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America Spread Thin: West Pacific, March 2018

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“We are going to have to stop being the policemen of the world.”-Donald Trump, August 2015 interview with Hugh Hewitt

Video, U.S. Marines assist with Cyclone Marcus clean-up in Australia, 22MAR2018:

Department of Defense video update on activities with Indonesia and Japan, 20MAR2018:

U.S. Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4 Seabees building a school addition in Indonesia, under the gaze of students, 30MAR2018

Video, U.S. tax dollars at work supporting Pacific Partnership 2018 event at Teaching Farm University Dehasen near Bengkulu, Indonesia, 31MAR2018:

News media get U.S. taxpayer funded ride on MV-22B in Okinawa, Japan, 09MAR2018, after a series of V-22 crashes and other incidents

Intimidating Japanese news media with U.S. flags aboard MV-22B Osprey in Okinawa

Senator Elizabeth Warren visits U.S. Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan, 27MAR2018

Department of Defense video, Iwo Jima and Korea:

Video of military personnel volunteering to make bread for Korean orphans:

Osan Girl Scouts of Osan Air Base donated almost 200 boxes of cookies to Seongju, Korea, 13MAR2018

A very sexist video about U.S. female military personnel in the Pacific:

Official opening ceremony for Pacific Partnership 2018, off the island of Yap, aboard USNS Brunswick, 20MAR2018

Since 2006, 22 partner nations around the globe have participated in Pacific Partnership providing medical/veterinary care and completing nearly 2-hundred engineering projects throughout the region.

At the end of march, the U.S. Army deployed animal care specialists to the island of Yap, Federated States of Micronesia: “There are no practicing veterinarians in Yap. The U.S. Army is the only branch of service with clinical veterinarians, and we are honored to be here in Yap working side-by-side with local professionals.”-Captain Adam Boe

“YAPS [Yap Animal Protection Society] consists of nearly twenty volunteers dedicated to bringing veterinarians from nearby countries through donations and fundraising campaigns.”-Captain Trevor Tenney

Video U.S. Navy hospital ship Bikini Atoll, Micronesia, 20MAR2018:

Aircrew Survival Equipmentman 1st Class Lisa Braulik, from Old Town, Idaho, aboard USS Bonhomme Richard in the Philippine Sea, 28MAR2018

USAF Band U.S. Embassy Celebration of Friendship with Kingdom of Thailand, 23MAR2018

Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recovery team Quang Nam Province, Vietnam, 25MAR2018

Video of USS Carl Vinson flying the Vietnamese flag, 06MAR2018, it was the first time in more than 40 years that a U.S. aircraft carrier was in Vietnam:

AMERICA SPREAD THIN: WEST ASIA, MARCH 2018

International

World War 3: U.S., U.K., France go to war against Syria! Russia warns of “immediate” response!

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“I don’t want to sound apocalyptic, we are not there yet. But we are moving in that direction.”-Andrei Kortunov, Russian International Affairs Council

“As the Defense Ministry has already pointed out, the Russian military bases in Hmeymim and Tartus are under firm protection. At the same time, we expect that in the event of US strikes, if any, the lives of our servicemen will not be in danger. I think that the United States understands this and will not allow it, because otherwise, Russia’s response will be immediate, as the chief of the Russian General Staff has said.”-Yevgeny Serebrennikov, First Deputy Chairman of Russian Upper House Defense Committee

“Russia has warned U.S. representatives, both publicly and via corresponding channels, including military ones, about serious consequences that might follow possible strikes, if Russian citizens are hurt in such strikes, accidentally or not.”-Vladimir Chizhov, Russian Permanent Representative to the European Union

Reuters: Russian envoy to Lebanon: Any U.S. missiles fired at Syria will be shot down

Anybody wondering why United States and North Korea suddenly want to make peace?

France24: Macron, Trump agree toxic gas used in Syria, vow ‘strong, joint response’

After a failed attempt to get a United Nations Security Council resolution against Syria (and now that it’s clear their dog of war Islamic State is dead), United States, United Kingdom and France join to possibly conduct airstrikes against Syria. 

Donald Trump suddenly canceled Latin America trip  to “oversee the American response to Syria”. 

France claims they got the support of Saudi Arabia: “If our alliance with our partners requires it, we will be present.”-Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman 

The European Union has warned all airliners to avoid the eastern Mediterranean airspace for the next 72 hours.

For proof this is a False Flag excuse to overthrow the Syrian government, the overwhelming number of children maimed and killed in the western instigated Syrian ‘civil war’ are the result of conventional bullets and bombs, yet where is the outraged military response from western governments?  The number of children hurt or killed by unproven chemical attacks is a sliver of a fraction of casualties caused by conventional weapons, yet the western powers have a hissy fit every time and launch airstrikes: “All the geniuses tell us Assad killed those children. But do they really know that? Of course, they don’t really know that. They are making it up. They have no real idea what happened. How would it benefit Assad using chlorine gas last weekend? Well, it wouldn’t. Assad’s forces have been winning the war in Syria. The administration just announced to pull American troops out of Syria…..That’s good news for Assad. And the only thing he could do to reverse it and hurt himself would be to use the poison gas against children.”-Tucker Carlson, Fox News

Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya made a similar statement, except much more succinct than Tucker Carlson’s, saying “A provocation was what militants badly needed to receive support from the United States and other Western countries.”

“Trump’s cheap shot against Iran, which has consistently condemned use of chemical weapons by anyone & is itself the victim of their use by Saddam with U.S. support, is hypocritical. His threats to repeat impulsive acts of aggression is symptomatic of U.S. policy helping extremists.”-Mohammad Javad Zarif, Foreign Minister of Iran

Syrian news media reporting that on 10APR2018, U.S. helicopters evacuated leaders of DAIISH (Islamic State) near al-Shadadi city in Hasaka Province: “The sources said that the evacuation took place at 11pm on Monday at a gas station in the area of Tal al-Shayer in which the perpetrators of the evacuation staged a fake battle with live fire before the helicopters took off, taking three Iraqi Daesh leaders with their families to an unknown destination….. a civilian was martyred and others were injured.  During the past few months, Washington transported many foreign Daesh leaders from the eastern region in Syria in order to re-employ them to implement new aggressive plans both in Syria and abroad.”

China opposes military action before a legitimate investigation is made. 

Los Angeles Times: Syria will allow inspectors at site of suspected chemical attack 

“Definitely, this crime will not remain without a response.”-Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, regarding Israel’s latest airstrike in Syria which killed Iranians

“The Foreign Ministry condemns the air raids launched at the Syrian Arab Republic and affirms its previous position that Lebanon’s airspace should not be used to attack Syria. Lebanon will make a formal complaint with the UN Security Council.”-Foreign Ministry of Lebanon regarding the latest Israeli airstrike on Syria

“We reiterate our urgent calls for serious, collective efforts to bring a complete end to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, in accordance with and in full respect of international law, including international humanitarian and human rights law, and the relevant United Nations resolutions, including Security Council resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973) and its most recent resolution 2334 (2016)……    ……we demand once again that Israel should abide by resolution 497 (1981), and to withdraw fully from the occupied Syrian Golan to the borders of 4 June 1967, in implementation of resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973).”-18th  Mid-Term Ministerial Conference of the NonAligned Movement (NAM)
 AMERICA SPREAD THIN: WEST ASIA, MARCH 2018,

2017: Is Trump Making Up Syria-Sarin Claims?, Consortium News

 

SYRIA, RUSSIA DEFEAT U.S.-NATO CREATED ISLAMIC STATE? ISRAEL NEXT?

2016, OBAMA PREPS TO INVADE: TORTURE PRISON OPERATOR AWARDED U.S. CONTRACT FOR WORK INSIDE SYRIA!

U.S. BACKED SYRIAN ‘REBELS’ ATTACK ALEPPO EVACUATION BUSES! WHERE’S THE U.S. NEWS MEDIA ON THIS?

2013: Commit a War Crime to Cover Up a War Crime? Phoney Syria Poison Gas Story Planted By Mossad in the Western Media, Center for Research on Globalization

International

America Spread Thin: West Asia, March 2018

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West Asia, or as the U.S. Department of Defense calls it Southwest Asia.  Iran, Iraq and Turkey are sometimes considered part of West Asia and sometimes Central Asia.  I consider Iraq and Turkey part of West Asia and Iran is part of Central Asia.

U.S. Army’s Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment conducted building clearance training, Camp Buehring, Kuwait, 20MAR2018

On 13MAR2018, the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, British empire’s New Zealand Army, and the British empire’s Australian Army joined together with Iraqi ‘security forces’ (puppet paramilitaries) Forward Air Control trainees to promote the concept of combined air/ground ops: “Our goal is to help demonstrate the capacities of attack rotary wing assets and show the effectiveness of operating jointly with air and ground maneuver elements.”-Major Warren Green, assistant future operations officer (yep, that was part of his title given in the news release)

Video of U.S. taxpayer funded military equipment being transferred to Iraqi Border Patrol:

Official U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recruitment video reveals the U.S. is building more permanent bases in Iraq:

The Oklahoma Army National Guard helped build a new Troop Medical Clinic in Iraq. 

AMERICA SPREAD THIN: NEW YORK MILITIA KILLED IN IRAQ!

The U.S. Army’s 74th Engineer Dive Detachment conducted underwater inspections of ships at Kuwait Naval Base, Kuwait: “The inspections dives and video captured on two LCUs, one large tugboat, and a BD crane will provide valuable information to the Army’s watercraft units for sustaining their operational readiness.”-Captain Barrett LeHardy

Wisconsin Army National Guard’s 157th Military Engagement Team deployed to Kuwait, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Oman and the United Arab Emirates: “We are trying to form bonds so that when we work together in coalitions, we can work together better and the overall security of the region and the world is better.”-Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Kurka

In Syria, a U.S. Master Sergeant was killed by a land mine (‘roadside bomb’) along with a British empire Red Coat.  U.S. ops in Syria began under the Obama regime.  Up until now the United Kingdom’s monarchy controlled Ministry of Defence refused to confirm that Red Coats were operating in Syria. The incident apparently happened the same day that U.S. president Donald Trump stated, at a rally in Ohio, “We’re knockin’ the hell outta ISIS, we’ll be coming outta there very soon. Let the other people take care of it now.”

Video of your tax dollars at work; United States Air Forces Central Command band performing in United Arab Emirates:

The U.S. Army’s 259th Human Resources Company’s postal platoon deployed from Hawaii for a nine month tour supporting Operation Inherent Resolve and Operation Spartan Shield.

The U.S. Air Force’s 28th Bomb Wing deployed from South Dakota to Qatar on 30MAR2018.

AMERICA SPREAD THIN: 2-thousand U.S. personnel now in ISRAEL

AMERICA SPREAD THIN: EUROPE, MARCH 2018

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America Spread Thin: Europe, March 2018

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23MAR2018, Oregon Air National Guard’s 142nd Fighter Wing and the Massachusetts Air National Guard’s 131st Fighter Squadron deployed to various locations across Europe, as part of the NATO anti-Russia mission known as Operation Atlantic Resolve.

Official Atlantic Resolve video, Bulgaria:

U.S. Army, Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, conduct tactical training in Novo Selo, Bulgaria:

Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade (home baseTexas) sunrise over UH-60, Novo Selo, България:

Army Reserve inspectors checking over work done by Louisiana and Mississippi National Guard units, 24MAR2018

Engineers from Louisiana and Mississippi National Guards conducted training in the Hohenfels Training Area, Deutschland, as part of Troop Construction 2018.

1st Air Cavalry Brigade and 2nd Cavalry Regiment CH-47 sling load during Dynamic Front 18 in Grafenwoehr, Germany:

M109A6 Paladin from 1st Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division (home base Kansas) conducts a live fire during Dynamic Front 18 at Grafenwoehr, Deutschland, “If you see this Paladin a-rockin’ don’t come-a-knockin’!”:

For the first time U.S. Army Special Operations Forces took part in Dynamic Front, to gain experience with ‘call for fire’: “SOF itself has no fire capabilities. We cooperate with other units’ resources to leverage NATO Joint Fire Support. This is our first integration with multinational and conventional forces collaborating to find effective firing solutions communicating digitally.”-unnamed SOF Warrant Officer with 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne)

GREAT RENEGER: SOUTH CAROLINA MILITIA DEPLOYS TO GERMANY!

Louisiana Army National Guard repaired a parking lot at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center’s Hohenfels Training Area, Germany, 20MAR2018.

American Forces Network video report on Best Warrior Competition in Deutschland:

M2 Bradley APC follows an M1 Abrams MBT

On 26MAR2018, Regular Army’s (RA, U.S. Army) 5-4 CAV and 1st Battalion, 3rd Aviation Regiment, 12th Combat Aviation Brigade took part in a Combined Arms Live Fire EXercise (CALFEX) outside of Grafenwoehr, Germany.  It in preparation for Combined Resolve X (CBRX) which will host nearly 4-thousand personnel from 13 NATO members/partners.

M1 Abrams ‘Tom Hardy’ sends one down range during CALFEX

Illinois Air National Guard, low-cost-low-altitude (LCLA) delivery over Powidz Air Base, Poland, 09MAR2018

Official Ohio National Guard video celebrating 25 years of NATO ops in Hungary:

An all-female jumpmaster team of the U.S. Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade took part in airborne ops over northern Italy.

U.S. Navy personnel aboard a Polish submarine at the 1st ever USN base in Poland, 26MAR2018

For the first time the U.S. Navy has a base in Poland.  Naval Support Facility (NSF) Redzikowo is intended to enhance NATO’s military domination of Europe, Africa and West Asia (aka Southwest Asia).

Video, AH-64E Apache (from Fort Hood, Texas) over Poland, 13MAR2018:

Video, female U.S. Marines teach Romanian counterparts M9 & M4:

Official Slovakia is NATO video:

U.S. Army Europe 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team weapons qualifications during Vanguard 360 in Slovenia:

CBRN and EOD robots Vanguard 360, Slovenija:

Official Romania is NATO video:

U.S. Marines worked alongside Swedish personnel during Military Operations Urbanized Terrain (MOUT) training during Exercise Winter Sun 18 in Sweden, 19MAR2018.

Currently there are 220 New York National Guard personnel in Ukraine, here’s video recorded by one of them of Ukrainian Mech Infantry training, 09MAR2018:

Official United Kingdom (British empire) is NATO video:

“We are going to have to stop being the policemen of the world.”-Donald Trump, August 2015 interview with Hugh Hewitt

VEHICLE ID: FRENCH CAESAR INVADES GERMANY!

VEHICLE ID: MLRS, BRITISH RED COATS INVADE U.S. ARMY BASE IN GERMANY!

VEHICLE ID: PANZERHAUBITZE 2000

AMERICA SPREAD THIN: SOUTH ASIA, MARCH 2018

AMERICA SPREAD THIN: ISRAEL

AMERICA SPREAD THIN: AFGHANISTAN

2017: CALIFORNIA NATIONAL GUARD CELEBRATES 20 YEARS OF FALSE FLAG OPS IN UKRAINE!

International

NATO Turkey joins Russia? Where’s western outrage over Turkey going nuclear?

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Not only has Turkey given up on its attempt to join the European Union (EU) but it’s looking more and more like Turkey is about to get the hell outta NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization).

On 04APR2018 Iran, Russia and Turkey held a tripartite summit to discuss what will happen to Syria, now that DAIISH is defeated.  U.S. president Donald Trump didn’t attend the conference and simply stated that the United States would be leaving Syria “very soon” (which seemed to be news to the Department of State and Department of Defense).

U.S. news media made sure the taxpayers of United States knew about the Syria Conference that didn’t involve the U.S., but failed to mention things like Turkey buying Russian made weapon systems and even getting help from Russia to go nuclear.

Turkey’s own news media reported that not only is Turkey buying the Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile system, but that Russia will attempt to deliver it sooner than originally agreed to. This happened the day before the tripartite summit concerning Syria, and it should be noted that NATO administrators complained that Turkey never told them about the deal with Russia saying “We have relayed our concerns to Turkish officials regarding the potential purchase of the S-400.” 

Ground breaking for the Akkuyu power plant, 03APR2018

They also made a deal concerning the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant project, with Russian president Vladimir Putin saying its was a new level of cooperation between Turkey and Russia.

You could partly blame the new partnership on the increasing ‘western’ sanctions against Russia, because that new level of cooperation is being motivated by money: “Russia has become the third export market for Turkey after Germany and China. Turkey has become our seventh basic commercial partner.”-Russian president Vladimir Putin

“Our trade volume has surpassed $22 billion dollars with a 32% increase, according to our calculations compared to the previous year. Our goal is to reach $100 billion.”-Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Also in the works are two natural gas pipelines from Russia to Turkey, called TurkStream.  One of the lines is meant to circumvent NATO controlled Ukraine to provide Europe with much needed gas.

Reuters:Turkey, Russia to set up hospital for Syrians fleeing eastern Ghouta 

Daily Sabah: Russia, Turkey, Iran bring Syrian peace closer, US elbowed out

Channel NewsAsia:  Turkey, Russia may cooperate on defence projects 

 

SYRIA, RUSSIA DEFEAT U.S.-NATO CREATED ISLAMIC STATE? ISRAEL NEXT?

“NEAR PEER THREATS”, CODE FOR RUSSIA & CHINA AND THE COMING 3RD WORLD WAR?

RUSSIAN ANDROID TEACHES SELF TO SHOOT GUNS!

RIGHT TO VOTE? YEAH RIGHT! CLINTON WINS RECORD # OF POP VOTES? STOP BLAMING RUSSIA!

FALSE FLAG: TURKEY, RUSSIA BLAME ASSASSINATION ON U.S. BASED EXTREMIST GROUP!

EU TURKEY ATTACKS UPDATE; DEATH TOLL CHANGES, MOSQUE ATTACK, RUSSIA VOWS VENGEANCE!

TURKEY LOCKS-DOWN U.S. LED NATO BASE! HALTS IDAHO AIRSTRIKES AGAINST ISLAMIC STATE!

GERMAN NEWS MEDIA REVEALS U.S. LED NATO TURKEY SUPPORTING ISLAMIC STATE!

FALSE FLAG: TURKEY SAYS MOST ISLAMIC STATE FIGHTERS COME FROM CHRISTIAN EUROPE, NOT MUSLIM MIDDLE EAST!

Idaho, International

America Spread Thin: South Asia, March 2018

U.S. operations in South Asia are directed by PacCom (U.S. Pacific Command).

Exercise Shanti Doot 4 in Bangladesh is a United Nations ‘peacekeeping’ pre-deployment training involving more than 30 countries.  I guess the UN is expecting a lot of wars, I mean peacekeeping ops in the area.

Official video explainer, Idaho National Guard Exercise Shanti Doot 4:

Idaho Army National Guard Sergeant Amber Demott helps train medics in Bangladesh as part of Exercise Shanti Doot, 04MAR2018

Video of Bangladeshi, Cambodian, Sri Lankan, and Nepalese personnel taking part in Shanti Doot 4:

“We are going to have to stop being the policemen of the world.”-Donald Trump, August 2015 interview with Hugh Hewitt

AMERICA SPREAD THIN: AFRICA, MARCH 2018

International

America Spread Thin: Africa, March 2018

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“We are going to have to stop being the policemen of the world.”-Donald Trump, August 2015 interview with Hugh Hewitt

USMC Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Africa 18.2 arrive in Spain, staging for possible crisis-response in Europe and North Africa

U.S. operations on the African continent are directed by AfriCom (U.S. Africa Command).

Official video explainer, Unified Focus 2018, Cameroon:

Engine swap on C-130J Super Hercules at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti

Video, U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division-East African Response Force,  Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise at Camp Lemonnier Djibouti, 16MAR2018:

The U.S. Coast Guard hosted 13 military reps from African countries, in Florida, as part of a taxpayer funded AfriCom (Africa Command) ‘Military-to-Military’ program.

“So many of our hard working volunteers stand up to contribute here on CLDJ [Camp Lemonnier Djibouti] . They come from all services and ranks. It is not surprising to see an Army Private picking up trash shoulder-to-shoulder with a Navy captain. One of the greatest gifts a person can give is his or her own time and its alive and well here with the Friends of Africa.”-U.S. Army Captain Joseph Winkelman

Video, Veterinary Civic Action Project (VETCAP), Ali Oune Village, Djibouti:

Now former U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, in Djibouti, 09MAR2018

Gabonese sailors board and search a ship during U.S. AfriCom’s Obangame Express 2018

U.S. AfriCom sponsored Obangame Express 2018, in Gabon.

Video, U.S. taxpayer funded National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) educating Ghanaians about illegal fishing:

On 20MAR2018, U.S. Security Assistance Command administrators met with officers of the Kenyan Defense Forces to discuss U.S. taxpayer assistance and weapon sales.

Video of USAF house clearing training, in Niger:

Video showing your tax dollars at work, building air bases in Niger:

Video, airbase firefighter training in Niger:

In the British empire’s United Kingdom, USAF personnel on Royal Air Force base Mildenhall pack transport aircraft with thousands of pounds of equipment bound for U.S. ops in Africa: “We are able to carry about 36,000 pounds of palletized cargo on board, which can contain anything from aircraft equipment to medical evacuation requirements.”-Master Sergeant Heath Tuma, 351st Air Refueling Squadron

African Partnership Flight Senegal began 19MAR2018: “It is the goal of African Partnership Flight to build aviation capacity, to enhance regional cooperation and to increase interoperability in the region.”-Brigadier General Dieter Bareihs, U.S. Air Forces in Africa

Video, U.S. Air Forces’ African Partnership Flight (APF) ops with Senegalese Air Force Training Academy:

Your tax dollars at work as USAF-Europe ‘rock band’ entertains students at the National School of the Arts in Senegal, 21MAR2018.

U.S. AfriCom conducted infantry training during ZAMBAT IV at the Nanking Peace Mission Training Center, Lusaka, Zambia.

Female Zambians are being trained up for a UN deployment mission into Central African Republic

AMERICA SPREAD THIN: HAWAII MILITIA CHINOOKS SENT ‘STATE-SIDE’ TO HELP STRESSED GUARD UNITS!

AMERICA SPREAD THIN: ISRAEL

TheNation: Investigation into the alleged killing of a U.S. Special Forces soldier by U.S. Navy SEALs in Mali, over drugs!

2017: MYSTERY BOMBING USED AS EXCUSE TO RAMP UP U.S. OCCUPATION OF SOMALIA!

Idaho, International

Stop Your Bitchin’: Idaho woman commands 1st female combat team!

In 2018, it was revealed that in 2013 the Idaho Army National Guard because the first to have all female UH-60 helicopter crews, operating inside Afghanistan as part of Task Force Shadow.

“When we first arrived in Afghanistan, the task force was already established and halfway through its rotation. We were like a puzzle piece replacing the Utah Army National Guard. When the 101st arrived to assume the mission from the 82nd, we had been in country for four months and went from being the newbies to the subject matter experts for the new task force.”-Major Nicole Washington recalling her 2012-13 Afghan adventure, when she was known as Captain Nicole Smith

All female Task Force Shadow team, 14JAN2013, Afghanistan. Idaho Army National Guard photo by Captain Robert Taylor. Back row: Nicole Smith, Jackie Keel, Sarah Kitson and Jocelyn Wilk. Front Row: Delia Baldwin, Carlane Birch, Corinth Barrett and Janica Hanover.

(the photographer was a man, sorry you feministas)

This happened in January 2013, but for some reason the story wasn’t released to the public until March 2018, perhaps because ‘traditionalists’ would consider it a true sign that America is Spread Thin.

Alpha Company-1-168th General Support Aviation Battalion-Idaho Army National Guard deployed to Afghanistan in 2012, it was commanded by Captain Nicole Smith (now Major Nicole Washington) and its was a first for The Gem State militia.

The company flew UH-60A/L Black Hawks.  On 14JAN2013, two Black Hawks with all female crews took off on a Task Force Shadow mission. It was a first for Task Force Shadow: “It was an honor to participate in that mission, not just because it was all females, but because of what it meant to be able to have the freedom to do so. To have that crew combination of all women flying a combat mission in a land where some of the local women aren’t allowed to drive or even sit in the front seat of a car, much less fly a helicopter… it was the unspoken message behind the mission that meant so much to all of us.”-Major Nicole Washington recalling her Afghan adventure, when she was known as Captain Nicole Smith

Gov’na Butch Otter named the Alpha Company-1-168th General Support Aviation Battalion the outstanding unit of the year upon their return to Idaho in 2013.

“Everyone had a great attitude. Everyone worked hard and long hours for the success of the company. There were no egos, just a desire to see the company succeed and for everyone to come home safe, and we did it together”-Major Nicole Washington

It wasn’t the first time Nicole Smith/Washington was in Afghanistan, she deployed in 2007 with Idaho’s 1-183d Aviation Battalion’s AH-64 Apache gunships.

STOP YOUR BITCHIN’: QUEEN OF THE BATTLEFIELD

AMERICA SPREAD THIN: HAWAII MILITIA CHINOOKS SENT ‘STATE-SIDE’ TO HELP STRESSED GUARD UNITS!

International

Fracking quakes shutdown biggest Gas operation in Europe?

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In Netherlands, the NAM (Royal Dutch Shell/Exxon) operated Groningen gas field (which contracts extraction work to U.S. based Halliburton) is the biggest in Europe.  90% of Dutch homes rely on it. 1-thousand-7-hundred Dutch businesses are addicted.  Germany, France and Belgium are big customers.  Earlier this month a deal was signed with Japan’s Mitsubishi-Hitachi to produce hydrogen with gas from Groningen.  But apparently none of that matters as the Dutch government announced plans to shutdown Groningen by 2030.

One of many Halliburton extraction wells at NAM Groningen

The official reason is that years of fracking/extraction has resulted in thousands of Dutch homes damaged by numerous earthquakes, and increased health problems of taxpaying citizens tied to fracking operations.

It should be noted that efforts were made to reduce quakes by reducing extraction, but it didn’t work, the quakes kept coming. In January, the Groningen region was hit by the biggest earthquake in the past five years.  It was a measly 3.4, but that’s the typical Richter of quakes caused by fracking.  It was also the sixth quake in that region that month. 

According to Wikipedia: “Since 1986, there have been around 1,000 induced earthquakes in the northeast of the Netherlands caused by the exploitation of the Groningen gas field near Slochteren.”

The government of Netherlands is making big money off Groningen, but will shift to big taxpayer spending as after 2030 much needed fuel will be made from imported gas, refined in a new taxpayer funded $616.6-million USD nitrogen plant.  But here’s some conspiracy theories;  Is Groningen literally running out of gas?  Or is that the Dutch government is bracing for a plethora of lawsuits from families and business that have suffered damage from the fracking quakes? Or is that the shutdown of Groningen is meant to drive up the low prices of gas, already “Dutch TTF natural gas prices have risen in anticipation of a government decision on how fast to further reduce domestic production…”?

“IT SHOOK MY ENTIRE HOUSE!” EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY AS MORE MINOR QUAKES HIT IDAHO!

FRACKING QUAKE SWARM HITS EAST IDAHO?

FRACKING CAUSES OKLAHOMA QUAKES, IRONICALLY SHUTS DOWN OIL WELLS!

FRACKING BLAMED FOR RECORD 5000% INCREASE IN EARTHQUAKES IN OKLAHOMA, SURPASSING QUAKE PRONE CALIFORNIA!

U.S.

America Spread Thin: Hawaii Militia Chinooks sent ‘state-side’ to help stressed Guard units!

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“Being that a lot of the guys in the brigade, this will probably be their third or fourth deployment, I think that might help a bit. But of course it’s always hard.”-Lieutenant Colonel John Udani, August 2017

Video explainer of CH-47 loading onto cargo ships:

Approximately 1-thousand Hawaii Militia personnel (1 out of 3 Hawaii Guard personnel) are being deployed (yet again), however they still don’t know where they’re being sent, they’ve only received a ‘notification of sourcing’ in August 2017.

CH-47s loaded onto a cargo ship in Hawaii, bound for duty in other states, 19MAR2018

In preparation, the Hawaii Army National Guard’s Company B-1st Battalion-171st Aviation Regiment is sending their CH-47 Chinooks to other state’s Guard units coming off of deployments, and to states whose Guard ‘assets’ are stretched thin.   Don’t worry, where-ever the 171st is being deployed there will be helicopters waiting for them.

The other Hawaii Militia units being deployed to parts currently unknown, sometime during Spring, are detachments of 1st Battalion-189th General Support Aviation Battalion,  Headquarters Company-29th IBCT, 227th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 1st Squadron-299th Cavalry Regiment, and 1st Battalion-487th Field Artillery.

“We are going to have to stop being the policemen of the world.”-Donald Trump, August 2015 interview with Hugh Hewitt

WAR DEPLOYMENTS PREVENT IOWA MILITIA FROM DEALING WITH MOTHER EARTH!

AMERICA SPREAD THIN: NEW YORK MILITIA KILLED IN IRAQ!

AMERICA SPREAD THIN: AFGHANISTAN