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The controversial VC-25B ‘Bridge’.

Video July 14, 2026 Hutchins AAron

Even though it was donated by oil rich Qatar, supposedly at least $400-million was spent on U.S. military upgrades for the venerable Boeing 747-8i. Despite the upgrades the presidential plane is considered a temporary vehicle, which is why it has been officially named Bridge. The latest controversy involves the Secret Service telling the President of the U.S. (PotUS) to stop using it because it lacks ‘security protections’ (defensive countermeasures).

First flight with PotUS onboard, 01JUL2026. Destination Medora, North Dakota, to attend the dedication of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library.

It has been reported that President Donald John Trump chose the red, white, gold and blue livery, however the initial blue and white livery renderings were issued with a statement saying that the “President of the United States selected the livery design.”

Was the livery for VC-25B supposed to be similar to the older VC-25? USAF rendering of the VC-25B, dated 10MAR2026.

Here is the timeline of decision making; this airliner was donated during Trump’s first term in office and it was then that the red, white, gold and blue livery was chosen. Then, Joseph Robinette Biden Junior became President and changed the livery to the old blue and white scheme. Trump is now President again, so naturally…

Upgrades and flight testing complete, the naked VC-25B takes-off to get a new red, white, gold and blue livery.

The ‘Bridge’ arrives in Waco, Texas, for its new paint job.

With the addition of the new VC-25-Bridge, to the growing fleet of ‘Air Force One’ aircraft (Presidential Airlift Group aka PAG aka 89th Airlift Wing), the old VC-25’s nomenclature was changed to VC-25A. ‘Air Force One’ is actually an air traffic control call-sign used to identify any aircraft carrying the PotUS.

Freshly painted Bridge on its new home of Joint Base Andrews, Maryland.

Check out those hyper expensive Secret Service limos, video via Technical Sergeant Isaac March, location Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, 01JUL2026:

Can you tell the difference between the VC-25B & VC-25A? The USAF’s VC-25B and VC-25A, assigned to the 89th Airlift Wing, take-off from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, during the Freedom 250 celebration 04JUL2026. Compilation of videos via First Lieutenant Alexis Kula, Technical Sergeant Sean Evans and TechSgt Isaac March:

Even Mount Rushmore couldn’t escape the Freedom 250 flyover!

Sometime after the Freedom 250 flyover the Secret Service determined that the VC-25B lacked ‘defensive countermeasures’ and insisted that the PotUS not use it for international flights. This resulted in a delay in retirement of the VC-25A, which Trump used on his NATO visit to Turkey.

VC-25B arrives on RAF (Royal Air Force) Mildenhall, but not with the President?

Fraud, Waste & Abuse: U.S. Navy, 1st quarter 2026.

U.S.

U.S. Army deals with high cost of food and low morale among Cooks.

Video February 17, 2026 Hutchins AAron

Recently the United States Army released videos which reveals the problem of a high rate of ‘burn-out’ among the Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) 92G (Culinary Specialist), and also revealed that the high cost of food is a problem for the Army.

I edited a video report via Sergeant First Class Rodney Roldan, which shows efforts to fire-up burnt out 92Gs:

“Our Soldiers are going to get fed by the same people that do the cooking and the feeding for the University of Alabama athletic department. These are the same experts that feed the Louisiana State University Tigers. We listened to our Soldiers, and we want to make this better for them. We have to.”–Lieutenant General Chris Mohan, Army Materiel Command Commanding General, leading push to shift to contracted ‘Campus Style’ food service

Fort Hood, Texas, 10FEB2026.

For February 2026, the U.S. Army unveiled a new cafeteria facility in an attempt to save money on the higher costs of food. Basically the U.S. Army is hoping that shifting to contracted food service (with the foreign United Kingdom based Compass Group, through their U.S. subsidiary Compass Group USA) will save tax dollars. The ‘Campus Style’ eateries will be open from 06:30 hours to 20:00 hours, seven days per week, and will have seven stations of food prepared using more than 3-thousand recipes.

Fort Hood, Texas, 10FEB2026.

I edited together video via Specialist Steven Day, recorded on 11FEB2026, unveiling a new 42 Bistro dining facility on Fort Hood, Texas:

The Army also claimed, in a round-a-bout way, that their in-house food service had become so bad that Soldiers were spending their own money eating at civilian operated food venues. For those of you who don’t know, part of the incentive to get people to enlist in the U.S. military is that their meals are paid for by the taxpayers. The Army is also considering allowing Compass Group to sell beer/wine to Soldiers: “We tell our soldiers, ‘hey, look, go carry a rifle, but on Friday night, you can’t have a beer in a restaurant’. I think that we have to take a step back and trust our soldiers.”-Lieutenant General Chris Mohan, Army Materiel Command Commanding General, leading push to shift to contracted ‘Campus Style’ food service

2026: NLOS, more proof the U.S. military is controlled by foreigners!

Vehicle I-D 2025: M88A2 HERCULES (another tool of the British empire?)

National Guard 2024: Older than the United States itself! Tools of the British empire?

U.S. Food Crisis 2023: W-O-T-U-S will take your water? E-P-A & U.S. Army join forces! Blame Idaho?

Georgia continues 20 years of non-stop National Guard Deployments! Is it about food?

Why is the U.S. military so intent on protecting bats, globally?

U.S. Food Crisis 2022: Food hand-outs now include Gun Locks? More proof you need to grow your own! U.S. Army preps for Soylent Green?

Ukraine Crisis 2022: NATO Poland’s new U.S. Army tank academy & more proof U.S. taxpayers are controlled by foreigners!

Technology, U.S.

Militarized Chevy Silverado Diesel Hybird!

Video January 31, 2026 Hutchins AAron

During wargame Ivy Sting-4 on Fort Carson, Colorado, 4th Infantry Division Soldiers employed the new General Motors (GM) ‘Infantry Squad Vehicle–Heavy’. Video via Specialist Jonathan Reyes, 30JAN2026:

According to GMDefense, the ISV-Heavy is based on the Chevy Silverado platform, making it larger than the ISV-Utility yet using the same 2.8 liter Duramax Diesel electric hybrid power train.

GM-Defense photo of the prototype ISV-Heavy.

GM claims the ISV-H can be configured to act as a two seat pickup, a six seat transporter or as a driverless cargo carrying robot. The truck can also be used as a electricity generator for external applications.

2023: Robot HEMTT update

2022: China turns to robots & drones to supply its military!

2019: The U.S. Army has been testing driverless supply trucks for the past several years!

International

Explosion takes out giant food factory in Iran! Evacuations ordered for Amol City!

Video January 5, 2026 Hutchins AAron

Just before sunset on 05JAN2026 (Iran time) the giant Kalleh Dairy operation blew up! Some sources report several explosions were heard. As I write this most of the factory is still on fire and evacuations for everybody within a one kilometer radius are taking place.

This Kalleh Dairy is located in Amol City, Amol County, Mazandaran province. Video via Fars News:

Speculators (which include some Iranian government officials) have suggested a construction/welding accident caused a fire which caused an explosion, or it was sabotage by protestors or even a military strike (it is part of the U.S./Israeli military policy to target such places as they are considered ‘dual use’ facilities).

This is not the first time a Kalleh Dairy operation was destroyed. In 2019 a dairy in Karbala, Iraq, was destroyed by fire and was determined to be sabotage.

2025: News from Iran.

International

It’s always been about oil, ever since Venezuela nationalized its oil industry in the 1970s.

Video January 5, 2026 Hutchins AAron

When the Spanish explorers set foot in a place now called Venezuela they noticed that the natives were using a tarry substance, it seemed to be everywhere. Today, it’s known as heavy crude oil.

By 1928, U.S. oil companies had surpassed the operations of European oil companies in Venezuela. Despite a lot of naysayers claiming that nobody wants to control Venezuela’s expensive to refine heavy crude oil, the oil refineries in the United States were developed specifically to handle that type of oil. The Second World War, followed by the sales boom of personal automobiles in the U.S., drove the U.S. even deeper into developing the world’s largest heavy crude oil reserves, in Venezuela.

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) oil map of Venezuela, dated May 1947 (note that this is several months before the official creation of the CIA).

C-SPAN has a promotional film about Creole Petroleum Corporation, showing the history of its development in Venezuela and what it argues are the many benefits to the oil-rich country, such as health care, education, and infrastructure: Click here to view People and Petroleum, the Story of Creole in Venezuela.

Oil & gas operations in Venezuela, as of 1954.

In 1950, Venezuela was the fourth most prosperous country in the world, with an average income of about $7-thousand-5-hundred with only Switzerland, New Zealand, and the U.S. doing better. Owned by Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) at the time, Creole dissolved when Venezuela nationalized its oil industry in the 1970s.

The United Kingdom’s Sky News explainer, posted on 11DEC2025, showing that the U.S. is after Venezuela’s heavy crude oil, then at the very end of report hints that Russia is next:

Invasion of Venezuela: Trump presser about Operation Absolute Resolve

2019: Without heavy Venezuelan oil the United States’ dominance in energy hangs on by a thread, explains the geo-economist Laurent Horvath.

2015: Venezuela suing United States through U.S. Supreme Court!

2013: Venezuela kicks out U.S. diplomats, accuses them of False Flag sabotage!

Venezuelan Army supports Maduro!

2012: United States has “…worst election processes in the world”! Venezuela has “best” system in the world! Former U.S. President says so!

Venezuela & Iran build drone.

U.S. accuses Venezuela of cyber war, Venezuela closes consulate in Florida.

2011: Venezuela to nationalize Gold industry, demands that their gold stored in European & U.S. banks be returned, creating gold backed money!

Venezuela quits Andean Community, wants to join MERCOSUR

Iran operates Dairy Farms and Flour Mills in Venezuela

2010: Venezuela & Iran Working to Create New, New World Order

Venezuela Building Nuclear Plant, says Yankee Empire Behind World Aggression

International

Germany brings back The Draft?

December 7, 2025 Hutchins AAron

NATO-Germany just passed a law that says if their military fails to recruit 80-thousand men per year then ‘needs-based conscription’ (the draft) will be implemented. It is known as a ‘dual track system’, meaning if you don’t voluntarily join you will be forced into the military. Apparently this new law is because NATO-Germany is having problems achieving the number of personnel required by its NATO membership. Interesting that in this western-woke country they did not include women in their new law.

International, Technology

World War Two Weapons still in use: M101 vs ZiS-3!

Video November 18, 2025 Hutchins AAron

Great Patriotic War/World War Two: 1941 to 1945.

U.S. World War Two era M101 105-millimeter (105mm) ‘howitzer’ (short gun tube [barrel] artillery) still in use by Philippines.

I edited together several videos via U.S. Marine Corps, recorded during the October 2019 KAMANDAG wargame. KAMANDAG is an acronym for the Filipino phrase Kaagapay Ng Mga Mandirigma Ng Dagat, which translates to Cooperation of Warriors of the Sea:

The United States’ military still uses the M101 for ceremonies.

New Jersey Army National Guard’s M101 howitzer during Memorial Day celebrations.

U.S. Marine Corps M101 during change of command ceremony on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

Both the U.S. M101 and Soviet ZiS-3 were used by various countries during the Cold War (approximately 1947 to 1991).

The ZiS-3 (76-мм дивизионная пушка обр. 1942 г. [ЗиС-3]) is considered to be a ‘divisional/regimental’ or ‘field’ gun for use by front line troops, due to its relatively small projectile and short range (compared to larger artillery).

Some ‘official’ sources say the ZiS-3 was in combat use by militaries around the world until 1990 (end of the Cold War). However, the above photo shows a Serb ZiS-3, supposedly used during the war in the former Yugoslavia, being inspected by U.S. Soldiers in Zvornik, Serbia, in 1996.

The ZiS-3 (aka M1942) was so good that the invading Germans captured them for their own use against the Soviets!

The WW2 (Great Patriotic War) era Soviet 76.2mm artillery gun is still being used by Serbia for ceremonial purposes. I edited this from several Serbian Armed Forces videos, recorded from the 14FEB2025 Serbian Statehood Day, and the 11NOV2024 Armistice Day (Veterans Day in the United States), ceremonies:

More artillery:

Utah joins Red Coats to pound Michigan!

2S1, from Cold War to Ukrainian Border Crisis!

2S3 Akatsiya (2C3 Акация), Cold War to Ukraine Border Crisis!

African Lion

Battle Tanks: T-34-85, FROM PATRIOTIC WAR (WW2) TO COLD WAR AND BEYOND?

International, U.S.

Utah joins Red Coats to pound Michigan!

Video November 10, 2025 Hutchins AAron

The word howitzer refers to a short tubed artillery piece, the M109 obviously does not qualify as a ‘howitzer’!

Definitely not a short ‘tubed’ gun.

Gunners of the 2nd Battalion-222nd Field Artillery Regiment, Utah Army National Guard, and with 214 (Worcestershire) Battery-104th Regiment Royal Artillery from United Kingdom, joined forces during wargame Northern Strike in Grayling, Michigan, during the month of August 2025.

I edited together videos via Sergeant Brayden Stephan and Staff Sergeant Daniel Garas:

Approximately 7-thousand-5-hundred military personnel participated in the multinational wargame.

May 2025: Red Coats invade Montana?

January 2023: U.S. Armor Division quietly in the hands of Red Coats?

February 2022: U.S. dollar controlled by the Red Coats?

June 2017: U.S. Army commanded by Red Coats?

Cold War & beyond: Royal Navy handed keys to U.S. Navy nukes!

International

News from Iran, 2025.

Video November 10, 2025 Hutchins AAron

Naderi Pomegranate harvest time in Badroud, Isfahan Province, early November 2025. The Naderi is considered to be among the top five most popular varieties of pomegranates in Iran. Video via Fars News, 08NOV2025:

If sanctions on Iran are so punishing why is Iran cracking down on people smuggling household products into Iran? On 30OCT2025, officials in Afghanistan agreed to work with Iran in reducing smuggling of commercial items into Iran. One of the first steps is that Afghan official say they will replace missing border markers and update existing border signs. This video report (released 09NOV2025) is ostensibly about ‘respecting the authority’ of the border police in Kerman Province. It is clear that this is about people who were arrested trying to smuggle products, everything from big-rig trucks, cars, computers, motorcycles, stereos, kitchen appliances to guns, into Iran:

Pardis is a city in Pardis County, Tehran Province, Iran. Pardis County is experiencing exponential growth, economic and population, and as a result healthcare services have been struggling to keep up. In September, a new helicopter landing pad was unveiled. It is being used to bring critical patients to the Pardis hospital. Officials admitted there have been delays but did not elaborate. The life-flight helicopter is based on the Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm/Kawasaki BK-117 developed during the Cold War. Modern versions are also known as Eurocopter EC145, and Airbus Helicopters H145. Video report via Fars News Agency, 16SEP2025:

New hi-tech passenger car for train on the Bandar Abbas to Mashhad and Tehran route. Each hi-tech car holds 40 people and the service runs once per week, for religious pilgrimages. Video published 16SEP2025:

Iranian wildlife caught on camera, eastern Hormozgan Province. Video via Morteza Aryanejad, posted 14SEP2025:

In February 2025, during wargame Zolfaqar 1403 (conducted along Iran’s Gulf of Oman/Indian Ocean Makran coastline), Iran’s new Russian designed Yakovlev 130 (Yak-130) successfully shot down a target drone with a heat seeking missile. I added music to this PressTV video:

Megalithic Shahr Yeri/Shahar Yeri, Ardabil, Iran, an 8-thousand year old Kurgan cemetery? The Farsi narration audio, in this Fars News Agency video report, is being overpowered by the music soundtrack: