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International, U.S.

Forever Wars: Russian ally Serbia allows NATO wargame? Ohio sends troops!

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While Serbia is not a member of NATO, it is a ‘partner’ in NATO’s Partnership for Peace program.  Alliances between Serbia and Russia can be traced all the way back to the 14th Century.

Photo by Sergeant First Class Zach Sheely, 07JUN2023.

U.S. National Guard Bureau General Daniel Hokanson shakes hands with Serbia’s President, Aleksandar Vučić, 07JUN2023.

On 15JUN2023, Serbia hosted the U.S./NATO Platinum Wolf wargame, for the first time since 2021. Serbia halted the Platinum Wolf wargame due to NATO’s support for Ukraine, but, after a meeting with U.S. military officials in March 2023, Serbia agreed to continue Platinum Wolf.

On 16JUN2023, it was announced that a Serbian Sergeant First Class had been killed in a vehicle accident near the disputed boundary line with Kosovo and Metohija, in the village of Drenovac.  Metohija is the province claimed by Serbia, yet disputed by Kosovo and NATO. Apparently, rumors were being spread that the accident actually happened during the Platinum Wolf wargame.

Ministry of Defense Republic of Serbia photo of Ohio Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk, 22JUN2023.

It should be realized that U.S./NATO wargames almost always have a scenario involving social collapse, where the public turns against the government! Ministry of Defense Republic of Serbia video, Platinum Wolf VIP (very important person) display, 22JUN2023:

Serbia has hosted Platinum Wolf since 2014.  This year’s wargame ended on 27JUN2023.

Ministry of Defense Republic of Serbia photo of U.S. Ambassador Christopher R. Hill, 22JUN2023.

U.S. Ambassador to Serbia, Christopher R. Hill, attended the VIP ceremony.

NATO members who participated are Greece, Hungary, Italy, North Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia, United Kingdom,  and the United States (including the Ohio Army National Guard, which has operated inside Serbia since 2006).  NATO ‘partners’ Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Serbia also participated.

Forever Wars:U.S. NATIONAL GUARD PREPS FOR GLOBAL WAR!

Vehicle I-D:SERBIA’S UP-ARMORED BRDM-2MS

SERBIA’S NEW T-72MS

U.S.

U.S. Disaster: National Guard preps for ‘Big One’ in the Wabash Valley, riots & CBRN events expected!

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Are you prepared for a catastrophic earthquake in an area known as the Wabash Valley Seismic Zone (aka Wabash Valley Fault System)?  According to the Central United States Earthquake Consortium, “The Wabash Valley Seismic Zone is located in Southeastern Illinois and Southwestern Indiana and it is capable of producing M7.0 earthquakes.”

During the second week of June 2023, Air and Army National Guard units from Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio conducted earthquake response training, on the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center in Indiana.

Kentucky Army National Guard photo by Sergeant First Class Benjamin Crane, 09JUN2023.

The Kentucky Army National Guard practiced using ‘raft bridges’ to transport vehicles and people across the river, expecting that local bridges would be destroyed by the quake.

Kentucky Army National Guard video showing you how to build a ‘raft bridge’.  Video by Sergeant First Class Andrew Dickson, edited by me:

The training event was officially called Homeland Defender 2023, and also involved local emergency responders, and Verizon’s Frontline-Emergency Network operators: “This was a full-scale exercise with the purpose to integrate local, state, federal and military assets, as well as the private sector, to provide support to local authorities during a disaster response.”-Lieutenant Colonel Stephanie Railey, Indiana National Guard Joint Force Headquarters

Indiana Air National Guard video by Airman First Class Amber Anderson, 10JUN2023:

The emergency responders included the Indiana Department of Homeland Security, Indiana Task Force 1, Indiana Helicopter Aquatic Rescue Team, Monroe Fire Protection District, Indiana State Police, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and Fort Wayne Police Department.

Indiana Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant L. Roland Sturm, 10JUN2023.

The training involved almost every possible scenario: “We had everything from water rescue operations to collapsed buildings and civil unrest…”-Lieutenant Colonel Stephanie Railey, Indiana National Guard Joint Force Headquarters

Indiana Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant L. Roland Sturm, 10JUN2023.

Even robot ‘dogs’ were used during the quake riot training: “The Air National Guard has a civil disturbance responsibility. The security forces squadron acts as an aid to civilian authorities in case there’s a civil disturbance that gets too big or out of hand.”-Major Joseph Williams, Indiana Air National Guard

Indiana Air National Guard video by Airman First Class Amber Anderson, 10JUN2023:

Indiana Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant L. Roland Sturm, 10JUN2023.

A Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) scenario involved recovering bodies from a contamination event! Indiana Air National Guard CBRN video by Airman First Class Amber Anderson, 10JUN2023:

Regarding a possible industrial chemical disaster, the area of concern has already experienced several real CBRN events this year:  The Wabash Valley is going to be the home of the largest ‘carbon capture’ operation in the U.S., involving ammonia nitrates!  Local water municipalities are already testing at high rates of PFAS in the drinking water! Don’t forget the recent evacuations caused by a recycling facility fire! And in February, the Hydrite Chemical Company spilled  “a large amount of ammonia” which damaged the local drinking water treatment filters!

Saint Charles County Government: About Wabash Valley Seismic Zone

Indiana University: Reflection Seismic Profiling of the Wabash Valley Fault

U.S. Geological Survey: Earthquake Hazard in the Heart of the Homeland

07FEB2023:

U.S. Disaster 2023:  REAL C-B-R-N EVENT, OHIO & WEST VIRGINIA DEPLOYED! OBVIOUS THAT OFFICIALS ARE LYING!

HURRICANE CITADEL GALE AIMS FOR THE U.S. NAVY!

International, U.S.

Biden’s Borderland: Yet more states send National Guard to border with Mexico!

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Mexican news media report drug gangs on the U.S./Mexico border are using anti-tank weapons (they are Swedish made AT-4 non-guided anti-tank rockets, the report incorrectly calls them Javelin guided anti-tank missiles):

24 hours after the governors of South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia announced deployments of Army National Guard personnel to the Joint Task Force Lone Star operation, in Texas, several more states throw their hats in the ring.

On 01JUN2023, Arkansas, North Dakota and Ohio ordered additional militia personnel to the border with Mexico.

El Paso fence. Joint Task Force Lone Star photo by Mark Otte, 10MAY2023.

The Arkansas Democratic Gazette reported that Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders is deploying an additional 80 state militia personnel, beginning in July, because of “President Biden’s failure at our southern border”.

There is already 125 North Dakota militia personnel in Texas, Governor Doug Burgum is sending an additional 1-hundred, saying “The threat to national security grows every day that the Biden administration abdicates the responsibility of the federal government to secure our borders – failing to enforce existing immigration laws and failing to dedicate the resources needed to stop the tide of illegal immigration and drug trafficking that endangers lives in communities across our country. If the White House won’t address this crisis, governors will, and we commend Gov. Abbott for taking the lead in the absence of federal action. The North Dakota National Guard has already deployed two units to the southern border in the past two years, and these additional military and law enforcement resources announced today will further strengthen efforts to secure the border and keep Americans safe.”

The Statehouse News Bureau reports that Mike DeWine, Governor of Ohio, ordered a new rotation of 50 National Guard personnel, for October.  There are currently 125 Ohio state militia personnel in Texas.

On 30MAY2023, Iowa’s  Governor Kim Reynolds ordered at least 130 state militia and police personnel, to Texas, saying “The crisis we are experiencing is a direct result of a dereliction of duty by President Biden.” 

Biden’s Borderland: THREE MORE STATES DEPLOY NATIONAL GUARD TO TEXAS!

U.S.

EPA Shenanigans: What/who are they trying to protect? It’s obviously not the Environment!

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Incomplete (tip-o-the-iceberg) list of shenanigans and hypocrisies connected to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), just for the week of March 1st through 5th, 2023.

What is an EPA SuperFund Site?

ILLINOIS: WFLD; EPA’s new emissions standards is about destroying independent tractor-trailer operators, only big corporations can afford the new EPA mandated trucks!

INDIANA: WXIN; revealed, company that is to take toxic waste from Ohio has past long history of federal and state environmental violations!

IOWA: The Des Moines Register; documents submitted to EPA reveal oil reclamation explosion and fire included burning asbestos!

MONTANA: This is from last month, but I missed it, and it is important. InvestigateWest; newly released documents, regarding a SuperFund Site near Butte, prove the EPA sides with corporate polluters!

NEBRASKA: Lincoln Star Journal; EPA tells residents that the massive toxic AltEn failed biorefinery will not be designated a Superfund Site, explains that by doing so it will put the clean-up cost burden onto the taxpayers!

NEW JERSEY: EPA; Occidental Chemical ordered to Design Cleanup Plan for the Upper Nine Miles of the Lower Passaic River at the Diamond Alkali Superfund Site.

OHIO: The Guardian; the real reason the EPA doesn’t want to test for toxins in East Palestine, because they will find it!

WTAE; East Palestine containment dam overflows; EPA, Norfolk Southern respond.

WKBN; water expert says EPA officials working in East Palestine don’t know what they are doing!

TEXAS: EPA; claims of significant air pollution reduction over the Permian Basin area.

UTAH: KTSU; University of Washington gets $1.2-million from EPA for water and soil testing in Utah.

WASHINGTON: EPA; Squaxin Island Tribe being allowed to finally manage and protect all surface waters within its reservation and trust lands.

Washington DC: Reuters; EPA wants to allow more ethanol in gasoline, is it actually about boosting corn sales?

Cyber Scoop; EPA issues cybersecurity mandate following order from President Joseph Robinette Biden Junior, affecting local municipal water systems!

SuccessfulFarming; EPA’s new ‘forever chemicals’/PFAS regulation will cost taxpayers at least $40-billion to comply!

EarthJustice; federal court supports EPA’s cross-state air pollution regulation!

EPA; announces fines for several companies caught illegally importing banned hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)!

EPA; the EPA itself says it is not doing enough to stop the use of wood burning stoves!

WasteDive; EPA begins $250-million in Environmental ‘Justice’/Climate Pollution Reduction Grant giveaways!

WISCONSIN: WBRC; EPA says it could take an additional month get put-out toxic Moody trash dump fire!

EPA Shenanigans for the month of February 2023: ARE THEY OVERWHELMED? TOXIC EVENTS ARE HAPPENING ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES!

U.S.

E-P-A Shenanigans: Are they overwhelmed? Toxic events are happening all over the United States!

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Incomplete (tip-o-the-iceberg) list of shenanigans and hypocrisies connected to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), just for the month of February 2023.

ALABAMA: 24 states are now suing the EPA over new water pollution regulations that directly affect all property owners:

ARKANSAS: Lawsuit against the EPA:

CALIFORNIA: EPA loans the Santa Clara Valley Water District $115-million! It is part of the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA), which to date has ‘invested’ $17-billion to rebuild the U.S. water infrastructure!

KANSAS: EPA is requiring Ameren to conduct additional investigation and interim cleanup actions at the Elm Point Wellfield site.

EPA behind first delivery of battery operated school bus.

INDIANA: EPA secretly sent toxic shipments to Putnam County:

LOUISIANA: EPA tells federal judge that residents near a chemical plant are under “substantial endangerment posed by chloroprene emissions”!

MICHIGAN: Local officials blast the EPA’s decision to secretly send the waste from the toxic train derailment in Ohio to Wayne County, KDIV 27FEB2023:

MISSIOURI: EPA tells residents of Saint Charles that the water is safe to drink despite the city shutting down wells due to contamination from a Superfund Site, 23FEB2023:

City of Saint Charles shuts down 6th drinking water well due to Superfund contamination!

OHIO: WKBN, EPA administrator addresses lack of dioxin testing, farmers say this couldn’t have happened at a worse time, 28FEB2023:

WKBN, EPA administrator claims they are going to “push” Norfolk Southern to clean up the toxins, 21FEB2023:

A federal court ordered the EPA to reconsider its 2020 decision to gut an Ohio rule that lets citizens bring federal lawsuits against industrial air polluters.

TEXAS:  EPA finally orders Union Pacific to ‘assess’ the contamination in the Greater Fifth Ward area of Houston!

EPA removes River City Metal Finishing Superfund site in San Antonio from the National Priorities List (NPL)!

After millions of gallons of secret toxic waste shipments were revealed, EPA halts the shipments to Harris County, KPRC 25FEB2023:

U.S. Virgin Islands: EPA has conditionally approved plans to remove dangerous chemicals at the Port Hamilton Refining and Transportation LLLP (PHRT) facility.

Washington DC: The Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports that since 2016 the EPA has continually failed to meet Congressional deadlines for reporting chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)!

GAO reports that the EPA’s new Control of Air Pollution from New Motor Vehicles: Heavy-Duty Engine and Vehicle Standards will cost taxpayers several billion of dollars per year!

National Public Radio (NPR) reports that the EPA’s ‘social cost of carbon’ tool is “an ethics nightmare.” 

Revealed; EPA funding under Biden is even less than under Trump!

Unionized employees of the EPA have revealed a toxic work environment that is resulting in lack of personnel to address environmental problems!

Lawsuit forces EPA to change how it determines trash dump (landfills) emissions.

$2.4-billion from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for states, tribes, and territories through this year’s Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF)!

A second wave of approximately $1-billion in funding from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to start new cleanup projects at 22 Superfund sites and expedite over 100 other ongoing cleanups across the country!

EPA Announces Upcoming Virtual Regional Listening Sessions over concerns about per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). WOOD, 17FEB2023:

EPA published two Federal Assistance Listings outlining key parameters of the grant competitions that will ultimately award nearly $27-billion, supposedly from private funding, for clean energy and clean air investments across the country.

The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability is demanding that the EPA explain what it did with so-called environmental justice taxpayer funded grants!

The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability investigating EPA disruption of HVAC industry!

EPA to give away $21-million to organizations investigating supposed climate change health concerns!

EPA announces new Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmaking (EJ TCGM) Program to make it easier for specific communities to get taxpayer funded Environmental Justice grants.

EPA Releases 2022 Power Plant Emissions Data.

False Flag, 2023:  EAST PALESTINE, A PILE-UP OF CONVENIENT COINCIDENCES!

U.S. Food Crisis, 2023: OHIO’S C-B-R-N EVENT TO DESTROY FOOD PRODUCTION ACROSS SEVERAL STATES?

U.S. Disaster, 2023: REAL C-B-R-N EVENT, OHIO & WEST VIRGINIA DEPLOYED! OBVIOUS THAT OFFICIALS ARE LYING!

Technology, U.S.

False Flag 2023: East Palestine, a pile-up of Convenient Coincidences!

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Incomplete list of links and video reports about the shenanigans that preceded the Ohio train crash, and the shenanigans that are continuing:

The 2022 Netflix movie White Noise is too coincidental; set in East Palestine, Ohio. Train carrying chemicals collides with a truck,  triggering an explosion that create a CBRN event. Supposedly the movie is based on a book published in 1985: “The first half of the movie is all almost exactly what’s going on here.”-Ben Ratner, East Palestine resident

FEMA’s official CBRN policy.

‘Hot Box’ sensors on rails detected failing wheel bearing on the train, miles before the crash, yet never notified the train’s crew!  The federal National Transportation Board claims temperatures never got hot enough to trip an alarm! This security camera video shows one of the train’s cars on fire, 20 miles before the crash! Apparently such a fire is not ‘hot enough’ to warrant an alarm:

It turns out those Hot Box sensors, aka Hot Wheel Defect Detectors, require regular federal government mandated maintenance.  The employees specifically tasked with such maintenance are called Electronic Leaders.  Rail union workers of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen revealed that Norfolk Southern suddenly eliminated the Electronic Leader job in Division B!  Division B includes the rail lines through East Palestine, Ohio.

This video posted on 15FEB2023, reveals that many Hot Wheel Defect Detectors are failing:

On 17FEB2023, it was revealed that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) altered their toxicity standard for Vinyl Chloride, even removing any information concerning the affects on children, just two weeks before the East Palestine crash!

On 19FEB2023, an East Palestine farmer pointed out that the federal government, and the state of Ohio, initiated a new MyID biometric health tracking system specifically for residents of East Palestine, just one week before the crash!

The very next day, WKBN went on the air to call the MyID a ‘crazy conspiracy theory’, claim that it cannot be tracked, have yet to even arrive for issue:

On 22FEB2023, a plane carrying employees of CTEH, an Arkansas based environmental consultancy firm, crashed killing everybody on the plane.  In this THV11 video a reporter asks why so many government agencies from other jurisdictions showed up to the plane crash, the flimsy answer is that “it’s within a hundred yards of the city”:

The CTEH consultants had been hired to go to Ohio!  However, the official claim is that the consultants were going to investigate a copper alloy company, in Cleveland, that experienced an explosion the day before the plane crash!

Here’s eight hours (looped) of CNN-News18 video of the Cleveland explosion aftermath from 21FEB2023. The report reveals that the alloy factory had recently passed a safety inspection:

Ohio Army National Guard Military Police and Ohio State Highway Patrol (Trooper), work checkpoints around East Palestine, 08FEB2023. Ohio National Guard photo by Airman First Class Ivy Thomas.

On 24FEB2023, a cattle rancher located north of East Palestine says he had to “talk my way past the Army National Guard and the State Troopers” just to get to his property (about 1:40 into the interview), he is being followed by the local sheriff:

On 24FEB2023, it was revealed that the toxic waste from the Ohio train crash was being secretly shipped to Michigan, it was outraged Michigan politicians that revealed the secret operation!  The federal EPA operation was halted after the revelation!

The leftist-progressives have have their own conspiracy theory; former President Trump caused the disaster!  On 25FEB2023 the Washington Examiner called it “complete nonsense”, quoting democrat Jennifer Homendy as saying “The train that derailed in East Palestine was a mixed freight train. This means even if the rule had gone into effect, this train wouldn’t have had ECP brakes.”

True life victim of disaster cover-ups, Erin Brockovich, calls it ‘gaslighting’, reveals that school drinking fountains are turned off, private water wells have been ‘locked’, 26FEB2023:

On 27FEB2023, Ohio Representative Steve Demetriou says federal and state officials are ignoring the human victims of the crash, calls for independent field hearings.  Interviewer reveals that people are returning bottled water because they don’t trust the source of the bottled water:

U.S. Food Crisis 2023: OHIO’S C-B-R-N EVENT TO DESTROY FOOD PRODUCTION ACROSS SEVERAL STATES?

U.S. Disaster 2023: REAL C-B-R-N EVENT, OHIO & WEST VIRGINIA DEPLOYED! OBVIOUS THAT OFFICIALS ARE LYING!

Labor Shortage 2023: Need a job? You will have to join the National Guard first! National Guard BECOMES JOB SERVICE FOR CIVILIAN EMPLOYERS!

What’s in your Wallet? CREDIT CARDS CREATE GUN PURCHASE/TRACKING SYSTEM! ALL ABOUT CONTROLLING YOUR STATE RETIREMENT FUND?

Business/Economics, U.S.

U.S. Food Crisis: Ohio’s C-B-R-N event to destroy Food production across several states?

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The federal government has complex rules, regulations and laws regarding the sale of crops/livestock that have been affected by contaminated water.  Amazingly, simple flooding caused by seasonal meltwater, or hurricanes, is considered enough to write-off crops for human consumption, but things get complicated when it is about a chemical spill.  Things get more complicated if you live in a state that has its own complicated water-for-agriculture rules.

CBRN = Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear

Here is a list of videos, and links to reports, about how Ohio’s CBRN event is already affecting food production.

CBS News: Concerns over food and water safety.

Cornell University: Vinyl chloride ‘highly mobile in soils and water.’ East Palestine area farmers advised to test crop sites.

Farm and Dairy: Beware of contaminants when foraging for Spring-time wild mushrooms!

Farm Progress: Veterinarians report no ill livestock, but it helps that most livestock in the area are ‘uphill’ from the spill.

NBC News: Residents near Ohio train derailment report dead fish and chickens.

Plant Abundance: Has the chemical spill killed farming in East Palestine, is there a ‘home made’ solution?

https://youtu.be/6XQlhrkpiB0

Toxic-free Future: Dioxins are the hidden killer in PVC and other chlorinated chemicals.

University of Cincinnati: Explains how officials monitor pollution plume on Ohio River.

WHAS: Kentucky says their water, so far, is not impacted by Ohio spill.

WKBN: Farmer a half mile from the spill expresses concern.

Dairy farmer reports sick and dying foxes.

WOWK: West Virginia preps for water contamination coming from Ohio.

U.S. Disaster: REAL C-B-R-N EVENT, OHIO & WEST VIRGINIA DEPLOYED! OBVIOUS THAT OFFICIALS ARE LYING!

Biden’s War: State of GEORGIA CONTINUES 20 YEARS OF NON-STOP DEPLOYMENTS! IS IT ABOUT FOOD?

Food Crisis: WHY IS THE U.S. MILITARY SO INTENT ON PROTECTING BATS, GLOBALLY?

World War 3:  Russian ally SERBIA STILL USES COLD WAR ERA U.S./NATO M47 TANKS for C-B-R-N training!

Hunger Games, November 2022: STARVATION IN YEMEN? 36-TONS OF FOOD THROWN AWAY, FISHERMEN PREVENTED FROM FISHING!

False Flag, October 2022:  1ST TIME EVER, NATO & UN PREP FOR C-B-R-N ATTACK ON Jordanian OIL INFRASTRUCTURE!

U.S. Food Crisis 2017: Flooding by Hurricane HARVEY KILLS TEXAS CROPS?

Operation Jupiter 2017: NEW TROPICAL ANTHRAX HITS AFRICA! RUSSIAN C-B-R-N TEAMS DEPLOYED!

U.S.

Biden’s War: Ohio Deploys, again! Is it any wonder recruitment is down?

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Photo via WSXY ABC6, 10FEB2023.

On 10FEB2023, about 50 state militia personnel with the Ohio Army National Guard’s 174th Air Defense Artillery Brigade are deploying to NATO-Europe, it is the unit’s third such ‘rotation’ (what I call revolving-door deployments).

In October 2022, it was revealed that the Ohio Air & Army National Guards are having a hard time meeting recruitment goals:

In September 2022, it was revealed that 1-thousand-8-hundred Ohio militia personnel were being prepped for deployment to Operation Inherent Resolve, in South West Asia (The Middle East)!

4-hundred of those 1800 already deployed:

Biden’s War 2023: IDAHO ARMY NATIONAL GUARD INVADES SYRIA!

ILLINOIS MAKES 3RD DEPLOYMENT IN 2 MONTHS!

Idaho, International, Technology, U.S.

Biden’s War: Idaho based Snake-River invades Texas, next stop; Kuwait & Iraq!

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Snake River M1A2SEPV2 Abrams. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 13SEP2022.

In September 2022, the Snake River Brigade’s 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team (CBCT) was busy in Texas, where it was transformed into Task Force Rattler, next stop Kuwait and Iraq.

The Army National Guard’s 116th CBCT is based in Idaho, but has units spread through Florida, Montana, Nevada and Oregon.

South Carolina MRAPs. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 13SEP2022.

Ohio’s HMMWV Ambulances. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 14SEP2022.

The 118th Infantry Regiment from South Carolina Army National Guard, as well as the 285th Medical Company from the Ohio Army National Guard, have joined with the 116th CBCT.  They are all being deployed to relieve another 116th CBCT led unit which was deployed in November 2021.

Snake River M113 Mortar Carrier. It is basically an upgrade to the old M113 based M106/M125 mortar tracks. New version can carry the 120mm mortar. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 14SEP2022.

It is all part of the ongoing Operation Spartan Shield. The U.S. Army side of Operation Spartan Shield is called Task Force Spartan, which is dependent upon part time Army National Guard and Army Reserve units.  Task Force Rattler will be the second, back to back, 12 months deployment for the 116th CBCT.

Snake River M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 15SEP2022.

Before they actually deploy to The Middle East, units must spend 45 days on Fort Bliss, Texas, conducting final deployment training, despite having trained in their home states for as long as two years, and very likely having been deployed many times before.

This AH-64 Apache was being used by the evaluation team out of Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 14SEP2022.

To make things more confusing, the U.S. Army evaluation team on Fort Bliss is not based in Texas.  The U.S. Army evaluators are from the 189th Infantry Brigade Combined Arms Training Battalion, normally based on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.

Biden’s War: IDAHO, MONTANA, OREGON DEPLOY, YET AGAIN!

IDAHO, MONTANA, OREGON STUCK IN A DEPLOYMENT LOOP!

2017: IDAHO MILITIA HAS RECORD NUMBER OF DEPLOYMENTS IN ONE YEAR?

Idaho, Technology, U.S.

Idaho now premiere site for War-Fighter training! National Guard the new Quick Reaction Force!

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August 2022:

More than 600 National Guard personnel deploy, again, from Idaho!

In 2022, National Guard combat units from California, Idaho, Iowa, North Carolina, Texas, Utah and Washington, assaulted the Orchard Combat Training Area (OCTC) in Southwestern Idaho.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 26AUG2022.

Between July and August 2022, the Arizona Army National Guard and the Republic of Singapore Air Force joined forces to shoot-up the OCTC with their AH-64 Apaches.

In July 2022, Oregon Army National Guard’s 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry Regiment conducted light machine gun training on the OCTC. Video by Major W. Chris Clyne (you’ll notice a paddle being held up that reads OTA, the OTCT used to be known as the OTA [Orchard Training Area] about 15 to 20 years ago):

Idaho Army National Guard promotional video about multi-state war game Western Strike 2022:

TACTICAL TOILETS, June 2022:

CALIFORNIA, IOWA, NORTH CAROLINA, TEXAS, UTAH, WASHINGTON INVADE REBEL IDAHO!?

In this Utah Army National Guard video explainer, from 16JUN2022, it is revealed that National Guard combat units are now the new Quick Reaction Force (QRF) for the U.S. Army, required to deploy within 90 days of activation:

In May 2022, Idaho’s 116th Brigade Engineer Battalion trained for demolition and explosive breaching, Idaho Air National Guard video by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur:

Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 19MAY2022.

Also in May 2022, the Idaho 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team’s Cavalry Scouts took part in the usual annual training (what we old timers used to call Summer Camp).  The unit later deployed to The Middle East in support of Operation Spartan Shield.

Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 11MAY2022.

Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 11MAY2022.

Idaho deploys, again, June 2022: IDAHO, MONTANA, OREGON STUCK IN A DEPLOYMENT LOOP!

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 21APR2022.

In April 2022, U.S. Marines JTAC (Joint Terminal Attack Controller) invaded Orchard Combat Training Center (OCTC). It was part of wargame Garnet Rattler, and the OCTC was described as being a premier training site, along with Idaho’s aerial gunnery range called Saylor Creek.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 28APR2022.

Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 30MAR2022.

Towards the end of March 2022, Idaho Army National Guard 2-116th Combined Arms Battalion’s Bravo Company conducted live fire with their M1A2 Abrams, Golf Company (attached) provided the meals.  The 2-116th Combined Arms Battalion was preparing for deployment to The Middle East.

Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 29MAR2022.

USA photo by Captain Kyle Abraham, 17MAR2022.

Also in March, the U.S. Army’s 1-229 Attack Battalion, 16th Combat Aviation Brigade (aka Tigersharks) sent their AH-64 Apache gunships (based on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington) to shoot-up Orchard Combat Training Center.

U.S. Army Photo by Captain Kyle Abraham, 17MAR2022.

February 2022:

IDAHO’S GOWEN FIELD UNDER GAS ATTACK!

OCTC-MATES:

IDAHO SHOWS YOU HOW TO ENGINE SWAP A 1:1 SCALE M113

Idaho Artillery 2021: GETS ‘SMART’ ARTILLERY ROUNDS, REVEALS “UPCOMING MOBILIZATIONS”

OCTC 2021: IDAHO HOME TO FIRST EVER NATIONAL GUARD D-A-G-I-R!

OCTC 2019:

M1A2-V2-SEP ABRAMS IDAHO LIVE FIRE

April 2018: Idaho Air & Army National Guards once again recognized as ‘Top Guns’

June 2017: “NEAR PEER THREATS”, CODE FOR RUSSIA & CHINA AND THE COMING 3RD WORLD WAR? “We’re going to continue to ask the……..Army National Guard to continue to make those sacrifices…..”-General Robert B. Abrams