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Vehicle I-D: The Spartan that refuses to die!

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U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Carolyn Herrick.

Two short lived C-27J Spartans sit mummified on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (AFB), Arizona, 02JUN2016.  Spartans were being interned at Davis-Monthan in 2013.

Video by Airman First Class Kelly Greenwell, Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMaRG) personnel mummifying an Ohio Air National Guard (ANG) C-27J with ‘spraylat’, 24OCT2013:

The Lockheed Martin-Leonardo Alenia Aermacchi (aka Leonardo Company) C-27J Spartan is a modernized version of the Aeritalia-Alenia Aeronautica G.222 (aka C-27A).  The ‘J’ denotes that it uses the same engines and similar avionics as the C-130J Super Hercules.  The concept for the C-27J was apparently suggested in 1997, the first flight of a C-27J was in September 1999.  In June 2007, the U.S. Army (USA) and U.S. Air Force (USAF) decided to try the C-27J for their ‘Joint Cargo Aircraft’ operations.   By 2009, the USA/Army National Guard Bureau decided they didn’t like the C-27J and gave their Spartans to the USAF/Air National Guard Bureau.  The USA said their Chinook, and other utility helicopters, were much more cost effective at tactical transport, than the C-27J.

Ohio Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Jeffery Allen.

Ohio ANG C-27J loads-up in Qalat, Afghanistan, 15AUG2011.

By 2012, the USAF decided they didn’t like their Spartans either, because of operational costs.  The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) then decided to sell the C-27J to other countries, but Leonardo Company stated it would not provide maintenance support for those second-hand DoD aircraft because it conflicted with its own efforts to sell new-build C-27Js to new customers.  In 2013, former USA/USAF C-27Js were being divided between U.S. Special Operations Command (AC-27J), U.S. Coast Guard (HC-27J), U.S. Forest Service (although the National Defense Acts of 2012 & 2013 approved the transfer of C-27Js to the USFS, apparently the USCG decided to swap some of its C-130s for the C-27Js meant for the USFS), and the ‘boneyard’ at Davis-Monthan AFB.  The decision to transfer or mothball C-27Js came the same year the DoD’s scandalously failed efforts to provide Afghanistan with former Italian air force (Aeronautica Militare) C-27As (G.222) were made public.  In 2014, the USAF’s official Air Force Magazine blamed the whole Spartan affair on Congress: “The case serves, however, as an object lesson in the wasteful effects of sequestration and, broadly, America’s inability to create a long-term defense spending plan.”

Despite the publicity over the mishandling of the U.S. Spartan program, and mothballing of ANG aircraft, the C-27J is very much alive, in use with the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOC).

U.S. Army video report about Operation Toy Drop, December 2015:

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant First Class Sean A. Foley.

Paratroopers jump from a perfectly good USSOC Spartan, over Fort Bragg in North Carolina, 26OCT2015.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Third Class Taylor Bacon.

USCG HC-27J delivering pandemic vaccines to San Diego, California, 09MAR2021.

The C-27J is also being used by at least a dozen countries.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Christopher Quail.

Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) C-27J leaves tiny Tinian, U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands, during Cope North wargame, 19FEB2014.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Dana J. Butler.

Lietuvos Karinės oro pajėgos (Lithuanian Air Force) C-27J on Šiauliai Air Base, Lithuania, 01APR2014. 

USAF photo by Senior Airman Damon Kasberg.

Bulgarian Air Force (Voennovazdushni sili, Военновъздушни сили)   C-27J Spartan during NATO’s Steadfast Javelin-2 wargame, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, 02SEP2014.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Joe W. McFadden.

Hellenic (Greek, Πολεμική Αεροπορία, Polemikí Aeroporía) War Aviation Spartan takes off from Souda Bay, Greece, 29JAN2015.

USAF photo by Senior Airman Nicole Sikorski.

Bulgar C-27J Spartan over Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 16JUL2015.

Ministerstvo obrany Slovenskej republiky video from October 2017:

Photo via Leonardo Company.

C-27J of the Fuerza Aérea del Perú.

RAAF video of dirt strip landing, May 2018:

USA photo by Sergeant First Class John Etheridge.

RAAF C-27J during Talisman Saber wargame, 17JUL2019.

USA photo by Private First Class Andrew Webbbuffington.

U.S. paratroopers jumping from a perfectly good Italian Aeronautica Militare C-27J, 25JUL2019.

USAF photo by Senior Airman Malcolm Mayfield.

Forțele Aeriene Române (Romanian Air Force) Spartan during Carpathian Summer wargame, 31JUL2019.

Mexican Army & Air forces (ejército y FAM) video of C-27J (as well as C-295) loading-up with aid for flooded cities in the state of Tabasco, November 2020:

November 2020 promotional video by Leonardo Company:

October 2020: HOW TO MUMMIFY YOUR KC-10, OR, LAST FLIGHT OF 86-0036

Vehicle I-D: HOW THE HIND RETURNED TO AFGHANISTAN, AND WHY IT WON’T DIE

Influenza

Operation CoViD-19: NATO supports Operation RESCRIPT

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NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) began prepping for CoViD-19 back in February.  Its Interallied Confederation of Medical Reserve Officers (CIOMR) held its Mid-Winter Congress in the third week of February, the subject was how to deal with an expected increase in medical problems involving refugees flooding into the Mediterranean Sea.

Also revealed; the massive medical wargames called Global Medic.  They’ve been held in the United States in Wisconsin and California, almost 3-thousand NATO personnel take part.  Amazingly the officers present at the February Mid-Winter Congress stated they felt like the then emerging CoViD-19 could be dealt with in Summer: “Civil and military organizations will both participate in the next CIOMR Summer Congress planned for August, which will be about responding to infectious diseases. This is where we can bring the collective expertise of CIOMR to bear, develop important cross-cultural dialogues, and improve our collective response to global emergencies like the ongoing CoViD-19 pandemic.“-Major Katie Odom, U.S. Army Reserve Medical Readiness Training Command’s 3rd Medical Training Brigade

Now compare the above quote with the official NATO announcement by Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on 19MAR2020:

NATO video, U.S. taxpayers (via U.S. Army) supply Lombardy, Italy,  with seven truck loads of medical supplies, 26MAR2020:

NATO video, Slovenian military set-up a CoViD-19 field hospital near Ljubljana:

NATO video of giant Ukrainian Antonov 124 transport delivering facemasks, surgical gloves, protective suits and other supplies to Bratislava, Slovakia, 25MAR2020:

NATO’s Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) deploy to London, United Kingdom, 30MAR2020, to support the U.K.’s Operation RESCRIPT with the already-established COVID Support Force in the London District.

NATO video (no audio), CoViD-19 decontamination efforts by Montenegro military, note they are wearing their biological warfare suits:

NATO video, Romanian C-130 arrives home from Germany with a load of CoViD-19 medical supplies, 23MAR2020:

NATO time lapse video of Romanian CoViD-19 field hospital being built:

NATO video, Romanian C-27J Spartan arrives home from Turkey loaded with medical supplies, 23MAR2020:

OPERATION CoViD-19: SAYING GOODBYE TO YOUR NEWBORN! BEGGING RETIREES TO RETURN TO MILITARY SERVICE!

NATO Red Flag training suddenly cancelled because of CoViD-19

International, U.S.

World War 3: U.S. occupation of Afghanistan; 29 December 2012 – 02 January 2013. Increased drone strikes proof the U.S. is losing the war? ANA attack Spanish troops! Cops kill wives! Pakistan attacks, again! Thousands of Afghan government troops used as human sacrifices for the United States! More proof it’s about the oil! More U.S. taxes wasted!

02 January 2013

A report says U.S. President Barack Obama authorized 450 drone (UAV) strikes in Afghanistan in 2012, double from the year before.  Afghans take it as proof the United States is losing the war: “Unfortunately, they think they can win this war by killing civilians. Actually, these attacks are revenges from the loss that the U.S. government has faced in Afghanistan.”-Mohammad Daoud Abedi, Afghan Nation Peace Council

In Herat Province, an Iranian man was found dead. Local police have given no details, other than he was a truck driver.  There has been an increase in the number of people being kidnapped in the province.

01 January 2013

In Herat Province, Karkh district, two Afghan National Army (ANA) officers attacked a Spanish/NATO military convoy. No one was hurt, and the ANA officers are missing.

In Kunduz Province, reports that two people were killed by U.S. led drone strike.

In Uruzgan Province, a local cop shot and killed his wife and teenaged son.  He is on the loose.  Local police officials say it was all over some kind of family argument.

Government officials in Sarkano district, Kunar Province, claim Pakistan fired 12 artillery rockets into their territory. One woman was killed, three children wounded.

According to icasualties.org, 309 U.S. personnel, 44 U.K. forces and 45 soldiers from other NATO/ISAF member countries were killed in 2012.  This is piddly when compared to how many puppet Afghan National Army troops died fighting for the United States: “We lost around one thousand and fifty of our hero soldiers in 2012….”-Zahir Azimi, Afghanistan Ministry of Defense

According to reports, more and more Afghan government officials are seeking asylum in the United States and United Kingdom/British Empire.  This year hundreds of Afghan  presidential palace employees, diplomats, reporters and journalists, athletes and students who’ve left Afghanistan have never returned.  Australia has been dealing with boat loads of refugees from Afghanistan.  The UN High Commission for Refugees said, this year, that Afghans make up the most people seeking asylum.  So much for the United States stabilizing Afghanistan in their War on Terror.

31 December 2012

2012 was a record year for Green on Blue attacks (Afghan government personnel attacking U.S. led NATO/ISAF personnel or contractors).  At least 46 U.S. led occupiers were killed in such attacks.  That’s 11 more than 2011.

In Samangan Province, a man serving time for killing three of his inlaws, killed his wife while she was visiting him in prison.  Prison officials believe the man was being motivated to commit the murders by his own mother. His mother had been telling him that his wife was having an affair.

In Daikundi Province, local government officials reporting a 50% increase in suicides among women.  The main reason is domestic violence.

Pakistan has released four more top Mujahideen leaders from prison. This comes at the request of the Afghan government. It’s part of demands by Mujahideen in order to continue with peace talks.

U.S. corporation, FMC Technologies, was just awarded the contract to build a oil/fuel refinery in the Amu Darya River basin, in the province of Jowzjan.  It is one of six oil fields in Afghanistan, discovered in 1930 by Swedish explorers.  The refinery is expected to put out 60,000 barrels of fuel everyday starting in Gregorian year 2015.  China is already a major player in Afghanistan’s budding oil industry.

30 December 2012

Near the Jalalabad airbase, in Nangarhar Province, a hidden bomb exploded.  The bomb was inside a fueler truck, in a convoy heading to the airbase. At least nine feulers were destroyed as they sat parked.  Jalalabad airbase is the second largest U.S. airbase in Afghanistan.

29 December 2012

ISAF said: “An International Security Assistance Force service member died following an improvised explosive device attack in southern Afghanistan.”

A Georgian/ISAF soldier who disappeared last week, was found dead.  No further info was issued.

The U.S. government has canceled the planed purchase of Italian made C-27 Spartan transport planes, for the Afghan air force.  Afghan government officials are happy: “Today we are very happy to hear the cancellation of the aircrafts purchase through the Italian corporation. The aircrafts are not usable by the Afghan Air Force anymore and we thank those who have taken this decision.”-Zahir Azimi, Afghanistan Ministry of Defense

U.S. taxpayers take note: Your government had already spent $600 million USD of your taxes on the C-27 for Afghanistan program!  Apparently the Afghan air force wants to continue to rely on their reliable Russian rotary wings and U.S. Cessna fixed wings.

Eight people, including four children, died due to being stuck in cold weather, after Pakistan closed the Torkham border gate.  Border police say thousands of people are stuck. Pakistan recently closed the border crossing in retaliation for Afghan border police harassing Pakistani citizens.

Iranian and Afghan education officials announced they will build a jointly run science/technology university in the near future.