Just what are the various state National Guard units doing during this Corona-Virus Disease-2019 pandemic? Incomplete list of news links.
U.S. Defense Secretary said that state governors have the option of using the National Guard to enforce stay-at-home orders.
17,250 National Guard mobilized for COVID-19 response, 10 states, 2 territories and DC on Title 32 status
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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 the same […] Continue Reading…
British Airway’s BOAC 747-400 at United Kingdom’s Royal International Air Tattoo, July 2019.
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Michigan Air National Guard’s 127 Wing deploys on a 747-400 people hauler, April 2019.
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Video, 171st Air Refueling Wing, Pennsylvania Air National Guard load-up contracted 747 (for their first time) with cargo for Guam, March 2019:
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Every five years, KC-135 Stratotankers undergo depot maintenance by the 564th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
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121st Air Refueling Wing, Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base, Ohio, June 2018.
I don’t think this has anything to do with washing-up, but apparently the Airmen with 92nd Maintenance Group think break-dancing helps. Fairchild Air Force Base (AFB), Washington, January 2018.
Video interview, with funky music, 100th Maintenance Group washes KC-135, RAF Mildenhall in United Kingdom, […] Continue Reading…
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.