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Pocatello Model Railroad & Historical Society, open house 15FEB2025.

Video February 17, 2025 Hutchins AAron

On a cold, blustery, snowy day, the Pocatello Model Railroad and Historical Society held another Open House. On 15FEB2025, non-club members could come in from the cold and watch some neat displays come to life. Hopefully the club, which also helps to preserve a very important part of Pocatello’s history, which many local railroad hating officials seem to want to bury (I’ve noted elsewhere that a major cause of the demise of the local economy is due to public officials making a decision that ultimately killed thousands of local Union Pacific jobs), will gain more members, or better yet, raise some much needed cash.

Always under construction.

Anybody remember their display in the old Pocatello Mall? Pocatello Model Railroad and Historical Society’s current location needs a new roof. My blustery video report:

East Idaho News, March 2024: “The railroad went to Chief Pocatello to get permission to lay their tracks through here. The Chief asked (what was in it for them) if they donated land. The railroad said, ‘Anytime you or your braves want to ride the train, we’ll let you ride it for free.’ That’s what it took to get the tracks through here.”-Larry Gilbreath, President of the Model Railroad and Historical Society

The ‘Big Room’.

Tax revolt? Some of my video from the Big Room:

Pocatello Model Railroad and Historical Society is funded with membership fees and donations. The club was started by Union Pacific railroad employees, and other fans of mini-trains.

Alas! No more passenger service.

Index of BBN’s USAID revelations, from 2011 to 2023!

February 13, 2025 Hutchins AAron

Blind Bat News has been making revelations about the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) since 2011. This is a fraction of the taxpayer funded shenanigans during that time.

December 2023: USAID ‘humanitarian supplies’ supposedly being delivered to Gaza via U.S. Air Force.

Denton Program Failure 2023:USAID gave Guatemala nuclear ‘sources’ (Cobalt-60)?

End of Cold War to Ukraine Crisis: Those decades when U.S. taxpayers supplied Russia with USAID!

Pland-emic, 2023: USAID delivers Bill Gates funded COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (aka COVAX)!

Ilyushin ‘Candid’: USAID uses Russian aircraft!

November 2022: U.S. TAXPAYERS SUBSIDIZE YEMENI NATURAL GAS FOR NATO EUROPE?

Pland-emic, 2022: USAID distributes Pfizer mRNA vax around the world!

Hunger Games, 2021: African organizations accuse the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other donors, of destroying agriculture through out the African continent under the guise of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa!

Denton Program Failure, 2021: Canadian Fire Trucks, U.S. Air Force, Central America, USAID!

Hunger Games, 2019: As the food insecurity in U.S. state of Florida refuses to go away, another USAF C-130J loaded with USAID food, and other supplies, took off from Florida for Columbia. Information from USAID stated that in February at least enough food for 10-thousand people has been shipped to rebel Venezuelan distribution operations in Columbia!

2016: South Africa accuses Obama Regime’s USAID of coup attempt!

USAID’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA).

Nigeria admits to shadow government, receives millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars every year through the terrorist organization USAID!

Afghanistan, 11 – 15 February 2015: USAID spends more big bucks on vague ‘women’s’ programs!

Afghanistan, 01 – 05 February 2015: USAID spends another $33-million tax dollars!

Afghanistan, 26 – 31 January 2015: USAID admits to $2-billion scam!

Afghanistan, 12 – 16 December 2014: More USAID taxpayer rip-offs, proving it was all about the oil!

Afghanistan, 01 – 05 December 2014: Proof USAID is a Global drug dealer!

Afghanistan, 17-20 October 2014: The terror group known as United States Agency for International Development (USAID) pledged an additional $216-million for women’s programs in Afghanistan. USAID officials claim another $200-million is coming from donations, yet mainstreamer U.S. news media reports say it isn’t enough!

Afghanistan, 05 – 08 July 2014: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) paid for the growing, picking and shipping of 22.5 metric tons of Afghan pomegranates to Russia. It’s a U.S. taxpayer funded operation called Commercial Horticulture and Marketing Program (CHAMP). U.S. taxpayers have also helped Afghan farmers ship grapes to India and United Arab Emirates, the most recent shipment weighed in at 170 metric tons! The U.S. taxpayer funded program paid for a cold storage process to allow Afghan growers to ship their agricultural produce outside their country.

Afghanistan, 06-10 April 2014: More proof USAID is money laundering!

Afghanistan, 01-05 April 2014: SIGAR (Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction) accuses USAID of corruption: “USAID kept this information from Congress and the American people. As a former federal prosecutor and congressional investigator, to me it begs the questions: What were they trying to hide, and why?“-John Sopko

Liberia ebola outbreak, 2014: It was revealed that burial teams (who’re supposedly under the direction of the terror group USAID) have not been cremating the dead, instead have been using mass graves or taking bribes to allow families to dispose of the contaminated bodies in their own fashion!

2013: USAID a covert terrorist organization?

Afghanistan; 21-23 January 2013: More free money (your tax money) from World Bank & USAID!

Afghanistan; 08 Aug – 11 Aug2012: In Kunar Province, a USAID official was assassinated.

2011: While Obama bombs Libya, he sends USAID ‘humanitarian’ team to North Korea!

2011: “…the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has provided over $28 billion in economic and development assistance to Egypt since 1975.”

Business/Economics, Idaho

JCPenney; the final domino falls at the Pine Ridge Mall, Chubbuck mall now under 4th ownership!

Video February 12, 2025 Hutchins AAron

“I can confirm that we have been working with Kohl’s to backfill the space that was the former home of the C-A-L Ranch store on the southern side of the mall property next to Hobby Lobby… …Everything north of the old C-A-L Ranch to where Planet Fitness is located in the former Herbergers would be demolished…”-Joshua Simon of SimonCRE, May 2024

The beleaguered Pine Ridge Mall, in the small Idaho city of Chubbuck, now under a new, fourth, owner: Scottsdale, Arizona, based SimonCRE, which just had their demolition plans approved by the City of Chubbuck.

Are they aware of what is underneath the property?:

The lie (starting in the early 2000s) that commercial property developers/REITs, and local officials, propagated:

According to the local newspaper, SimonCRE will begin demolishing the 1980s era mall, replacing it with free-standing businesses, as well as a Target store and a Kohl’s (aka the mall will be repurposed as an ‘outdoor shopping venue’). Supposedly the demolition begins in 2025, a completion date has not been determined, but the last surviving anchor store (also one of the first in the mall) JCPenney is shutting down, apparently by the month of May 2025.

No more indoor car shows, and what happened to ZCMI?:

Some newer buildings at the ‘mall’ will not be torn down because they are technically, and legally by contract, not part of the original mall structure. That includes Hobby Lobby (new built under the 3rd owner), C-A-L Ranch and Big Deal Outlet (both occupying the old Shopko building, which was never part of the original mall), and the Gem Prep charter school located in the old Sears building (which was added onto the mall in 1999 when Sears moved from the dead Pocatello Mall to the Pine Ridge Mall, the Pocatello Mall was replaced by a new expanded Fred Meyer).

A little history tour, and the true beginnings of the demise:

Some of the businesses inside the soon to be executed mall will move to new locations. Contrary to local news reports, Dillard’s was not one of the original anchor stores at the mall, it was a short lived replacement for the original two story Utah based, Brigham Young founded, anchor called ZCMI. Zion’s Co-operative Mercantile Institution was considered the first ‘department store’ in the United States, even though when it was founded Utah was still a territory and not a state. At the end of 1999, the ZCMI brand was sold-off and thus began a rapid confusing succession of owners and name changes, to include Dillard’s in 2001 and Macy’s in 2005-06.

What about the old Shopko/new C-A-L Ranch & Big Deal Outlet?:

2019: No more Idaho ShopKo? There never was a Shopko in Pocatello (it was in Chubbuck)!

As I’ve chronicled elsewhere, 1999-2007 are pivotal years for the U.S. retail market which directly impacted U.S. shopping malls. And this brings me to another point; for decades the ‘industry’ has been blaming the way the U.S. consumer shops for the radical changes the ‘industry’ made to brick-n-mortar operations. The truth is that online shopping has remained relatively steady over the decades, even during the pland-emic the expected rush of shoppers to the inter-web failed to materialize. The majority of shoppers still want to see and feel what they are buying and prefer brick-n-mortar stores. The misinformation postulated by the ‘industry’ was, and still is, a push by corporations, investors/REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts) to greatly increase their profit margins by massively cutting labor costs by shifting to online operations only. Those exalted ones have backed off their plan because operating huge online stores has proven to require just as many costly humans in warehousing and delivery, and expensive robots as well.

More history tour, what about the old Sears?:

2014:

Moved from Pocatello to Chubbuck in 1999, this Sears is finally dead!

Finally it’s official, Chubbuck/Pine Ridge Mall Sears going down!

2013: Chubbuck/Pine Ridge Mall Sears was already dead!

The Pine Ridge Mall is officially dead and will supposedly be gone sometime this year, leaving only one of the original three malls in the area; the Westwood Mall in Pocatello (which has been so radically remodeled it no longer has a semblance of the 1970s era mall it once was, with its wall-to-wall carpeting and big indoor fountain). However, in 2016 the City of Pocatello rezoned the Westwood Mall for a planned demolition and building of residential apartments. Eventually there will be no malls at all in the Pocatello/Chubbuck area.

Here’s what happened to the old Sears:

Even more history:

What happened to the short lived, but popular, Spencer’s? Blame the City of Chubbuck:

What happened to the beloved KB Toys? Blame Mitt Romney co-founded Bain Capital:

2011: Mitt Romney co-founded Bain Capital, which has been destroying jobs since 1984, destroyed retail jobs in Chubbuck, Idaho! Demise of KB Toys connected to Toys “R” Us!

What happened to JJ North’s, the clinic, and racing events:

Pocatello, Idaho, Big Lots! failure:Par-for-the-course, for U.S. national & local economies.

2024: Early Halloween, Trunk or Treat at the Pine Ridge Mall!

First ever (legal) Drift Car event, at the Pine Ridge Mall!

Inaugural(?) Summer AutoFest, Pine Ridge Mall, Idaho.

Inaugural(?) Pine Ridge Mall Spring Auto-Fest!

Inaugural(?) indoor Winter/New Year Car Show!

2018: Pine Ridge Mall loses yet another anchor store! Lazy ‘Experts’ continue to blame online sales!

2013: Who is the new 3rd owner of Chubbuck’s Pine Ridge Mall? It’s not the ‘family’ company you think it is! GGP connection?

East Idaho’s Pine Ridge Mall, in Chubbuck, sells for paltry $9 million!

Pine Ridge quietly put up to be auctioned off in November! Merry Xmas!

East Idaho’s Grand Teton Mall, in Idaho Falls, for sale! GGP dumping malls en masse!

Business/Economics, Idaho, U.S.

Big Lots! failure: Par-for-the-course, for U.S. national & local economies.

Video February 9, 2025 Hutchins AAron

Some independent local Eastern Idaho news outlets reported, in October 2024, that the Pocatello Big-Lots! was being shutdown. That’s 14 years of overpriced ‘resale’ merchandise, having opened the Pocatello location (in the Foothill Plaza Shopping Center) at the end of October 2010.

Photo by AAron B. Hutchins, early October 2010.

I say ‘overpriced’ because a couple of months after opening, in 2010, I checked out the new store and was shocked to find their prices to be higher than the same items sold in the Chubbuck WalMart and the Kroger owned Pocatello Fred Meyer! That was the first and last time I ‘shopped’ at the Pocatello Big-Lots!

Here is video (during a windy day) of my tirade about the closure of the Pocatello Big-Lots!, 08FEB2025:

Big-Lots! is a ‘reseller’, other wise known as a discount retail chain store, reselling products that the main stream-first run retail stores couldn’t sell. In Ohio, in 1967, the business started out as Consolidated Stores. Consolidated made investments into such troubled operations as Delorean Motor Company, CVS Pharmacy, Pic-N-Save and KB Toys (just naming a few among other troubled investments). In 2001 Consolidated became Big Lots! In 2005 Big Lots! shutdown 170 stores. In 2023, Big Lots! shutdown 52 stores and announced plans to shutdown dozens of stores in 2024. In October 2024 Big Lots! filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, and local news sources in Idaho reported that the Pocatello Big Lots! had made the latest hit list for shutdown. In December 2024 the Pocatello Big Lots! was closed permanently, on top of that Big Lots! announced that all stores would be shutdown or sold-off in 2025.

On 08FEB2025, in an attempt to take back control of their economy, the local population conducted a one day farmers market in the former Pocatello Big Lots! location. Maybe a massive Motorsports Complex (click this link to donate) will save our local economy:

I’ve been following/reporting on the local economy for more than a decade:

2021: Idaho housing costs “literally mathematically impossible”! Killing Idaho’s economy! Get ready for the crash-n-burn!

2020-2021: Several restaurant chains used the pland-emic as an excuse to shutdown (without warning) locations in Pocatello, and other parts of Idaho!

2019: POPEYES QUIETLY SHUTS DOWN FOUR IDAHO RESTAURANTS!

2018: Idaho’s economic destruction “CLOSED INDEFINITELY”!

2017: The truth about Chubbuck’s gentrification.

2016: FEDERAL AGENCY SAYS IDAHO IS DOMINATED BY POOR IMMIGRANTS!

Idaho Governor declares local economy has “RISEN FROM THE ASHES”!

2015: Taxpayer funded ‘BUY IDAHO’ program IS a BIG FAIL!

Hoku-Gate, PaveGate now Amy’s-Gate!

2013: Heinz pulls stake, Warren Buffett abandons Pocatello, Idaho! Happy New Year!

The Chubbuck & Pocatello BRIDGE TO NOWHERE?

Pocatello’s Old Fred Meyer & Albertsons on Yellowstone Ave, did not close down in the 1990s.

2011: Construction companies say Idaho city driving down the economy with their outrageous construction fees. Is Pocatello violating state law?

2010: After getting bookoo local taxpayer subsidies, U.S. BASED HOKU TURNING TO CHINA TO HELP FINISH POCATELLO, IDAHO, SILICON FACTORY!

Technology, U.S.

An emotional girl with a gun, a whole lotta guns!

Video February 6, 2025 Hutchins AAron

More than 16 years ago the Oregon Military Museum (near Clackamas/Camp Withycombe-Happy Valley) shutdown for renovations. The museum is expected to reopen during the Summer of 2025, a year later than originally planned.

In January 2025, final work was being completed for the weapons display.

Kathleen Sligar, Director/Curator of the Oregon Military Museum, talks about the final preparations for the weapons display in this video report, via Oregon National Guard’s First Sergeant Zachary Holden, released 29JAN2025:

Oregon National Guard photo by John Hughel, 23JAN2025.

Despite being closed for renovations, special tours were conducted for veterans organizations.

The museum has outdoor displays that visitors can view.

A woman with a mission: https://youtu.be/gg17C0W9BoU?list=OLAK5uy_kAZ6e1Hh1OnpO2PyMSjbMe7ajDbDDy6Ac

Oregon Military Museum, 2020:

How to assemble your 1:1 scale F-86

Technology, U.S.

Two crashes in two days involving U.S. military aircraft!

Video January 30, 2025 Hutchins AAron

U.S. Secretary of Defense Peter Brian Hegseth reports, morning of 30JAN2025, about the 29JAN2025 crash between U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk and American Eagle Flight 5342, video via Department of Defense:

On 28JAN2025, a U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning-2 crashed near Richardson Highway in Alaska. Colonel Paul Townsend, 354th Fighter Wing commander, conducts a local media press conference:

2022: MiG 31 crashes in Novgorod

2011: United States blows-up crashed French Mirage 2000D!

1949: NACA’s ramjet F-82 Twin Mustang, 1949 crash & burn? Reborn more than 60 years later!

1947: Cold War Dragon crashes into Antarctic Ocean, caught on film.

U.S.

Trump’s Wall War is on!

Video January 29, 2025 Hutchins AAron

“U.S. Northern Command is aggressively bolstering security at the southern border. For initial actions, Soldiers and Marines are immediately deploying to seamlessly integrate with forces already along the border and working together with the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection. In a matter of days, we will have nearly doubled the number of forces along the border, effectively implementing the President’s intent while planning and posturing for expanded efforts to protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the United States.”-General Gregory M. Guillot, U.S. Northern Command (NorthCom)

On 20JAN2025, President Donald J. Trump issued Executive Orders (EO), including a national emergency declaration, concerning the southern U.S. border. Under Title 10, NorthCom is deploying 1-thousand-5-hundred Regular (active duty) military personnel to assist the 2-thousand-5-hundred military personnel already working the U.S./Mexico border.

Operation Lone Star is still in effect. The Texas Military Department-Air National Guard and Department of Public Safety conducted a Migration Operational Readiness Exercise (MORE) in Roma, 20JAN2025.

The U.S. Air Force (USAF) deployed a Boeing C-17 Globemaster-3 to Fort Bliss, Texas, to help U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP, aka Border Patrol) deport illegals on 23JAN2025, video via Sergeant First Class Nicholas J. De La Pena:

On 23JAN2025, during the day USAF C-130s delivered the U.S. Army’s 401st Military Police Company to Fort Bliss, Texas, and then during the night the 41st Engineer Company arrived, for duty on the border with Mexico. I edited together videos via Sergeant Logan Ubaldo Lechuga and Sergeant First Class Nicholas J. De La Pena:

On 24JAN2025, USMC Bell-Boeing MV-22B Ospreys, assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 161-Marine Air Control Group 16-3rd Marine Aircraft Wing on Brown Field Municipal Airport in Otay Mesa, California, transported palletized concertina wire to the border with Mexico. Video via Sergeant Gabriel Tavarez:

On 25JAN2025, U.S. Air Force 62nd Air Wing Boeing C-17 Globemaster-3 delivers the U.S. Army’s 23rd Military Police Company-716th Military Police Battalion-16th Military Police Brigade to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California, video via Lance Corporal Alexander Vaughn:

On 25JAN2025, USMC 1st Combat Engineer Battalion-1st Marine Division reinforce the wall near San Ysidro, California. Video via Staff Sergeant Luc Boatman:

Local Chicago, Illinois, news media reporting that on 26JAN2025 Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) began what is called Enhanced Targeted Operations (ETO). The Chicago ETO arrests added to the nationwide Sunday total of 956 arrests! Chicago ICE video via Todd Packard:

Texas Army National Guard board CH-47 Chinooks on Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, as part of the Texas Tactical Border Force.

USMC’s 1st Combat Engineer Battalion-1st Marine Division reinforce the border wall near San Ysidro, 27JAN2025, video via Corporal Logan Courtright:

Task Force DC: Massive National Guard mobilization for the U.S. Capital City!

Biden’s Borderland: Eating fish is a major cause of human trafficking?!

Technology, U.S.

Uncle Sam preps for War: Curtiss P-40 Warhawk

Video January 24, 2025 Hutchins AAron

Curtiss XP-40 Warhawk tested in the NACA wind tunnel, Langley Research Center, Virginia, 1939.

I edited together videos from United States Army Air Corps/Forces (USAAC/USAAF) newsreels, released in 1941. Curtiss P-40 Warhawk:

Before the U.S. entered the Second World War, ‘volunteers’ were being paid by the U.S. government to fly P-40 ‘Flying Tigers’ for China, against the Japanese. However, after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor the Flying Tigers became an official USAAC/USAAF unit, along with some of their pilots being transferred to the Navy/Marine Corps, and the Chinese began flying their own P-40s. Here is a poor quality, silent film of Chinese operated P-40s:

Here are some photos of various versions of P-40s throughout the war:

P-40 tied down on Iceland, 23SEP1941.

P-40E being tested by NACA, 20MAY1942.

Warhawk lands at Burg-el-Arab, Egypt, October 1942.

Somewhere in the Caribbean, December 1942.

25DEC1942, “…SSGT J.A. Muller, CPL John W. Coleman, and CPL L.B. Thomas of the 16th Fighter Squadron, 51st Fighter Group, consume their Christmas dinner on the field at a base somewhere in China.”

A P-40F is presented to a French air force chaplain in northern Africa, 1943.

May 1943, Dobodura, New Guinea.

A bullet riddled British Royal Air Force P-40 ‘Kittyhawk’ somewhere in northern Africa, 1943.

Port Moresby Air Depot, Papua, New Guinea. A P-40 converted into a two seat observation plane, sometime in 1943.

Sometime in 1943, Burma-India Theater of Operations.

Sometime in 1943, Abadan, Iran, Soviet pilots play chess before flying their U.S. taxpayer funded P40s to the Karelian Front.

P-40 lands on a new airfield on Baker Island (aka New Nantucket), 11SEP1943.

Apamama Island, Gilbert Islands, January 1944.

February 1944, Upper Assam, India.

A Curtiss C-46 lands while a Curtiss P-40K watches, somewhere in China, sometime in 1945.

Chinese anti-air spotters are taught not to shoot down a Warhawk, sometime between 1945 and 1946.

Final flight outta the U.S.?: Yankee Lady, the last take-off? Does anybody know what is going on?

Idaho, U.S.

Task Force-DC: Massive National Guard mobilization for the U.S. Capital City!

Video January 20, 2025 Hutchins AAron

Since the beginning of January 2025, Air & Army National Guard units have been pouring into the U.S. Capital of Washington-District of Columbia (DC). Never mind all the other government security organizations who are also deploying there. This is just a little bit of what the National Guard is doing.

New York National Guard in-process for Joint Task Force-District of Columbia (JTF-DC) at the DC Armory, Washington DC. Photo via Sergeant First Class Steven Eaton, 18JAN2025.

As many as 8-thousand militia personnel, from at least 40 states, deployed to Washington DC for Joint Task Force District of Columbia (JTF-DC), as part of the 60th Presidential Inauguration.

On 18JAN2025, Idaho based 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team (wearing ‘Snake River Brigade’ patch) gets sworn in as deputies, along with other Guard units from other states. I edited from a video via Technical Sergeant Missy Sterling:

Connecticut National Guard discuss preparations for assigned Joint Task Force-District of Columbia (JTF-DC), 17JAN2025. Photo via Private First Class Emmanuel Gibson.

On 17JAN2025, Virginia Army National Guard used buses and HMMWV to deploy to Washington DC, video via Staff Sergeant Marc Heaton:

17JAN2025, about 1-hundred Oklahoma National Guard personnel deployed for the 60th Presidential Inauguration. Video interviews, via Matthew Hilborn, explains why:

On 17JAN2025, a Kentucky Air National Guard C-130 delivered Idaho Army National Guard personnel to Joint Base Andrews, in Maryland. About 350 Idahoans deployed. Video via Technical Sergeant Andrew Enriquez:

District of Columbia Army National Guard inspect their dress uniforms as part of the 60th Presidential Inauguration. Photo via Staff Sergeant Simone Sampson.

On 17JAN2025, Tennessee Air National Guard Security Police and Army National Guard Military Police deployed, video interviews via Sergeant Olivia Gum:

National Guard board a C-17 Globemaster-3, Photo by Sergeant N.W. Huertas, 16JAN2025. About 500 Florida militia personnel will take part in JTF-DC.

On 16JAN2025, Maryland Army National Guard personnel reported for duty in the DC Armory, video via Thomas Lamb:

Pennsylvania Army National Guard gets food from the USO, after arriving for JTF-DC, 16JAN2025. Photo via Sergeant First Class Shane Smith.

Massachusetts Army National Guard helps to in-process other Guard units, in the DC Armory, 16JAN2025. Photo via Staff Sergeant Tyrone Williams.

Wyoming National Guard takes part in riot control training, in preparation for Joint Task Force-District of Columbia, 15JAN2025. Photo via Staff Sergeant Cesar Rivas.

On 15JAN2025, Virgin Islands deployed Army National Guard personnel to the upcoming 60th Presidential Inauguration. Video via Technical Sergeant Andrew Enriquez:

I edited together videos via Vincent De Groot and Technical Sergeant Adam Welch; on 15JAN2025, Iowa deployed Air National Guard medics to the upcoming 60th Presidential Inauguration:

South Carolina Army National Guard board busses bound for Washington DC, 15JAN2025. Photo via Sergeant Duran Jones.

On 15JAN2025, Alaska National Guard C-17 Globmaster-3 delivered National Guard militia personnel from Puerto Rico, I edited video via Staff Sergeant Natalie Filzen:

I edited down a long video (via Staff Sergeant Katherine M. Jacobus); on 15JAN2025, about 140 Illinois Air National Guard Security Police and Army National Guard Military Police deployed, they explain why:

06JAN2025: Militarizing the Police: Army Guard deputized as Capitol Police!

Technology, U.S.

U.S. Disaster 2025: What is PHOS-CHEK? FEMA & National Guard ops in California.

Video January 13, 2025 Hutchins AAron

PHOS CHEK is a product of a company called Perimeter Solutions. They also sell a retardant called FIRE-TROL. They claim their retardants are certified USDA “environmentally friendly”. The red color means nothing, it is one of three options for buyers, the other two are “disappearing color” and “uncolored”. Obviously the red would allow fire fighters to see where they’ve already applied the stuff.

On 12JAN2025, C-130 cargo haulers equipped with U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS) get loaded with brand name PHOS CHEK, Channel Islands Air National Guard Station on Port Hueneme, California. Currently there are old C-130H Hercules operated by Colorado Air Force Reserve, Nevada Air National Guard and Wyoming Air National Guard. California Air National Guard operates the newer C-130J Super Hercules. I edited video via Technical Sergeant Nicole Wright:

California Air National Guard’s 146th Airlift Wing Super Hercules water-bombing (retardant/brand name PHOS CHEK) the mountains above Pacific Palisades. The air-horn noise is the MAFFS in operation. Video via Master Sergeant Nicholas Carzis, 11JAN2025:

On 11JAN2025, California Army National Guard’s 40th Combat Aviation Brigade arrived on Camarillo Airport, to link-up with CalFire (California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection) Fire Hawks. I edited down a video via Specialist William Franco Espinosa:

On 11JAN2025, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) began helping survivors file claims, at the Pasadena Convention Center. FEMA video via Alexis Hall:

If you are a fire survivor and have transportation, the FEMA and The American Red Cross have set up locations across Los Angeles County, to try and help you and even your pets. FEMA video via Alexis Hall, 10JAN2025:

California Army National Guard’s 40th Military Police Company on patrol in Santa Monica. I edited video via Sergeant William Griffen, the video was recorded 10JAN2025, but not released until 12JAN2025:

U.S. Disaster 2025:USMC & Air Guard mobilized for California fires!

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