“It’s a little surreal, to be honest with you. I can remember as a lieutenant growing up, flying with a lot of guys in F-4s and watching that historic change from F-4s to F-16s. And here I am, 20 years later, watching an F-16 I’ve flown be retired. I’ve gone full circle, and it’s bittersweet. But it’s an awesome opportunity to be the last commander to fly this jet.”-Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Eldredge, 309th Fighter Squadron
On 07SEP2022, the last of 27 F-16C ‘Block 25’ Falcons was flown from Luke Air Force Base, in Arizona, to The Boneyard. The retirement ceremony was held on 06SEP2022.
U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman David Busby, 07SEP2022.
The 309th Fighter Squadron (FS) ‘Wild Ducks’ had been flying Block 25 F-16C/Ds for 28 years. The 309th FS has an interesting history, going back to World War Two, in that it has been based at various locations around the world and around the United States, and repeatedly in-activated and re-activated. The last time it was in-activated was in 1993, after the non-official, non-declared Cold War ended, yet was re-activated the very next year, in 1994. It also experienced a period of being officially “unmanned”, from May 2014 to July 2014.
USAF photo by Senior Airman David Busby, 07SEP2022.
Pilots, ground crew and honorary members of the 309th FS signed their names to the last Block-25 F-16C.
309th FS F-16Cs fly alongside F-35A Lightning-2s from the 63rd FS, 11NOV2017. USAF photo by Senior Airman James Hensley.
The 309th FS still uses the newer Block 42 ‘Night’ Falcons, but perhaps will eventually get the outrageously expensive, and long overdue, F-35A Lightning-2.
Airman First Class Keilani Durfey shakes the hand of the pilot who gets to take the final flight the 309th’s last F-16C, Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Eldredge. USAF photo by Senior Airman David Busby, 07SEP2022.
The Boneyard is part of Davis-Monthan AFB, also in Arizona, it is considered to be the largest military aircraft graveyard in the world.
How long will those signatures last in the Arizona Sun? USAF photo by Senior Airman David Busby, 07SEP2022.
An F-16C of the Wild Ducks 309th FS, 12JUL2019. USAF photo by Airman First Class Aspen Reid.
Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).
309th FS F-16C, 14AUG2018. USAF photo by Airman First Class Zoie Rider.
USAF video by Senior Airman BreeAnn Sachs, showing 309th FS F-16C/Ds (Block 25 & 42) operating from Holloman AFB, New Mexico, 05AUG2016:
In the Cold War 1980s the Wild Ducks were known as the 309th Tactical FighterSquadron (TFS), with a different tail code due to being based on Homestead AFB, Florida.
USAF photo by Airman First Class Nancy Smelser, 19DEC1986.
The first of the original F-16Bs to hit 1-million flight hours belonged to the 309th TFS, in 1986.
18 October 2022 (13:03-UTC-07 Tango 06) 26 Mehr 1401/22 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1444/23 Geng-Xu 4720/18 октября 2022 года
“How is it possible that we, the world, found out in December of 2019 that there is a CoViD… ….in China… On January the 11th [2020] the Chinese government released the DNA data, or a segment of it, to the public and three days later Pfizer already started a ‘test’ for this vaccine! How is that possible?…. In the case of Moderna… …they submit the trials since 2017! So I’m restating the question, how is it possible… they submitted tests of their vaccines years before the virus?”–Cristian-Vasile Terheș, Romania’s representative to the European Union parliament, 11OCT2022
Cristian Terhes, an EU parliamentarian, posted a scathing video on YouTube. He was joined by five other EU parliament members (two from Germany, one each from Italy, France, Croatia) blasting the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Pfizer, Albert Bourla, for refusing to appear, to explain now revealed ‘secret contracts’ (which were massively redacted when released), and to explain why testing was not done when officially Pfizer promised testing was done. The EU video also reveals the correlation between high vaccinations rates and high death rates, and reveals that Moderna reps started testing for CoViD-19 in 2017:
18 October 2022 (09:41-UTC-07 Tango 06) 26 Mehr 1401/22 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1444/23 Geng-Xu 4720/18 октября 2022 года
In September 2022, during testimony before a Congressional committee, Anthony Stephen Fauci proudly held up a Reuters’ statement, claiming his statements had been ‘fact checked’ as true!
A rebellious British Doctor (now working in the United States), Suneel Dhand, who has been questioning the Pandemic mandates from day one, investigated and found out the ‘fact checker’ for Reuters is an executive for Pfizer!
Indiana Army National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Brad Staggs, 17OCT2022.
According to the U.S. Army, since 2003 more than 35-thousand Army National Guard personnel have deployed for the U.S. MFO mission, in “an almost continuous Guard contribution.”
Indiana Army National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Brad Staggs, 17OCT2022.
The U.S. MFO mission has been in effect since 1981, as a result of the United Nations vetoing participation in the 1978 U.S. brokered Camp David Accords peace deal (which includes tens of Billions of U.S. tax dollars per yeareach for Israel and Egypt, for military assistance as well as economic assistance).
Indiana Army National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Brad Staggs, 17OCT2022.
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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.
Idaho Air National Guard Photo by Staff Sergeant Joseph R. Morgan, 14OCT2022.
On 14OCT2022, the families of the Idaho Air National Guard’s 190th FW-124th FS were treated to some A-10C Thunderbolt-2 action on Saylor Creek bombing and gunnery range. Even enjoying the view from atop an Idaho Army National Guard M109.
Idaho Air National Guard Photo by Staff Sergeant Joseph R. Morgan, 14OCT2022.
The moment was sweeter because the 124th FS had just won its fourth Hawgsmoke competition, setting a new benchmark for number of wins.
Gowen Field (East end of Boise Airport), Idaho, 07SEP2022. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Mercedee Wilds.
Probably the most non-combat gathering of A-10C Thunderbolt-2s you will ever see! 37 ‘Warthogs’ from Air National Guard, as well as Reserve and Active U.S. Air Force units congregated on Idaho’s Gowen Field, hungry to chew on the Saylor Creek bomb/gun range, for the biennial (normally every other year, except during Pandemics) Hawgsmoke competition, from the 6th through the 8th of September, 2022.
Idaho Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Mercedee Wilds, 07SEP2022.
Idaho Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Mercedee Wilds, 06SEP2022.
Idaho Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Mercedee Wilds, 06SEP2022.
On the official opening day of Hawgsmoke 2022, a P-40 Warhawk and a P-47 Thunderbolt (from Idaho’s Warhawk Museum) conducted a ‘heritage flyover’ as part of the opening ceremonies.
A 47th FS ‘Dogpatchers’ A-10C arrives from Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Mercedee Wilds, 06SEP2022.
A 354th FS ‘Bulldogs’ A-10C, also from Davis-Monthan AFB. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Mercedee Wilds, 06SEP2022.
104th FS Air National Guard A-10C out of Maryland. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 08SEP2022.
Air National Guard A-10C, 122nd FW ‘Blacksnakes’ out of Indiana. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 08SEP2022.
Missouri’s ‘KC Hawg’ of the 442nd FW. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 08SEP2022.
Air National Guard’s 124th FW ‘Red’ Idaho (there are ‘Blue’ ones) A-10C. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Joshua C. Allmaras, 08SEP2022.
A 124th FW A-10C lets one rip. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Joshua C. Allmaras, 08SEP2022.
Idaho Air National Guard video by Ryan White, A-10Cs passing gas all over the Saylor Creek range, 08SEP2022:
For the fourth time, and setting a new record for wins, Idaho Air National Guard 190th Fighter Squadron’s 124th Fighter Wing took the Overall Team Award. That is four wins: 2008, 2010, 2021, 2022.
Other winners of Hawgsmoke 2022: Top A-10 Overall Attack Pilot; Lieutenant Colonel John Marks, 303rd Fighter Squadron (FS)-442d Fighter Wing (FW), Whiteman Air Force Base (AFB), Missouri. Top Strafe Team; 303rd FS-442d FW, Whiteman AFB, Missouri. Top Tactical Team; 47th FS-442d FW, Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona. Top Bombing Team; 354th FS-355th FW, Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona.
In 1995 the decades old ‘Cold War’ era Gunsmoke ground attack competition came to an end, in 2000 a new ground attack competition was started called Hawgsmoke.
Another U.S. Air Force EC-130H Compass Call retires at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, 28FEB2022. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Alex Miller.
USAF photo by Senior Airman Alex Miller, 28FEB2022.
To be replaced by the new British built EC-37B, EC-130H Compass Call aircraft are slowly being retired.
U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Kaitlyn Ergish, 08NOV2021.
USAF photo by Senior Airman Kaitlyn Ergish, 08NOV2021.
Retirements began in 2018 and are ongoing, as the new EC-37B is only now coming off the production line. Unfortunately, just like the EC-37B the British empire’s BAE System is also involved with the EC-130H (another Yankee taxpayer feather in the cap of the Red Coats). A total of 14 modified EC-130H served in the USAF.
An EC-130H Compass Call’s retirement flight, 31AUG2021. USAF photo by Senior Airman Alex Miller.
First flight 1981, entered service 1982, costs $165-million each. By October 2021, the EC-130H Compass Call had been flying for 40 years. However, keep in mind that the first Compass Calls were modified C-130Hs that had already been flying for at least a decade (known as Baseline 1 aircraft)!
On 31AUG2021, yet another Compass Call was retired to the ‘Boneyard’ on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (AFB), in Arizona. U.S. Air Force (USAF) video by Senior Airman Kaitlyn Ergish:
12JUN2019, the 43rd Electronic Combat Squadron (Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona) deployed to NATO Poland, for the first time in the Squadron’s history. Compass Call worked alongside fighter aircraft (in U.S. English the word aircraft is both singular and plural, do not add an ‘s’ at the end of the word aircraft) of the U.S. and Polish air forces. USAF video by Airman First Class Chanceler Nardone:
By December 2018, the EC-130H has been on-station over Afghanistan for 15 years, video interview by Senior Airman Jean-Paul Arnaud-Marquez:
USAF video by Senior Airman Kayla Palmer, an EC-130H retirement ceremony on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, 02AUG2018:
In 2018, the oldest EC-130H was retired, it was tail number was 65-0989. According to the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing, it was originally a C-130H built in 1965. 65-0989 was one of the first C-130Hs to be modified for the Compass Call mission. In 2018, the older Compass Calls were being replaced with newer/upgraded C-130s (known as Baseline 2, 5th generation electronic attack aircraft).
November 2017, night vision video by Technical Sergeant Justin Jacobs, of 41st Expeditionary Electronic Combat Squadron’s EC-130H operations on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan:
August 2017, Afghanistan, Airman explains his job maintaining Compass Call’s electronic warfare equipment, video by Senior Airman Joshua Crawley:
December 2016 video report, by Technical Sergeant Lance Daigle, explaining Compass Call’s mission over Iraq and Syria:
June 2012, Ohio Air National Guard refuel Compass Call over Utah, video by Senior Airman Robert Harnden:
Brand new EC-130H Compass Call Block 30 Baseline-1 arrives on Davis-Monthan AFB, 18FEB1997. USAF photo by Airman Elizabeth J. Harris.
This U.S. Navy photo by John Bouvia, incorrectly claims to show an early EC-130H Compass Call, on Mcdill AFB, Florida, 05DEC1993. It is an EC-130E Commando Solo.
An EC-130H Compass Call lands in NATO Germany, Sembach Air Base, after taking part in Desert Storm. USAF photo by Master Sergeant Dave Casey, 11MAR1991.
Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).
USAF photo by Master Sergeant Bill Thompson, December 1989.
USAF photo by Master Sergeant Bill Thompson, December 1989.
Compass Call takes off from Sembach, NATO West Germany. USAF photo by Master Sergeant Dave Casey, 07JUN1989.
An EC-130H gets refueled over NATO West Germany by a KC-135 Stratotanker. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Fernando Serna, 30AUG1987.
14 October 2022 (09:03-UTC-07 Tango 06) 22 Mehr 1401/18 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1444/19 Geng-Xu 4720/14 октября 2022 года
“This is a large and concerning number of negative health impacts.”-Aaron Siri, attorney leading the Freedom of Information lawsuit against the U.S. CDC
Ever since this Pandemic hyperbole started I’ve been periodically telling people about a U.S. government program supposedly meant to document and even compensate people/families who have had severe reactions, even deaths, after being vaccinated. The program is known as VAERS, and was started under the regime of George Bush Senior (George H. W. Bush) as a result of an Act of Congress under the Ronald Reagan regime, not to protect us individuals, but to protect the pharmaceutical companies from getting their asses sued off! The VAERS program is funded by a tax on every vaccine issued within the United States.
This involves mRNA vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.
Informed Consent Action Network had no problem collating the adverse reaction claims data; a little more than three quarters of a million people, 782-thousand-913 victims, so far!
In the United States, if you have had, or suspect you’ve had and adverse reaction to a vaccine it is up to you, not your healthcare provider, to report it. Contact the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
13 October 2022 (12:23-UTC-07 Tango 06) 21 Mehr 1401/17 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1444/18 Geng-Xu 4720/13 октября 2022 года
It has been established that there are not many good paying, steady, long term jobs spread across The Gem State, and that there isn’t a lot of available land for private ownership, resulting in a low population, and that there has been plenty of house construction since the end of the 1990s. In other words, sparse population due to lack of decent long term jobs (90% of the population growth has been in the Boise Metro Area), and decades of house building actually resulting in a glut of houses. Yet, housing rental prices and purchase prices are too high. This is the excuse that local municipalities and property developers are using to justify the approval, and acceleration, of massive residential construction projects.
For proof here is a list of links to articles (just the tip of the iceberg) proclaiming new housing projects, and reporting on housing cost problems, across Idaho, from the past month:
Ada County area real estate agent says the number of actual available units are flat despite all the construction, and predicts inventory will actually go down, which means rents and prices will stay high. Reveals a disturbing trend that was insignificant before 2008 and is also the cause of high prices; residential Institutional Buyers, aka Investors/Speculators, who outbid families trying to buy a home:
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Idaho’s reign as a top destination for domestic migrants (U.S. citizens leaving their states for The Gem State) was short lived, and is now reversing; more people leaving than coming in!
I’ve documented how for decades the entrenched, arrogant, leaders of Idaho boasted of how things were booming in Idaho, using domestic migration as one of their proofs. They claimed that one reason for the influx of domestic migrants, was that Idaho was full of good paying jobs. Anybody that has lived in Idaho for as long as I have knew that was a bold face lie! I have experienced what I call revolving door employment for almost 20 years as employer after employer downsized or halted operations altogether! If it wasn’t for the fact that my property is paid for, I would have been forced to move a long time ago. (I am not here for the money, I love the climate and the space, which apparently is what many recent newbies to Idaho don’t like)
Here’s another wake up call for our fearless leaders: There was only a slight uptick in Idaho’s overall population, from 2010 to 2020. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the sparse population of the geographically large state of Idaho went from 1.8-million to only 1.9-million, despite a decade of ‘leaders’ telling us that the population was booming. The overwhelming majority of that population growth took place in the Boise Metro Area (Treasure Valley, Southwestern Idaho region).
Here’s another reality check: More than 61% of land in Idaho is owned by the federal government. Less than 30% of available land is privately held. So, in reality the relatively small population is partly due to lack of available privately owned land. There is also the fact that one of President Joseph Robinette Biden Junior’s first executive orders (America the Beautiful Initiative, or 30×30 order) makes it even harder to make land available in Idaho:
The state government owns land, and has been selling it off, not just to make more land available, but it has become a major revenue source for the state government (which might explain its mysterious budget surplus).
Then there’s the fact that rich people from other states (Texas) are buying up private property and then using it to block access to public lands:
By 2020, moving company trackers had ranked Idaho as the number three destination, but now, just two years later an Atlanta, Georgia, moving assistance company reports that Idaho has dropped to 20th position, and the region of Eastern Idaho is experiencing a mass exodus!
While the Move Buddha report admits that people are changing their minds about moving to Idaho, the author still says Idaho is “The Place to Go”! Move Buddha reports that the Eastern Idaho city of Rexburg, home to the Brigham Young University-Idaho, is bleeding residents, and blames it on lack of jobs. According to Move Buddha’s “in-to-out” formula, for every 49 people moving into Rexburg, 1-hundered are leaving! In Rexburg’s next door city of Idaho Falls, once the economic darling of Eastern Idaho, there are now 1-hundred people leaving for every 95 moving in!
But even the top five cities that people still want to move to are on the decline, with Southwestern Idaho’s Eagle leading the pack with a 56% decrease in Move Buddha’s “in-to-out ratio”.
There is still massive housing construction going on in Idaho, all across the state, it has been going on since the late 1990s. Housing developers and politicians have always claimed it is because the population is booming, and it is necessary to keep housing costs down. That is interesting, because homes prices/values skyrocketed, anyway. Just this year, Bannock County jacked up the value of my property to where they now consider it worth four times what I paid in 1997, despite the massive home construction that is still going on around my neighborhood! In 1997, my neighborhood was surrounded on the south and west sides by farm fields. By 1999, the farm land was sold and huge housing tracts were under construction. This never let up, year after year the city slowly moved westward, annexing County territory, farm land being sold-off and new housing development taking its place. The claim was that the population and economy is booming, yet starting in 2001, I witnessed, experienced and documented the economic destruction in my part of Bannock County, and it has never recovered.
Prices for homes are finally ticking down in Idaho, but don’t blame the Pandemic, the massive focus on property development, that was never justified, is to blame. Now, the mass exodus that is beginning to take place will push Idaho’s housing market into the Pit of Hell.
In this report, which chronicles the destruction of iconic Green T, the mayor of Chubbuck boasts it’s “…the beginning of some real good things coming in.”:POPEYES QUIETLY SHUTS DOWN FOUR IDAHO RESTAURANTS!
EC-130H COMPASS CALL MAKES ITS LAST CALL?
