Possibly at the behest of a Motor-Gear-Head Instigator, the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck, Idaho, held its first ever indoor Winter/New Year automobile show. It was the weekend of January 13th & 14th, 2024.
The Instigator, giving Ol’ Midnight a rub-down for the Pine Ridge Mall auto-show, 14JAN2024.
This is a 14JAN2024 update to the 01JAN2024, 7.6 magnitude Richter scale (7 Japan Meteorological Agency [JMA] scale) earthquake in Japan.
Deaths of people that happened during the quake are now at 221, at least 22 people are still missing. Almost 5-hundred people in 15 communities across Ishikawa Prefecture remain cut off because of damaged […] Continue Reading…
Israel occupied The Gaza Strip during the Cold War, in 1967 (what is known in the U.S. as the 1967 War). 1967 is also the year that the U.S. became imbedded into the Tar-Baby called Israel, with a visit, and promise of support, from a politician who would later become the President of the […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of Regular/Active Duty, Reserve and state National Guard (state militia) unit deployments revealed during December 2023 and the first week of January 2024.
ARIZONA:
U.S. Army Reserve photo by Captain Fernando Ochoa, 02DEC2023.Army Reserve unit Bravo Company-98th Signal Battalion conducted a deployment ceremony on the Arizona State University campus, 02DEC2023. […] Continue Reading…
The administrators of Japan’s Noto Peninsula and Ishikawa Prefecture gave an update to the 7.6 magnitude Richter scale (7 Japan Meteorological Agency [JMA] scale) earthquake on 01JAN2024: The fire that resulted from that quake destroyed at least 2-hundred structures.
As many as 323 people are still missing, at least 168 people confirmed dead.
Aftershocks continue, including […] Continue Reading…
In November 2023, NATO conducted wargame/competition Iron Spear in Adazi, Latvia (Ādaži, Latvija). Military units from Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, […] Continue Reading…
In 1999, a U.S. Presidential Executive Order (issued by William Jefferson Clinton) created the Joint Task Force-Civil Support (JTF-CS) with the goal of responding to terrorist attacks within the United States. JTF-CS is an operation run by the U.S. Northern Command (USNorthCom).
U.S. CBRN Marines participate in a demonstration during JTF-CS’s […] Continue Reading…
The Boeing P-8A Poseidon is based on the 737NG passenger plane (86% commonality).
Finally ashore, 03DEC2023. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sergeant Julian Elliott-Drouin.On 02 & 03DEC2023, the downed […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of federal government response to the ongoing wildfires on the Hawaiian Islands.
On 28DEC2023, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)-Honolulu District revealed plans for a temporary campus for displaced students of King Kamehameha-the-Third elementary school. USACE video by Charles Delano:
USAEC was ordered in September, by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management […] Continue Reading…
I discover the modern Chinese made Monogram 1955 Ford F-100 is not the same as the original made-in-the-U.S.A. (in 1978) Monogram Ford F-100!
Part-1, made in China:
Part-2, trip down memory lane:
Model Gift Build: SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!