Pennsylvania National Guard’s 193rd Special Operations Wing flew to Texas on 28 AUG 2017: “These airmen are part of a unique mobile communications team that will assist Texas with securing and reestablishing any downed satellite or cell phone communications systems needed for recovery efforts.”-Tom Wolf, gov-na of Pennsylvania
Loading a C-130J with equipment that could restore cell phone & GPS service
HARVEY: ALASKA & CALIFORNIA MILITIAS DEPLOY TO TEXAS!
Colorado based Army Reserve’s 11th Expeditionary Combat Aviation Brigade began rescue operations by flying their BlackHawks out of Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, 28 AUG 2017.
USAF Reserve’s 920th Rescue Wing (“that others may live”) deployed three HH-60G PaveHawk helicopters and two HC-130P/N Hercules aerial refueling aircraft to Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, 28 AUG 2017.
“After supporting fire suppression operations here in California and recently participating in a large scale exercise in Alaska, the 129th is ready to deploy its life-saving capabilities to another region of the country.”-Colonel Daniel Lapostole, 129th Rescue Wing vice commander
Alaska National Guard’s 249th Airlift Squadron and the 212th Rescue Squadron deployed to join rescue ops in Texas. Also, the Alaska National Guard will link up with California National Guard’s 129th Rescue Wing en route to Texas. California’s 129th Rescue Wing will deploy two helicopters and a MC-130P Hercules Combat Shadow.
Video of load-up and take-off of C-17, from Alaska to Texas, 28 AUG 2017:
Video of Alaska link-up with California National Guard’s 129th Rescue Wing at Channel Island Air National Guard Station:
Video, how to stuff a California PaveHawk into an Alaskan Globemaster:
HARVEY: KENTUCKY MILITIA DEPLOYS TO TEXAS!
Video U.S. Border Patrol UH-60 Blackhawk rescue op, 28 AUG 2017:
Video of U.S. Border Patrol agents from Del Rio Sector, Texas, prepping boats for rescue ops:
Video of Texas Army National Guard soldiers and Texas Task Force One Swift Water Rescue Team prepping for Hurricane Harvey, city of Bryan, 25 AUG 2017:
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District
12th Flying Training Wing T-6A Texan-2 moved inside hangars at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph
Video of Texas National Guard 176th Engineer Brigade prepping for Harvey to hit Victoria, 25 AUG 2017:
HC-130J Hercules Combat King-2 at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, stands by for possible rescue operations following Hurricane Harvey
Video of Georgia HC-130J takeoff for Texas:
Video of Georgia HH-60G PaveHawk takeoff for Texas:
T-1A Jayhawk training aircraft were flown from Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, to Tinker AFB, Oklahoma
European made HC-144 Ocean Sentry on standby at Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas
Video of U.S. Coast Guard SeaHawks based at San Diego, California, deploying to Texas for Hurricane Harvey:
20 August 2016 (12:34 UTC-07 Tango 01) 30 Mordad 1395/16 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/18 Bing-Shen 4714
“It brings me back to when Hurricane Katrina passed in 2005, and I saw the National Guard around all the neighborhoods. That’s what persuaded me to join.”-Sergeant Bryan Campo
Monroe, Louisiana
Since 12 August, more than 3-thousand 8-hundred Louisiana Army and Air National Guard personnel have been mobilized to help deal with the unexpected and unprecedented flooding that’s ongoing (due to rain upriver, along the Mississippi).
Denham Springs, Louisiana
From 12 August to 19 August, the state militia rescued more than 19-thousand residents and more than 2-thousand 6-hundred pets. More than 78-thousand 9-hundred MRE’s (Meals Ready to Eat), 465 tarps, more than 439-thousand bottles of water, 961,500 sandbags, more than 2-thousand 2-hundred cots and 1-thousand 7-hundred blankets were distributed! National Guard Military Police are also providing security at some shelters.
Don’t think it’s a ‘9-to-5’ job, militia personnel are pulling 12 hour-shifts!
LOUISIANA MILITIA RESCUES FLOOD VICTIMS & THEIR PETS!
16 August 2016 /21:17 UTC-07 Tango 01 (27 Mordad 1395/13 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/15 Bing-Shen 4714)
Since 762mm (30 inches) of rain fell on 12 August 2016 more than 3-thousand 3-hundred Louisiana National Guard personnel are conducting rescues, security, aid and confort missions in response to the record flooding in The Pelican State. Neighboring Mississippi has also sent state militia to help out.
Mississippi National Guard CH-47 lifting giant sand bags for use against the Louisiana flood
In one 24 hours period the National Guard rescued 5-hundred people and 61 pets, using 66 trucks, 20 boats and five helicopters! Here’s video of rescues by militia Black Hawks, and aerials of the record level flood:
U.S. highway 190 through Denham Springs
Here’s video of Louisiana militia conducting rescues by truck:
SIGN OF THINGS TO COME: KENTUCKY MILITIA TRAINS FOR WATER RESCUES IN INDIANA!
“This is a storm of epic proportions. We’re not out of the woods with this.”-Jeff Osiensky, National Weather Service
A storm as strong as a category 3 hurricane/typhoon hit the coast of Alaska the night of November 9. Anchorage saw ocean surge of 10 feet above normal. The last time a similar storm hit Alaska was in November 1974.
The Weather Service says Alaska can expect three to four inches of snow for November 10. There is “a potent upper level disturbance” rotating around the Bering Sea.
Ironically, Wednesday’s planned test of the new National Emergency Alert System was cancelled in Alaska because of the weather, I’d say that shows the new Emergency Alert system failed.
First the March 11 disasters in Japan, now the floods in Thailand. Toyota says they can’t get enough parts to build their cars.
Toyota and Honda are suffering major parts supply problems (Honda already cut North American production by 50%).
Toyota is cutting back on worldwide production. November 7, according to NHK, Toyota will be forced to cut production by at least 30%.
Toyota was trying to recover from the March 11 disasters, and had hoped to produce 330,000 vehicles in Indonesia, for the month of November. Now they are hoping they can produce 230,000.
Blame it on the incompetent ‘just in time’ parts supply policy.