U.S. Disaster 2022: Just in time for Hurricane Season, West Virginia gets new Black Hawk MedEvac

West Virginia Army National Guard photo by Edwin L. Wriston, 12APR2022.

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.

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Ethiopia invades Korea?

“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…

World War 3 Vehicle I-D: China makes surprise(?) delivery of military aid to Russian ally, using new Y-20!

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…

U.S. World War Two documentary says Ukraine & Crimea are Russian!

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 & Beyond: China’s ‘Finback’

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.

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U.S. Disaster 2022: Hurricane Hunters going ‘Back to the Future’

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…

1989 7.3IDI Diesel Ambulance Cold Start

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…

Pandēmus Totalitarian: More Pandemic Deployments ended to focus on Russia?

Incomplete list of photos and videos of the latest U.S. military operations inside private sector hospitals, under the guise of fighting the Pandemic (so called Whole-of-Government Covid Response, run by U.S. Army Northern Command, beginning on August 2021), for March 2022:

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Jan David De Luna […] Continue Reading…

Biden’s War: Idaho about to deploy hundreds of troops, yet again! First time use of Javelin missiles!

05 April 2022  (15:22-UTC-07 Tango 06) 16 Farvardin 1401/03 Ramadan 1443/05 Jia Chen 4720

Idaho’s 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team/2nd of the 116th Combined Arms Battalion training on the Orchard Combat Training Center, 30MAR2022. Idaho National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur.

On 05NOV2021 KLIX News Radio reported that even more […] Continue Reading…

NATO vehicle I-D: Poland’s Krab (half British, half Korean?)

U.S. Army photo by Markus Rauchenberger, 20JUL2022.

Update 2022: Poland’s 2nd Battalion, 5th Artillery Brigade, conduct live-fire on Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, 20JUL2022.  U.S. Army video by Markus Rauchenberger:

USA photo by Markus Rauchenberger, 20JUL2022.

Quick U.S. Army video by Christoph Koppers, 19JUL2022:

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