07 February 2023 (13:58-UTC-07 Tango 06) 18 Bahman 1401/16 Rajab 1444/17 Jia-Yin 4721/07 февраля 2023 года
Just a little bit of how involved the United States (U.S.) Department of Defense (DoD) is with protecting bats (your tax dollars at work):
In January 2023, and in December 2022, Arnold Engineering Development Complex personnel on Arnold Air Force […] Continue Reading…
06 February 2023 (13:35-UTC-07 Tango 06) 17 Bahman 1401/15 Rajab 1444/16 Jia-Yin 4721/06 февраля 2023 года
On 05FEB2023, about 450 state militia personnel deployed from Searcy, Arkansas. They are heading to The Middle East (South West Asia) as part of Operation Spartan Shield.
Arkansas Army National Guard photo by Specialist Patrick Gilliam, […] Continue Reading…
In June 2018, the U.S. Department of Defense-Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s (DTRA) Chemical and Biological Technologies Department revealed their continued research involving bat and human and the hemorrhagic Marburg virus.
Marburg virus image via F. A. Murphy, 1968.Bats can ‘clear’ the virus from their bodies, so researchers had long surmised that […] Continue Reading…
In October 2017, the U.S. Department of Defense-Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s (DTRA) Chemical and Biological Technologies Department revealed that they had been using bat DNA/genetics to try and create new vaccines!
Bat gene image via researchers Ekaterina Esaulova, Maxim N. Artyomov and Daisy W. Leung.The operation used Differential Gene Expression (DGE) […] Continue Reading…
05 February 2023 (08:02-UTC-07 Tango 06) 16 Bahman 1401/14 Rajab 1444/15 Jia-Yin 4721/05 февраля 2023 года
On 01FEB2023, the U.S. Marines Corps’ Combat Logistics Battalion 8-Combat Logistics Regiment 2-2nd Marine Logistics Group conducted diesel fuel collection at silly-vilian (civilian) fuel stations in Jacksonville, North Carolina.
A U.S. Marine Bulk Fuel Specialist fills […] Continue Reading…
04 February 2023 (13:50-UTC-07 Tango 06) 15 Bahman 1401/13 Rajab 1444/14 Jia-Yin 4721/04 февраля 2023 года
Bethesda, Maryland, 19MAR2020. Photo by Ricardo J. Reyes.Walter Reed National Military Medical Center’s COVID-19 Centralized Screening Area permanently, and quietly, shutdown on 03FEB2023. At-home rapid antigen self-testing kits are no longer available. The official reason; […] Continue Reading…
03 February 2023 (11:37-UTC-07 Tango 06) 14 Bahman 1401/12 Rajab 1444/13 Jia-Yin 4721/03 февраля 2023 года
Photo via NATO, 17JAN2023.On 17JAN2023, NATO deployed deployed three Boeing E-3A Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft to NATO-Romania, which borders Ukraine. Up until now, the NATO AWACs had been operating out of Geilenkirchen, […] Continue Reading…
03 February 2023 (02:16-UTC-07 Tango 06) 14 Bahman 1401/12 Rajab 1444/13 Jia-Yin 4721/03 февраля 2023 года
Japan is not an official member of NATO, but has become NATO’s most important official ‘partner’: “No NATO partner is closer or more capable than Japan.”-Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General, 31JAN2023
NATO says its close relationship with Japan is not […] Continue Reading…
02 February 2023 (02:25-UTC-07 Tango 06) 13 Bahman 1401/11 Rajab 1444/12 Jia-Yin 4721/02 февраля 2023 года
“Although change is gradual across nations in the Western Hemisphere, the frequency at which these challenges present themselves is certainly increasing. Politics, migration policies and natural disasters amplify those realities and trigger migration.”-Commander Ray Caro, Chief of Intelligence U.S. […] Continue Reading…
01 February 2023 (08:43-UTC-07 Tango 06) 12 Bahman 1401/10 Rajab 1444/11 Jia-Yin 4721/01 февраля 2023 года
U.S. Transportation Command photo by Oz Suguitan, 25JAN2023.“The situation in Ukraine really brought to the forefront the importance of logistics and the complexity of power projection and sustainment…”-General Jacqueline Van Ovost, U.S. Transportation Command