The XM93 is based on the then West German Transportpanzer Fuchs-1 (Fox 1).
chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
CBRNE=Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive
10FEB1991, photo by Staff Sergeant J. R. Ruark.
chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
The XM93 went through more testing as it was found that the NBC capabilities were not satisfactory. Finally, in 1995 the XM93 was accepted as the M93A1 (aka Block 1 improved), despite still falling short of U.S. Army standards. The U.S. military did not buy new Foxes for the M93A1 designation, they simply upgraded their more than 120 XM93s (some of which were acquired secretly/without Congressional knowledge during Desert Storm). The latest upgrade (order placed in August 2007 to upgrade 18 vehicles at a cost of $56.5-million) is known as the M93A1P1. It has been used by both the U.S. Army and Marine Corps, but eventually will be replaced by the Stryker NBCRV (Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Reconnaissance Vehicle).
U.S. Army photo by Shejal Pulivarti, 31JUL2008.
U.S. Army soldiers with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division sail their amphibious M93 across Blora Lake, Texas, 31JUL2008.
It was revealed at the end of February 2022, that United States President Joseph R. Biden Junior authorized a $1-billion contract to build Kuwait a new defense ministry headquarters (HQ), but wait, that’s just the tip of the iceberg! Like all the other construction recently completed for Kuwait, the HQ building will be designed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and built by U.S. contractors.
It’s not the first time U.S. taxes will be spent on construction in Kuwait. The U.S. has been spending tax dollars on Kuwait since Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm, three decades ago!
U.S. Air Force video report, by Senior Airman Natalie Filzen, published on 04APR2022, concerning how the 386th Expeditionary Contracting Squadron uses local vendors to supply U.S. personnel based on Ali Al Salem Air Base:
U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Natalie Filzen, 14FEB2022.
On 14FEB2022, the U.S. Air Force’s 386th Expeditionary Contracting Squadron inspected the construction of eight new dorms on Ali Al Salem Air Base.
U.S. Army video report, by Sergeant Ian Valley, of 02FEB2022 ribbon cutting ceremony for U.S. taxpayer funded pier and water break at the Kuwait Naval Base:
The location is somewhere in Saudi Arabia, a ‘new’ A-4KU Skyhawk for the Kuwaiti Air Force (to replace those destroyed/captured by Iraq) sits while a crowd of U.S. military personnel has gathered to listen to a speech by U.S. President George H.W. Bush, during Desert Shield. U.S. Navy photo by Journalist Petty Officer Third Class Gerald Johnson, 22NOV1990.
Desert Storm 17JAN1991-28FEB1991
Location somewhere in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 02FEB1991, photographer unknown.
Brazilian news media video report:
Al-Quwwat al-Jawwiya al-Kuwaitiya (Kuwaiti Air Force) A-4KU in preparation for a mission during Operation Desert Storm, 13FEB1991. U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant David Mcleod.
ITN video report:
Kuwaiti A-4KU Skyhawk. The information with the photo says it is during Desert Storm, however, the date of the photo is 01APR1991, a couple of months after Desert Storm officially ended. U.S. Air Force photo by Sergeant Jeff Wright.
“The physical devastation will be significant, and the humanitarian impacts will be felt far beyond the earthquake zone. Now is the time to come together, question, and challenge our plan so that when one of the biggest natural disasters to strike our nation takes place, we are ready to act.”-Willie G. Nunn, FEMA Region 10
In the past week the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Region 10 conducted Cascadia Rising 2022 Rehearsal of Concept ‘pre-exercise’ (also calling it a “discussion-based exercise”) at the Pierce County Readiness Center on Camp Murray, Washington.
Giant floor map used in the recent Cascadia Rising exercise.
A much larger multi-state exercise is scheduled for June 2022, involving the National Guard of the states of Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, as well as various tribes and federal agencies, Department of Defense, and the Canadian Province of British Colombia.
KING5 connects CoViD with Cascadia:
Oregon creates new Cascadia proof Treasury building:
Washington State’s Emergency Management Division says having an old fashioned radio is key to survival:
U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Caleb Parker, 28APR2022.
On 28APR2022, more than 20 U.S. Air Force Airman deployed from Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, to The Middle East for missions in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait.
U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Don Bevis, senior commanding officer of NATO–mission Iraq, and Laeticia van Asch, NATO Mission Iraq regional security officer, attend the Ambassadors Day event, 21APR2022. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Bree-Ann Ramos-Clifton.
U.S. Army photo by Corporal Tommy L. Spitzer, 10APR2022.
Peshmerga trucks, loaded with the latest in U.S./NATO taxpayer funded weapons, ammo and other equipment, leave a ‘forward logistics element’ (Erbil Air Base) on 10APR2022.
U.S. Army photo by Corporal Tommy L. Spitzer, 06APR2022.
On 06APR2022, U.S./NATO taxpayer funded U.S. Mossberg made rifles/shotguns and Russian designed RPGs were given to Peshmerga forces (Regional Guard Brigades) in Erbil, Iraq.
PLA Northern Theater Command photo by Shi Jialong, 19APR2022.
PLA Northern Theater Command photo by Shi Jialong, 19APR2022.
The People’s Liberation Army-Navy calls these A-I-P subs Type 039B. NATO reporting name for Type 039 class subs is ‘Yuan’, to make things more confusing NATO also calls the Type 041 class ‘Yuan”.
People’s Liberation Army-Northern Theater Command photo by Wu Haodong, 23MAR2022.
PLA Northern Theater Command photo by Wu Haodong, 23MAR2022.
Western/NATO analysts seem confused, sometimes calling the A-I-P the Type 039B, sometimes Type 039C, since they are China’s only known operational A-I-P subs lets just call them A-I-P.
People’s Liberation Army-Northern Theater Command photo by Wu Haodong, 23MAR2022.
These appear to be Communist China’s AIP (Air Independent Propulsion) attack submarines. AIP is a conventional power system that can draw oxygen from the water, like a fish’s gills, rather than from the air. This means the submarine does not have to rely on relatively short life batteries to stay submerged, it allows the submarine to stay submerged for long periods like a nuclear powered submarine.
PLA-Northern Theater Command photo by Wu Haodong, 23MAR2022.
PLA-Northern Theater Command photo by Wu Haodong, 23MAR2022.
In July 2018, the People’s Liberation Army-Navy claimed their then new AIP submarines set new PLA-Navy records, such as underwater sailing distance and maximum depth reached. China says their AIP powered subs can stay submerged for as long as three weeks. They admitted that AIP technology makes their attack submarines more expensive.
Twin subs loading up with fresh rocket torpedoes, 22MAR2022. PLA-Northern Theater Command photo by Wu Haodong.
Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 31MAR2021.
Idaho Army National Guard’s Maneuver Area Training and Equipment Site (MATES) might have a Boise address, but it is actually located on the Orchard Combat Training Center (OCTC, formerly known as Orchard Training Area or OTA), about 18 miles south of Boise, on federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) property.
Dust storm on the OTCT. Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 13AUG2021.
OCTC is in the middle of nowhere, and MATES is where depot level work is done on ground vehicles.
An M113 Command Post, official nomenclature is M577, now being used as an ambulance. Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 10MAR2021.
Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 11MAR2021.
Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 10MAR2021.
Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 10MAR2021.
A gutted M113 engine/transmission compartment.
Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 10MAR2021.
Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 31MAR2021.
Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 31MAR2021.
Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 31MAR2021.
Idaho based 116th Cavalry (Cav-all-ree) Brigade Combat Team’s MATES operation is considered a ‘premier’ maintenance shop, servicing vehicles for Army National Guard units in Idaho, Nevada and Oregon.
Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 31MAR2021.
Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 31MAR2021.
Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 31MAR2021.
Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 31MAR2021.
Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 31MAR2021.
Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 31MAR2021.
Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 07APR2021.
Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 09APR2021.
M113 Mortar Track, official nomenclature is M106, waits for fire orders on OCTC. Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 18MAY2021.
‘My” M981 FiSTV (artillery forward observer M113), on Idaho’s Orchard Training Area (now called Orchard Combat Training Center), Summer 1997.
On 27APR2022, the Indiana Army National Guard issued video (by Sergeant Hector Tinoco) explaining their part in sending Ukraine Viet Nam era M113 APCs:
Welcome to borderland hell under the U.S. President, highly incomplete (just the tip of the iceberg) list of videos and links to news/government agency reports as of 30 April 2022:
U.S. Coast Guard District 7 video, from 27APR2022, of a Haitian boat approximately 60 miles northwest of Cuba. The boat was intercepted with 64 illegals onboard:
On 19APR2022, the U.S Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued a taxpayer funding video report justifying its reliance on hi-tech equipment, why Singapore is an important partner in policing smuggling that is targeting the U.S., and continued border policing operations with a focus on “rescuing” victims of human smuggling:
On 11APR2022, the USCG District 7 “rescued” 67 illegals from Haiti, 15 miles southeast of Anguilla Cay, Bahamas:
On 10APR2022, the USCG District 7, handed over 88 illegals from Haiti to the Haitian Coast Guard. Video by Lieutenant David Steele:
USCG District 7 photo, 09APR2022.
On 09APR2022, approximately 17 miles northeast of Punta Maisi, Cuba, the USCG District 7 captured, oh I mean ‘rescued’ 89 illegals from Haiti. The USCG claims the Haitian ‘voluntarily’ left the boat and ‘agreed’ to be sent back to Haiti (at U.S. taxpayer expense, of course)!
Italy:
U.S. Army photo by Cameron Porter, 05APR2022.
The U.S. Army’s Logistics Readiness Center, in Livorno, began sending humanitarian aid to Moldova, to help that tiny country deal with Ukrainian refugees.
ARIZONA: Yet again, U.S. Customs and Border Protection had to ‘rescue’ illegals stranded/injured on the Baboquivari Mountains. Video by Ozzy Trevino, 14APR2022:
U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Savannah Roy, 08APR2022.
The U.S. Air Force delivered a new MQ-1C-25 drone (unmanned aerial vehicle UAV) to Fort Huachuca. U.S. Army soldiers from Fort Stewart, Georgia, will use it to patrol the border with Mexico for the next two months. The ‘-25’ indicates the MQ-1C is the new Extended Range Gray Eagle.
U.S. Army photo by Brandon Mejia, 16FEB2022.
The U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) is about 48 miles from the border with Mexico (if you’re heading to Los Algodones), and borders with California. YPG Conservation Law Enforcement Officer Sergeant Shawn Baker says there has been a huge increase in ‘trespassing’ in the past few years, based on the number of new vehicle trails, aerial photos, and ‘in-person contacts’. Sergeant Baker stops short of blaming illegal immigrants, but warns that YPG has a lot of unexploded bombs spread across the desert, some going back to World War Two.
Near Yuma’s border with Mexico, CBP reports 10-thousand illegal crossings per week:
Kentucky Army National Guard photo by Sergeant First Class Lerone Simmons, 28APR2022.
On 28APR2022, U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant Major James Porterfield, Command Senior Enlisted Leader of NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) and USNorthCom (U.S. Northern Command), got a tour of a Mobile Surveillance Camera (MSC) site near San Diego. The MSC is operated by the 381st Military Police Company, Indiana Army National Guard. USNorthCom is tasked with providing Mobile Surveillance Camera operators, Intelligence analysts, and aviation support operations via various state National Guard units.
Taxpayer funded College of the Canyons helps illegals:
‘Free’ taxpayer funded medical care for hundreds of thousands of illegals begins 01MAY2022:
FLORIDA:
USCG District 7 photo, 18APR2022.
The USCG claims they ‘rescued’ 84 illegals, in various homemade boats, about 17 miles south of Marathon on 18APR2022, and returned them to Cuba on 27APR2022.
USCG District 7 photo, 16APR2022.
About 17 miles south of Ramrod Key, the USCG ‘rescued’ 67 illegals from Cuba on 16APR2022, sending them back to Cuba on 18APR2022.
USCG photo, 01APR2022.
On 01APR2022, the USCG District 7 ‘rescued’ 70 illegals from Cuba, approximately 45 miles south of Marathon. The USCG says they were sent back to Cuba.
The body of a Texas Army National Guardsman, Specialist Bishop Evans, who died trying to rescue illegals from drowning, is recovered, Tennessee politician Diana Harshbarger says “The rest of the country needs to wake up!”:
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Third Class Michael Clark, 12APR2022.
Canada’s Ambassador to the U.S., Kirsten Hillman, discusses traffic control operations for cargo ships with Laird Hail, Director of the Puget Sound Vessel Traffic Control System, on Base Seattle, 12APR2022. Canada and the U.S. work together regarding ocean going vessels using the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Washington DC:12APR2022, Russia-Ukraine crisis forces U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken to meet with UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi. Apparently the number of refugees fleeing the war are at crisis levels, and finding countries willing to take enough in is now a problem:
This is not a complete list of U.S. Army/Air Force/National Guard deployments for the month of April, 2022.
U.S. Army photo by Private First Class Joshua Zayas, 06APR2022.
On 06APR2022, the U.S. Army’s 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, deployed from Fort Carson, Colorado, to NATO Poland.
Pre-deployment training also included the use of Javelin anti-tank missiles, for the first time in Idaho! 27MAR2022, Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez.
Idaho National Guard photo by Elizabeth Adams, 07APR2022.
Due to the now seemingly never ending Idaho National Guard deployments, currently involving more than 1-thousand-4-hundred Army and Air National Guard personnel, the Idaho National Guard Service Member & Family Support Division hosted the first ever Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program, on 07APR2022. Idaho is a geographically large rural state with a population of only about 1.9-million (just under a quarter of the population of the megalopolis of New York City).
Iowa Air National Guard photo Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 20APR2022.
Iowa Air National Guard’s 185th Air Refueling Wing deployed on 20APR2022, for the CentCom (Central Command) Area of Operation (AO) in The Middle East. Just like Idaho, Iowa’s National Guard are also conducting rotating deployments, as one unit returns home another is heading out. Iowa is geographically smaller than Idaho, yet has 3.1-million people according to the latest Census estimates.
South Carolina Army National Guard photo by Private First Class Ana-Grace Catoe, 20APR2022.
On 20APR2022, South Carolina Army National Guard said an official good-bye to Company A, 1-111th General Support Aviation Battalion, 59th Aviation Troop Command. 50 personnel and eight UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters are deploying to Egypt to conduct a Multinational Force and Observers ‘peacekeeping’ mission on the Sinai Peninsula.
U.S. Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations warehouse, Dover AFB, Delaware. USAF photo by Jason Minto, 21APR2022.
On Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations specialists are stocking-up supplies in the Mortuary Affairs warehouse.
U.S. Army Reserve photo by Sergeant Andrew McNeil, 23APR2022.
The U.S. Army Reserve’s 88th Readiness Division conducted a Yellow Ribbon deployment event in Bloomington, Minnesota, on 23APR2022. Yellow Ribbon events are meant to prepare families for the upcoming deployments. Minnesota’s population is estimated to be 5.7-million.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders poses with members of the 158th Fighter Wing during a deployment ceremony at the Vermont Air National Guard Base, South Burlington, Vermont, 28APR2022. Vermont Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant Richard Mekkri.
Vermont is a geographically tiny state, with a population of more than 600-thousand people.
Vermont Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant Richard Mekkri, 28APR2022.
On 28-29APR2022, under the cover of darkness Vermont Air National Guard’s 158th Fighter Wing deployed to NATO Europe: “We are proud to send our Airmen to support the collective defense of our allies and partners. This deployment demonstrates some of the strategic capabilities the Vermont Air National Guard can provide to the nation when needed.”-Major General Greg Knight, adjutant general of Vermont
A Latvian National Guard soldier sprays down a U.S. Army truck on 12APR2022. U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Preston Malizia.
Latvia is so afraid for its poultry industry that it now requires vehicles that operate near poultry farms to be decontaminated (aka an agricultural wash), and that includes NATO military vehicles training for the Ukraine Crisis!
U.S. Army vehicles on Katterbach Army Airfield, Germany, get an agricultural wash, 31JAN2022. USA photo by Captain Gabrielle Hildebrand.
It is not just Latvia. Agricultural washes are taking place in NATO Germany as well.
KUWAITI القوات الجوية الكويتية A-4KU SKYHAWK
