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U.S.

U.S. Disaster 2022: Arizona Militia Sandbags latest Flooding

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Arizona Army National Guard image by Major Kyle Key.

On 16JUL2022, more than 30 personnel from the 850th Military Police Battalion deployed to help fill more than 5-thousand sandbags.  Then, the next day (17JUL2022), approximately 60 additional personnel of the Arizona National Guard deployed to the Coconino County Public Works Department, to help fill as many as 600-thousand sandbags before the end of the week.

This is due to monsoon flooding, which caused ‘shelter-in-place’ orders to be issued to some of the residents of areas that had been devastated by wildfires in recent years, the burn areas now become zones of large flash flooding during the monsoon season.

Arizona Army National Guard image by Major Kyle Key.

On 15JUL2022, administrators of Coconino County asked for help from the National Guard.  It turns out that many of the militia personnel were already taking part in their ‘summer camp’ training, just 25 miles away, and some of them actually live in Coconino County:  “We just pivoted those soldiers over there and re-directed them to the Coconino Public Works building… …There are some who are from this area. That is what’s beautiful about it. We are part of the community in which we serve.”-Major Kyle Key, Arizona Army National Guard

Arizona Army National Guard shows you how to ‘sandbag’ on the job, video by Major Kyle Key:

 

U.S. Disaster 2022: MONTANA MILITIA DEPLOYS AFTER MAJOR FLOODING!

IDAHO AIR GUARD DEPLOYS TO CHEROKEE NATION!

U.S. Food Crisis 2022: KENTUCKY MILITIA DEPLOYED FOR WATER SHORTAGE, “BAD WENT TO WORSE!”

Idaho, Technology, U.S.

World War 3: Idaho S-T-E-M preps grade schoolers for future war

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“Summer is the time the program has given us to step outside our normal curriculum and experiment to try out new areas of STEM and develop new lessons we can then possibly submit to our national program for youth and other Starbase programs across the nation. Our Starbase staff were really excited about developing this new program and we hope to continue the curriculum into future summer camps and possibly the normal academic year.”-Courtney Taylor, Idaho Starbase director

During the months of June and July, 2022, fewer than 2-hundred 5th grade students in Idaho took part in an Idaho National Guard STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) Summer Camp program, called Starbase (STARBASE A Department of Defense Youth Program).  It is not the first time, but this year demand for such a program was high enough that the normal one camp was expanded into eight separate camps, and three new unique/specialized programs were tried-out.

The Starbase camp is for children of members of the Idaho state militia.  Military based STEM camps began in 2018, under the federal Department of Education’s (DoE) Title 1, however, according to the Idaho National Guard the federal Department of Defense (DoD) is actually providing the funding for the state militia operated STEM camps and after-school programs.

Children of migrant workers learn how to use computers to do facial reconstruction, on Idaho National Guard’s Gowen Field. Idaho Army National Guard photo by Crystal Farris, 15JUL2022.

Military based STEM camps are also for children of migrant farm workers, under the federal DoE’s Migrant Education Program.  It appears that the DoD’s Starbase STEM camps are exclusively for children of National Guard personnel, and children of migrant workers!

Idaho Army National Guard photo by Crystal Farris, 28JUN2022.

For June 2022, Idaho’s Starbase introduced three new categories for its Summer camp; identifying weapons of mass destruction (WMD) under the guise of CSI (Crime Scene Investigation), Space-Force training under the guise of Mission to Mars, and survival training under the guise of search and rescue. Students were part of other programs such as the Caldwell Migrant Summer School Program,  the Idaho Wing of the Civil Air Patrol, the Learning Garden Children’s Center in Meridian, and four different regions of the YMCA (Christian organization founded in the United Kingdom, based in Switzerland).

Idaho Army National Guard photo by Crystal Farris, 08JUL2022.

For July 2022, Starbase Idaho wrapped-up the season by introducing 3rd through 6th grade students to Idaho Army National Guard armored vehicles.

For years, the hi-tech industry in Idaho has worked with the military to educate grade school aged children in the ways of STEM.  Boise based computer chip maker Micron has its own STEM bus which makes visits to military bases. (just a week ago, Micron warned of continuing chip shortages, but this time due to crashing demand caused by inflation)

Operation Snow Bash, 2018: IDAHO TRAINS UP THE CHILDREN, FOR WAR!

Cyber Dome, 2022: IDAHO JOINS ISRAEL IN NEW GLOBAL CYBER DOMINANCE OPERATION?

World War 3, 2021: IDAHO TRAINS KOREAN ANTI-NUCLEAR COMBAT TEAMS!

Technology

Cold War Helicopters: Dragon crashes into Antarctic Ocean

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During the United States’ Operation Highjump (aka Project Highjump), in 1946-47, a Sikorsky HO3S-1 helicopter (called Dragonfly by the British) crashed into the Antarctic Ocean (aka Southern Ocean).

The silent color film, by U.S. Army Private E. Zinberg, dated 19JAN1947, shows the Dragonfly approaching USS Pine Island (AV-12), the film cuts out for a second then shows the Sikorsky diving into the water. The pilot, and the observer, are rescued:

There is an attempt to salvage the helicopter, but the order is given to let the Dragonfly go:

This crash happened about a week after the rescue of the crew, and passenger, of a U.S. Navy PBM-5 Mariner, code named George 1, which had been missing since 30DEC1946.  The search was frantic, not just because nobody knew what happened, but the commanding officer of the USS Pine Island was onboard the missing seaplane.  The crew and VIP (very important person) passenger that survived (three crewmembers died) the crash of George 1, were rescued on 12JAN1947.

According to Peter J. Anderson, who worked for the Office of Polar Programs-National Science Foundation, a total of seven helicopters were used during Operation Highjump.  On 19JAN1947, H03S-1 helicopter (Bureau Number [BuNo] 57996) was sent to find pack-ice that could launch aircraft for a photographic mission, ordered by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd.  The HO3S-1 returned early due to icing of the rotary wings.  Ironically, just feet from the deck of USS Pine Island, the icing suddenly became worse causing to HO3S-1 to drop straight into the ocean.  Just three days later, a second HO3S-1 was lost.  BuNo 579997 was launched from the aircraft carrier USS Philippine Sea, it was hit by a downdraft and shoved into the ocean, the crew was rescued.

The two HO3S-1 helicopters were two of the four aircraft lost during Operation Highjump.

Cold War Helicopters:

USAF photo.

SIKORSKY DRAGONFLY (WS-51 or R-5 or H-5/SH-5 or HO3S-1)

KAMOV 25 ‘HORMONE’

Kit Bashing, Technology

1:1 scale F-15E gets new colors, via vinyl decals.

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U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Austin Salazar, 11JUL2022.

The U.S. Air Force’s 48th Fighter Wing unveiled new heritage colors at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, in the United Kingdom.

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Austin Salazar, 11JUL2022.

75 years of the U.S. Air Force.

USAF photo by Airman Austin Salazar.

USAF photo by Airman Austin Salazar, 11JUL2022.

80 years of U.S. Air Forces in Europe (USAFE).

Video, with dramatic music, by Airman Seleena Muhammad-Ali:

USAF photo by Airman First Class Jacob Wood, 14JUL2022.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Jacob Wood, 14JUL2022.

2021: RE-BUILD A 1:1 SCALE F-15 CANOPY

World War 3: 1ST TIME LEGION POD SHOOT-DOWN FOR F-15 EAGLE

Vehicle I-D: The new F-15EX HAS ARRIVED! COMMANDER SAYS “IT’S AN EX-CITING DAY!”

2019: PAINTING A P-51 WITH VINYL DECALS?

U.S.

Biden’s War: Pennsylvania Militia trains in Texas, on way to Middle East.

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12 July 2022  (14:05-UTC-07 Tango 06) 21 Tir 1401/12 Dhu l-Hijja 1443/14 Ding-Wei 4720

M2HB heavy machine gun training,18JUN2022. Pennsylvania National Guard photo.

Pennsylvania Army National Guard’s 252nd Quartermaster Company has been on Fort Hood, Texas, training for their deployment to somewhere in The Middle East (South West Asia).

Forklift training, 11JUL2022. Pennsylvania National Guard photo.

Being a ‘Quartermaster’ unit, their main job is logistics, so that is what much of the training focused on.  Don’t want any supply chain shortages for the troops in The Middle East.

On Fort Hood, 08JUL2022. Pennsylvania National Guard photo.

These Conex boxes contain the 252nd’s gear, for shipment to The Middle East.

Approximately 200 Soldiers got on the bus, 05JUN2022. Pennsylvania Army National Guard photo by Private First Class David Thomson.

Leaving for Texas, 05JUN2022. Pennsylvania Army National Guard video by Private First Class David Thomson:

The busses took them to the airport. Pennsylvania Army National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Zane Craig, 05JUN2022.

Biden’s War:  IDAHO, MONTANA, OREGON STUCK IN A DEPLOYMENT LOOP!

Biden-NATO War:  “A NEW SHOW”, MORE DEPLOYMENTS, “VIGILANCE ACTIVITY”!

Technology

Robot Wars, 2025: That’s no FLIR pod, that’s a robot flying that helicopter! Or, whatever happened to AACUS?

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U.S. Navy photo by John F. Williams, 11DEC2015.

AACUS (pronounced Ay-Kus, and not to be confused with the new British empire/Biden alliance known as AUKUS) = Autonomous Aerial Cargo Utility System

Boeing AH/MH-6 (MD 500) supposedly operated by a robot. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Samuel Ellis, 27FEB2014.

On 27FEB2014, a public demonstration was made of a new technology that supposedly would make human pilots for helicopters a thing of the past.  Over U.S. Marine Corps Base Quantico, in Virginia, a Boeing AH/MH-6 (aka MD 500) combat (yes, the MD500 is mainly a combat ‘copter, not cargo) rotary wing was supposedly flown by AACUS, a system of software and sensors, which purportedly could be applied to any existing helicopter.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Samuel Ellis, 27FEB2014.

“This is a Navy-Marine Corps team project. We’ve taken a landing system that can autonomously land an unmanned helicopter or aircraft into a very dangerous landing zone, potentially with the touch of a tablet. This is an expeditionary type of capability and there was no better place to test it than Quantico.”-Rear Admiral Matt Klunder

Supposedly this Kaman K-Max is being flown by a robot. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Samuel Ellis, 20MAR2014.

Then on 20MAR2014, over Marine Corps Base Quantico, a Kaman K-Max cargo helicopter was also flown by AACUS, mounted on the belly between the main landing gear.

According to the U.S. Navy/Marine Corps (USN/USMC), as of April 2014, AACUS had  cost taxpayers $98-million, since the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Innovative Naval Prototype program was started in 2012.

Notice the human pilot does not have his hands on the the control stick. U.S. Navy photo by John F. Williams, 11DEC2015.

In December 2015, another AACUS demonstration was held using a Bell 206L (aka Kiowa), this time at the Flying Circus Aerodrome located in Bealeton, Virginia.

USN photo by John F. Williams, 11DEC2015.

USN photo by John F. Williams, 25MAY20216.

In May 2016, a different Bell 206 was tested with AACUS.

USMC video report by Corporal Thor Larson, 25MAY2016:

USN photo by John F. Williams, 30NOV2017.

Between February 2017 and November 2017, more public demonstrations, this time with a Viet Nam era Bell UH-1H ‘Huey’, and this time they were really talking-up AACUS: “This is more than just an unmanned helicopter. AACUS is an autonomy kit that can be placed on any rotary-wing platform and provide it with an autonomous capability. Imagine a Marine Corps unit deployed in a remote location, in rough terrain, needing ammunition, water, batteries or even blood. With AACUS, an unmanned helicopter takes the supplies from the base, picks out the optimal route and best landing site closest to the warfighters, lands, and returns to base once the resupply is complete, all with the single touch of a handheld tablet.”-Walter Jones, Executive Director of ONR

USMC natural sound video, by John F. Williams, of final testing of AACUS over Marine Corps Base Quantico, 12DEC2017:

USN photo by John F. Williams, 30NOV2017.

However, Lieutenant General Robert Walsh, of Marine Corps Combat Development Command, admitted they still didn’t know what to do with this latest & greatest technology, saying “…it’s up to us to determine how to use it…”

USN photo by John F. Williams, 15FEB2017.

Officials with the AACUS program also pointed out that the system can also be used to help human pilots in inclement weather: “It can be used as a pilot aid in degraded visual environments…”-Dennis Baker, AACUS program officer

USN photo by John F. Williams, 15FEB2017.

USMC dramatic music video explainer,  by Sergeant Laiqa Hitt, 13DEC20217:

It was also revealed that AACUS is a technology that is part of the Department of Defense’s Force 2025, a modernization program started in 1995 and based on hypotheticals of what future warfare my require.  Each branch of the DoD has their own term for it, the USMC calls theirs Marine Corps Force 2025, and for fiscal year 2017 they claimed that Phase II of Force 2025 was “way ahead”.

Dramatic video report, 13DEC2017, by John F. Williams (for some reason the audio for the last half of the report is silent):

USMC natural sound video, by John F. Williams, of presentation of AACUS to news media on Marine Corps Base Quantico, 15DEC2017:

USMC photo by Matt Lyman, 14MAY2018.

In 2018, AACUS testing was moved to Twenty Nine Palms, California.

Robot Huey refueling at a Forward Area Refueling Point. USMC photo by Matt Lyman, 14MAY2018.

Integrated Training Exercise 3-18 (in May 2018) is considered the first time an AACUS flown rotary wing aircraft flew, and delivered cargo, during a wargame.

Not much has been reported about AACUS since 2018, but in 2021, Vertical Magazine revealed that wildfire fighting contractor Columbia Helicopters was working with Aurora Flight Systems to apply AACUS to be able to conduct aerial fire fighting at night.

ASPNT Huey, photo via Aurora Flight Sciences.

On 10JAN2022, Aurora Flight Sciences revealed they were working on an upgraded AACUS which will use ‘detect & avoid’ systems to prevent midair collisions, and a ‘GPS-Denied’ system (All Source Position, Navigation, and Timing, aka ASPNT) to allow robot aircraft to fly where GPS is not available.

Aurora Flight Sciences is a subsidiary of Boeing, they are also involved with programs to integrate humans and robots, and developing anti-drone systems.

In June 2022, the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (aka CAL FIRE) made the first, ever in the U.S., series of night time water bombings on a wildfire called the Electra Fire. The Sikorsky S70i Fire Hawk was modified by United Rotorcraft, there was no indication what type of night flying system was being used.

U.S. Army photo, September 2017.

In September 2017, the U.S. Army conducted a robot helicopter operation using two Bell 206s (officially called RMAX UAS) to lift a 20 pound object and then fly it through an aerial obstacle course over Moffett Federal Airfield, California.  It is part of the Army’s AMRDEC Aviation Development Directorate autonomous program, ongoing since 2002.

U.S. Air Force, 1996: An Operational Analysis for Air Force 2025

U.S. Army, 2015: Force 2025 and Beyond

Royal Canadian Army, 2022: Due to lack of labor (being short 8-thousand personnel), the Force 2025 structure was adopted and is now being implemented.

The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), 2022: Battle Force 2025, the U.S. plan to defend Taiwan 

Operation Jupiter: COMBONET A-I ROBOT SAYS REMDESIVIR IS THE NEW WONDER DRUG!

Zombie Tank: CHINA’S TYPE 59D TO LIVE-ON AS A ROBOT TANK?

Terminator: U.S. ARMY TRIPLES INVENTORY OF COMBAT ROBOT TANKS!

Robot Wars: BEWARE THE ZOMBIE KIOWA!

Texas Air National Guard hires robots to wash their F-16s!

International

“Oppressive” Gun Ban Fail: Politician sniped from above in Japan?

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“No one shall possess a firearm or firearms or a sword or swords.”-Japanese law, however, after a long permitting procedure a person can own a single-fire gun designed for hunting or sport-shooting (you must first own a shotgun for ten years without incident before owning a rifle)

In 1992, the U.S. Department of Justice republished an article calling Japan’s anti-gun laws “Oppressive”, and that “Japan’s strict gun-control laws are unfair and oppressive; although some people assert that Japan’s low crime rate is due to gun control, it is actually due to Japan’s culture.”

In the past few years, I’ve posted many examples of how Japan’s anti-gun and anti-knife laws are massive failures. On 08JUL2022, former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo (in Japan the family name comes first, then the ‘given’ name) was shot twice in the neck during a Liberal Democratic Party political campaign event, he died about four hours later in the Nara Medical University.

Japan’s official government sponsored television broadcaster NHK (Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai, Japan Broadcasting Corporation), says police believe the gun was homemade.  The alleged shooter has been arrested, and has served three years with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.

At a press conference doctors revealed that Abe Shinzo was probably killed instantly, claims that he was shot in the neck with the bullets ending up in the heart (sniper attack from above?), admit that despite invasive surgery they could not find any bullets:

Gun Ban Fail, 2019: MORE STABBINGS IN JAPAN AS UNITED KINGDOM ADMITS DEATHS-BY-KNIFE ARE SKYROCKETING!

Total Gun Ban, 2018: KNIFE ATTACKS IN JAPAN SKYROCKET?

SCHOOL SHOOTING IN ANTI-GUN JAPAN!

JAPAN, COPS, BULLIES, SUICIDE

Gun Ban Fail, 2017: Anti-gun operation in United States is taking orders from Japan!

Gun Ban Fail, 2016: JAPAN HIT BY ARMY VETERAN KAMIKAZE BOMBER!

Kit Bashing, Technology

Ohio Air Militia entices little children with their baby F-16, kawaii!

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Ohio Air National Guard photo by Sergeant Andrew Kuhn, 19AUG2017.

In August 2017, the Ohio Air National Guard showed up at the Columbus Clippers’ Aviation Game Day event, with a baby F-16 Falcon.

Ohio Air National Guard photo by Sergeant Andrew Kuhn, 19AUG2017.

Ohio Air National Guard photo by Sergeant Andrew Kuhn, 19AUG2017.

Ohio Air National Guard photo by Sergeant Andrew Kuhn, 19AUG2017.

In May 2015, the Ohio Air Militia also ‘flew’ their baby F-16 in the Memorial Day parade in Springfield.

Ohio Air National Guard photo, 25MAY2015.

Oh course, it had to be ‘bombed-up’ for the solemn occasion (Memorial Day is a solemn holiday about military personnel who got killed, don’t know why the main stream news media always refers to it as a celebration).

Ohio Air National Guard photo, 25MAY2015.

Ohio Air National Guard photo by Airman Rachel Simones, 25MAY2015.

But the baby F-16 also made an appearance in South Carolina, in July 2012, when it was ‘flying’ out of Shaw Air Force Base for the U.S. Air Force.

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Nicole Keim, 04JUL2012.

Kawaii:  NORTH CAROLINA’S BABY C-130 GOBBLES-UP YOUR CHILDREN!

USAF WINS FEMALE RECRUITS WITH BABY C-17!

Kit Bashing

Everything old is new again…and still F-16 Gold

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Iowa Air National Guard photo, published in May 1996.

In 1996, Iowa Air National Guard’s 185th Fighter Wing celebrated 50 years by painting an F-16 gold.

Iowa Air National Guard photo, published in May 1996.

Notice that the fake-news wingtip mounted Sidewinders are gloss black with gold fins.  According to 185th FW historians, the proposal to paint an F-16 gold was rejected at first, using the ridiculous excuse that painting a fighter gold would somehow render it non-combat ready!

Iowa Air National Guard photo Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 30JUN2022.

Fast forward 26 years and there is a new/old gold F-16 in ‘Siouxland’.

Iowa Air National Guard photo Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 30JUN2022.

From mid-May through June 2022, the Iowa Air National Guard painted another F-16 gold, in honor of the first gold F-16.

Iowa Air National Guard photo Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 18MAY2022.

This time the F-16 is not a working fighter, it has just been pulling gate guard duty for the past 20 years, on Sioux City Air National Guard Base, and needed a refreshing.

Iowa Air National Guard photo Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 30JUN2022.

Iowa Air National Guard video, by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, reveal of new gold F-16 on 30JUN2022:

Iowa Air National Guard photo Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 30JUN2022.

Iowa Air National Guard photo Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 30JUN2022.

Iowa Air National Guard photo Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 30JUN2022.

Between 2001 and 2003, Iowa’s 185th Fighter Wing transitioned an Air Refueling Wing, flying the KC-135:   BATS & BEARS, OH MY!

 

F-16 & F-15: 

SPECIAL LAS VEGAS SHOOTING EDITION

Influenza

PANDĒMUS TOTALITARIAN: U.S. Army cancels pay for Reservists who refuse The Mandate!

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“We want to do everything we can to keep Soldiers and Families safe and healthy. This is a readiness issue. The vaccine mandate is in place to protect our Soldiers, and ensure they are prepared to meet the needs of the Army and our Nation.”-Lieutenant Geneneral Jody Daniels, Chief of Army Reserve and Commanding General of U.S. Army Reserve Command

The U.S. Army Reserves (not to be confused with state National Guard units) announced they will begin additional punishments (administrative actions) for those Reservists who still refuse to take the experimental (yet mandated) covid-19 vaccine!

The U.S. Army Reserves claims that 88% of Reservists are “fully vaccinated”, even though it has long been established that with each new variant there is no such thing as being fully vaccinated! However, approximately 7-thousand Army Reserve Soldiers have refused the vaccine order, and have not been allowed an exemption, and effective July 1st they will no longer be paid!

Up until now, eight Reservists in command positions have been relieved of duty, and more than 1-thousand-575 reprimands have been issued, for refusing The Mandate.

Regarding the Regular Army (aka active duty U.S. Army), 1-thousand-037 Soldiers have been kicked out, and 3-thousand-464 reprimands have been issued!

Pandēmus Totalitarian:  MORE PANDEMIC hospital DEPLOYMENTS ENDED TO FOCUS ON war with RUSSIA?

Operation Jupiter: WHY IS THE U.S. MILITARY IMMUNIZING FOR RABIES?