World War 3(?): Soviet MiG 17 vs U.S. Navy Ferrari, only in ‘Amerika’

MiG 17, NATO reporting name Fresco.

U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Maxwell Daigle, 17MAY2019.

USAF video, by Staff Sergeant Philip Bryant, MiG-17F attacks Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, 17MAY2019.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Damon Kasberg, 17MAY2019.

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F-100 Super Saber gate guards

Saber=U.S. English spelling

Sabre=Queen’s English spelling (and also the spelling accepted by North American and USAF)

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Matthew Seefeldt, 07JAN2019.

An F-100 Super Sabre on display at Kadena Air Base, Japan, January 2019.

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Repairing 1/1 scale T-38 Talon and other Whiteman Gate Guards (and a reduced scale B-2 bomber)

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Parker J. McCauley, 18JUN2019.

During the middle of June, 2019, 509th Maintenance Squadron ‘low-observable maintenance’ Airmen began work to restore Whiteman Air Force Base’s (in Missouri) T-38 gate guard named Spirit of Heartland.

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F-105 Thunderchief Gate Guards

Kadena Air Base, Japan. The F-105 flew out of Kadena AB from 1962 to 1972.

U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado, 19JUN2017.

A-10C Thunderbolt-2s over-fly a weathered F-105 at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Arizona, 18SEP2015.

Repairs being made to the F-105B gate guard at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, 01MAY2017.

 

1:48 F-105G WILD WEASEL SHOWDOWN, […] Continue Reading…

USAF A-7 Corsairs, whatever happened to?

Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, George W. Bush Air Park video history tour of the A-7D, 21JUN2020:

Ling-Tempco-Vaught A-7D Corsair-2, April 1982, Tinker AFB, Oklahoma. Photo via Tinker Air Force Base History Office.

LTV A-7D Corsair II, isochronical maintenance at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, April 1982.

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“we are beating a dead horse!”: U.S. food crisis, January 2019

Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns, emergencies, outbreaks and recalls for the month of January, 2019:

Farm fatalities on the rise: Ag industry ranked most hazardous in the U.S.

“Ag-gag laws” hide the cruelty of factory farms from the public.

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‘Traveling Terrorists’: U.S. Immigrant invasion, May 2019

Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of global immigrant/border operations affecting the United States taxpayers, May 2019.

During the week of 13 May, U.S. tax dollars were spent conducting the ‘Securing our Borders against Traveling Terrorists’ symposium in the resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.  It was touted as the first collaborative global counterterrorism alumni workshop.

Here’s an official U.S. Army Corps […] Continue Reading…

mULTI-aGENCY sUPER sURGE: U.S. government shenanigans, January 2019

Incomplete (literally the ‘Tip of the Iceberg’) list of United States Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct revelations for January 2019:

Prison Industrial Complex

United Van Lines moving company reported the top five states people are fleeing are New Jersey, Illinois, Connecticut, New York and Kansas.

Military Times: military spouses could receive potentially thousands of dollars in state tax refunds

ALABAMA: Paying […] Continue Reading…

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