Tag Archives: trump

Business/Economics, Influenza, International

CoViD-19 Shenanigans

Video

03 October 2020 / 03:48 (UTC-07 Tango 06)/ 12 Mehr 1399/15 Safar 1442/17 Bing-Xu 4718

Incomplete list of links to news reports from around the world:

United Nations World Health Organization now admits that harsh pandemic lockdowns cause more harm than the pandemic and “must be avoided at all costs.” 

Countries without CoViD infections are still being killed-off by CoViD restrictions in pandemic countries:

CHINA:  Hong Kong’s massive USD$68.4-million mass testing during its Third Wave now considered a waste of time and money!

GERMANY: Neanderthal gene increases risk of severe coronavirus illness

FINLAND:

 INDIA: Experimental vaccine maker is somehow already producing millions of doses

Scientific contact tracing study discovers that children are the CoViD-19 super-spreaders!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            CoViD-19 restrictions force migrant workers to flee                                                                                                                                                                                                Coronavirus Shatters India’s Economy

City of Mumbai discovers possible second CoViD-19 antibody

JAPAN: Fourth suicide by a Japanese star during COVID-19 highlights country’s crisis

Suicides among young women increasing sharply, government response to coronavirus blamed

Coronavirus government subsidy fraud on the rise

Retail store sales continue to crash and burn due to CoViD restrictions

National Center for Global Health and Medicine confirms that pre-existing medical problems are the main reason people are dying after getting infected with CoViD-19

PAKISTAN: Begins Phase-3 Trial of Chinese COVID-19 Vaccine

Is Covid-19 ‘herd immunity’ really working in Pakistan?                                                                                                                                                                                         Schizophrenic government response as on one hand all education facilities are re-opened, yet on the other hand restaurants are being forced to shutdown                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       RUSSIA: ‘Mushrooms Have Kidnapped You’; Pandemic Obsession With Forest Fungi                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Recovery of tourism industry will take at least two years once the pandemic is finished                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       SWEDEN:

UNITED KINGDOM:  Study says loss of smell is best indicator that you are infected                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         UNTIED STATES: 50 Most Popular U.S. Restaurants That Won’t Reopen After the Pandemic
                                                                                                                                                           Idaho;     After 18 years the Golden Corral restaurant in Pocatello gave up the ghost, blaming CoVid-19,  adding another nail in the slow-death-economic-coffin for Pocatello.

Photo by AAron Hutchins, October 2020.

CoViD-19 fearmongering restrictions kill-off more restaurants in Eastern Idaho (some of those fearmongering restrictions are the fault of the restaurant owners themselves, one Asian style buffet in Pocatello is now open only four days per week and requires you to wear a mask, except when you are actually shoveling food into your mouth, and if you don’t have a mask they force you to buy one of theirs)

                                                                                                                                                          Pub owner in Western Idaho tries to be responsible in the age of CoViD, resulting in the permanent shutdown of the popular Irish gathering spot after 18 years “of fun”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Coronavirus Cases Rise In What Is Called Idaho’s Third Spike (Wave)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    State officials already developing CoViD vaccine distribution operation                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Even god can’t stop the mormon owned BYU-Idaho from possible shutdown due to an invisible virus                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Arrests made at church’s ‘psalm sing’ in Moscow, Idaho, over coronavirus violations                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Man shutdown Idaho high school football game by refusing to wear a mask, yet in the photo you can see that even the responding cops, as well as other people, refused to wear masks!                                                                                                                                                                                                          Leftist group warns of new anti-pandemic lockdown organization based in Idaho                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Washington DC; President Trump gets experimental antibody cocktail to treat COVID-19                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      President Trump is correct about suicides versus CoViD-19: “Every 1% hike in the unemployment rate will likely produce a 3.3% increase in drug overdose deaths and a 0.99% increase in suicides according to data provided by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the medical journal Lancet. These are facts based on experience, not models. If unemployment hits 32%, some 77,000 Americans are likely to die from suicide and drug overdoses as a result of layoffs. Scientists call these fatalities ‘deaths of despair’.“–Betsy McCaughey                                                                                                                                                                                                            VENEZUELA: Thanks Russia for 2-thousand experimental CoViD-19 vaccines
CoViD-19, April 2020:  ‘EXPERTS’ ADMITTING TO WHAT I ALREADY WARNED ABOUT, MASKS CAN’T PROTECT YOU!                                                                                                                                                                          March 2020: CoViD-19 fearmongering shuts down WINCO’s 24 hours grocery operations in Pocatello, Idaho

Business/Economics, Influenza, Technology

CoViD-19 = economic & social Deaths of Despair!

Video

18 September 2020 / 07:46 (UTC-07 Tango 06)/ 28 Shahrivar 1399/30 Muharram 1442/02 Yi-You(8th month) 4718

“You’re going to lose more people by putting a country into a massive recession or depression. You’re going to lose people. You’re going to have suicides by the thousands.”-President Donald Trump, 24MAR2020, regarding a possible national lockdown

Below is an incomplete list of links to some of the many real news media reports about the suicidal impact of coronavirus 2019 lockdowns.

“Every 1% hike in the unemployment rate will likely produce a 3.3% increase in drug overdose deaths and a 0.99% increase in suicides according to data provided by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the medical journal Lancet. These are facts based on experience, not models. If unemployment hits 32%, some 77,000 Americans are likely to die from suicide and drug overdoses as a result of layoffs. Scientists call these fatalities ‘deaths of despair’.“-Betsy McCaughey

New York Times-A tsunami of job cuts is about to hit Europe.
.

CANADA:  Suicide rates expected to rise as COVID-19 grinds on

CHINA: Children in China Experienced an Increase in Depression and Suicidal Attempts During COVID School Closures

INDIA:  Covid-19 patient commits suicide

KOREA: Suicide rates among young Korean women on the rise

German news media reports that South Korea’s suicide/self-harm rate is up due to CoViD-19

THAILAND: 22% increase in suicide blamed on CoViD-19

UNITED KINGDOM: Male suicide rate hits two-decade high in England and Wales.
.
.
UNITED STATES:  More young people are dying by suicide, and experts aren’t sure why.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.

Arizona Army National Guard works to assemble and distribute PPE, 02SEP2020.

.
.
.
.

Colorado: 40% decrease in suicides, yet 48% increase in suicide hotline calls, during CoViD-19 lockdowns

Denver Regional Transportation District revises budget projections downward (again) due to crashing revenues, could eliminate 500 jobs!  Fails to mention CoViD-19 lockdowns which prevent people from getting out-and-about and using public transportation.

Florida:  A major financial company eliminating more than 500 jobs, and blames it on CoViD-19! 

SeaWorld confirms nearly 1,900 layoffs!
.

Georgia: Atlanta Braves have layoffs ahead of playoffs

Hawaii: Hawaiian Airlines expands CoViD-19 layoffs to 2-thousand-501 jobs! 

National Guard conduct ‘surge’ testing in the Tetsuo Harano Tunnel, 03SEP2020.

U.S. Army video revealing that even army training is being severely impacted by CoViD-19 fearmongering on Wheeler Army Base:

Idaho:  Despite boasting that year on year suicide rate is down, The Gem State still has the highest self-kill rate in the U.S., but now they blame CoViD-19.

Also, and despite boasting that year on year suicide rate being down, self-kill rate for youths using guns is actually up. 

Illinois: Concerns rise over teen suicide rate during pandemic

Indiana: Layoffs coming to LaPorte’s Howmet Aerospace

Iowa: Des Moines based publishing/news media empire Meredith Corporation eliminating at least 180 jobs due to crashing advertising revenues caused by CoViD-19 fearmongering by (ironically) the news media and state governments!

Kansas: Another round of layoffs at Spirit Aerosystems 

Kentucky: Operations and Planning officer Joel Tiotuico claims that he worked on a 2007 flu pandemic war game/table-top scenario, at Fort Knox, which is eerily similar to what is happening with CoViD-19.  The original article about the 2007 flu pandemic wargame was published in the now defunct Turret newspaper.

Massachusetts: Waltham based Raytheon Technologies eliminating 15-thousand jobs due to the crashing airline industry, which in turn is blamed on the CoViD-19 fearmongering by governments and news media worldwide! 

Citing COVID-19 economic impact, Red Sox announce more layoffs.

Michigan: 

Michigan National Guard’s now permanent COVID-19 Joint Task Force continues to distribute food to the public, 03SEP2020.

Minnesota: Hotel to eliminate 126 jobs due to CoViD-19 lockdowns restricting travel

Nevada:  Several Las Vegas companies report layoffs

New Jersey: State administrators claims suicides went down, yet also report skyrocketing ‘helpline’ calls

10-thousand More Layoffs statewide as Coronavirus Economic Impact Continues.
.

New Mexico: Farmington reports spike in suicides

New York: More proof hospitals are not full of CoViD-19 patients; Buffalo based Delaware North eliminates 517 food service jobs at its hospital operations, on top of the 100 jobs eliminated two months ago, ostensibly due to CoViD-19!  

The City of New York says it could still eliminate 22-thousand jobs due to crashing tax/fee revenues caused by the city’s own CoViD-19 lockdown!

NYC based debt financier Citi to continue with CoViD-19 layoffs

Adelphi University eliminating 62 jobs and blaming CoViD-19.

The Schenectady school board approved dozens of additional CoViD-19 layoffs.

JCC of Rochester laying off 296 employees due to effects of fitness center restriction.
.

North Carolina: Duke University study says suicide rates might increase as result of financial strain from COVID-19

North Dakota:  Microsoft confirmed to local news media that layoffs will impact its Fargo campus, but refused to give any details.

Pennsylvania: COVID-19 school closings linked to increase in depression

Texas: Texas psychologists worry the suicide rate will rise 

Round Rock based tech giant Dell plans to layoff an unspecified number of employees this week, blaming declining sales on the ongoing Covid-19 crisis. 

Washington: Puget Sound suicide hotline reports 65% spike in calls for help during pandemic

West Virginia:  Video update on state National Guard CoViD-19 response, as of 09SEP2020;

 

Wisconsin: Suicide Rate In Wisconsin Increased 40 Percent

More economic decline for Eastern Idaho: COVID-19 SHUTDOWN 24HRS WINCO?

Sears-Kmart death spiral, June 2019: “WE ARE THROWING IN THE TOWEL”

U.S. economic collapse, December 2018: “WE WERE HIT SO HARD…WE CAN’T RECOVER”

Technology

Vehicle I-D: USMC Sno-Cats flee Slink Fire

Video

U.S. Marine Corps Sno-Cats, Mountain Warfare Training Center, California. Photo by Corporal Patrick King, 22JAN2022.

Photo by Firefighter Benjamin Paladino, 29AUG2020.

On 29AUG2020, the Slink Fire erupted near Bridgeport, California, near the U.S. Marine Corps’ Mountain Warfare Training Center.

Tucker-Terra Model 1600 Sno-Cats. U.S. Marine Corps photograph by Lance Corporal Cedar Barnes, 03SEP2020.

U.S. Marine Corps’ Tucker Terra 1600 Sno-Cats began evacuations on 03SEP2020.

USMC photograph by Lance Corporal Cedar Barnes, 03SEP2020.

The evacuation also included the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center’s mules.

USMC photograph by Lance Corporal Cedar Barnes, 03SEP2020.

USMC photograph by Lance Corporal Cedar Barnes, 03SEP2020.

The Tucker Terra-Sno-Cat is made in the U.S. state of Oregon, and can be configured in dozens of ways for both military and silly-vilian use.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Rachel Young-Porter, 12FEB2019.

This appears to be a USMC Sno-Cat 2000XL with snow plow, at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center in February 2019.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Danny Gonzalez, 24FEB2017.

A 1600 with stake-bed and towing a sno-cat trailer, February 2017.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Danny Gonzalez, 25FEB2017.

This is a USMC PistenBully.

PistenBully roadwheels. USMC photo by Lance Corporal Danny Gonzalez, 25FEB2017.

USMC video, by Lance Corporal Carlos Lopez, PistenBully 25FEB2017:

Tucker Terra Sno-Cat with plow. USMC photo by Lance Corporal Danny Gonzalez, 26FEB2017.

Vehicle I-D: USMC LAST RIDE FOR 1ST, 2ND & 4TH TANK

USMC AAV7 VID-FEST

USMC CANNIBALIZES HMMWV TO UPGRADE BRAND NEW JLTV

Technology

Once a Red Coat, now a Blue Angel

Video

The retired ‘Fat Albert’ C-130T, brought out for public Pandemic moral display. (Texas Air National Guard photo by Julie Briden-Garcia, 06MAY2020.

On 06MAY2020, the retired C-130T Fat Albert was brought out to help fight CoViD-19 at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas.  After 30-thousand hours of flying in support of the Blue Angels demo team, C-130T Fat Albert was retired to static display duty in 2019.

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Jess Gray, 28JUL2020.

The new C-130J Fat Albert on second functional check-flight over Cambridge, England, 28JUL2020.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Jess Gray, 28JUL2020.

The ‘new’ Blue Angels Fat Albert is actually an old British empire Royal Air Force C-130J, which underwent rebuild by Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group in United Kingdom.  A Forbes report says it cost U.S. taxpayers $29.7-million.  (which isn’t too bad, considering that in 2014 a new C-130J would cost between $67-million and $167-million depending on options)

Video by Marshall Aerospace, dressing the bare-metal C-130J in its new Blue Angels uniform:

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Jess Gray, 06AUG2020.

On 06AUG2020, C-130J Fat Albert arrived on Fort Worth Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base, Texas.

Video, by Petty Officer Second Class Cody Hendrix, C-130J Fat Albert flying over algae bloom off the Atlantic coast of Florida, 17AUG2020:

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Cody Hendrix, 17AUG2020.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Cody Hendrix, 17AUG2020.

Nobody is on the beach, what is this, CoViD-19 lockdown?

Photo by AAron B. Hutchins, 1989.

This is a photo I took of a C-130T Fat Albert at the Vandenberg AFB air show in California, Spring 1989.  Notice that it is not painted blue and white.

Bare Metal: C-130 PAINT PREP, OR THE EMPEROR GETS SOME NEW CLOTHES

 

C-130T, Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, 04MAR2014.  Photo by Staff Sergeant Oscar L Olive the Fourth.

C-130T promotional video by Staff Sergeant Oscar L Olive the Fourth:

U.S.

Still flying after 75 years!

Video

On 01SEP2020, vintage World War Two aircraft (and a post war Trojan trainer) flew over Oahu, Hawaii, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of WW2 in the Pacific (V-J Day).

Takeoffs & landings, video via U.S. Indo-Pacific Command:

Photos by Master Sergeant Andrew Porch, Technical Sergeant Anthony Nelson, Staff Sergeant Mikaley Kline, Sergeant Ryan Jenkins, Sergeant Sarah Sangster, Petty Officer First Class Gilbert Bolibol and Lieutenant Darin Russell.

P-51D Mustang.

Watch how the vintage aircraft found their way to Hawaii, by boat. 

B-25 ‘Old Glory’ is a true combat vet, video interview by Specialist Carlie Lopez:

Twin engined B-25 Mitchell and single engine Avenger.

Video from T-6 Texan owner Jason Karlin showing Avenger and another T-6/SNJ:

B-25 and Catalina Flying Boat.

What it is like to fly in a PBY, video via U.S. Indo-Pacific Command:

A young PBY owner tells war stories, video by Specialist Carlie Lopez:

SNJ/T-6 Texan trainer taxis on Wheeler Army Airfield, 27AUG2020.

U.S. Army video interview (by Specialist Carlie Lopez) of T-6 Texan owner:

View of USS Missouri, the battleship where Japanese officials signed the documents of surrender.

Video by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command concerning Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz’s thoughts about the 02SEP1945 surrender ceremony aboard USS Missouri (BB 63):

F4F/FM-2 Wildcat.

Stearman-Kaydet.

Kaydet owner explains what his plane did during WW2.  Video by Ryan Jenkins:

Developed during WW2, but not used in the war, an F8F Bearcat taxis on Wheeler Army Airfield, 27AUG2020.

Proud F8F owner explains how German engineering helped make the Bearcat the best interceptor, and the first Blue Angel, only jet powered aircraft could beat it.  Video by Ryan Jenkins:

The 75th WW2 Commemoration has been ongoing since May (the end of the war in Europe, aka V-E Day) and will conclude in September (the end of the war in Pacific, aka V-J Day). 

Technology

After 75 years the War is still over!

Video

U.S. Navy photos by Petty Officer Second Class Jessica Blackwell, Petty Officer Second Class Kenneth Rodriguez, Petty Officer Third Class Christina Ross, Petty Officer Third Class Wesley Richardson, and Seaman Jaimar Carson Bondurant.

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two, in the Pacific, the United States military is assembling surviving WW2 aircraft at Pearl Harbor (aka Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickham), Hawaii.

Most of the airplanes were sailed-in aboard the USS Essex-LHD 2.  Video by Petty Officer Second Class Kenneth Rodriguez:

Some of you might say that the low-wing twin-engined aircraft, parked next to the PBY Catalina,  is not from World War Two, and you’re correct.  The USS Essex was also delivering a C-12U Huron to the Hawaiian Air National Guard.  Hawaii Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant Andrew Jackson.

An old pre-war Boeing Stearman–Kaydet, Naval Air Station North Island-San Diego, 26JUL2020.

Kaydet load-up, Naval Air Station North Island-San Diego, 26JUL2020.  Video by Chief Petty Officer Ace Rheaume:

The workhorse U.S. training aircraft of WW2 is the T-6 Texan, known as SNJ in the U.S. Navy/Marines.  The aircraft was so successful it was used decades after the war ended, by various countries around the world.

T-6/SNJ load-up aboard USS Essex at Naval Air Station North Island-San Diego, 25JUL2020. Video by Chief Petty Officer Ace Rheaume:

This Texan is in U.S. Air Force markings, which is post-WW2 as the USAF was created in September 1947, two years after WW2 ended.

Video, T-6/SNJ off-loaded in Hawaii, 10AUG2020:

More T-6/SNJ off-load videos, 10AUG2020:

Commemorative Air Force (originally known as Confederate Air Force) FM-2 (General Motors version of F4F) Wildcat.

Video, Wildcat upload, load-up aboard USS Essex at Naval Air Station North Island-San Diego, 27JUL2020. Video by Chief Petty Officer Ace Rheaume:

P-51D Mustang.

Video, P-51D upload, load-up aboard USS Essex at Naval Air Station North Island-San Diego, 27JUL2020. Video by Chief Petty Officer Ace Rheaume:

Video, P-51D off-load in Hawaii, 11AUG2020:

B-25 Mitchell.  

U.S. Navy photo by Shannon Haney, 10AUG2020.

U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant. Anthony Nelson Junior, 10AUG2020.

The U.S. Army Air Force’s B-25 was the first U.S. aircraft to bomb Japan, flown off the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet-CV 8 (The Doolittle Raid).   B-25 off-load video by Petty Officer Second Class Jessica Blackwell:

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Ryan Jenkins, 25AUG2020.

Less than one month later, ‘Old Glory’ crashed in California.

The F8F Bearcat was developed during the war, but the war ended before it could be used in battle.

Bearcat load-up, Naval Air Station North Island-San Diego, 26JUL2020.  Video by Chief Petty Officer Ace Rheaume:

Video, F8F off-load in Hawaii, 11AUG2020:

TBM Avenger.

Video, Avenger off-load:

At the end of July a PBY Catalina arrived at Naval Air Station North Island-San Diego.  Video by Senior Chief Petty Officer Michael Jones:

Loading a Catalina onboard USS Essex, Naval Air Station North Island-San Diego. Video by Chief Petty Officer Ace Rheaume:

Another PBY arrives at Naval Air Station North Island-San Diego, 29JUL2020, gets hoisted aboard USS Essex.

PBY Catalina in Hawaii, 12AUG2020. Video by Petty Officer Second Class Lexie Perez:

The 75th WW2 Commemoration has been ongoing since May (the end of the war in Europe) and will conclude in September (the end of the war in Pacific). 

Here’s a music video explainer edited by Kevin Dawson:

B-25 ¡PANCHITO!

T-6 Texans; the first Airborne Hurricane Hunters

SALVAGING F4U CORSAIRS

HOW TO PAINT YOUR 1:1 SCALE B-17 MEMPHIS BELLE WITH ‘PERIOD CORRECT’ PAINT

U.S.

Last ride for 1st, 2nd & 4th Tank

Video

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Andrew Cortez, Camp Pendleton, California, 18JUL2020.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Justin Evans, 28JUL2020.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Justin Evans, 28JUL2020.

In July 2020, the United States Marines Corps (USMC) began retiring its M1A1 Abrams tanks and M88A2 Hercules recovery tanks, as part of a so called modernization plan called Force Design 2030.

The last M1 Abrams assigned to 1st Tank Battalion depart Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California, 06JUL2020. Photo via USMC.

The units affected are California based 1st Tank Battalion (1st Tanks) of the 1st Marine Division (my grandfather’s Alma Matter) and 4th Tank Battalion (4th Tanks) 4th Marine Division, as well as North Carolina based 2nd Tank Battalion (Iron Horse) of the 2nd Marine Division.

2nd Tank Battalion, 2nd Marine Division M1 Abrams are pushed out the gate from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, 27JUL2020. USMC photo by Lance Corporal Patrick King.

Last ride into retirement. USMC photo by Lance Corporal Patrick King, 27JUL2020.

The 2nd Tank Battalion was an armor unit for almost 80 years, but apparently that ends under Force Design 2030.

1st Tank Battalion was created in 1941, originally in North Carolina but quickly made a new home in Twentynine Palms, California.  After 79 years the 1st Tanks is no more:

From my grandfather’s files, 1st Marine Division unit citations for actions in World War Two and Korea (click on each to make bigger):

Alpha Company, 4th Tank Battalion, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, Camp Pendleton, California, said good bye to its armored vehicles on 18JUL2020.  Alpha Company is the first of the six companies of 4th Tanks to deactivate.  4th Tanks was created in 1943, during World War Two:

A Caterpillar 988 tractor moves a ‘divested’ M1A1 Abrams Tank into position for loading and shipping via rail to Anniston Army Depot. USMC photo by Laurie Pearson.

In August 2020, tracked armored vehicles located on the Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow (after being a TC on Sherman tanks during the war in the Pacific my grandfather worked at the Yermo Annex), California, were loaded on rail cars and shipped-off to the U.S. Army.

01OCT2020, these tanks are being used for rail operations training, on the Yermo Annex, Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, California. USMC photo by Laurie Pearson.

All the Marine Corps’ tank units are expected to be deactivated by the end of 2021.  The vehicles could be ‘sold’ to the U.S. Army, or to foreign militaries.

Don’t blame Trump, Force Design 2030 is part of the Obama era plan referred to as Pivot to Asia:  2013, New York Times reports that U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was pursuing a “pivot” against China.

According to U.S. Naval War College “Starting in 2010, the U.S. and Vietnam accelerated this process effectively forming a partnership on several fronts. The Obama administration identified Vietnam as one of the new partners to cultivate as part of its ‘rebalancing’ of U.S. priorities toward the Asia-Pacific region, a move commonly referred to as the U.S.’s ‘pivot’ to the Pacific.” 

Vehicle I-D: U.S. MARINES USE ‘FAKE NEWS’ MIG-23

WHAT DO THE MARINES DO WITH ALL THAT AMMO THEY CAN’T USE?

M1A1 ‘DAY AT THE RANGE’ WITH THE USMC, 2016

Dorian: HOW TO EVACUATE THOUSANDS OF U.S. MARINES

Harvey: MARINES USE AMPHIBIOUS COMBAT TANKS TO SAVE LIVES!

Technology

Afghanistan: Mirage 2000D crash recovery/demolition

Image

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus.

On 24MAY2011, an Armée de l’Air NATO two seat Mirage 2000D crashed in Afghanistan. The crew ejected and survived.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus.

U.S. Army and Marines, along with French and Italian troops, conducted an 81 miles (130 kilometers) combat logistics patrol to retrieve the French jet.  Some personnel arrived by V-22 Osprey.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 25MAY2011.

There is confusion about where the plane crashed; Lieutenant Colonel Eric de. Lapresle, of the Armée de l’Air, said it happened 100 km West of the city of Farah (in Farah Province), but U.S. DoD information (attributed to USMC 12th Marine Corps District) stated it happened northwest of Forward Operating Base Delaram in Nimruz Province, which is South of Farah (some DoD reports incorrectly put Delaram in Helmand Province which is Southeast of Farah).

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 25MAY2011.

For more confusion, some of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) reports claims the Mirage is a 2000-5F while the French air force says it is a two seat 2000D.   The 2000-5F is an upgrade of the single seat 2000C, however, the photos clearly show a two seater.  To make things more confusing, some USMC sources refer to the Mirage as an ‘F-2000’.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.

The French Mirage 2000D was operating with a Mirage F1 in assisting Italian NATO troops who had come under fire.  It’s thought the Mirage 2000D developed technical problems.

26MAY2011. Photo via USMC.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 26MAY2011.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 26MAY2011.

An M88A2 Hercules recovery vehicle was used to tow the wreckage to a new location for disassembly.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 26MAY2011.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 26MAY2011.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.

Personnel worked to remove the flares from the spine of the 2000D.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.

Photo via USMC.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.

The aircraft was considered a total loss, and to hasten the recovery effort it was decided to quickly remove the wings by using C4 plastic explosives.  ‘Purple-K’ was poured into the wing root to try and prevent the spread of any internal fire that might be caused by the explosion.  Note the detonating cords leading to the blocks of C4.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.

A Heavy Expanded Military Tactical Truck (HEMTT) off-loaded portable fire fighting equipment before the big-bang.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.

Photo via USMC.

Photo via USMC.

A MTVR MK36 wrecker truck, and the M88A2, were then used to pull the wings off the Mirage.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.

Photo via USMC.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.

The M88A2 tracked recovery vehicle then hoisted the fuselage onto a HEMTT pulling a vehicle trailer.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 28MAY2011.

DRUNKEN COBRA RECOVERY 2020

Vehicle I-D: FRENCH CAESAR INVADES GERMANY!

FRENCH ALPHAJETS INVADE UNITED STATES!

Technology

Drunken Cobra Recovery 2020, what happened to the N95 masks?

Image

Notice that none of these Marines are wearing N95 masks, during the year of The Pandemic.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Julian Elliott-Drouin, 27JUN2020.

AH-1W (Alpha Hotel-One Wiskey) Super-Cobra, during aircraft recovery training at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California, 27JUN2020. 

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Julian Elliott-Drouin, 27JUN2020.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Julian Elliott-Drouin, 27JUN2020.

U.S. Marine Wing Support Squadron (MWSS) 373, Marine Wing Support Group 37, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Julian Elliott-Drouin, 27JUN2020.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Julian Elliott-Drouin, 27JUN2020.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Julian Elliott-Drouin, 27JUN2020.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Julian Elliott-Drouin, 27JUN2020.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Julian Elliott-Drouin, 27JUN2020.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Julian Elliott-Drouin, 27JUN2020.

2011-2019:

Why were Marines forced to wear N95 masks during Drunken Cobra Recovery, months before The Pandemic were (sic) declared?

Influenza

CHIKrisk 2021: U.S. Army continues to warn of new pandemic

Video

29 July 2020 / 02:08 (UTC-07 Tango 06) 08 Mordad 1399/08 Dhu l-Hijja 1441/09 Gui-Wei 4718

“A person who has acquired the chikungunya virus is infectious in the first week of illness, which means that the infected person can transmit the virus to another person through a mosquito bite…”-DTRA warning from 27APR2020

Since the end of April 2020, the U.S. Army’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has been warning of a new pandemic for 2021, based on a new computer program that analyzes historical data of past pandemics, as well as using ‘real time’ data like climate anomalies and mosquito activity.  The real time data is coming from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center, the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases, Pan American Health Organization, Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the U.S. Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch.

In May I wrote how Thailand reported more than 10-thousand  Chikungunya infections, over a four months period.  It was in May that DTRA began warning military units of an expected Chikungunya outbreak in 2021.  Just like Coronavirus, there is no vaccine and no specific treatment.

On July 15, DTRA issued the following video warning:

According to DTRA, Netflix made a documentary about the coming CHIKrisk pandemic, as part of Netflix’s Connected series, to be aired sometime in Autumn 2020.

U.S. Navy warns the people of Dominican Republic of CHIKrisk threat, October 2019.

While the U.S. Army has been warning of a chikungunya pandemic since May of this year, the U.S. Navy has been making warnings since 2014.  Here’s a much more detailed U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery explainer and warning video from September 2014:

U.S. Navy mosquito trap in use in Honduras in March 2018.

SOUTHEAST IDAHO PANDEMIC ROAD-TRIP

“INSIDIOUS” INFECTION ONBOARD USS KIDD, CREW REPLACED?

Going Viral: NEGATIVE PRESSURE FLYING HOSPITALS?

Going Viral: “A STRANGE, ABSURD SITUATION.”

OPERATION JUPITER: MILITARY’S SECRET FLU IMITATING VIRUS EXPOSED, VACCINATIONS FOR MILITARY ONLY!

From 2016: NOW DEADLIER THAN ZIKA, CHIKV (chikungunya) KILLS 15 PEOPLE IN 5 DAYS! CHIKV infections were first noticed in 1955.  It was not considered dangerous as it was rare if an infected person died.  In 2005 CHIKV had mutated and began rapidly spreading around the world, and it became stronger.