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U.S.

The U.S. military trains to save your pet from disaster!

Video July 19, 2019 Hutchins AAron

On 11JUL2019, U.S. Army Reserve veterinarians operate on a cat in New York state, as part of a massive Air Force, Army, Navy, Reserves and National Guard mission (Healthy Cortland and Greater Chenango Cares Innovative Readiness Training) to provide taxpayer funded pet care, as well as healthcare for poor people (so much for ObamaCare), in Cortland and Chenango counties.

In July 2019, U.S. Army veterinarians vaccinate pigs in Gyuana, as part of a Veterinary Medical Readiness Training Exercise during operation New Horizons 2019.

At the end of June 2019, U.S. Marines worked with Onslow County Animal Control, in North Carolina, to set up pet cages in preparations for the 2019 hurricane season.

In June 2019, U.S. Army Reserve veterinarians provided taxpayer funded vaccinations to farmers in Guatemala (you know, one of the countries flooding the U.S. with illegals).

At the end of May 2019, the Oklahoma National Guard rescued flood victims, including pets. There was no shortage of volunteers to help the animals: “… I had asked for anybody who wanted to help with the rescue, transport or housing of livestock for flood victims. That roster grew over 36 hours to about 500 people and once we knew we had the resources to help we reached out to individuals in need.”-Captain Thalia Douglas

Video of Muscatatuck Urban Training Center animal farm, Indiana, 02MAY2019, where civilian and military first responders train for disasters:

In April 2019, a first ever Pet Owner Disaster Preparedness Fair was conducted at the Joint Base Lewis-McChord Veterinary Center, in Washington state.

15APR2019, a dog recovers from surgery in Palau, it was the result of cooperation between the Palau Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) and U.S. Army veterinarians.

Official video explainer from MEDCOM (U.S. Army Medical Command) Public Health Activity Italy, about Animal Care Specialists training:

Official video of the history of the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps:

WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR PETS AFTER PARADISE (as in the California city) IS DESTROYED BY THE FIRES OF HELL?

TO SAVE THE ANIMALS, U.S. MILITARY DEPLOYED TO GEORGIA!

Technology

Super Guppy be old, but NASA still uses it!

Video July 19, 2019 Hutchins AAron

According to press release there were only four Super Guppies made, only one is still being used by NASA.

On 11JUL2019, NASA Super Guppy 914 made a fuel stop at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas:

The following pics are from February 2019, Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina:

The following pics are from May 2018, El Paso International Airport:

Official video explainer of Super Guppy eating a Tyndall AFB, Florida, T-38 in March 2017:

The following pics are from November 2012, March Air Reserve Base in California:

What’s it like to fly on a Super Guppy? Here’s a five minute long video to find out:

The following pics are from June 2012, Joint Base Andrews Naval Air Facility Washington:

Time lapse video of load-up at Houston, Texas:

Boeing 377SGT Super Guppy, May 1976, swallowing the X-24 and HL-10 lifting bodies at Edwards AFB (Dryden), California:

A Guppy before it got upgraded to Super status with turbo-prop engines, Edwards AFB (Dryden), October 1962:

MODEL KIT EC-130J GETS SPECIAL HANDLING BY NATIONAL GUARD!

WILD FIRES 2019: DC-10, IDAHO’S 911

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.

Kit Bashing

Model kit EC-130J gets special handling by National Guard!

Video July 17, 2019 Hutchins AAron

A real 193rd Special Operations Wing EC-130J Commando Solo, October 2020. Air National Guard photo by Munnaf Joarder.

In April 2019, Pennsylvania’s 193rd Special Operations Wing’s Fabrication Shop recently was given the opportunity to repaint the EC-130J Commando Solo aircraft model outside the wing HQ building.

Video of repairs to model that has been on display since 2006:

Kit Bashing:

USAF photo by Airman First Class Thomas Charlton.

WORLD’S LARGEST C-141B STARLIFTER MODEL?

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, Kit Bashing

VooDoo redeux: Pocatello Airport

Image July 16, 2019 Hutchins AAron

In April 2012, I published a series of pics of the F-101B Voodoo ‘gate guard’ at Pocatello Airport, Idaho. That was before it underwent renovation, when it was surrounded by a fence, faded and dirty.

Before you go on to look at the pics, I was allowed to see a secret room in the main airport building where a very nice 1/48 scale Monogram model diorama of the very same F-101B was gathering dust. The diorama showed tail code AF-90 PO-417 on the flightline in Germany during the Cold War. Today’s gate guard is painted to match that diorama except it doesn’t have the Native American chief in his warbonnet painted on the nose of the aircraft, near the cockpit. There was a small plaque on the diorama explaining the aircraft history, but I didn’t get much time to read it. I asked if I could get my camera and take a pic of it, but was told I shouldn’t even be in the ‘room’. So, supposedly PO-417 was an actual F-101B, yet a quick internet search revealed no such thing (apparently ‘PO’ isn’t a real USAF tail code).

To update this story, I was recently ‘gifted’ a little red book called The First Fifty Years: Michaud Flats, U.S. Army Base, Pocatello Regional Airport. It explains the Pocatello Voodoo was originally slated to be burned up as a fire trainer for the Utah Air National Guard. It was one of two such planes that were already fully dismantled, the Utah Guard decided it wasn’t worth the effort to put them back together just to set them on fire. Around 1988, Idaho Senator Jim McClure used his pull to get one of the dismembered Voodoo’s to the Pocatello Airport. Funding for the project came from several donors including the J.R. Simplot Company (which at that time had its corporate HQ in Pocatello, along the border with Chubbuck), and the actual rebuilding of the plane was done by Idaho State University (ISU) Aviation Mechanics School (still located at the airport today). It was the ISU students who decided on the paint scheme, and created the fake afterburners as the real afterburners were missing.

The 238 paged, hardcover book was published in 1993, it’s available directly from the Pocatello Airport (208) 234-6154. I was also told the Idaho Unlimited gift shop carried the book, but it didn’t show up when I searched their website.

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: Check out those Fake News Cans.

: Interesting that despite no engines or hydraulics, and a recent paint job, there’s oil leakage!

: Oh no! They forgot to clear coat it.

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.

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