A company with the world’s largest yogurt operation (located in Idaho), accused in the past of favoring immigrant and refugees over U.S. citizens, as employees, and of course denying those accusations, has announced (on 21SEP2021) that it wants Afghan refugees to fill their vacant positions, and is creating a coalition of more than 30 […] Continue Reading…
Kundağı Motorlu Topçu = Self-propelled Artillery (SpA)
Kundağı Motorlu Obüs = Self-propelled Howitzer (SpH)
Firtina = Tempest (most often loosely translated as storm, but a Tempest is an English word for a particularly violent storm, which artillery bombardments certainly are)
Turkey’s T-155 Firtina (Tempest) is a co-development with Republic of Korea’s (South Korea) K9 Thunder. The turret […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of links to recent reports involving The Pandemic and animals, as of 20SEP2021:
Obese pets plus pandemic is seen as a profit maker for veterinary diagnostic equipment companies!
AUSTRALIA: New South Wales kills impounded pets over pandemic fears!
7News video report, dog CoViD cases spike in Adelaide, veterinarian says it’s not the same as human […] Continue Reading…
Just over a week ago, Colonel Todd Burroughs, Deputy Director of U.S. Military Advisor Group-North (MAG-North), told Iraqi Peshmerga (Kurdish militia) “this is just the beginning” in regards to more U.S. military freebies. On 20SEP2021, another million dollar ‘divestment’ took place!
U.S. Army photo by Specialist Clara Soria-Hernandez, 20SEP2021.This time it […] Continue Reading…
Shin-Meiwa Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha (新明和工業株式会社), now called ShinMaywa Industries Limited, was known during World War Two as the Kawanishi Aircraft Company. During the 1950s-60s, Shin-Meiwa set to work on a new patrol flying boat for Japan, developing the PS-1 and US-1A.
ShinMaywa video, 50th Flying Boat constructed, rollout ceremony, 26NOV2020:
U.S. Air Force […] Continue Reading…
On 15SEP2021, the state of Washington posted a job listing for Isolation & Quarantine Strike Team Consultants. The job starts in October, is considered temporary but could last 12 months. Earlier this year the gov’na of Washington mandated that all state employed healthcare workers had to be fully vaccinated.
Back in May 2021, Lewis County […] Continue Reading…
In Gregorian year 1987, an Alaskan Army National Guard Sikorsky CH-54B Tahre (aka Skycrane) was used to recover a World War Two era (built in 1943) OA-10 PBY Catalina, which had been abandoned on Dago Lake in 1947, and sold as […] Continue Reading…
16SEP2021, the United States Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State meet for consultations, after the AUKUS announcement, with the Defence Minister and Foreign Minister of Australia (member of British Empire Commonwealth).
16SEP2021, Indian (India is a member of the British Empire Commonwealth) news commentator tries to […] Continue Reading…
“This is an exercise evolution of the Rally in the Valley 2020 exercise conducted in West Virginia. Our efforts will prepare Reserve and National Guard units to execute at the speed and range required to take on near-peer adversaries. Additional training included combat […] Continue Reading…
“One request that I have of the Peshmerga is that as you take control of the vehicles today, treat them like your own vehicles because this is just the beginning.”-Colonel Todd Burroughs, Deputy Director of U.S. Military Advisor Group-North (MAG-North), 08SEP2021
U.S. Army photo by Specialist Trevor Franklin.On 08SEP2021, at Erbil, […] Continue Reading…