Stop your bitchin’: Female Militia-‘man’ takes on Best Warrior 2018

04MAR2018 /18:02 UTC-07 Tango 06  (14 Esfand 1396/17 Jumada t-Tania 1439/18 Yi-Mao 4716)

“Competing seemed like a great opportunity. For me, it wasn’t an imitation factor. I used to be a Marine and I remember every year my commander would send out an invite for individuals interested in the competition. When I saw the email for […] Continue Reading…

Massachusetts Militia flood rescue ops

04MAR2018 (16:54 UTC-07 Tango 06)  13 Esfand 1396/16 Jumada t-Tania 1439/17 Yi-Mao 4716

“….I’ve seen lots of snowstorms, rainstorms, wind but I have never seen anything like this before. That kind of flooding, I didn’t think it was possible.”-Wayne Adams, rescued resident

According to local news reports more than 1-hundred people in the city of Quincy were […] Continue Reading…

Arkansas Militia, training up the children

04MAR2018 (16:30 UTC-07 Tango 06)  13 Esfand 1396/16 Jumada t-Tania 1439/17 Yi-Mao 4716

Possibly due to increasing radical weather patterns, the Arkansas National Guard’s 77th Combat Aviation Brigade decided it was time to train up local Boy Scouts in the art of survival:

OPERATION SNOW BASH: IDAHO TRAINS UP THE CHILDREN, FOR WAR!

77th Combat Aviation Brigade […] Continue Reading…

1/600 USS Iowa Class Kits: Aurora, Monogram, Otaki, Revell. An appeal to Airfix!

I am disappointed with Ship Craft 17 Iowa Class Battleships, while it is still a good overview for somebody just getting into building the iconic battleships it doesn’t pack the information that the excellent Ship Craft 16 Hipper Class Ships does, and in the same number of pages.

Ship Craft 17 (copyright 2012 Seaforth Publishing) fails […] Continue Reading…

Nuclear event hits Alaska, hundreds of militia units from across the west respond!

During the last full week of February 2018, hundreds of National Guard personnel from Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, South Dakota, Utah and Washington deployed to Valdez, Alaska, in response to a major CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear) event.

Two M1135 NBCRV—Strykers search for the fictional Russian satellite that has hit near […] Continue Reading…

Great Reneger: South Carolina Militia deploys to Germany!

“We are going to have to stop being the policemen of the world.”-Donald Trump, August 2015 interview with Hugh Hewitt

On 28FEB2018, personnel from the now stretched thin South Carolina Army National Guard landed in Ansbach, Deutschland.

It should be noted that in 2016 a refugee from Syria blew himself up in Ansbach, no thanks to NATO Germany’s pro-immigrant […] Continue Reading…

50-thousand+ jobs killed in one year!: Sears Kmart death spiral, March 2018

Albany Business Review: Shopping mall ViaPort Rotterdam (Rotterdam Square) suing Sears for half-a-million in back due rent!

Hardware Retailing: Sears Continues to See Dropping Sales and Revenue

Kankakee Daily Journal: Sears Logistics now Innovel

Chicago Tribune: Sears slashed more than 50,000 jobs last year!

CNNMoney: Sears downgraded to default status

The Real Deal: Half of vacant Santa Monica Mega Sears store sold for $50-million USD, to pay […] Continue Reading…

Falling Down: U.S. model kit/railroad hobby demise, 2016-17

Incomplete list of U.S. model kit/hobby shop, retail/wholesale industry shutdowns from 2016 through 2017:

“The local hobby shop was closed up….No big deal, I thought….I can always go to another. Wrong. When I looked, every hobby shop within 50 miles of my house had been closed.”

California: After 45 years brick-n-mortar chain store, as well as mail […] Continue Reading…

“I’m not sure we can support all these stores. Obviously, we can’t.”: U.S. Food Crisis, February 2018

Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns for the month of February, 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.

While I don’t like most of the crazy stuff […] Continue Reading…

New War on Drugs: South Carolina Militia joins the Fentanyl fight!

27FEB2018 (16:19 UTC-07 Tango 06)  08 Esfand 1396/11 Jumada t-Tania 1439/12 Jia-Yin 4716

“The threat environment has changed.”-Lieutenant Colonel James Bowling, explaining that the new ‘threat’ is not terrorists using guns or bombs, or even vehicles, but using drugs

South Carolina Army National Guard’s 43rd Civil Support Team took part in a ‘multi-agency’ drug lab training session.  […] Continue Reading…

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