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When the Bold Tigers turned Idaho Falls Airport into a military base!

In October 2024, the 391st ‘Bold Tigers’ Fighter Squadron (part of the larger 366th ‘Gunfighters’ Fighter Wing, based on Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho) used the Idaho Falls (IF) Regional Airport to conduct ‘combat turn’ training.

A Bold Tiger lifts-off from the Magic Valley Regional Airport in Twin Falls, Idaho, after undergoing maintenance.

The IF airport wasn’t the only place the Bold Tigers conducted their combat turns. The wargame called Raging Gunfighter takes place at various locations throughout the U.S. Mountain West, for approximately ten days.

A Bold Tiger sits on the flightline of Wendover Airfield, Utah.

The scenario is worse-case; a ‘near-peer’ war (World War Three) has started and the F-15E Strike Eagle units must be able to deploy anywhere, as well as rearm and refuel upon landing then immediately take-off, this is known as a combat turn.

On Wendover Airfield, Utah, the 366th Civil Engineer Squadron was tasked with the hasty set up of a forward operating base, with 58 tents, 32 generators, 72 HVAC units, 36 showers, 36 latrines, plus attended to 96 work orders.

Also on Wendover, the 366th Security Forces Squadron conducted medical evacuation training.

Back on the IF airport, the 366th Communications Squadron practiced with their PRC-117G satellite communicator.

Bold Tiger F-15E Strike Eagles took off from Mountain Home AFB (possibly Magic Valley Airport in Southern Idaho), in Southwestern Idaho (I edited from video released by the 366th FW):

The Bold Tigers flew their Strike Eagles to Eastern Idaho to conduct their combat turn training (I edited from video released by the 366th FW):

An Airman with the 391st FS (Bold Tigers) marshals an F-15E Strike Eagle on the Idaho Falls Regional Airport.

A C-130J Super Hercules was used to transport ground personnel and equipment (I edited from video released by the 366th FW):

Bold Tigers fly over the Magic Valley Regional Airport in Twin Falls, Idaho, as they head home to Mountain Home AFB.

December 2024: Idaho F-15Es over Syria

March 2024:  Idaho’s Garrison Forward “…accepts more risk deliberately.”

July 2023: Idaho’s Bold Tigers invade Japan?

June 2023: USMC & Idaho Air Guard preps JTAC for ‘Near Peer’ fight! With China?

October 2022: Florida Talons over Idaho Mountains

January 2019: Location of missing Idaho F-15E Strike Eagles revealed? 

September 2018: Mountain Home F-15E walk-around, Micron Bus

Green (with envy) ’63 Impala!

It’s called the Oldies Rod & Custom car show for the Pocatello Senior Activity Center (SAC), this year it was held on 14JUN2025.

1963 Chevrolet Impala.

My quick video:

Watch my 14th SAC Show YouTube ‘Long-Form’ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bObs4PL234

My ‘short-form’ YouTube video:  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SiBvXbuDixA

Most everybody likes a…

1955 Chevy Tri-Five!

Studebaker Gangster!

Studebaker Commander Eight Regal sedan.

14JUN2025, the Idaho State Veterans Home in Pocatello, Idaho, put on a car show and barbeque to honor the veterans.

My video:

My YouTube video of the car show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nanJagZ4CLE

My YouTube ‘short-form’ video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/j94LtM0ofq0

Remember when Nissan was called Datsun?

1955 Chevy Tri-Five!

Most everybody likes a Tri-Five Chevrolet.

It’s called the Oldies Rod & Custom car show for the Pocatello Senior Activity Center (SAC), this year it was held on 14JUN2025.

My video:

Watch my 14th SAC Show YouTube ‘Long-Form’ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bObs4PL234

My ‘short-form’ YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/t-WklQ6g9TE

Fofd? : Found On Farm (almost) Dead!

Remember when Nissan was called Datsun?

14JUN2025, the Idaho State Veterans Home in Pocatello, Idaho, put on a car show and barbeque to honor the veterans.

In December 1941, Japan attacked U.S. military assets on the island of O’ahu, Hawaii. By 1945 the United States defeated and occupied Japan. During the middle of the so-called Cold War, Japan invaded the U.S. by ‘dumping’ subsidized automobiles onto the U.S. market.

Today, the old Datsun 510 is still sought after by rice-burning racers and collectors.

My video:

My YouTube video of the car show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nanJagZ4CLE

My YouTube ‘short-form’ video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Rg6US_g7Gno

June 2025: Idaho Veterans Home car show & free food feed!

Idaho Veterans Home car show & free food feed!

14JUN2025, the Idaho State Veterans Home in Pocatello, Idaho, put on a car show and barbeque to honor the veterans.

The local Boy Scouts also conducted a flag retirement ceremony, here’s my ‘Short-Form’ video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CeQOKBWNDtc

The free food was cooked by and Army of One:

‘Bubba’ Misner’s philosophy on life:

Time to go, part-1:

Time to go, part-2:

Time to go, part-3:

My ‘Long-Form’ video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nanJagZ4CLE

My ‘Short-Form’ walk through video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/p4CT67plolE

Another car show on the same day, same city: The 14th ‘SAC Show’, Pocatello, Idaho!

Found On Farm (almost) Dead!

This ain’t no professional patina paintjob, pulled from a local farm field the original color was slowly rubbed-n-buffed by Mother Nature for decades, until the local business graphics became almost unreadable.

The owner/savior of this 1938-39 Ford pickup has tried to keep everything original, except for stuff that was needed to bring the ol’ Flathead back to life, and the seat is not period correct.

My walkaround video:

Watch my 14th SAC Show YouTube ‘Long-Form’ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bObs4PL234

My ‘short-form’ YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fKGKxMpkJfk

14th Oldies Rod & Custom Show: The 14th ‘SAC Show’, Pocatello, Idaho!

The 14th ‘SAC Show’, Pocatello, Idaho!

It was a sunny day.

It’s actually called the Oldies Rod & Custom car show for the Pocatello Senior Activity Center (SAC), but I calls it The SAC Show.   This year it was held on 14JUN2025.

As usual, there was a nice selection of classy cars to view, but not as many as previous years (as evidenced by my coverage of the previous two years), probably because there was another local car show on the same day (and it had free food).

‘Uncle’ Perry always finds me:

Watch my 14th SAC Show YouTube ‘Long-Form’ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bObs4PL234

Watch my YouTube ‘Short’ video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/P2lwdIJD2KI

See you next year:

And don’t forget the bikes: Bicycles at the 14th SAC Show!

Previous SAC Shows: 13th Annual SAC Oldies Rod & Custom show & fundraiser!

Pocatello SAC show, June 2023.

Cold War: China gets ‘The Bomb’! Blames U.S. imperialism.

Most of China’s atom bomb testing took place in Lop Nur, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, and it was done without the help of the Soviet Union.  From 1954 to 1959, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) helped the People’s Republic of China (P.R.C.) start an atom bomb program.  At the same time political philosophers in both the U.S.S.R. and P.R.C. developed conflicting ideas about the future role of global Communism, resulting in a permanent split by 1960. This was not known to most people in the Euro-centric ‘western’ world, thanks to the western propaganda machine known as ‘the news media’.

By 1960, the U.S.S.R. removed all its nuclear advisers from P.R.C. because it was feared that Mao Tse Tung (aka Mao Zedong) would consider a nuclear weapon the same as a conventional weapon. In 1961, the P.R.C. denounced the so-called communism of the U.S.S.R. as being a form of western imperialism!  From 1960 onward the P.R.C. continued their atom bomb program on their own.

The United States of America (U.S.A.) assigned the code word CHIC to China’s nuclear weapons tests.  Apparently it was not an acronym and didn’t mean anything as I’ve found nothing to indicate so.

I edited from a People’s Republic of China documentary about their atom bomb program, Project 596 bomb #1 (CHIC-1), October 1964, part-1 preparations:

Project 596 (CHIC-1), part-2, detonation at 15:00 on 16OCT1964, and ‘recovery’:

Wargames were conducted in the immediate aftermath of the detonation of CHIC-2.

CHIC-2 bomb #2, 14MAY1965:

China’s third nuke (U.S.A. designation CHIC-3) contained uranium-235 and lithium-6, making it a thermonuclear bomb.

CHIC-3, preparations:

CHIC-3, detonation, at 16:00 on 09MAY1966:

CHIC-3, results and conclusions; it is easy to survive a nuclear war as long as you are sheltered below the surface of the ground:

Live animals, even plants, were used in exposed and sheltered positions some distance from ground zero and the scientists claimed most survived, which prompted the Chinese leaders to conclude that nuclear war is survivable and that the threat of ‘nuclear armageddon’ is a “paper tiger” used by the imperialists (specifically the United States) to frighten smaller countries into submission!

U.S. Navy ‘Thor’ nuke bomb carrier: Cold War, McDonnell F2H Banshee

Forever Wars: Japan #1, Global Takeover, NATO War with China?

Robot Wars: China’s self-flying Antonov Maize, a modernized Cold War Aircraft

CHINA’S TYPE 59D, UPDATED COLD WAR T-54/55, TO LIVE-ON AS A ROBOT TANK?

Bicycles at the 14th SAC Show!

It’s actually called the Oldies Rod & Custom car show for the Pocatello Senior Activity Center (SAC), but I calls it The SAC Show.

My two-wheeler video:

Watch my 14th SAC Show YouTube ‘Long-Form’ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bObs4PL234

My YouTube ‘Short’ video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hRx5NK-1CAE

Previous SAC Shows:

13th SAC Show, 2024: 1952 Chevy Bomber!

12th SAC show, 2023: Lowriders