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Vehicle I-D: The real Avengers

Video July 26, 2019 Hutchins AAron

“I think short-range air defense is coming back really strong. I think it’s going to be one of the biggest factors here in the European region because it’s very mobile.”-Staff Sergeant Joseph White, 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery

Video report of anti-aircraft training in Poland, June 2019, C Battery 1st Battalion 174th Air Defense Artillery Regiment:

With the return to ‘Cold War’ mentality (now known as Near Peer Threats), many ‘force-on-force’ weapon systems are making a come-back. The Avenger ShoRAD (Short Range Air Defense) system fires a short-range Stinger surface-to-air missile that can be mounted on top of a HMMWV (pronounced humvee), or carried and fired by a soldier.

Video of 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, Avenger ops in Bulgaria, as part of NATO anti-Russia wargames, June 2019:

HMMWV Avenger off-loads from a Canadian C-17.

HMMWV Avenger in Korea (south), October 2018.

GREAT RENEGER: TEXAS ARMOR DEPLOYS TO POLAND, PROOF WORLD WAR 3 IS NEAR

WORLD WAR 3: I-C-T, USAF version of Army’s TOTAL FORCE WARFARE

U.S.

1942 Ford firetruck returns to service with the USAF!

Video July 24, 2019 Hutchins AAron

In March 2019, after years of restoration by a dedicated retired Airman, a 1942 Ford firetruck was returned to service at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.

The truck was one of the first two firetrucks to be assigned at Seymour Johnson Field when the base opened in 1942.

2016 CHUBBUCK DAYS MASS BAPTISM BY FIRE….TRUCK!

REVELL 1937 FORD PICKUP OR WHY MODEL ASSEMBLY INSTRUCTIONS CAN BE WRONG!

11 AUGUST 2012: BUSIEST CHUBBUCK DAYS EVER! DOGS, CARS, FIRE TRUCKS

Idaho, Technology

Idaho Wild Fires 2019: MD-87 water bomber, new King Air FAC

Image July 24, 2019 Hutchins AAron

23 July 2019-23:43 UTC-07 Tango 06 (02 Mordad 1398/21 Dhu l-Qa’da 1440/22 Xin-Wei 4717)

The fires keep burning in eastern Idaho. Things got so hot today that evacuations of ‘non-essential personnel’ were ordered near the Idaho National Laboratory’s nuclear jet engine and EBR-1 nuclear-disaster-reactor, due to the rapid expansion of the ‘Sheep Fire’ (about 85-thousand acres, 34398 hectares).

MD-87 (foreground) and DC-10 (background) tankers rolling in from their latest east Idaho mission. Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

The Sheep Fire is just one of dozens of wild fires in Idaho right now so, once again, the little used Pocatello Airport was put to good use by water bombers from 10 Tanker Air Carrier and Erickson Aero Tanker.

Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

A little bird water bomber heads out. Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

A new U.S. Forest Service King Air 250 FAC (Forward Air Controller) taking off. Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

King Air ‘FAC’: Forest Service buys its first lead plane in almost 40 years

The King Air passes by the incoming DC-10. Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

A familiar sight ever since the big fires of 2012. Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

Home for the night. Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

WILD FIRES 2019: DC-10, IDAHO’S 911

Kit Bashing

D-Day KC-135, ‘Hundred Proof’ & other nose arts

Video July 21, 2019 Hutchins AAron

To commemorate the 75th Anniversary of D-Day the U.S. Air Force’s 100th Air Refueling Wing (descendant of 100th Bombardment Group [Heavy]) gave some of their Stratotankers full color markings.

Skipper III in honor of retired Master Sergeant Dewey Christopher, a World War II veteran. U.S. Air Force photo by Karen Abeyasekere, 21JUN2019.

USAF photo by Senior Airman Alexandria Lee, 19JUN2019.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Joseph Barron, 31MAY2019.

Video, 48 hours of refueling hell, including invasion stripes:

They even gave a couple of KC-135s ‘heritage’ WW2 markings. The D on the tail was used by the 100th BG(H). USAF photo by First Lieutenant Nathanael Callon, 26MAY2019.

The EP is the flight symbol of the 351st Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group(H), which dates back to 1942 and the letter A on the tail is the aircraft number. USAF photo by Senior Airman Benjamin Cooper, 09MAY2019.

Video explains the World War Two connection for ‘Black Jack’ and the 100th ARW:

Video interview, ‘Savage’ artist gives one reason why he joined the USAF:

In this video some guy explains why he’s infatuated with the ‘All American Girl’:

B-52H STRATOFORTRESS NOSE ART

IDAHO PRIDE A-10C NOSE ART

NEBRASKA KC-135 TEENAGED NOSE ART

TENNESSEE KC-135 NOSE ART

SNOOPY RC-135S COBRA BALL NOSE ART

C-17 NOSE ART

Kit Bashing

D-Day F-15E Strike Eagle

Image July 21, 2019 Hutchins AAron

“This heritage project is about the 48th Fighter Wing legacy, and more specifically the wing’s support to the D-Day invasion during World War Two.”-Colonel Will Marshall, 48th Fighter Wing commander

In January 2019, the 48th Fighter Wing unveiled their new D-Day invasion stripe paint job on their F-15E Strike Eagles.

U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Matthew Plew, 19APR2019.

In April 2019, a third D-Day Eagle was revealed at the British empire’s Royal Air Force base Lakenheath, England.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Matthew Plew, 19APR2019.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Matthew Plew, 11APR2019.

The D-Day paint jobs were applied to a single seat F-15C and two two seat F-15Es.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Matthew Plew, 10APR2019.

U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sergeant Eric Burks, 26APR2019.

USAF photo by Master Sergeant Eric Burks, 26APR2019.

The invasion striped Strike Eagles took to the sky over United Kingdom.

100th Air Refueling Wing tops-up two F-15E D-Day Eagles, 09JUN2019.

LOCATION OF MISSING IDAHO F-15E STRIKE EAGLES REVEALED? OR, WHY HI-TECH DOESN’T EQUAL FEWER HUMANS?

VEHICLE I-D: NORMANDY PAINTED C-130 HERCULES

U.S.

All hell breaks loose in Wisconsin, operation Patriot North is underway!

Video July 18, 2019 Hutchins AAron

Video, Nebraska National Guard UH-72 Lakota joins the fun:

Food insecurity, unemployment, failed national and local governments, and non-stop natural disasters leading to race riots and civil war. It’s July 2019 and Wisconsin is ground zero for Patriot North 2019 DomOps (Domestic Operations).

New Hampshire Air National Guard medic treats a ‘person’ wounded by a ‘zombie’ at Camp Douglas.

Apparently various National Guard focused ‘patriot’ operations are not called patriot because they’re trying to be patriotic, the ‘patriot’ exercises are a directive of the Patriot Act signed into law after the 9-11 attacks.

Official video explaining The Burn Pit:

Starting the third week of July, Air and Army National Guard units from across the United States converged upon Volk Field and Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, for a massive domestic ‘natural-or-man-made’ disaster response exercise.

Video of Texas National Guard C-130H landing on dirt:

More than 7-hundred federal and local government employees, civilian volunteers and National Guard personnel from more than 20 states are taking part in the inter-agency operation, in preparation for catastrophic events.

Video, various National Guard C-130H Hercules rolling into Wisconsin, off-loading personnel, rescue dogs and equipment:

Patriot South 2019 was already held, in Georgia, back in March. Watch this official promo video and be afraid of what your government is expecting:

June 2019: ARKANSAS HIT BY UNKNOWN SUBSTANCE, USAF SCRAMBLED!

Tornado prep, USAF style: TORNADO & FLOOD FACTS, ACCORDING TO THE USAF, HOW TO PREP!

U.S.

Kodiak Mace 2019: USMC KC-130J vid fest!

Video July 17, 2019 Hutchins AAron

Kodiak Mace, May 2019, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Alaska.

Getting ready to jump outta perfectly good airplane.

Videos of various U.S. Marine Corps KC-130J ops:

BLACK LETTER C-130J; IT’S A BYATCH!

Technology

Fatal USMC KC-130J crash kept secret?

July 17, 2019 Hutchins AAron

In December 2018, a U.S. Marine Corps KC-130J was refueling a F/A-18 over Okinawa, Japan, when they aircraft made contact. Both the F/A-18 and KC-130J went down, only one person survived.

It was not until the end of May of 2019 that the KC-130J’s cockpit voice recorder and digital flight recorder, along with human remains. And it was not until June of 2019 that the information was made public. As the investigation is still ongoing no further details were released.

Technology

Black Letter C-130J; it’s a byatch!

Video July 17, 2019 Hutchins AAron

In June 2019, a C-130J in Japan was proclaimed to have achieved Black Letter proficiency; no maintenance problems!

In the official video report, USAF 374th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chiefs explain just how hard it is to get the rare Black Letter:

Here’s official Ramstein Black Letter C-130J video report from May 2018:

VEHICLE I-D: LAST ‘SPOOKY’ DAYS OF THE AC-130U GUNSHIP?

Idaho, Technology

Wild Fires 2019: DC-10, Idaho’s 911

Image July 16, 2019 Hutchins AAron

15 July 2019-21:32 UTC-07 Tango 06 (25 Tir 1398/13 Dhu l-Qa’da 1440/14 Xin-Wei 4717)

Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

Another year, another round of wild fires, and Pocatello Airport is temporary home (once again) to DC-10 water bombers. Two were spotted, numbers 911 and 912.

Click the pics (by AAron B. Hutchins) to make them bigger: