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Kit Bashing, Technology

How to sling load your 1:1 scale F-80 Gate Guard with a CH-47.

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Iowa Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 11APR2023.

On 11APR2023, the Iowa Army National Guard was called in to move an Iowa Air National Guard ‘gate guard’, using their Viet Nam era CH-47 Chinook.

Iowa Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 11APR2023.

The Korean ‘UN police action’ era F-80 Shooting Star had just gotten some new clothes, in order to proudly continue its guard duties on Camp Dodge.

Iowa Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 11APR2023.

Iowa Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 11APR2023.

Iowa Air National Guard video by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 11APR2023:

The painting process began on 15SEP2022, when the F-80 was sling loaded to the paint shop in Sioux City.

Iowa Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 15SEP2022.

Iowa Air National Guard video by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 15SEP2022:

It wasn’t the first time the Iowa Air Guard F-80 got new clothes.

Iowa Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, April 2011.

In April 2011, the Shooting Star was stripped naked and fitted for the uniform of the 174th Fighter Bomber Squadron, for its new job as a gate guard on Camp Dodge.

Iowa Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, April 2011.

Iowa Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 2011.

Cold War Vehicle I-D:

IOWA CHANGING OF THE GUARD; F-100  Iowa’s RF-84F THUNDERFLASH & YRF-84F, AN APPEAL TO MONOGRAM!

WYOMING SHOOTING STAR

Technology, U.S.

U.S. Army preps for “austere environments” using “phantom” dogs!

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U.S. Army photo, 29SEP2022.

At the end of September, 2022, U.S. Army’s (USA) Medical Materiel Development Activity (USA-MMDA)-Medical Test and Evaluation Activity-Medical Logistics Command-72nd Medical Veterinary Service Support Detachment (whew, is that enough titles?) tested some new experimental medical devices on a couple of dogs.  The new equipment was developed for what the USA is preparing for; military operations in “austere environments”, I assume that means combat/disaster areas where all basic infrastructure has been wiped out.

USA photo, 29SEP2022.

Don’t worry, the so called dogs used in the testing are not real, they are themselves mechanical training devices.  These fake-news dogs were developed, along with fake-news children, to specifically test a new experimental, and revolutionary, X-ray device.  The fake dogs and children are officially called manikins, or more ominously “simulator phantoms”.

Small emaciated looking phantom dog gets x-rayed using a tablet device. USA photo, 29SEP2022.

They were testing an experimental medical device which looks like something you would see the future doctors of Star Trek using; a large tablet looking device called the Vet X-ray Apparatus-Small.

The x-ray tablet sends the image to your laptop or smart-phone. USA photo, 29SEP2022.

The testing was done on Fort Campbell, Kentucky.  Apparently, the next phase for the x-ray tablet involves testing on those manikin Phantom Children.

U.S. Disaster 2022: SEARCH FOR SURVIVORS AFTER IAN RAVAGES FLORIDA, PEOPLE & PETS!

Biden’s Borderland: BOAT PEOPLE NOW BRINGING THEIR PETS?

Drugs, the American Way:  EVEN PETS ARE GETTING UNINTENTIONALLY HIGH, DON’T EAT THE FISH!

Delta Pandemic: BLAME SOUTH EAST ASIAN BATS? MONEY TO BE MADE OFF OBESE INFECTED PETS!

2019: NEW JERSEY NATIONAL GUARD SAVING PETS IN QATAR!

U.S. Wildfire 2018: WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR PETS AFTER PARADISE IS DESTROYED BY THE FIRES OF HELL?

Hurricane Maria, 2017: FREE SHOTS FOR PUERTO RICO PETS!

Hurricane Harvey, 2017: WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR PETS?