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“to achieve profitability.”: U.S. hi-tech/communications breakdown, May 2018

Incomplete list of U.S. internet/high-tech/communications job destruction announcements in May 2018:

British empire United Kingdom based facebook data stealing Cambridge Analytica now bankrupt busted in the United States, due to $10-million USD of debt: “Over the past several months, Cambridge Analytica has been the subject of numerous unfounded accusations. The siege of media coverage has driven away virtually all of the company’s customers and suppliers. As a result, it has been determined that it is no longer viable to continue operating the business.”

CALIFORNIA: Deluxe Entertainment Services Group-Deluxe Digital laying off 52 people in Burbank, by the end of July.  Charter Communications suddenly laid off 66 people in Cerritos.  Data warehousing company VSolvit suddenly laid off 107 people in Ventura!  Santa Barbara based consumer electronics company Sonos suddenly laid off 96 people, despite claiming to be growing and profitable.  Japan founded DENSO Wireless Systems America issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Vista, 160 jobs gone by the end of July!  Electronic device maker AMETEK issued a shutdown WARN for its operations in Irvine, 42 jobs gone by the end of June. Symantec continues killing jobs, this time 14 people in Mountain View unemployed  in June. Also in Mountain View, data ‘protection’ company Veritas Technologies finally told state unemployment officials that it killed 54 jobs back in April.  Japan owned, Culver City based Sony Crackle suddenly laid off a dozen people “to streamline operations and increase efficiency”.  Video game maker Blind Squirrel Games laid off 13 people due to the sudden cancellation of a project.  Video game maker Daybreak Game Company issued a layoff WARN for its San Diego location, 79 jobs gone by the end of June.   Soleil Communications issued a shutdown WARN for its San Diego ops, 88 jobs gone mid-July.  Also in San Diego, Qualcomm laying off 44 people by mid-July. San Francisco based media-tech company PopSugar laid off 19 people “to achieve profitability.”  Qatar based Al Jazeera issued a shutdown WARN for its San Francisco office, 68 jobs gone by August.   Beverly Hills based Relativity Media bankrupt busted and being sold-off due to more than $500-million USD of debts generated over a two years period.  Ironically job search website Snagajob shutdown its Oakland office.   Taylor Communications issued a shutdown WARN for its Livermore location, 43 jobs gone by the end of June.  Credit.org issued a shutdown WARN for its Riverside location, 43 jobs gone by July.  NetApp issued a layoff WARN for its Sunnyvale location, 36 jobs gone in July. Online food ordering company Munchery issued a shutdown WARN for its Gardena location, 82 jobs lost in July (Munchery shuts down operations in LA, New York and Seattle).  Intel issued a layoff WARN for its Santa Clara operations, 65 jobs gone by the end of June.  Business communications company RR Donnelley issued a shutdown WARN for its San Diego and Ontario locations, 59 jobs gone in July.  ‘Content connector’ Grass Valley shutting down in July.

FLORIDA: Time shutting down its Customer Service centers, 621 jobs gone between July 2018 and March 2019!  

ILLINOIS: Allstate Print Communication Center issued a shutdown WARN for its operations in Wheeling, 220 jobs gone between May and December, due to being outsourced!

LOUISIANA:  Monroe based CenturyLink keeps killing jobs, this time around 1-thousand people will become unemployed as a result of CenturyLink’s merger with L3 Communications!

MASSACHUSETTS: Inside the ‘dehumanizing’ cost-cutting efforts by new Digital First Media ownership at the Boston Herald

Mitt Romney co-founded Framingham based, but now privately owned, Staples suddenly killed yet more corporate level jobs, 175 InfoTech employees now jobless, bringing this years corporate layoff tally to at least 2-hundred!

MINNESOTA: Best Buy shutdown its 10 years old Mall of America brick-n-mortar store.  Artesyn Embedded Tech issued a WARN, 65 jobs gone by the end of June.  Telemarketer Marketlink issued a WARN, 62 jobs gone mid-July.

NEW JERSEY: Apple shutdown one of its brick-n-mortar stores in Atlantic City, 52 jobs gone “Due to a sharp decline in tourism and visitors to the area…”  Mimeo.com issued a WARN, 116 people in Newark jobless by July!

NEW MEXICO: Call center contractor Convergys eliminating about 1-hundred jobs in Albuquerque due to the expiration of a contract, local news media revealed that Convergys received almost $200-thousand USD in taxpayer funded incentives to create 1-hundred jobs last year!

NEW YORK: Condé Nast’s American Vogue and Vanity Fair together laid off 14 people.  NYC based Viacom suddenly laid off 1-hundred people as it attempts save money while battling for control of CBS!  Software maker for the retail industry Aptos shutting down its Newburgh office, 117 jobs lost over the next 12 months!  California based human interface hardware maker Synaptics halting production at its Linden Oaks facility, 40 jobs gone by mid-July.

WRAL Tech Wire:  Feds launch age discrimination probe of IBM in making layoffs

NORTH CAROLINA: Sykes shutting down a call center in Fayetteville, 377 jobs gone in July!  Local news media said that at one point the call center employed more than 5-hundred people.

OHIO: IBM controlled Watson Health suddenly laid off at least 40 people in Cleveland, a now former employee posted online “….to close the shop, will happen in early 2019. … This round of cuts is much bigger than anyone is reporting, they cutting deep and wide, there is no recovery from this one…” 

PENNSYLVANIA: Call center contractor Ibex Global Solutions shutting down its operations in the Indiana Mall, 105 jobs lost unless a new client can be found soon!

SOUTH CAROLINA:  QS/1 suddenly laid off an undisclosed number of people, yet at the same time the healthcare software maker claims to be hiring for multiple technology positions.

UTAH: The Salt Lake Tribune laid off 64 people.  The new owner of Standard-Examiner laid off four people. 

VERMONT:  After 72 years, magazine Vermont Life is now dead.

VIRGINIA: Ironically job search website Snagajob laid off an undisclosed number of employees at its Richmond office.

WASHINGTON: Video game maker Wargaming Seattle shutting down in Redmond, 155 jobs gone by mid-July, company officials saying “Development was discontinued on May 23”! 

U.S. Tech/Communications breakdown, April 2018: “…TO THRIVE IN THE FUTURE.”

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Vehicle I-D: CH-53K King Stallion

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Forget the CH-53 Super Stallion, there’s a new heavy lift Marine coming onboard; CH-53K King Stallion.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Ethan Pumphret.

Marine Operational Test & Evaluation Squadron-1 load the main gear box of the new CH-53K King Stallion onto the aircraft, Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) New River, North Carolina, 03OCT2018.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Samuel Lyden.

The first CH-53K King Stallion hovers above the flight line at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) New River, North Carolina, 16MAY2018.It’s not a rebuild, it’s completely new with reduced weight yet stronger construction, fly-by-wire, and able to lift three times more that the Super Stallion (externally transport 27-thousand pounds/12247 kilos over 110 nautical miles/127 miles/203.7km and has a max external lift of 36-thousand pounds/16329.3 kilos).  The most noticeable visual difference is the cockpit/nose section of the rotary wing aircraft.

USMC photo by Sergeant Matthew Callahan.

The first CH-53K King Stallion taxis across the flight line at MCAS New River, North Carolina, 16MAY2018.

Offical U.S. Marine Corps video explainer:

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Samuel Lyden.

Another video, MCAS New River, North Carolina, 16MAY2018:

USMC photo by Sergeant Matthew Callahan.

USMC photo by Lance Cpl. Leynard Kyle Plazo.

USMC photo by Corporal Hailey D. Clay.

USMC General checks out the new CH-53K at the Berlin Air Show, Berlin ExpoCenter Airport, Schönefeld, Deutschland, 25APR2018.

USMC photo by Corporal Hailey D. Clay.

Video of heavy lift demo at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, 18JAN2018:

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Molly Hampton.

Test flight over West Palm Beach, Florida, 22MAR2017.

Official video from April 2017:

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Molly Hampton.

By April 2017, the CH-53K had passed its Defense Acquisition Board assessment, and low-rate initial production began. The CH-53K is scheduled to completely replace the CH-53E Super Stallion by 2030.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Gabriela Garcia.

“Experimental” silly-vilian colors (and nose) at Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation in Florida, 08MAR2016.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Gabriela Garcia.

Vehicle I-D: CH-53 SEA STALLION MCAS-YUMA, APRIL 2017

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“…to thrive in the future.”: U.S. hi-tech/communications breakdown, April 2018

More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high-tech competition for your demise. Incomplete list of U.S. internet/high-tech/communications job destruction announcements in April 2018:

EdSurge: Computer Science Degrees and Technology’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle

California: Maker of “electromechanical and solid state switch gear for aircraft” Leach International-Esterline Power Systems suddenly eliminated 46 jobs in Buena Park.  Social media camera company Snap suddenly eliminated 90 jobs in Venice and Santa Monica.   In Rocklin, Germany based SMA Solar Technology eliminating 51 jobs by the end of June.  Newspaper owner Tronc suddenly laid off more than 12 people at several major newspapers, including people who worked in the digital/online departments.  McClatchy owned The Sacramento Bee laid off 23 people, one of the fired reporters warned “If people think they will continue to get the news for free, they have another thing coming.”  It’s been revealed that Menlo Park based facebook is spending $20-thousand USD per day to provide Mark Zukerberg with security guards! Qualcomm eliminating 1-thousand-5-hundred jobs in San Diego, San Jose and Santa Clara, as part of its “cost reduction plan”, however, a financial adviser told local news media that it was really about boosting Qualcomm’s stock price!  Also in San Diego, neurobiological computer fabric maker KnuEdge issued a shutdown WARN, 30 jobs gone by the end of May.  San Diego based Daybreak Game Company suddenly laid off an undisclosed number of people: “Daybreak confirms we are realigning our workforce to better position our company for the future.”  

Connecticut: Konica Minolta Business Solutions issued a shutdown WARN for its operations in Windsor, 431 jobs gone between July and September!

Florida: The Gulf Coast Voice (Pensacola Voice) halting publication after 54 years, due to the owner retiring and none of her relatives wanting to continue running the newspaper.

Georgia: More than 1-thousand jobs lost in Columbus (Midland/Corporate Ridge) as ATM maker NCR will shut down both factories (NCR is also shutting down a factory in China) between August and October!  Politicians in Georgia say the announcement by NCR was sudden and means NCR violates the deal that gave it taxpayer money to move ops to Georgia, and now it must pay that money back.  NCR administrators would only say that their decision to shutdown factories is to ensure NCR’s future survival.

Illinois: Online shopping service Swap.com issued a layoff WARN, 196 jobs in Bolingbrook gone due to “financial” reasons!

Iowa: In Coralville, taxpayer funded General Dynamics InfoTech (IT) eliminating 112 jobs by July!

Louisiana: Monroe based CenturyLink eliminating at least 1-thousand jobs across the U.S., saying the jobs are considered “redundant”!

Minnesota: SL Montevideo Technology Incorporated (MTI) issued a shutdown WARN for its factory in Montevideo, 110 jobs gone as part of efforts to “help make MTI an even stronger company”!

Nebraska: Charter Communications shutting down its call center (formerly TimeWarner) in Lincoln, 55 jobs lost, possibly in connection to  a recent service upgrade.

New York: NYC based Univision warned “…we have made the very difficult decision to reduce personnel across the company…” in order “…to thrive in the future.”  Synaptics issued a shutdown WARN for its Rochester ops, 40 hardware/software jobs gone by mid-July.  Newsday issued a phase six layoff WARN as part of its shutdown of ops in Melville, a total of 1-thousand-423 jobs affected when the shutdown is complete din October.  Heidenhain shutting down its Electronics Precision Graduations factory in Jamestown, 40 jobs being consolidated to Illinois and Austria. Advertiser Prompt Direct shutting down its Staten Island ops, 49 jobs gone by July.

North Carolina: Germany based solar panel maker Schletter now chapter 11 bankrupt busted in the U.S. after halting production at its factory in Shelby.  More than 1-hundred people suddenly unemployed after not being paid for several pay periods: “Something went wrong with their business, but they didn’t give anybody a heads up, and they left people with unpaid bills.”-Mel Lockhart, owner of janitorial service hired by Schletter

Ohio: Bankrupt Bon Ton’s internet order fulfillment center in West Jefferson shutting down, 330 jobs gone by June!  Online estate sale company EBTH issued a massive layoff WARN for its distribution ops, 203 jobs gone in June!

Oregon: Software company Puppet suddenly laid off less than 20 people (exact number not given) in an attempt to ensure that “investments are focused on our most strategic priorities.”

Pennsylvania: Quad Graphics issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Hazleton, 167 jobs gone by June!

Vermont: Gray Television Group, the new owners of WCAX-TV, suddenly laid off six people in the name of efficiency.

Washington: Lionbridge Technologies issued a layoff WARN, 119 jobs gone by June, no reason given!  Hearst owned online newspaper Seattle Post-Intelligencer (SeattlePi) continues killing jobs, through layoffs and resignations.  At one time there were 160 employees, now there’s only seven!  

U.S. Tech/Communications breakdown, March 2018: “HARD REALITIES”

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U.S. Air Force owns your GPS! U.S. Army warns ‘We know where you are’!

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18APR2018 /23:58 UTC-07 Tango 06  (30 Farvardin 1397/03 Sha’ban 1439/04 Bing-Chen 4716)

How many silly-vilians know that the current Global Positioning System is a military operation controlled by the U.S. Air Force?  Here’s the official USAF video explainer:

Official U.S. Army video (weak-ly done) warning about the dangers of using your silly-vilian so-called smart-phone GPS or Snap-chat:

It’s all part of the ever expanding military controlled Global Information Grid.

SATCOM upgrades to Wideband Enterprise Terminal, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, to further expand the Global Information Grid.

MAKING ZOMBIES: USAF SECRET SLEEP DEPRIVATION EXPERIMENT REVEALED!

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Making Zombies: USAF secret sleep deprivation experiment revealed!

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Despite decades of studies that say the human brain must get sufficient sleep (including U.S. Army experiments in which soldiers were given meth) or it will become paranoid, suicidal and homicidal, the U.S. Air Force is conducting experiments to force humans to stay awake for extended periods of time.

The 711th Human Performance Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is trying to find out if computer/electronic stimulation works better than drugs. An official video report was issued on 17APR2018:

In 2017 the U.S. Navy confirmed you must sleep, in response to increasing cases of personnel getting less and less sleep: “Sleep has been identified and prioritized as a leading Health and Wellness Department and disease prevention goal. Sleep is an important element of health and well-being just like nutrition and physical fitness. Adequate sleep is necessary to fight off infection, support the metabolism of sugar to prevent diabetes, perform well in school, and work effectively and safely. There were 37% of military members and 29% of civilian staff who reported they do not get enough restful sleep to function well on the job and in their personal life. Our department is focusing on the needs and benefits of adequate sleep with awareness, education and intervention techniques…”-Trish Skinner, Naval Hospital Bremerton Health and Wellness Department

“When we sleep our body goes through a very intricate process where it recovers and rebuilds. Short and long-term memories are allocated and stored. It (also) gives our physical body time to rest and rebuilt broken down muscle and tissue….   Chronic poor sleep can also result in cardiovascular disease, depression and obesity. When it comes to physical recovery, workouts can be totally wasted by not giving our body time to rest and recover.”-Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Christopher Stevens, NHB Mental Health

Also in 2017, U.S. Army’s Fort Belvoir Community Hospital opened a Sleep Medicine Clinic to deal with increased problems due to active duty service members not being able to sleep.  It’s working in conjunction with Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

“If that [service member] is not at his or her best, it could compromise that person’s safety, their teammates’ safety, it could compromise the mission … Sleep is a critical cog in maintaining optimal health.”-Melissa Mitravich, Belvoir Hospital Sleep Medicine Clinic

Why is the U.S. Air Force spending taxpayer money trying to deprive its own personnel from sleep?

Why Sleep Deprivation Is Torture | Psychology Today

USAF DECLARES CLIMATE-CHANGE-WAR ON YOUR LAWN!

‘MICROWAVE’ BEAM WEAPON AIMING TO HEAT YOU UP!

CREATING DOG WARRIORS WITH HI-TECH $13-MILLION HOSPITAL!

OPERATION JUPITER: SHARK DNA FOR FUTURE SOLDIERS?

X-Files: Sleepless 

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“hard realities”: U.S. hi-tech/communications breakdown, March 2018

More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high-tech competition for your demise. Incomplete list of U.S. internet/high-tech/communications job destruction announcements in March 2018:

California: Snap (snapchat) conducting a second and third round of layoffs since January, this time 220 people (100 sales, 120 engineers) suddenly laid off!  Pepperjam (for a short time called eBay Enterprise Marketing Solutions) laying off 20% of its workers across the U.S. as part of a secret reorganization plan.  In North Highlands, Pennsylvania based Advanced Call Center Technologies shutting down, 51 jobs gone.  Movie production/promotion company Weinstein now chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to its namesake’s sex scandals. Univision laid off 20 people as part of plans to take the company public (IPO, issue stocks, debt financing through investors).  NettApp continues to kill jobs, this time more than 12 Sunnyvale HQ employees let go.  San Francisco based tech company that promised to help brick-n-mortar mom-n-pop shops, and raised some big funding from sport and ‘Hollywood’ celebrities, Zenreach suddenly laid off 20% of its employees.  Data-driven, technology-empowered customer support company iQor Holdings issued a layoff WARN for its Simi Valley location, 129 jobs gone by June! Symantec issued layoff WARNs for another 19 people.  Johanson Dielectrics issued a shutdown WARN for its Sylmar location, 197 jobs gone by the end of May!  Singapore based tech manufacturer Flextronics International finally told state employment officials that it killed 52 Alviso jobs back in February.  Mountain View based cloud products designer Tintri issued a layoff WARN, 58 jobs gone in April.

Colorado: For the third year in a row The Denver Post eliminating jobs, this time 30 people laid off. 

Florida: EFT software maker M2 Systems now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, blaming a lawsuit in Connecticut.  The lawsuit says M2 frauded investors.  In Tallahassee, Conduent Commercial Solutions issued a WARN, 194 jobs gone by mid-May!  New York based TV ratings company Nielsen issued a massive layoff WARN, 724 Sunshine State jobs gone between the end of March and the end of May!

Illinois: Motorola laid off as many as 35% of its workers in Chicago.

Iowa: Too Big to Jail Goldman Sachs shutting down its Cedar Rapids call center, 40 jobs gone in April.

Kansas: Sprint eliminating 5-hundred jobs at its Overland Park HQ, but claims it will create more jobs by opening more stores!

Kentucky: Louisville based online retailer CafePress conducted a second round of layoffs due to a 22% drop in profits in 2017.

Michigan: Ann Arbor based video goggles maker Avegant admitted it laid off less than 20 people last month. Hutchinson Technology suddenly laid off 25 people. 

Minnesota: Best Buy shutting down 250 of its smart phone stores by the end of May.  Online based lender Ditech laying off 116 people as it moves more of its Saint Paul operations out-of-state: “Presently we have no definite plans to close the St. Paul site. However, the transition of work from St. Paul to other company locations is anticipated to result in jobs losses at the St. Paul site throughout 2018.”

New Jersey: Washington based Amazon issued a WARN, 77 Jersey City jobs gone by the end of May.

New Mexico: Convergys eliminating 151 jobs at its Rio Rancho call center by the end of April, due to a ‘client change’!

New York: A new report says iconic Armonk based IBM (International Business Machines) laid off 20-thousand U.S. workers over the age of 40, only to systematically replace them with younger, cheaper millennials and foreign workers!  On top of that, as many as 1-thousand IBM employees were suddenly laid off in March, it was revealed by massive social media postings by many of those laid off!  Many of the layoffs hit IBM’s cloud and Watson ops, two operations that employees thought were considered safe from job cuts.  Software maker Aptos issued a shutdown WARN for its Newburg location, 117 jobs affected starting at the end of June! Publisher Merideth continues killing jobs, this time 3-hundred people will become jobless as a result of the $1.8-billion USD take-over of Time magazine.  Newsday issued a “phase 4” and “phase 5” shutdown WARNs for its Melville ops, 1-thousand-423 jobs affected when it’s all said and done (sometime in October)!

Ohio: South Carolina based CompuCom shutting down its Cincinnati area ops, 61 jobs lost.  Science and technology development company Battelle suddenly laid off 260 people in Ohio and 90 people across the U.S.!

Oklahoma: Colorado based Dish Network began laying off an undisclosed number of employees in Tulsa, due to “changes in technology and enhanced online resources”.

Pennsylvania: Radio station owner Steel City Media now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, however administrators swear “The Company remains very profitable and expects to be able to generate sufficient cash from operations to meet the expenses of running our business…. softness in our markets has resulted in non-compliance with certain technical covenants. We believe that Chapter 11 is the appropriate venue to seek to resolve these issues.”

Texas: The Dallas Morning News suddenly laid off five people in what could be never ending job cuts to save money, administrators blame “hard realities”.  San Antonio based radio station owner iHeartMedia now chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to $10-billion USD of debt.  What automotive industry recovery? San Antonio based wearable tech company WiseWear now bankrupt busted and blaming Apple.  Grand Prairie based Vroom (AutoAmerica) suddenly laid of 25% of employees as it shutdown ops in the city of Dallas and the state of Indiana!  One reports says that despite raising $300-million in venture funding, the online car seller has eliminated 50% of its jobs since January!

Virginia:The Herald-Progress suddenly shutdown because it is “no longer commercially viable.” The Caroline Progress also suddenly shutdown.  Colorado based Dish Network issued a shutdown WARN for its Christiansburg ops, 570 jobs gone by mid-May! Amazon issued a layoff WARN for its ops in Sterling, 67 jobs gone in May. InfoTech company Leidos issued a layoff WARN for ops in Charlottesville, 52 jobs gone by the end of April.  InfoTech solutions company NJVC issued a layoff WARN for its Chantilly location, 113 jobs gone by the end of April!

Washington: Amazon owned online education software maker TenMarks “…will no longer be available after the 2018-2019 school year.”  Amazon owned live stream video op Twitch suddenly laid off as many as 30 people. Employees said the sudden layoff was ordered by the new cowardly VP via Google Hangouts, and the guy wasn’t even at work when he ordered the layoffs!  Japan based Hitachi issued a shutdown WARN for its Bellevue location, 61 jobs gone by May.

Market Watch: Amazon is going to kill more American jobs than China did

U.S. Tech/Communications breakdown, February 2018: “I DIDN’T MAKE A LOT OF MONEY….”

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Vehicle ID: That’s not a C-130J, it’s still the old C-130H!

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“When we add these modifications to all of our aircraft, we will greatly increase the reliability and performance of the C-130H, and the overall lethality of the United States Air Force.”-Colonel Justin Walrath, Wyoming Air National Guard’s 153rd Airlift Wing

You can’t count on those six bladed props to tell you that you’re looking at a C-130J Super Hercules anymore.  The following pics are an old school C-130H upgraded with new engines and props that might make it look like a C-130J to the casual observer, along with a few other things.

The Wyoming Air National Guard is proud to be the first operator of the first C-130H upgraded with ‘J-like’ components.  Wyoming was chosen in 2008 to get and try out upgraded C-130Hs.

The C-130J has six bladed props.

C-130J Super Hercules. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Harry Brexel, 03FEB2017.

Most obvious change for upgraded C-130H are the turbines and eight bladed air-screws (evil British empire Rolls-Royce T56 series 3.5 with NP2000 props).  The modifications took place over 18 months at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas.

Upgraded C-130H Hercules. U.S. Air Force photo by Samuel King Junior, 11JAN2018.

Initial testing took place at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.  Supposedly the C-130H modifications mean various state National Guard units will save taxpayer money versus buying the C-130J.

HARVEY: GEORGIA MILITIA DEPLOYS C-130H!

WC-130J SUPER HERCULES TRACKS HURRICANE HARVEY

VEHICLE I-D: ALASKA MILITIA GETS NEW HC-130J

STOP YOUR BITCHIN’! FEMALE PILOT TELLS YOU WHY SHE FLIES MAFFS

MAFFS BOMBS IDAHO!

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USAF declares climate-change-war on your lawn!

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In 2016 the U.S. Air Force and the Central State University in Ohio revealed project Global Neighbor (ostensibly to fight climate change by fighting unwanted plants) and unveiled a directed energy/distributed array weapon for use against your lawn.

Global Neighbor is taxpayer funded through SBIR/STTR (Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer). 

Official video explainer:

In 2017, an ‘inventor’ in Ohio unveiled his silly-vilian version which is incorporated into your standard walk-behind lawn mower. 

 

HUMAN BONES: MORE PROOF CLIMATE CHANGE IS OUTTA OUR HANDS!

USAF SPEEDS UP WEATHER COURSE, BLAME CLIMATE CHANGE?

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‘Microwave’ beam weapon aiming to heat you up!

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11APR2018 /21:15 UTC-07 Tango 06  (23 Farvardin 1397/26 Rajab 1439/27 Bing-Chen 4716)

From 19 to 22 March 2018 the so called Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate revealed their latest so called non-lethal weapons in Washington DC.  They included Laser-Induced Plasma Effect (a so called non-lethal laser beam to shoot you with), electronic devices that can shutdown your vehicle (what I call vehicle electro-cutioners) and Solid-State Active Denial Technology (SSADT) which is essentially a microwave weapon that can ‘burn’ the surface of your skin.

Detailed official promotional video:

WINTER OLYMPICS DRONE SWARM, THE FUTURE WEAPON OF CHOICE!

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Snoopy RC-135S Cobra Ball Nose Art

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“The ball represents the Earth, the purple part with the star is the missile coming up from the earth and the snake, which represents the aircraft, is protecting the Earth.”-Rick Brown, retired U.S. Air Force

Jerrica Skipper, from Mississippi, designed The Ball. U.S. Air Force photo by Delanie Stafford, 23JAN2018.

RC-135S Cobra Ball, invasion of Iraq, April 2003. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Stan Parker.

C-17 NOSE ART

USAF WINS FEMALE RECRUITS WITH BABY C-17