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NATO Vehicle I-D: Iron Spear AFV & IFV

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Canadian Light Armored Vehicle 6.0 (aka LAV-6) fires its 25mm gun during Iron Spear, on Adazi, Latvia, 13NOV2023. Canadian Armed Forces photo by Captain Joffray Provencher.

In November 2023, NATO conducted wargame/competition Iron Spear in Adazi, Latvia (Ādaži, Latvija). Military units from Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, United Kingdom (U.K.) and United States of America (U.S.A.), took part.

Canadian LAV-6 on Adazi, Latvia, 14NOV2023. U.S. Army (USA) photo by Specialist Bernabe Lopez the Third.

Infantry Fighting Vehicles:

Various IFVs from various NATO-members converge on Adazi, Latvia. USA photo by Captain H Howey, 13NOV2023.

Can you I-Dentify the different IFVs? NATO tries to help with the big flags. USA photo by Captain H Howey, 13NOV2023.

USA photo by Captain H Howey, 13NOV2023.

USA photo by Specialist Bernabe Lopez the Third, 13NOV2023.

USA photo by Specialist Bernabe Lopez the Third, 14NOV2023.

U.S. Army video, by Sergeant Alex Soliday (14NOV2023), highlighting the U.S. Bradley and U.K. Warrior, concluding with a mass-live-fire involving all the participating NATO-member IFVs:

And the winner is, NATO-U.S.A.! Taking First Place with their Bradley IFV. USA photo by Specialist Bernabe Lopez the Third, 16NOV2023.

Armored Fighting Vehicles:

Canadian Leopard 2A4M CANs arrive on Adazi, Latvia, 10NOV2023. Canadian Armed Forces photo by Corporal Lynette Ai Dang.

Poland’s T-72 based PT-91 Twardy attends Iron Spear, 13NOV2023. USA photo by Captain H Howey.

PT-91 Twardy live-fire during Iron Spear. USA photo by Captain H Howey, 13NOV2023.

Bore-sighting the U.S. M1A2 Abrams. USA photo by Captain H Howey, 13NOV2023.

German Leopard 2A6s. USA photo by Specialist Bernabe Lopez the Third, 13NOV2023.

U.S. Army video, by Sergeant Alex Soliday (14NOV2023), highlighting the U.S. Abrams and German Leopard battle tanks, concluding with a mass-live-fire involving all the participating NATO-member AFVs:

USA photo by Specialist Bernabe Lopez the Third, 15NOV2023.

And the winner is, NATO-Spain! Taking First Place with their Leopard 2E battle tank. USA photo by Specialist Bernabe Lopez the Third, 16NOV2023.

NATO Vehicle I-D: MIG-29 BŬLGARIYA

BMP AMBULANCE, ROMÂNIA STYLE

LATVIJAS CVR(T) SCIMITAR, SAMARITAN, SPARTAN

TARCZA POLSKI PT-91

Influenza

PANDĒMUS TOTALITARIAN, 2024: ‘Pandemic Medical Response’ now part of U.S. domestic counter-terrorism unit!

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In 1999, a U.S. Presidential Executive Order (issued by William Jefferson Clinton) created the Joint Task Force-Civil Support (JTF-CS) with the goal of responding to terrorist attacks within the United States. JTF-CS is an operation run by the U.S. Northern Command (USNorthCom).

U.S. CBRN Marines participate in a demonstration during JTF-CS’s 22nd birthday on 01OCT2021. Photo by Staff Sergeant Kristian Karsten.

Mentioned 01:49 into this promotional video, the JTF-CS mission now includes “Pandemic Medical Response” as part of CBRN (Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear) operations! Also revealed is that the JTF-CS ‘counter-terrorism’ mission now includes natural disasters. Video by Chief Petty Officer Brannon Deugan, released on 04JAN2024:

A U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman assigned to Joint Task Force Civil Support, conducts CoViD-19 temperature checks at the JTF-CS headquarters in Virginia. Pandemic response is now a standardized part of JTF-CS. Photo by Master Sergeant Crista Mary Mack, 19APR2020.

PANDĒMUS TOTALITARIAN, November 2023: NATIONAL GUARD MANDATORY IMMUNIZATIONS!

Vaccine Fail: TAXPAYER FUNDED NATO-member STUDY SAYS mRNA BOOSTER DOES-NOT PREVENT DEATH, DOES INCREASE INFECTIONS!

Technology, U.S.

Hawaii: Poseidon Down!

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The recovered Poseidon is towed to the wash rack, 04DEC2023. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Hunter Jones.

The Boeing P-8A Poseidon is based on the 737NG passenger plane (86% commonality).

Finally ashore, 03DEC2023. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sergeant Julian Elliott-Drouin.

On 02 & 03DEC2023, the downed P-8A was pulled from the water, U.S. Marine Corps time-lapse video by Corporal Christian Tofteroo:

The multi-role aircraft was brought ashore using ‘roller’ airbags. USMC photo by Sergeant Julian Elliott-Drouin, 02DEC2023.

AP News, 02DEC2023: U.S. Navy says it will cost $1.5M to salvage jet plane.

On 01DEC2023, divers made their plans for the extraction of the P-8A Poseidon. USMC photo by Sergeant Julian Elliott-Drouin.

Malu ‘Ania, 29NOV2023: Military Code Names for Nuclear Incidents and Accidents: Dull Sword, Bent Spear, Broken Arrow, and NUCFLASH! “The P-8A predecessor, the P-3 Orion, carried Nuclear Weapons, both nuclear depth charges and nuclear torpedoes. Does the P-8A carry nukes as well?”

28NOV2023, USN Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit One (MDSU-1) conduct underwater assessment of P-8A. USN video:

On 28NOV2023, loose parts in the broken tail had to be removed. USMC photo by Corporal Cody Purcell.

In this 27NOV2023 press conference video, U.S. Marine Corps Colonel Jeremy W. Beaven revealed that the Waterfront Operations Team was undergoing training for such an incident just three days prior, on 17NOV2023. Once the crew was safe, Colonel Beaven stresses that their main concern is the surrounding environment, so much so that they had a hazardous waste containment boom in place within 30-minutes after the incident:

U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Kevin P. Lenox also gave statements that were intentionally designed to stress environmental protection, with a focus on the removal of the fuel from the multi-mission maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft.

The Aviationist, 27NOV2023: All Female Crew.

FlightGlobal, 27NOV2023: U.S. Navy hopes to restore crashed Hawaii P-8 to flight status.

On 26NOV2023, additional floatation bags were inflated under the Poseidon. USMC photo by Corporal Chandler Stacy.

De-fueling of the Boeing aircraft. USMC photo by Corporal Chandler Stacy, 26NOV2023.

The nose & radar of the P-8A were quietly and quickly removed. USMC photo by Sergeant Brandon Aultman, 21NOV2023.

Photos show that sometime between the 20th and 21st of November (possible even before containment booms were deployed) the nose and radar had been removed, no explanation was given.

Containment boom being deployed around the P-8A, 20NOV2023. USMC photo by Lance Corporal Tania Guerrero.

On 20NOV2023, an expensive U.S. Navy (USN), Boeing built, P-8A Poseidon ran off the runway into Kāneʻohe Bay, Oʻahu, Hawai’i.

U.S. Disaster, 2023: HAWAII FIRES, 4+ MONTHS ON, LITHIUM BATTERIES MADE THINGS WORSE?

U.S.

U.S. Disaster: Hawaii Fires, 4+ months on, Lithium batteries made things worse?

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Incomplete list of federal government response to the ongoing wildfires on the Hawaiian Islands.

On 28DEC2023, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)-Honolulu District revealed plans for a temporary campus for displaced students of King Kamehameha-the-Third elementary school. USACE video by Charles Delano:

USAEC was ordered in September, by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), to design and build a temporary elementary school. The work is actually being done by contractor Pono Aina Management of Waianae, Hawaiʻi. The temporary school is using taxpayer-leased modular buildings, and could be in use for the next five years!

Kula, Maui, 27DEC2023. USACE photo by Brigida I. Sanchez.

Debris removal includes trees that are considered to be a potential threat, possibly falling onto the public, so they are cut down and removed.

“All the recovered lithium batteries and power walls were handled by EPA utilizing an innovative process. The state, county, and other federal partners were not involved in the de-energizing and decommissioning of the batteries.”-Stacy Greendlinger, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, December 2023

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers explains the debris removal process, on Maui, Hawaii, 01DEC2023:

USACE photo by Sara Goodeyon, 25NOV2023.

At the end of November, the USACE Wi-Fi system for the new temporary school had to be moved to a better location, to improve connectivity.

On 18 November, the first soil samples were collected by the USACE in Kula: “At each location, six inches of soil is scraped off of the top and then the contractor lays out decision units and collects the samples. The samples will be analyzed for elevated levels of metals such as arsenic, canec, lead, and cadmium. If they come back showing elevated levels of contaminates, the area will be scraped and sampled again.”-Jean Barnes, Environmental Protection Specialist

Hawaii Army National Guard’s UH-60 Black Hawks and CH-47 Chinook rotary wings respond to wildfire on O’ahu, near Mililani Mauka, 04NOV2023. So far, the Hawaii National Guard has dropped at least 30-thousand gallons of water on the O’ahu wildfires. Video by Sergeant Lianne M. Hirano:

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Second Class Brandon Hillard, 01NOV2023.

The U.S. Coast Guard-Station Maui oversees the contracted salvage and recovery operations of sunken boats in the Lahaina Harbor.

Hawaii Army National Guard CH-47 Chinook drops water on the wildfire on Mililani, O’ahu, Hawaii, 01NOV2023. Video by Master Sergeant Andrew Jackson:

USACE photo by Erin Jimenez, 24OCT2023.

In October, USACE employees, working the Hawai‘i Wildfire Recovery Field Office in Kiehi, were so stressed-out that they got a visit from therapy dogs.

On 21OCT2023, the USACE began the first site assessment for Phase-1 private property debris removal in Kula:

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Megan Geiger, 19OCT2023.

In October, donations were collected on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, in the Evergreen State of Washington. The donations were then picked up and shipped to Hawai’i by a Seattle based food pantry organization.

U.S. Disaster, September 2023:

LAHAINA FIRE FIASCO, WILL THE USE OF ELECTRIC CARS RESULT IN EPA ‘SUPER FUND’ STATUS FOR RESIDENTS?

U.S. Disaster, August 2023: FEMA RESPONSE, LAHAINA FIRE!

LAHAINA FIRE; JTF 5-0 DEPLOYS!

LAHAINA FIRE; HAWAII MILITIA DEPLOYS!

U.S. Disaster, August 2021: MILITIA & U.S. ARMY BATTLE LARGEST EVER WILDFIRE FOR HAWAII!

Fukushima

A second quake has just struck Japan. 23:03 Japan time, preliminary magnitude 7 Japan scale, downgraded to 3 magnitude.

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Japan Meteorological Agency is investigating why they are getting greatly differing seismic readings.

Fukushima, International

Disaster 2024: Japan hit by massive quake, fires, liquefaction, tsunamis!

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01 January 2024 (06:31-UTC-07 Tango 06) 11 Dey 1402/19 Jumada t-Tania 1445/20 Gui-Chou 4721/01 январь 2024 года

Noto Peninsula (能登半島, Noto-hantō) is the epicenter of a 7.6 magnitude Richter scale (7-Japan Meteorological Agency [JMA] scale) earthquake that struck at 16:10 Japan time. An earthquake warning was issued just before the quake. Evacuations underway for Ishikawa Prefecture (located on the center of the west coast of Honshu). Ishikawa-Wajima (Wajima City) is on fire, the local fire department reports they are overwhelmed.

Buildings are collapsed, with people underneath. Small tsunamis are coming ashore in surrounding west-coast prefectures on Honshu and Hokkaido.

A live TV news reporter, in one city, said mud was pushing up into the streets. At least 49 aftershocks on the Noto Peninsula.

In the affected prefectures, communication services (including fiber optics) are down, bank services down, some rail transport is down, airline services suspended, hospitals reporting many injured people showing up, police in Nanao City report at least two people confirmed dead, Nanao Ohta Thermal (coal fired) Power Station shutdown. A nuclear power facility in the area reports no problems as it was already offline when the earthquake struck.

A second quake warning was issued.

March 2022: FUKUSHIMA REDUXE!!! 7+ QUAKE, TSUNAMIS, 6- QUAKE, NUKE PLANTS OFFLINE, TRAIN DERAILS!

Idaho

Idaho trades one Cold-War aircraft for another Cold-War aircraft, is it progress or politics?

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27 December 2023 (03:13-UTC-07 Tango 06) 06 Dey 1402/14 Jumada t-Tania 1445/15 Jia-Zi 4721/27 Декабрь 2023 года

A-10C on Gowen Field, Boise Airport, Idaho, 20DEC2023. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur.

Both the A-10 Thunderbolt-2 and the F-16 Falcon were developed during the same decade; the 1970s.

A-10A Thunderbolts fly over the Pacific Ocean, 14JUN1977. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Joseph F. Smith.

In July of this year, the Idaho Air National Guard revealed that the U.S. Air Force is forcing them to replace their A-10Cs with F-16s, starting in 2027.

A-10C on Gowen Field, Boise Airport, Idaho, 20DEC2023. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur.

The A-10A (first flight May 1972) was the result of U.S. Air Force experience with ground attack missions over Viet Nam.

An F-16A belonging to Hill AFB, Utah, flies over Nellis AFB, Nevada, December 1979. USAF photo by Ken Hackman.

The F-16A (first flight in 1976) was developed as a replacement for the F-5E Tiger-2 (itself a replacement for the F-5A Freedom Fighter, designed to be a low cost aircraft for countries who did not have the money to buy the big combat planes, and was subsidized by U.S. taxpayers through the MAP [Military Assistance Program]).

The first USAF unit deployment of F-16s to Europe involved Falcons from Hill Air Force Base, Utah, in 1981. They were sent to Flesland Air Station, in NATO-Norway. U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sergeant Don Sutherland, 01MAR1981.

The division between those in the USAF who liked the A-10 and those who liked the F-16 began during the development of the prototypes, in the 1970s. My father worked at Edwards Air Force Base, California, during that time, and was one of the pro-F-16’ers. Edwards AFB is where both aircraft were originally developed. My father would come home from work stating that he hoped something bad happened to the A-10, so that the USAF would choose the F-16. What people (including my father) didn’t seem to understand is that both aircraft were the result of combat experiences over Viet Nam, and were intentionally designed for specific missions, which is why at that time the USAF wanted both aircraft.

A-10C on Gowen Field, Boise Airport, Idaho, 20DEC2023. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur.

Both aircraft have been upgraded over the decades, yet ever since the Obama regime was in power the U.S. Air Force has pushed to replace the decades old A-10 with the decades old F-16.