22 April 2022 (11:56-UTC-07 Tango 06) 02 Ordibehest 1401/20 Ramadan 1443/22 Jia Chen 4720
“Supply chains are pivotal in the production of both military and civilian products and technologies. Our team looked at two questions; a: How do you assess the impacts of supply chain disruptions on the manufacturing bottom line and product availability to […] Continue Reading…
18 April 2022 (19:34-UTC-07 Tango 06) 29 Farvardin 1401/16 Ramadan 1443/18 Jia Chen 4720
Apparently the only scientific operation actually tracking deaths in the United States is the Life Insurance Industry, and they are now sounding an alarm over a massive increase in deaths officially labeled as not Pandemic related, as much as 40% per […] Continue Reading…
March 2022:
U.S. Army photo by First Lieutenant Zade Koch, 30MAR2022.In Colorado, the Fort Carson Fire Department partnered with the 52nd Brigade Engineer Battalion/2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team to conduct wildfire prevention by improving more than four miles of access roads used by firefighting units.
U.S. Army video, by Scott Sturkol, prescribed […] Continue Reading…
On 12APR2022, West Virginia Army National Guard’s 2/104th General Support Aviation Battalion, Aeromedical Evacuation Company, received its first of six new HH-60 ‘M’ version Black Hawk ambulance helicopters.
West Virginia Army National Guard photo by Edwin L. […] Continue Reading…
“We knew there was going to be sacrifice. But this sacrifice was not for nothing. It was for peace and liberty. My friends, they gave their lives for history and for the freedom of human beings…. In America, young people are going to forget the Korean War…”-Melesse Tessema, Kagnew Battalions veteran
Back when the Horn […] Continue Reading…
11 April 2022 (10:30-UTC-07 Tango 06) 22 Farvardin 1401/09 Ramadan 1443/11 Jia Chen 4720
Paratroopers jump from a perfectly good Y20, 17FEB2022. People’s Liberation Army photo by Liu Bingbing.Video report, dated 03MAR2022, showing Y-20 airborne operations:
South China Morning Post/Associated Press reports that on 10APR2022, the People’s Liberation Army-Air […] Continue Reading…
10 April 2022 (22:53-UTC-07 Tango 06) 21 Farvardin 1401/08 Ramadan 1443/10 Jia Chen 4720
During World War Two, the United States government commissioned the creation of an anti-German/Japanese documentary called Why We Fight, supervised by Hollywood legend Frank Capra. The first episode focused on explaining the military history of Russia leading up to the Second […] 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):
Shenyang J-8, NATO reporting name Finback. The ‘J’ means Jianjiji, which is the equivalent of the word fighter in English.
People’s Liberation Army-Eastern Theater Command photo, 30AUG2020.PLA-Eastern […] Continue Reading…
09 April 2022 (15:08-UTC-07 Tango 06) 20 Farvardin 1401/07 Ramadan 1443/09 Jia Chen 4720
Just in time for another early/busy hurricane season?
U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sergeant Jessica Kendziorek, 05APR2022.The Hurricane Hunters (53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron) based on Keesler Air Force Base, in Mississippi, decided to ‘go back to […] Continue Reading…
My daughter Aryssa made this ‘cold start’ video of my 1989 International Harvester powered 7.3IDI diesel ambulance.
For most of the 1990s it was used by at least two ambulance services in the Salt Lake City area of Utah.
You can barely see the residue from the Idaho State University logo on […] Continue Reading…