African Lion 2023: C-130H Hercules

The Lockheed C-130H Hercules is a Cold War era cargo plane still in use today.  The first C-130s began arriving for military service in 1956, the ‘H’ version of the Hercules began service in the mid-1970s.

1971: Prepping for our first ‘Space Available’ C-130E trip, Rhein Main AFB, West Germany. You […] Continue Reading…

Labor/Logistics shenanigans: Robot HEMTT update

27 June 2023 (08:40-UTC-07 Tango 06) 06 Tir 1402/08 Dhu l-Hijja 1444/10 Wu-Wu(5th month) 4721/27 Июнь 2023 года

Since at least 2018, the U.S. Army has been testing autonomous HEMTTs (Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Trucks), to reduce reliance on humans to deliver supplies.

Robot HEMTT waiting to be offloaded onto the Port […] Continue Reading…

Forever Wars: Snake River M1A2 SEP, boresight Morocco!

Oregon’s 3-116th Combined Arms Battalion (one of three CABs belonging to Idaho based 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team [CBCT], aka Snake River Brigade) is taking part in this year’s African Lion 2023.

Bore-sighting the M1A2 SEP, in Tan-Tan, Morocco. Oregon National Guard video by Staff Sergeant Ariel J. Solomon, 08JUN2023:

African Lion took […] Continue Reading…

African Lion 2023: Artillery

African Lion is the largest wargame on the African continent, involving the United States and other NATO members, as well as Ghana, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia, from 13MAY-18JUN2023.

Tunisia’s old U.S. made M198 towed artillery guns arrive, U.S. Army video by First Sergeant HollyAnn Nicom, 27MAY2023:

Pennsylvania Army National Guard’s Charlie Battery/1-107th Field […] Continue Reading…

After at least 12 years of infiltration, the U.S. military is officially ‘Woke’!

“We are a ready Army, not a ‘woke’ Army. What I’m trying to talk about now is how that drip, drip, drip of criticism about a woke military is having some counterproductive effects on recruiting.”-Christine Wormuth, Secretary of the Army, 13JUN2023

Official U.S. Army Medical Command Pride graphic.

It is interesting that many […] Continue Reading…

Biden’s Borderland/Labor Shenanigans: Global ‘Tent for Refugees’ supplies U.S. companies with cheap labor!

On 19JUN2023, the U.S. Department of State revealed a new refugee system, as part of a 2016 global deal called the Tent Partnership for Refugees. ‘Tent’, as it is also officially known, is essentially an international government sanctioned legal human trafficking operation.

Since January 2023, the U.S. government is now supporting individual citizens to take […] Continue Reading…

U.S. Disaster: National Guard preps for ‘Big One’ in the Wabash Valley, riots & CBRN events expected!

20 June 2023 (18:31-UTC-07 Tango 06) 30 Khordad 1402/01 Dhu l-Hijja 1444/03 Wu-Wu(5th month) 4721/20 Июнь 2023 года

Are you prepared for a catastrophic earthquake in an area known as the Wabash Valley Seismic Zone (aka Wabash Valley Fault System)?  According to the Central United States Earthquake Consortium, “The Wabash Valley Seismic Zone is located in […] Continue Reading…

Biden’s Borderland: Deportation Flights continue, despite Biden’s efforts to block!

Fox News: U.S. President Joseph Robinette Biden Junior extends protection from deportations to more than 330-thousand illegal immigrants!

Near Roma, Texas, 07JUN2023. Task Force Lone Star photo by Specialist Joe Cantu.

National Guard personnel from several states continue to patrol the Texas-Mexico border.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) video (by Erica Knight) […] Continue Reading…

2nd Monthly Car Cruise, Pocatello, Idaho, June 2023.

16JUN2023 was the second time the Pocatello Car Club conducted a monthly car cruise down Main Street, in Old Town Pocatello.

My poor video of the vehicle rollout for the car cruise, part-1:

Rollout, part-2:

Rollout, part-3:

Rollout, part-4:

My poor video of cruising down a section […] Continue Reading…

Forever Wars: NATO greatly increases taxpayer funding, expands global ammo supply, forms ‘Birds Coalition’ with Ukraine!

NATO=North Atlantic Treaty Organization, “…was founded in the aftermath of the Second World War.   …countering the threat posed at the time by the Soviet Union.” The Soviet Union ceased to exist on 25DEC1991, yet it seems NATO is still fighting that war.

“The biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in […] Continue Reading…

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