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SAL, MISO & Coronavirus beer?: Climate Change, 23-29 February 2020

Incomplete list of links to news articles concerning climate change events during the days of 23 to 29 of the Gregorian month of February 2020.

For those who think U.S. President Trump is anti-climate change they should realize that he is the Commander in Chief of the U.S. military and the U.S. military is ramping up climate change studies and preparations.  President Trump is not ‘anti-climate change’, he just doesn’t agree with the leftist-liberal explanation for the cause of climate change.  Please note all the U.S. military climate change operations listed below.

  Over the Atlantic Ocean the U.S. Navy (USN) is paying close attention to the Saharan Air Layer (SAL).  The SAL can move 14-million-metric-tons (tonnes) of dust from Africa to the Caribbean every year, and with climate change it’s expected to get worse!  The USN has joined with NOAA, NASA, and the National Weather Service to establish a ‘baseline’ in order to study health affects of the massive dust transfer and to create an early warning system for people in and around the Caribbean area.

Europe bracing for Saharan dust storm

The USN recently concluded data collection for their study of Monsoon Intra-Seasonal Oscillations (MISO) in the Indian Ocean.  Researchers from University of Notre Dame, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, and National Aquatic Research and Resources Agency in Sri Lanka, also took part.  The purpose is to better predict rapidly changing weather patterns affecting the Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, and South China Sea.

ISRAEL:  Local news media says that-which-cannot-be-named (aka god) is punishing Africa with climate change

NORWAY: On 24 February, NATO forces conducted a bomb search in a smoke filled house during the extreme cold weather training event known as Exercise Cold Response.

  Also during Exercise Cold Response, NATO personnel conducted an ice dive, 25 February, to train for port damage repair, and hydrographic surveying in an extreme cold weather/ice environment.

SOUTH AFRICA:  Gauteng floods – Johannesburg plunged underwater 

TURKEY: Reports people in Turkey killed by quake in Iran

UNITED KINGDOM: Heathrow Airport Runway Plan Blocked Over Climate Commitments

UNITED STATES:  Apparently the Goldsboro Police, in North Carolina, believe that future flooding is going to become so powerful that they need an MRAP to conduct flood rescues:

 Quake hits Kentucky

 Climate lawsuits are breaking new legal ground

  U.S. military prepping for climate change to impact military bases.

  U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began taking snowpack samples in North Dakota, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Measuring snowpack allows officials to estimate the amount of water runoff/flooding  when the snow melts.

  The US Army Corps of Engineers plans to increase releases from Gavins Point Dam in order to “…provide the greatest amount of flood risk reduction across the basin.”  The dam affects areas of Nebraska and South Dakota.

New Hampshire Army National Guard flew to Alaska to take part in an extreme cold weather contamination training event.  Note the Corona(virus) beer bottles.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that after years of upgrades to the Center Hill Lake Dam the lake is soon to return to ‘normal’ operations, and will allow the Nashville District to handle additional water flows into the reservoir.

Climate Change, 16-22 February 2020: SAINT ELMO STRIKES SKY HOPPER KERMIT!

Operation Jupiter:  THE WORLD PANICS OVER COVID-19, YET INFLUENZA IS STILL KING KILLER!

Operation Jupiter: U.S. soldier infected, U.S. bases prepping for evacuations!

26 February 2020 / 02:53 (UTC-07 Tango 06) 07 Esfand 1398/02 Rajab 1441/04 Wu-Yin(2nd) 4718

“We have developed plans to screen all personnel including but not limited to crew, visitors, civilians, contractors, and new check-ins gaining access to units and platforms. These additional screening requirements will include newly gained personnel and those returning from leave.”-Lieutenant Joe Keiley, U.S. Navy 7th Fleet

CoViD-19=CoronaVirus Disease 2019

Decontamination efforts in Daegu.

U.S. Forces Korea contamination risk level is now at ‘high’.  An active duty U.S. Army soldier in Republic of Korea (RoK, south Korea) is infected with CoViD-19.  He is based at Camp Carroll which is near Daegu, which is ground zero for RoK’s CoViD-19 outbreak.  It should also be noted that the outbreak is directly linked to a Korean ‘christian’ group.  Local government officials are now calling religious gatherings “super spreader events”,  and the U.S. Army (USA) quarantined soldiers who attended the church!  (It should be noted that while the USA says the soldiers are ‘self quarantined’, it was done under orders which means it was not voluntary)

The infected soldier also visited Camp Walker.

The infected 23 years old unnamed U.S. soldier is reportedly quarantined to his off-base residence.  But that’s not all, a 61 years old widow of a former U.S. soldier is also infected.  Both the infected soldier from Camp Carroll, and the widow, recently visited Camp Walker, which is now in the process of CoViD-19 screenings.

U.S. military personnel in Korea are also ordered into ‘self quarantine’ upon returning from trips to China.

Grade schools (Department of Defense Education Activity) for the children of U.S. military personnel are being shutdown, not just in Korea but around the world.

Korea is not the only place the U.S. military is prepped for outbreak: “We’re anticipating an increase in the number of cases reported in Germany.”-General Tod Wolters, U.S. Air Force (USAF)

USAF General Tod Wolters is also NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.  He told the U.S. Congress that ‘preparations’ were already underway for the U.S. military in Europe, due to the outbreak in Italy.

U.S. Army Europe has already shutdown grade schools and recreation centers for U.S. military families in Italy.

The U.S. military allows personnel and their dependents to voluntarily evacuate bases, at their own expense, but if a Military Evacuation Declaration is given then all expenses are covered.

Defense Finance Accounting Service (DFAS) evacuation claims processing

If the military tells you you’re being moved to a ‘safe haven’ then it’s expected to be temporary.  If it’s referred to as a ‘designated location’ then it will be permanent.

Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) evacuation/safe haven guidance

Going Viral, 23-25 February 2020: “A STRANGE, ABSURD SITUATION.”

OPERATION JUPITER: MEASLES PANDEMIC SPREAD BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, OR EVIL BILDERBERG VACCINE PROGRAM?

OPERATION JUPITER: ARE YOU A SUPER CARRIER? MERS KILLS IN KOREA & KSA, AGAIN! EBOLA WARNINGS FOR KOREA!

Saint Elmo strikes Sky Hopper Kermit!: Climate Change 16-22 February 2020

Incomplete list of links to news articles concerning climate change events during the days of 16 to 22 of the Gregorian month of February 2020.

What are climate zones?

Extreme weather is the cause of most human migration

The irony of being a climate refugee; refugee settlements are even more vulnerable to extreme weather 

Child brides as a way of surviving climate change?

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Rare weather phenomenon Saint Elmo’s Fire ‘captured’ by hurricane hunter Sky Hopper Kermit in North Atlantic:

CHINA: 5.0 quake hits Tibet

5.1 quake hits Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

GERMANY: Tesla committing tree genocide in name of building gigafactory!

INDIA:  Climate refugees surge amid floods, droughts

KAZAKHSTAN: Promises U.S.$638-million to fight unstoppable climate change

MEXICO: Farmers adapt to climate change by changing crops

RUSSIA:   Pre-historic bird found in Siberia proves climate change is normal: “These remains are of great interest to paleontology since they enable a better understanding of the impact of climate change …”

SOUTH AFRICA: WX alerts issued for severe storms across the country

Three people killed in freak storm

SPAIN: TSUNAMI could rock Andalucia ‘as soon as TOMORROW’ as government prepares emergency plan

UNITED STATES: If President Trump is so anti-climate change why did he authorize Department of Commerce’s NOAA (National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration) to triple  computing capacity, storage space, and interconnect speed of its Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System? 

NOAA also reported that despite climate change fear mongers, the U.S. fishing industry is reeling in higher numbers of fish!

 Ice Volcanoes on Great Lakes

Alabama; Fort Morgan residents fed up with illegal dumping, trash piles along road

Florida; Saint Augustine tries out solar powered trash/recycling cans

Tallahassee jacks up curbside recycling rates

Indiana; Town of Lapel wants to jack-up trash/recycling fees by 24%

Maryland; Gaithersburg jacks-up recycling fees 20%

Massachusetts;  City of Greenfield jacks-up trash collection fees

Michigan; The state experienced an 8.5% increase in trash piling up in landfills, here’s a list of where it’s coming from and just how much money the state is actually making from collecting trash

Minnesota; State inspectors report that more and more trash, human waste, and even fish that were caught, are being left on the ice by people going ice fishing, it all ends up in the water

Recycling center burns for days, sending toxic smoke into the air

Mississippi; After the Pearl River flood, mountains of trash

New York; City of Troy will attempt to stop illegal trash dumping with security cameras

Ohio; Despite competitive bidding on trash hauling contract, residents of Dayton will still pay more

Pennsylvania; Logistics company wants state-mandated curbside recycling program to stop accepting plastics, basically it costs more to transport plastics than what the plastics are worth!

Are Lehigh Valley towns actually recycling or have local programs quietly ended?

Increase in roadside trash being blamed on trash hauling companies?

Texas; Rice University finds way to turn worthless trash into money making graphene

City of Austin rejects trash collect contract, could refuse (reject) refuse (trash) service to local taxpayers

Washington DC; FEMA warns citizens to prep for catastrophic disasters now

Climate Change, 09-15 February 2020: CAPITALISM KILLS RECYCLING?

Pacific Ring  of Fire, 16-22 February 2020: FIRST DEATHS CAUSED BY FRACKING!

Vehicle I-D: USS America LHA-6, do they make a model kit of it?

USS America LHA-6 began sea trials in 2014.  LHA-6 is the lead ship of the new America class assault ships, replacing the older Tarawa class.  Do not confuse USS America LHA-6 with the scuttled aircraft carrier USS America CV-66.

22FEB2020, Laem Chabang Port, Thailand, Cobra Gold 2020.

USS America is the current home of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit.

Video, fast roping on USS America, 18FEB2020:

Countermeasure Washdown System

Time lapse video of USS America ops, Philippine Sea, 10FEB2020:

Video,  birds-eye view of USS America, April 2016:

Time lapse silent video of launching:

Aircraft seen operating from USS America:

More info on USS America: Underway on USS America

Orange Hobby makes a 1:700 scale resin USS America LHA-6, U.S. suggested retail price $95.

VEHICLE I-D: USN’S NEW ROBOT GUN BOAT, OR CUSV

CVN-71

USN admits hi-tech military gear defeated by Mother Earth’s tiny sea creatures!

21 February 2020 / 13:47 (UTC-07 Tango 06) 02 Esfand 1398/26 Jumada t-Tania 1441/28 Wu-Yin 4718

“We have begun to set up machine learning deep neural networks to use artificial intelligence to classify the organisms, but do not have results yet.”-Brad Penta, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

A swarm of veligers, a larval stage of mollusks.

The U.S. Navy’s (USN) Naval Research Laboratory has been conducting surveys of what it calls ocean swarms.  This is when small lifeforms cluster in an area of the ocean and cause havoc with electronic devices.

Intermediate trophic level (ITL) organisms are actually determined by their place in the food chain.  Civilian biologists might differ in their definition of an ITL but the USN considers everything from copepods to jellyfish as ITLs.  When they ‘swarm’ they render USN underwater electronic devices useless because of the way they refract the electronic signals.  Some of these creatures even produce their own electronic signals.

In 2019, the USN and the University of Mississippi conducted an ITL survey off the coast of Delaware.  They used not only ocean going detection devices but airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDaR) cameras, which used lasers to scan the ocean surface.  But this LiDaR was different, instead of the monochromatic laser the scientists used a multi-color LiDaR system they call Multi-Wavelength LiDaR Environment, or MuWLE.

The MuWLE is so sensitive the scientists report that they detected clouds in the air, under the aircraft, that could not be seen with human eyes!

This is a ‘Wirewalker’, it floats with the motion of the ocean, measuring conductivity, temperature, depth, light and acoustic backscatter, and dissolved oxygen.

The researchers are now trying to collate all the data they collected.  The goal is to provide the USN with new technology that can allow its ocean going vehicles to avoid ‘ocean swarms’.

Other ocean swarm research team players include Florida Atlantic University Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, University of South Alabama Dauphin Island Sea Lab, University of Southern Mississippi, Florida International University, and University of Delaware.

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

Border cops report record number of…flowers?: Immigrant Invasion U.S.A., 09-15 February 2020

Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of main-stream-news links about global immigrant/border operations affecting the United States taxpayers, days of 09 to 15 of Gregorian February 2020.

Yet another study blames climate change for social unrest and mass migration

U.S. Customs and Border Protection warning of massive stolen vehicle operations that export the stolen cars through the Ports of New York/Newark to African countries.

ALABAMA: Illegal immigrant has victory in court

ARIZONA: Man and woman sentenced to prison for people smuggling and for holding a person, who needed medical help, against their will

Near Tucson, Border Patrol captures five illegals and a citizen

As of 14FEB2020, 1-thousand illegals have been deported to Mexico

Border Patrol cops working an immigrant checkpoint in the Yuma Sector recover a stolen car being driven by citizens.

CALIFORNIA: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) served four immigration subpoenas on the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office

Federal grand jury indicts three top administrators of Philippines ‘christian’ church in human smuggling scheme and defrauding the immigration system

Near El Centro, Border Patrol captured a tractor-trailer with 26 illegals in it.

Border Patrol captured three illegals who then confessed to leaving one of their own to die on a mountain, more U.S. tax dollars were spent rescuing the abandoned illegal.

At the Calexico Station, Border Patrol captured a man sneaking back into the U.S., he had been previously convicted of sex crimes and deported.

Near the Cuyapaipe Indian Reservation three illegals were killed by exposure to extreme weather.

Stop buying your Valentines flowers from other countries!!!  San Diego sector Customs and Border Protection reports increased numbers of people trying to bring in potted flowers/plants from Mexico, which is illegal.  Only cut flowers are allowed and still must be inspected for insects and diseases. 

In San Diego, 10FEB2020, U.S. Coast Guard off-loaded 20-thousand pounds of cocaine captured at sea.

CONNECTICUT: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) served three immigration subpoenas to the State of Connecticut

DELAWARE: Yet another school district considers creating policies to favor illegals

FLORIDA:  Stop buying your Valentines flowers from other countries!!!    Customs and Border Protection reports that their Miami International Airport operation inspected the most imported flowers ever; more than 1-billion cut stems! 

By the way BlindBatNews wants to remind you that 2019 was a record year as well; report with video VALENTINES HELL: BUYING FLOWERS FROM OVERSEAS IS A NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT!

GUAM: Again it’s about the money; local news media reveal that Guam (and Hawaii) is being paid by U.S. taxpayers to take in migrants from other Pacific island countries.  A proposal to save taxpayers money would cut $4-million from Guam’s Compacts of Free Association revenues!  (apparently Hawaii spends 187-million of your tax dollars on migrant services every year)

GEORGIA: A citizen is fighting to bring his wife back from Mexico, no she wasn’t deported, she voluntarily left in protest of U.S. government!  Now her U.S. citizen son is dying from cancer.

HAWAII:  In federal court, Singapore based Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement pled guilty to knowingly dumping pollution into U.S. waters and will pay a fine of $1-million-750-thousand.  It is considered the largest fine ever in the District of Hawaii.

IDAHO: Ada County (the Californicated metro area of Idaho) Sheriff’s office quitting the immigration hold refund program

INDIANA:  More proof it’s about making money for corporations as federal court rules meat factory knowingly employing illegals is not violating wage laws by paying them much less than citizens!

LOUISIANA: State Attorney General claims to be anti-illegal immigration, but labor unions reveal he hires mainly foreigners!

MAINE:  Cumberland County Sheriff clashes with ICE

MARYLAND: A few sheriffs rebel against state’s pro-immigrant anti-ICE policy

MINNESOTA: Roseau County becomes anti-immigrant pro-gun Second Amendment ‘sanctuary’

 NEBRASKA: ICE praises state leaders for their co-operation

NEW HAMPSHIRE:  State politician wants voters to use school board election to decide immigration policy?

NEW YORK:  Stop buying your Valentines flowers from other countries!!!  Customs and Border Protection reports having to inspect 40-million flowers coming through airports in The Empire State!

Federal Travel Ban will impact The Empire State’s economy

NORTH CAROLINA:  Data reveals that Obama Care (Affordable Care Act, ACA) has had no effect on improving medical services for illegals

NORTH DAKOTA:  Irish Americans are considered criminals in North Dakota?

PENNSYLVANIA: Scams against illegal immigrants are skyrocketing in the pro-illegal ‘sanctuary’ state

Resident gets prison time for people smuggling

TEXAS:  Customs and Border Protection captures record 1-thousand-543-pounds of liquid methamphetamine!

Border Patrol captures 8-thousand rounds of ammo being smuggled from U.S. into Mexico

17 illegals found inside tractor-trailer being driven by a citizen 

 Border Patrol captures armed smuggler: “Our agents are encountering armed smugglers now more than ever before.”-Raul L. Ortiz, Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol Agent

Border Patrol now using facial recognition tech at the Progreso Port of Entry 

At Brownsville Port of Entry more than $2-million worth of illegal drugs captured, and Border agents resuscitated an unconscious citizen child.

In Star County more than $750-thousand worth of illegal drugs captured over a two hours period.

 Falcon Dam has been identified as a major national security concern and as such the U.S. Coast Guard, the International Boundary and Water Commission, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Border Patrol, Texas Department of Public Safety, and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department all agreed to jointly patrol the area during ‘elevated security situations’.

UTAH: Social service organizations warn that increased homelessness will be the result of continued unchecked immigration to Utah

Illegal immigrant, and operator of a tire shop, has his day in court after brutal attack

VIRGINIAState ‘lawmakers’ approve drivers’ licenses for 270-thousand illegals

WASHINGTON: News media investigation proves Greyhound Bus is voluntarily helping ICE capture illegals

Washington DC:   U.S. Border Patrol to send Tactical Unit officers to ‘sanctuary cities’

  At Dulles Airport, Customs and Border Protection captured a woman from South Korea who lied about how much cash she was bringing into the U.S.  Also, packages mailed from the British empire’s United Kingdom were found to be full of illegal steroids.  They were being sent to addresses in Georgia, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia.

Concerning the global Swine Flu and Bird Flu epidemics, at the same airport Customs and Border Protect also captured illegal Asian pork from Vietnam being smuggled inside ramen noddle cups, as well as pet food containing dead birds from China suspected of carrying Bird Flu!  They were incinerated

Going Viral, 14-15 February 2020: VACCINE FAIL AS 14-THOUSAND IN THE U.S. DIE, INFECTIONS SKYROCKET!

IMMIGRANT INVASION U.S.A. 01-08 FEBRUARY 2020

 

Capitalism kills Recycling?: Climate Change 09-15 February 2020

Incomplete list of links to news articles concerning climate change events during the days of 09 to 15 of the Gregorian month of February 2020.

Climate change will expand farming opportunities

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Trash bag investors expect increase in demand for trash bags, blame India and China

Trash truck investors expect skyrocketing demand for trash trucks due to growing global waste caused more people moving to metro areas.

GREECE:  a ‘protection plan’ for possible volcano eruption in Santorini

ICELAND: Twin bomb cyclones to merge into one of strongest-ever storms hammering Iceland 

IRAN:  4.4 quake

SOUTH AFRICA:  Higher Antarctic Temperatures Bad News for South Africa

SWITZERLAND: Researchers say 3-thousand meter drill hole for thermal energy factory did not create earthquakes

TURKEY:  Bovine survivors of Elazığ earthquake find new home

UNITED KINGDOM:  hurricane-force winds, ‘life-threatening’ floods

UNITED STATES: Official 2020 flood prediction for Mississippi River is bad, just like last year’s prediction

Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas are rated as the worst states for recycling

Major recycling company jacks up fees to taxpayer funded municipalities, will invest in solar power, blames it on fee increases by taxpayer owned landfills and finicky capitalist commodity markets

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At Egg Harbor Township, state militia (National Guard) conducted natural disaster response training that included weapons of mass destruction (chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear) 11FEB2020.
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While public officials complain about the costs and supposed lack of manpower for recycling programs, an 11 years old girl started her own recycling program
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Climate Change 01-08 February 2020: “GLOBAL SYSTEMIC COLLAPSE”

Going Viral 14-15 February 2020:  VACCINE FAIL AS 14-THOUSAND IN THE U.S. DIE, INFECTIONS SKYROCKET!

Vaccine fail as 14-thousand in the U.S. die, infections skyrocket!: Going Viral, 14-15 February 2020

Incomplete list of links to news reports about viral outbreaks during the days of 14 to 15 of the Gregorian month of February 2020.

Wisconsin reports second child dies from flu

Arizona reports second child dies from flu

At least 92 children in the U.S. die from ‘flu related’ illness

14-thousand people killed by ‘flu related’ illness so far this flu season

New York state reports record number of flu infections

Ohio reports 19% increase in hospitalizations due to flu

Berks County, Pennsylvania, reports 34% spike in flu infections

Massachusetts flu warning level raised to Very High

17 flu deaths just in Dallas County, Texas

26 flu deaths just in Clark County, Nevada

29 flu deaths in the tiny state of Maryland

Connecticut teacher becomes 40th person in the state to die from flu, local doctor warns “No vaccine is 100%. You can still get the flu even if you get the flu shot but we believe you’ll have a milder illness in many cases.”-Doctor Virginia Bieluch, Hospital of Central Connecticut

Study says Double-Dose of flu shots show no Benefit?

U.S. residents getting tested for influenza will also get tested for COVID-19

COVID-19 hits German car makers hard

Four quarantined COVID-19 patients escape Russian hospital

Egypt confirms COVID-19 infection

Japan confirms first COVID-19 death

Japan asks Chinese to avoid Tokyo Marathon

Vietnam blocks cruise ships from docking

Singapore declares COVID-19 worse than SARS

Hong Kong Disneyland to act as quarantine camp?

China confirms 1,716 medical staff infected, 5,090 new cases

China is already spending U.S.$5.87-billion to fight COVID-19

U.S. military’s Northern Command confirmed it is prepping for COVID-19 outbreak in United States

DARPA involved in COVID-19 research

Official advise given to U.S. Navy and Marine personnel: “- The U.S. Department of State has advised NO travel to China due to the novel coronavirus.
– All personnel assigned to MCIEAST, II MEF, and MARSOC (active-duty, civilian personnel, dependents, retirees) are encouraged to follow CDC guidance regarding the virus.
– NMCCL is working closely with medical providers across MCIEAST, II MEF, MARSOC, Navy and Marine Corps Public Health, and the CDC to ensure all appropriate measures are taken to prevent potential spread.
– Anyone contracting a respiratory illness should not assume its COVID-19. In fact, the flu is far more commonplace. Please ensure your flu vaccination is current.
– Any beneficiaries who have traveled to China in the past 14 days with fever, cough, or difficulty breathing should seek medical care right away. Call NMCCL prior to arrival or let medical staff know immediately upon check-in if you have traveled to China recently.

Best Prevention Methods:
• Appropriately wash hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds
• Use alcohol-based hand sanitizers with at least 60% alcohol
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands
• Avoid close contact with those are sick
• Clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces”

Washington state militia members (National Guard) with the 341st Military Intelligence Battalion translated COVID-19 safety advice for non-English speaking U.S. residents into Arabic, French, Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian, Thai, Tagalog, Vietnamese and Korean.

 

Going Viral, 12-13 February 2020: MASSIVE ONE DAY SPIKE IN DEATHS & INFECTIONS!

Vehicle I-D: USN’s new Robot GunBoat, or CUSV

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Grant G. Grady, 07FEB2020.

February 2020, demonstration of the latest Common Unmanned Surface Vehicle (CUSV),  Norfolk, Virginia.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Rebekah M. Rinckey, 10FEB2020.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Rebekah M. Rinckey, 10FEB2020.

Video explains the ‘potential’ use of CUSV:

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Grant G. Grady, 10FEB2020.

USN photo by Seaman Andrenay Gorham, 12FEB2020.

USN photo by Seaman Andrenay Gorham, 12FEB2020.

CUSV control station on the dock.

USN photo by Seaman Scott Youngblood, 20JUL2011.

This is what the CUSV looked like in 2011.  Supposedly it can operate autonomously.

 

VEHICLE I-D: CVN-71

Vehicle I-D: LC-130H à La skis, can I get skis for my model C-130 kit?

A New York Air National Guard Crew Chief inspects the landing gear on a ‘Skibird’ LC-130H Hercules on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, 06MAR2020. U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Scott Fremming.

Video report from October 2019, first time LC-130H-upgrade is loaded with HIMARS:

A New York Air National Guard LC-130H arrives at the Paris Air Show, 16JUN2019.

This LC-130H has been updated with the NP2000 propellers, Paris Air Show, 19JUN2019.

Not all Skibird’s operate in snowy conditions. This upgraded LC-130H is ferrying New York Army National Guard Soldiers to Puerto Rico. New York Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Alexander Rector, 11APR2019.

New York Air Guard’s SkiBird helping Canadians build ‘SkiWay’ landing strip in the Arctic, 11APR2019.

New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing offloads cargo in Greenland, on 26APR2019.

Video, Senior Master Sergeant explains the craziness of airfield ops in Antarctica:

Video from March 2019, explaining what a LC-130 Crew Chief does:

New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing’s LC-130, McMurdo Station, Antarctica 15JAN2019.

New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing LC-130 (upgraded with evil British empire Rolls-Royce T56 series 3.5/NP2000 props), McMurdo Station, Antarctica, 17DEC2018.

Grass field take-off?  No, it’s the camera angle.  NY National Guard’s LC-130 takes off for Antarctica, 06SEP2018.

LC-130(F-H?) in Antarctica, 23JUL2017.

The Common Science Support Pod, or IcePod, houses a variety of instruments to meausure changes in the Antarctic ice sheet.

Some ‘scientist’ from Colombia University explaining how the IcePod works.  To find out more go here:  https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/pi/icepod/

New York Air National Guard LC-130H Hercules-Skibird takes-off near the Canadian Task Force base camp on Little Cornwallis Island, Nunavut, during Operation NUNALIVUT, 10APR2016.
Canadian Armed Forces photo by Corporal Parks.

New York Air National Guard LC-130H Hercules-Skibird arrives on Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. Canadian Armed Forces photo by Petty Officer Second Class Belinda Jeromchuk, 10APR2016.

2016 video report on Canadian Forces Operation Nunalivut, note the wing flex on the older LC-130H as it lands:

Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, 27JUN2016.

January 2014, Pegasus Field, Antarctica, problems with landing gear being rectified.

Leaving Antarctica, 02FEB2011.

McMurdo Station, Antarctica, 2007.

Rocket assisted take-off from Greenland, 2003.  For some reason it’s officially called Jet Assisted Take Off (JATO) even though it’s actually rockets.  With the new Rolls-Royce T56 series 3.5 turbine/NP2000 props JATO is no longer needed.

Several of the New York Air National Guard’s LC-130Hs were former U.S. Navy LC-130Rs from VXE-6.

Airmodel makes a 1:72 scale conversion set that includes skis for LC-130.

Max Decals #7211

Out-of-print MicroScale #72-195

SNOWBLIND: C-130 OHIO C-17 PENNSYLVANIA

KODIAK MACE 2019: USMC KC-130J VID FEST!

MODEL KIT EC-130J GETS SPECIAL HANDLING BY NATIONAL GUARD!

VEHICLE I-D: NORMANDY PAINTED C-130 HERCULES

THAT’S NOT A C-130J, IT’S STILL THE OLD C-130H!