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U.S.

U.S. Disaster: Lahaina Fire, Hawaii Militia deploys!

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On 11AUG2023, the U.S. Coast Guard District-14 (Hawaii-Pacific) released this silent video of the fire as it happened in the city of Lahaina, on Maui Island, Hawaii:

Also on 11AUG2023, the U.S. Army’s 94th Army & Air Missile Defense Command released this video (by Sergeant ZaBarr Jones) of the collection and staging of donations (food, water, clothes, baby formula, bedding and toiletries) from the residents of Honolulu, Hawaii:

In the background is what’s left of Lahaina. In the foreground is a nearly empty fresh water reservoir, the islands of Hawaii are dealing with a drought. Hawaii National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Andrew Jackson, 09AUG2023.

Hawaii National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant John Linzmeier, 10AUG2023.

On 10AUG2023, Hawaii Air National Guard’s 154th Wing helped deliver personnel and equipment of the Honolulu Fire Department to the island of Maui, using the Boeing C-17 Globemaster-3 cargo plane.

Hawaii National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant John Linzmeier, 10AUG2023.

C-17 video by Staff Sergeant John Linzmeier:

Hawaii National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Andrew Jackson, 10AUG2023.

Hawaii National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Andrew Jackson, 10AUG2023.

On 09AUG2023, the Hawaii Army National Guard deployed two Cold War era Boeing CH-47 Chinook rotary wings to fight the fires. 58 total bucket drops in five hours, totaling more than 100-thousand gallons, dropped on the fires!

Hawaii National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Andrew Jackson, 10AUG2023.

CH-47 video report by Master Sergeant Andrew Jackson and Master Sergeant Amber Monio:

On 09AUG2023, about 50 Hawaii Air & Army National Guard CERF-P (CBRNE Enhanced Response Force Packages) personnel were mobilized, and on 10AUG2023 joined with other emergency responders to conduct an initial ground recon/damage assessment of Lahaina on Maui Island, Hawaii. Video by Master Sergeant Andrew Jackson:

Hawaii’s National Guard is also assisting the local police. Hawaii National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Andrew Jackson, 09AUG2023.

U.S. Disaster, 2023: VERMONT MILITIA FLOOD RESPONSE

WYOMING’S 1ST EVER VIGILANT GUARD, CATASTROPHIC COLLAPSE, SOCIAL UPHEAVAL!

NATIONAL GUARD PREPS FOR ‘BIG ONE’ IN THE WABASH VALLEY, RIOTS & CBRN EVENTS EXPECTED!

MAFFS PREPPING FOR 2023 WILDFIRE SEASON!

Idaho, International

It’s not just wargames, Idaho’s Bold Tigers invade Japan?

Video

30 June 2023 (20:30-UTC-07 Tango 06) 09 Tir 1402/11 Dhu l-Hijja 1444/13 Wu-Wu(5th month) 4721/30 Июнь 2023 года

U.S. Air Force (USAF) F-15E Strike Eagles from the ‘Bold Tigers’ 391st Fighter Squadron(FS)/366th Fighter Wing(FW), based on Mountain Home Air Force Base (AFB), Idaho, arrived on U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, 29JUN2023. They will be taking part in wargame Northern Edge 2023-2 (NE23-2), which will take place during most of the month of July. USMC video by Corporal Evan Jones:

This isn’t the first time this year that the Bold Tigers were in Japan. Video by Airman First Class Jonathan R. Sifuentes, 391st FS Strike Eagles take off from Okinawa, for wargame Southern Beach, 16MAY2023:

It is not just the wargames, Idaho’s Strike Eagles have been called to duty in Japan as many of the F-15C/D Eagles (based on Kadena Air Base) are being sent back to the United States.  Idaho’s Strike Eagles join F-15Es from Seymour Johnson AFB in North Carolina, in maintaining an F-15 presence in the Indo-Pacific.

Over Kadena AB, Japan, 15MAY2023, photo by Staff Sergeant Jessi Roth.

The F-15C/Ds on Kadena are being retired to Air National Guard units in the U.S. Their first stop is Kingsley Field Air National Guard Base in Oregon.  The Oregon Air National Guard is itself retiring their F-15Cs (F-15 50TH ANNIVERSARY: LAST HURRAH FOR OREGON’S 173RD FW?).

Airmen load their gear onboard a C-5 Galaxy, for the trip from Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, to Kadena AB, Japan, 24APR2023.
USAF photo by Airman First Class Krista Reed Choate.

March 2023: NEW F-15EX/QA EAGLE FORCES QATAR TO INVADE IDAHO?

2022: F-15 EAGLE NOW 50 YEARS OLD

March 2021: SINGAPORE’S IDAHO BASED SKY PIRATES BOMB LAS VEGAS?

2020: IDAHO’S TIGERS & THUNDERBOLTS BLAST THE SKIES OVER FLORIDA!

January 2019: LOCATION OF MISSING IDAHO F-15E STRIKE EAGLES REVEALED?

2018: MOUNTAIN HOME AFB, F-15E WALK-AROUND

SINGAPORE’S INVASION OF IDAHO’S MOUNTAIN HOME AFB!

Technology

USAF accepts 1st production Red Hawk! Additional costs on the ground!

Video

Photo by James West, 15JUN2023.

On 28JUN2023, the first production T-7A Red Hawk trainer took off from Saint Louis, Missouri, after being accepted for service with the U.S. Air Force.

USAF video report by Giancarlo Casem:

Photo by Chase Kohler, 22JUN2023.

Taxi testing the first production T-7A, 13JUN2023. Video by James West, edited by me:

Photo by Chase Kohler, 22JUN2023.

Air Force Times, December 2022: T-7A design problems delay production, until 2024?

USAF graphic by Greg Hand, 11JUL2022.

In July 2022, it was revealed that an additional $562-million would be needed to upgrade existing infrastructure to support the “beddown” of the T-7A!  The estimated cost for building T-7A infrastructure just at Joint Base San Antonio/Randolph Air Force Base, in Texas, is estimated at $72-million!

T-7A ejection seat test, Holloman AFB, New Mexico, June 2021.

Vehicle I-D, 2021: T-7A RED HAWK REPLACES T-38 TALON, ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF FOREIGNERS CONTROLLING U.S. TAXPAYERS

Kit Bashing, Technology

How to sling load your 1:1 scale F-80 Gate Guard with a CH-47.

Video

Iowa Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 11APR2023.

On 11APR2023, the Iowa Army National Guard was called in to move an Iowa Air National Guard ‘gate guard’, using their Viet Nam era CH-47 Chinook.

Iowa Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 11APR2023.

The Korean ‘UN police action’ era F-80 Shooting Star had just gotten some new clothes, in order to proudly continue its guard duties on Camp Dodge.

Iowa Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 11APR2023.

Iowa Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 11APR2023.

Iowa Air National Guard video by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 11APR2023:

The painting process began on 15SEP2022, when the F-80 was sling loaded to the paint shop in Sioux City.

Iowa Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 15SEP2022.

Iowa Air National Guard video by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 15SEP2022:

It wasn’t the first time the Iowa Air Guard F-80 got new clothes.

Iowa Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, April 2011.

In April 2011, the Shooting Star was stripped naked and fitted for the uniform of the 174th Fighter Bomber Squadron, for its new job as a gate guard on Camp Dodge.

Iowa Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, April 2011.

Iowa Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 2011.

Cold War Vehicle I-D:

IOWA CHANGING OF THE GUARD; F-100  Iowa’s RF-84F THUNDERFLASH & YRF-84F, AN APPEAL TO MONOGRAM!

WYOMING SHOOTING STAR

U.S.

Ultimate Caduceus: “Surge the System”, FEMA Region 10 Mass-Med-evacuation!

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26 March 2023 (16:05-UTC-07 Tango 06) 06 Farvardin 1402/04 Ramadan 1444/05 Yi-Mao(2nd month) 4721/26 марта 2023 года

McChord Field, Washington, 15MAR2023. Photo by John Wayne Liston.

From March 13th through 17th, 2023, FEMA Region 10 underwent a mass aero-medical evacuation, affecting the states of Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington!

The U.S. Transportation Command (TransCom) coordinated the medevac.  More than 4-hundred military (Regular [Active Duty], Reserve and National Guard) and civilian personnel from across the U.S. were involved, including personnel from the the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Defense Health Agency.

McChord Field, Washington, 15MAR2023. Photo by John Wayne Liston.

Most of the medevac took place on McChord Field in Washington, but also included Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska; Gowen Field (Boise Airport), Idaho; and Portland Air National Guard Base (Portland Airport), Oregon.

Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, 13MAR2023. USAF photo by Airman First Class J. Michael Peña.

Fortunately it was all a massive training event: “It allows in a controlled environment to surge the system, identify what needs to be improved, then to act on those areas to train to the highest standards.”-Major Donna Olson, 446th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron

“You want to make the training as realistic as possible with some stressors you would find out in the real world. Making sure the players aren’t completely stressed out, but proper learning is done.”– Master Sergeant Robert McNeal, North Carolina Air National Guard

“It’s important to do exercises like this to give people a sense of what happens in real world situations. The more you do it the less you have to think about it when it actually happens.”-Technical Sergeant Shannon Glover, 446th Operations Support Squadron

U.S. Air Force video report by Airman First Class Quatasia Carter, 13MAR2023:

A Boeing C-17 Globmaster-3, on McChord Field in Washington, was used to move the victims, video by Staff Sergeant Chris Sommers, 14-15MAR2023:

Some of the victims were delivered via UH-60 Black Hawk rotary wings, with the help of Portland Fire, video by Staff Sergeant Chris Sommers, 17MAR2023:

Some victims were transferred from the C-17 to awaiting Black Hawks, video by Staff Sergeant Chris Sommers, 15MAR2023:

CH-47 Chinooks also brought in victims, video by Staff Sergeant Chris Sommers, 17MAR2023:

Some CH-47s delivered directly to the waiting C-17, video by Staff Sergeant Chris Sommers, 14MAR2023:

Washington Army National Guard video, by Peter Chang, 17MAR2023:

Exercise Ultimate Caduceus has been conducted since at least 2011, but it is not always in FEMA’s Region 10.  Ultimate Caduceus 2011 took place in FEMA Region 4, and the scenario was disaster response to a massive New Madrid earthquake.

FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) Region 10:  Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington.

U.S. Disaster, 2022: UTAH’S NEW FEMA REGION 8 URBAN DISASTER TRAINING SITE

CASCADIA RISING, FEMA PREPARATIONS, CANADA ONBOARD!

Pandemic Perfidy, 2021: MILITARY MEDICAL TEAMS DEPLOY TO FEMA REGIONS 4, 6, 8 & 10!

Idaho, International, U.S.

WW3 Shenanigans: New F-15 Eagle forces Qatar to invade Idaho?

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25 March 2023 (12:05-UTC-07 Tango 06) 05 Farvardin 1402/03 Ramadan 1444/04 Yi-Mao(2nd month) 4721/25 марта 2023 года

“The F-15QA aircraft is the most advanced version of the fighter ever built. It brings to its operators next-generation technologies such as fly-by-wire flight controls, digital cockpit, modernized sensors, radar, and electronic warfare capabilities, and the world’s fastest mission computer. Increases in reliability, sustainability and maintainability allow defense operators to affordably remain ahead of current and evolving threats. The F-15QA’s advances will enable it to bolster the U.S. and allied coalition’s ability to project lethal force and protect allied forces and locations.”-Boeing

Essentially, the F-15QA is a Qatari version of the new F-15EX.

Top-brass of Qatar Emiri Air Force meet top-brass of Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, 14MAR2023. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Krista Reed Choate.

On 14MAR2023, the military leaders of the Qatar Emiri Air Force paid a visit to Mountain Home Air Force Base (AFB), in Southern Idaho.  The purpose of the visit was to scout-out a new U.S. based home for a Qatari Air Force unit!

A Qatar Emiri Air Force Major General meets silly-vilian (civilian) officials on Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, 14MAR2023. USAF photo by Airman First Class Krista Reed Choate.

Establishing a Qatari military unit on a U.S. Air Force (USAF) base inside the United States is known as the Qatar Emiri Air Force Bed-down Proposal.

A Qatar Emiri Air Force F-15QA/Falcon-5 flies in formation with a USAF B-52H Stratofortress in the ‘Central Command Area of Responsibility’, 12MAR2023. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Zachary Wright.

This is connected to Qatar’s recent purchase of the new Boeing F-15QA.  The F-15QA is a new Eagle built specifically for Qatar.  In 2017, Qatar ordered 36 F-15QAs.  It is also known as the Falcon-5.

The USAF issued an environmental report claiming that the additional F-15s (Singapore operates F-15SGs from Mountain Home) will have “no significant impact” on the local ecology.  However, a final decision on where to ‘beddown’ the new Qatari F-15QA/Falcon-5 unit has not been made.

Roll-out of F-15QA/Falcon-5. USAF photo by Master Sergeant Nancy Falcon, 25AUG2021.

In 2021, Qatar began receiving some of its new F-15QA/Falcon-5 aircraft.

USAF photo by Master Sergeant Nancy Falcon, 25AUG2021.

Air Force Times, May 2021: F-15QA bound for Qatar declares emergency, USAF pilot ejects.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, August 2020: Contract awarded for Falcon 5/F-15 Beddown, State of Qatar. The air base facilities contract award amount was $524-million-416-thousand-9-hundred. This is apparently for the F-15QAs that are being based inside Qatar. The contract was through the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program, which is subsidized by U.S. taxpayers.

F-15 Eagle 50th Anniversary, 2022: EAGLES HIT 10-THOUSAND HOURS, WAY PAST THEIR ‘PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE’!

Vehicle I-D, 2021: F-15EX HAS ARRIVED! COMMANDER SAYS “IT’S AN EX-CITING DAY!”

World War Three Shenanigans:

United Arab Emirates INVADES LOUISIANA?

NATO-Germany INVADES IDAHO?

International, Technology

Battle for Ukraine: A-W-A-C-S deploy to Ukraine!

Video

03 February 2023 (11:37-UTC-07 Tango 06) 14 Bahman 1401/12 Rajab 1444/13 Jia-Yin 4721/03 февраля 2023 года

Photo via NATO, 17JAN2023.

On 17JAN2023, NATO deployed deployed three Boeing E-3A Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft to NATO-Romania, which borders Ukraine.  Up until now, the NATO AWACs had been operating out of Geilenkirchen, in NATO-Germany.

NATO video showing AWACS deploying from Germany to Bucharest, Romania, 17JAN2023:

Photo via NATO, 17JAN2023.

NATO interview with AWACS tactical officer, Belgian Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Denis:

Photo via NATO, 17JAN2023.

NATO also revealed, without giving details, that it has created new multinational battlegroups for its ‘Enhanced Forward Presence’ in countries that border Russia!

Battle for Ukraine: 60+ BRADLEYS DEPLOY!

TaCaMO: E-6B MERCURY, launching nuclear ICBMs from the air

Kit Bashing, Technology

F-15 50th Anniversary: The A-Sat, with some visual tips for the kit builder

Video

ASat=Anti Satellite

Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV) ASM (Anti Satellite Missile)-135A: Two solid-rocket stages (first stage made by Boeing), third rocket stage with telescopic heat seeker known as the Miniature Homing Vehicle, speed of 15-thousand miles per hour.

McDonnell-Douglas F-15A Eagle: F-15 EAGLE NOW 50 YEARS OLD, a quick visual history

Boeing promotional photo dated August 1982. Note, the F-15A in the background is not the F-15A used in the ‘Capture Carry’ part of the ASat testing program.

First ‘capture carry’ flights of F-15A Eagle #76-0086 armed with ASat were in December 1982.

F-15A Eagle armed with the ASM-135A, 21DEC1982. U.S. Air Force photo by H.L. Wilson.

Over Edwards Air Force Base, California, 21DEC1982. U.S. Air Force photo by Al Chang.

Over Edwards AFB, California. Boeing photo released in January 1983.

Model kit builders take note, the ‘fin flash’ on 76-0086 is changed sometime between 1983 and 1985.

ASat equipped Eagle over Vandenberg AFB, California, 03APR1985.
USAF photo by Paul E. Reynolds.

The actual launch of the ASM-135A was done in September 1985, by F-15A #76-0084 first seen in the photo from August 1982.  Model kit builders note that back in August 1982, 76-0084 did not have the fin flash. 

F-15 launches an ASat, somewhere off California’s Pacific Coast. USAF photo by Paul E. Reynolds, 13SEP1985.

In September 1985, a Solwind P78-1 satellite was destroyed by the ASM-135A ASat, launched by F-15A Eagle 76-0084.

Major Wilbert ‘Doug’ Pearson successfully launched the ASM-135A. USAF photo by Paul E. Reynolds, 13SEP1985.

The successful ASat program was canceled in 1988, due to U.S. public concern over the possibility of war in space.  However, that concern seems to have disappeared as the U.S. now has a dedicate military Space Force, co-chaired by the British empire.

Father gives his son some pointers about flying ‘his’ Celestial Eagle. USAF photo by Senior Airman Erik Hofmeyer, 13SEP2007.

In September 2007, an anniversary flight of 76-0084 was arranged, with Major General (retired) Doug Pearson’s son, Captain Todd Pearson (and for those of use in Idaho, this is the Idaho connection), at the controls.  It was then that 76-0084 was dubbed ‘Celestial Eagle’.  Model builders note that it was not named Celestial Eagle at the time of the launch.

USAF photo by Senior Airman Erik Hofmeyer, 13SEP2007.

08MAR2015, USAF Space Systems Command releases this video about the only launch of ASM-135A:

Computer generated scenario of resulting debris field created by an ASat strike.  As you will see by the date code on the video, it was made in 2014, yet the U.S. Air Force didn’t publicly release the video until November 2021:

F-15 50th Anniversary: LAST HURRAH FOR OREGON’S 173RD FW?

SANDMAN’S SWAN SONG?

EAGLE GETS CANNIBALIZED, LEFTOVERS SENT TO THE BONEYARD, NO MORE OREGON EAGLES?

DESERT STORM FIRST BLOOD FOR USAF F-15s, THE NEVER ENDING TAR BABY CALLED IRAQ!

F-15A POLE DANCER, OR WHATEVER HAPPENED TO 72-0113?

Terminator, October 2022: SPACE FORCE JOINS N-A-S-C-A-R!

Idaho, International, Technology, U.S.

Idaho invaded by Apaches from Arizona & Singapore?

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“The Peace Vanguard detachment has trained all over the United States and Idaho has one of the best training sites in the country.”-Master Sergeant Joel Mann, Arizona Army National Guard

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 26AUG2022.

From July 21st through August 29th, of 2022, Southwestern Idaho was invaded by AH-64D ‘Longbow’ Apaches from the state of Arizona and the tiny British empire member (Commonwealth of Nations) of Republic of Singapore.

Personnel with the Arizona Army National Guard and Singapore Air Force’s Peace Vanguard load rounds into the AH-64’s 30mm Chain Gun, on Idaho National Guard’s Orchard Combat Training Center. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 26AUG2022.

The Republic of Singapore Air Force has a unit based in Arizona called Peace Vanguard.  They are there to learn how to operate the Longbow from the Arizona Army National Guard.  Part of that training brings them to Idaho’s Orchard Combat Training Center (OCTC) for gunnery.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 26AUG2022.

Idaho is home of a new kind of gunnery range called DAGIR (Digital Air Ground Integrated Range), one of only three in the U.S., which was opened for testing in March 2021, and officially certified for use by AH-64s in March of 2022.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 26AUG2022.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 26AUG2022.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 26AUG2022.

2021: SINGAPORE APACHES TEST IDAHO’S NEW D-A-G-I-R SYSTEM

IDAHO HOME TO FIRST EVER NATIONAL GUARD D-A-G-I-R!

SINGAPORE’S IDAHO BASED SKY PIRATES BOMB LAS VEGAS?

2022: IDAHO NOW PREMIERE SITE FOR WAR-FIGHTER TRAINING! NATIONAL GUARD THE NEW QUICK REACTION FORCE!

Commonwealth of Nations covert invasion of United States: 

WHY IS A P-M OF A BRITISH EMPIRE MEMBER NATION INSPECTING A U.S. MILITARY BASE IN COLORADO?

‘ILLEGAL’ TRUCKS BEING SMUGGLED INTO U.S. FROM CANADA, THRU IDAHO?

“Samuel, notify your men; the British are coming.”-General Oliver Prescott, 19APR1775

Technology, U.S.

F-15 50th Anniversary: Last Hurrah for Oregon’s 173rd FW?

Video

Oregon Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Jennifer Shirar.

Oregon Air National Guard’s 173rd Fighter Wing (FW) trained with U.S. Marines, on Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, in California.  But this year might be the last time.

Oregon Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Jennifer Shirar, 14AUG2022.

In August 2022, Oregon’s F-15C Eagles (along with 125th FW F-15s out of Florida) played ‘bad guy’ against  USMC F/A-18C/D Hornets from Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 101 (VMFAT-101), and the F-35B Lightning-2 from Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 502 (VMFAT-502).

Oregon Air National Guard video report by Staff Sergeant Emily Copeland:

Oregon Air National Guard video interview by Senior Master Sergeant Jennifer Shirar, 23AUG2022:

Recently, it was revealed that the 173rd has been ordered to get rid of its F-15C Eagles.  That means this year’s deployment to Miramar might be the last, at least with their F-15C Eagles.

Oregon Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Jennifer Shirar, 14AUG2022.

For almost 40 years the 173rd FW’s Kingsley Field served as the only F-15C training base for the U.S. Air Force!  But starting in 2024, the 173rd will be using the brand new F-15EX Eagle-2.

Oregon Air National Guard music video, by Senior Master Sergeant Jennifer Shirar, point of view of an F-15C Crew Chief:

F-15 50th Anniversary: SANDMAN’S SWAN SONG?