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Operation CoViD-19: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines

The ‘main stream’ U.S. news media is doing a piss-poor job of showing what the Department of Defense is doing during this Corona-Virus Disease-2019 pandemic.  It’s as if they’re deliberately trying to make it look like there’s no government response.

GERMANY:  U.S. Air Force (USAF) CoViD-19 screenings at Ramstein Medical Clinic, Ramstein Air Base, 19MAR2020.

U.S. Army medics prep for another day of CoViD-19, Hohenfels, 18MAR2020.

Video, U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria CoViD-19 response:

Employees of the Miesau Army Depot Child Development Center disenfect the now shuttered daycare center, 20MAR2020.

Employees of the U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz S6 (computer geeks) report being swamped with requests for laptops after U.S. Army personnel were ordered to ‘telework’.

ITALY: A USAF C-130J from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, delivered a En-Route Patient Staging System (ERPSS) to the Italian Ministry of Defense.  ERPSS provides 10 patient holding/staging beds and can handle a maximum throughput of 40 patients in a 24 hours period.

Despite Italy being hit hard by CoViD-19, infrastructure work must still be done.  USAF civil engineers replace a fire hydrant at Aviano Air Base, 23MAR2020.

JAPAN:  Commander Fleet Activities Yokosuka (CFAY) Security Department conducts CoVid-19 checks at the gate, 25MAR2020. Vending machines on Misawa Air Base get disinfected, 24MAR2020.

KOREA:  U.S. Army Soldier on Camp Carroll has the fit of his respirator tested during CoViD-19 response training, 24MAR2020.

Going into battle?

This is how the U.S. Army mops floors in CoViD infected Korea.

Using CBRNE vehicle decontamination procedures to deal with CoViD-19.

UNITED KINGDOM: The USAF 100th Air Refueling Wing is based on Royal Air Force (RAF) Mildenhall, which has a confirmed case of CoViD-19 infection, directly connected to a USAF 48th Fighter Wing Airman at RAF Lakenheath who is also positive with CoViD-19.

UNITED STATES: Arkansas; Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System is actively screening for CoViD-19 (just to be clear, the VA is separate from the Department of Defense).

Arizona; Drive-thru meds delivery at Luke Air Force Base, 23MAR2020.

CoViD-19 testing is not painless, Luke AFB, 23MAR2020.

California;  In the San Diego area, two sailors assigned to Naval Special Warfare (NSW) tested positive for Coronavirus Disease 2019, 22MAR2020.

After loading up with CoViD-19 ammo, the USNS Mercy finally sailed out of San Diego on its CoViD-19 mission, 23MAR2020.

CoViD-19 screening aboard USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6).

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District employee inspects a facility in Santa Clara, 23MAR2020, as potential use for Alternate Care Facility (ACF, aka quarantine/isolation camp).  The order to search for potential CoViD ‘camps’ came from FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency).

After a Marine on Marine Corps Air Station Miramar tested positive for CoVid-19, the post office was disinfected and marked-off for proper social distancing, 23MAR2020.

Colorado; Video of CoViD-19 screening at Peterson Air Force Base, 23MAR2020:

Hawaii; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) technical survey team confer with a U.S. Public Health Service officer about the potential of using the Hawaii Convention Center as a FEMA ordered Alternate Care Facility (ACF, aka quarantine/isolation camp).

Marine Corps Base Hawaii’s Kaneohe Bay Branch Health Clinic implements CoViD-19 protections.

Illinois; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Chicago District have been actively assessing potential sites for Alternate Care Facility (ACF, aka quarantine/isolation camp).

Maine; Four NSW sailors are currently isolated and restricted in movement onboard Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor where they tested positive while training.

Mississippi; CoVid-19 screenings outside the Keesler Medical Center at Keesler Air Force Base, 23MAR2020.

North Carolina; Marines returning from overseas now undergoing CoViD-19 screening at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point.

North Dakota;  Volunteers on Grand Forks Air Force Base with free food for grade school students now unable to go to school due to CoViD-19 shutdowns.

Pennsylvania; Tobyhanna Army Depot employee performs maintenance on a much needed ventilator.

Maintenance on an infusion pump.

Texas; Airmen working the Ross Clinic’s pharmacy, on Goodfellow Air Force Base, using Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).  So far no cases of CoViD infection on the base.

Goodfellow AFB has also switched to curb-side pharmacy ops only.

New recruits arriving at Lackland AFB for basic training have a new lesson to learn; social distancing.

OPERATION COVID-19: ARMY, AIR FORCE, NAVY, MARINES

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

OPERATION COVID-19: NATIONAL GUARD ‘FOOD’ SURGE

Vehicle I-D: NASA Canberras, B-57B ‘Hush Kit’ & WB-57F Rivet Chip/Slice

Images of B-57B and WB-57F via NASA, USAF and USMC.

This NASA B-57B was used to test the jet engine ‘mufflers’ (aka Hush Kits, officially Exhaust Noise Suppressors) that would be used on 1960s-early ’70s jet airliners.  Dryden, Edwards AFB.

Wright J65-W-5 turbojets power the B-57B.

Note the tail support rod, yes, even real jet aircraft used tail supports when parked for a long time.  Also, the Hush Kits added a lot of weight to the rear of center-of-balance.

According to the information with this NASA photo the aircraft was painted in fluorescent colors, but it didn’t specify.  They probably meant Day-Glo, which is the copyrighted name of the DayGlo Color Corporation.

09DEC1971, tail code 809 is bare metal with NASA markings and a ‘V’ under the cockpit.  The V stood for Viking Mars Lander parachute test program.

11 years later, tail code 809 in the standard white with blue stripes NASA colors.  Wing tip pitots (both sides), different nose tip and pitot.  In 1982, 809 began  atmospheric research, everything from wind currents to air pollution.

809 was retired in 1987.

USAF video report about the history of the B-57:

 

By 2015 only three B-57s were operating, all NASA WB-57Fs.  The aircraft in the middle of the group is configured differently from the other two.  (clicking on some of the smaller pics in this post will make them bigger)

 The  U.S. Air Force RB-57F was developed in the early 1960s to take air samples over enemy countries to determine if they had conducted nuclear bomb experiments.  However, that was the secret mission, the official mission of RB-57Fs was weather forecasting.  USAF RB-57Fs were plagued by engine problems and structural failures.  The engines used are Pratt & Whitney TF33-P-11A turbofans.  In 1968 RB-57Fs were re-designated WB-57F.

This WB-57F has a modified foil covered nose carrying instruments to track a 2017 solar eclipse.  Beginning in 1968 NASA began modifying WB-57Fs, code names Rivet Chip and Rivet Slice, for its specific high-altitude research.  Every year the aircraft are modified with different sensors, and even new paint schemes, for the missions scheduled for that season of research.

A NASA WB-57 takes off from the flight line of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California, 21AUG2019. The aircraft was utilizing the MCAS Miramar flight line and airspace to test new communications software.

In the rear seat (Robins AFB, Georgia), Don Darrow is about to take-off on a mission to track Hurricane Joaquin, in 2015.

Spain, 2011, stop-over for routine maintenance and refueling.

01JUL1979, then astronaut candidate Kathryn D. Sullivan set an unofficial altitude record in a NASA WB-57F; 63,300 feet was reached during a four-hour flight.

Mach2 issued two versions in 1:72 scale, the USAF RB-57 and the NASA WB-57F.  They are not for beginners as they are low quality low pressure injection (short run) kits.

Airmodel made a RB-57F vacformed conversion for the old 1:72 scale Airfix or Frog Canberra kits.

DB Productions makes a vacformed and resin R/WB-57D/F conversion for 1:72 Italeri B-57B.

Collect-Aire Models made a 1:48 scale resin kit.

BARE METAL: NASA’S MD-11 EXPERIMENTAL

IDAHO, KANSAS, UTAH HOME BASES FOR NASA’S DC-8 FIREX-AQ!

NASA ‘CLIMATE SPY PLANE’ PROVES CALIFORNIA’S STRICT ANTI-POLLUTION LAWS ARE A JOKE!

Operation CoViD-19: Title 42 USC 265, The Rapture disappears Border crossers?

Title 42 USC 265: “Whenever the Surgeon General determines that by reason of the existence of any communicable disease in a foreign country there is serious danger of the introduction of such disease into the United States, and that this danger is so increased by the introduction of persons or property from such country that a suspension of the right to introduce such persons and property is required in the interest of the public health, the Surgeon General, in accordance with regulations approved by the President, shall have the power to prohibit, in whole or in part, the introduction of persons and property from such countries or places as he shall designate in order to avert such danger, and for such period of time as he may deem necessary for such purpose.”

“For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep.  For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.  Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.”– 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17, New King James Bible

U.S. Customs and Border Protection photo.

Vacated border crossing San Ysidro, California, 21MAR2020.

U.S. CBP photo.

The ‘intake’ area of San Ysidro border crossing.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection photo by Adam Streetman.

Abandoned Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron, Michigan.

U.S. CBP photo by Adam Streetman.

Tractor-trailers from Canada under inspections at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Fort Street Cargo Facility at the Port of Detroit, Michigan, 21MAR2020.

U.S. CBP photo by Christopher Perry.

An abandoned looking Detroit Windsor Tunnel crossing, Michigan.

U.S. CBP photo by Adam Streetman.

Shuttered Sault Sainte Marie International Bridge, Michigan.

U.S. CBP photo by Adam Streetman.

Nobody driving through the Ambassador Bridge between Ontario, Canada, and Michigan, United States.

U.S. CBP photo by David Zapp.

In El Paso, Texas, somebody actually made it across from Mexico, forcing the Border Patrol to don Personal Protective Equipment to process them.

OPERATION COVID-19: U.S. BORDER PATROL

Operation CoViD-19: National Guard ‘Food’ surge

The ‘main stream’ U.S. news media is doing a piss-poor job of showing what the various state National Guard units are doing during this Corona-Virus Disease-2019 pandemic.  It’s as if they’re deliberately trying to make it look like there’s no government response.

Evil employers are using CoViD-19 as an excuse to layoff employees en-masse, resulting in a sudden increase in people qualifying for free food from food banks.

Video, Arizona National Guard deployed its military logistical vehicles to be used as ‘food trucks’ in support of the Midwest Food Bank in Gilbert, 22MAR2020:

In California, the Sacramento Food Bank explains why they requested National Guard personnel to help them:

Video, Connecticut National Guard deliver masks to ambulance and Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) operations:

Florida National Guard operates the mass-testing site at Hard Rock Stadium.

Video report, Florida National Guard preps for mass-testing in Orange County:

Louisiana National Guard preps Bridge City volunteer firefighters  on how to help run a mass-testing site.

Maryland National Guard load medical supplies and equipment at the Maryland Strategic National Stockpile location.

Video report, New Jersey National Guard preps for mass-testing at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel:

People lined up for testing by Pennsylvania National Guard,  at Temple University’s Ambler Campus.

      Rhode Island National Guard work the CoViD-19 hotline.

OPERATION COVID-19: NATIONAL GUARD RAMPS UP

OPERATION COVID-19: ARMY, AIR FORCE, NAVY, MARINES

Operation CoViD-19: Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines

The ‘main stream’ U.S. news media is doing a piss-poor job of showing what the Department of Defense is doing during this Corona-Virus Disease-2019 pandemic.  It’s as if they’re deliberately trying to make it look like there’s no government response.

CoViD-19=CoronaVirus Disease-2019

Somewhere in the Philippine Sea a U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman loads an ABI StepOne Plus RT-PCR machine with samples of potential CoViD-19 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), 19MAR2020.

GERMANY: U.S. Defense Logistics Agency’s (DLA) Germersheim Central Distribution Center begin loading pallets of semi-perishable goods on to delivery trucks, 17MAR2020.

Germersheim Central Distribution Center delivers supplies to 33 commissaries, 26 U.S. Embassies and four Navy Exchange marts across Europe and Southwest Asia.

18MAR2020, Wiesbaden High School administrators hand out lap-top computers to students as they switch to online classes only.

ITALY:U.S. Army CoViD-19 instructions posted at a photo shop in Caserma Ederle, Vicenza, 16MAR2020.

Half-a-million U.S. bound CoViD-19 testing kits were loaded onto a Tennessee National Guard C-17 at the U.S. Air Force’s Aviano Air Base.  Shipments of test kits made by Copan Diagnostics, in Italy, began on 14MAR2020, through the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

KOREA:  U.S. Department of Defense Education Activity teachers and administrators on the U.S. Air Force’s Osan Air Base get a CoViD-19 update, 20MAR2020.  Students are now taking classes online.

U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center Korea explains their CoViD-19 mission:

UNITED STATES:

Colorado; Peterson Air Force Base conducting CoViD-19 screenings, 20MAR2020.

Georgia; Moody Air Force Base conducts CoViD-19 screenings:

Hawaii;  The U.S. Navy’s Branch Health Clinic Makalapa conducting CoViD-19 screenings.

Louisiana;  Commander of Air Force Global Strike Command issues statement regarding CoViD-19 and nuclear weapons response capabilities:

Nevada;   Nellis Air Force Base, home to the massive Red Flag aerial wargames, conducting CoViD-19 screenings at  Mike O’Callaghan Military Medical Center.

New York;  One of many CoViD-19 signs at the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station.

North Carolina; U.S. Marines and Navy personnel prep Camp Lejeune for CoViD-19 screenings, 19MAR2020.

South Carolina; USAF C-130 and C-17 transport planes of U.S. Southern Command, conducted a CoViD-19 rescue of the U.S. women’s U.S. style tackle-football team in Honduras, arriving at Joint Base Charleston 20MAR2020:

Texas; Lackland Air Force Base explains CoViD-19 rules for its Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center:

Washington;  Crew member onboard USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) conducts CoViD-19 disinfecting ops while the ship awaits maintenance at Bremerton.

ISOLATION: Separation and restriction of people who ARE SICK with a contagious virus from people who are not sick.

QUARANTINE:  Separation and restriction of people who might have been EXPOSED to a contagious virus to see if they become sick.

OPERATION COVID-19: NATIONAL GUARD RAMPS UP

The Perfect Fear: Pacific Ring of Fire, 08-14 March 2020

Incomplete list of links to seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, days 08 to 14 of Gregorian March 2020.

CHILE: Pic of volcano lightning storm, named The Perfect Fear,  wins international contest

COLOMBIA:  U.S. and Colombian militaries joined with silly-vilian organizations to conduct the Exercise Vita humanitarian response training.

INDONESIA: Three injured, hundreds of houses damaged after magnitude-4.9 earthquake in West Java

NEW ZEALAND: 6.4 earthquake – Kermadec Islands Region

JAPAN:  M5.5 quake 

MEXICO: Magnitude 5.1 earthquake

THAILAND:  Small quake shakes Lampang

UNITED STATES:

Alaska;  3.9 quake

California; 3.7 magnitude earthquake hits Truckee area

Hawaii; The U.S. Army Bombed a Lava Flow. It Didn’t Work.

Oregon; Funding for earthquake warning system dies in dysfunctional 2020 Oregon Legislature

Washington;  Will Seattle at last take action on buildings that can kill when earthquakes hit?

Wyoming;  Study reveals that Unusual Uplift at Yellowstone Volcano Caused by Magma Rising 

Pacific Ring of Fire, 01-07 March 2020: SURVIVE BY EATING GIANT SPIDERS?

Operation CoViD-19: Hot Zone Daegu

On 13MAR2020, soldiers with the U.S. Army, and the Republic of Korea (RoK), took part in disinfection ops in the hot zone known as Daegu.

Video, U.S. Army Installation Clean Teams:

Video, U.S. Army Trace Teams, or how they can trace where an infected military members has been:

Operation CoViD-19: U.S. Border Patrol, 13MAR2020

Operation Jupiter: Operation CoViD-19 is for real

CoViD-19=CoronaVirus Disease 2019

U.S. military updates as of 14-15MAR2020.

At Camp Pendleton, California, U.S. Marine Corps held a Installations West meeting to discuss scenarios for CoViD-19 response.

Marines onboard Camp Pendleton also built a quarantine site for anybody who test positive for the virus.

Video of U.S. Marines building a quarantine site on Camp Pendleton:

Official video announcement, USMC Camp Pendleton shuts down or reduces onboard services due to CoViD-19:

In the New Rochelle area of New York state, the Army National Guard began preparations for Operation CoViD-19.

Official video report, New York Army National Guard CoViD-19 Mobile Testing Center in Glenn Island Park:

Effective March 14, 2020, gate guards will no longer handle I-D cards, instead they’ll use a scanner.  Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, video explainer:

Video, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, implements new CoViD-19 gate checks:

On 11 March, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, issues video explaining what you should do if you think you’re infected:

THE DAY AFTER MEDICAL-MARTIAL-LAW WAS DECLARED: SHOPPING MAYHEM AT POCATELLO WINCO!

Going Viral, 11-12 March 2020: “STOP SAYING IT’S A BAD FLU!”

OPERATION JUPITER: U.S. SOLDIER INFECTED, U.S. BASES PREPPING FOR EVACUATIONS!

The Day After Medical-Martial-Law Was Declared: Shopping mayhem at Pocatello WinCo!

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CoViD-19=CoronaVirus Disease 2019

On the morning of 13 March, Idaho’s Governor Brad Little declared a State of Emergency over the CoViD-19 pandemic.  Shortly after that President Donald Trump declared a National Emergency.  Later in the day Governor Little revealed the first confirmed case of coronavirus in Idaho.  Without warning the store I prefer to do my grocery shopping at, and the only remaining 24 hours operation in the Pocatello/Chubbuck area, suspended their overnight sales purportedly to “clean” the store as a result of the CoViD-19 pandemic.

“24 Hours of Savings WinCo Foods” re-opened at 05:00 (5am), I arrived at 05:30 and it was already mayhem!

The pics were taken with my phone cam which has a fogged lens.  These checkout lines are what greeted me at 05:30, just 30 minutes after WinCo re-opened! They run to the back of the warehouse style store.

Many of the fresh meat items were gone, all the fresh ground beef was gone, by 05:30!

The empty shelves on the left side of the above pic used to be filled with pancake syrup.  Pancake syrup, really, do you people need that much pancake syrup?  The empty shelves on the right of the pic is where sugar used to be, all gone now.

The infamous toilet paper isle, this time WinCo was not able to re-stock before opening.

I bought $60 worth of food.  I got in at 05:30 and didn’t get out until 07:00, the lines were that long, and despite most of WinCo’s check stands being open.

I stopped in at the next door Fred Meyer, they weren’t crowded, but were missing many items as well.  An employee told me things have been getting crazy after 08:30 and they’ve been having trouble getting orders into corporate.   One of the items I noticed they were out of was bottled water, mmmm, I don’t remember CoViD-19 being able to shut-off your water supply.

pocatello fred meyer

Fred Meyer at the former Pocatello Mall location

The employee I talked to pointed out something that makes sense; many people in eastern Idaho save up their money for the end of year holiday season, but people are now spending money like mad due to the CoViD-19 fear-mongering, on top of that people are already being told not to come to work, the result will be that many people here in eastern Idaho are not going to have money to spend for the end of year holidays.

MORE ECONOMIC DECLINE FOR EASTERN IDAHO: COVID-19 SHUTDOWN 24HRS WINCO?