actually needs, and Ukrainians are not being properly trained on these weapons, resulting in “no significant effect on the battlefield” for Ukraine:
U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Matt Kuzara, 05JUN2022.
On 05JUN2022, groundbreaking ceremony for U.S. taxpayer funded water treatment operation on Erbil Air Base, Kurdistan, Iraq.
Photo via Iraqi Ministry of Defence.
On 02JUN2022, Iraqi officials attended a weapons trade fair in NATO Bulgaria, at the invitation of the Bulgarian government.
Brand new U.S. M4s, M16s and Russian AKs are being openly sold in Iraqi Kurdistan gun shops, video report posted 02JUN2022:
U.S. Army (USA) video, by Specialist Kevin Butler, of U.S. funded ‘Law of Combat’ class as part of the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service, 02JUN2022:
Photo via Iraqi Ministry of Defence.
On 30MAY2022, the Brazilian Minister of Strategic Affairs met with the Iraqi Minister of Defence, to specifically discuss weapon sales.
U.S. Army photo by Corporal Tommy Spitzer, 30MAY2022.
USA personnel conducted a Memorial Day service on Erbil Air Base, 30MAY2022.
Voice of American report, 23MAY2022, NATO Turkey admits its goal is to destroy the U.S. supported Iraqi Kurdish PKK group, analysts warn that Iran is willing to help the PKK:
NATO Turkey claims that Iraqi Kurds are being supplied with weapons from Sweden:
USA photo by Private First Class Joshua Linfoot, 19MAY2022.
NATO Romania hosted a weapons trade fair and Iraq was invited. In the photo, a USA Chief Warrant Officer-2 is trying to sell the latest Black Hawk helicopter to an Iraqi Major General. Mmmm, I wonder where the funding for such a sale will actually come from?
U.S. Army photo by Major Alexa Carlo-Hickman, 12MAY2022.
U.S. Army promotional video, by Corporal Tommy L. Spitzer, showing U.S. funded logistical operations:
Decades long fight for liberation of Kurdistan from Iran, Iraq, Syria and NATO Turkey, and how Israel, Russia and United States have worked against the Kurds:
“Families, employers, and citizens of Idaho, Montana and Oregon should be extremely proud and reassured that their Soldiers are motivated, well trained, and ready to represent their communities and the United States in a combat zone.”-Major Sam McDowell, commander of 2nd of the 116th Combined Arms Battalion, 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team
Sniper training. Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 10MAY2022.
‘Shoot house’ training. Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 13MAY2022.
In May 2022, National Guard personnel from Idaho, Montana, Ohio, Oregon and South Carolina continued their ‘extended training’ (since March) for deployment to Camp Buehring, Kuwait, in just a few months, for the ongoing Operation Spartan Shield.
Idaho’s M1064 (M113 mortar carrier). Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 17MAY2022.
Launching 120mm mortar rounds. Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 17MAY2022.
They have been assigned the official moniker of Task Force Rattler. They will be relieving Task Force Griz, another National Guard unit consisting of personnel from Florida, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and Oregon (which deployed at the end of 2021). It looks very much like the Idaho based 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team is stuck in a deployment loop.
So-called final Task Force Griz video report, by Sergeant Nicholas Ramshaw, 22MAY2022. Notice the Snake River Brigade patches:
Swedish made AT4 rocket launcher. Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 12MAY2022.
“Back-blast area clear!” Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 12MAY2022.
The 12 months deployment of Task Force Rattler (2nd of the 116th Combined Arms Battalion) will start with a short stop on Fort Bliss, Texas, for final deployment training, then on to Kuwait.
FIRST PERMANENT U.S. BASE IN NATO POLAND!
POLAND’S KRAB (HALF BRITISH, HALF KOREAN?)
U.S. ARMY GETS NEW VERSIONS OF ABRAMS AND BRADLEY (U.S. taxpayer funding benefits British company)
