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…
02APR2018 (00:03 UTC-07 Tango 06) 13 Farvardin 1397/16 Rajab 1439/17 Bing-Chen 4716
In the British empire’s United Kingdom private ownership of automatic weapons banned, semi-auto assault type weapons banned, pistols banned! Even toy (“imitation”) guns are banned! Yet that hasn’t stopped London from beating out New York City for murders.
The murder weapon of choice is now the […] Continue Reading…
31MAR2018 (02:36 UTC-07 Tango 06) 11 Farvardin 1397/14 Rajab 1439/15 (second month) Yi-Mao 4716
In Netherlands, the NAM (Royal Dutch Shell/Exxon) operated Groningen gas field (which contracts extraction work to U.S. based Halliburton) is the biggest in Europe. 90% of Dutch homes rely on it. 1-thousand-7-hundred Dutch businesses are addicted. Germany, France and Belgium are big customers. Earlier […] Continue Reading…
28MAR2018 (15:32 UTC-07 Tango 06) 08 Farvardin 1397/11 Rajab 1439/12 (second month) Yi-Mao 4716
“Being that a lot of the guys in the brigade, this will probably be their third or fourth deployment, I think that might help a bit. But of course it’s always hard.”-Lieutenant Colonel John Udani, August 2017
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Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns for the month of March, 2018: Many food suppliers/distributors are consolidating operations and killing jobs due to the collapsing grocery store and restaurant industries, as well as rising costs of food production, spread of disease and extreme weather.
Many individual farmers are suffering from low prices caused […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of U.S. drugs related crimes and oddities for the month of March 2018.
“If we don’t get tough on the drug dealers, we are wasting our time. And that toughness includes the death penalty.”-President Donald Trump, Manchester, New Hampshire
“What makes construction so vulnerable to this epidemic is the physical nature of the work. Injury rates are […] Continue Reading…
24MAR2018 (03:45 UTC-07 Tango 06) 04 Farvardin 1397/07 Rajab 1439/08 (second month) Yi-Mao 4716
910th Airlift Wing prepping for a spray mission over South Carolina, 15JUN2013The United States Air Force launched a chemical weapons operation over Utah, not against humans but against undesirable vegetation.
Official video explainer:
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On 20MAR2018, the 11th Annual Joint Base Charleston Women in Aviation Career Day appealed to the mothering instincts of female recruits by tempting them with a baby C-17 Globemaster-3.
USAF photo by Master Sergeant Shane Ellis, 02JUL2016.Size comparison between real […] Continue Reading…