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
“Only the natural interplay of transmission factors […] Continue Reading…
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.
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Title 42 USC 265: “Whenever the Surgeon General determines that by reason of the existence of any communicable disease in a foreign country there is serious danger of the introduction of such disease into the United States, and that this danger is so increased by the introduction of persons or property from such country that a […] Continue Reading…
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 […] Continue Reading…
It’s not Afghanistan! That’s an A-10C Thunderbolt-2 flying an air strike mission (simulated, whew) over the mountains just Northwest of Boise.
Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Joseph R. Morgan, 07MAR2020.
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.
CoViD-19=CoronaVirus Disease-2019
Somewhere in the Philippine Sea a U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman loads an ABI StepOne […] Continue Reading…