Category Archives: U.S.

International, U.S.

Western War Hawks, another sampling!

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United Nations Security Council Thematic Debate on Human Rights; Nikki Haley’s official view of Human Rights, as UNSC President, 18APR2017:

Congresswoman, and Army National Guard officer, Tulsi Gabbard spoke with the U.S. Army’s Sister in Arms, relating her experiences as a Soldier on the battlefield and in the halls of Congress, 21JAN2014:

Tulsi Gabbard, 21JAN2014, what it takes to be a leader:

NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, praises Japan as one of NATO’s most important Partners, especially in Afghanistan, during a signing ceremony in Tokyo, 15APR2013:

Prime Minister of Japan, Abe Shinzo, praises NATO, during a signing ceremony in Tokyo, 15APR2013:

A senator and a USAF-Reserve officer, Lindsey Graham, deploys to Afghanistan, August 2009:

Famous last words, Lindsey Graham touts Afghanistan’s 2nd Presidential elections, 25AUG2009:

Senators Susan Collins (Republican, Maine), John McCain (Republican, Arizona), and Hillary Rodham Clinton (Democrat, New York) visit members of the U.S. Marine Corps’ 133rd Combat Engineer Battalion in Fallujah, Iraq, 20FEB2005:

Part-1: Western War Hawks! Just a sampling.

U.S.

Oregon Snipers!

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In September 2025, the first ever State Sniper Qualifier on Raymond Rees National Guard Training Center and Boardman Training Area was conducted. It is a three-day, nine-stage competition challenging participants with complex problem-solving scenarios testing marksmanship, decision-making, and adaptability under time pressure, going beyond traditional range training. The winning team will represent Oregon at the prestigious Winston P. Wilson competition.  Video via Major Wayne Clyne:

3rd Battalion snipers (who are part of the Idaho based 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team) took part in the Winston P. Wilson Sniper Championship, on Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. Video via Major Wayne Clyne, 11DEC2024:

1st Battalion-186th Infantry Regiment Sniper Section shoots-up Yakima Training Center, Washington, 16JUN2022.  Video report via Major Wayne Clyne:

1-82 Cavalry-41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team (IBCT), Oregon Army National Guard, trains with M10 and M107 sniper rifles on Orchard Combat Training Center (OCTC) in Idaho. Video via Master Sergeant Tom Hovie, 01JUN2014:

In February 2012, Oregon snipers trained with the Royal Thai Army, video via Master Sergeant Tom Hovie:

2024: Oregon gets new weapons, shoots-up Idaho? More proof the U.S. military is owned by foreigners!

International, U.S.

Western War Hawks! Just a sampling.

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Congresswoman/Hawaii Army National Guard Captain Tulsi Gabbard during the ceremonies at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii, Veterans Day, 11NOV2013 (bad audio):

In 2012, U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Josh Hauser questions NATO boss Anders Fogh Rasmussen about the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) plans to hand more control over to the U.S. installed Afghan government:

30NOV2012, U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Josh Hauser interviews South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley about a cyber security breach dating back to 1998, in which information from electronically filed state tax returns (affecting many military personnel) was stolen by international hackers:

Nikki Haley presides over South Carolina National Guard’s Change of Command, 09JAN2011:

Senators John McCain, Joe Lieberman, Kirsten Gillibrand and Lindsey Graham are briefed at the Base Operations Center on Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan, 11NOV2010. Photo by Staff Sergeant Lasonya Morales.

The August War, aka The 2008 Russo-Georgia War.  Joe Lieberman, Lindsey Graham & Chris Smith visit Tbilisi, Georgia, 21AUG2008.  Videos via Gary Boucher, part-1:

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John McCain & Lindsey Graham visit Mosul, Iraq, 21MAR2008:

1943, United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) went on a world tour after joining the Second World War on the side of the United Kingdom:

30NOV1943, United Kingdom’s Winston Churchill visits Commonwealth troops occupying Tehran, Iran:

What the Cold War was/is truly about: United Nations Security Council, year one; 1946 Iran-Soviet Problem! Actually covert U.S. occupation plans for Iran & control of Middle Eastern oil?

U.S.

U.S. military says car shows are required for MWR!

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The Misawa Auto Complex conducted their first ever Cars & Coffee on Misawa Air Base, Japan, 08MAY2025:

Hayden Proffitt’s Hot Streak-2 jet truck races Greg Colyer’s T-33 Shooting Star during the Air Power over Hampton Roads show on Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia.

In April 2025, Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina, had their yearly airshow, which includes several super-cars racing against a T-6 Texan training aircraft from World War Two. I had to edit together several videos provided by MCAS Beaufort:

Arnold Air Force Base (AFB), Tennessee, Company Grade Officer’s Council conducted a Burger Burn & Car Show on 27JUL2023, U.S. Air Force report by David Wright:

In September 2023, the Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA) conducted a car show and fundraiser in Killeen, Texas, for local Army veterans:

U.S. Army Garrison Poland’s Family-Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR) hosts a car show on Camp Kościuszko-U.S. V Corps’ Forward Operating Station Poznań (aka V Corps Headquarters-Forward). Video report by Specialist Jon Cortez, 03AUG2023:

In July 2016, Vandenberg AFB, California, conducted a car-show-BBQ fundraiser for Operation Kids’ Christmas:

In November 2012, a Soviet Ural showed up at a car show on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas:

May 2024: 1st ever Beale Air Force Base car-show!

November 2023:

A decade of U.S. Veterans Day Cars & Trucks

2018-19: JOIN THE U.S. MILITARY GET A CLASSIC CAR? (with videos)

Idaho, U.S.

When the Bold Tigers turned Idaho Falls Airport into a military base!

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In October 2024, the 391st ‘Bold Tigers’ Fighter Squadron (part of the larger 366th ‘Gunfighters’ Fighter Wing, based on Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho) used the Idaho Falls (IF) Regional Airport to conduct ‘combat turn’ training.

A Bold Tiger lifts-off from the Magic Valley Regional Airport in Twin Falls, Idaho, after undergoing maintenance.

The IF airport wasn’t the only place the Bold Tigers conducted their combat turns. The wargame called Raging Gunfighter takes place at various locations throughout the U.S. Mountain West, for approximately ten days.

A Bold Tiger sits on the flightline of Wendover Airfield, Utah.

The scenario is worse-case; a ‘near-peer’ war (World War Three) has started and the F-15E Strike Eagle units must be able to deploy anywhere, as well as rearm and refuel upon landing then immediately take-off, this is known as a combat turn.

On Wendover Airfield, Utah, the 366th Civil Engineer Squadron was tasked with the hasty set up of a forward operating base, with 58 tents, 32 generators, 72 HVAC units, 36 showers, 36 latrines, plus attended to 96 work orders.

Also on Wendover, the 366th Security Forces Squadron conducted medical evacuation training.

Back on the IF airport, the 366th Communications Squadron practiced with their PRC-117G satellite communicator.

Bold Tiger F-15E Strike Eagles took off from Mountain Home AFB (possibly Magic Valley Airport in Southern Idaho), in Southwestern Idaho (I edited from video released by the 366th FW):

The Bold Tigers flew their Strike Eagles to Eastern Idaho to conduct their combat turn training (I edited from video released by the 366th FW):

An Airman with the 391st FS (Bold Tigers) marshals an F-15E Strike Eagle on the Idaho Falls Regional Airport.

A C-130J Super Hercules was used to transport ground personnel and equipment (I edited from video released by the 366th FW):

Bold Tigers fly over the Magic Valley Regional Airport in Twin Falls, Idaho, as they head home to Mountain Home AFB.

December 2024: Idaho F-15Es over Syria

March 2024:  Idaho’s Garrison Forward “…accepts more risk deliberately.”

July 2023: Idaho’s Bold Tigers invade Japan?

June 2023: USMC & Idaho Air Guard preps JTAC for ‘Near Peer’ fight! With China?

October 2022: Florida Talons over Idaho Mountains

January 2019: Location of missing Idaho F-15E Strike Eagles revealed? 

September 2018: Mountain Home F-15E walk-around, Micron Bus

U.S.

U.S. Army Soldiers’ quiet protest of President, live on TV?

I tried watching the military parade in DC, at least half of the Soldiers were out-of-step so bad it’s pathetic.  As a Cold War veteran I was insulted, we spent hours per day during Basic just marching around, even parade marching. I had to stop watching the DC parade. However, social media posts are claiming that the out-of-step Soldiers were protesting Trump! I reviewed the videos and it does look like they are intentionally marching out-of-step.

U.S.

Wall War, April 2025: Historic lows credited to ‘Catch & Prosecute’ policy!

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Here is a little bit of what the Department of Defense and the Customs and Border Protection were up to in April 2025.

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) explains their HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircraft, video report via Petty Officer Second Class Alejandro Rivera, 03APR2025:

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (Border Patrol) report capturing weapons and hundreds of rounds of ammunition at the Port of Entry in Del Rio, Texas, 04APR2025.

On 05APR2025, additional M1126 Stryker armored vehicles arrived on Fort Bliss, Texas, for border patrol duty.  Video via Sergeant Elijah Ingram, Specialist Michael Graf and Private First Class Sean Hoch:

Marines from Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Yuma learn border patrol operations to better protect the air base, which is danger close to the southern border.

U.S. Coast Guard and Customs and Border Protection personnel inspect Conex containers on the Port of Honolulu, Hawaii.

U.S. Coast Guard personnel confront a suspected smuggling boat somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico/America.

The U.S. Army’s (USA) 23rd Military Police Company-759th Military Police Battalion employ the Ground-Based Operational Surveillance System (GBOSS[E]), in Wellton, Arizona, 23APR2025.

USCG and Border Patrol inspect Conex containers on the Red Hook Terminal in Brooklyn-NYC, New York, 23APR2025.

Additional Soldiers from the USA’s 10th Mountain Division deployed to Fort Bliss, Texas, 25APR2025, for border duty.

On 25APR2025, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (Border Patrol) released body-worn camera video of the 12FEB2025 shooting incident near Brownsville, Texas.  Intro & overview:

Body cam video, no audio:

More body cam video, with audio:

Body cam video continued:

Also on 25APR2025 in Yuma, Arizona, Border Patrol held a press conference to report historic low border crossings in that area:

Blames U.S. employers for luring illegals:

Blames human smuggling gangs/terrorists:

Credits historic low border crossings to the new policy of ‘catch and prosecute’, explains why majority of asylum claims failed to meet qualifications:

Wall War, March 2025: Military deployments ramp-up, new war on terror!

Check out my ‘Border War U.S.A.’ playlist on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkZrLGwZbnj8cKlJz-MWvlTazK36w4b4O

International, Technology, U.S.

Red Coats invade Montana?

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The United Kingdom’s Army is upgrading their Challenger-2 battle tanks with new armor and a new gun, the same gun used on the M1A1/2 Abrams; the German designed 120 millimeter (mm) Rheinmetall smoothbore, which launches various types of combustible cased rounds (various projectiles on a combustible plastic case with a metal base/’af-cap’).

The gun on the current Challenger-2 is also 120mm, but the British designed tube (barrel) is rifled and the ammo consists of a projectile which is loaded separately from the combustible case/bagged propellent.

A Royal Wessex Yeomanry Challenger-2 on Sennelager Training Area, Germany.

To prep the Royal Wessex Yeomanry on how to operate the Rheinmetall gun, Montana’s 1-163rd Combined Arms Battalion (part of the Idaho based 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team, aka Snake River Brigade) is training the Red Coat tankers by letting them shoot-up the Montana mountains.

Montana Army National Guard’s video report (recorded 16MAY2025 on the Limestone Hills Training Facility, released 17MAY2025):

The new upgraded Challenger is called the Challenger-3.

A Royal Wessex Yeomanry Challenger-2, on the Sennelager Training Area, Germany.

Cold War to Battle for Ukraine: Challenger, a child of Serendipity? (from the Iranian Shir-2 to the Challenger-3)