Ostensibly the deployment of Idaho Army National Guard’s ‘Snake River’ 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team to Europe was canceled due to Coronavirus fears. Yet, seemingly without warning, Idaho Air National Guard’s 124th Fighter Wing, and 190th Fighter Squadron, was suddenly deployed to ‘somewhere’ in the Middle East.
Idaho Air Guard’s A-10C […] Continue Reading…
The name Task Force 31 isn’t new, in 2008 a U.S. Army Task Force 31 was a medical unit that served in Iraq. That Task Force 31 (TF-31) was home-based at the 31st Combat Support Hospital on Fort Bliss, Texas. TF-31’s mission in Iraq was to provide medical care to Iraqis held prisoner by […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of links to news reports about viral outbreaks from the week leading up to the 13th of the Gregorian month of May 2020. These outbreaks tell us one thing for sure; no healthcare system anywhere in the world can handle outbreaks of multiple diseases, let alone one pandemic.
Thailand reveals various viral infection numbers as of […] Continue Reading…
T-55 Bagram Air Base, 03NOV2003. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff […] Continue Reading…
According to a 2007 Reuters report, the neighboring country of Jordan donated their old UH-1H helicopters to Iraq, but the U.S. taxpayers paid to rebuild the Hueys at a cost of $3.5-million, each!
U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Randy Redman, 18APR2011.April 2011, Exercise Lion.
U.S. Army […] Continue Reading…
In early May 2011, one of the U.S. taxpayer funded Russian built Afghan Mil 17B(V)-5 crashed in Nuristan Province, Afghanistan. Nine people onboard were slightly injured.
The Hip was part of the first deliveries of U.S. taxpayer funded Russian made helicopters between 2009 and 2010. NATO/ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) reported the Mil-17s sent to […] Continue Reading…
The Lighter Amphibious Resupply Cargo-5 tons capacity (LARC-V) was developed by the U.S. Army in the 1950s. Just short of 1-thousand of the aluminum hulled boat-trucks were made, almost half being intentionally destroyed as the United States ended its occupation of Vietnam. About 1-hundred are now privately owned. Perhaps in response to concerns about […] Continue Reading…
According to NASA, it was in 1973 that one of its employees became intrigued with how high speed tractor-trailer rigs created massive ‘suction’ as they drove-by slower moving vehicles. In 1975 a study showed that big-rig trucks moving at 55 miles per hour (the national speed limit at that time) displaced as much as […] Continue Reading…
What does it take to keep what the Afghan’s call Satan’s Chariot in the air?
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Angelita Lawrence, 02OCT2009.Video from September 2009, live fire prep, 12.7mm chin-gun and 57mm rockets:
The Sukhoi 22M4 is the export version of the Sukhoi 17M4. The NATO reporting name for both is Fitter-K. Poland began using Su-22s in August 1984, when it was a member of the Cold War era Warsaw Pact. Poland joined NATO in 1997. Polish officials want to phase-out the Su-22 by 2026.