In 1964, NATO navies conducted Exercise Teamwork. This is interesting because non-military interweb sites (like the wiki-web-sites) claim NATO’s biennial (every other year) Exercise Teamwork didn’t begin until 1982! The proof that Exercise Teamwork actually started in […] Continue Reading…
Welcome to borderland hell under U.S. President Joseph Robinette Biden Junior,, incomplete (just the tip of the iceberg) list of videos and reports from the United States Coast Guard, for July 2022:
U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) District 7-Air Station Clearwater video of illegals from Cuba trying to get to United States. They were approximately 18 […] Continue Reading…
“Effective July 1st, Soldiers in noncompliance with COVID-19 vaccine requirements, who are not in a pending or approved exemption status, will no longer receive pay for battle assemblies or musters. By exception, Soldiers may be placed in a duty status after 30 June for the limited purpose of completing administrative requirements and separation procedures.”-U.S. […] Continue Reading…
Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).
National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, San Diego, California, 10SEP1970. Photo via U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command.USS Tuscaloosa was a Newport-class Landing Ship Tank (LST), number 1187. Keel laid on 23NOV1968, […] Continue Reading…
50 years of Air Superiority
F-15A number one rolled out of the Saint Louis, Missouri, factory. Notice it does not yet have the DayGlo orange paint applied. McDonnell-Douglas photo, 26JUN1972.McDonnell-Douglas F-15A number one gets packed aboard a Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, for its trip to Edwards Air Force […] Continue Reading…
At about 18:00, 09AUG2022, I noticed a lot of smoke northeast of where I live in Chubbuck, Idaho.
The fire grew as the sun went down.
It glowed through out the night. The wind was blowing north, northeast. During the night a strong windstorm blew in from the west (it was not forecasted). The next day, […] Continue Reading…
Tupolev 16, NATO reporting name Badger.
Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).
The prototype of the Soviet Tu-16 was the Tu-88, which first flew in Spring 1952, production of the Tu-16 began in December 1952. China still produces its own version.
Silent […] Continue Reading…
30 July 2022 (22:22-UTC-07 Tango 06) 08 Mordad 1401/01 Muharram 1444/02 Ding-Wei (7th month) 4720
How many times has U.S. led NATO sworn that it is not expanding towards Russia? The first ever permanent U.S. military base in NATO Poland now has an official name: Camp Kościuszko.
On 29JUN2022, U.S. President Joseph Robinette Biden Junior announced […] Continue Reading…
28 July 2022 (15:32-UTC-07 Tango 06) 06 Mordad 1401/28 Dhu l-Hijja 1443/30 Ding-Wei 4720
West Virginia Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Zoe Morris.Residents of Kentucky reporting that this year’s flooding is the worst they’ve seen, with the Governor saying the death toll will hit double digits. State officials declared it […] Continue Reading…
Between July 22nd and 26th, 2022, the Austin-class amphibious transport dock-ship USS Denver (LPD 9) was slowly executed by U.S. and Japanese air and ground launched ‘firing squads’, more than 50 nautical miles north of Kauai, Hawaii, during wargame RimPac (Rim of the Pacific) 2022. Dramatic U.S. Navy video by Mass Communication Specialist Second […] Continue Reading…