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124th militia A-10 shootin’ & scootin’ thru Idaho Nevada California

Idaho National Guard’s 124th Fighter Wing has been real busy this summer.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Mercedee Wilds, 19AUG2019.

19AUG2019, the ‘hawgs’ shot-up the Orchard Combat Training Center (back when I was ‘in’ it was called the Orchard Training Area) south of Boise.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Mercedee Wilds, 19AUG2019.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Mercedee Wilds, 19AUG2019.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Mercedee Wilds, 19AUG2019.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Ryan White, 19AUG2019.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 19AUG2019.

Idaho’s Governor Brad Little arrived by Black Hawk and got strafed, just kidding:

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 19AUG2019.

Idaho’s 124th Maintenance Group builds Mark 82s for Idaho’s 190th Fighter Squadron’s A-10C Thunderbolt-2s, during wargame Green Flag West-19-8, on Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, in June 2019.  I edited together videos via Idaho Air National Guard’s Joshua Allmaras:

04JUN2019 Idaho A-10Cs during Green Flag West, Nevada, take-off and bombing:

08JUN2019, Idaho A-10Cs flying through Nevada mountains:

June 2019, Idaho A-10Cs on Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, flightline prep, taxi & take-off, return sans bombs:

09JUN2019, Idaho A-10Cs landing on dirt, Fort Irwin-NTC, California:

See more:  IDAHO A-10C warthogs wallowing IN THE CALIFORNIA DIRT, JUNE 2019

June 2018, funky music video, Idaho A-10s Operation Red Flag Alaska:

Operation SnowBird 2013: Idaho A-10Cs take part in bombing competition on Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona.

‘Family Unit Removal’: Immigrant Invasion U.S.A., August 2019

Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of main-stream-news links about global immigrant/border operations affecting the United States taxpayers, August 2019.

Following Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Hurricane Irma in Florida, both in 2017, more than 800 applicants were denied loans because they were “not a qualified alien.” 

Mexico’s crackdown on illegal immigrants has trapped hundreds of illegals from African countries trying to get to the U.S. and Canada

Human smugglers face a dry spell with Mexico’s crackdown on Central American migration

India Has More than 630,000 Illegals in the United States

More than 1,100 U.S. Churches Providing Sanctuary to illegals

Crackdown on illegals is benefiting U.S. workers:  Restaurant owners now offering bonuses and higher wages to attract U.S. workers!

ALABAMA: a coalition of 26 states, cities, and counties, as well as the U.S. Conference of Mayors, opposing the state of Alabama’s attempt to refuse to count undocumented immigrants in the 2020 census

ALASKA:  “The working conditions are not humane.  People will talk about how they got a cheap cruise—the reason they got a cheap cruise is because it’s on the back of the worker from the developing country.: Ross Klein, sociologist at Memorial University in Newfoundland, talking about the results of his investigation into the booming cruise ship industry in Alaska and British Columbia

ARIZONA: THE U.S. BORDER PATROL AND AN ISRAELI MILITARY CONTRACTOR ARE PUTTING A NATIVE AMERICAN RESERVATION UNDER “PERSISTENT SURVEILLANCE”

Large groups of migrants stop crossing at the Arizona-Mexico border

drone video of 60 new miles of border wall

22AUG2019, near Lukeville the first wall panels went up, as part of the Tucson 5 Mile border wall project.

Judge tosses felony case against lawyer arrested during immigration rally

ARKANSAS: Sightings of an immigration enforcement bus caused panic for the immigrant community in Northwest Arkansas

CALIFORNIA: Hypocrisy; Leftist-liberal ‘pro-immigrant’ California somehow forgot to include immigrant workers in its latest plan to fight poverty!

More hypocrisy;  Even California farm owners, who were once migrants themselves, are firing migrant workers who get sick or injured on the job!

Undocumented (illegal) Filipino, Pulitzer Prize Winner Gets High School Named After Him

NFL players help bail out undocumented immigrant

Secret ‘underground’ food bank for illegal immigrants revealed

22AUG2019, first border wall panel goes up near Calexico, as part of the 15 miles long El Centro project.

13AUG2019, U.S. Coast Guard captures 1-thousand-3-hundred pounds of illegal marijuana near Catalina Island, being smuggled into The Golden State despite the fact that marijuana is now legal there.

United States Border Patrol Acting San Diego Sector Chief Kathleen Scudder announces the completion of 14 miles of new border wall construction in San Ysidro.

COLORADO:  Pro-immigrant activist killed by illegal immigrant from El Salvador, who was being protected by a Christian church!

ICE data reveals that immigrant detainees in a GEO for-profit prison have been locked up alone, 23 hours a day, for as long as nine months

CONNECTICUT: Mayor of New Haven unilaterally extends protects for illegal immigrants

State Department of Education clamps down on high school officials that wanted to know the immigration status of enrollees

DELAWARE: Joins lawsuit over rollback of child immigrant protections

FLORIDA:  Fire bomb thrown into U.S. Citizenship and Immigration office

Greyhound bus riders are being asked for immigration papers

Feds search for site to house 500 immigrant children

01AUG2019, U.S. Coast Guard, and U.S. Customs & Border Protection, captures captured 67 packages of illegal drugs, along with seven illegal immigrants and one smuggler.

GEORGIA: TORTURE AND STUNNING NEGLECT END IN SUICIDE AT PRIVATELY RUN ICE PRISON

GUAM:  More of what I call Operation Jupiter as health officials report dengue fever is being brought in by immigrants 

(In 2015 I discovered a U.S. Army program called JUPITR ATD, and I found connections to disease outbreaks around the world and U.S. military operations.)

IDAHO: Can DACA students receive an Idaho Opportunity Scholarship?

IOWA: Iowa City Catholic Worker House hiding illegals

KANSAS: federal judge in Kansas has ruled that a law making it a crime to “encourage” or “induce” immigrants to enter or live in the country illegally is unconstitutional

KENTUCKY: After only 16 months of operations, an immigration court is suddenly shutdown!

Nearly 2-hundred LEGAL immigrants become U.S. citizens

Arturo Ruiz, speeding 12 miles over limit; reckless driving; operating motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol/drugs/etc., .08 — first-offense; operating on suspended or revoked operators license; failure to wear seat belts; failure to or improper signal; immigration detainer.  Luis Castro, alcohol intoxication in a public place (first and second offenses); immigration detainer.

LOUISIANA: Illegal from Guatemala arrested for child rape

French immigrant arrested for $6-million bank fraud

MAINE: Mexican illegals crossed into the U.S. from Canada, then tried to steal a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle!

MARYLAND: Why is Montgomery County experiencing so many rapes by illegal immigrants?

Seventh illegal immigrant accused of sex crimes since July

Local police barred from working with ICE despite incidents of sexual assaults increasing nearly fourfold

MASSACHUSETTS:  Judge suspended for protecting a twice deported illegal, with a long criminal history, will continue to be paid her $180-thousand taxpayer funded salary!

MINNESOTA: Who said immigrants improve the economy? Walmart shutting down its Midway Marketplace store claiming lack of sales, it turns out many of the employees AND customers are poor immigrants from Africa.  

MISSISSIPPI:  How Mississippi, where chicken is a multi-billion dollar business, repeatedly balked at getting tougher on illegal immigration

Children of undocumented immigrants arrested in Mississippi rely on strangers for food and shelter

MISSOURI: At least 55,000 people in Missouri are ‘illegal’.  In the first six months of this year, 3,115 people in Missouri faced deportation cases. That’s more than the total number of cases filed in 2017.

NEBRASKA: Proof it’s all about profits as city & school officials, as well as local for-profit businesses, lament the loss of 130 illegal workers to an ICE raid last year, claiming the hiring of legal workers is costing them too much money, and for some reason they don’t trust the legal workers as much as they trusted the illegal workers!  (ICE claims locals were illegally profiting off the illegal workers by forcing the illegals to kickback part of their low pay)

State residents almost evenly split on opinions about illegals

NEW JERSEY: Leftist liberal pro-illegal-immigrant politician admits Who Do You Think Is Mowing Our Beautiful Lawns?”

NEW MEXICO: State refuses to approve application for illegal immigrant childrens’ shelter due to the for-profit operator lying about problems with its other shelters

23AUG2019, first wall panels go up near Columbus, as part of the El Paso border wall project.

NEW YORK: De Blasio Lowers Requirements to Enter Affordable Housing Lottery, To Benefit Undocumented (illegal) Immigrants

NORTH CAROLINA: Alamance County Detention Center gets $2.3-million tax dollars to house illegals

NORTH DAKOTA:  28AUG2019, opening of renovated U.S. CBP’s National Air Security Operations Center (airborne drones) on Grand Forks Air Force Base.

OHIO: Salvadoran man allegedly transported illegal immigrants through Ohio

OKLAHOMA: “We have no plan to remove ICE from the jail,” Sheriff’s office working to clarify ICE presence at detention center

OREGON: Hated governor now target of recall efforts for signing a new law providing undocumented immigrants with driver’s licenses, among other things

Pew Research Center estimates that as of 2016 more than 100-illegals call Oregon their temporary home, and that’s a decrease from the previous ten years!

PENNSYLVANIA: Newly unearthed documents reveal how an environmental-minded socialite became an ardent nativist whose money helped sow the seeds of the Trump anti-immigration agenda.(for more info on the elite funded anti-immigrant/pro-abortion operation go to ColcomFoundation.org)

RHODE ISLAND: ICE cop drives over pro-immigrant Jewish protesters who were blocking access to ICE prison

SOUTH CAROLINA: Faked ICE flyers claim ICE doesn’t need a warrant to invade your home

SOUTH DAKOTA:  Revealed; South Dakota businesses are recruiting illegal immigrant workers from other U.S. states, and then turning them into literal slave laborers!

TENNESSEE: The former owner of a meat factory, that was the site of a massive immigration raid where nearly 100 people were arrested last year, was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

TEXAS: Governor under fire for asking supporters to ‘defend Texas’ from illegal immigration

 In Brownsville, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted ‘Family Unit Removal’ of illegals from Guatemala.  Since mid-July, Guatemala and the United States have implemented a new process to more expeditiously remove illegals.  This enhanced cooperation results in reduced lengths of stays in custody for Guatemalan citizens.

UTAH: For-profit private prison company bows-out of planned Evanston immigration detention center

Immigrant wanted by ICE arrested in Ogden on child rape charges

VERMONT: man charged with sending fake tip to ICE

18 illegals captured along the border with Canada

VIRGINIA: A federal judge has thrown out an illegal immigrant’s claim that a Virginia sheriff violated his constitutional rights.

University of Virginia offers DACAs financial aid

WASHINGTON: State looking to fight new immigration rules

Washington State University teaches illegals how to beat the system!

Washington DC: Sick Migrants Undergoing Lifesaving Care Can Now Be Deported

Homeland Security moves $155 million from FEMA disaster relief for immigration enforcement

WISCONSIN:  Immigrants told to avoid marijuana — even where it’s legal

Immigrant invasion U.S.A., July 2019: HUMAN TRAFFICKING HORROR SHOW

B-25 ¡Panchito!

U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Madeline Herzog, 02APR2022.

Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, 02APR2022.

Panchito = A derogatory name

New Jersey Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant Matt Hecht, 14MAY2016.

Panchito is a North American B-25J-25-NC Mitchell built in the last year of World War Two. Through the 1950s it was used for training.  In the 1960s it became water bomber ‘Tanker 32’.  In the early 1970s it was a bug sprayer called Big Bertha.  Since the mid-70s it was a museum bird, finally becoming Panchito in the late 1990s.  That information pertains to the specific aircraft currently flying, the original Panchito flew bombing missions over Okinawa during the summer of 1945, and then was apparently buried in a Filipino ‘grave’, with a whole bunch of taxpayer funded aircraft, when the war ended. 

USAF video report from June 2007, about Panchito:

In 1981, Monogram Models Incorporated issued their fine 1:48 scale B-25J Mitchell kit, with markings for the original Panchito (which has a different tail code than today’s Panchito).  Unfortunately Monogram didn’t include any historical info about the plane (except for a small blurb on the side of the box-top).

U.S. Air Force photo by Roland Balik, 27AUG2017.

27AUG2017, Dover AFB air show, Delaware.

U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez, 17APR2017.

National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, 17APR2017.

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Valentina Lopez, 21SEP2016.

Manassas Regional Airport, Virginia, 21SEP2016

New Jersey Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant Matt Hecht, 14MAY2016.

Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, 14MAY2016.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Mackenzie Gibson, 29APR2016.

Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, 29APR2016.

Kentucky Air National Guard photo by Lieutenant Colonel Dale Greer, 22APR2017.

Louisville, Kentucky, 22APR2017.

USMC photo by Corporal Orlando Perez, 04MAY2012.

MCAS Cherry Point, North Carolina, 04MAY2012.

Video, start-up, taxi, take-off, return:

Take-off video from April 2012:

 

VEHICLE I-D: AIRBORNE HURRICANE HUNTERS, WHEN DID IT ALL START?

RF-84F THUNDERFLASH & YRF-84F, AN APPEAL TO MONOGRAM!

F-8 DFBW, OR ANOTHER REASON WHY TODAY’S TECHIE GENERATION OWES THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX!

C-47 DAKOTA/SKYTRAIN, DOUGLAS COMMERCIAL-3, R4D GOONIES!

Red Bank & South Fire helicopter ops

During the second week of September, 2019, California National Guard flew at least 290 firefighters to the Red Bank Fire and the South Fire, which are burning in rugged terrain.

Video California National Guard CH-47 Chinook ferries fire fighters to the Red Bank Fire in Tehama County:

Official video explainer of UH-60 and CH-47 operations:

Firefighters work 24 hour-shifts, here’s video of Black Hawks bringing back tired fire crews:

The UH-60s and CH-47s also played water bombers.  In just one day, 10 September, they dropped 70-thousand-974 gallons of water just on the South Fire!

Video, UH-60M water bombing:

Daily maintenance was conducted on the six California National Guard helicopters assigned to help fight the Red Bank and South fires.

IDAHO WILD FIRES 2019: MD-87 WATER BOMBER, NEW KING AIR FAC

OREGON WILDFIRES: MILITIAS LOVE IT, CH-47F AIRBORNE FIREFIGHTER!

Blade folding Army Black Hawks

U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Sharon Matthias, 10SEP2019.

U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Sharon Matthias, 10SEP2019.

U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Sharon Matthias, 10SEP2019.

U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Sharon Matthias, 10SEP2019.

Video, folding UH-60 blades for loading onto C-17 Globemaster, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, 09SEP2019:

U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Sharon Matthias, 10SEP2019.

U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Sharon Matthias, 10SEP2019.

U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Sharon Matthias, 10SEP2019.

Video, UH-60 blade folding for loading onto boats, Kuwait, 27APR2019:

Idaho blade folding: IDAHO BLACK HAWKS HEAD SOUTH, DOWN CENTRAL AMERICA WAY, YOU PAID FOR IT!

VEHICLE I-D: CBP’S BLACK HELICOPTERS DEPLOY TO PUERTO RICO, QUICK MINICRAFT REVIEW

MILITIA UH-60L LOOSES WINDSHIELD AT NTC!

SOUTH CAROLINA MILITIA’S SWITCH-BLADE APACHE

Tremor Event Has Begun: Pacific Ring of Fire, August 2019

Incomplete list of seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, August 2019.

A Mega-Tsunami on Early Mars

Crack in Pacific seafloor caused volcanic chain to go dormant for 10-million years

What tourists/travelers need to do in after a disaster

AUSTRALIA: Oil industry seismic operations delayed

Hidden ‘Jurassic World’ of Volcanoes Uncovered

KitKat introduces rare volcanic chocolate

CANADA:  Researchers discover why oil industry fracking causes earthquakes

BC school district braces for mega earthquake

CHILE: 6.8 earthquake reveals stress is building on the megathrust

Increased Volcanic activity threatens fish farms, plans being made to evacuate the fish!

CHINA: Insurance industry adopts new earthquake catastrophe model, to predict insurance payouts and identify buildings most at risk of failure

5.0 hits Taiwan

COLOMBIA:  5.3-magnitude quake hits 28 km NW of Guapi

ECUADOR: There are 47 volcanoes in Ecuador, and 27 of them are potentially active, and five of them have erupted since 2000.

EL SALVADOR:  Colossal volcano behind ‘mystery’ global cooling finally found

FIJI:  5.0 earthquake – Fiji Islands Region on 27AUG2019

5.9 earthquake – Fiji Islands Region (Wallis & Futuna) on 22AUG2019

 A floating ‘island’ made up of volcanic rock, meandering through the Pacific.

GUATEMALA: Appeals for more help from International Red Cross, for dealing with the 2018 eruption (is this why so many Guatemalans are flooding into the U.S.?)

HONDURAS:  Mysterious white smoke emanating from mountain that is not considered a volcano

How many U.S. taxpayers know that over the past four decades a small outpost in Honduras has housed a mix of U.S. military forces, backed by aid organizations to provide medical assistance and disaster response for Latin American countries? 

INDONESIA:  volcano chaser documenting Indonesia’s volatile craters

Activities banned within 3 kilometers from the summit of Mount Merapi

Huge Oil Spill in Land of Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Volcanoes

JAPAN: belief in link between deep-sea fish sightings and quakes finally debunked

Asama-yama erupts

Underground links between quakes and eruptions of Japan’s biggest active volcano

5.4-magnitude quake strikes Aomori Prefecture

Video of Aomori Prefecture conducting a disaster drill, a week after 5.4 quake, in conjunction with U.S. Misawa Airbase:

MEXICO:  Dramatic eruption by Mexico’s Popocatepetl 

5.5 earthquake – Chiapas, 12AUG2019

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Video explainer of U.S. taxpayer supported Humanitarian Assistance Disaster Relief exercise PACIFIC ENDEAVOR:

PERU: Oil industry to increase offshore seismic operations

Proposes earthquake resistant cities

PHILIPPINES: 6.3 magnitude on the Richter scale shook the Luzon island

5.0 earthquake – Mindanao, 11AUG2019

European Union brings relief to victims of powerful earthquake

RUSSIA: Karymsky volcano spews

5.0 earthquake – East of Kuril Islands, 25AUG2019 

Lightning strikes Ebeko volcano during eruption

TONGA: 5.4 earthquake – 24AUG2019

5.0 earthquake – 24AUG2019

new submarine volcanic eruption discovered

UNITED STATES: Watch tsunami waves from a 9.0 earthquake hit the Pacific Northwest in new simulation videos

Alaska; After major quake, budget cut to seismic monitoring system

California;  UCBerkeley is in the middle of conducting seismic evaluations of the more than 600 buildings on campus.

Ridgecrest earthquakes caused up to $5 billion in damage to China Lake naval base

At Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, U.S. Navy SeaBees were recognized for their efforts to help with recovery after the July earthquakes.

In San Diego, the U.S. Navy conducted exercise Citadel Rumble, enlisting the help of Amateur Radio Emergency Service to test emergency radio communications between USN hospitals during natural disasters.

Groundbreaking earthquake catalog may have just solved a seismic mystery

Community Seismic Network has installed 1-thousand sensors across the region

Hawaii;  Large Earthquakes, Hilina Fault System Relationship

What does water in Halema‘uma‘u mean?

Montana; More small quakes reported

60 years ago 7.3 magnitude earthquake killed 28 people

Nevada; UN Reno gets 1-million additional tax dollars for ShakeAlert quake warning system

Oregon;  Critics blast Oregon repeal of tsunami-zone building ban

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake just struck

$1.6-million in additional taxpayer funding for ShakeAlert warning system

Washington;  Funding from the U.S. Geological Survey is expected to double the number of sensors in the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network

Seismic Tremor Event Has Begun, Seismologists Say

Wyoming;  1959 quake changed landscape, structures and more in Yellowstone, 160 new geysers sprang to life

VANUATU: Mount Yasur is – incredibly or frighteningly, depending on how you look at it – open to members of the public game enough to walk up and peer into the belly of the Earth.

5.5 earthquake – Santa Cruz Islands (Vanuatu), 22AUG2019

6.3 earthquake strikes between Vanuatu, Solomon Islands

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE, JULY 2019: “LOST IN TIME”

Vehicle I-D: MiG-31 space bound dogfighter?

“In accordance with the combat training plan, the crews of MiG-31BM high-altitude fighters of the Pacific Fleet’s naval aviation based in Kamchatka held a training exercise to intercept a simulated intruder of Russia’s airspace in the stratosphere. For the first time ever, new upgraded MiG-31BM high-altitude interceptor-fighters took part in a dogfight at their service ceiling. The fighters flew at a speed of 2,500 km/h and an altitude of more than 20 km.”-Russian Pacific Fleet Naval Air Force, 19AUG2019

Worn looking MiG-31.

The simulated intruder was another MiG-31BM.  The exercise involved scrambling a MiG-31BM to intercept, without using ground based radar to locate the intruder.  It was meant to test the electronic upgrades completed in February 2019.  The MiG-31BMs supposedly made six flights into the stratosphere during the mock dogfights.

Back in January 2018, the Russian Aerospace Force aviation center, in Nizhny Novgorod, made a similar high altitude dogfight claim.

In May 2019, it was announced the MiG-31K could launch hypersonic missiles, known as Kinzhal.  It’s claimed the Kinzhal (dagger) can hit speeds up to Mach 10, with a range of more than 2000km (1242.7 miles).

SOVIET GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR ‘BAT’ TO BE RESURRECTED FROM THE DEAD!

VEHICLE I-D: FURY VS MIG

New Jersey National Guard saving pets in Qatar!

19 August 2019 (05:28 UTC-07 Tango 06) 28 Mordad 1398/17 Dhu l-Hijja 1440/19 Ren-Shen 4717

A struggling pet shelter in Doha, Qatar, has only three full-time staff members and more than 130 dogs and cats!  It’s looks more like a farm.

Staff Sergeant Lia Carter, New Jersey National Guard.

“We started out just wanting to find the animals in Doha, Qatar’s capital, and see what was going on with rescues.”-Staff Sergeant Lia Cater, New Jersey National Guard, who helps rescue strays in her hometown of Queens, New York

“We took 100 pounds of dog food and 50 pounds of cat food. The shelter’s staff was overwhelmed to see us. They had never had such a large group come out all at once and volunteer.”-Staff Sergeant Lia Cater, New Jersey National Guard, who helps rescue strays in her hometown of Queens, New York

“They primarily need people to come out and walk dogs, help the dogs exercise, and give the animals some personal attention.”-Staff Sergeant Lia Cater, New Jersey National Guard, who helps rescue strays in her hometown of Queens, New York

“This program gives something for everyone to look forward to. It is also good for relations between the U.S. and Qatar.”-Sergeant Jimmy Simmeron, New Jersey National Guard

“We are going to have to stop being the policemen of the world.”-Donald Trump, August 2015 interview with Hugh Hewitt

OPERATION APPALACHIAN CARE; PROOF OBAMACARE FAILED, AND OBAMA KNEW IT DID!

GREAT RENEGER: GUARD DEPLOYMENTS SO COMMON EVEN BEERS ARE NAMED AFTER THEM

1939 v 2019; Germany invades Poland again, this time with the help of NATO!

In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland on the pretext that Polish terrorists were attaching German radio stations (which is now considered a False Flag attack).  It actuality was vengeance for having German territory stolen by the French and British empires, after World War One, to create what is now known as Poland.

The same thing happened after World War Two, and hundreds of thousands of Germans were disappeared by the Soviets and British empire as even more German territory was taken to create today’s boundaries for Poland!

(A generation gap exists between Germans expelled from Eastern Europe after World War II and their grandchildren, The monument was erected by members of Poland’s ethnic German minority, which was suppressed under four decades of Polish communism, Revenge on Ethnic Germans: Czech Town Divided, For the first time, a central memorial and monument for the Germans expelled from Hungary were inaugurated in Budaörs, The 1,000s of Germans massacred after WWII, also during the war the Soviet Union rounded up hundreds of thousands of ethnic Germans, and what happened to the thousands of German civilians expelled from Iran by the British and Soviet invaders?)

Marder 1A3/5. U.S. Army photo Sergeant First Class Class Michael O’Brien, 01JUN2019.

Leopard 2A5. USA photo Sergeant First Class Class Michael O’Brien, 01JUN2019.

From June thru July 2019, Germany invaded and occupied Poland, this time as part of a larger NATO operation called Noble Jump 2019.  The German led NATO ‘spearhead battalion’ also consisted of units from Netherlands (just troops as the Dutch got rid of their main battle tanks in 2011) and Norway.

Swedish made Norwegian CV90. Norwegian Army photo by Kommandersersjant Florian Fergen, 04JUN2019.

Norwegian Army photo by Kommandersersjant Florian Fergen, 04JUN2019.

Even women took part in the invasion (oh my!).

NATO video explaining the German led invasion:

“Noble Jump is a defensive exercise. It will prove our very high readiness ground troops are ready and rapidly deployable, wherever and whenever needed. Readiness and mobility are key to NATO’s deterrence posture.”-U.S. Admiral James Foggo, Allied Joint Force Command Naples/NATO Response Force 2019

German Fox (Fuchs). Norwegian Army photo by Kommandersersjant Florian Fergen, 08JUN2019.

On 13JUL2019, the invasion culminated in an epic tank battle involving armor from the United States, Germany and Poland.  However, in the video it seems they were all on the same side and you can’t tell who they’re fighting.  I don’t know who won.

Isn’t it ironic that a country punished for trying to regain and hold onto stolen territory is now helping U.S. led NATO to occupy those same territories?

HI-TECH FAIL: GERMANY STILL TRAINS UP OLD-SKOOL CAVALRY!

GERMANY FINALLY ADOPTS THE MINIGUN!

Soviet Great Patriotic War ‘Bat’ to be resurrected from the dead!

“For the first time in the world, a Tu-2 bomber will be reconstructed to its operational condition on the premises of the Novosibirsk State Technical University. The reconstruction work will be carried out by Aviarestavratsiya. This work will take three years.”-Science and Higher Education Ministry

The Tupolev 2 bomber of World War Two fame is being brought back to life in Russia.

A Tupolev TU 2 WWII Soviet front line bomber (NATO reporting name Bat) on static display at Monino Museum, Russia. TASS photo by Marina Lystseva.

According to TASS, the resurrection was supposed to start on 21AUG2019.  The specific plane to be restored to flying condition had a long history, first flying with the Soviet forces during World War Two, then flying with Chinese forces until the 1980s(!), and then ending up in the United States in the hands of the War Eagles Air Museum in New Mexico (read a description of the plane and how the Chinese used it, here).

War Eagles Air Museum, before restoration. Photo via David and Paula Barnett.

War Eagles Air Museum, after restoration.

The U.S. museum restored the Tu-2 to the point it could be used as a static display.  In 2019, the Russia based Aviarestavratsiya (air restoration)/Winged Victory Memorial supposedly acquired the plane and will bring it back to Russia: “This is not a plane that was shot down or was broken. We have not yet studied its series numbers and have not yet tracked its exact history. The plane will be studied and analyzed in detail. Each element will be reconstructed or restored.”-Boris Osyatinsky, Aviarestavratsiya/Winged Victory Memorial

However, as of 2022 the War Eagles Air Museum in New Mexico still lists the Bat as part of their displays.

By the way, China still has several Tu-2 bombers on display:

Photo via Military Museum of the Chinese People’s Revolution.

Photo via Military Museum of the Chinese People’s Revolution.

For kit builders there are several brands to choose from:

The ‘Bat’ served with many countries in many wars.

The old East German VEB-Plastikart (now known as adp Master Modelle) kit.

More info: https://alchetron.com/Tupolev-Tu-2

Tupolev TU-2 – Photos & Video

VEHICLE I-D: RF-84F THUNDERFLASH & YRF-84F, AN APPEAL TO MONOGRAM!