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When Idaho had the A-10C: Air Guard’s family day, food, fun & gatling guns! Saylor Creek Range, 2012.

Video August 21, 2025 Hutchins AAron

On 05AUG2012, Idaho Air Guard’s 124th Fighter Wing (FW) invited their families to the Saylor Creek Range, for a family day and a demonstration of the A-10C Thunderbolt-2.

Officially, it was called ‘Kin Appreciation Day’.

The A-10C demonstration also included Joint Terminal Attack Controllers (JTAC) calling in the air-strikes.

Burgers! I edited from video via Staff Sergeant Bob Barney:

I edited video via Staff Sergeant Bob Barney, the A-10C shows-off its GAU-8 30-millimeter gatling gun:

The official video report:

Idaho’s 124th FW is currently transitioning to the just-as-old Cold War era F-16 Falcon.

Saylor Creek 2023: USMC & Idaho Air Guard invades, preps JTAC for ‘Near Peer’ fight! With China?

NATO-Germany invades Idaho?

Saylor Creek 2021: Pland-emic Morale booster A-10C Gun-Run in Idaho!

2021: A-10C Red & Green Idaho show?

Idaho’s heritage A-10C ‘8N’

2019: A-10C snowblind walkaround in Idaho!

Idaho A-10C ‘warthogs’ wallowing in the California dirt!

2018: Idaho A-10C ‘dissimilar’ combat training.

Idaho shows A-10C Pride with City Nose Art

2012: My personal ‘walkaround’ photos of Idaho National Guard A-10C Thunderbolt-2 on Pocatello Airport.

Idaho

Celebrating Blackfoot, with Motorcycles!

Video August 14, 2025 Hutchins AAron

Saturday, 28JUN2025 on Jensen Grove in Blackfoot, Idaho.

My video:

My YouTube Car Show video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oHFenpYmXw

My YouTube ‘short’ videos: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EpviTB0JVgE

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EQmR8Q5Rl44

There were vendors, firetrucks, a double decker bus from Scotland, and a car show:

Celebrate Blackfoot, 2025!

International, U.S.

Western War Hawks! Just a sampling.

Video July 22, 2025 Hutchins AAron

Congresswoman/Hawaii Army National Guard Captain Tulsi Gabbard during the ceremonies at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii, Veterans Day, 11NOV2013 (bad audio):

In 2012, U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Josh Hauser questions NATO boss Anders Fogh Rasmussen about the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) plans to hand more control over to the U.S. installed Afghan government:

30NOV2012, U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Josh Hauser interviews South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley about a cyber security breach dating back to 1998, in which information from electronically filed state tax returns (affecting many military personnel) was stolen by international hackers:

Nikki Haley presides over South Carolina National Guard’s Change of Command, 09JAN2011:

Senators John McCain, Joe Lieberman, Kirsten Gillibrand and Lindsey Graham are briefed at the Base Operations Center on Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan, 11NOV2010. Photo by Staff Sergeant Lasonya Morales.

The August War, aka The 2008 Russo-Georgia War. Joe Lieberman, Lindsey Graham & Chris Smith visit Tbilisi, Georgia, 21AUG2008. Videos via Gary Boucher, part-1:

Part-2:

Part-3:

John McCain & Lindsey Graham visit Mosul, Iraq, 21MAR2008:

1943, United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) went on a world tour after joining the Second World War on the side of the United Kingdom:

30NOV1943, United Kingdom’s Winston Churchill visits Commonwealth troops occupying Tehran, Iran:

What the Cold War was/is truly about: United Nations Security Council, year one; 1946 Iran-Soviet Problem! Actually covert U.S. occupation plans for Iran & control of Middle Eastern oil?

International

UNSC, year one: 1946 Iran-Soviet Problem! Actually covert U.S. occupation plans for Iran?

Video July 20, 2025 Hutchins AAron

UNSC = United Nations Security Council

The UNSC was ostensibly created to enforce ‘global peace’ with the first test of the UNSC being considered successful, but decades later it proved to be a covert U.S. operation to control Iran!

1946 U.S. Armed Forces map of global problems being discussed during the first session of the UNO.

The United Nations was originally known as the United Nations Organization, aka UNO.

1946 U.S. Armed Forces map of Iran, with the disputed Azerbaijan Province highlighted, and text referring to the UNO policy towards Iran.

The ‘western’ push for controlling Iran’s oil reserves actually began during World War Two, at least as early as 1944: New York Times, October 1944; Iran’s oil problem revived by Russia… but Americans also are involved.

It might be the true reason for the Cold War: COLD WAR IN IRAN: THE POLITICS OF OIL

Allied Relations in Iran, 1941-1947: The Origins of a Cold War Crisis

From March through April 1946 the newly created UNSC dealt with its first international problem: British controlled Iran demanding Soviet troops to leave Iran’s Azerbaijan Province.

At that time there was no United Nations building, so the first ever UNSC meetings took place at Hunter College in New York:

The problem was resolved by the Soviets ‘voluntarily’ withdrawing troops in May 1946:

Supposedly the true reason for Soviets leaving Iran was that U.S. President Harry Truman threatened to drop atom bombs on the Soviet troops!

This is a political cartoon by Clifford Kennedy Berryman depicting Truman threatening Soviet ambassador Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko.

Decades later, publicly released U.S. Central Intelligence Group (direct predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency, aka CIA) documents proved the UNSC Iran-Soviet problem to be a covert operation by the United States to expel Soviet troops from Iran for the purpose of allowing U.S. control of Iran and regional oil fields!

80 years later, the game is still being played.

Warning from Shah of Iran: In 1976 a warning from U.S. ally Shah of Iran, reported on CBS 60 Minutes, but nobody believed him!

Idaho

Celebrate Blackfoot, 2025!

Video July 11, 2025 Hutchins AAron

The City of Blackfoot held its Celebrate Blackfoot (aka Blackfoot Pride Days) event, 27-28JUN2025. The event has been a yearly thing for more than a decade (except during the hyperbolic ‘pland-emic’). Note that Chamber of Commerce officials estimate that between 8-thousand and 10-thousand people attend the annual event and consider the City has an official federal Census population of only 13,380!

Red Bus escaped Scotland to live as a refugee in Idaho?

Most everybody loves firetrucks:

My ‘short-form’ YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sBFxw-TlZOw

Many, many years ago the celebration supposedly started out as a community clean-up day, then evolved into three days of various events. Sometime in the late two thousand teens (maybe in 2020? Pland-emic times) the name was changed from Blackfoot Pride Days to Celebrate Blackfoot.

Normally, the events center around the pond known as Jensen Grove and of course involves several water-sporting events, but not this year. There was so much water running high and fast in the nearby Snake River that the diversion dam, which feeds Jensen Grove, was undermined and had to be shutdown.

The only water in the pond is coming from a local canal which doesn’t provide enough to fill Jensen Grove. The City estimates it’ll cost them short of $200-thousand to fix the diversion dam.

Hungry?:

There was still a lot of vendors (especially food), a cool car show…

and of course the fireworks show!

After the fireworks the mass exodus begins.

Red Bus attempts another escape!

Watch my ‘long form’ YouTube videos:

U.S.

U.S. military says car shows are required for MWR!

Video July 10, 2025 Hutchins AAron

The Misawa Auto Complex conducted their first ever Cars & Coffee on Misawa Air Base, Japan, 08MAY2025:

Hayden Proffitt’s Hot Streak-2 jet truck races Greg Colyer’s T-33 Shooting Star during the Air Power over Hampton Roads show on Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia.

In April 2025, Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina, had their yearly airshow, which includes several super-cars racing against a T-6 Texan training aircraft from World War Two. I had to edit together several videos provided by MCAS Beaufort:

Arnold Air Force Base (AFB), Tennessee, Company Grade Officer’s Council conducted a Burger Burn & Car Show on 27JUL2023, U.S. Air Force report by David Wright:

In September 2023, the Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA) conducted a car show and fundraiser in Killeen, Texas, for local Army veterans:

U.S. Army Garrison Poland’s Family-Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR) hosts a car show on Camp Kościuszko-U.S. V Corps’ Forward Operating Station Poznań (aka V Corps Headquarters-Forward). Video report by Specialist Jon Cortez, 03AUG2023:

In July 2016, Vandenberg AFB, California, conducted a car-show-BBQ fundraiser for Operation Kids’ Christmas:

In November 2012, a Soviet Ural showed up at a car show on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas:

May 2024: 1st ever Beale Air Force Base car-show!

November 2023:

A decade of U.S. Veterans Day Cars & Trucks

2018-19: JOIN THE U.S. MILITARY GET A CLASSIC CAR? (with videos)

Technology

In Action: A-10 Thunderbolt-2 ‘Warthog’!

Video July 10, 2025 Hutchins AAron

While watching these videos realize that the U.S. Air Force (USAF) is getting rid of the A-10 Thunderbolt-2 and replacing most of them with the highly expensive flying super computer called the F-35.

In April 2015, 354th Fighter Squadron A-10Cs from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (AFB), Arizona, were in NATO-Romania shooting up some cars in the countryside. I edited this down from video via Staff Sergeant Jonathan Porter:

The 422d Test and Evaluation Squadron’s A-10 Division tested the Operational Flight Program 12 to verify weapons software functionality. They used bombing/gunnery range facilities in Nevada and Utah. I edited together several videos via the 53rd Wing. Video was recorded between March and June 2024, using the unit’s new OTTER-CAM (Operational Test & Training Exterior Recording Camera).

Cluster Bomb Units, 2.75” Hydra rockets, 30mm Target Practice (TP) rounds, and AGM-65 mavericks. Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, 27MAR2024:

2.75” Hydra rockets, Small Diameter Bombs (SDB), Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM), and 30mm Target Practice (TP) rounds. Nevada, 01APR2024:

Small Diameter Bombs (SDB), Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM), Laser Guided Bombs (LGB), and 30mm Target Practice (TP) rounds. Nevada, 02APR2024:

Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM), Laser Guided Bombs (LGB), and 30mm Target Practice (TP) rounds. Nevada, 03APR2024:

ADM-160 Miniature Air Launched Decoy (MALD) Utah Test & Training Range (UTTR), 11JUN2024:

Replacements: Is the combat proven A-10C being replaced by a crop-duster on steroids?

Battle Damage: Idaho A-10s are a bunch of dirty Pigs!

Idaho, U.S.

When the Bold Tigers turned Idaho Falls Airport into a military base!

Video July 8, 2025 Hutchins AAron

In October 2024, the 391st ‘Bold Tigers’ Fighter Squadron (part of the larger 366th ‘Gunfighters’ Fighter Wing, based on Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho) used the Idaho Falls (IF) Regional Airport to conduct ‘combat turn’ training.

A Bold Tiger lifts-off from the Magic Valley Regional Airport in Twin Falls, Idaho, after undergoing maintenance.

The IF airport wasn’t the only place the Bold Tigers conducted their combat turns. The wargame called Raging Gunfighter takes place at various locations throughout the U.S. Mountain West, for approximately ten days.

A Bold Tiger sits on the flightline of Wendover Airfield, Utah.

The scenario is worse-case; a ‘near-peer’ war (World War Three) has started and the F-15E Strike Eagle units must be able to deploy anywhere, as well as rearm and refuel upon landing then immediately take-off, this is known as a combat turn.

On Wendover Airfield, Utah, the 366th Civil Engineer Squadron was tasked with the hasty set up of a forward operating base, with 58 tents, 32 generators, 72 HVAC units, 36 showers, 36 latrines, plus attended to 96 work orders.

Also on Wendover, the 366th Security Forces Squadron conducted medical evacuation training.

Back on the IF airport, the 366th Communications Squadron practiced with their PRC-117G satellite communicator.

Bold Tiger F-15E Strike Eagles took off from Mountain Home AFB (possibly Magic Valley Airport in Southern Idaho), in Southwestern Idaho (I edited from video released by the 366th FW):

The Bold Tigers flew their Strike Eagles to Eastern Idaho to conduct their combat turn training (I edited from video released by the 366th FW):

An Airman with the 391st FS (Bold Tigers) marshals an F-15E Strike Eagle on the Idaho Falls Regional Airport.

A C-130J Super Hercules was used to transport ground personnel and equipment (I edited from video released by the 366th FW):

Bold Tigers fly over the Magic Valley Regional Airport in Twin Falls, Idaho, as they head home to Mountain Home AFB.

December 2024: Idaho F-15Es over Syria

March 2024: Idaho’s Garrison Forward “…accepts more risk deliberately.”

July 2023: Idaho’s Bold Tigers invade Japan?

June 2023: USMC & Idaho Air Guard preps JTAC for ‘Near Peer’ fight! With China?

October 2022: Florida Talons over Idaho Mountains

January 2019: Location of missing Idaho F-15E Strike Eagles revealed?

September 2018: Mountain Home F-15E walk-around, Micron Bus

Idaho

Remember when Nissan was called Datsun?

Video July 4, 2025 Hutchins AAron

14JUN2025, the Idaho State Veterans Home in Pocatello, Idaho, put on a car show and barbeque to honor the veterans.

In December 1941, Japan attacked U.S. military assets on the island of O’ahu, Hawaii. By 1945 the United States defeated and occupied Japan. During the middle of the so-called Cold War, Japan invaded the U.S. by ‘dumping’ subsidized automobiles onto the U.S. market.

Today, the old Datsun 510 is still sought after by rice-burning racers and collectors.

My video:

My YouTube video of the car show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nanJagZ4CLE

My YouTube ‘short-form’ video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Rg6US_g7Gno

June 2025: Idaho Veterans Home car show & free food feed!

Idaho

Idaho Veterans Home car show & free food feed!

Video July 1, 2025 Hutchins AAron

14JUN2025, the Idaho State Veterans Home in Pocatello, Idaho, put on a car show and barbeque to honor the veterans.

The local Boy Scouts also conducted a flag retirement ceremony, here’s my ‘Short-Form’ video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CeQOKBWNDtc