South Carolina National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Jorge Intriago, 10JUL2012.
In July 2012, the skeletal remains of a South Dakota National Guard Bell H-13B Sioux (serial #1, built in 1948, note that this Sioux used wheels instead of skids) was loaded into the belly of a South Carolina National Guard Boeing CH-47D Chinook.
South Carolina National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Jorge Intriago, 10JUL2012.
The Sioux flew from South Dakota’s National Guard Museum, to South Carolina for restoration and display in the South Carolina Military Museum.
South Carolina National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Jorge Intriago, 10JUL2012.
The Sioux being worked towards a hungry Chinook.
South Carolina National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Jorge Intriago, 10JUL2012.
Sioux #1 chained, heading for a new home.
South Carolina National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Jorge Intriago, 10JUL2012.
Hungry, hungry Chinook!
South Carolina National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Jorge Intriago, 10JUL2012.
In 2014, Sioux #1 was ready for display in the South Carolina Military Museum’s new second building (which happened by February 2015).
Silent film from Korea Police Action, 26AUG1951, a Sioux H-13B on the ground as an H-13D (with skids instead of wheels) lands behind it, they were transporting officials to some kind of ceremony:
This is the U.S. Navy/Coast Guard version known as the HTL.
“When I heard that a plane had been discovered in the area, I knew exactly whose plane it was.”-Horst Weber, Bitburg Area Historical Club
On 24FEB2010, the wreckage of a U.S. Army 9th Air Force, 353rd Fighter Squadron (FS)-354th Fighter Group (FG) Republic P-47D Thunderbolt, shot down on 14FEB1945, was found in Bitburg, Germany.
Photo dated January 1945. The official 9th Army Air Force info that came with the photo is insulting to armorers as is states “Capt. Kenneth Dahlberg….supervises the loading of the machine guns on his Republic P-47 Thunderbolt…”.
The P-47D was flown by a Captain Kenneth Harry Dahlberg. He was leading his squadron of eight P-47Ds back to their home base in France, from a bombing run on Pruem, Germany. Anti-aircraft gunners in the town of Metterich shot down Dahlberg, he survived the crash, which was his third and final crash because he became a Prisoner of War (PoW) 45 minutes later (Gathering of Eagles website says it was after “several days”).
In 2010, the town of Bitburg wanted to build some new residential units, but local law says before any construction can start an inspection of the ground must be done: “All spots in Bitburg are inspected for bombs and chemicals from World War Two prior to construction because Bitburg was heavily bombed….”-Rudolf Rinnen, Volksbank Bitburg
Investigators looked at books used by model kit builders, to identify the aircraft by the markings that were still visible. USAF photo by Senior Airman Nathanael Callon, 24MAR2010.
“We knew that in this area an American fighter ace was shot down by German anti-aircraft fire and we know through German documentation and reports that the aircraft had landed in this area.”-Horst Weber, Bitburg Area Historical Club
Horst Weber, of the Bitburg Area Historical Club, points out the markings on the engine cowling of Dahlberg’s P-47D. USAF photo by Senior Airman Nathanael Callon, 24MAR2010
The discovery of Dahlberg’s P-47D was not revealed until 24MAR2010.
Public revelation of P-47D discovery, USAF photo by Senior Airman Nathanael Callon, 24MAR2010.
This piece has red paint on it, I doubt if Dahlberg’s P-47D had red paint. USAF photo by Senior Airman Nathanael Callon, 24MAR2010.
A pallet of scrap, USAF photo by Senior Airman Nathanael Callon, 24MAR2010.
Wreckage of U.S. vehicles found in Germany are still property of the United States, however, U.S. officials gave the P-47D parts to the land owner; Volksbank Bitburg. It was hoped some of the parts could somehow be used in a local museum display.
Photo dated December 1944. Captain Dahlberg in the middle, during a 9th Air Force donation of 61,820 francs to the War Orphans Fund.
Ken Dahlberg also flew North American P-51 Mustangs.
Photos recorded during the last decade of the unofficial/undeclared Cold War:
An Airman with the 355th Aircraft Generation Squadron inspects avionics equipment on a A-7D Corsair II, Hurlburt Field, Florida. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Frank J. Garzelnick Junior, 11FEB1979.
Inspecting an A-7D Corsair II during Gunsmoke ’81, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. USAF photo by Master Sergeant Paul Hayashi.
Puerto Rico Air National Guard A-7D, during exercise Bold Eagle. Puerto Rico National Guard photo by Ernest H. Sealing, 19OCT1981.
A ground crewman inspects the fuselage of an A-7D Corsair II during Exercise Gallant Eagle, on the U.S. Navy’s China Lake, California. U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Bob Marshall, 01APR1982.
An A-7D Corsair II aircraft pilot reads maintenance forms during Exercise Gallant Eagle. U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Bob Marshall, 01APR1982.
180th Tactical Fighter Group A-7D during Exercise Kindle Liberty, Howard AFB, Panama. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant R. Bandy, 01DEC1982.
Two A-7D Corsair II aircraft inside the maintenance hangar during Exercise Checkered Flag/Coronet Castle, RAF Sculthorpe, United Kingdom. U.S. Air force photo by Technical Sergeant Jose Lopez, 31MAR1983.
U.S. Air force photo by Technical Sergeant Jose Lopez, 31MAR1983.
156th Consolidated Aircraft Maintenance Squadron performs maintenance on an A-7D Corsair II during Operation Ocean Venture. Puerto Rico Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant Ken Hammond, 20APR1984.
Puerto Rico Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant Ken Hammond, 20APR1984.
Loading an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile on an A-7D Corsair II during Operation Ocean Venture. Puerto Rico Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant Ken Hammond, 20APR1984.
An A-7D Corsair II of the 124th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Iowa Air National Guard, being prepped for deployment to Japan, for Exercise Cope North. Iowa Air National Guard photo by Airman First Class Jeffrey J. Aubin, 24MAY1988.
Inspecting the cooling system of an Iowa National Guard A-7D. Iowa Air National Guard photo by Airman First Class Jeffrey J. Aubin, 24MAY1988.
Iowa Air National Guard photo by Airman First Class Jeffrey J. Aubin, 24MAY1988.
Changing the tail light bulb. Iowa Air National Guard photo by Airman First Class Jeffrey J. Aubin, 24MAY1988.
Adjusting weapons pylon screws on a New Mexico Air National Guard A-7D, taking part in Amalgam Warrior, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska. USAF photo by Sergeant Rose Gruben, 31MAY1988.
Chitose Air Base, Japan, an Iowa A-7D driver signals his satisfaction. Iowa Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant J. Ferguson, 17JUN1988.
Incomplete list of photos and videos of the latest U.S. military operations inside private sector hospitals, under the guise of fighting the Pandemic (so called Whole-of-Government Covid Response, run by U.S. Army Northern Command, beginning on August 2021), as of 08January 2022:
07JAN2022, AZ Family report says Arizona‘s Pandemic ‘senior adviser’ wants to militarize hospitals:
Photo via FEMA/DLA, 07JAN2022.
The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency opened a FEMA ordered federal ‘surge’ testing center in southwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 07JAN2022.
06JAN2022, WMGT report on militarization of hospitals in Georgia:
U.S. Army video by Specialist Richard Barnes, showing U.S. Air Force medics operating inside Yuma Medical Center and the Yuma Monoclonal antibodies clinic, in Arizona, 06JAN2022:
U.S. Defense Logistics Agency photo by Shannon Mormon, 06JAN2022.
In-processing of Ohio National Guard personnel, for duty in hospitals across the state, continued on 06JAN2022 at the U.S. Defense Supply Center in Columbus.
Ohio’s governor, and his wife, observe the in-processing of thousands of Guard personnel at the U.S. Defense Supply Center in Columbus. U.S. Defense Logistics Agency photo by Shannon Mormon, 06JAN2022.
It was in mid-December that the gov’na of Ohio ordered 2-thousand-3-hundred National Guard to report for hospital duty!
06JAN2022, KPBS report on militarization of San Juan Regional Medical Center in New Mexico:
Louisiana National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant David Kirtland, 05JAN2022, New Orleans, Louisiana.
The Louisiana National Guard is still conducting drive-thru testing in the Mahalia Jackson Center in New Orleans.
New Jersey National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Jorge Morales, 05JAN2022, Sea Girt, New Jersey.
On 05JAN2022, additional New Jersey Air and Army National Guard personnel began reporting for the ongoing Task Force Covid Guardian. The gov’na of New Jersey announced the expansion of Task Force Covid Guardian a day after the above photo was taken.
U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Kaden D. Pitt, 05JAN2022, Elliot Hospital in Manchester, New Hampshire.
On 05JAN2022, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) deployed medics to Elliot Hospital in New Hampshire. Video, by U.S. Army (USA) Sergeant Kaden D. Pitt, of USAF medics getting familiar with operations at Elliot Hospital:
Maryland National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Chris Schepers, 04JAN2022, governor’s meeting about Pandemic operations.
04JAN2022, WTHR gives update on militarization of IU Health and Riley Children’s hospitals in Indiana:
USA Specialist Raekwon Jenkins video interviews with USAF medics working on Mercy Health Mercy Campus in Muskegon, Michigan, 04JAN2022:
Connecticut National Guard photo by Second Lieutenant Steven Tucker, 04JAN2022, Hartford, Connecticut.
As of 04JAN2022, the Connecticut National Guard was still operating mass-testing sites for the Pandemic.
Video by USA Specialist Logan Ludwig, showing U.S. military personnel working in Bellin Hospital in Green Bay, Wisconsin, 04JAN2022:
Puerto Rico National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Tomas Ramirez, 04JAN2022, Caguas, Puerto Rico.
Operation Continue Safe is Puerto Rico‘s drive-thru Pandemic testing operation, conducted by the National Guard.
Amazingly, on 03JAN2022 the state of Oregon began reducing the number of National Guard medics working in private sector hospitals. The state-ordered hospital militarization operation is called Joint Task Force Reassurance, and between August and the end of December 2021 more than 1-thousand-5-hundred Guard personnel were deployed, many with short notice creating a burden for their civilian employers.
Connecticut National Guard video, by Timothy Koster, showing the distribution of taxpayer funded at-home Pandemic test kits, 03JAN2022, in North Haven:
USA video by Specialist Ashleigh Maxwell, showing USAF medics working in WellSpan York Hospital, Pennsylvania, 03JAN2022:
USA photo by Sergeant Andre Taylor, 02JAN2022, Commonwealth Health Regional Hospital of Scranton in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
On 02JAN2022, USAF medics from Mississippi began reporting for duty at Commonwealth Health Regional Hospital of Scranton, in Pennsylvania.
Is this about lack of staffing at private sector hospitals, is it about private sector hospitals getting free (taxpayer funded) medical help, is it the failure of ‘Obamacare’/ACA healthcare, or is there some other ulterior reason?
Welcome to borderland hell under the new U.S. President, highly incomplete (just the tip of the iceberg) list of videos and links to news/government agency reports as of 04 January 2022:
Mexico disbands illegal migrant camp:
Report says record number of illegals passed through Mexico on their way to United States:
United States returns thousands of illegals to Haiti:
The U.S. Coast Guard’s District 7 Sector Key West reported at least 12 different captures of illegals from Cuba, with at least 119 people being returned to Cuba on 03JAN2022!
USCG Dist. 7 photo by Ensign Alex Hughes.
USCG District 7 video of the 31DEC2021 transfer of 19 illegals from Cuba, from the container ship Methoni. The crew of Methoni said they used their lifeboat to rescue the Cubans who were in physical distress:
USCG Dist. 7 photo by Ensign Alex Hughes.
U.S. Coast Guard District 7 photo.
District 7, Sector Key West of the the U.S. Coast Guard, reported an undisclosed number of illegals from Cuba were sent back after this boat came ashore one mile south of Sombrero Beach, on 28DEC2021.
USCG District 7 photo.
On 20DEC2021, the USCG captured 39 illegals from Cuba, 10 miles off Long Key. They were sent back to Cuba on 24DEC2021.
On 22DEC2021, the USCG Atlantic Area captured a total of 58 illegals from Dominican Republic, on two boats, 86 miles northwest of Aguadilla. They were returned to their home country.
TEXAS: Del Rio Sector reports record numbers of illegals:
State Attorney General claims the U.S. Border Patrol has suffered record deaths due to illegals sick with Pandemic and increased drug trafficking:
U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Matthew Marsilia, 21DEC2021.
On 21DEC2021, a U.S. designed Iraqi C-130J-30 Super Hercules landed Iraqi officials to inspect Erbil Air Base, as part of the official end to U.S. led coalition combat operations.
U.S. Army photo by Specialist Adaris Cole, 13DEC2021.
On 13DEC2021, a U.S. designed Iraqi C-130J-30 picks-up cargo at Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait. It has been revealed that since February 2021, Iraqi C-130Js have picked-up more than $18-million worth of U.S. taxpayer funded ‘free stuff’ on Ali Al Salem Air Base.
USA photo by Specialist Adaris Cole, 13DEC2021.
USA photo by Specialist Adaris Cole, 13DEC2021.
USA photo by Specialist Adaris Cole, 13DEC2021.
U.S. Army Reserve photo by Sergeant William Ploeg, 04AUG2019.
Iraqis conduct ‘C2 Checks’ on their C-130J-30, August 2019.
USAR photo by Sergeant William Ploeg, 23JUN2019.
USAR photo by Sergeant William Ploeg, 22JUN2019.
In June 2018, Lockheed Martin was given an $87-million contract to support the Iraqi Air Force, including ground equipment, spares, repairs and familiarization training on their six C-130J-30 Super Hercules, good until Summer 2022. The actual ‘overall’ value of the contact is capped at $100-million.
USA photo by Specialist Antonio Lewis, 15FEB2018.
In February 2018, an Iraqi C-130J-30 dropped a load on the Besmaya Range Complex.
March 2017 U.S. Air Force video report, by Technical Sergeant Lance Daigle, about training the Iraqi Air Force to use their new C-130Js:
USA photo by First Lieutenant Daniel Johnson, 30OCT2016.
U.S. Army video, by Private First Class Christopher Brecht, of an Iraqi C-130J-30 arriving on Qayyarah West Airfield, 30OCT2016. The airfield was held by so called Islamic State, the Iraqi C-130J was the first coalition aircraft to land after Islamic State was removed:
In 2015, Lockheed Martin was given an $8-million contract to help maintain Iraq’s C-130E and C-130J transports, good until Summer 2017.
In 2014, the U.S. government approved a Foreign Military Sale to Iraq of $800-million worth of equipment, parts, training and logistical support for Iraq’s C-130E and C-130J transports.
The final three, of the original order of six, Iraqi C-130J-30s were delivered in April 2013.
By the end of 2012, Iraq got three brand new Lockheed Martin C-130J-30s, the first half of a U.S. Office of Security Assistance-Iraq’s Strategic Framework Agreement-Foreign Military Sale of six C-130Js. The deal (presented to the U.S. Congress in 2008, the deal then ‘upgraded’ to include helicopters in 2009) was estimated to be worth $1.5-billion over the life of the program, and initially included four Rolls-Royce AE 2100D3 spare engines; six AAR-47 missile warning systems; two spare AAR-47 missile warning systems; six AN/ALE-47 countermeasures dispensing systems; and two spare AN/ALE-47 countermeasures dispensing systems.
U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Hanah Abercrombie, 27DEC2021.
On 27DEC2021, U.S. led Coalition ‘partners’ and Iraqi commanders met in Baghdad, to conduct an annual review of the ‘progress’ of Operation Inherent Resolve.
U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Matthew Marsilia, 21DEC2021.
On 21DEC2021, a U.S. designed Iraqi C-130J Super Hercules landed Iraqi officials to inspect Erbil Air Base, as part of the official end to U.S. led coalition combat operations.
U.S. Army photo by Major Alexa Carlo-Hickman, 18DEC2021.
On 18DEC2021, U.S. and Iraqi military commanders went over the ‘new’ rules for ‘divestment’ of U.S. taxpayer funded stuff, as part of the ‘new’ Biden U.S. advise, assist and enable mission on Al Asad Air Base.
USA photo by Major Alexa Carlo-Hickman, 16DEC2021.
On 16DEC2021, ten pallets worth of small-arms ammo was off-loaded.
USA photo by Major Alexa Carlo-Hickman, 16DEC2021.
U.S. Army photo by Major Alexa Carlo-Hickman, 15DEC2021.
48 pallets of free (U.S. taxpayer funded) stuff for Iraq’s military was off-loaded on Al Asad Air Base, on 15DEC2021.
USA photo by Major Alexa Carlo-Hickman, 15DEC2021.
USA photo by Major Alexa Carlo-Hickman, 15DEC2021.
USA photo by Specialist Adaris Cole, 13DEC2021.
On 13DEC2021, a U.S. designed Iraqi C-130J picks-up cargo at Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait. It has been revealed that since February 2021, Iraqi C-130Js have picked-up more than $18-million worth of U.S. taxpayer funded stuff on Ali Al Salem Air Base.
USAF photo by Senior Airman Hanah Abercrombie, 11DEC2021.
On 11DEC2021, French commanders met with Iraqi commanders in Baghdad, to discuss the so called new advise, assist and enable mission.
An M712 Copperhead cannon-launched laser-guided projectile is fired from a modified M198 155mm howitzer, 27FEB1984. White Sands Missile Test Range, New Mexico, photo by Tom Moore.
White Sands Missile Test Range, 27FEB1984, photo by Tom Moore.
3-112th Field Artillery, New Jersey Army National Guard, unload M712 Copperhead cannon launched guided projectiles at Fort Drum, New York, 08JUN2000. New Jersey National Guard photo.
Idaho National Guard COLT of the 1-148 FA (HQ in Pocatello), identified by the AN/TVQ-2 Ground/Vehicular Laser Locator Designator (GVLLD, usually called a ‘glid’) mounted next to the .50 cal machine gun on this HMMWV, in 2016.
The GVLLD (‘glid’) used by artillery forward observers can be used to guide the Copperhead on-target.
“The accelerating emergence of human coronaviruses throughout the past two decades and the rise of SARS-CoV-2 variants, including most recently Omicron, underscore the continued need for next-generation preemptive vaccines that confer broad protection against coronavirus diseases. Our strategy has been to develop a ‘pan-coronavirus’ vaccine technology that could potentially offer safe, effective and durable protection against multiple coronavirus strains and species.”-Doctor Kayvon Modjarrad, Director of the Emerging Infectious Diseases Branch at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
But it turns out that the U.S. Army doctors also developed a second vaccine, a SARS-CoV-2 Spike Receptor-Binding Domain Ferritin Nanoparticle (aka RFN) vaccine, which targets a smaller part of the coronavirus Spike protein than the SpFN vaccine: “The RFN vaccine candidate is more compact and has some natural advantages as we try to increase the immune response against multiple coronaviruses using a single vaccine platform, so it is still under consideration as part of our pan-coronavirus vaccine development pipeline.”-Dr. Gordon Joyce, co-creator of the RFN vaccine
The doctors at WRAIR admitted they saw this pandemic coming, what they call ‘pan-SARS’ or ‘pan-coronavirus’, and that they knew it would be never ending: “The threat from COVID-19 continues as it evolves, and eventually there will be other emerging disease threats. Our investment in developing a next generation vaccine is an important step towards getting ahead of COVID-19 and future disease threats.”-Dr. Nelson Michael, Director of the Center for Infectious Diseases Research at WRAIR
WRAIR graphic by Christopher Nititham.
In September 2021, WRAIR issued a graphic indicating that SARS-Coronavirus was a “military relevant” disease.
Here is a list of links to the most recent SpFN studies:
