West Asia, or as the U.S. Department of Defense calls it Southwest Asia. Iran, Iraq and Turkey are sometimes considered part of West Asia and sometimes Central Asia. I consider Iraq and Turkey part of West Asia and Iran is part of Central Asia.
U.S. Army’s Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry […] Continue Reading…
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“It’s easier to train a fire fighter that has swift water training to ride on the hoist than it is to train an Army hoist operator to become swift water qualified.”-Mike Barbero, Boise firefighter and Army National Guard pilot
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23MAR2018, Oregon Air National Guard’s 142nd Fighter Wing and the Massachusetts Air National Guard’s 131st Fighter Squadron deployed to various locations across Europe, as part of the NATO anti-Russia mission known as Operation Atlantic Resolve.
Official Atlantic Resolve video, Bulgaria:
U.S. Army, Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, conduct tactical training in Novo Selo, Bulgaria:
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“Employment terminations including your own are expected to commence on July 8, 2018”-Sears Holdings
Amazingly, despite years of store shutdowns, the typically ignorant Sears employee expressed shock when they got the layoff notice!
Citrus County Chronicle: A year after Kmart shutdown “Foot traffic inside the mall declined drastically and never really recovered.”
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Not only has Turkey given up on its attempt to join the European Union (EU) but it’s looking more and more like Turkey is about to get the hell outta NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization).
On 04APR2018 Iran, Russia and Turkey held a tripartite […] Continue Reading…
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”-George Orwell (aka Eric Arthur Blair)
Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS): A phrase created by me to describe a phenomenon taking place across the United States, affecting both privately and publicly funded schools, from Kindergarten all the way through University levels.
Incomplete (Tip-o-the-Iceberg) list […] Continue Reading…
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“All you have done is blame everyone and everything else. You are the mayor and you control the budget. 12 people dead in 19 days in London!”-unnamed Social Media post
Just days after the British empire’s anti-gun United Kingdom city of London beat out […] Continue Reading…
U.S. operations in South Asia are directed by PacCom (U.S. Pacific Command).
Exercise Shanti Doot 4 in Bangladesh is a United Nations ‘peacekeeping’ pre-deployment training involving more than 30 countries. I guess the UN is expecting a lot of wars, I mean peacekeeping ops in the area.
Official video explainer, Idaho National Guard Exercise Shanti Doot 4:
“We are going to have to stop being the policemen of the world.”-Donald Trump, August 2015 interview with Hugh Hewitt
USMC Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Africa 18.2 arrive in Spain, staging for possible crisis-response in Europe and North AfricaU.S. operations on the African continent are directed by AfriCom (U.S. Africa Command).
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In 2018, it was revealed that in 2013 the Idaho Army National Guard because the first to have all female UH-60 helicopter crews, operating inside Afghanistan as part of Task Force Shadow.
“When we first arrived in Afghanistan, the task force was already established and halfway through its rotation. We were like a puzzle piece replacing […] Continue Reading…