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International

Disaster 2021: U.S. Army fights fire in Turkey! Russian water bomber crashes!

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U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Christopher Stewart, 14AUG2021.

The U.S. Army’s 12th Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB) could be taking part in a wargame called Dynamic Front 21, instead they have joined with USAID in helping the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (Tarım ve Orman Bakanlığı) fight fires in the western mountains.

USA photo by Staff Sergeant Christopher Stewart, 14AUG2021.

Flying their CH-47 Chinooks, the 1st Battalion, 214th Aviation Regiment, 12th CAB deployed from their assignment in Bulgaria to fight fires in Turkey, on 12AUG2021.

USA photo by Staff Sergeant Christopher Stewart, 14AUG2021.

USA photo by Staff Sergeant Christopher Stewart, 14AUG2021.

Water bombing aircraft from around the world arrived in Turkey to fight the fires:

On 14AUG2021, a Russian Navy flying boat crashed while fighting a fire in Turkey:

 

Turkey is being hit by both fire and water:

Disaster 2021: GERMAN FLOOD CLEAN-UP, U.S. Air Force STYLE

International, U.S.

Mother of all Money Pits: More U.S. funded trucks, guns & butter for Iraq!

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U.S. Army photo by Sergeant First Class Ernest Henderson.

On 11AUG2021, the U.S. military handed Iraqi-Kurdish Peshmerga forces an additional 21 trucks, worth US$5.3 million.  The ‘divestiture’ took place on Erbil Air Base.

USA photo by Sergeant First Class Ernest Henderson.

On 08JUL2021, Peshmerga got $741-thousand-584 worth of weapons and ammo.  It’s all part of the never ending Counter-ISIS Train and Equip Fund (CTEF) program.

USA photo by Sergeant First Class Gary A. Witte.

On 12JUN2021, Iraqi Border Guards got $4.5 million worth of barbed wire, pre-fab guard towers, generators, water tanks and shower trailers.

USA photo by Specialist Trevor Franklin.

On 03JUN2021, Peshmerga got an undisclosed amount of U.S./NATO funded Russian made/designed weapons.

USA photo by Specialist Angel Ruszkiewicz.

On 20MAY2021, Peshmerga also got truck-loads of barbed wire and uniforms.

Mother of all Money Pits, July 2021: YET MORE TOYOTAS FOR IRAQ, COURTESY OF YOU! $50-MILLION IN PAYCHECKS FOR KURDS! “We are going to see in the next 10 to 18 months is the divestment of up to 12 brigades worth of equipment…”

International

Operation Jupiter: Project Sea Raven, searching for new diseases in Cape Verde

“The Biomeme is a portable, practical, and easy to use piece of equipment that will allow the detection of infectious agents like Zika, dengue, malaria, and many other infectious agents in vectors in less than one hour. Cape Verde is an archipelago where molecular diagnostic services are not yet available on all islands. The Biomeme will be an enormous asset to support screening in field investigations, thus supporting the early diagnosis and monitoring of infectious agents and contributing to the prevention and control of diseases.”-Silvania Veiga Leal, Director of Entomology, Ministério Da Saúde De Cabo Verde

In June 2021, U.S. Navy entomologists made their first of two trips to Repúblika di Kabu Verdi (Cabo Verde, Cape Verde), in search of mosquitos. It’s part of the Navy Entomology Center of Excellence/Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division-Global Emerging Infections Surveillance’s Project Sea Raven.

Catching mosquitoes, 22JUN2021, U.S. Navy photo.

The official goal of Project Sea Raven is to find ways of detecting new pathogens, and help determine how to protect AfriCom (Africa Command) military personnel from those new disease causing pathogens.  Project Sea Raven will search other global locations where access to medical care/laboratories are limited or non-existent.

Sea Raven entomologists were able to collect more than 4-hundred mosquitos, despite it being the dry season on Cabo Verde.  The next visit will be during the rainy season.

Operation Jupiter: COVID-19 JUST THE BEGINNING, GET READY FOR BIO-ELECTRIC WARFARE!

CHIKrisk 2021: U.S. ARMY CONTINUES TO WARN OF NEW PANDEMIC

Idaho, International, Technology

Singapore Apaches test Idaho’s new D-A-G-I-R system

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At the beginning of 2021, the Idaho Army National Guard became the first Guard unit in the United States to employ the new DAGIR gunnery range system.

Gowen Field, Idaho, 23JUL2021. Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez.

Between June 30th and July 29th, the Republic of Singapore Air Force’s Peace Vanguard unit conducted AH-64 Longbow Apache gunnery on the Orchard Combat Training Center for the tenth year now, but this time they got to use Idaho’s new DAGIR system: “The scoring is instantaneous. The second a target is hit, we know about it. It’s a great feature because sometimes you’re not sure if the round went through the target or not.”-Lieutenant Colonel Jack Denton, U.S. Army Flight Training Detachment

Idaho ArNG photo by Thomas Alvarez, 23JUL2021.

The RSAF Peace Vanguard is based on the Arizona National Guard’s Silverbell Army Heliport, where they’ve been flying eight AH-64Ds since 2001.

Idaho ArNG photo by Thomas Alvarez, 23JUL2021.

Idaho’s Orchard Combat Training Center has at least 23 gunnery/bombing ranges.  Currently it is one of only two DAGIR ranges in the entire U.S.

NATO:  APACHES & HINDS, FOR THE FIRST TIME?

April 2021: IDAHO HOME TO FIRST EVER NATIONAL GUARD D-A-G-I-R!

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

2016: OBAMA DISAPPEARS THE LAST OF IDAHO’S APACHES?

International, U.S.

Biden’s War: Secret new Afghan-African Refugee operation revealed!

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Qatar Airways is already flying the Afghan refugees to Dulles International Airport, arriving under cover of darkness. Fort Lee, in Virginia, is serving as the main port of entry for Operation Allies Refuge.

On 29JUL2021, U.S. Northern Command revealed that between the 14th and 19th of July, President Joe Biden ordered Operation Allies Refuge.

Operation Allies Refuge is a Department of State lead mission to give people in Afghanistan, as well as in various African countries, Special Immigrant Visas.  I can understand Afghanistan, because the U.S. obviously lost that 20 year undeclared war and Afghans that supported the U.S. military are now targets, but why Africa?  Has the U.S. lost its covert war in the various African countries as well?

One of the first busses for the refugees arrives at the Dulles International Airport in Virginia. USA photo by Specialist Cody Nelson, 30JUL2021.

In Afghanistan the program is administered by the Afghanistan Coordination Task Force (ACTF), and already the Department of Defense is tasked with coordinating the transport of 3-thousand-5-hundred Afghan refugees!

U.S. Army photo by Specialist Christopher Rodrigo, 28JUL2021.

Civilian contractors began constructing the temporary in-processing buildings on 26JUL2021.

USA photo by First Lieutenant Tom Burcham the Fourth, 30JUL2021.

Some Afghan refugees will be staying at the Fort Lee, Virginia, Holiday Inn Express.

AAFEES photo.

The Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) is tasked with providing a temporary Mobile Field Exchange, so incoming refugees can go shopping.

USA photo by T. Anthony Bell, 28JUL2021.

Biden’s War: VERMONT MILITIA’S MEDICAL & ECONOMIC MISSIONS IN FOREIGN LANDS

Biden’s Borderland: INDEPENDENCE?

2016: OBAMA REGIME SECRET REFUGEE DEAL WITH AUSTRALIA!

2nd U.S. Civil War, 2016:  NEW YORK & OBAMA’S HOMIE TOWN TOP CREATORS OF U.S. REFUGEES! WHERE ARE THEY GOING?

International

Mother of all Money Pits: Yet more Toyotas for Iraq, courtesy of you! $50-million in paychecks for Kurds!

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“Since 2014, the CTEF program funded by the U.S. has provided over $5 billion of equipment, vehicles, uniforms, stipends, medical supplies, etc.”-Colonel Wayne Marotto, U.S. Army in Iraq

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant First Class Class Christie R. Smith, 26JUL2021.

On 26JUL2021, the same day U.S. President Joe Biden announced an end to U.S. combat action in Iraq, U.S. forces in Iraq handed over $25-million worth of ‘strategic communication and maintenance equipment’ to Iraqi forces.   The U.S. military officially calls it ‘divestiture’ or ‘divestment’, it’s part of the never ending Counter-ISIS Train and Equip Fund (CTEF) program.

USA photo by Specialist Clara Soria-Hernandez, 26JUL2021.

Also, the Ministry of Peshmerga-Kurdistan Region received more than 70 HMMWVs and Navistars from U.S. taxpayers, on 26JUL2021!

USA photo by Specialist Clara Soria-Hernandez, 26JUL2021.

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant First Class Ernest Henderson, 19JUL2021.

That wasn’t the only giveaway in July 2021, on the 19th of July U.S. forces gave Iraqi forces ammunition and Toyota ‘ambulances’ and pick-ups, valued at more than $2.75 million!

USA photo by Sergeant First Class Ernest Henderson, 19JUL2021.

USA photo by Sergeant First Class Ernest Henderson, 19JUL2021.

USA photo by Sergeant First Class Ernest Henderson, 19JUL2021.

Also included were several Navistar flatbed trucks.  Navistar has been paid tens of millions of U.S. dollars since 2007, to deliver trucks to Iraq.

USA photo by Corporal Jacob Gleich, 10JUL2021.

Then on 10JUL2021, U.S. taxpayers gave Iraqi forces $2.5-million worth of Toyotas and backhoe loaders!

But wait, there is more for the latest CTEF financial rip-offs.   CTEF also gave 98 U.S. taxpayer funded Toyotas to Kurdish Peshmerga militia in January of this year: “We are going to see in the next 10 to 18 months is the divestment of up to 12 brigades worth of equipment to the Ministry of Peshmerga’s Regional Guard Brigades. It’s about $166 million worth of equipment that will be issued out.”-Colonel David Williams, U.S. Army Director of the Kurdistan Coordination Center

USA photo by Sergeant First Class Ernest Henderson, 12JUL2021.

Also, in May of this year, a Kurdish news outlet revealed that U.S. forces issued just over $50-million in ‘back pay’ to Peshmerga forces in Northern Iraq.

USA photo by Specialist Clara Soria-Hernandez, 11JUL2021.

Biden’s War: U.S. FORCES ENTER SYRIA, AGAIN

Mother of all Money Pits, January 2021: U.S. TAXPAYERS FUND JAPANESE MILITARY VEHICLES FOR IRAQ, AGAIN!

U.S. DoD Inspector General, February 2020: Audit of the DoD’s Accountability of Counter-Islamic State of Iraq and Syria funding

World War Three 2015: NATO Turkey bombs Iraqi Kurds

ROJAVA KURDS REVEAL PRO-GUN ANTI-TAX REVOLUTION!

 KURDS & U.S. ADVISORS HIT WITH ISLAMIC STATE GAS ATTACKS, OBAMA REGIME COVER-UP!

World War Three 2011:  KURDISH REBELS IN IRAN ADMIT THEY ARE BEING ARMED BY THE UNITED STATES

Iraqi officials demand U.S. leave

Occupation Shenanigans, 2010-11: 140 M1A1M Abrams tanks were delivered to Iraq, some of which ended up with pro-Iranian militias. In 2018, Iraq said it was trading-in the M1A1M for Russian made T-90S.

Mother of all Money Pits, 2007: U.S. citizens paid $3.5-million dollars per helicopter, to fix ex-Jordanian Hueys for Iraq! 

International

Disaster 2021: German Flood clean-up, USAF style

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Spangdahlem Air Base personnel volunteer to help with flood clean-up in Kyllburg and Auw an der Kyll, 14 -16 July 2021.

U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sergeant Laura Beckley.

USAF video by Master Sergeant Laura Beckley, clean-up operations in Auw an der Kyll, 16JUL2021:

USAF photo by Master Sergeant Laura Beckley.

USAF photo by Master Sergeant Laura Beckley.

USAF video interview by Technical Sergeant Anthony Plyler, Kyllburg, 14JUL2021:

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Anthony Plyler.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Anthony Plyler.

Disaster 2021: U.S. MILITARY RESPONDS TO GERMAN FLOOD, KNEW FLOOD WAS IMMINENT

International

Denton Program Failure: Canadian Fire Trucks, U.S. Air Force, Central America

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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?

More examples of the Denton Program.

Biden’s Borderland: INDEPENDENCE?

2019: 1942 FORD FIRETRUCK RETURNS TO SERVICE WITH THE USAF!

International, Technology

Vehicle I-D: Last Days of the Digger’s M113

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Exercise Koolendong at Bradshaw Field Training Area, Northern Territory. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Sarah E. Taggett, 25AUG2021.

U.S. Marines walk along side a Digger-113. USMC photo by Corporal Lydia Gordon, 25AUG2021.

USMC photo by Cpl. Lydia Gordon, 25AUG2021.

USMC photo by Cpl. Lydia Gordon, 25AUG2021.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Sarah E. Taggett, 25AUG2021:

U.S. Army photo by Private First Class Matthew Mackintosh, 30JUL2021.

USA photo by Private First Class Matthew Mackintosh, 30JUL2021.

USMC photo by First Lieutenant Isaac Lamberth, 29JUL2021.

Digger is a nickname for Australian soldier.

M113AS4 night fire, 24JUL2021. Australian Defence Forces photo by Corporal Madhur Chitnis.

Wargame Talisman Saber (spelled Sabre in Australia) was first launched in 2005, it is held every two years, just missing the pandemic panic attack of 2020.  However, this year’s wargames (July 2021) supposedly included CoViD-19 health considerations, according to the U.S. Department of Defense that means reduced number of personnel and a mandatory 14-day quarantine.

USMC photo by Corporal Michael Jefferson Estillomo, 23JUL2021.

Officially the wargame was started by Australia and United States as part of the undeclared War on Terrorism (U.S. Congress never  declared war, they just authorized the President’s actions. A U.S. declaration of war is the same as declaring martial law domestically).  International participants in the Talisman Saber wargames now include British Empire (Commonwealth of Nations) members Canada, New Zealand and United Kingdom, and East Asian-U.S. occupied Japan and South Korea.  There were a couple of wargames where China deployed a Type 815G Dongdiao-class electronic surveillance ship to observe the goings-on.

USMC photo by Corporal Michael Jefferson Estillomo, 23JUL2021.

Since 1964 Australia has used the U.S. designed M113.  Originally with the gasoline motor, later the diesel motor, most were license built in Australia.  The Aussies have regularly upgraded their M113s, the latest in use is the Tenix M113AS4, in various versions like APC, Fitter, Logistics (a tracked pick-up truck).  However, the most recent round of upgrades was delayed by several years (as much as six years), now there is talk of phasing-out the M113 with a true Infantry Fighting Vehicle, possibly by a German or Korean company.

You know you’re in Australia when it says “Caution, Left Hand Drive”. USMC photo by Corporal Michael Jefferson Estillomo, 23JUL2021.

The M113s conduct their Talisman Saber games in Queensland.

USMC photo by Corporal Michael Jefferson Estillomo, 23JUL2021.

U.S. Navy Video, by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Jen S. Martinez, of Aussie Digger M113s waiting for something to do, 24JUL2021:

 

Older type M113s on a landing craft, July 2019. U.S. Army photo by Sergeant First Class Whitney C. Houston.

July 2017, Australian Defence Forces photo by Leading Aircraftman Dillon Anderson.

Notice the six roadwheels on the Digger’s M113, the U.S. M113 has five.

M113AS4, Exercise Talisman Saber 17 at Shoalwater Bay Training Area, Queensland. Australian Defence Forces photo by Sergeant Tiffany Edwards, 20JUL2017.

U.S. Navy photo by Woody Paschall, 15JUL2011.

USN photo by Woody Paschall, 15JUL2011.

Remember, NATO ‘partner across the globe’ Australia is also a member of the Commonwealth of Nations (the official name used for the British Empire since 1926). In 2002, while visiting the armor (armour) folks on Edmonton, I was told by members of the Canadian Lord Strathcona’s Horse that the United States had been secretly brought back into the Empire.  Australia’s M113 were produced by Tenix Defence, but in 2008 BAE (formerly known as British Aerospace or BAe) took over Tenix and created BAE Systems Australia.

Here’s some recent Empire shenanigans:

2021:  BRITISH EMPIRE & U.S. SPACE FORCE, ‘ALLIED BY DESIGN’?

The new U.S. M109A7 PALADIN is made by a BRITISH EMPIRE company!

Rivet Joint-Airseeker, 2020: RC-135V/W PATRIOT & RED COAT

Gun Ban Fail, 2019: SHOOTING IN AUSTRALIA, AGAIN! COPS KNEW WHO IT WAS AND DID NOTHING! 

Vaccine Fail 2017: 156% INCREASE IN AUSTRALIAN ‘HORROR FLU’! EXPERTS FALSELY BLAME SUPER SPREADER CHILDREN!

2016:  USAF B-52 TAKES PART IN AUSTRALIA’S CELEBRATION OF THE VIETNAM OCCUPATION!

OBAMA REGIME SECRET REFUGEE DEAL WITH AUSTRALIA!

FRACKING SETS AUSTRALIAN RIVER ON FIRE!

Destroy U.S. Dollar, 2015: AUSTRALIA FIRST TO USE CHINESE YUAN IN MAJOR TRANSACTIONS!

Gun Ban Fail, 2015: YET ANOTHER GUN RELATED INCIDENT IN COUNTRY THAT TOTALLY BANS GUNS!

2014: AUSTRALIA CREATES G20 MARTIAL LAWS! MORE PROOF YOUR ‘FEARLESS’ LEADERS ARE A BUNCH OF PARANOID-SCHIZOIDS!

World War Three, 2012: FIRST UNIT OF U.S. MARINES ARRIVES IN AUSTRALIA

MILITARY PACT WITH AUSTRALIA……..OBAMA SAYS THINGS WILL GET WORSE!

World War Three, 2011: PEACEPRIZE WINNER, OBAMA, SENDING THOUSANDS OF U.S. MARINES TO AUSTRALIA. PREP FOR WAR WITH CHINA, OR TRYING TO SAVE MONEY?

International

Typhoon 2021: Secure your Trash!

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On 21-22 July 2021, Southern Japan was hit by Typhoon In-Fa, in Philippines is was called Typhoon Fabian, whatever you call it the U.S. Marines in Southern Japan were ready.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Alex Fairchild.

On Camp Foster, Okinawa, Japan, U.S. Marines dug in for the 2021 Typhoon season: “Today we handed out upwards of 3-thousand-5-hundred MRE’s. We have been preparing all week, and it has been a daunting task, but as Marines we are and have to be prepared for anything that comes our way.”-Private First Class Anthony Prophet, Marine Wing Support Squadron 172, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Alex Fairchild.

Marines on Camp Foster filled sandbags, boarded up buildings, tied down anything that could blow away, secured sources of water, protected anything electronic, and even collected trash: “When it comes to bulk refuse [re-fuuss, as in trash, not ree-fyuse as in reject], we keep our typhoon cage open through Tropical Typhoon Condition of Readiness 2 so that any trash that isn’t contracted for pickup can be disposed of.”-Sergeant Shane Holum, Camp Services

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Alex Fairchild.

USMC video report, by Corporal Brennan J. Beauton, explaining that Camp Lester and Plaza Housing were also prepped:

U.S. Navy SeaBees and USMC Engineers actually practiced boarding up buildings on 08JUL2021. USMC video report by Corporal Ryan H. Pulliam:

Typhoon prep 2021: What is T-C-C-O-R?