CoViD-19=CoronaVirus Disease-2019
Pandemics reveal the strangest things about how humans act. Two things specifically regarding this CoViD-19 supposed pandemic (since influenza is still killing tens of thousands more people than CoViD-19); panic buying and then disappearance of toilet paper stocks, and panic buying of certain food products, with officials telling everybody there’s plenty while at […] Continue Reading…
USS Detroit (LCS 7), Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 22, MH-60S ‘Knight’ Hawk, somewhere in the Caribbean, March 2020.
USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115), Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 49, MH-60R Sea Hawk, somewhere in the Indo-Pacific, February 2020.
Washing your Hawk not only keeps dust-n-dirt from building up, it prevents corrosion.
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The ‘main stream’ U.S. news media is doing a piss-poor job of showing what the U.S. Customs and Border Protection is doing during this Corona-Virus Disease-2019 pandemic. It’s as if they’re deliberately trying to make it look like there’s no government response.
Video, Otay Mesa Port of Entry Commercial Inspection Facility, California, 27MAR2020:
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Video report on World War Two tank restoration ops at Fort Benning, Georgia, with a focus on an M18 Hellcat and a Jagdtiger:
In 2012, the U.S. Air Force moves a Tiger-1 from the United Kingdom to the U.S. Army Armor and Cavalry Museum […] Continue Reading…
USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) and Comfort (T-AH 20) will not act as quarantine/isolation ships as first feared, but will try to ease the burden of land based hospitals dealing with CoViD-19 patients by taking onboard people who are not sick with the CoronaVirus.
Maintenance on chemical analyzer onboard USNS Mercy, 26MAR2020.
No, not the hair style!
“A well-behaved epidemic with build-up, peak, and fade out phases will be bell shaped….”-Deciphering Global Epidemics: Analytical Approaches to the Disease Records, 1998
“A wide epidemic burst forth suddenly and swept the country in one month.”-Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association, Volume 21, 1924
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The ‘main stream’ U.S. news media is doing a piss-poor job of showing what the various state National Guard units are doing during this Corona-Virus Disease-2019 pandemic. It’s as if they’re deliberately trying to make it look like there’s no government response.
Evil employers are using CoViD-19 as an excuse to layoff employees en-masse, resulting in a sudden […] Continue Reading…
A U.S. Marine welds on a tow bar during Exercise Trident Juncture 18 in Storas, Norway, 18OCT2018.
Contractor welds Tank Urban Survivability Kit onto the lower hull sides of an M1A2 at Camp Taji, Iraq, 2008.
Video report, Theater Logistics Support Center-Europe contractors welding damaged battery compartments on the M1A2 Abrams tanks:
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The ‘main stream’ U.S. news media is doing a piss-poor job of showing what the Department of Defense is doing during this Corona-Virus Disease-2019 pandemic. It’s as if they’re deliberately trying to make it look like there’s no government response.
GERMANY: U.S. Air Force (USAF) CoViD-19 screenings at Ramstein Medical Clinic, Ramstein Air Base, 19MAR2020.
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Images of B-57B and WB-57F via NASA, USAF and USMC.
This NASA B-57B was used to test the jet engine ‘mufflers’ (aka Hush Kits, officially Exhaust Noise Suppressors) that would be used on 1960s-early ’70s jet airliners. Dryden, Edwards AFB.
Wright J65-W-5 turbojets power the B-57B.
Note the tail support rod, yes, even real jet aircraft used tail supports […] Continue Reading…