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Idaho Air National Guard photo by Captain Bonnie Blakely, 05FEB2022.On the weekend of 04-06 February 2022, Idaho’s Gowen Field (on the south side of Boise Airport) was attacked. Idaho’s A-10Cs responded with ‘combat turn’ air strike missions, while Air Guard medics responded to the cries of the wounded.
“The Western Powers feared the complete disintegration of
the peace in the Middle East and the possibility of Soviet
exploitation of the crisis. The overt American reaction was
to send U. S. Marines to Lebanon on 15 July 1958….”- Marines in Lebanon 1958, USMC Historical Branch
Between the end of the Second World War and 1958, there was […] Continue Reading…
Airmen of Idaho Air National Guard’s 124th Fighter Wing fighting for their lives after a gas attack on Gowen […] Continue Reading…
“With the multi-capable Airmen concept, we are able to teach others how to do our job. Instead of sending eight ammo troops and eight weapon troops, we are able to send four of each and share the workload.”-Master Sergeant Michael Cabell, 124th Maintenance Squadron
Inert Blue Bombs prepped for Idaho A-10C’s […] Continue Reading…
On 07FEB2022, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that its Sukhoi 30SMs are now patrolling the sky over Belarus.
Russian Defense Ministry video released on 07FEB2022:
The Su-30SM ‘Irkutsk’ is a two seat multi-role combat aircraft that can trace its lineage back to the older single seat Su-27.
On 02FEB2022, it […] Continue Reading…
USN SeAL Team 5’s three seat Scorpion Fast Attack Vehicle (FAV), Naval Amphibious Base […] Continue Reading…
In June 2020, it was revealed that among the many armored vehicles stashed on the Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow (one of the many duty assignments of my hardcore Marine Grandfather), California, was a very rare Japanese Type 4 Ka-Tsus amphibious tank.
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Robert Jackson, 10JUN2020.Apparently only […] Continue Reading…
“This year, we conducted 11 joint exercises through the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.”-Colonel General (U.S. equivalent Lieutenant General) Alexander Lapin, Central Military District, December 2021
In Russia’s Central Military District there were 11 wargames held in 2021. They spread across Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. The wargames also included […] Continue Reading…
In April 2016, U.S. President Obama ‘secretly’ deployed (the deployment was secretly planned in 2015) the Idaho Air National Guard’s A-10Cs to NATO Turkey (even though he hated the A-10 and […] Continue Reading…
On 02FEB2022, Colonel-General Alexander Lapin, Commander of Russia’s Central Military District, reported that “Since the beginning of the year, 76 company tactical exercises have been conducted with the part of motorized rifle and tank units, including 11 ostentatious ones, during which the number of practical tasks performed […] Continue Reading…