In the 1990s, the THAAD originally stood for Theater High Altitude Area Defense, but it has changed. Lockheed Martin: “…Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). THAAD is a highly effective, combat-proven defense capability against short, medium and intermediate-range ballistic missile threats, and is the only U.S. system designed […] Continue Reading…
More than 170 Puerto Rico Air National Guard Airmen set to deploy for multiple worldwide operations. During the first week of March 2019, Airman began their Personnel Deployment Function (PDF): “The PDF is great and it makes me feel like I have all my documents up to date and my affairs in order. I’m […] Continue Reading…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes a group selfie with U.S. Army THAAD system personnel, 06MAR2019.
I edited down videos recorded by Ziv Sokolov and released by the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv:
At the begging of March 2019 U.S. […] Continue Reading…
Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).
13MAR1984, photo via Gates-Learjet. 13MAR1984, photo via Gates-Learjet.The aircraft is the military version of the Learjet 35A business jet, it replaced the older T-39 Sabreliner. The C-21A was ‘drafted’ by the U.S. […] Continue Reading…
“The task force will operate across the USAFE-AFAFRICA theater from the Arctic to the Sahara Desert, demonstrating how the U.S., with our allies and partners, can quickly amass at a time and location of our choosing to deter and defend against any possible aggression.”-Lieutenant General Jeffrey Harrigian, U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air […] Continue Reading…
“We are going to have to stop being the policemen of the world.”-Donald Trump, August 2015 interview with Hugh Hewitt
At the beginning of March 2019, 15-hundred U.S. Army personnel from 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, based in Texas, began deploying to Poland (via NATO Germany) for anti-Russia ops. Officially the operation […] Continue Reading…
“We are going to have to stop being the policemen of the world.”-Donald Trump, August 2015 interview with Hugh Hewitt
Pennsylvania Army National Guard’s 3rd Squadron, 278th Armored Cavalry (Cav-all-ree, not cal-vary as so many people mispronounce it) Regiment, 55th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade deploying to Poland for NATO anti-Russia wargames.
Pennsylvania Army […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, March 2019. Not only is quake and volcano activity ramping up around the Pacific Ring of Fire, it’s ramping up around the planet. Does it have anything to do with the Earth moving away from the Sun?
Taking pics of the stars […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg, seriously this isn’t the half-of-it!) list of U.S. drug related crimes and oddities for the month of November 2018:
Germany based drugs maker Bayer getting the hell outta the animal health business, as well as selling-off Coppertone and Dr. Scholl’s, 12-thousand jobs worldwide gone due to investor pressure!
Denmark based drugs maker Novo Nordisk cutting 1,300 […] Continue Reading…
A UH-60 Blackhawk with Idaho’s 1-183rd Aviation Battalion taxies at Gowen Field, Boise, Idaho, 10FEB2019.
‘Get on the bus!’
‘I see you!’
It’s March 2019, heading into Spring, but February is the middle of Winter and both Idaho Air and Army National Guard units tried to take advantage of a weak Winter for some cold weather training. […] Continue Reading…