Tag Archives: employment

Business/Economics, Influenza, International

CoViD-19 Shenanigans

Video October 3, 2020 Hutchins AAron

03 October 2020 / 03:48 (UTC-07 Tango 06)/ 12 Mehr 1399/15 Safar 1442/17 Bing-Xu 4718

Incomplete list of links to news reports from around the world:

United Nations World Health Organization now admits that harsh pandemic lockdowns cause more harm than the pandemic and “must be avoided at all costs.”

Countries without CoViD infections are still being killed-off by CoViD restrictions in pandemic countries:

CHINA: Hong Kong’s massive USD$68.4-million mass testing during its Third Wave now considered a waste of time and money!

GERMANY: Neanderthal gene increases risk of severe coronavirus illness

FINLAND:

INDIA: Experimental vaccine maker is somehow already producing millions of doses

Scientific contact tracing study discovers that children are the CoViD-19 super-spreaders! CoViD-19 restrictions force migrant workers to flee Coronavirus Shatters India’s Economy

City of Mumbai discovers possible second CoViD-19 antibody

JAPAN: Fourth suicide by a Japanese star during COVID-19 highlights country’s crisis

Suicides among young women increasing sharply, government response to coronavirus blamed

Coronavirus government subsidy fraud on the rise

Retail store sales continue to crash and burn due to CoViD restrictions

National Center for Global Health and Medicine confirms that pre-existing medical problems are the main reason people are dying after getting infected with CoViD-19

PAKISTAN: Begins Phase-3 Trial of Chinese COVID-19 Vaccine

Is Covid-19 ‘herd immunity’ really working in Pakistan? Schizophrenic government response as on one hand all education facilities are re-opened, yet on the other hand restaurants are being forced to shutdown RUSSIA: ‘Mushrooms Have Kidnapped You’; Pandemic Obsession With Forest Fungi Recovery of tourism industry will take at least two years once the pandemic is finished SWEDEN:

UNITED KINGDOM: Study says loss of smell is best indicator that you are infected UNTIED STATES: 50 Most Popular U.S. Restaurants That Won’t Reopen After the Pandemic

Idaho; After 18 years the Golden Corral restaurant in Pocatello gave up the ghost, blaming CoVid-19, adding another nail in the slow-death-economic-coffin for Pocatello.

Photo by AAron Hutchins, October 2020.

CoViD-19 fearmongering restrictions kill-off more restaurants in Eastern Idaho (some of those fearmongering restrictions are the fault of the restaurant owners themselves, one Asian style buffet in Pocatello is now open only four days per week and requires you to wear a mask, except when you are actually shoveling food into your mouth, and if you don’t have a mask they force you to buy one of theirs)

Pub owner in Western Idaho tries to be responsible in the age of CoViD, resulting in the permanent shutdown of the popular Irish gathering spot after 18 years “of fun” Coronavirus Cases Rise In What Is Called Idaho’s Third Spike (Wave) State officials already developing CoViD vaccine distribution operation Even god can’t stop the mormon owned BYU-Idaho from possible shutdown due to an invisible virus Arrests made at church’s ‘psalm sing’ in Moscow, Idaho, over coronavirus violations Man shutdown Idaho high school football game by refusing to wear a mask, yet in the photo you can see that even the responding cops, as well as other people, refused to wear masks! Leftist group warns of new anti-pandemic lockdown organization based in Idaho Washington DC; President Trump gets experimental antibody cocktail to treat COVID-19 President Trump is correct about suicides versus CoViD-19: “Every 1% hike in the unemployment rate will likely produce a 3.3% increase in drug overdose deaths and a 0.99% increase in suicides according to data provided by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the medical journal Lancet. These are facts based on experience, not models. If unemployment hits 32%, some 77,000 Americans are likely to die from suicide and drug overdoses as a result of layoffs. Scientists call these fatalities ‘deaths of despair’.“–Betsy McCaughey VENEZUELA: Thanks Russia for 2-thousand experimental CoViD-19 vaccines

CoViD-19, April 2020: ‘EXPERTS’ ADMITTING TO WHAT I ALREADY WARNED ABOUT, MASKS CAN’T PROTECT YOU! March 2020: CoViD-19 fearmongering shuts down WINCO’s 24 hours grocery operations in Pocatello, Idaho

Business/Economics, Influenza, Technology

CoViD-19 = economic & social Deaths of Despair!

Video September 18, 2020 Hutchins AAron

18 September 2020 / 07:46 (UTC-07 Tango 06)/ 28 Shahrivar 1399/30 Muharram 1442/02 Yi-You(8th month) 4718

“You’re going to lose more people by putting a country into a massive recession or depression. You’re going to lose people. You’re going to have suicides by the thousands.”-President Donald Trump, 24MAR2020, regarding a possible national lockdown

Below is an incomplete list of links to some of the many real news media reports about the suicidal impact of coronavirus 2019 lockdowns.

“Every 1% hike in the unemployment rate will likely produce a 3.3% increase in drug overdose deaths and a 0.99% increase in suicides according to data provided by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the medical journal Lancet. These are facts based on experience, not models. If unemployment hits 32%, some 77,000 Americans are likely to die from suicide and drug overdoses as a result of layoffs. Scientists call these fatalities ‘deaths of despair’.“-Betsy McCaughey

New York Times-A tsunami of job cuts is about to hit Europe.

CANADA: Suicide rates expected to rise as COVID-19 grinds on

CHINA: Children in China Experienced an Increase in Depression and Suicidal Attempts During COVID School Closures

INDIA: Covid-19 patient commits suicide

KOREA: Suicide rates among young Korean women on the rise

German news media reports that South Korea’s suicide/self-harm rate is up due to CoViD-19

THAILAND: 22% increase in suicide blamed on CoViD-19

UNITED KINGDOM: Male suicide rate hits two-decade high in England and Wales.

Estimated 12-thousand-500 bar workers in Scotland to become jobless due to CoViD-19 fearmongering by news media and government!

UNITED STATES: More young people are dying by suicide, and experts aren’t sure why.

Psych Congress 2020 Virtual Experience conference focused on the effects of CoViD-19 on mental health.

U.S. CDC says increase in young adults considering suicide caused by CoViD-19 fear-mongering.

American Medical Association says CoViD-19 is adding to stress related suicides of doctors.

Canadian news media reports U.S. veterinarians are killing themselves at higher rates, and it’s blamed on CoViD-19!

Hi-tech start-ups killed off by CoViD-19 fearmongering.

Alabama: WMTV reports “The increase in calls for attempted suicides in Mobile coincides with coronavirus closures.”

Arizona: Governor admits CoViD-19 lockdown measures threaten to push up teenage suicide rate

Arizona Army National Guard works to assemble and distribute PPE, 02SEP2020.

Thousands of Phoenix Airport workers could be laid off this fall.

California: New bill could create The Golden State’s first Office of Suicide Prevention, and its first target will be Native Americans

Golden Gate Bridge District sends 185 workers notices of possible layoffs, blaming it on lack of federal taxpayer CoViD-19 ‘relief’ funding!

Paradigm Talent Agency‘s temporary Pandemic Layoffs are now Permanent

Colorado: 40% decrease in suicides, yet 48% increase in suicide hotline calls, during CoViD-19 lockdowns

Denver Regional Transportation District revises budget projections downward (again) due to crashing revenues, could eliminate 500 jobs! Fails to mention CoViD-19 lockdowns which prevent people from getting out-and-about and using public transportation.

Florida: A major financial company eliminating more than 500 jobs, and blames it on CoViD-19!

SeaWorld confirms nearly 1,900 layoffs!

Georgia: Atlanta Braves have layoffs ahead of playoffs

Hawaii: Hawaiian Airlines expands CoViD-19 layoffs to 2-thousand-501 jobs!

National Guard conduct ‘surge’ testing in the Tetsuo Harano Tunnel, 03SEP2020.

U.S. Army video revealing that even army training is being severely impacted by CoViD-19 fearmongering on Wheeler Army Base:

Idaho: Despite boasting that year on year suicide rate is down, The Gem State still has the highest self-kill rate in the U.S., but now they blame CoViD-19.

Also, and despite boasting that year on year suicide rate being down, self-kill rate for youths using guns is actually up.

Illinois: Concerns rise over teen suicide rate during pandemic

Indiana: Layoffs coming to LaPorte’s Howmet Aerospace

Iowa: Des Moines based publishing/news media empire Meredith Corporation eliminating at least 180 jobs due to crashing advertising revenues caused by CoViD-19 fearmongering by (ironically) the news media and state governments!

Kansas: Another round of layoffs at Spirit Aerosystems

Kentucky: Operations and Planning officer Joel Tiotuico claims that he worked on a 2007 flu pandemic war game/table-top scenario, at Fort Knox, which is eerily similar to what is happening with CoViD-19. The original article about the 2007 flu pandemic wargame was published in the now defunct Turret newspaper.

Massachusetts: Waltham based Raytheon Technologies eliminating 15-thousand jobs due to the crashing airline industry, which in turn is blamed on the CoViD-19 fearmongering by governments and news media worldwide!

Citing COVID-19 economic impact, Red Sox announce more layoffs.

Michigan:

Michigan National Guard’s now permanent COVID-19 Joint Task Force continues to distribute food to the public, 03SEP2020.

Minnesota: Hotel to eliminate 126 jobs due to CoViD-19 lockdowns restricting travel

Nevada: Several Las Vegas companies report layoffs

New Jersey: State administrators claims suicides went down, yet also report skyrocketing ‘helpline’ calls

10-thousand More Layoffs statewide as Coronavirus Economic Impact Continues.

New Mexico: Farmington reports spike in suicides

New York: More proof hospitals are not full of CoViD-19 patients; Buffalo based Delaware North eliminates 517 food service jobs at its hospital operations, on top of the 100 jobs eliminated two months ago, ostensibly due to CoViD-19!

The City of New York says it could still eliminate 22-thousand jobs due to crashing tax/fee revenues caused by the city’s own CoViD-19 lockdown!

NYC based debt financier Citi to continue with CoViD-19 layoffs

Adelphi University eliminating 62 jobs and blaming CoViD-19.

The Schenectady school board approved dozens of additional CoViD-19 layoffs.

JCC of Rochester laying off 296 employees due to effects of fitness center restriction.

North Carolina: Duke University study says s uicide rates might increase as result of financial strain from COVID-19

North Dakota: Microsoft confirmed to local news media that layoffs will impact its Fargo campus, but refused to give any details.

Pennsylvania: COVID-19 school closings linked to increase in depression

Texas: Texas psychologists worry the suicide rate will rise

Round Rock based tech giant Dell plans to layoff an unspecified number of employees this week, blaming declining sales on the ongoing Covid-19 crisis.

Washington: Puget Sound suicide hotline reports 65% spike in calls for help during pandemic

West Virginia: Video update on state National Guard CoViD-19 response, as of 09SEP2020;

Wisconsin: Suicide Rate In Wisconsin Increased 40 Percent

More economic decline for Eastern Idaho: COVID-19 SHUTDOWN 24HRS WINCO?

Sears-Kmart death spiral, June 2019: “WE ARE THROWING IN THE TOWEL”

U.S. economic collapse, December 2018: “WE WERE HIT SO HARD…WE CAN’T RECOVER”

Technology, U.S.

National Guard teaching a baby three horned dinosaur to fly?

Video September 13, 2020 Hutchins AAron

13 September 2020 / 04:18 (UTC-07 Tango 06)/ 23 Shahrivar 1399/25 Muharram 1442/26 Yi-You 4718

National Guard photos by Second Lieutenant Anna Doo and Sergeant John Montoya. Videos by Second Lieutenant Anna Doo and Sergeant Zechariah Freeman. Dig photos via New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.

New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Image

In October 2015, the New Mexico Army National Guard was called-up for a mission unlike any other; sling-load a 65-million years old baby Pentaceratops out of the desert: “This ranks very high in the importance of Pentaceratops discoveries because it is the first baby skeleton, including the skull, ever recovered, and one of less than 10 adult Pentaceratops skulls unearthed.”-Spencer Lucas, Chief Curator of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science

The baby three horned dinosaur was actually discovered back in 2011, in the Bisti/De-na-zin Wilderness Area south of Farmington. In 2013, an adult was found in the Ah-shi-sle-pah Wilderness Study Area, 10 miles (16 kilometers) away. The paleontologists had a problem; no wheeled vehicles are allowed in those federally controlled areas, and once encased in protective plaster, the two dinosaur skeletons could weight as much as one U.S. ton.

In 2014, administrators with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, New Mexico National Guard, New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, agreed to airlift the bones using UH-60 Blackhawks from New Mexico National Guard’s Company C, 1st Battalion, 171st Aviation.

It took four hours to position just the encased baby skeleton for sling-load by the Blackhawk: “The process, since it was an unconventional load, took some different planning. We had the right personnel here and were able to brainstorm together. There was never really a set way that we had. We knew once we got in there we’d take a look at everything and figure out the best option. My favorite part was getting the jackets onto the sling loads. That was something we hadn’t had experience with and we knew it was going to be a difficult process. That was our biggest hurdle. Once we got past that we knew we had the capability to do everything else that we needed to.”-Staff Sergeant Jonathon Velarde, 1st Battalion-200th Infantry, National Guard site leader at the Bisti location

But when the day came for the airlift, it was discovered that the plaster surrounding the baby and adult Pentaceratops skeletons were water damaged from recent rain storms and could not be airlifted, only the skulls could be sling-loaded. However, it was soon discovered that the plaster jacketed skulls were much heavier than estimated. The Blackhawk crew trying to lift the adult skull reported it weighed 5-thousand-5-hundred pounds (2494.8 kilograms) and the UH-60 was not able to safely lift it. The jacketed baby skull weighed 4-thousand-5-hundred pounds (2041 kilograms), more than twice the estimate.

To make the lift the Blackhawk helicopters flew around burning off expensive fuel to lighten themselves. Keep in mind that the National Guard personnel on the ground, heaving the heavy skulls into positions, even pushing one uphill, were unaware that they were dealing with weights that were more than twice what they were expecting.

Video, baby skull flip:

Apparently it took two days (28-29OCT2015) of struggling to position the two skulls for sling-load.

Video, adult skull flip:

Video interview, Staff Sergeant Jonathon Velarde explains the proper positioning of the sling-load net:

Video, skull lift:

Video, incoming skull:

The skulls were flown out of the ground vehicle restricted areas to a location where a M984 HEMTT (Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck) was waiting to take them to the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science: “The mission went really well and it was good training for the traditional Soldiers. The mission was accomplished and everyone was safe. We were able to really show the capabilities of the National Guard as far as our air assets, the Infantry piece as far as them having to go out there and rig it, and our transportation assets as far as being able to move it, as well as working with the civilians and the general public.”-First Lieutenant Jerome Bustamante, 116th Transportation Company, New Mexico National Guard

HEMTT dino-load video:

The skulls are part of dinosaur displays at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, unfortunately the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs used the CoViD-19 fear-mongering to shutdown all taxpayer funded museums in New Mexico, until further notice.

Just before the CoViD-19 BS started: BLACK HELICOPTERS SWARM SUPER BOWL-54

IDAHO BLACKHAWKS HEAD SOUTH, DOWN CENTRAL AMERICA WAY, YOU PAID FOR IT!

U.S. government shenanigans, January 2019: MULTI-AGENCY SUPER SURGE

Technology

Vehicle I-D: USMC Sno-Cats flee Slink Fire

Video September 8, 2020 Hutchins AAron

U.S. Marine Corps Sno-Cats, Mountain Warfare Training Center, California. Photo by Corporal Patrick King, 22JAN2022.

Photo by Firefighter Benjamin Paladino, 29AUG2020.

On 29AUG2020, the Slink Fire erupted near Bridgeport, California, near the U.S. Marine Corps’ Mountain Warfare Training Center.

Tucker-Terra Model 1600 Sno-Cats. U.S. Marine Corps photograph by Lance Corporal Cedar Barnes, 03SEP2020.

U.S. Marine Corps’ Tucker Terra 1600 Sno-Cats began evacuations on 03SEP2020.

USMC photograph by Lance Corporal Cedar Barnes, 03SEP2020.

The evacuation also included the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center’s mules.

USMC photograph by Lance Corporal Cedar Barnes, 03SEP2020.

The Tucker Terra-Sno-Cat is made in the U.S. state of Oregon, and can be configured in dozens of ways for both military and silly-vilian use.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Rachel Young-Porter, 12FEB2019.

This appears to be a USMC Sno-Cat 2000XL with snow plow, at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center in February 2019.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Danny Gonzalez, 24FEB2017.

A 1600 with stake-bed and towing a sno-cat trailer, February 2017.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Danny Gonzalez, 25FEB2017.

This is a USMC PistenBully.

PistenBully roadwheels. USMC photo by Lance Corporal Danny Gonzalez, 25FEB2017.

USMC video, by Lance Corporal Carlos Lopez, PistenBully 25FEB2017:

Tucker Terra Sno-Cat with plow. USMC photo by Lance Corporal Danny Gonzalez, 26FEB2017.

Vehicle I-D: USMC LAST RIDE FOR 1ST, 2ND & 4TH TANK

USMC AAV7 VID-FEST

USMC CANNIBALIZES HMMWV TO UPGRADE BRAND NEW JLTV

International

CoViD-19 can’t stop growing global tsunami of migrants! Where the hell are they coming from?

Video September 3, 2020 Hutchins AAron

Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of main-stream-news links about global immigrant/border operations from August 2020 to the beginning of September 2020.

Leftist news sources want metro areas to become “true havens for climate migrants” advising How cities can prepare to support climate migrants.

Revealed; more than 200-thousand unaccompanied child migrants left to uncertain fates in Europe.

Five years later hundreds of migrants still dying in the Mediterranean.

Five years on from boy’s tragic death, “refugee and migrant children worse off”.

Migrants rejected by European Union and deported to Tunisia are now fleeing to Libya.

“47% of surveyed refugees and migrants cited increased difficulty crossing borders as an impact of the coronavirus crisis…”

AUSTRALIA: So desperate for skilled slave-wage workers that The Land Down Under is going to wave CoViD-19 restrictions for them

Revealed; real estate values were being propped-up by influx of migrants

State of Tasmania desperate for slave-wage migrant construction workers, blames CoViD-19

BANGLADESH: 80 Bangladeshis were arrested after they claimed they were tricked out of $4-thousand each, and into migrating to Vietnam for jobs that didn’t exist. Apparently there is a Bangladeshi law that says you can’t embarrass the country by doing things like protesting over unemployment in other countries.

BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA: ‘No Man’s Land’: Migrants, Refugees Stranded at a Bosnian Roadside

FRANCE: Council backs migrants who pitched tents in central Paris

GERMANY: Leftist news media claims Five years after migrant crisis, integration is succeeding

GREECE: First case of CoViD-19 confirmed in migrant camp (you’d think by now there be hundreds, if not thousands, of infections)

More than 10-thousand migrants blocked

Greece Is Dropping Migrants into the Sea — And Europe Is Turning a Blind Eye

INDIA: Government food program to feed slave-wage migrant workers slashed to starvation rations

Politicians prefer to help local people, not migrants..

Migrant worker from India trapped in United Arab Emirates for 16 years.

Former migrant worker says he’d rather starve than face CoViD-19 restrictions .

ITALY: Troubles brew on Lampedusa as island bears brunt of migrant arrivals

Migrant with coronavirus gives birth in helicopter.

Italy gives Sea-Watch-4 permission to bring 353 rescued migrants to Sicily

KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA: African migrants locked up in coronavirus centers

KOSOVO: U.S. Army National Guard units from Oregon and Texas are in Kosovo and, among other things like CoViD-19 response, are conducting joint border patrols with the Kosovo Border Police, in the municipality of Kamenicë (Kamenica). Photo by Captain Nadine Wiley De Moura.

LEBANON: ‘They Called Me ‘Slave’: Beirut Blast Exposes Migrant Workers’ Plight

MALDIVES: Covid-19 Exposes Abuse of Migrants

MALTA: Illegals on tanker ship running out of food, threaten to jump

Prime Minister to spend 1-million Euros per month to detain illegals on cruise ship

PANAMA: 22-thousand illegals from around the world captured crossing the Panama-Colombia border in 2019

SINGAPORE: Migrants get help from new CoViD-19 phone application

SPAIN: Migrants trying to reach Europe pushed to deadly Atlantic

More Than 200 Migrants Stuck in Gran Canaria Dockside Camp.

UNITED KINGDOM: Exhausted migrants wade to shore and collapse on beach – as 409 make journey across Channel too shatter new daily record

1,500 migrants cross Channel in a month.

UNITED STATES: The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs is awarding a $250-thousand Technical Assistance Program grant to help domestic migrants (aka Compact Migrants) within the U.S. Pacific territories

ICE captures 2-thousand illegals over a five weeks period

As U.S. expels migrants, they return, again and again.

Leftist New York Times claims After a Lull, the Number of Migrants Trying to Enter the U.S. Has Soared

Taxpayer funded security contractor housing immigrant children in hotels

Near Naco, Arizona, a new section of wall (San Pedro River Project) has been started under Section 284 of Title 10, U.S. Code:

On the top of the Tinajas Atlas Mountains, in Arizona, a new ‘border road’ was started on 05AUG2020. Photo by George F. Jozens, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Photo by Jerry Glaser, U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

From California to Texas, 3-hundred miles (483 kilometers) of new border wall sections were completed:

The U.S. Coast Guard reports capturing 16 illegals from Bahamas near the Hanover Inlet of Florida, 12AUG2020. One human trafficker (smuggler) was detained. The illegals were returned to Bahamas. Photo by Petty Officer Third Class Brandon Murray.

Near the coast of Marathon, Florida, the U.S. Coast Guard captured 20 illegals from Cuba, 19AUG2020. The U.S. Coast Guard reports a huge drop in illegals coming from Cuba; so far this fiscal year only 140 have been captured, compared to the 482 in fiscal 2019.

I daho PBS reveals refugees from Democratic Republic of Congo are now one of the main groups arriving in Idaho.

In the state of Michigan, National Guard personnel are being used to test migrant farm workers for CoViD-19. This is the result of the state Department of Health and Human Services issuing an emergency order at the beginning of August, requiring that all agricultural and food processing workers who are living in migrant housing camps must be tested for CoViD-19 within 48 hours of entering the state. The program is taxpayer funded and involves the Michigan National Guard because apparently a lot of Guard personnel speak Spanish: “We do have a large migrant population as well in our community, because of our influx of migrant workers during the summer and fall months. So having somebody who does speak Spanish is important because it gives them access too.”-Heather Alberda, Ottawa County Department of Public Health

On 07AUG2020, the U.S. Coast Guard captured this boat with 16 illegals from Dominican Republic, near Puerto Rico. The illegals were sent back to their home country.

16AUG2020, the U.S. Coast Guard claims this boat was packed with 52 illegals from Dominican Republic, heading to Puerto Rico. On 17AUG2020 the illegals were handed over to the Armada de Republica Dominicana.

Over 100 stash houses that kept migrants in ‘deplorable’ conditions dismantled in Texas.

Texas Army National Guard assist with operations at border checkpoints, 14AUG2020. Photo by Staff Sergeant DeJon Williams.

Texas Army National Guard performs maintenance on U.S. Border Patrol vehicles.

14AUG2020, pilots at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, conducted a CoViD-19 flight carrying flags to honor the members of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection killed by CoViD-19. Photo by Senior Airman Anne McCready.

VENEZUELA: 100-thousand would be illegal immigrants halted by CoViD-19

OPERATION COVID-19: BORDER GUARDS

OPERATION COVID-19: TITLE 42 USC 265, THE RAPTURE DISAPPEARS BORDER CROSSERS?

IMMIGRANT INVASION U.S.A., 09-15 FEBRUARY 2020: BORDER COPS REPORT RECORD NUMBER OF…FLOWERS?

OPERATION JUPITER: MEASLES PANDEMIC SPREAD BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

U.S. GOVERNMENT SHENANIGANS, SEPTEMBER 2018:TAXES, BAD COPS & CRIMINAL MIGRANTS ON THE RISE!

U.S.

Still flying after 75 years!

Video September 2, 2020 Hutchins AAron

On 01SEP2020, vintage World War Two aircraft (and a post war Trojan trainer) flew over Oahu, Hawaii, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of WW2 in the Pacific (V-J Day).

Takeoffs & landings, video via U.S. Indo-Pacific Command:

Photos by Master Sergeant Andrew Porch, Technical Sergeant Anthony Nelson, Staff Sergeant Mikaley Kline, Sergeant Ryan Jenkins, Sergeant Sarah Sangster, Petty Officer First Class Gilbert Bolibol and Lieutenant Darin Russell.

P-51D Mustang.

Watch how the vintage aircraft found their way to Hawaii, by boat.

B-25 ‘Old Glory’ is a true combat vet, video interview by Specialist Carlie Lopez:

Twin engined B-25 Mitchell and single engine Avenger.

Video from T-6 Texan owner Jason Karlin showing Avenger and another T-6/SNJ:

B-25 and Catalina Flying Boat.

What it is like to fly in a PBY, video via U.S. Indo-Pacific Command:

A young PBY owner tells war stories, video by Specialist Carlie Lopez:

SNJ/T-6 Texan trainer taxis on Wheeler Army Airfield, 27AUG2020.

U.S. Army video interview (by Specialist Carlie Lopez) of T-6 Texan owner:

View of USS Missouri, the battleship where Japanese officials signed the documents of surrender.

Video by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command concerning Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz’s thoughts about the 02SEP1945 surrender ceremony aboard USS Missouri (BB 63):

F4F/FM-2 Wildcat.

Stearman-Kaydet.

Kaydet owner explains what his plane did during WW2. Video by Ryan Jenkins:

Developed during WW2, but not used in the war, an F8F Bearcat taxis on Wheeler Army Airfield, 27AUG2020.

Proud F8F owner explains how German engineering helped make the Bearcat the best interceptor, and the first Blue Angel, only jet powered aircraft could beat it. Video by Ryan Jenkins:

The 75th WW2 Commemoration has been ongoing since May (the end of the war in Europe, aka V-E Day) and will conclude in September (the end of the war in Pacific, aka V-J Day).

Technology

21st Century Alpha-Jet

Video July 31, 2020 Hutchins AAron

On 19APR2022, it was reported that yet another Nigerian Alpha Jet crashed, killing the crew.

A contracted Canadian Alpha Jet, on 5 Wing Goose Bay, Newfoundland, 14JUN2021.
Canadian Forces photo by Master Corporal Krista Blizzard.

Alpha Jet on display at the Paris Air Show on Le Bourget Airfield, June 1989. U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sergeant Dave Casey.

Qatari Alpha Jet, April 1992, USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Lee Corkran.

NATO’s Cold War era Alpha-Jet was a joint production between Germany’s Dornier and France’s Dassault. The first prototype flew in October 1973. The Alpha-Jet is still in use today.

French Alpha Jet at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, 13NOV2019. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Mikayla Whiteley.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Mikayla Whiteley, 13NOV2019.

French Air Force Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet from Tours – Saint-Symphorien Air Base arrives at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, 29AUG2018. USAF photo by Airman First Class John A. Crawford.

USAF photo by Airman First Class John A. Crawford, 29AUG2018.

In January 2018, Portugal’s last Alpha-Jet took off on its final flight.

Air Affairs Australia and Discovery Air Defence Services, contracted Alpha-Jets, March 2017.

Canada’s TopAces offers contracted military training Alpha-Jets.

Top Aces’ Alpha Jet, Cold Lake, Alberta, 14JUN2018. Canadian Forces photo by Corporal Bryan Carter.

A Top Aces’ Alpha Jet, Cold Lake, Alberta,18JUN2018. Canadian Forces photo by Ordinary Seaman Erica Seymour.

A Top Aces Dornier Alpha Jet over Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, 07FEB2018. Canadian Forces photo by Corporal Manuela Berger.

A Top Aces Alpha Jet on Holloman AFB, New Mexico, 09FEB2018. Canadian Forces photo by Corporal Manuela Berger.

Royal Thai Alpha Jet, Korat Air Base, March 2016. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Aaron Oelrich.

Royal Thai Alpha Jet, U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Mandaline Hatch, 16FEB2015.

Edited video, from videos by Airman Greg Cerny and Staff Sergeant Laura Beckley, Royal Canadian/TopAces Alpha Jets at Happy Valley-Goose Bay, October 2015:

A contracted Canadian Forces Alpha Jet flies over the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center, in Michigan, 11AUG2014. Michigan Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant David Kujawa.

A Michigan C-130 Hercules escorted by Royal Canadian/TopAces Alpha Jets over Rogers City, Michigan, August 2014. Michigan Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Scott Thompson.

Belgian Alpha Jet refuels in Germany, 11FEB2014. NATO photo by Andre Joosten.

Nigerian Alpha-Jet.

Niger has a problem with its refurbished Alpha Jets; “Troops of Operation Desert Sanity on clearance patrol in Sambisa Forest, Borno State, have uncovered the wreckage of crashed Alpha Jet aircraft (NAF475) that went off the radar with two crew members on 31 March 2021.”–Nigerian Army statement

2016 Nigerian news report about upgraded Alpha-Jet delivery:

Nigerian Air Force refurbishes another Alpha Jet

Egypt operated (operates?) Alpha-Jets known as versions MS1 and MS2.

Some of Morocco’s Alpha-Jets have been upgraded for atmospheric/cloud seeding work.

In 2007, a single privately owned (H211) Alpha-Jet began atmospheric testing operations under the code name AJAX. It’s based at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California, and was recently featured on the Discovery Channel:

AJAX stands for Alpha Jet Atmospheric eXperiment.

Video of The Flying Bulls’ Red Bull Alpha-Jets:

The Flying Bulls; Alpha-Jet

Mustang High Flight Alpha-Jet

Video, Mustang High Flight Alpha-Jet:

Mustang High Flight Aerobatics

2017: FRENCH ALPHA-JETS INVADE UNITED STATES!

Afghanistan 2011: MIRAGE 2000D CRASH RECOVERY/DEMOLITION

Technology

Drunken Cobra Recovery 2020, what happened to the N95 masks?

Image July 30, 2020 Hutchins AAron

Notice that none of these Marines are wearing N95 masks, during the year of The Pandemic.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Julian Elliott-Drouin, 27JUN2020.

AH-1W (Alpha Hotel-One Wiskey) Super-Cobra, during aircraft recovery training at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California, 27JUN2020.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Julian Elliott-Drouin, 27JUN2020.

U.S. Marine Wing Support Squadron (MWSS) 373, Marine Wing Support Group 37, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Julian Elliott-Drouin, 27JUN2020.

2011-2019:

Why were Marines forced to wear N95 masks during Drunken Cobra Recovery, months before The Pandemic were (sic) declared?

Influenza, Technology

Apache fights through Pandemic

Video May 26, 2020 Hutchins AAron

U.S. Army ‘Rotary Wing Assets’, including Apaches, aboard USS Lewis B. Puller (the first of its kind mobile helicopter base-ship) somewhere in the Persian Gulf, 15APR2020.

The 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, is deploying to Europe to take part in anti-Russia operation Atlantic Resolve. Video, AH-64 Apache live fire, 01MAY2020, Fort Campbell Kentucky:

Also deploying from Fort Campbell, the 2nd Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment took-off for South Korea. It is considered a routine ‘rotational’ deployment.

Ignoring CoViD-19 ‘social distancing’ and mask wearing advise, hundreds of family members turned out to say goodbye to Utah Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 211th Aviation Regiment, as it deployed for a year long combat mission in Afghanistan.

National Guard personnel conduct Forward Arming and Refueling Point (FARP) training at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, South Carolina, 13MAY2020.

Video, 18 AH-64s of the 1-3rd Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, 12th Combat Aviation Brigade fly over Bavaria, Germany, 19MAY2020:

12th Combat Aviation Brigade video explainer (with happy background music); how the AH-64D Apache Longbow can kill you:

Pandemic Overflight: A-10C (FOR COVID?) THUNDERBOLT-2

Idaho National Guard’s A-10s suddenly deployed to Middle East during Pandemic OverFlights

2107: ILLINOIS, IOWA, PENNSYLVANIA & SOUTH CAROLINA MILITIAS DEPLOY TO AFGHANISTAN!

SOUTH CAROLINA MILITIA’S SWITCH-BLADE APACHE

Vehicle I-D: AH-64D LONGBOW APACHE, GRAFENWOEHR 2016

2016: OBAMA DISAPPEARS THE LAST OF IDAHO’S APACHES!

Technology

Vehicle I-D: EA-6B Prowler upclose & thirsty

Video May 25, 2020 Hutchins AAron

Video, 28th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron KC-135 Stratotanker refuels Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 2 (VMAQ-2) EA-6B over Iraq, June 2018: