West Virginia Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Zoe Morris.
Residents of Kentucky reporting that this year’s flooding is the worst they’ve seen, with the Governor saying the death toll will hit double digits. State officials declared it to be catastrophic, and admitting they don’t have the labor to adequately respond to calls for rescues. Next door neighbor West Virginia is sending help.
West Virginia Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Zoe Morris.
The West Virginia National Guard is sending two UH-60M Blackhawks and two UH-72 Lakota rotary wing aircraft, and their crew. They are rom Company C, 2-104th General Support Aviation Battalion (MEDEVAC) and Company B, 1-224th Security and Support Aviation Battalion, based out of Williamstown.
West Virginia Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Zoe Morris.
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Kentucky Army National Guard photo by Sergeant First Class Benjamin Crane, 01JUL2022.
“We can live without electricity, we can live without the Internet. One thing you definitely can’t live without is water. And it becomes something that we sometimes take for granted.”-Adam Ledford, City of Marion
Beginning 24JUN2022, personnel with Kentucky Army National Guard’s 2061st Multi-Role Bridge Company, as well as the 206th Engineer Battalion, 201st Engineer Battalion, and 103rd Chemical Battalion, have been working to bring potable water to the town of Marion.
Kentucky Army National Guard photo by Sergeant First Class Benjamin Crane, 01JUL2022.
Side note: Despite what dictionaries/word-smiths say is the source of the word potable, people should pronounce potable as pot-able (or pot-a-bul), as in the water is able to be used in a pot for cooking/drinking. Non-potable, of course, is water that is not able to be used in a pot for cooking/drinking.
On 22JUN2022, it was reported that administrators in Crittenden County were scrambling to solve a water shortage problem caused by attempts by City of Marion administrators to drain Lake George.
Lake George was the primary water source for Marion, but in April erosion in the lake’s levee suddenly developed into a sink-hole. An attempt was made to drain the Lake George, to prevent total failure of the levee and a resulting massive flood of the town. At first the standard way of draining was not making good progress, so they decided to breech the levee on purpose.
Observing Old City Lake. Kentucky Army National Guard photo by Sergeant First Class Benjamin Crane, 01JUL2022.
There are several options for the City of Marion; rely on other cities and other counties for water, which will greatly jack-up water costs for Marion residents. Or, have the Governor call in the National Guard and make emergency taxpayer funded water deliveries until a long term solution proves viable.
Kentucky Army National Guard photo by Sergeant First Class Benjamin Crane, 01JUL2022.
Governor Andy Beshear declared a state of emergency and initially deployed approximately 20 Army National Guard Combat Engineers.
WSIL video report, three days of potable water left as of 06JUL2022, multiple new leaks:
On 07JUL2022, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet announced it will attempt to connect Marion with water from the Crittenden-Livingston Water District. Also, Webster County Water has been suppling water, and, Marion officials approved a plan to build a three miles long system to connect to the Caldwell County Water District in Princeton. However, all these expensive water connections to other systems will supply only half of the City of Marion’s water needs. Additional efforts are being attempted.
The City of Marion is a rural city with a population of about 3-thousand.
Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of main stream news links announcing United States food supply shutdowns, emergencies, outbreaks and recalls for June 2022:
Long explanation how food crisis is second biggest factor behind price inflation (housing is number one). Food price inflation directly linked to fertilizer shortage caused by sanctions and war, yet as a result fertilizer is being stockpiled (farming ops are buying more than what they need out of fear) which will have a long term effect of fertilizer price drops, reducing food prices:
International food analysts (this leftist-liberal report loves to call them ‘experts’) say the food crisis is actually about “…access to food, that people don’t have money to pay for food, that people are jobless.” It is not about a lack of food (I’ve already posted about migrant farm workers in Idaho that say the same thing):
Indiana National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Tackora Farrington, 15JUN2022.
On 15JUN2022, Walmart conducted their yearly Feed ’em for Freedom food fest, on Camp Atterbury, for state National Guard personnel, and their families. Never mind that taxpayers already pay for the meals of military personnel, Walmart probably gets a tax write-off for providing a free BBQ for them. Is this a covert way for the Department of Defense to save money, by preparing state militia to rely on private sector donations for their meals?
NORTH CAROLINA:
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sergeant Isaiah Campbell, 29JUN2022.
On 29JUN2022, U.S. Marines with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) volunteered to help operate the Unite Way’s Children Healthy Eating on Weekends (CHEW) Center, in Jacksonville.
VIRGINIA: On Fort Lee, the USDA kicked off its 13th annual Feds Feed Families (FFF) campaign. This means that for the past 13 years federal employees are being encouraged to donate food to silly-vilians, I mean civilians who are going hungry. Isn’t that a sign the country’s economy sucks? After all, a federal job is considered the best paying entry level job now, and I remember when being a federal employee meant you got less than private sector minimum wage (because I was one)! The FFF program will be collecting food until September 30th. This year U.S. military officials are blaming the food crisis on The Pandemic, as well as domestic and foreign political intrigues: “The annual Feds Feed Families food drive is one of the best ways for commissaries and military families to give back to the communities which host us around the nation. Unfortunately, with the pandemic and related issues of the last few years, the need is as great as it has been in a long time. The good news is that a little goes a long way.”-Sergeant Major Michael R. Saucedo, U.S. Marine Corps, Director of Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA)
More proof the global food crisis was long underway before Russia/Ukraine, caused mainly by a capitalist for-profit globalization market/logistics system.
Video posted 08JUN2022, Malaysian food crisis might be because local farms are forcefully being turned into housing projects:
The situation in Sri Lanka is so bad that enemies in the civil war have joined together to protest the government! This 07JUN2022 report explains that Sri Lank is the first to fall, and massive shortages of all things, including food, is not about actual shortages but about the for-profit capitalist globalist logistics/supply chain:
Jon Jandai points out that there is no justifiable reason for food shortages:
The NATO members started the whole thing by imposing food sanctions against Russia. On 06JUN2022, Wynken Blynken & Nod, I mean the U.S. Secretary of State, as well as the Secretary of Agriculture, continue the lie that Russia is causing the global food crisis. Secretary Blinken:
Pakistani food venders blame food crisis on inflation:
The Philippines Department of Agriculture warns there is not enough taxpayer funding to keep up with inflation! The Department of Agriculture is tasked with providing food security but says it does not have the funding to deal with natural disasters that have destroyed rice farms, or swine flu which began killing-off pigs in 2019:
Malaysia suffering a chicken shortage due to most of its flocks being exported, so exports of chickens are now banned in an attempt to prevent hunger in Malaysia! Singapore is now suffering a chicken shortage, and price inflation, as a result of Malaysia’s export ban:
U.S. Atlantic hurricane season=June 1st to November 30th
For the start of June 2022, the U.S. Air Force, Army and Coast Guard issued some type of warning for this year’s hurricane season.
U.S. Army photo by Matt Roe, 01JUN2022.
On 01JUN2022, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers joined the city of New Orleans, as well as other local and state agencies in Louisiana, in pleading with residents to prepare for hurricanes and to heed evacuation orders/advisories. Also on 01JUN2022, U.S. Coast Guard District 8 issued a video reviewing the past few years of hurricane action for the Gulf states, including off-season action (incorrectly referred to as “inactive season”, because if there are still hurricanes then it is not “inactive”) and tropical storms:
USCG District 8 gives you detailed advice, specific to the U.S. Gulf states, for evacuation preparation:
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Kristen Pittman, 02JUN2022.
On 02JUN2022, a WC-130J out of Kessler Air Force base (AFB), Mississippi, flew the first official hurricane tracking mission of the ‘in’ season.
USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Kristen Pittman, 02JUN2022.
It was tracking down Tropical Wave Invest 91-L, which was heading towards Florida. On 01JUN2022, the commander of Eglin AFB, Florida, issued a humorous video about your 72 hours ‘Go-Bag’ for the hurricane season:
Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of main stream news links announcing United States food supply shutdowns, emergencies, outbreaks and recalls as of 29 May 2022:
CALIFORNIA: Mystery disease causing birds to starve to death, it is not Bird Flu:
Using the military to sort and/or delivery food aid in the United states is now Standard Operating Procedure (SOP).
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Garrett Kiger, 26MAY2022.
U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy Sailors handed out food boxes at the Los Angeles Saint Francis Center, 26MAY2022.
U.S. Navy video, by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Pyoung K. Yi, of Sailors and Marines packing Los Angeles Region Food Bank boxes, 27MAY2022:
Silent U.S. Navy video, by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class David Negron, of Sailors and Marines packing Los Angeles Region Food Bank boxes, 28MAY2022:
FedEx MD11 being loaded up with foreign made baby formula, on Ramstein Air Base, Germany. U.S. Department of Defense photo, 25MAY2022.
Once again, FedEx is involved in another tax dollar funded crisis, this time baby formula.
FedEx MD11 filled with foreign made, U.S. tax funded baby formula. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Taylor Slater, 25MAY2022.
The first baby formula shipments came from Nestlé in Switzerland (paid with your taxes), this latest shipment is from Nestlé’s Gerber factory in Netherlands. 29 pallets worth were delivered to Ramstein Air Base and loaded-up onto a FedEx MD11 aircraft.
U.S. Air Force photo by First Lieutenant Emma Quirk, 22MAY2022.
The baby formula that was delivered to the Indianapolis International Airport, Indiana, on 22MAY2022, was loaded onto FedEx trucks for delivery somewhere in the U.S.
The first taxpayer funded truck transporting capitalist baby formula rolls onto Ramstein Air Base, Germany. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Alexcia Givens, 21MAY2022.
It is not food aid, it is your taxes, and your military, being used to hasten the capitalist importation of baby formula made in Switzerland and other countries! Or, is this just an excuse for providing corporations with ‘free’ taxpayer funded transportation of their products?
U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Alexcia Givens, 21MAY2022.
It is called Operation Fly Formula, supposedly ordered by U. S. President Joseph R. Biden Junior. (the details are here WhiteHouse.gov: Biden Administration Approves First Operation Fly FormulaMission) Biden’s order also supports the re-opening of a capitalist corporation baby formula factory owned by Abbott Nutrition, and relaxes importation rules for foreign made baby formulas that are not currently sold in the U.S.!
A tractor-trailer full of Nestle’s Alfamino formula on Ramstein Air Base, Germany. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Alexcia Givens, 21MAY2022.
First to be handled by the U.S. Air Force is baby formula made by Nestlé of Switzerland; 132 palletized ‘skids’ worth (about 39 tons, or 78-thousand pounds) of medical grade baby formula. It was sent by truck to Ramstein Air Base, in Germany, on 21MAY2022, U.S. Air Force video by Senior Airman Thomas Karol:
It was then loaded onto USAF transport planes to be flown to Indianapolis International Airport, USAF video by Staff Sergeant Jacob Wongwai:
USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Jacob Wongwai, 22MAY2022.
It is just more proof the capitalist ‘free market’ logistical supply system has failed.
USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Jacob Wongwai, 22MAY2022.
USAF video by Lieutenant Emma Quirk, C-17 carrying first load of capitalist corporation baby formula lands on Indianapolis International Airport, Indiana, 22MAY2022. The foreign made baby formula is then handed over to taxpayer funded capitalist corporation FedEx for delivery:
Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of main stream news links announcing United States food supply shutdowns, emergencies, outbreaks and recalls as of 19 May 2022:
Food shortage is part of the “Everything Shortage”:
U.S. Air Force photo by Matthew Clouse, 18MAY2022.
On 18MAY2022, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the U.S. Air Force conducted a food supply training event on Wright Patterson Air Force Base. The scenario was that the city of Dayton had been hit by a massive flood and no edible food was left. Contracted tractor-trailer drivers were tasked with delivering fuel, clean water and food. The disaster response event was called Eagle Rising.
A Latvian National Guard soldier sprays down a U.S. Army truck on 12APR2022. U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Preston Malizia.
Latvia is so afraid for its poultry industry that it now requires vehicles that operate near poultry farms to be decontaminated (aka an agricultural wash), and that includes NATO military vehicles training for the Ukraine Crisis!
U.S. Army vehicles on Katterbach Army Airfield, Germany, get an agricultural wash, 31JAN2022. USA photo by Captain Gabrielle Hildebrand.
It is not just Latvia. Agricultural washes are taking place in NATO Germany as well.
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