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Caribou Rodeo, District 8, Idaho, 03-04MAY2024

On 03-04May2024 there was a rodeo in the Bannock County Event Center.

District 8, of the Idaho High School Rodeo Association, includes at least six high schools in Southeastern Idaho.  There is also a junior high school division.

Going to the rodeo:

Warm-up video:

More warm-up video:

The 03-04MAY2024 rodeo was just one of many events scheduled for District 8 IHSRA.

Vehicle I-D: King of the Stallions stampedes Idaho!

At least 50 wild horses roam the Saylor Creek Herd Management Area. Photo via the BLM.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is always complaining about the wild Mustangs that roam across Idaho, but this new King of the Stallions actually flies!

U.S. Marine Corps graphic by Corporal Lauren Salmon.

During the month of August 2022, the U.S. Marine Corps conducted the first ever live-fire ‘wargame’ for its new CH-53K King Stallion, over the Saylor Creek bombing/gunnery range in South-Central Idaho.

USMC photo by Corporal Adam Henke, 11AUG2022.

Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron (HMH) 461 had the honors, and launched out of the U.S. Air Force’s Mountain Home Air Force Base, in Southwestern Idaho.  HMH-461 in based in North Carolina, they chose Idaho to test their new mount, because Idaho is geographically and climatically different from North Carolina.

USMC photo by Corporal Adam Henke, 17AUG2022.

USMC video, by Corporal Adam Henke, HMH-461 gets their King Stallion acquainted with the High Desert terrain of Idaho, 08AUG2022:

The USMC, and Lockheed-Sikorsky, claim the new-build CH-53K is more powerful, can fly higher, can stay airborne longer, is safer and easier to maintain than the older CH-53E Super Stallion.

USMC Corporal Adam Henke video of heavy lift operation, 17AUG2022:

In my opinion, the King Stallion is different enough that it should be considered its own helicopter family, apart from the CH-53 lineage.

USMC Corporal Adam Henke video of GAU-21 .50-cal ‘door-gunner’ live-fire, 17AUG2022:

USMC music video, by Corporal Adam Henke, of the first ‘exercise’ of the King Stallion, 30AUG2022:

March, 2021: CH-53K KING STALLION UPDATE

Weapon I-D, 2021: DOOR GUNNER .50 CAL

Idaho, Saylor Creek Range: 4TH TIME IS THE CHARM, IDAHO ‘HAWGSMOKES’ THE COMPETITION, AGAIN!

Idaho, OCTC: IDAHO INVADED BY APACHES FROM ARIZONA & SINGAPORE?

Cold War to Ukraine Crisis: USAF SENDS 27 BLOCK-25 FALCONS TO THE BONEYARD!

Vehicle I-D:  SUKHOI-75, THE CHECKMATE, WILL THEY OR WON’T THEY?

JORDANIAN COBRAS الكوبرا الأردني, OR HOW TO REBUILD (and then sell) YOUR U.S. FUNDED AH-1S/F.

TACP/JTACs use horse power to call in air strikes on Idaho mountains!

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Joseph R. Morgan, 07MAR2020.

It’s not Afghanistan! That’s an A-10C Thunderbolt-2 flying an air strike mission (simulated, whew) over the mountains just Northwest of Boise.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Joseph R. Morgan, 07MAR2020.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Joseph R. Morgan, 07MAR2020.

There are some things hi-tech hasn’t been able to conquer, like getting your Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) into hard to reach terrain, like the mountains of Idaho.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Joseph R. Morgan, 07MAR2020.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Joseph R. Morgan, 07MAR2020.

Between 09 February and 07 March 2020, the Idaho Air National Guard teamed up with the Gem County Sheriffs Department to call in A-10 air strikes near the town of Emmett, and conduct ‘backcountry’ ops against silly-vilians who’ve gone rebel.  (because apparently our government expects future combat ops to take place within the U.S., read statement by Staff Sergeant below)

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Airman First Class Taylor Walker, 09FEB2020.

Idaho’s 124th Security Forces Squadron also joined the hunt for terrorists (possibly those damn terrorists from California).

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Airman First Class Taylor Walker, 09FEB2020.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Airman First Class Taylor Walker, 09FEB2020.

It was the first training scenario for the 124th ASOS involving horses, so they had to get trained up first: “We’re learning how to properly pack people and equipment onto horses so that if we’re ever in a situation where we can’t use normal methods of transportation, we can use the animals to assist. TACP units are joint providers of precision strike capabilities, and as the premier precision strike provider we have to be able to get in and get out of anywhere in the world at any time.”-Staff Sergeant Neil Mooney, 124th Air Support Operations Squadron

Hunting rebel terrorists in the mountains around Emmett, Idaho. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Joseph R. Morgan, 07MAR2020.

For those citizens who have a fear the government will turn inward upon its own population (and the fact that Idaho was the scene of the infamous Ruby Ridge incident where, after citizens were killed, the government was proved wrong in court) Staff Sergeant Mooney made this ominous statement: “…there’s also a stateside potential that we could be called up with immediate response authority to go into the backcountry, and our members need to know how to get around with available livestock…”

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Joseph R. Morgan, 07MAR2020.

The guy in the above pic is wearing silly-vilian clothing because he is playing the part of domestic terrorist (opposition forces, OpFor) using the dreaded AR-15/CAR-15/M16/M4 Mass-shooter Plinker. Apparently Idahoans who don’t like the government are now domestic terrorists, or, maybe it’s a ‘foreign’ terrorist from California who heard how great Idaho was?

Idaho rebels ready to fight, better call in the air strike. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Joseph R. Morgan, 07MAR2020.

An Idaho A-10C bears down on an Idaho Rebel. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Joseph R. Morgan, 07MAR2020.

USN ADMITS HI-TECH MILITARY GEAR DEFEATED BY MOTHER EARTH’S TINY SEA CREATURES!

ROBOT PAINTERS TO SAVE THE F-22 RAPTOR?

HI-TECH FAIL?: GERMANY STILL TRAINS UP OLD-SKOOL CAVALRY!

USAF PERSONNEL EXPLAIN HOW AIR STRIKES ARE DONE

124TH IDAHO MILITIA A-10 SHOOTIN’ & SCOOTIN’ THRU IDAHO NEVADA CALIFORNIA

Hi-tech fail: Germany still trains up old-skool Cavalry!

It’s pronounced Cav-all-ry, not calvary (calvary is the name of the hill where supposedly somebody named Jesus of Nazareth was executed), and today’s German army still trains up old fashioned horse riders.

Video with soothing music in which male and female German mountain-soldiers (Gebirgsjäger) profess that their blond-haired horses are their comrades:

Video with more upbeat music showing Mountain troops having fun riding their horses (Pferde) through Alpine villages:

HI-TECH FAIL: NATO GERMANY PROVES MULES (Mulis) STILL RULE MOUNTAIN WARFARE

Hi-Tech Fail: NATO Germany proves Mules still rule Mountain Warfare

One of the most economically powerful European Union member, and a powerful NATO member, Germany still uses mules in mountain warfare because they’re still the most efficient way to transport weapons and supplies to Gebirgsjäger.  So much for hi-technology.

World War Two

It’s not just the Germans, U.S. MARINES TRAIN RESUPPLY TECHNIQUES WITH PACK ANIMALS

U.S. Army Special Forces and Pack Animals – Info and Pubs

HI-TECH FAIL: CLIMATE CHANGE BIGGEST THREAT TO BILLION DOLLAR WEAPON SYSTEMS!

On Top of Ol’ Smokey, no more?

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U.S. Army Caisson Platoon, 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) at the Caisson Stables, Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Virginia, forced one of its most dedicated personnel to retire after only 15 years of service.

Smokey, a Caisson horse, is retiring after taking part in 4-thousand funerary missions!

Caisson horses are those used by the U.S. Army to pull Caissons, which are converted old-school artillery wagons that carry caskets of important dead people.

When a Caisson horse is about to retire it goes up for adoption, apparently for free!  Smokey was adopted by a family in Tennessee.

CREATING DOG WARRIORS WITH HI-TECH $13-MILLION HOSPITAL!

Fluoride Wars: Studies show your pets are being poisoned by fluoridated water & Grapes!

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“A recently published Harvard study concluded that there was a seven-fold risk in osteosarcoma, or bone cancer, among young boys after exposure to fluoridated water………..Dogs have a significantly higher rate of osteosarcoma than humans. Researchers at Colorado State University recently conducted a large study on osteosarcoma and dogs. In their abstract they state that the osteosarcoma rate in dogs is 8 in 100,000, approximately 8 times greater than that in humans.”Linda Joy, WA Action for Safe Water

“Fluoride is a Class 2 environmental toxin, second only to arsenic in its danger as a biochemically reactive poison. Fluoride’s primary use is as a rat and cockroach poison and it is a known carcinogen. Historically, fluoride was also used in Nazi Germany ghettos and prison camps to sterilize the human inmates…..98% of Europe is now free of fluoridated water…..Racetracks in Southern CA such as Santa Anita, Del Mar and Hollywood Park have reported significant rises in bone breakage in horses….Since the San Diego Wild Animal Park began using fluoridated water, the elephant show has been permanently cancelled with one animal reportedly having mental derangement. Their zebras were also isolated in a separate pen for sudden and unusually aggressive behavior. The Australian state of Victoria announced the recent euthanization of hundreds of Kangaroos due to acute fluoride poisoning……Municipalities throughout North America are practicing medicine without a license by injecting this toxic substance into the public water supply without the consent of the people drinking the water.“-Joanne Suresh, DogsNaturally magazine

“.….rare occurrences of ‘grape poisoning’ have resulted from pets consuming an unusually large number of grapes or raisins……Grapes are one of the plants that concentrate fluoride, which can originate from the soil or the air. And today’s environment is much richer in fluoride than that of the past due to fluoride-based chemicals (fertilizers and pesticides), factory emissions (e.g. coal burning and metal production), and the use of fluoridated water for irrigation and rinsing of newly purchased produce…….The deaths in these rare cases of grape or raisin intoxication can be easily explained as fluoride intoxication……fluoride is also a cumulative toxin and over time can cause serious problems such as thyroid dysfunction and bone cancer when long-term exposure is excessive…..there is nothing innately wrong with the grapes or raisins themselves………[but] they concentrate fluoride…”John B. Symes, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine

“….a study of 10 brands of manufactured dog foods analyzed for fluoride content. Eight had levels that could put dogs at risk from developing bone cancer, thyroid disease and other health problems……contain ground bone that is the source of fluoride that farmed animals accumulate……Cats may also be at risk from chronic fluoride poisoning when similar cheap ingredients are included in their manufactured dry and canned foods……Cooking with fluoridated water simply concentrates fluoride in the food….”Michael W. Fox, DSc, PhD, BVet Med

7th Heaven Animal Trust, in the Bilderberg British empire territory of occupied northern Ireland, has a list of studies, going back to the early 1990s, concerning the effects of fluoride on animals.

Do your own research, there is a plethora of studies concerning the effects of fluoride on farm animals and pets, and they’re not good.  And if your live in the United States or Canada, you’re drinking and eating it!

Fluoride is poison!