The following videos show the U.S. taxpayer funded MD-530F meant for the Afghan Air Force, however, it should be noted that in all these videos the actual pilots are U.S. personnel.
Buzzing about Kabul Airport, 11 September 2016:
Gunnery with seven-tube M260 launchers for 70 mm (2.75 inch) rockets, 11 August 2016:
Formation flying and strafing with .50cal (12.7mm x 99mm NATO) FN M3P machine gun, 08 May 2016:
Official ‘rollout’ for new MD-530F deliveries to Afghanistan in 2015:
Syria’s General Command of the Armed Forces claims they shot down an Israeli plane as it was supporting Islamic extremists with airstrikes against Syrian forces.
It happened at 01:00 hour (1:00 am) in southern Quneitra Province. Syrian forces also say the shot down an Israeli drone west of Sa’sa’. Israel has repeatedly atacked Syrian forces in southwest Syria, in support of Islamic extremist groups.
Israeli Defense Forces stated that one of its planes were shot at, but the two Syrian missiles missed.
“The security situation has changed.”-Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Foreign Minister of Deutschland, 02 September 2016
“I welcome…. the proposals by Minister Steinmeier…. …We need to avoid a new cold war, we need to avoid a new arms race… …NATO and the European Union are faced with the same security challenges… More than 90% of the population of the European Union live in a NATO country… …it’s good for the European Union, it’s good for NATO at the same time.”-Jens Stoltenberg, current Secretary General of NATO, 02 September 2016
“What we are looking for is to trigger EU operations more easily.”-unnamed assistant to the Defense Minister of République Française, 09 September 2016
The plan (supposedly written in August) calls for synchronizing taxpayer funding to create joint recon, medical and logistical support units in preperations for a new War on Terror. European military academies, and state run schools, will promote the idea of a unified EU military. Article 44 of the EU Lisbon Treaty will be implemented. New weapon systems will be jointly developed. It’s expected to be adopted at the upcoming EU summit in Slovenská Republika.
News media in Deutschland blame this latest martial development on the United Kingdom’s Brexit (Britain exits the European Union) plans. Apparently past proposals for a unified EU military had been vetoed by the United Kingdom (which is also a member of NATO).
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Deutschland’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier discuss a new united European military, 02 September 2016:
This video compares the militaries of Française and Deutschland, but soon they will be one:
North Carolina Air National Guard photo by First Lieutenant Monica Ebert.
Apparently the U.S. Forest Service and the Department of Defense (DoD) think the 2018 fire season is gonna’ be big because they’ve just added another MAFFS C-130 firefighting unit to their western states inventory.
Nevada National Guard 152 Airlift Wing’s brand new MAFFS C-130H
MAFFS stands for Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System. The Forest Service owns the MAFFS, the DoD (through USAF Reserve and state militias) provides the C-130s and personnel to operate it.
C-130J MAFFS 4, Channel Islands, California
Currently there are three MAFFS units operated by the state militias of California, North Carolina and Wyoming, and one MAFFS Air Force Reserve unit out of Colorado. Since early August MAFFS have already flown 142 firefighting missions, dropping more than 3.5-million pounds (1.6-million kilos) of fire-retardant in Idaho, Nevada and Oregon.
North Carolina ANG photo by First Lieutenant Monica Ebert.
Nevada’s 152 AW High Rollers will be used to augment the units from Colorado and Wyoming, and will be based in Reno. While MAFFS fly missions across the country, the U.S. Forest Service wanted a new MAFFS unit whose home base is in the fire prone Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. The MAFFS equipment is being transferred from North Carolina Air National Guard’s 145th Airlift Wing to Nevada’s 152nd Airlift Wing.
C-130H MAFFS 8, out of North Carolina
This year’s official fire season began MAFFS on-job-training for crews of the High Rollers: “The actual drops have been challenging and exhilarating. It’s a great feeling to see your immediate results whether we are dropping a protective line of retardant between the fire and someone’s property or dropping ‘mud’ directly on flames leaping from the tops of trees in an effort to slow the fire’s progress.”-Lietenant Colonel Tony Machabee, first member of the High Rollers to co-pilot a MAFFS mission
The U.S. Forest Service wants the new 152 AW MAFFS unit ready to launch for the 2018 wildfire season. The Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences predicts that by 2050 the official U.S. wildfire season will be three weeks longer, and for several years now the Pacific Northwest has been dealing with major fires in the official off-season.
“I’m learning everything for the first time, including working with the U. S. Soldiers. This was a great opportunity. I’ve never shot my rifle off of a building from a distance.”-Sergeant Yuasa Yuichi
Japanese snipers getting U.S. Army urban sniper training in Yaklima, Washington, 08 September 2016
Despite Japan still being an official monarchy, and its present prime minister is a known neo-imperialist, Japanese snipers are being trained by the U.S. Army, and given tours of U.S. military armored vehicles. It’s happeneing at Yakima, Washington.
U.S. 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 2-2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 7th Infantry Division showing off their Stryker IFV to Japanese:
Japan Ground Self-Defense Force 12th Regiment urban sniper training in Yakima, Washington:
Japan’s current emporor, Akihito (his father Hirohito reigned during Japan’s genocidal war which was finally stopped by the U.S. dropping two nukes on the island nation in 1945, Hirohito was never charged with war crimes and reigned until his death in 1989), is begging to be allowed to abdicate becasue of his health. At present Japan’s imperialist law does not allow emporors to abdicate, they must serve until death. Japanese news media polling shows the majority of Japanese want the law changed. Prime Minister Abe Shinzo claims the ‘elected’ politicians are working to change the law.
You might know that the United States has an Africa Command and you might know that U.S. puppet Japan has troops deployed in South Sudan, but did you know that neo-imperialist Japan has a base in the Republic of Djibouti?
It’s called Camp Lemonnier and is shared in conjunction with U.S. AFRICOM’s Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa. During the last weekend of August, Japanese and U.S. military leaders planned for mass evacuations of their personnel, and citizens, from the Horn of Africa.
The Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa evacuation planning focused on route planning, logistics, medical support and use of air and ground transportation.
U.S. Africa Command’s (AfriCom) Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa is fighting “violent extremist” terrorists by targeting an increasing source of revenue for those terrorist; poaching endangered wild animals. The latest anti-poaching training took place in the Republic of Djibouti:
Despite many silly-vilians in Japan demanding the removal of U.S. V-22 Ospreys (due to high accident rate world-wide, 1991-2000 four crashes 36 people killed, since 2007 three crashes six killed), the neo-imperialist government of Abe Shinzo is buying U.S. made MV-22 Ospreys ostensibly for disaster preparedness:
