Pandemic Panic 2021: Record # of Flu vaxs shipped! H5N1 death confirmed! Blame the British Empire?

Influenza is apparently back, and with a vengeance as government health care ‘experts’ are stocking up on record number of flu vaccines!  Incomplete list of links to news reports and studies, as of 27JUL2021:

Selling flu vaccines becomes a $9.5-billion market!

United Nations’ World Health Organization reports; no human influenza reported in Caribbean, no human influenza […] Continue Reading…

Mother of all Money Pits: Yet more Toyotas for Iraq, courtesy of you! $50-million in paychecks for Kurds!

“Since 2014, the CTEF program funded by the U.S. has provided over $5 billion of equipment, vehicles, uniforms, stipends, medical supplies, etc.”-Colonel Wayne Marotto, U.S. Army in Iraq

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant First Class Class Christie R. Smith, 26JUL2021.

On 26JUL2021, the same day U.S. President Joe Biden announced an end […] Continue Reading…

U.S. Wildfires 2021: Wyoming & Colorado activates MAFFS, Nevada’s MAFF mission extended!

“The request for additional support shows just how challenging this fire season is and how critical our MAFFS aircraft, aircrews and maintenance personnel are to supporting NIFC [National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho].”-Colonel Jeremy Ford, 152nd Airlift Wing, Nevada Air National Guard

Wyoming ANG photo by Technical Sergeant Jon Alderman.

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U.S. Disaster 2021: Arizona Militia responds to flooding on top of Pandemic

After more than a year and a half of pandemic-panic-attack operations, the Arizona Army National Guard (AZNG) is also dealing with flooding in Coconino County.

AZNG photo by Staff Sergeant Adrian Borunda.

AZNG video by Staff Sergeant Adrian Borunda, road repair in Coconino County, 22JUL2021:

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Disaster 2021: German Flood clean-up, USAF style

Spangdahlem Air Base personnel volunteer to help with flood clean-up in Kyllburg and Auw an der Kyll, 14 -16 July 2021.

U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sergeant Laura Beckley.

USAF video by Master Sergeant Laura Beckley, clean-up operations in Auw an der Kyll, 16JUL2021:

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Denton Program Failure: Canadian Fire Trucks, U.S. Air Force, Central America

U.S. Air Force photo by Peter Borys, 02JUN2021.

At the beginning of June 2021, Canadian fire trucks rolled onto New York’s Niagara Falls International Airport where they were loaded onto a U.S. Air Force (USAF) C-5M Super Galaxy transport and flown to Nicaragua.

USAF photo by Peter Borys, […] Continue Reading…

Vehicle I-D: Last Days of the Digger’s M113

Exercise Koolendong at Bradshaw Field Training Area, Northern Territory. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Sarah E. Taggett, 25AUG2021. U.S. Marines walk along side a Digger-113. USMC photo by Corporal Lydia Gordon, 25AUG2021. USMC photo by Cpl. Lydia Gordon, 25AUG2021.

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Sentimental Journey: 1986-2021

In July 2021, Sentimental Journey returned to the Pocatello Regional Airport, in Southeast Idaho.  It seems I always cross paths with this ancient restored aircraft, from the two decades when it was flown by the Confederate Air Force, to today’s Commemorative Air Force (just call it CAF).

Topping off the tanks.

Old meets new as modern […] Continue Reading…

U.S. Wildfire 2021: K-Max & 10 Tanker, waiting for the call

When the wildfire season officially starts in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, little used Pocatello Regional Airport becomes Pocatello Airtanker Base.

Idaho Wildfires 2012:

Photo by AAron B. Hutchins, 2012.

CANADAIR CL 215

This year (despite the hype by main-stream national news), and the past few years, Pocatello Airtanker Base hasn’t been […] Continue Reading…

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