Category Archives: International

Idaho, International

World War Three, 2016: Snake River M1A2 SEP, Live Fire Romania!

Video

08 August 2016 (00:11 UTC-07 Tango 01) 18 Mordad 1395/04 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/06 Bing-Shen 4714

U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Corey Baltos, 07JUL2016.

My ‘alma matter’ 116th Armored Cav in Cincu, Romania, July 2016.  (SNAKE RIVER IFVS INVADE ROMANIA!)

USA photo by Staff Sergeant Corey Baltos, 28JUL2016.

Idaho Army National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Kyle J. Warner, 02AUG2016.

During the last days of Saber Guardian 2016, Idaho, Montana & Oregon Army National Guard’s 116th CBCT M1A2 SEP tanks conduct live fire with their 120mm Rheinmetall guns, and there’s some vid of Canadian infantry firing their personnel weapons:

Small UAV (R/C drone) aerial video:

116th Cavalry (pronounced Cav-al-ry, not cal-vary) Brigade Combat Team Colonel Farin Schwartz and Romanian Colonel Julian Daniliuc comment about Saber Guardian:

Oregon Army National Guard photo by Captain John Farmer, 06AUG2016.

Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team (Oregon chapter) shooting up the Romanian Land Forces Combat Training Center.  (OREGON CAPTAIN EXPLAINS WHY IDAHO BASED MILITIA INVADED ROMANIA!)

USAF F-35A “COMBAT READY” IN UTAH

45 YEARS OF C-130 MAFFS OPS

OBAMA DEPLOYS INDIANA BLACKSNAKES A-10s TO SLOVAKIA

C-17 DUMPS HMMWVS ON SOUTH CAROLINA, AWESOME VID!

Snake River 116th’s 2015 NTC rotation on video (including Combined Arms Live Fire)

International, Technology

USAF personnel explain how air strikes are done

01 August 2016 (17:47 UTC-07 Tango 01) 11 Mordad 1395/26 Shawwal 1437/29 Yi-Wei 4714

U.S. Air Force personnel explain just how complicated (and expensive) it is to drop just one high-tech bomb on Islamic State, aka DAIISH (DA for al-DAwla, I for al-Islamiya, I for al-Iraq, SH al-SHam [al-Sham=Syria]).  In our age of high-tech weaponry one wrong data input guarantees the wrong person(s) get killed:

IDAHO AIR NATIONAL GUARD SURROUNDED BY TURKISH TROOPS!

TURKEY HALTS IDAHO AIRSTRIKES AGAINST ISLAMIC STATE!

BRITISH EMPIRE, LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR: ISLAMIC STATE DAIISH

Idaho, International, Technology

Brand new Black Hawks: Canucks join Snake River militia, Air Assault Move to Contact, Romania!

Video

01 August 2016 (17:12 UTC-07 Tango 01) 11 Mordad 1395/26 Shawwal 1437/29 Yi-Wei 4714

Idaho Army National Guard photo by Private First Class Jessica L. Pauley, 31JUL2016.

Saber Guardian 2016: British empire’s Charlie Company, 1st Battalion Royal Canadian Regiment, links up with Snake River’s Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 1/116th CBCT in Sibu, Romania.  FYI, the British empire spells Saber S-A-B-R-E.

The new UH-60M had almost everybody’s attention. Oregon Army National Guard photo by Captain John Farmer, 30JUL2016.

UH-60M Air Assault load up:

The below boring Move to Contact Vid is mainly Snake River guys, the Canucks wearing the darker green camo.  Move to Contact is usually boring, unless you actually make contact:

 

Oregon Army National Guard photo by Captain John Farmer, 30JUL2016.

Black Hawk pilot explains the brand new UH-60M (and the company commander gives the usual ‘It’s so great to work with other country’s militaries’ speech):

Oregon Army National Guard photo by Captain John Farmer, 30JUL2016.

MONTANA MILITIA ENJOYS BEING THE ‘BAD GUY’ IN ROMANIA!

VEHICLE ID: SNAKE RIVER IFVs INVADE ROMANIA!

VEHICLE ID: OREGON CAPTAIN EXPLAINS WHY IDAHO BASED MILITIA INVADED ROMANIA!

BLACK HAWK DOWN JAPAN: U.S. ARMY TRAINS YOKOHAMA TO RESCUE DOWNED UH-60 CREWS

SIGN OF THINGS TO COME: KENTUCKY MILITIA BLACK HAWKS TRAINS FOR WATER RESCUES IN INDIANA!

116TH SNAKE RIVER’S 2015 NTC ROTATION, with CALFEX video

International, U.S.

World War Three, 2016: Montana militia enjoys being the ‘Bad Guy’ in Romania!

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31 July 2016 /22:47 UTC-07 Tango 01 (11 Mordad 1395/26 Shawwal 1437/29 Yi-Wei 4714)

U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Corey Baltos, 30JUL2016.

Company D, 1st Battalion, 163rd Infantry Regiment, Montana Army National Guard playing Opposing Forces (OpFor) at the Romanian Land Force Combat Training Center.

National Guard M1A2 SEP(System Enhancement Package) plays the ‘Bad Guy’ in Romania:

USA photo by Staff Sergeant Corey Baltos, 30JUL2016.

How to hide your M1A2 SEP in Romania.

“This is kind of neat for our unit. This is the first time the National Guard has been asked to conduct Saber Guardian as the OpFor, and for them to call on the state of Montana it means a lot to us, it makes us proud. We take a lot of pride where we are from, and to come here and provide a legitimate challenge to the BlueFor for this mission is challenging and rewarding. We are proud for our unit and proud for our state.”-First Sergeant Mathew Kemp, Delta Company, 1/163 Infantry, Montana National Guard

Montana OpFor Bradley’s (and a M113) ‘invading’ Romania. USA photo by Staff Sergeant Corey Baltos, 30JUL2016.

Montana’s 1/163 Infantry Regiment is part of the National Guard’s ‘Snake River’ 1/116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team’s ‘invasion’ of former Warsaw Pact member Romania.

USA photo by Staff Sergeant Corey Baltos, 30JUL2016.

Montana’s Bravo and Delta infantry companies are playing the role of Opposition Forces (OpFor, OPFOR) during Saber Guardian 2016.  The U.S.-NATO wargame concludes by 07 August 2016.

‘Combatants’ are using MILES (multiple integrated laser engagement system), it’s one of the first laser tag systems, developed by the military decades ago: “The MILES gear provides a realistic force on force training opportunity. This realistic training gives our guys an idea of what they need to work on, what skills they need to develop and what they are proficient at.”-Staff Sergeant  Joseph Thacker, Delta Company, 1/64th Armor Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division

Me at a rare Pocatello Airport air show, in 1999, wearing my OPFOR shirt that I got after Idaho's NTC wargame at Fort Irwin in 1998.

Me at a rare Pocatello Airport air show, in 1999, wearing my OPFOR shirt that I got after Idaho’s NTC wargame at Fort Irwin in 1998.

“THIS IS WHERE ARMOR FIGHTS!” IDAHO NATIONAL GUARD

International

Obama’s Africa: U.S. Army in Senegal

31 July 2016 (16:52 UTC-07 Tango 01) 10 Mordad 1395/25 Shawwal 1437/28 Yi-Wei 4714

SOUTH AFRICA ACCUSES OBAMA REGIME USAID OF COUP ATTEMPT!

OPERATION JUPITER: EBOLA KILLING IN U.S. CONTROLLED AFRICA, AGAIN!

WORLD WAR 3 AFRICA: OBAMA ORDERS MILITARY OCCUPATION UNDER THE FALSE FLAG OF FIGHTING EBOLA!  MORE LIKELY IT’S ABOUT ALL THAT NEW FOUND OIL

International

Idaho Air National Guard surrounded by Turkish troops!

31 July 2016 (03:29 UTC-07 Tango 01) 10 Mordad 1395/25 Shawwal 1437/28 Yi-Wei 4714

Not even a day after Obama’s NATO buddy Tayyip Erdogan supposedly forgave hundreds of people for the attempted coup, reports that he has now surrounded NATO air base Incirlik with 7-thousand police and armed civilians.

Reports say paranoid Erdogan suspects a second coup attempt, once again being led by instigators at Incirlik.  Turkish news media say police in the nearby city of Adana were told that a second coup attempt was about to begin.

Hundreds of construction vehicles, like dump trucks, are being used to surround the base.  Also, since Thursday pro-Erdogan civilians are protesting the U.S. after Pro-Erdogan news media accused retired U.S. Army General John F. Campbell of being the mastermind behind the first coup attempt!  Interestingly Turkish government officials claim this latest lockdown of Incirlik air base was a simple “security check” and that “there is nothing wrong”.

Also on Thursday, U.S. Army General Joseph Votel told the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado that Erdogan even arrested Turkish officers that were helping co-ordinate U.S. air strikes against DAIISH (DA for al-DAwla, I for al-Islamiya, I for al-Iraq, SH al-SHam [al-Sham=Syria]), aka Islamic State, aka ISIS, aka ISIL.

General Votel also tried to explain the Obama regime’s plan to go after Islamic State (DAIISH):

TURKEY HALTS IDAHO AIRSTRIKES AGAINST ISLAMIC STATE!

International

World War 3: Obama deploys Indiana Blacksnakes to Slovakia

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Indiana Air National Guard’s 122 Fighter Wing deploys A-10 Thunderbolt 2s to Slovakia.  No, those are not ‘warthog’ art painted on their noses, they’re supposed to be snakes.  And there’s some vid of Slovakian MiG-29s.

Idaho, International

World War Three, 2016: Snake River I-F-Vs invade Romania!

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IFV=Infantry Fighting Vehicle

116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team Bradley IFV, 30JUL2016. Oregon Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Corey Grogan.

30 July 2016 (17:08 UTC-07 Tango 01) 09 Mordad 1395/24 Shawwal 1437/27 Yi-Wei 4714

Video of National Guard 116th CBCT (Idaho, Montana, Oregon) M2A3 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles and M113 support vehicles, as well as Snake River mech-infantry inside Romania:

U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Corinna Baltos, 28JUL2016.

Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team, Idaho Army National Guard.

Wearing the Snake River patch. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Corinna Baltos, 28JUL2016.

Montana chapter of the 116th Cav plays ‘bad guy’ in Romania. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Corinna Baltos, 30JUL2016.

M2A3 of 1st Battalion, 163rd Infantry Regiment, Montana Army National Guard, at the Romanian Land Force Combat Training Center.

 OREGON CAPTAIN EXPLAINS WHY IDAHO BASED MILITIA INVADED ROMANIA!