05 August 2016 (01:36 UTC-07 Tango 01) 15 Mordad 1395/01 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/03 Bing-Shen 4714
Hill AFB, Utah, hosting the F-35A Lightning-2s Initial Operational Capability Ceremony on 05 August 2016:
VEHICLE I-D: USAF FLORIDA ‘SURGE WEEK’ F-35A LIGHTNING-2
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The old U-2 and TR-1 super high altitude spy planes are still in use today, and this video shows you why:
U-2s are based at Beale AFB, California.
05 August 2016 (00:43 UTC-07 Tango 01) 15 Mordad 1395/01 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/03 Bing-Shen 4714
Crews of the expensive, and long delayed, F-35 completed extensive mission training at Eglin AFB, Florida:
TAXPAYER PARIAH F-35A CALLS IDAHO HOME!
03 August 2016 (16:06 UTC-07 Tango 01) 13 Mordad 1395/28 Shawwal 1437/01 Bing-Shen 4714
01 August 2016 (17:47 UTC-07 Tango 01) 11 Mordad 1395/26 Shawwal 1437/29 Yi-Wei 4714
U.S. Air Force personnel explain just how complicated (and expensive) it is to drop just one high-tech bomb on Islamic State, aka DAIISH (DA for al-DAwla, I for al-Islamiya, I for al-Iraq, SH al-SHam [al-Sham=Syria]). In our age of high-tech weaponry one wrong data input guarantees the wrong person(s) get killed:
IDAHO AIR NATIONAL GUARD SURROUNDED BY TURKISH TROOPS!
TURKEY HALTS IDAHO AIRSTRIKES AGAINST ISLAMIC STATE!
BRITISH EMPIRE, LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR: ISLAMIC STATE DAIISH
01 August 2016 (17:12 UTC-07 Tango 01) 11 Mordad 1395/26 Shawwal 1437/29 Yi-Wei 4714
Idaho Army National Guard photo by Private First Class Jessica L. Pauley, 31JUL2016.
Saber Guardian 2016: British empire’s Charlie Company, 1st Battalion Royal Canadian Regiment, links up with Snake River’s Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 1/116th CBCT in Sibu, Romania. FYI, the British empire spells Saber S-A-B-R-E.
The new UH-60M had almost everybody’s attention. Oregon Army National Guard photo by Captain John Farmer, 30JUL2016.
UH-60M Air Assault load up:
The below boring Move to Contact Vid is mainly Snake River guys, the Canucks wearing the darker green camo. Move to Contact is usually boring, unless you actually make contact:
Oregon Army National Guard photo by Captain John Farmer, 30JUL2016.
Black Hawk pilot explains the brand new UH-60M (and the company commander gives the usual ‘It’s so great to work with other country’s militaries’ speech):
Oregon Army National Guard photo by Captain John Farmer, 30JUL2016.
MONTANA MILITIA ENJOYS BEING THE ‘BAD GUY’ IN ROMANIA!
VEHICLE ID: SNAKE RIVER IFVs INVADE ROMANIA!
VEHICLE ID: OREGON CAPTAIN EXPLAINS WHY IDAHO BASED MILITIA INVADED ROMANIA!
BLACK HAWK DOWN JAPAN: U.S. ARMY TRAINS YOKOHAMA TO RESCUE DOWNED UH-60 CREWS
SIGN OF THINGS TO COME: KENTUCKY MILITIA BLACK HAWKS TRAINS FOR WATER RESCUES IN INDIANA!
116TH SNAKE RIVER’S 2015 NTC ROTATION, with CALFEX video
01 August 2016 (16:37 UTC-07 Tango 01) 11 Mordad 1395/26 Shawwal 1437/29 Yi-Wei 4714
The outrageously overpriced and repeatedly delayed F-35 calls Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, home:
Maryland based tax-sucker Lockheed Martin is pushing 1-thousand employees to suffer “voluntary layoffs”! Never mind that fact the at least 16 years old F-35 project has cost taxpayers $400-billion USD so far!
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE VIOLATES FEDERAL LAW AND BUYS F-35 PARTS FROM CHINA!
JAPAN THREATENS TO CANCEL U.S. F-35 DEAL!
DESPERATE FOR SALES, LOCKHEED PUSHES JAPAN TO BUY CONTROVERSAL F-35
31 July 2016 /22:47 UTC-07 Tango 01 (11 Mordad 1395/26 Shawwal 1437/29 Yi-Wei 4714)
U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Corey Baltos, 30JUL2016.
Company D, 1st Battalion, 163rd Infantry Regiment, Montana Army National Guard playing Opposing Forces (OpFor) at the Romanian Land Force Combat Training Center.
National Guard M1A2 SEP(System Enhancement Package) plays the ‘Bad Guy’ in Romania:
USA photo by Staff Sergeant Corey Baltos, 30JUL2016.
How to hide your M1A2 SEP in Romania.
“This is kind of neat for our unit. This is the first time the National Guard has been asked to conduct Saber Guardian as the OpFor, and for them to call on the state of Montana it means a lot to us, it makes us proud. We take a lot of pride where we are from, and to come here and provide a legitimate challenge to the BlueFor for this mission is challenging and rewarding. We are proud for our unit and proud for our state.”-First Sergeant Mathew Kemp, Delta Company, 1/163 Infantry, Montana National Guard
Montana OpFor Bradley’s (and a M113) ‘invading’ Romania. USA photo by Staff Sergeant Corey Baltos, 30JUL2016.
Montana’s 1/163 Infantry Regiment is part of the National Guard’s ‘Snake River’ 1/116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team’s ‘invasion’ of former Warsaw Pact member Romania.
USA photo by Staff Sergeant Corey Baltos, 30JUL2016.
Montana’s Bravo and Delta infantry companies are playing the role of Opposition Forces (OpFor, OPFOR) during Saber Guardian 2016. The U.S.-NATO wargame concludes by 07 August 2016.
‘Combatants’ are using MILES (multiple integrated laser engagement system), it’s one of the first laser tag systems, developed by the military decades ago: “The MILES gear provides a realistic force on force training opportunity. This realistic training gives our guys an idea of what they need to work on, what skills they need to develop and what they are proficient at.”-Staff Sergeant Joseph Thacker, Delta Company, 1/64th Armor Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division
Me at a rare Pocatello Airport air show, in 1999, wearing my OPFOR shirt that I got after Idaho’s NTC wargame at Fort Irwin in 1998.
“THIS IS WHERE ARMOR FIGHTS!” IDAHO NATIONAL GUARD
31 July 2016 (17:17 UTC-07 Tango 01) 10 Mordad 1395/25 Shawwal 1437/28 Yi-Wei 4714
EuCom (U.S. European Command) Humanitarian Civic Assistance Program:
31 July 2016 (17:05 UTC-07 Tango 01) 10 Mordad 1395/25 Shawwal 1437/28 Yi-Wei 4714
Idaho’s Mountain Home AFB conducts Gunfighter training four times per year.
OBAMA DISAPPEARS THE LAST OF IDAHO’S APACHES!
IDAHO HOME OF COLD WAR ERA “TOTAL FORCE” WARFARE TRAINING!