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Operation CoViD-19: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines

The ‘main stream’ U.S. news media is doing a piss-poor job of showing what the Department of Defense is doing during this Corona-Virus Disease-2019 pandemic.  It’s as if they’re deliberately trying to make it look like there’s no government response.

GERMANY:  U.S. Air Force (USAF) CoViD-19 screenings at Ramstein Medical Clinic, Ramstein Air Base, 19MAR2020.

U.S. Army medics prep for another day of CoViD-19, Hohenfels, 18MAR2020.

Video, U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria CoViD-19 response:

Employees of the Miesau Army Depot Child Development Center disenfect the now shuttered daycare center, 20MAR2020.

Employees of the U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz S6 (computer geeks) report being swamped with requests for laptops after U.S. Army personnel were ordered to ‘telework’.

ITALY: A USAF C-130J from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, delivered a En-Route Patient Staging System (ERPSS) to the Italian Ministry of Defense.  ERPSS provides 10 patient holding/staging beds and can handle a maximum throughput of 40 patients in a 24 hours period.

Despite Italy being hit hard by CoViD-19, infrastructure work must still be done.  USAF civil engineers replace a fire hydrant at Aviano Air Base, 23MAR2020.

JAPAN:  Commander Fleet Activities Yokosuka (CFAY) Security Department conducts CoVid-19 checks at the gate, 25MAR2020. Vending machines on Misawa Air Base get disinfected, 24MAR2020.

KOREA:  U.S. Army Soldier on Camp Carroll has the fit of his respirator tested during CoViD-19 response training, 24MAR2020.

Going into battle?

This is how the U.S. Army mops floors in CoViD infected Korea.

Using CBRNE vehicle decontamination procedures to deal with CoViD-19.

UNITED KINGDOM: The USAF 100th Air Refueling Wing is based on Royal Air Force (RAF) Mildenhall, which has a confirmed case of CoViD-19 infection, directly connected to a USAF 48th Fighter Wing Airman at RAF Lakenheath who is also positive with CoViD-19.

UNITED STATES: Arkansas; Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System is actively screening for CoViD-19 (just to be clear, the VA is separate from the Department of Defense).

Arizona; Drive-thru meds delivery at Luke Air Force Base, 23MAR2020.

CoViD-19 testing is not painless, Luke AFB, 23MAR2020.

California;  In the San Diego area, two sailors assigned to Naval Special Warfare (NSW) tested positive for Coronavirus Disease 2019, 22MAR2020.

After loading up with CoViD-19 ammo, the USNS Mercy finally sailed out of San Diego on its CoViD-19 mission, 23MAR2020.

CoViD-19 screening aboard USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6).

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District employee inspects a facility in Santa Clara, 23MAR2020, as potential use for Alternate Care Facility (ACF, aka quarantine/isolation camp).  The order to search for potential CoViD ‘camps’ came from FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency).

After a Marine on Marine Corps Air Station Miramar tested positive for CoVid-19, the post office was disinfected and marked-off for proper social distancing, 23MAR2020.

Colorado; Video of CoViD-19 screening at Peterson Air Force Base, 23MAR2020:

Hawaii; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) technical survey team confer with a U.S. Public Health Service officer about the potential of using the Hawaii Convention Center as a FEMA ordered Alternate Care Facility (ACF, aka quarantine/isolation camp).

Marine Corps Base Hawaii’s Kaneohe Bay Branch Health Clinic implements CoViD-19 protections.

Illinois; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Chicago District have been actively assessing potential sites for Alternate Care Facility (ACF, aka quarantine/isolation camp).

Maine; Four NSW sailors are currently isolated and restricted in movement onboard Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor where they tested positive while training.

Mississippi; CoVid-19 screenings outside the Keesler Medical Center at Keesler Air Force Base, 23MAR2020.

North Carolina; Marines returning from overseas now undergoing CoViD-19 screening at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point.

North Dakota;  Volunteers on Grand Forks Air Force Base with free food for grade school students now unable to go to school due to CoViD-19 shutdowns.

Pennsylvania; Tobyhanna Army Depot employee performs maintenance on a much needed ventilator.

Maintenance on an infusion pump.

Texas; Airmen working the Ross Clinic’s pharmacy, on Goodfellow Air Force Base, using Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).  So far no cases of CoViD infection on the base.

Goodfellow AFB has also switched to curb-side pharmacy ops only.

New recruits arriving at Lackland AFB for basic training have a new lesson to learn; social distancing.

OPERATION COVID-19: ARMY, AIR FORCE, NAVY, MARINES

OPERATION COVID-19: TITLE 42 USC 265, THE RAPTURE DISAPPEARS BORDER CROSSERS?

OPERATION COVID-19: NATIONAL GUARD ‘FOOD’ SURGE

Vehicle I-D: NASA Canberras, B-57B ‘Hush Kit’ & WB-57F Rivet Chip/Slice

Images of B-57B and WB-57F via NASA, USAF and USMC.

This NASA B-57B was used to test the jet engine ‘mufflers’ (aka Hush Kits, officially Exhaust Noise Suppressors) that would be used on 1960s-early ’70s jet airliners.  Dryden, Edwards AFB.

Wright J65-W-5 turbojets power the B-57B.

Note the tail support rod, yes, even real jet aircraft used tail supports when parked for a long time.  Also, the Hush Kits added a lot of weight to the rear of center-of-balance.

According to the information with this NASA photo the aircraft was painted in fluorescent colors, but it didn’t specify.  They probably meant Day-Glo, which is the copyrighted name of the DayGlo Color Corporation.

09DEC1971, tail code 809 is bare metal with NASA markings and a ‘V’ under the cockpit.  The V stood for Viking Mars Lander parachute test program.

11 years later, tail code 809 in the standard white with blue stripes NASA colors.  Wing tip pitots (both sides), different nose tip and pitot.  In 1982, 809 began  atmospheric research, everything from wind currents to air pollution.

809 was retired in 1987.

USAF video report about the history of the B-57:

 

By 2015 only three B-57s were operating, all NASA WB-57Fs.  The aircraft in the middle of the group is configured differently from the other two.  (clicking on some of the smaller pics in this post will make them bigger)

 The  U.S. Air Force RB-57F was developed in the early 1960s to take air samples over enemy countries to determine if they had conducted nuclear bomb experiments.  However, that was the secret mission, the official mission of RB-57Fs was weather forecasting.  USAF RB-57Fs were plagued by engine problems and structural failures.  The engines used are Pratt & Whitney TF33-P-11A turbofans.  In 1968 RB-57Fs were re-designated WB-57F.

This WB-57F has a modified foil covered nose carrying instruments to track a 2017 solar eclipse.  Beginning in 1968 NASA began modifying WB-57Fs, code names Rivet Chip and Rivet Slice, for its specific high-altitude research.  Every year the aircraft are modified with different sensors, and even new paint schemes, for the missions scheduled for that season of research.

A NASA WB-57 takes off from the flight line of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California, 21AUG2019. The aircraft was utilizing the MCAS Miramar flight line and airspace to test new communications software.

In the rear seat (Robins AFB, Georgia), Don Darrow is about to take-off on a mission to track Hurricane Joaquin, in 2015.

Spain, 2011, stop-over for routine maintenance and refueling.

01JUL1979, then astronaut candidate Kathryn D. Sullivan set an unofficial altitude record in a NASA WB-57F; 63,300 feet was reached during a four-hour flight.

Mach2 issued two versions in 1:72 scale, the USAF RB-57 and the NASA WB-57F.  They are not for beginners as they are low quality low pressure injection (short run) kits.

Airmodel made a RB-57F vacformed conversion for the old 1:72 scale Airfix or Frog Canberra kits.

DB Productions makes a vacformed and resin R/WB-57D/F conversion for 1:72 Italeri B-57B.

Collect-Aire Models made a 1:48 scale resin kit.

BARE METAL: NASA’S MD-11 EXPERIMENTAL

IDAHO, KANSAS, UTAH HOME BASES FOR NASA’S DC-8 FIREX-AQ!

NASA ‘CLIMATE SPY PLANE’ PROVES CALIFORNIA’S STRICT ANTI-POLLUTION LAWS ARE A JOKE!

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

Operation CoViD-19: Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines

The ‘main stream’ U.S. news media is doing a piss-poor job of showing what the Department of Defense is doing during this Corona-Virus Disease-2019 pandemic.  It’s as if they’re deliberately trying to make it look like there’s no government response.

CoViD-19=CoronaVirus Disease-2019

Somewhere in the Philippine Sea a U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman loads an ABI StepOne Plus RT-PCR machine with samples of potential CoViD-19 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), 19MAR2020.

GERMANY: U.S. Defense Logistics Agency’s (DLA) Germersheim Central Distribution Center begin loading pallets of semi-perishable goods on to delivery trucks, 17MAR2020.

Germersheim Central Distribution Center delivers supplies to 33 commissaries, 26 U.S. Embassies and four Navy Exchange marts across Europe and Southwest Asia.

18MAR2020, Wiesbaden High School administrators hand out lap-top computers to students as they switch to online classes only.

ITALY:U.S. Army CoViD-19 instructions posted at a photo shop in Caserma Ederle, Vicenza, 16MAR2020.

Half-a-million U.S. bound CoViD-19 testing kits were loaded onto a Tennessee National Guard C-17 at the U.S. Air Force’s Aviano Air Base.  Shipments of test kits made by Copan Diagnostics, in Italy, began on 14MAR2020, through the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

KOREA:  U.S. Department of Defense Education Activity teachers and administrators on the U.S. Air Force’s Osan Air Base get a CoViD-19 update, 20MAR2020.  Students are now taking classes online.

U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center Korea explains their CoViD-19 mission:

UNITED STATES:

Colorado; Peterson Air Force Base conducting CoViD-19 screenings, 20MAR2020.

Georgia; Moody Air Force Base conducts CoViD-19 screenings:

Hawaii;  The U.S. Navy’s Branch Health Clinic Makalapa conducting CoViD-19 screenings.

Louisiana;  Commander of Air Force Global Strike Command issues statement regarding CoViD-19 and nuclear weapons response capabilities:

Nevada;   Nellis Air Force Base, home to the massive Red Flag aerial wargames, conducting CoViD-19 screenings at  Mike O’Callaghan Military Medical Center.

New York;  One of many CoViD-19 signs at the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station.

North Carolina; U.S. Marines and Navy personnel prep Camp Lejeune for CoViD-19 screenings, 19MAR2020.

South Carolina; USAF C-130 and C-17 transport planes of U.S. Southern Command, conducted a CoViD-19 rescue of the U.S. women’s U.S. style tackle-football team in Honduras, arriving at Joint Base Charleston 20MAR2020:

Texas; Lackland Air Force Base explains CoViD-19 rules for its Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center:

Washington;  Crew member onboard USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) conducts CoViD-19 disinfecting ops while the ship awaits maintenance at Bremerton.

ISOLATION: Separation and restriction of people who ARE SICK with a contagious virus from people who are not sick.

QUARANTINE:  Separation and restriction of people who might have been EXPOSED to a contagious virus to see if they become sick.

OPERATION COVID-19: NATIONAL GUARD RAMPS UP

Robot Wars: A-I strips an A-10 naked!

Personnel seal panel lines, rivets and any other ‘openings’ to prevent the stripping material from entering the aircraft. U.S Air Force photo by Todd Cromar, 04DEC2019.

In December 2019, a robot paint stripper at Hill Air Force Base (AFB), Utah, was used to strip an A-10 Thunderbolt-2 for the first time.  Normally, it’s used on F-16s.

Corrosion control technicians seal up the seams and holes in the skin to prevent the blast media from entering the aircraft. USAF photo by Todd Cromar, 04DEC2019.

“There are going to be across-the-board improvements including a dramatic reduction in exposure to a Hexavalent Chromium dust environment. This is perhaps the greatest benefit to the robotic system. Savings will also be seen with reduced operating time and less power consumption, as well as reduced costs in material. We really haven’t found a downside to this system.”-Tim Randolph, 576th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron

USAF photo by Todd Cromar.

Two robots, with four hose attachments each, move independently along both sides of the aircraft. The time to strip an A-10 is decreased from three days to 9-12 hours!

Sorry, they didn’t release any pics of the naked A-10.

This Davis-Monthan ‘Paint Barn’ video, released in January 2020, shows you how many humans are needed in order to paint an A-10:

 

Robot Wars:

Photo via Aerobotix.

A-I PAINTERS TO SAVE THE F-22 RAPTOR?

TEXAS TURNS TO ROBOTS TO WASH F-16

A-10 Thunderbolt-2: ANOTHER A-10C WITH INVASION STRIPES

THE OWL HAD A BLUE UMBRELLA!: HOW LANTIRN KILLED THE N/AW-10, AND, WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE TRUMPETER/HOBBY BOSS KITS?

How to assemble your 1:1 scale MQ-1 Predator

“We have just won a war with a lot of heroes flying around in planes. The next war may be fought by airplanes with no men in them at all… It will be different from anything the world has ever seen.”-General Henry H. ‘Hap’ Arnold, U.S. Army Air Force, 1945

The first Predator flew a recon mission over Albania in July 1995, then it was known as RQ-1.  Despite many official denials, back then, several RQ-1s were lost to ‘global warming climate change’ (bad weather) or shot down.

It was the Airmen who maintained the General Atomics RQ-1 who adapted helicopter weapon pylons to the giant remote control aircraft, as well as adding a turbocharger to the piston engine, finally proving its combat capability in October 2001.  In 2002, the RQ-1 became MQ-1 (M for multi-role).  In March 2018, the USAF officially retired the MQ-1.

On 03MAR2020, the Iowa Air National Guard got a massive model kit of the MQ-1 Predator.  It’s actually a retired MQ-1 that will end up on static display at the Air National Guard Bureau in Washington DC.  The Iowa Air Guard has the honor of assembling and painting it.

Unboxing the monster kit.

Who wouldn’t be happy about a kit this big?

You’ll need some jacks and jigs.

A bunch of people about to get bombed at the 432nd Wing/432nd Air Expeditionary Wing HQ at Creech Air Force Base (AFB), Nevada, 06JUN2019.

On 03MAR2018, the MQ-1 took its official last flight in Nevada, being replaced by the MQ-9 Reaper.

Creech AFB MQ-1 retirement video report:

 

30NOV2017, removing the ‘brains’, the Primary Control Module,  Creech AFB.

Removing the antenna.  This was done prior to the MQ-1 being sent to United Kingdom to become a ‘gate guard’.

Final combat mission (undisclosed location) of 361st Expeditionary Attack Squadron’s MQ-1B, 01JUL2017.

MQ-1B Predator remote piloted aircraft with the 147th Air Reconnaissance Wing, Texas Air National Guard, on display at the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Expedition, Malaysia, 21MAR2017.

Video report, being a Predator Pilot:

MQ-1 final flight at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, 27FEB2017.

Video report, Holloman AFB MQ-1 retirement, 2017:

Video, repairing and prepping the wing of a MQ-1 slated for gate guard duty at Holloman AFB, 2016:

Video, engine maintenance, Holloman AFB, June 2015:

Kit shopping list:

HOW TO BUILD A 1:1 SCALE U.S. ARMY ‘FAKE NEWS’ BMP-2

EC-135E FIRE-BIRD, 10329 COMES BACK TO LIFE, AGAIN! OR, WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR EXTRA KC-135 KIT.

Robot Wars: A-I Painters to save the F-22 Raptor?

An F-22 Raptor is masked-off for new paint, on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. Hawaii Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman John Linzmeier, 21AUG2020.

The F-22 Raptor is a hi-tech aircraft that has not resulted in making things easier for the U.S. Air Force (USAF).  I’ve already written how the sensitive ‘skin’ of the aircraft is a nightmare for sheet metal shop personnel.   Now the USAF admits that painting the aircraft is a pain-in-the-butt as well.

An F-22 gets its air intakes painstakingly ‘gap filled’ at Hill AFB, Utah. USAF photo by Alex R. Lloyd, 19NOV2020.

As of February 2020, the USAF has a new hi-tech tool that will supposedly solve one of the hi-tech aircraft’s skin problems; a robot designed specifically to paint the inside of the air intakes.

Hawaii Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman John Linzmeier, 21AUG2020.

The company, Aerobotix, that makes the robot painter claims it’ll save U.S. taxpayers $28-million in labor costs to paint the F-22, and apparently it can be used on other aircraft.

Video report:

Photo via Aerobotix.

Update, 31AUG2022:  Aerobotix Marks 40th Restoration of Air Inlet Ducts on F-22 Raptor Aircraft

VEHICLE I-D:F-22 RAPTOR

Robot Wars: A-I Strips an A-10 naked!

TEXAS TURNS TO ROBOTS TO WASH F-16

Operation CoViD-19: Hot Zone Daegu

On 13MAR2020, soldiers with the U.S. Army, and the Republic of Korea (RoK), took part in disinfection ops in the hot zone known as Daegu.

Video, U.S. Army Installation Clean Teams:

Video, U.S. Army Trace Teams, or how they can trace where an infected military members has been:

Operation CoViD-19: U.S. Border Patrol, 13MAR2020

Operation Jupiter: Operation CoViD-19 is for real

CoViD-19=CoronaVirus Disease 2019

U.S. military updates as of 14-15MAR2020.

At Camp Pendleton, California, U.S. Marine Corps held a Installations West meeting to discuss scenarios for CoViD-19 response.

Marines onboard Camp Pendleton also built a quarantine site for anybody who test positive for the virus.

Video of U.S. Marines building a quarantine site on Camp Pendleton:

Official video announcement, USMC Camp Pendleton shuts down or reduces onboard services due to CoViD-19:

In the New Rochelle area of New York state, the Army National Guard began preparations for Operation CoViD-19.

Official video report, New York Army National Guard CoViD-19 Mobile Testing Center in Glenn Island Park:

Effective March 14, 2020, gate guards will no longer handle I-D cards, instead they’ll use a scanner.  Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, video explainer:

Video, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, implements new CoViD-19 gate checks:

On 11 March, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, issues video explaining what you should do if you think you’re infected:

THE DAY AFTER MEDICAL-MARTIAL-LAW WAS DECLARED: SHOPPING MAYHEM AT POCATELLO WINCO!

Going Viral, 11-12 March 2020: “STOP SAYING IT’S A BAD FLU!”

OPERATION JUPITER: U.S. SOLDIER INFECTED, U.S. BASES PREPPING FOR EVACUATIONS!

EC-135E Fire-Bird, 10329 comes back to life, again! Or, what to do with your extra KC-135 kit.

U.S. Air Force photo by Greg L. Davis, 04OCT2019.

This rudderless and engine-less EC-135E has risen from the ashes of retirement not once, but twice.

USAF photo by Greg L. Davis, 04OCT2019.

An electronic warfare version of the venerable Boeing C-135 family of aircraft, EC-135E #61-0329 (tail code 10329) was first retired to Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, as a rudderless ‘battle damage’ repair trainer.

USAF photo by Greg L. Davis, 29APR2019.

In the above pic you can see the bare metal area around the nose indicating where the original ‘Snoopy’ nose was hung.

USAF photo by Greg L. Davis, 29APR2019.

In 2019, instead of scrapping the chock-ful-of patches bird, 61-0329 was again reborn but this time as a fire fighter trainer.

USAF photo by Greg L. Davis, 04OCT2019.

Unveiled on 04OCT2019. ‘Never Forget 343’ titles honor the 343 firefighters killed during the attacks during 11SEP2001.

USAF photo by Greg L. Davis, 04OCT2019.

USAF photo by Greg L. Davis, 04OCT2019.

USAF photo by Greg L. Davis, 04OCT2019.

USAF photo by Greg L. Davis, 04OCT2019.

Apparently EC-135Es were re-engined EC-135Ns.

Tail code 10329 in its final days as a Snoopy.

EC-135Es were officially called ARIA (Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft) , but were better known as ‘Snoopy’ because of their bulbous noses.

10329 in its glorious 2nd incarnation as a Snoopy. Notice the different jet engines. Its 1st incarnation was as a C-135 cargo hauler.

AMtech issued a 1:72 scale EC-135N/E.  There are some fit problems and you need to strengthen the wing to prevent drooping.  It is out of production.

The ancient Nova vacformed 1:72 KC-135 came with optional parts to make several EC versions, but not the bulbous Snoopy nose.

In 1:144, Welsh Models makes a Snoopy conversion.

National Museum of the United States Air Force: EC-135E ARIA explainer

For an even more detailed explainer visit Air Force Space & Missile Museum

Vehicle I-D: KC-135 CITY OF DERBY

D-DAY KC-135, ‘HUNDRED PROOF’ & OTHER NOSE ARTS

VEHICLE I-D: MARK 82

PAINTING A P-51 MUSTANG WITH VINYL DECALS?