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Vehicle I-D: Afghan 8/17 Mils

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NATO reporting name Hip.

The primary identifying feature between Mil 8 and 17 versions is; the Mil 8 has the tail rotor on the pilot’s right side, the Mil 17 has the tail rotor on the pilot’s left side.  All other details are subject to change.

Video by Bob Ditchey, Hip door gunner live-fire, 13MAY2018:

2014 video, Mil 17B(V)-5 helicopters inflight over Afghanistan:

2014 video, by Senior Airman Brandi Hansen, of NATO member Czech Republic advisers on a training flight, with live-fire door gunning, in an Afghan Mil 17B(V)-5 helicopter.  Czech Republic has a long history of using Mil helicopters and was sent to help train Afghans:

2013 NATO video report; Uruzgan based 4th Brigade of the Afghan National Army conducted resupply and casualty evacuations:

Forward Operating Base Shank in Logar province, 04AUG2012. U.S. Army photo by Specialist Austin Berner.

Photo by Technical Sergeant Dennis Henry.

In 2012, NATO member Czech Republic deployed air-crews to Afghanistan.  They got acquainted with the terrain by taking rides in Afghan Mil 17B(V)-5.

Photo by Technical Sergeant Dennis Henry.

Photo by Technical Sergeant Dennis Henry.

Photo by Technical Sergeant Dennis Henry

U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer Second Class Jonathan David Chandler. Sun rises on a Mil-8 helicopter on Camp Bastion, Helmand province, 23OCT2011.

Photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Smith.

Photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Smith.

Forward Operating Base (FOB) Bostick, 09OCT2011.

Photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Smith.

FOB Fenty, Jalalabad, 09OCT2011.

Photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Smith.

Mil 17B(V)-5 over FOB Fenty, 08OCT2011.

Photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Smith.

Photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Smith.

May 2011: Mil 17B(V)-5 crash & burn.

Photo by Petty Officer Third Class Jared Walker.

Video, February 2011, rocket training:

Video by Sergeant Bryan Spradlin, October 2010, showing U.S. and Afghan forces refueling and rearming a Hip:

During Afghan national elections Hip helicopters are used to deliver empty ballot boxes, and then retrieve full ballot boxes after voting.  These pics are from September 2010.

Maybe it’s time the United States use its military to control ballots during national level elections?

Photo by Petty Officer Second Class Ernesto Hernandez Fonte.

August 2010, U.S. advisers fire the rockets of a Mil 17.  U.S. advisers were prepping to train-up Afghan aircrews in using the Hip as a gunship.

Photo by Staff Sergeant Teddy Wade.
Contracted Mil Mi-8 helicopter lands at FOB Airborne, 25NOV2009.

Hip door gunners, 03OCT2009. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Angelita Lawrence.

By November 2008, Afghanistan had received three new U.S. taxpayer funded Mi-17 Hips. U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sergeant Keith Brown, 25NOV2008.

Vehicle I-D: UH-60 FOR AFGHANISTAN, KILLED-OFF BY THE MIL 17?

Afghan Mi-24 Hind-D.

MAINTAINING SATAN’S CHARIOT

See how the CH-47 loves to collect ‘Hip’ bones

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River Gun Boat: România, guardians of the Danube

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NATO Romania’s armored river gunboats are operated by a unit called Division 88.  Romania has been operating river gunboats on the Danube River since 1860, making Romania the oldest ‘modern’ navy to do so.

Photo via Naval Forces Romania, October 2021.

This Shield of Dobrogea video, posted in March 2021, shows gunboat ops during exercise Danube Protector:

Arizona Army National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Adrian Borunda, 15JUL2017.

Romanian armored gunboat F-178 Smârdan in action on the Danube (Dunăre), during NATO’s Saber Guardian 2017.

NATO video, quad 23mm anti-aircraft guns blazing on the Smârdan during Saber Guardian 2017:

Mihail Kogălniceanu class F-47 gunboat, U.S. Army photo by Private First Class Nicholas Vidro, 16JUL2017.

Romanian river monitor F-47 Lascăr Catargiu, Saber Guardian 2017.

NATO video of river patrol boat, armored gunboats, and larger monitors, supporting Danube river crossing operations, big guns firing (wait for it):

Smârdan class F-176 Rohave, USA photo by Specialist Christopher Estrada, 22JUN2019.

Armored gunboat F-176 Rahova provides cover for Danube river crossing, Saber Guardian June 2019.

NATO video of Danube river crossing, armored gunboats and a monitor, Saber Guardian 2019:

Romania has three Mihail Kogălniceanu class river monitors, beginning operations in the 1990s:

F-45 Mihail Kogălniceanu, photo via Naval Forces Romania, February 2022.

Photo via Naval Forces Romania, October 2021.

Photo via Naval Forces Romania, October 2021.

F-47 Lascăr Catargiu.

F-47 on public display, photo via Naval Forces Romania, August 2021.

Photo via Naval Forces Romania, August 2020.

Photo via Naval Forces Romania, August 2020.

F-46 Ion C. Brătianu.

Mihail Kogălniceanu class and Smârdan class launching rockets. Photo via Naval Forces Romania, October 2021.

Five Smârdan class armored river gunboats, beginning operations in the late 1980s-early 1990s:

F-176 Rohave, photo via Naval Forces Romania, June 2021.

F-177 Opanez, photo via Naval Forces Romania, May 2021.

F-177 Opanez, photo via Naval Forces Romania, May 2021.

Rocket launchers are optional, photo via Naval Forces Romania, April 2021.

F-178 Smârdan, photo via Naval Forces Romania, June 2021.

Photo via Naval Forces Romania, September 2021.

Photo via Naval Forces Romania, July 2021.

F-179 Posada, photo via Naval Forces Romania, May 2021.

F-179 Posada, photo via Naval Forces Romania, May 2021.

F-179 equipped with two optional rocket launchers, photo via Naval Forces Romania, October 2021.

Photo via Naval Forces Romania, August 2020.

F-180 Rovine, photo via Naval Forces Romania, July 2021.

Photo via Naval Forces Romania, October 2021.

F-180 with one optional rocket launcher, photo via Naval Forces Romania, October 2021.

Photo via Naval Forces Romania, October 2020.

Division 88 operates about a dozen of these non-named VD-141 river patrol boats. The VD-141 class began operations in the 1980s:

Patrol boat F-147, February 2022, photo via Naval Forces Romania.

Shield of Dobrogea video posted in January 2020, Division 88’s smaller river patrol boats:

Guns of a VD-141 class, photo via Naval Forces Romania, June 2021.

Shield of Dobrogea video of Division 88 river gunboats in action, posted November 2019 (although a lot of the video is actually from 2017):

Official Romanian Navy promotional video about Division 88 river gunboat operations, posted April 2019:

River gunboat ops, posted by Shield of Dobrogea, May 2018:

More gunboat action, posted April 2018:

River gunboat report posted April 2017:

A long video about Romania’s river gunboats, from 2015:

Gunboat target practice, video posted April 2013:

The Jamestown Foundation has a article with more info about Romania’s Danube Flotilla.

Fellow NATO member Turkey sold to the Romanian Border Police 12 SNR-17 river patrol boats. 

Vehicle I-D: ARMURĂ ROMÂNIA

U.S. NAVY KEEPS OLD U.S. ARMY BOAT-TRUCK AFLOAT

THE MANY LIVES OF LST-786

International, Technology

Vehicle I-D: Armură România

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Former Soviet Bloc member Romania became a member of NATO in 2004.

One of the first operations as a member of NATO was to deploy troops to Iraq in 2007.  Video of Romanian TAB-B33 Zimbru (Romanian built BTR-80) heading out for patrol in Iraq, April 2007:

U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Brendan Stephens, 15OCT2008.

In 2008, Romanian troops operated U.S. made armored HMMWV (High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle), as well as their BTR-80s (aka TAB-B33 Zimbru [Aurochs, or wild cattle]) while patrolling outside the city of Nasariyah, Iraq.

Camp Dracula, Dhi Qar, Iraq, 01DEC2008. USA photo by Specialist Donte Baltimore.

Since July 2006, Romanian troops have also been working alongside U.S. troops in Afghanistan.  U.S. Army video from 16OCT2010, showing Romanians training for deployment to Afghanistan:

U.S. Army (USA) video report from 2009, revealing that the U.S. Army has expanded into Romania:

The UROVESA VAMTac (Vehículo de Alta Movilidad Táctico) looks like a U.S. HMMWV, but it is actually made in NATO-Spain.

Tennessee Army National Guard learns to shoot the Cold War era Soviet 12.7mm heavy machine gun on the Babadag Training Area, Romania, 13AUG2009. Photo by Sergeant Marla Keown.

Live prep & fire video, by Sergeant Ellis McDaniels, TR-85M1 Bizonul (The Bison) invade Grafenwoehr, Germany, June 2014:

TR-85M1 blasting away on Grafenwoehr, Germany, 13JUN2014. USA photo by Captain Sandra Stover.

Romanian Armed Forces video of tank live-fire, from point of view of the top of the turret: https://fb.watch/3b_7nPPEy8/

Romanian MLI-84M on Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, 27JUN2014. USA photo by Gertrud Zach.

A modified BMP, the Romanian MLI-84M Jder (Marten), in Germany, 2014.

In 2015, the U.S. issued MRAPs to Romanian troops operating in Kandahar, Afghanistan. USA photo, 02MAR2015.

 In 2015 Romania expanded its NATO role by deploying additional troops to Afghanistan.  Romanian troops operate U.S. made Oshkosh M-ATV MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected).

Photo by Sergeant William Tanner, 18APR2015.

TR-85, Smardan Training Area, Romania, April 2015.

Video, PMA T-55 bridge layer in action, 2015:

Romanian Armed Forces video of bridge tank operation: https://fb.watch/3bZYmB3S-C/

USA photo by Sergeant William Tanner, 18APR2015.

MLI-84Ms drive around a German made Gepard (Cheetah) anti-aircraft tank, April 2015.

USA photo by Sergeant William Tanner, 18APR2015.

TABC-79/ABC-79M on Smardan Training Area, Romania. USA photo by Sergeant William Tanner, 18APR2015.

Once called the TABC-79, the Scout/Recon vehicles are now called ABC-79M.

DMT-85M1. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Melanye Martinez, 07DEC2015.

A DMT-85M1 engineer vehicle, based on the TR-85M1, December 2015.

(Click/tap here to see my alma matter Idaho/Montana/Oregon National Guard’s M1A2 SEP live fire in Romania, from 2016)

T-55. USMC photo by Sergeant Kirstin Spanu, 28SEP2016.

From September 2016, a T-55AM (aka TR-77-580).

USA photo by Sergeant Timothy Villareal, 15JUL2017.

Romanian BMP ambulance conversion, July 2017.

Video by Staff Sergeant Michael Zahnow, how to cross a Romanian river (the Danube):

 

TAB-71/BTR-60. USA photo by Specialist Emily Houdershieldt, 19JUL2017.

BTR-60 (TAB-71) just outside Ramnicu Valcea, July 2017.

Video, BTR-70 (aka TAB-77) from 2017 maneuvers:

Video, by Specialist Jacob Banuelos, TR-85 live fire, Smardan Training Area in December 2017:

 

USA photo by Sergeant Jeremiah Woods, 30MAY2019.

TAB-77 (BTR-70), May 2019.

USA photo by Staff Sergeant True Thao, 20JUN2019.

Piranha-3 crosses the Danube river during Saber Guardian 2019.

Video, by Specialist Drake Chandler, of NATO Saber Guardian 2019 wargames, Romanian Swiss made Piranha cross a pontoon bridge:

Saber Guardian 2019 music video, by Michigan National Guard Specialist Brian Pearson and Romanian Captain Mariana Dinu:

More live fire video, Saber Guardian 2019, TR-85 and T-55 (TR-77-580):

Photo by Sergeant H. Marcus McGill. Piranha joins a U.S. convoy to the Black Sea for Exercise Rapid Falcon, 19NOV2020.

More Romanian Armed Forces videos: www.facebook.com/Romanian.Armed.Forces/videos

Soviet era tanks in use by NATO:  POLAND

NATO: MiG-21 

World War Three, 2016: SNAKE RIVER Militia M1A2 SEP, LIVE FIRE ROMANIA!

MONTANA Militia ENJOYS BEING THE ‘BAD GUY’ IN ROMANIA!

Influenza

Vaccine Fail: California

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There’s an old saying; as California goes, so goes the rest of the nation.  I hope not.  List of links to news reports showing the vaccination campaign in leftist-liberal democrat controlled California is a failure, as of 20JAN2021:

Report that restaurant lockdowns might have actually spread CoViD!

New California-Los Angeles CoViD variant renders vaccine useless?

Mass-vax-site at Disneyland is shutdown for a second day, blamed on weather

State Auditor complains that too much money is being spent on CoViD

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Another person has adverse reaction to CoViD shot, state health experts ask that vaccinations be stopped!   

More conflicting reports of vaccine shortage

People are moving out of California, in hopes of getting the shot!

Yet, California has more than 3.2-million doses of COVID-19 vaccine, but data shows only 40% has been issued!

City of Long Beach boasts of successful vax campaign

Video report, Travis Air Force Base conducted mass flu vaccinations, and prepped for future mass CoViD vaccinations:

California pins vaccine hopes on Biden administration

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State politician gets the shot, then gets infected!

How a Well-Meaning Health Policy Created California’s Coronavirus Nightmare

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Healthcare workers being forced to work non-stop!

Photo by Senior Airman Neil Mabini.

California Air National Guard deployed a Disaster Relief Beddown System (DRBS) outside of the emergency department of PIH Health Downey Hospital.  The medical tent is equipped with electrical and HVAC.

Pandemic Samaritan: Charity delivers medical tent and supplies to High Desert hospital in California 

Vaccine Fail: U.S. VAX BANNED! SKYROCKETING NUMBER OF HEALTHCARE WORKERS REJECT THE SHOT!

 

Influenza

“season of paradoxes”: Hypocrite Democrats now say Economy more important than Pandemic!

Here’s an incomplete list of links to news media reports on the latest virus shenanigans:  United Nations admits pandemic is slowing global illegal immigration!

Global industries blame pandemic on lack of computer chips to build those products they trick you into buying, resulting in massive layoffs!

For some reason millions of people are not properly throwing away their disposable face mask, now wildlife are being killed due to rogue used face masks!

CANADA (Commonwealth of Nations): Pandemic causes record number of people to flee Toronto!  

Two fifths of Canadians report increased mental problems with co-workers, due to pandemic restrictions!

Dumb-ass Canadian leader considering even stricter lockdown rules!

GERMANY: Lockdown loving Merkel claims pandemic will make us stronger

People trying to have fun in the snow, building an igloo, get in trouble with police because it was a violation of the lockdown!

JAPAN:  Water faucets blamed for giving Tokyo subway drivers CoViD!

MEXICO:  Amazingly, reporting bump in tourism fueled by U.S. citizen trying to escape pandemic restrictions

UNITED KINGDOM (Commonwealth of Nations): Another recession looms as lockdowns bite

Insurance companies tried to get out of paying claims, using pandemic as excuse!

UNITED STATES:  Democrats leveraged pandemic, economic pain and civil unrest for political gain (in other words, democrats politized the pandemic)

UnAmerican Corporate America blames lack of production and food supply on massive employee sick-outs!

Anybody remember when the Swamp news media, Swamp Democrats, and even Swamp Republicans poo-pooed President Donald Trump’s concern that pandemic lockdowns could destroy the economy, and as a result destroy more lives than the pandemic?  Guess what, more proof he is correct!

Anti-Trump magazine The Atlantic admits Yes, the Pandemic Is Ruining Your Body

Even online shopping failed to save the end of year holiday sales as overall retail sales crashed, again!

Paranoid pandemic reaction sinks seafood industry!

Pandemic results in Wealthy Homeowners Get Richer, First-Time Buyers Struggle

Pandemic helps Bill Gates to Become the Largest Farmland Owner in the United States

Pandemic Fuels Record Overdose Deaths!

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Amazingly, a study shows that pandemic restrictions is actually causing a decline in ‘representation’ of Rainbow people on the Rainbow loving TV networks!

California; Pandemic layoffs resulting in tens of thousands of families (just in the San Francisco Bay Area) unable to pay utility bills, facing water shutoff! 

Photo by Specialist Caleb Minor.

U.S. Air Force Captain Dana Hunter Junior, was deployed to the Adventist Health Lodi Memorial Hospital, to assist with pandemic patients.

Last year University of California Davis warned that pandemic lockdowns will destroy the economy for decades to come!

Colorado; Pandemic restricted living is creating piles of trash: “I am horrified by the number of plastic bags, insulated bags, and, Amazon envelopes that I have amassed.”-woman who now orders almost everything online

School district gets additional $1.7-million in taxpayer funding because they claim pandemic home schooling is resulting in stupid students and more funding is needed to get them caught up!

Georgia;  Atlanta based Delta Airlines lost more than $12-Billion due to government imposed pandemic restrictions

Hawaii; State officials refuse to explain where all the federal taxpayer funded CoViD relief money went!

Illinois; Back in August 2020, Lori Lightfoot, the mayor of Chicago, said lockdowns were killing the local economy and tax collections.  Now she is demanding “Let’s bring it out of the shadows, let’s allow them to have some recreation in restaurants, in bars, where we can actually work with responsible owners and managers to regulate and protect people from COVID-19, so I feel very strongly that we are very close to a point where we should be talking about opening our bars and restaurants.” 

This was after Sam Toia, of Illinois Restaurant Association, revealed“This is the highest rate of hospitality job loss in the entire country, and three times as many as the next closest state. We are also one of only three states with a complete statewide shutdown of indoor dining.  Restaurants are out of time, and they need a more reasonable — and immediate — path forward to save the industry. This is the reckoning.”

Despite massive lockdown layoffs, for some reason plastic surgery is booming!

Massachusetts; Free pandemic food program finally started?!

Michigan;  State economy could be permanently changed by government imposed COVID-19 restrictions 

New York;    Gov’na Cuomo suddenly does a one-eighty on lockdowns, now admits re-opening the economy is more important: “We simply cannot stay closed until the vaccine hits critical mass. The cost is too high. We will have nothing left to open. We must reopen the economy…..”

Oregon; People are so desperate from lockdowns that some are going to try and use their internet bill as a tax deduction!

Restaurant owners on the verge of rebellion!

Study says pandemic restrictions creating better environment for people with asthma 

Pennsylvania; ‘Expert’ says pandemic restrictions will cause increase in sexually transmitted diseases!

South Dakota;  College students dropping out due to pandemic online learning policies!

Texas; Sales tax revenues became volatile due to pandemic paranoia

Grade school students are now six months behind due to pandemic restrictions 

Utah;  Washington County reports economic pandemic “season of paradoxes” as a result of local lockdown policies

Vermont;   Statistics show grim toll of pandemic on women’s economic health

Virginia; Pandemic will be used to justify massive increase in taxpayer funding of state/local government budgets!

Going Viral: FLU is MUTATING DUE TO COVID? U.S. Air Force GIVES WARNING ABOUT VACCINES!

DC-8: PANDEMIC SAMARITAN

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Vehicle I-D: KDC-10 Koninklijke Luchtmacht

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Photo by Staff Sergeant Dana Cable.

In September 2019, A Royal Netherlands Air Force KDC-10 paid a visit to Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, for Exercise Mobility Guardian.

Fairchild AFB, Washington, 2019. Photo by First Lieutenant Jessica Cicchetto.

2019: Texas airborne fueler company buys Dutch KDC-10s

Photos by Maartje Roos.

Photos from NATO’s Trident Juncture 2018, in Norway.

NATO video, taxi-takeoff, heading to Trident Juncture 2018 in Norway:

Photo by Chris Okula.

They flew all the way to Edwards Air Force Base, in California, to refuel one of their own F-35s!   According to the press info, at the end of March 2016, the Royal Netherlands Air Force (Koninklijke Luchtmacht) was used to prove the viability of refueling F-35s with KC-10s.

Halloween 2020:  HOW TO MUMMIFY YOUR KC-10, OR, LAST FLIGHT OF 86-0036

Operation CoViD-19:  PROJECT AIR BRIDGE, 747S, MD-11S, BREAKING AIRLIFT RECORDS!

Wildfires 2019:  DC-10, IDAHO’S 911

Bare Metal:  NASA’S MD-11 EXPERIMENTAL

Influenza

Going Viral: Flu mutating due to CoViD? USAF gives warning about vaccines!

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Here’s an incomplete list of links to news media reports on the latest virus shenanigans:

UN World Health Organization says CoViD herd immunity won’t happen in 2021, even with vaccinations!

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies warns vaccines will not end pandemic!

European Union approves new influenza treatment, investors are excited

More proof it is about big money: Seasonal Influenza Vaccines Market Technological Innovations and Future Outlook

COVID-19 pandemic sent food stocks skyrocketing, but here’s why investors now fear them

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Study shows a 25% increase in food insufficiency during COVID-19 pandemic

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CANADA (Commonwealth of Nations):  Still no influenza cases detected in Alberta’s ‘unique’ season

Area of Niagara credits CoViD lockdowns, plus flu shots, to lack of flu infections

CHINA:  Over half a million under lockdown as Beijing outbreak spreads

  Study says CoViD pandemic has changed attitudes towards relationships and sex  (that’s interesting because the advent of HIV/AIDS did not)

DENMARK:  No flu season?

GERMANY:  Blatant pandemic fraud case underway in court

State run radio report interviews ‘expert’ who says new CoViD variants are so much more infectious that stricter lockdowns are needed, YET, at same time admits the new CoViD variants have much less severe symptoms!  Also mentions that influenza viruses are radically mutating!

GREECE:  Citizens protest lockdown by going to the beach, en masse

INDIA (Commonwealth of Nations): The big return of Bird Flu

Can Bird Flu transmit to People?

IRAQ: Pandemic restrictions a business boon for some Iraqi women

ISRAEL:  Corruption trail for prime minister delayed over CoViD fears

Residents protest third lockdown

LEBANON: Increases lockdown, 24 hours curfew for the next week!

MALAYSIA (Commonwealth of Nations):  Targeted lockdowns imposed

For first time since 1969, parliament is shutdown due to pandemic

MEXICO:  Mexico City restaurant owners rebelling against lockdown

SWEDEN:  The once anti-lockdown country will now go into lockdown!

UNITED KINGDOM (Commonwealth of Nations): GPs in England see big drop in common cold and flu cases

Maskless shoppers to be banned 

Prime minister criticized for riding a bike during the lockdown he imposed!

Hypocracy as it’s revealed the so called lockdown law allows landlords to show the apartment to potential buyers with you in it, if you consent!

Economic crisis for whom?  Woman admits her family’s spending has gone up, not down, blames it on the unexpected costs of home schooling children under lockdown rules!

Scotland; People arrested during anti-lockdown demonstration

No more speedy trial for people accused of crimes in Scotland, courts go on CoViD lockdown

UNITED STATES: Medical ‘experts’ admit they don’t know if getting a CoViD vaccine will actually stop the spread of CoViD!

Study says deaths from heart disease skyrocketing during lockdowns!

Alabama;  41 booze stores shutdown due to the pandemic!

California;  Legal marijuana store owners claim that investors are now unwilling to invest due to pandemic (this proves that legalized ganja is not a big money maker, because supposedly sales are up during the pandemic yet store owners rely on debt financing, not sales, to operate)

Video reveals U.S. Air Force sending USAF nurses (from Travis Air Force Base) to local hospitals:

Colorado;  Pandemic taking a toll on ski/winter tourism industry

Florida; 

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Hiram Martinez, 11JAN2021, MacDill AFB, Florida.

This photo, taken on 11JAN2021 on MacDill AFB, reveals that if you’ve had any vaccine in the past two weeks you cannot get the CoViD shot!

Georgia;  Despite pandemic lockdowns, home prices in the Atlanta metro area skyrocketing

Maine;  Lockdowns threaten people who need cancer treatment!

Michigan;  North American International Auto Show cancelled due to the pandemic

Ohio; The world’s largest ham-radio convention has been cancelled for the second year in a row, blamed on the pandemic!

Oklahoma;  USAF cancels Tinker AFB air show, blames it on the pandemic!

Pennsylvania;  Another restaurant shutting down permanently due to the pandemic

Texas;  Teaching in the pandemic age is causing more stress, Free mental health counseling offered to teachers 

Homeless census for city of San Antonio cancelled due to the pandemic

Washington;  

Washington National Guard photo by Captain Francine Saint Laurent, 07JAN2021, Spokane Valley, Washington.

The Evergreen State’s National Guard personnel volunteer at the Northwest Harvest food bank in Spokane Valley, 07JAN2021.  Washington’s National Guard have been assisting local food banks/pantries since April 2020.

Washington DC; Elected officials exposed to CoViD during Capitol take-over

New government pandemic financial relief for small businesses will be in the form of debt creating loans

Going Viral, 08JAN2021: FLU HELL HITS INDIA, YET CANADA DECLARES THE FLU IS DEAD THEN IMPOSES LOCKDOWN!

Influenza

Vaccine Fail: U.S. vax banned! Skyrocketing number of healthcare workers reject the shot!

List of links to news reports/scientific studies about vaccine oddities, as of 11JAN2021:  Toxicologists warn that people exposed to a specific chemical should not get the CoViD shot!

Don’t order vaccines on the internet!

Did you hear about the violent Vaccine Revolt in Brazil?  It happened more than one hundred years ago. 

People in France are refusing the CoViD shot, saying it is just another form of class warfare!

Hindi leaders in India demand to know if the vaccine contains cow’s blood

So many doctors are now anti-vaxers that the Indonesian Doctors Association bans doctors from protesting vaccines!

Indonesia chooses China’s vaccine for emergency use

Iran bans U.S. and U.K. made CoViD vaccines!

The dark side of Israel’s vaccine success story

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It was revealed that the prime minister of Jordan, and other government officials, took part in being test subjects for Chinas vaccine

Seychelles rolls out COVID-19 vaccination using China’s Sinopharm

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Photo by Staff Sergeant Ericha Fitzgerald.

Hospitals claim that the syringes supplied by U.S. government are wasting the CoViD vaccine!

U.S. FDA bans plasma donations by people who got the CoViD shot!

 Surprising number of U.S. healthcare workers refuse vaccines!

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Apparently U.S. healthcare workers are not trained to recognize allergic reaction to CoViD shot!

Revealed; CoViD vaccine makers are prepping for more development, in case their current shots fail to work!

Los Angeles, California, turning Dodger Stadium into mass vaccination site!

“It Became Sort of Lawless”: Florida Vaccine Rollout Turns Into a Free-for-All

Revealed; leftist-liberal New York is throwing unused vaccines in the trash!

Vaccine Fail: PEOPLE ARE NOW DYING FROM THE COVID SHOT! WHY NOT THE FLU VACCINE?

Going Viral: FLU HELL HITS INDIA, YET CANADA DECLARES THE FLU IS DEAD THEN IMPOSES LOCKDOWN!

From 2018, more proof vaccines are all about the money:  Pharmaceutical giant Merck halts vaccine program in West Africa countries, so that it can sell the same vaccines to China for more profit!

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Vehicle I-D: Jordanian Shield اردني درع

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Al Hussein (aka Challenger 1 FV4030/4) and AH-1S/F Cobra. Photo via Jordanian Armed Forces.

German made Marder 1A3 Infantry Fighting Vehicle. Photo via Jordanian Armed Forces.

Marder 1A3, photo via Jordanian Armed Forces.

South African made Ratel, on UN ‘peacekeeping’ duty. Photo via Jordanian Armed Forces.

Jordanian Armed Forces promotional video, November 2021:

Photo via Royal Hashemite Court.

Jordan’s King Abdullah the Second, and His Royal Highness Crown Prince Al Hussein, inspect one of at least 80 ‘donated’ (from United Arab Emirates) French-made Leclerc tanks, October 2020.

Photo via Royal Hashemite Court.

Old U.S. made M60A3 tanks during wargames, October 2020.

Official Royal Hashemite Court video:

USA photo by Sergeant First Class Kenneth Upsall.

A U.S. Army Staff Sergeant finds out what it is like driving a Jordanian Challenger-1, called Al Hussein (الحسين), January 2017.

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant First Class Kenneth Upsall, 08JAN2017.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sergeant Vitaliy Rusavskiy, 17MAY2017.

Jordanian M113A2MK-1J mingling with U.S. Marine Corps  Amphibious Assault Vehicle-P7/A1, May 2017.

USMC photo by Corporal Jessica Y. Lucio, 17MAY2017.

USA photo by Sergeant Youtoy Martin, 17JAN2016.

M113A2MK-1J, January 2016.  Video report, U.S. Army trains with Jordanian M113A2 unit, January 2016:

Al Hussein, aka Challenger Mark 1, aka FV4030/4. USA photo by Specialist Ian Valley, 24MAY2016.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Sean Searfus, 18MAY2015.

M60A3 tank fires during a combined live fire demonstration as part of Exercise Eager Lion in Wadi Shadiya, Jordan, 18MAY2015.

USMC photo by Corporal Sean Searfus, 18MAY2015.

USMC photo by Corporal Sean Searfus, 18MAY2015.

Photo by Captain Viet Nguyen.

Jordanian YPG-765 during Eager Lion 2015.

USMC photo by Corporal Sean Searfus, 18MAY2015.

USMC photo by Corporal Sean Searfus, 18MAY2015.

USMC photo by Sergeant Austin Hazard, 29MAY2014.

YPG-765 during Eager Lion, May 2014.

USMC photo by Sergeant Austin Hazard, 29MAY2014.

USMC photo by Sergeant Austin Hazard, 29MAY2014.

Videos, Jordanian Al Hussein (الحسين), conducting live fire during Eager Lion, Summer of 2013:

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sergeant Richard Blumenstein, 07MAY2012.

Al Hussein (الحسين) fire during Eager Lion, May 2012.

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Scott Stewart, 01SEP1987.

A Jordanian M113 is off-loaded from a U.S. Air Force C-141 Starlifter, during wargame Bright Star, in the North African country of Egypt, September 1987.

Vehicle I-D: IRAQI ARMOR, AFTER THE INVASION

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Vehicle I-D: Suomalaiset Leopardit ja Sisu Pasi ja CV9030 ja MTLB ja 2S1 ja BMP-2 ja AMoS

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Despite Finland being an officially ‘non-aligned’ country, it still allows, and even takes part in, NATO wargames on its soil (which borders Russia).

Suomalaiset Leopardit ja Sisu Pasi ja CV9030 ja MTLB ja 2S1 ja BMP-2 ja AMoS=Finnish Leopard and Sisu Pasi and CV9030 and MTLB and 2S1 and BMP-2 and AMoS.

U.S. Marines and U.K. Royal Marines watch a demonstration of the Leopard bridgelayer, 07MAY2019. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Scott Jenkins.

Finnish German-made Leopard 2L bridge laying tank, demonstrating for U.S. Marines, and U.K. Royal Marines, during NATO’s Exercise Arrow in May 2019.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Scott Jenkins, 07MAY2019.

It is a German Leopard 2 chassis with a Finnish designed bridge system. Puolustusvoimat / Finnish Defense Forces photo.

USMC LAVs try out the Finnish bridge. USMC photo by Lance Corporal Scott Jenkins, 07MAY2019.

BMP-2MD on the Pojankangas Training Area near Kankaanpaa, Finland, 15MAY2019. U.S. Army photo by Sergeant LaShic Patterson.

Soviet era BMP-2, modernized to BMP-2MD.  NATO’s Arrow 19.

BMP-2MD on the Pojankangas Training Area near Kankaanpaa, Finland, 15MAY2019. USA photo by Sergeant LaShic Patterson.

BMP-2MD on the Pojankangas Training Area near Kankaanpaa, Finland, 15MAY2019. USA photo by Sergeant LaShic Patterson.

USA photo by Sergeant LaShic Patterson, 17MAY2019.

Supposedly neutral Finland also takes part in NATO wargames in other countries.

Älvdalen training grounds, Sweden, 27OCT2018. Puolustusvoimat / Finnish Defense Forces photo by Sergeant Alec Orko.

Washing a Sisu/Patria (Sisu was a Cold War era name for the company now called Patria) Pasi XA-203 prior to the short road-march to neighboring Norway for NATO’s Trident Juncture, October 2018.

Washing off the Sweden, before heading to Norway. Puolustusvoimat / Finnish Defense Forces photo by Sergeant Alec Orko, 27OCT2018.

Video, painting your Patria Pasi for Winter ops, 2018:

Puolustusvoimat / Finnish Defense Forces photo by Ville Multanen, 29OCT2018.

Going skiing.  A Patria Pasi during NATO’s Trident Juncture, October 2018.

Finnish MTLBs during Arrow 18, in Pohjankangas Training Area, Finland, 18MAY2018. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sergeant Averi Coppa.

Soviet era MTLBs during Arrow 18, May 2018.

CV90-30FIN

Video of Swedish made CV9030 FIN, during NATO’s Saber Strike 2017 in Estonia:

USA photo by Specialist Elliott Banks, 06MAY2017.

Leopard 2A4, NATO’s Arrow 17 wargames, May 2017.

Puolustusvoimat / Finnish Defense Forces photo.

Soviet era 2S1 self propelled artillery gun, the Finns call it the 122 PSH 74.  They are former East German 2S1s, purchased in 1992 and 1994.

U.S. Army photo by Specialist Elliott Banks, 05MAY2017.

122 PSH 74 (2S1), NATO’s Arrow 17 wargames, May 2017.

Slow-mo video, German-made Leopard 2A4s, one with Israeli made mine-plow, Niinisalo Training Area in 2016:

Photo by Sergeant Tatum Vayavananda, 11JUN2015.

Sisu Pasi, carrying British troops, ‘invades’ Sweden during NATO’s BALTOPS during Summer 2015.

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Armando A. Schwier-Morales, 08JUN2015.

Twin barreled 120mm gunned AMoS (Advanced Mortar System) ‘invades’ Latvia during NATO’s Saber Strike during Summer 2015.

Ukraine Crisis: February 2014 (NATO backed coup) to present.

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Soviet era tanks in use by NATO: POLAND

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