Photo via United States Air Force, no date indicated.
To the U.S. Army Air Force (USAAF) the bubble-top North American P-51D was known as the Mustang, in the newly created U.S. Air Force (USAF) it was known as the F-51 Mustang. For British empire (Commonwealth of Nations) members still using the World War Two combat aircraft, it was known as the Mustang Mark-4.
South African Air Force Mustang Mark-4. Photo via U.S. Air Force, date and location (likely near Suwon-si) not indicated.
Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).
Silent U.S. Air Force film, edited by me to show SAAF Mustang Mk-4s joining USAF F-51 Mustangs for a ground attack operation. One of the SAAF Mk-4s crash landed upon returning. Date and location not indicated:
Wrecked SAAF Mustang Mk-4s, probably on an airbase near Suwon-si. Photo via USAF, date not indicated.
The red nosed Mustangs are the SAAF Mark-4s. Photo via USAF, no date indicated.
The South African Air Force (SAAF) Mustang 4s were there at the very beginning of the Korean conflict.
Squadron shacks belonging to USAF 39th Fighter Interceptor Squadron (FIS) and the 12th Fighter Bomber Squadron (FBS), then what appears to be a chapel. The shack with the flag is the headquarters of the 2nd Squadron ‘Flying Cheetahs’ of the SAAF. Photo via USAF, no date indicated.
Photo via USAF, no date indicated.
Photo via USAF, no date indicated.
Photo via USAF, no date indicated.
Photo via USAF, no date indicated.
Photo via USAF, no date indicated.
Silent U.S. Army film (by somebody with the last name of Fox) showing SAAF Second Squadron (Flying Cheetahs) ‘bombing-up’, and warming up (film info says temps were below zero Fahrenheit) their Mustang Mark-4s, near Suwon, Korea, 17DEC1950:
High octane aviation gasoline. Photo via USAF, no date indicated.
Loading the Browning .50 caliber machine guns. Photo via USAF, no date indicated.
Photo via USAF, no date indicated.
Photo via USAF, no date indicated.
Photo via USAF, no date indicated.
Photo via USAF, no date indicated.
Photo via USAF, no date indicated.
The SAAF Mark-4s used two styles of propellers. Photo via USAF, no date indicated.
I suspect the ‘drop tanks’ (external fuel tanks) have been modified to be napalm bombs. Photo via USAF, no date indicated.
On 23JAN2024, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and General Manager of the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) Stacy Cummings, signed contracts for the purchase of about 220-thousand 155-millimeter artillery projectiles worth US$1.2-billion, as well as creating a “robust” and “innovative” military industrial complex. This is in addition to the US$10-billion worth of NSPA contracts issued since July 2023!
It was the weekend of January 13th & 14th, 2024, the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck, Idaho, held its inaugural indoor Winter/New Year automobile show.
The family that built this minitruck claims they paid a whopping $500 for the first generation Ranger (they don’t say how much it cost them to re-build it). They even used homemade interior parts. Video by me, 13JAN2024:
Due to some instigation (possibly by a secret society of conspiratorial automotive enthusiasts), the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck, Idaho, held its inaugural indoor Winter/New Year automobile show. It was the weekend of January 13th & 14th, 2024.
One of the possible conspirators, practicing his Jedi Mind Tricks on some mall-goers!
This is a 14JAN2024 update to the 01JAN2024, 7.6 magnitude Richter scale (7 Japan Meteorological Agency [JMA] scale) earthquake in Japan.
Deaths of people that happened during the quake are now at 221, at least 22 people are still missing. Almost 5-hundred people in 15 communities across Ishikawa Prefecture remain cut off because of damaged roads.
Israel occupied The Gaza Strip during the Cold War, in 1967 (what is known in the U.S. as the 1967 War). 1967 is also the year that the U.S. became imbedded into the Tar-Baby called Israel, with a visit, and promise of support, from a politician who would later become the President of the United States:
Today, history being made again. On 11JAN2024, South Africa presented its accusations of a “pattern of genocidal conduct” by Israel to the International Court of Justice, stating that “This killing is nothing short of destruction of Palestinian life. It is inflicted deliberately, no-one is spared, not even newborn babies.”
Incomplete list of Regular/Active Duty, Reserve and state National Guard (state militia) unit deployments revealed during December 2023 and the first week of January 2024.
ARIZONA:
U.S. Army Reserve photo by Captain Fernando Ochoa, 02DEC2023.
Army Reserve unit Bravo Company-98th Signal Battalion conducted a deployment ceremony on the Arizona State University campus, 02DEC2023. They are deploying to NATO-Poland.
CALIFORNIA:
On 04JAN2024, the California Air National Guard’s 129th Rescue Wing deployed for The Middle East:
Photo by Captain Fernando Ochoa, 06JAN2024.
Army Reserve unit Charlie Company-98th Signal Battalion conducted a deployment ceremony on Camp Pendleton, 06JAN2024. They are being deployed to The Middle East.
COLORADO:
Space Force photo by Emily Peacock, 07DEC2023.
On 07DEC2023, the Space Force conducted a flag ceremony on Peterson Space Force Base, prior to the deployments of 160th, 161st, and 162nd Electromagnetic Warfare (EW) Combat Detachments.
GEORGIA:
Georgia Army National Guard photo by Captain Amanda Russell, 12DEC2023.
Militia personnel with the 1st Battalion-118th Field Artillery Regiment deploying to The Middle East (CentCom area of responsibility). They will be focusing on counter-artillery and counter-drone missions.
HAWAI’I:
The state militia’s (National Guard) 1st Battalion-487th Field Artillery Regiment-Target Acquisition Section-29th Brigade Support Battalion announced they are “about to go downrange” to The Middle East. Hawai’i Army National Guard video by Corporal Casandra B. Ancheta, 06JAN2024:
USAFR photo by James Bowman, 13DEC2023.
On 13DEC2023, U.S. Air Force Reserve Airmen conducted a ‘Pre-Deployment Function’ (PDF) on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, to make sure everybody is caught-up on red-tape and vaccinations for future deployments.
ILLINOIS: State Militia personnel with Chicago-based 1863rd Financial Management Support Detachment are deploying to NATO-Europe.
Photo by Senior Master Sergeant Daniel Farrell, 03DEC2023.
On top of that, the Louisiana Air National Guard deploying about 3-hundred militia Airmen (from the 159th Fighter Wing) to the Indo-Pacific region.
MINNESOTA: The state militia deploying personnel assigned to the 34th Red Bull Infantry Division, along with militia personnel who live in Iowa, Wisconsin, North & South Dakota, and several other states, are deploying to The Middle East. Minnesota Army National Guard video by Specialist Tyler Becker, showing a so-called Family Preparation Academy for deployment, 02DEC2023:
OKLAHOMA:
Oklahoma Army National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Reece Heck, 30DEC2023.
USAFR photo by Technical Sergeant Monica Ricci, 05DEC2023.
On 05DEC2023, 514th Aeromedical Airmen flying home from their deployment to Kuwait had to employ their training when a fellow airline passenger went down.
Army National Guard’s 2nd Battalion-112th Infantry Regiment-56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team-28th Infantry Division conducts deployment ceremony on 17DEC2023. They are deploying to the African Continent:
VIRGINIA:
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Raymond Maddocks, 01DEC2023.
On 01DEC2023, the U.S. Navy officially launched the new Mobilization and Deployment Support Command (MDSC), on Naval Station Norfolk: “MDSC is being established to provide oversight of all Reserve Component mobilizations and Active Component Individual Augmented mobilizations. This is a wholesale re-imagining of the legacy, centralized mobilization process and is the realization of the Reserve’s shift from operational support through a centralized center of excellence to strategic reserve via adaptive, distributed mobilizations.”-Rear Admiral Michael J. Steffen, Commander, Navy Reserve Forces Command
The administrators of Japan’s Noto Peninsula and Ishikawa Prefecture gave an update to the 7.6 magnitude Richter scale (7 Japan Meteorological Agency [JMA] scale) earthquake on 01JAN2024: The fire that resulted from that quake destroyed at least 2-hundred structures.
As many as 323 people are still missing, at least 168 people confirmed dead.
Aftershocks continue, including a 6-JMA magnitude quake in the town of Shika. However, the JMA continues to doubt the accuracy of their seismographs due to so many quakes happening over a widespread area, they suspect many shockwaves are interfering with, or possibly amplifying, results on seismographs.
More than 1-thousand-5-hundred houses collapsed/damaged.
The weight of heavy snow could cause more buildings to collapse.
More than 29-thousand people now in evacuation centers.
Many local municipalities have already exhausted their stockpiles of disaster relief items, typically these items are only enough for three days of relief.
At least one evacuation center is reporting a CoViD-19 outbreak. Other diseases are also being reported at all evacuation centers: “Sanitary conditions at shelters are seriously deteriorating. The number of people infected with COVID-19 and influenza is increasing.”-Shigeru Sakaguchi, Mayor of Wajima City
Noto Airport closed due to damaged runways, administrators hope to have the runways repaired by 25JAN2024.
The 01JAN2024 quake created 2-hundred meters of new coastline.
Canadian Light Armored Vehicle 6.0 (aka LAV-6) fires its 25mm gun during Iron Spear, on Adazi, Latvia, 13NOV2023. Canadian Armed Forces photo by Captain Joffray Provencher.
In November 2023, NATO conducted wargame/competition Iron Spear in Adazi, Latvia (Ādaži, Latvija). Military units from Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, United Kingdom (U.K.) and United States of America (U.S.A.), took part.
Canadian LAV-6 on Adazi, Latvia, 14NOV2023. U.S. Army (USA) photo by Specialist Bernabe Lopez the Third.
Infantry Fighting Vehicles:
Various IFVs from various NATO-members converge on Adazi, Latvia. USA photo by Captain H Howey, 13NOV2023.
Can you I-Dentify the different IFVs? NATO tries to help with the big flags. USA photo by Captain H Howey, 13NOV2023.
USA photo by Captain H Howey, 13NOV2023.
USA photo by Specialist Bernabe Lopez the Third, 13NOV2023.
USA photo by Specialist Bernabe Lopez the Third, 14NOV2023.
U.S. Army video, by Sergeant Alex Soliday (14NOV2023), highlighting the U.S. Bradley and U.K. Warrior, concluding with a mass-live-fire involving all the participating NATO-member IFVs:
And the winner is, NATO-U.S.A.! Taking First Place with their Bradley IFV. USA photo by Specialist Bernabe Lopez the Third, 16NOV2023.
Armored Fighting Vehicles:
Canadian Leopard 2A4M CANs arrive on Adazi, Latvia, 10NOV2023. Canadian Armed Forces photo by Corporal Lynette Ai Dang.
Poland’s T-72 based PT-91 Twardy attends Iron Spear, 13NOV2023. USA photo by Captain H Howey.
PT-91 Twardy live-fire during Iron Spear. USA photo by Captain H Howey, 13NOV2023.
Bore-sighting the U.S. M1A2 Abrams. USA photo by Captain H Howey, 13NOV2023.
German Leopard 2A6s. USA photo by Specialist Bernabe Lopez the Third, 13NOV2023.
U.S. Army video, by Sergeant Alex Soliday (14NOV2023), highlighting the U.S. Abrams and German Leopard battle tanks, concluding with a mass-live-fire involving all the participating NATO-member AFVs:
USA photo by Specialist Bernabe Lopez the Third, 15NOV2023.
And the winner is, NATO-Spain! Taking First Place with their Leopard 2E battle tank. USA photo by Specialist Bernabe Lopez the Third, 16NOV2023.