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European Tornados and Typhoons strike Nevada!

NATO Spain Eurofighter Typhoon launches from Nellis Air Force Base, 11MAR2020. U.S. Air Force photo by William R. Lewis.

In March 2020, NATO European air forces battled for control of the airspace over the U.S. state of Nevada.

USAF photo by William R. Lewis, 26MAR2020.

Eurofighter Typhoons were flown by NATO Germany, Italy and Spain.

German Eurofighter Typhoon. USAF photo by Airman First Class Dwane R. Young, 09MAR2020.

It was all part of Red Flag NATO training in March 2020.  Here’s music video (by William Lewis) of German Tornadoes, German-Italian-Spanish Typhoons and U.S. F-35, 10MAR2020:

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Philip Bryant, 05MAR2020.

Panavia Tornado.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Philip Bryant, 10MAR2020.

Here’s more video of Tornado and Typhoons, by Staff Sergeant Philip Bryant, 10MAR2020:

Photo by Mauricio Campino, 26MAR2020.

This pic shows Spanish Typhoons arriving at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, after the Red Flag training was suddenly canceled because of CoViD-19, 26MAR2020.

Click on these links:

RED FLAG FOR ALABAMA MILITIA!

1939 V 2019; GERMANY INVADES POLAND AGAIN, THIS TIME WITH THE HELP OF NATO!

GERMANY FINALLY ADOPTS THE MINIGUN!

MLRS, BRITISH RED COATS INVADE U.S. ARMY BASE IN GERMANY!

Operation CoViD-19: Saying goodbye to your newborn! Begging retirees to return to military service!

04 April 2020 / 04:23 (UTC-07 Tango 06) 16 Farvardin 1399/10 Sha’ban 1441/12 Geng-Chen 4718

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.

The Department of the Army is asking more than 14-thousand retired soldiers to volunteer for CoViD-19 response! The Army is currently looking for the following medical specialties:
-Critical care officers, 60F
-Anesthesiologist, 60N
-Nurse anesthetist, 66F
-Critical care nurse, 66S
-Nurse practitioner, 66P
-Emergency room nurse, 66T
-Respiratory specialist, 68V
-Medic, 68W

Sailors cheer for USS Roosevelt commander who was terminated after issuing coronavirus warning

VEHICLE I-D: CVN-71 USS Theodore Roosevelt

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Violating virus restrictions in Germany could lead to fines, jail time, military disciplinary action

KOREA: Osan Air Base contractor infected with coronavirus

U.S. military lays-off about 4-thousand-5-hundred Koreans due to CoViD fears

Twin newborns evacuated from Osan Air Base for care at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, 30MAR2020.  The parents are U.S. Army military police based at Camp Walker in the CoViD hot zone of Daegu.

U.S. Army parents of the newborn twins say good bye as their new children are about to be shipped back state-side for care at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

The military police mom saying goodbye to her newborns before the medics take them to a waiting C-17 Globemaster-3 for flight back to the states.

Video interviews, parents of twins are under quarantine, newborns were born early but not infected, because of CoViD fears they were sent state-side via a combined effort of Army, Air Force and Navy:

 

JAPAN:  Navy reports its first positive coronavirus case at Sasebo Naval Base

Security personnel stand outside U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa, screening of people for CoViD before they can enter the hospital.

Video explainer, new CoViD gate rules for Yokota Air Base:

U.S. Marines conduct CBRNE drill on Camp Kinser, Okinawa, 02APR2020.

SPAIN: SeaBees delivering meals to personnel in a ‘restriction of movement status’ on Naval Station Rota.

UNITED KINGDOM: Video explainer, how U.S. Air Force personnel will report to an Alternate Care Facility at RAF Lakenheath:

 

UNITED STATES:  President Trump expands U.S. army role to combat COVID-19

Video of daily ops at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, under CoViD response:

New way to get your prescriptions at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona.  Medical Group pharmacy technician places a prescription order in a drop off box.

Meals delivered to possibly infected Marines quarantined on Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California.

Coronavirus quarantine awaits hundreds of Pacific Pathways soldiers heading home to Hawaii

At Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, 3D printing being used to make face shields.

Fort Lee, Virginia, enforces Social Distancing for about 8-hundred new Basic Training recruits.

OPERATION COVID-19: MISSIONS OF MERCY & COMFORT

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

Dreamlifter, and other 747 cargo planes

British Airway’s BOAC 747-400 at United Kingdom’s Royal International Air Tattoo, July 2019.

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Michigan Air National Guard’s 127 Wing deploys on a 747-400 people hauler, April 2019.

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   Video, 171st Air Refueling Wing, Pennsylvania Air National Guard load-up contracted 747 (for their first time) with cargo for Guam, March 2019:

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Michigan Air National Guard load-up a Atlas Air 747 cargo hauler, January 2019.
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In November 2013, an Atlas Air operated 747-400 Dreamlifter flew to McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, to pick-up parts for construction of 787 Dreamliners from a nearby manufacturer.
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Official USAF reports say the pilot of the Boeing Dreamlifter mistakenly landed at Colonel James Jabara Airport!
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Boeing claims its Dreamlifter can haul more cargo by volume than any aircraft in the world.

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Video, South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing contracted 747 cargo plane for deployment to ‘undisclosed location’ in Southwest Asia, 2018:

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Video, South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing contracted 747 cargo plane for their deployment to Korea, July 2016:

 

Kadena Air Base, Japan. The Missouri Air National Guard off-loaded the 747, one of three early model 747s operated by Kalitta Air.

Misawa Air Base, Japan, 2016.

National Air Cargo 747-400 tail number N949CA lands at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, February 2012.N949CA crashed in Afghanistan, April 2013, killing the seven crew.

Contracted 747 cargo haulers sit in Romania, waiting to be loaded up with supplies for troops in Afghanistan, July 2013.

Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, 2012.

A National 747 at Tinian International Airport, Northern Mariana Islands, during Exercise Forager Fury 2012.

Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, April 2011.

Travis AFB, California, April 2009.

KC-135 STRATOTANKER BATH

Bare Metal: KC-135R gets stripped

Ohio Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Wendy Kuhn, 02MAR2015.

Ohio Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Wendy Kuhn, 04MAR2015.

Every five years, KC-135 Stratotankers undergo depot maintenance by the 564th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.

Ohio Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Wendy Kuhn, 04MAR2015.

The process includes stripping off an aircraft’s paint, removing the engines, dropping the boom, removing and replacing deficient parts, and any upgrades as necessary.  It takes an average of 125 days.

USAF photo by Kelly White, 28APR2015.

Video, part one KC-135R depot work:

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Kiaundra Miller, 23NOV2019.

Tennessee Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Kendra Owenby, 19JAN2017.

Video, part two KC-135R depot work (no audio on slo-mo parts of the video):

Tennessee Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Kendra Owenby, 19JAN2017.

Video, part three KC-135R depot work:

BARE METAL: NASA’S MD-11 EXPERIMENTAL

 C-130 PAINT PREP, OR THE EMPEROR GETS SOME NEW CLOTHES

C-17 STRIPPED

 B-1B & B-52H

KC-135 Stratotanker bath

121st Air Refueling Wing, Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base, Ohio, June 2018.

I don’t think this has anything to do with washing-up, but apparently the Airmen with 92nd Maintenance Group think break-dancing helps. Fairchild Air Force Base (AFB), Washington, January 2018.

Video interview, with funky music, 100th Maintenance Group washes KC-135, RAF Mildenhall in United Kingdom, 2017:

Washing the main-gear doors, 168th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Eielson AFB, Alaska, December 2017.

Kadena Air Base, Japan, 2016.  The wash-rack (aka Bird-Bath, officially Aircraft Rinse System) takes 90 seconds to wash the salty sea air off the skin of the Stratotanker.

KC-135R passes through wash rack on Andersen AFB, Guam, 2014.

Hand washing KC-135R, Altus AFB, Oklahoma, 2014.

Washing the front landing gear of a KC-135R.

According to the Altus AFB info, it takes eight hours to wash your KC-135.

Every 120 days KC-135 get a scrub-down.

Video explainer, washing KC-135 at McDill AFB, Florida, 2013:

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

WASH YOUR HAWK!

Wash your Hawk!

USS Detroit (LCS 7), Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 22, MH-60S ‘Knight’ Hawk, somewhere in the Caribbean, March 2020.

USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115), Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 49, MH-60R Sea Hawk, somewhere in the Indo-Pacific, February 2020.

Washing your Hawk not only keeps dust-n-dirt from building up, it prevents corrosion.

Charlie Company, 2-238th General Aviation Support Battalion (Medevac), UH-60 Black Hawk, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, November 2019.

USS Bataan (LHD 5), Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 28, MH-60S ‘Knight’ Hawk, somewhere in the Atlantic, November 2019.

31st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, 56th Helicopter Maintenance Unit, HH-60G Pave Hawk, Aviano Air Base, Italy, October 2019.

Picky, picky, picky.    USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 74, somewhere in the mid-Atlantic, September 2019.

Cleaning up after cleaning up,  1st Assault Helicopter Battalion, 150th Aviation Regiment, New Jersey Army National Guard, July 2019.

Don’t forget to brush your teeth!

USS Bainbridge (DDG 96), Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 46, MH-60R Sea Hawk, somewhere in the U.S. 5th, 6th and 7th Fleet ‘areas of responsibility’, April 2019.

USS Nitze (DDG 94), Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 46, MH-60R Sea Hawk, somewhere in the U.S. 5th, 6th and 7th Fleet ‘areas of responsibility’, April 2019.

Wipe that ass!

USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 14, MH-60S ‘Knight’ Hawk, somewhere in Philippine Sea, November 2018.

41st Helicopter Maintenance Unit, HH-60G Pave Hawk, Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, February 2018.  USAF requires helicopter wash every 180 days.

 

BLACK HAWKS SWARM SUPER BOWL-54

IDAHO BLACK HAWKS HEAD SOUTH, DOWN CENTRAL AMERICA WAY

BLADE FOLDING ARMY BLACK HAWKS

VEHICLE I-D: BLACK HAWK WITH SKIS

VEHICLE ID: NEW HH-60M BLACK HAWK FOR HAWAIIAN MILITIA MEDEVAC

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