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Idaho’s heritage A-10C ‘8N’

Video July 10, 2021 Hutchins AAron

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Joshua C. Allmaras.

P-47D Thunderbolt bubble-top 8N-X.

“It’s more than just history, it’s our heritage, it’s who we are.”-Major Tom Silkowski, Idaho’s 190th Fighter Squadron

P-47D Thunderbolt ‘Black Jack’ code 8N-O, 371st FG-405th FS.

Towards the end of May 2021, the Idaho Air National Guard unveiled their heritage ‘8N’ A-10C Thunderbolt-2. 8N is the squadron code for the U.S. Army 9th Air Force-371st Fighter Group’s 405th Fighter Squadron.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Joshua C. Allmaras.

It was part of 75th anniversary celebrations for the 190th Fighter Squadron’s(FS) birthday, 24MAY1946. The old 405th FS logo was added to the nacelles after returning from its heritage paint job in Iowa.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Joshua C. Allmaras.

The 190th FS evolved out of the 405th FS, which flew P-47 Thunderbolts during World War Two (hence the false tail number 405190). In 1944, P-47s of the 405th carried the code 8N on their fuselages: “Every aspect of that paint job, down to the smallest detail, is deliberate and faithful to how our P-47’s looked in the summer of 1944. We weren’t going for glitz and a superficial ‘wow factor.’ This isn’t a toy airplane; it’s one of our beautiful A-10 Thunderbolt-2s dressed in the same scheme worn by our P-47 Thunderbolts in World War Two. It’s like a little boy wearing his dad’s military uniform. I think that’s what makes it so special.”-Major Tom Silkowski, Idaho’s 190th FS

An ‘8N’ P-47D somewhere in France, 1944.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Joshua C. Allmaras.

On 07JUL2021, 8N took part in refuel training over Mountain Home Air Force Base (AFB), Idaho.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Mercedee Wilds.

The refueling was done by a KC-135 Stratotanker from the 507th Air Refueling Wing (ARW), Tinker AFB, out of Oklahoma.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Mercedee Wilds.

But it is not the first time 8N got refueled mid-flight. On its way home from the heritage paint job (done at the Air National Guard Paint Facility in Sioux City), the Iowa Air National Guard’s 185th ARW provided fuel for the flight back to Idaho.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Mercedee Wilds.

Iowa Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot.

Iowa Air National Guard video, by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, of 8N (sans 405th FS logo) being pull from the paint shop, 05MAY2021:

Iowa Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot.

1944(?) France, P-47 ‘Mumbling Joe’ 8N-H, 371st FG-405th FS.

March 2021: MORALE BOOSTER A-10C GUN-RUN IN IDAHO!

2012 Pocatello Airport:

The awesome A-10 is the last of Idaho’s Air National Guard air assets. Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

IDAHO NATIONAL GUARD A-10C THUNDERBOLT 2 ‘walkaround’

Idaho, U.S.

Biden’s Borderland: Independence?

Video July 9, 2021 Hutchins AAron

Welcome to borderland hell under the new U.S. President, incomplete list of links to news/government agency reports as of 09 July 2021:

Germany says Tesla’s new car factory near Berlin is being built illegally!

Canada refuses to open border with U.S. to people who are not vaccinated!

Mexico Creates Vaccine Oasis in Bid to Reopen U.S. Border.

Ex-U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) deputy commissioner says border crisis “unlike anything I’ve ever seen” warns of broken system.

U.S. Coast Guard photo.

On 03JUL2021, U.S. Coast Guard captured nine illegals from Cuba, near Cay Sal Island, Bahamas. On 06JUL2021, the illegals were sent back to Cuba.

USFireworks.biz claims to be ‘Made in USA’ but then puts notice on its homepage that it is experiencing a shortage due to shipping problems in China!

BlackCatFireworks claims to be ‘Made in the USA’ but turns out they are owned and made by Li & Fung of China.

AmericanFireworks claims to be U.S. owned since 1902:

CALIFORNIA: 758 pounds of liquid meth inside school bus captured in San Diego Sector.

City of Fresno spends tax dollars helping immigrant families with legal funding!

GEORGIA: Mexican National pleads guilty to employing and exploiting illegals in the U.S.

IDAHO: State Police deploy to border with Mexico.

City of Idaho Falls claims ‘most’ of the fireworks they use are made in the United States.

Fireworks seller for 30 years reveals his ‘U.S.’ brand fireworks are actually made in China (reality check; while most fireworks companies list U.S. addresses for their HQs, the fireworks are actually made in China):

ILLINOIS: China blames pandemic-panic-attack for why it has cut shipments of fireworks to the U.S.

IOWA: State Patrol deployed to border with Mexico.

KENTUCKY: State National Guard deploy to border with Mexico.

LOUISIANNA: State government knew of human trafficking since at least 2015.

6-thousand Chinese made false eye-lashes captured in New Orleans.

MICHIGAN: Police officer punished for speaking the truth, after saying that people can cross the U.S./Mexico border “at any time”!

MISSOURI: ‘Out-of-staters’ captured trying to trafficking endangered paddlefish out of the state.

MONTANA: Lincoln County’s economy suffering because of Canada’s pandemic border shutdown!

NEW YORK: Number of Immigrant Detainees Skyrockets.

Illegal immigrant investor says he was cheated out of his investments into Younkers construction companies with threats of deportation!

NORTH CAROLINA: Man found guilty of human trafficking.

TEXAS: Court rules Facebook is liable for human-sex trafficking.

CBP says 7-thousand illegals per week now crossing just in the Del Rio area!

UTAH: Carnival owner arrested for using illegals as slave labor!

VERMONT: Car chase and capture of illegal Canadians and Europeans, crossing from Canada on Independence Day, caught on video:

Washington DC: Biden claims Cuba’s humanitarian medical missions are nothing more than human trafficking operations!

Biden to free pregnant women who crossed border illegally.

Southern border mission for U.S. troops extends another year.

VA, DHS launch noncitizen (illegal?) service member initiative.

WEST VIRGINIA: China slows shipments of fireworks to the U.S.

Biden’s Borderland, 30 June 2021: MORE DRUGS, BOAT PEOPLE, CHILDREN ALONE……WHERE’S THE U.S. PRESIDENT?

U.S.

Biden’s Borderland: More drugs, boat people, children alone……where’s the U.S. President?

Video June 30, 2021 Hutchins AAron

Welcome to borderland hell under the new U.S. President, incomplete list of links to news/government agency reports as of 30 June 2021:

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) video on how to enter the U.S. through airports, legally:

CBP video for cross-border semi-truck drivers, new bill of lading Automated Commercial Environment:

CALIFORNIA: El Centro Sector captures convicted sex offenders.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection photo.

Five years old girl from Guatemala found wandering alone along the Tijuana River channel, 07JUN2021.

FLORIDA:

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Third Class Ryan Estrada.

23JUN2021, U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) captured 11 illegals from Cuba, in their home made corrugated boat.

USCG photo by Chief Petty Officer Charly Tautfest.

14JUN2021, USCG off-loads more than 7-thousand-5-hundred pounds of cocaine at Port Everglades, in Fort Lauderdale.

USCG photo by Petty Officer Second Class Ashley Johnson.

The USCG, and local Florida police, captured 16 illegals from Cuba, 09JUN2021.

USCG photo by Petty Officer Second Class Ashley Johnson.

05JUN2021, USCG captures 21 Haitians and one Colombian. 20 of the illegals from Haiti were sent back home on 10JUN2021.

USCG photo.

USCG chases a boat filled with a dozen illegals from Cuba, 03JUN2021. USCG reports they captured so many Cubans that week that on 08JUN2021 they sent home 82 of them.

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Thomas Sjoberg.

On 19MAY2021, packages of cocaine began washing up on the beach of Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The illegal drug was found by the Station’s wildlife manager while conducting a sea turtle nesting survey.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Thomas Sjoberg.

The origin of the nearly 30 kilograms of cocaine is still being investigated.

IDAHO: Will support Arizona and Texas in securing the border with Mexico!

INDIANA: CBP captures 661 Fake Championship Rings Worth Over $800K, from China

KENTUCKY: CBP captures more than half-a-million dollars worth of fake jewelry from Hong Kong (China)

MARYLAND: CBP captures tens of thousands of U.S. dollars, possibly being smuggled to Jamaica!

MINNESOTA: U.S. CBP and Royal Canadian Mounties captured a car thief. The car had been stolen in Oklahoma.

NEW JERSEY: Car caravan blocks Turnpike for 10 minutes at rush hour in call for undocumented immigrant funding

NEW MEXICO: $5-million to be spent upgrading/expanding the Santa Teresa Land Port of Entry.

NEW YORK: CBP captures more than half-a-million dollars worth of illegal lottery tickets from United Kingdom!

PENNSYLVANIA: CBP Officers Seize illegal Ketamine Shipment from Italy

PUERTO RICO:

USCG photo.

On 25JUN2021, the USCG/Caribbean Border Interagency Group sent back home 38 illegals from Dominican Republic. They built themselves a homemade boat, but were captured on 24JUN2021.

SOUTH DAKOTA: Confirmed, National Guard’s border mission being funded with private money, not taxes!

TEXAS: Galveston County declares emergency due to illegals!

CBP reports 911% percent increase in illegals hiding on trains!

Rio Grande Valley Sector captures convicted violent criminals.

Border Patrol Agents capture illegals who had stolen guns from a Texas home.

Victoria County Sheriff’s deputies investigated three separate smuggling incidents in one day.

State Department of Public Safety officer captures semi-truck filled with 30 illegals.

Former U.S. President visits wall he promises to finish.

Even leftist liberal news media admits Fentanyl seizures at U.S.-Mexican border rise by 4-thousand percent!

46 pounds of meth captured at one check point in one day!

Border Patrol agent rescues Guatemalan child from Texas pond.

VERMONT: State Senate overrides governor’s veto of bill that will allow illegals to vote!

VIRGINA: CBP officers welcomed 65 Ukraine orphans.

WASHINGTON: Taxes will be spent to save a grocery store that is losing money due to the U.S.-Canadian pandemic-panic-attack border shutdown.

Washington DC: Department of Homeland Security announces ban on silicone products made by slave labor in China

Supreme Court Rules Noncitizens Who Re-Enter U.S. Illegally Must Be Held.

Department of Defense admits that 25-thousand illegals are working for the military!

U.S. ARMY SPENDS YOUR MONEY BUILDING DISASTER RESONSE STATIONS FOR ARMENIA!

Biden’s Borderland, May 2021: DRONES AND SCAMS

Technology

NATO Weapons: Apaches & Hinds, for the first time?

Image June 30, 2021 Hutchins AAron

U.S. Army (USA) photo by Major Robert Fellingham.

During NATO wargame Saber Guardian-21/DEFENDER-Europe 21, Hungarian Mil 24s and U.S. AH-64s conducted live fire training, together for the first time.

U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Cole can’t help but grin from ear to ear, getting a ride in the gunner’s seat of a Hungarian Hind. USA photo by Major Robert Fellingham, 03JUN2021.

USA photo by Major Robert Fellingham, 03JUN2021.

Hungarian Defense Force Brigadier General József Koller gets situated in the gunner’s seat of an AH-64D. USA photo by Major Robert Fellingham, 03JUN2021.

USA photo by Major Robert Fellingham, 09JUN2021.

It’s not the first time NATO Hinds and Apaches worked together, but apparently (according to U.S. Army, 12th Combat Aviation Brigade’s Major Robert Fellingham) it is the first time they’ve exchanged crews and taken part in ‘live fire’ wargames together.

USA photo by Major Robert Fellingham.

USA photo by Major Robert Fellingham, 09JUN2021.

Near Szolnok, Hungary, June 2019. USA photo by Sergeant Brandon Brashere.

In 2019, U.S. Apache crews got to look over Hungarian Hinds during Saber Guardian-19, and vice versa.

Near Szolnok, Hungary, June 2019. USA photo by Sergeant Brandon Brashere.

Iraq, May 2006, USA photo.

In May 2006, a Polish Mil 24 and U.S. AH-64D Apache shared a forward refueling/arming point somewhere in Iraq.

Zombie ‘Copter: HOW THE HIND RETURNED TO AFGHANISTAN, AND WHY IT WON’T DIE

May 2020: APACHE FIGHTS THROUGH PANDEMIC

U.S.

Hurricane Michael: U.S. Navy to spend $9-million+ to repair 2018 damage!

Image June 29, 2021 Hutchins AAron

Panama City, Florida, October 2018. U.S. Army Corps of Engineer photo by Brennon Claus.

Back in 2018, category 5 Hurricane Michael severely damaged Building 544 on Naval Support Activity (NSA) Panama City, Florida. Building 544 is a research and development facility for Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC).

Damage assessment by Naval Facilities (NavFac) Engineering Command, October 2018. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer Third Class Devin Bowser.

Now, two and a half years later, the U.S. Navy (USN) announced it will spend $9.3-million to re-build Building 544. It is hoped the project will be completed by September 2022.

Hurricane 2018: MOTHER EARTH (Hurricane Michael) GROUNDS U.S. AIR FORCE

Hurricane 2021: SOUTH CAROLINA PREPS MILITIA!

International, U.S.

U.S. Army spends your money building fire stations for Armenia!

June 25, 2021 Hutchins AAron

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has been busy building new fire/emergency response buildings, not in the United States, in the European(?) country of Armenia.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo.

U.S. taxpayers are unknowingly funding (through the United States European Command) the construction of three fire and rescue station projects in Armenia’s Shirak Province. Officially it is because the U.S. European Command is expecting an increase in major natural disasters. However, it was admitted that the fire station in Gyumri, considered the busiest in Armenia, was in desperate need of replacement due to neglect by the local and national governments. U.S. taxpayers are replacing the old station in Gyumri with two new state-of-the-art stations by the end of 2021.

USACE photo.

A third emergency response station will be completed in 2022, in the small city of Ashotsk.

It should be noted that Armenia is geographically on the Western edge of the Asian continent, yet U.S./NATO considers Armenia to be ‘geo-politically’ European, hence why U.S. European Command has jurisdiction.

Biden’s War: TENNESSEE TO SPEND YOUR TAXES IN AFRICA

2021: U.S. TAXPAYERS FUND JAPANESE MILITARY VEHICLES FOR IRAQ, AGAIN!

U.S. TAXPAYERS GIVE GERMAN AND JAPANESE VEHICLES TO GEORGIAN BORDER POLICE!

2019: U.S. TAXES SUPPORT INDIAN MILITARY AIR SHOW

U.S.

Biden’s War: Tennessee to spend your taxes in Africa

June 23, 2021 Hutchins AAron

Tennessee National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Timothy Cordeiro.

C-12 Huron pilots with Tennessee Army National Guard’s Detachment 6, A Company, 2nd Battalion, 641st Aviation Regiment, held a deployment ceremony on 12JUN2021. They will be spending nine months in Africa, after deployment training on Fort Bliss, Texas.

Then, on 22JUN2021, five militiamen with the Tennessee Army National Guard’s 1957th Contingency Contracting Team said official good-byes during a ceremony in Nashville.

The mission of the five from Tennessee will be to spend U.S. taxes on foreign supplied logistical services, like food and lodging, in the operational area known as Horn of Africa: “Contracts are often given to local workers which really helps drive the economy in the area.”-Captain Eric Bolin, Tennessee National Guard’s United States Property & Fiscal Office

Biden’s War:

TENNESSEE DEPLOYS TO MIDDLE EAST!

NEW YORK DEPLOYS TO THE MIDDLE EAST

U.S.

Biden’s War: New York deploys to The Middle East

June 23, 2021 Hutchins AAron

On 10JUN2021, New York Army National Guard’s 501st Ordnance Battalion, 53rd Troop Command, held a deployment ceremony at the Armed Forces Reserve Center in Glenville.

New York Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Sebastian Rothwyn.

The 23 personnel of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) support headquarters company are, apparently, deploying to Kuwait. Chief Warrant Officer 2 Daniel Ambia admitted that their pre-deployment training was conducted ‘virtually’ due to the pandemic-panic-attack, but was confident enough to say “…I think we’ll be okay. Everybody is pretty good at what they do.”

Biden’s War:

PENNSYLVANIA DEPLOYS TO NORTH AFRICA

U.S.

Biden’s War: Pennsylvania deploys to North Africa

Image June 22, 2021 Hutchins AAron

Pennsylvania Army National Guard photo by Joan Nissley.

On 15JUN2021, more than 2-hundred militia personnel of the 1st Squadron, 104th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat team, 28th Infantry Division, Pennsylvania Army National Guard, deployed to Texas (for deployment training on Fort Bliss), and then to northern Africa.

Pennsylvania ANG photo by Sergeant First Class Matthew Keeler.

On 14JUN2021, a deployment ceremony was held at Southampton Armory, Philadelphia. According to a U.S. Army report, the Pennsylvania Army National Guard will end up in Egypt (Which is physically in Africa, not The Middle East. The U.S. government has been listing any Arab speaking/Muslim country as being in The Middle East/Southwest Asia. The only part of Egypt that is in Southwest Asia is the Sinai Peninsula.).

Biden’s War: VERMONT DEPLOYS NEARLY 1-thousand, AFRICA, EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST!

Technology

California: MAFFS prep wildfire 2021

Video June 17, 2021 Hutchins AAron

California Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Michelle Ulber.

During the first week of May 2021, California and Nevada Air National Guard C-130H and C-130J crews took part in Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS) training on San Bernardino Air Tanker Base, California.