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Idaho, Technology, U.S.

U.S. Wildfires 2021: Wyoming & Colorado activates MAFFS, Nevada’s MAFF mission extended!

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“The request for additional support shows just how challenging this fire season is and how critical our MAFFS aircraft, aircrews and maintenance personnel are to supporting NIFC [National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho].”-Colonel Jeremy Ford, 152nd Airlift Wing, Nevada Air National Guard

Wyoming ANG photo by Technical Sergeant Jon Alderman.

On 19JUL2021, a Wyoming Air National Guard (ANG) C-130H MAFFS (Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System) was activated, and on 20JUL2021 was sent to battle wildfires in California.

Wyoming ANG photo by Technical Sergeant Jon Alderman.

The C-130H has been upgraded with a new propeller system.

Wyoming ANG photo by Technical Sergeant Jon Alderman.

Wyoming ANG video by Jacqueline Marshall, 19JUL2021:

Wyoming ANG photo by Technical Sergeant Jon Alderman.

Also on 19JUL2021, Colorado ANG activated a MAFFS to fight the fires in California.  Music video announcement by Staff Sergeant Laura Fitsmorris:

Earlier in the month, one California ANG C-130 MAFFS, and two Nevada ANG ‘High Rollers’ C-130 MAFFS began fighting fires in California.

CAL FIRE Air Tanker Base, McClellan Park. Nevada ANG photo by Senior Master Sergeant Paula Macomber.

Nevada’s ‘High Rollers’ just had their mission in California extended until August 26th!

MAFFS aircraft are only activated when it becomes clear that the private sector water bombers are overwhelmed, or will soon be, by the volume of wildfires.

NIFC in Boise, Idaho, warns that ‘Scary Fuel’ shortage could ground firefighting aircraft.

U.S. Wildfires 2021: Wyoming governor waves federal pandemic restrictions to ease aviation fuel shortage for water bombers

K-MAX & 10 TANKER, WAITING FOR THE CALL IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO

U.S.

U.S. Disaster 2021: Arizona Militia responds to flooding on top of Pandemic

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After more than a year and a half of pandemic-panic-attack operations, the Arizona Army National Guard (AZNG) is also dealing with flooding in Coconino County.

AZNG photo by Staff Sergeant Adrian Borunda.

AZNG video by Staff Sergeant Adrian Borunda, road repair in Coconino County, 22JUL2021:

AZNG photo by Staff Sergeant Elizabeth Smith.

AZNG video interviews by Staff Sergeant Elizabeth Smith, 24JUL2021:

U.S. Food Crisis, June 2021: Arizona National Guard continues pandemic-panic-attack food operations due to private sector logistics failure

U.S. Food Crisis, March 2021: National Guard pandemic food operations proves the private sector market system has failed

Operation CoViD-19:  Arizona National Guard using taxpayer funded trucks to transport produce to civilian owned grocery stores, April 2020

Food Crisis Hurricane Irma: ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA, MINNESOTA MILITIAS DELIVER SUSTENANCE!

Hurricane Harvey: ARIZONA MILITIA DEPLOYED

International

Disaster 2021: German Flood clean-up, USAF style

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Spangdahlem Air Base personnel volunteer to help with flood clean-up in Kyllburg and Auw an der Kyll, 14 -16 July 2021.

U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sergeant Laura Beckley.

USAF video by Master Sergeant Laura Beckley, clean-up operations in Auw an der Kyll, 16JUL2021:

USAF photo by Master Sergeant Laura Beckley.

USAF photo by Master Sergeant Laura Beckley.

USAF video interview by Technical Sergeant Anthony Plyler, Kyllburg, 14JUL2021:

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Anthony Plyler.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Anthony Plyler.

Disaster 2021: U.S. MILITARY RESPONDS TO GERMAN FLOOD, KNEW FLOOD WAS IMMINENT

Influenza

Operation Jupiter: CoViD ‘Bubble Boy’ Box? Project was started before the Pandemic & you paid for it!

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Photo via Olifant Medical.

“As we were developing our enclosure, we realized there was likely the need to tailor it to military specifications, such as being able to attach it to a gurney and to develop portable vacuum pump. The need to adapt our technology to DoD needs aligned with the SBIR program. Our adaptations have led to a dual-use, civilian and military technology that is even more robust than our original ideation.”-Justin Rice, Olifant Medical

Photo courtesy of Olifant Medical.

On 22JUL2021, the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program unveiled a medical device designed to prevent people from getting infected with coronavirus.

It’s called a STAT Enclosure and was originally presented by a San Antonio, Texas, doctor back in June 2020.  It is meant for healthcare workers.  It fits over the head and shoulders of the infected victim,  it has ports to allow healthcare worker’s hands inside to treat the patient.  It also has an air hose that can be used to create a pressure environment inside the box.

Photo courtesy of Olifant Medical.

The designers with Olifant Medical claim that while it looks simple, it was very difficult to develop.  Its development was paid for by the U.S. Air Force’s AFWERX program.  I found a news article which not only revealed that the AFWERX funded STAT Enclosure cost U.S. taxpayers a minimum of $1-million, but that AFWERX actually began its relationship with Olifant Medical back in February/March 2019 when AFWERX paid Olifant Medical $50-thousand in ‘seed funding’!

AFWERX Vehicle I-D: SAY HELLO TO YOUR TAXPAYER/USAF FUNDED ‘CIVILIAN’ HELICOPTER-CAR!

ChikRisk 2021: U.S. ARMY CONTINUES TO WARN OF NEW PANDEMIC

Operation Jupiter, April 2021: U.S. ARMY MAKING ITS OWN COVID NANO-VACCINE!

Operation Jupiter, 2020: OPERATION COVID-19 IS FOR REAL

Operation Jupiter, 2019:  MEASLES PANDEMIC SPREAD BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, OR EVIL BILDERBERG VACCINE PROGRAM?

Operation Jupiter, 2015: J-U-P-I-T-R  A-T-D, A SMALL PART OF A LARGER MILITARY OPERATION SPREADING DISEASE AT A HOSPITAL NEAR YOU!

Technology, U.S.

Hurricane prep 2021: ‘Near Shore Experiment’ proves scientists still don’t have a clue!

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“To better protect our coastal communities we need to better model, understand and predict the complex and dynamic nearshore environment.”-Brittany Bruder, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center

Duck, North Carolina, where a major weather research project has been ongoing since 2019.

It has been more than 130 years since modern weather science started, yet even after decades of collecting hurricane data within the United States, scientists still don’t understand the weather!

An ancient U.S. Army Corps of Engineers LARC-V is used to carry a remote control boat (oceanographic research drone) for the DuNEx.

An attempt to rectify that will officially begin in Autumn 2021, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It is called the During Nearshore Event Experiment (DuNEx), or DUring Nearshore Event eXperiment (DUNEX), being conducted by the U.S. Coastal Research Program.  It would’ve happened sooner but there was a “…delay in their planning and preparation for the upcoming… …DUNEX field experiment due to the COVID-19 pandemic.” 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo.

Preparations for DuNEx 2021 have been ongoing since 2019, and the whole thing is not expected to conclude until Winter 2022!  The goal is to be better able to predict what a storm will do, and to advise coastal communities on short-term and long-term plans of action.

June 2021: SPCMSC scientists travel to the Outer Banks of North Carolina to conduct DUNEX

Hurricane prep 2021: GEORGIA MILITIA WARMS-UP THE D-R-M-K-T

September 2020: ERDC researchers participate in the DUring Nearshore Event eXperiment 

LARC-V:  U.S. NAVY KEEPS OLD U.S. ARMY BOAT-TRUCK AFLOAT

International

Disaster 2021: U.S. military responds to German flood, knew flood was imminent

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As of 19JUL2021, more than 150, and almost 1-thousand-3-hundred missing or unaccounted for after a devastating flood along the German-Belgian border.  People working on a U.S. Air Force base, and a U.S. Army garrison, responded as soon as local governments issued the call for help: “A sign of the German-American friendship that is alive in our region.”-Peter Schneider, German Federal Parliamentarian

Binsfeld, Germany, 14JUL2021. U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Warren Spearman.

Three months worth of rain fell in just three days, causing all the rivers to flood.  Yet personnel on a U.S. air base knew it was coming: “We knew the rain was coming so we were preparing to secure the base, which we did….  ….Our fence extends past this whole base. They are our neighbors. So if they are in need, whether it’s fire, whether it’s flooding, whatever happens, were are just here 24/7.”-Technical Sergeant Isaac Brenyah, 52nd Civil Engineer Squadron, Spangdahlem Air Base

Binsfeld, Germany, 14JUL2021. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Warren Spearman.

On 14JUL2021, U.S. personnel with 52nd Civil Engineer Squadron, on Spangdahlem Air Base, got a distress call from the Binsfeld mayor; send lots of sandbags.

Binsfeld, Germany, 14JUL2021. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Warren Spearman.

About 1-thousand-8-hundred sandbags were delivered to the communities of Binsfeld and Neiderkail.  It wasn’t just the 52nd CES that responded: “People came out to support and I have no clue what squadron or flight they belonged to because they were in civilian clothes, but I just want to give a big shout out to everyone.”-Technical Sergeant Isaac Brenyah, 52nd Civil Engineer Squadron

Kordel, Germany, 15JUL2021. Photo by Sebastian Schmitt.

Then on 15JUL2021, firefighters and lifeguards working on U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz were dispatched to several locations in the Baumholder area.

Kordel, Germany, 15JUL2021. Photo by Sebastian Schmitt.

“Everything was blocked off, so we only met those who were coming into the emergency shelter. They were in a daze. One gentleman had to leave his house so fast he was only wearing his underwear. He didn’t have time to grab any other clothing.”-Christoph Himbert, firefighter with Baumholder Military Community

So far it has been only small German towns that have asked for help from the U.S. military, the state of Rheinland-Pfalz has not officially requested aid from the U.S. Air Force/Army, so far.

Global Disaster prep: U.S. Navy TO SPEND $5-BILLION UNDER NEW ‘INNOVATIVE CONTINGENCY CONTRACT’

Hurricane 2021: U.S. ARMY LOVES GIANT MAPS, FEMA PREPS FOR NATION-WIDE DISASTERS + PANDEMIC!

June 2021: U.S. ARMY SPENDS YOUR MONEY BUILDING disaster response STATIONS FOR ARMENIA!

May 2021: U.S. MILITARY GLOBAL DISASTER PREP/RESPONSE

2019: GERMANY ROCKED BY MAJOR EARTHQUAKE?

Influenza

Operation CoViD-19: USCG makes 1st ‘Bill & Melinda Gates’ vaccine delivery to Haiti

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“Until yesterday, Haiti was the only country in the Americas without a single dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Today, 500,000 doses of vaccine donated by the U.S government through COVAX landed in Port-Au-Prince, the capital city of Haiti.”-United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF)

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Senior Chief Petty Officer Sara Muir.

On 14JUL2021, a U.S. Coast Guard HC-130J delivered half-a-million doses of CoViD-19 vaccines to eternally impoverished Haiti, at U.S. taxpayer expense of course.

USCG photo by Senior Chief Petty Officer Sara Muir.

HC-130J-2013 is nicknamed Elizabeth City, because of where it is based in New Jersey.

USCG photo by Senior Chief Petty Officer Sara Muir, 14JUL2021.

Elizabeth City was up-loaded with U.S. taxpayer funded (Department of Health and Human Services, aka HHS), Gavi directed COVAX vaccines in Memphis, by the Tennessee Air National Guard’s 164th Logistics Readiness Squadron.

Once on Haiti, Elizabeth City’s crew off-loaded the vaccines to U.S. Embassy personnel. USCG video report by Senior Chief Petty Officer Sara Muir:

COVAX is a United Nations pro-vaccine organization co-founded, and co-directed, by vaccine pushers Bill and Melinda Gates through their Gavi Foundation.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has this warning for anybody who thinks vaccines will save them: “Avoid travel to Haiti… ….even fully vaccinated travelers may be at risk for getting and spreading COVID-19 variants.”

Hurricane prep 2021: WC-130J WX HUNTERS DEPLOY

Vaccine Fail: MALARIA VS COVID, OR IS IT MALARIA + COVID?

Operation CoViD-19:

DOES THE ‘C’ IN C-130 STAND FOR COVID?

COVERT OP TO CONTROL THE GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY?

U.S.

Cascadia Rising: Operation Black Wind, Bremerton hit by massive quake & contamination?

“To our knowledge, this is the first time, at least at Navy Medicine commands, to have a fire engine pump hundreds of gallons of water to a DECON team to use in helping decontaminate patients.”-Terry Lerma, Naval Hospital Bremerton emergency manager

Preparations for the overdue Cascadia Event continues, this time striking the U.S. Navy’s hospital on Bremerton, Washington.

During the second week of July 2021, Naval Hospital Bremerton conducted Operation Black Wind (in conjunction with Citadel Rumble) to assess how to respond to a catastrophic natural disaster.

U.S. Navy photo by Douglas H Stutz, 15JUL2021.

Operation Black Wind’s scenario is set immediately after ‘a sudden and significant seismic event’ that lasted for at least one minute.  It also involved military personnel becoming sick due to a haz-mat truck overturning as a result of the quake.  The scenario of massive amounts of hazardous materials being released and affecting the local population has only recently been added to the U.S. Department of Defense/FEMA’s disaster response training.

Citadel Rumble is a yearly large scale U.S. Navy ‘all hazard exercise’ held across the West Coast of the United States: “This exercise readies our personnel for response and recovery before, during and after a natural disaster or other all-hazard events. Installations in our West Coast regions face risk of damaging earthquakes and wildfire encroachment, so this training is vital to expedite recovery and maintain mission readiness should such events occur.”– Mark Sinder, Director of Operations for Commander, Navy Installations Command

Cascadia Rising:

PREP FOR 2022, “…EXTRAORDINARY LEVELS OF MASS CASUALTIES…”!

U.S.

U.S. Medical Disaster: For 1st time Military Medics operate on City Streets!

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“A lot of the medics had never been in the back of an ambulance….  …They are able to learn the new equipment, different ways of using it and get out on the streets to use it on actual patients in the field.”-Master Sergeant Gregg Hecathorn, 150th Special Operations Wing

New Mexico Air National Guard photo by Airman First Class Lauren McMullen.

For the first time, Air National Guard (ANG) medics from Maine, and New Mexico, conducted real-life operations on city streets, riding along civilian counterparts in the city of Greenville, Mississippi, during the first two weeks of July 2021.

New Mexico ANG photo by Airman First Class Lauren McMullen.

“At first, it was a little intimidating because we are not really used to doing civilian EMS of any kind….  My favorite part of today was being able to calm patients down and seeing their relief when I was talking to them. It was really nice to see someone in crisis and be able to help take away the panic.”-Technical Sergeant Cailee Salerno, 101st Air Refueling Wing

It was an part of operation Delta Wellness Mission 2021, which is presented as an Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) event for disaster response, however the ‘training’ involves dealing with real medical situations, and is an excuse to help out communities that are suffering economically.  

“I came from a reservation and small town; being in Mississippi, getting to help a new community on an ambulance is surreal.”-Master Sergeant Shannon Myhre, 150th Special Operations Wing

New Mexico ANG photo by Airman First Class Lauren McMullen.

Delta Wellness isn’t just about training-up the military, for some reason civilian operated Pafford Emergency Medical Services employees went through military combat medical training: “A partnership between IRT and Pafford was established to expose military personnel to real world emergency response and further their readiness to support domestic and overseas missions. This is the first time in IRT’s history with such collaboration, which was also of benefit to Pafford as their personnel attended a couple of military organized trainings to include Tactical Combat Casualty Care, K9 First Aid, Land Navigation, and Combatives.”-Captain Adrian Mateos, 150th Special Operations Wing

Captain Adrian Mateos conducted the ‘combatives’ training part of Delta Wellness 2021, in July. New Mexico ANG photo by Airman Tyler Catanach.

Why would silly-vilian Emergency Medical Technicians require ‘combative’ training?

Biden’s War: VERMONT MILITIA’S MEDICAL & ECONOMIC MISSIONS IN FOREIGN LANDS

Disaster prep 2021: ALASKA GETS NEW D-R-M-K-T

Title 5: FOR FIRST TIME, AIR NATIONAL GUARD HIRES CIVILIAN COPS! COVERT OP TO EXPAND FEDERAL POLICE FORCE?

U.S.

Biden’s War: Vermont Militia’s medical & economic missions in foreign lands

According to the Vermont National Guard Public Affairs, 18 medical professionals with the Air Force and Army National Guard are spending two weeks in the West African country of Senegal.

“Participating in partnership exercises like this benefit the Vermont National Guard by placing them in a forward environment. It also provides staff members the opportunity to work in more austere conditions, to push them outside of their comfort zone, and to build relationships with their Senegalese health care partners.”-Lieutenant Colonel Chris Gookin, Vermont National Guard

The U.S. state of Vermont has been sending state militia personnel to Senegal since 2008.  In May, 2021, Vermont sent militia personnel to the European country of Macedonia, to promote economic development at taxpayer expense.  Vermont has been sending National Guard units to Macedonia since 1993-94.

Vermont Business Magazine, 09JUL2021: Soldiers from Senegal and North Macedonia to train in Vermont

Biden’s War: VIRGINIA DEPLOYS TO KUWAIT, AGAIN