“We are going to have to stop being the policemen of the world.”-Donald Trump, August 2015 interview with Hugh Hewitt
“They’re fighting for 1,000 years, they’re fighting for centuries. I want to bring our soldiers back home.”-President Donald Trump, October 2019, regarding U.S. occupation of Middle East
“This will not be a Benghazi………This will never, ever be a Benghazi!”-President Donald Trump, 07JAN2020
Video, U.S. Army AH-64 Apache overflies the BEC, 31DEC2019:
U.S. Marines work alongside contractors to install bullet resistant Kevlar panels at the BEC, 02JAN2020.
BEC means Base Education Center, but it also means Baghdad Embassy Compound.
Video, U.S. Marines (2nd Battalion, 7th Marines assigned to the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command) in Kuwait prep for emergency deployment to the BEC, 31DEC2019:
U.S. Marines upload on MV-22 Ospreys, heading for BEC, 31DEC2019.
This video, dated 31DEC2019, shows U.S. Marines deploying to the the BEC as it is under attack by Iraqis:
01JAN2020, protesters and militia inside the BEC.
01JAN2020, Marine checks out the rock strewn BEC.
01JAN2020, smoke from the homemade fire bombs tossed into the BEC the night before.
Iraqi security forces (driving black trucks & wearing red berets) talk with Iraqi militia members (wearing black uniforms) surrounding the BEC.
U.S. Army SAW gunner watches the action on the street outside of the BEC.
Iraqi counter terrorist units show up to ‘secure’ the BEC.USMC BEC Video, 02JAN2020:
Video, U.S. Army 82nd Airborne arrives in Kuwait from North Carolina, and then deploys to Iraq:
Security overwatch, 03JAN2020.
Hauling sand bags for reinforcement, 05JAN2020.
Washington Post: Iraq’s Prime Minister says ‘urgent measures’ should be taken to remove U.S. forces
Army Times: U.S. not going to leave Iraq
Irony as President Trump’s 2016 campaign promise to get out of Obama nuke deal with Iran comes true; Business Insider: Iran withdrawing from Obama era nuclear deal
Is this really about saving the U.S. oil industry by jacking up prices? OilPrice: The Year Of The Oil Bankruptcies “The industry has been teetering on the verge of mass hysteria for much of 2019 as a record number of energy companies folded.”
Remember when; ICE fines ‘christian’ Hobby Lobby for stealing Sumerian artifacts from Iraq
NEW YORK MILITIA personnel KILLED IN IRAQ!
GREAT RENEGER: DEPLOYMENTS SO COMMON EVEN BEERS ARE NAMED AFTER THEM
SYRIA, 09 OCTOBER 2015 (when Obama was President): IRANIAN GENERAL KILLED WHILE DEFENDING AIRBASE!
From 2012; RED HORSE, LEVIATHAN & WORLD WAR 3: THE REAL REASON FOR WAR WITH IRAN IS THE HUGE OIL/GAS RESERVES FOUND IN THE MEDITERRANEAN!
U.S. personnel at Osan Air Base practiced emergency responder training, 19DEC2019.
U.S. taxes spent on a Humanitarian Assistance Response Training (HART) Course at the U.S. Navy’s Commander, Logistics Group Western Pacific Headquarters in Singapore. Also in attendance were the Canadians and Singaporeans.
At Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, U.S. Navy SeaBees were recognized for their efforts to help with recovery after the July earthquakes.
In San Diego, the U.S. Navy conducted exercise Citadel Rumble, enlisting the help of Amateur Radio Emergency Service to test emergency radio communications between USN hospitals during natural disasters.
In May 2019, it was announced the MiG-31K could launch hypersonic missiles, known as Kinzhal. It’s claimed the Kinzhal (dagger) can hit speeds up to Mach 10, with a range of more than 2000km (1242.7 miles).
U.S. Marines and U.S. Army personnel are on standby in Honduras, at Soto Cano Air Base, to provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief in the event of emergencies in the region.
On Oahu, military personnel from Indonesia, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Philippines, as well as Hawaii and Oregon National Guard units, converged for CBRNE (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, explosive) training, focusing on rescuing civilians from their homes, or places of employment.
Georgia National Guard serve meals from a Disaster Relief Mobile Kitchen Trailer during Innovative Readiness Training at Camp Paumalu Girl Scout Camp, 15JUL2019. Pennsylvania Guard units, as well as Air Force Reserve unites from California, also took part in the ‘real-world construction mission’.
At the end of July, California Air National Guard’s 129th Rescue Squadron conducted training at Idaho’s Gowen Field.
U.S. Coast Guard conducted rescue training with dogs, in Warrenton, 17JUL2019.
Currently known as Electronic Warfare Tactical Vehicle (EWTV), testing began in September 2018 at Yuma Army Proving Grounds, in Arizona.
In January 2019, testing shifted to Fort Irwin National Training Center, in California.
The new vehicle allows ground forces to intercept and jam electronic communications (electromagnetic spectrum) from a ‘safe’ distance. It will be a good use for artillery units because it can pin-point the source of electronic sources and then call-for-fire on those sources (the modern version of triangulating radio signals).
It can integrate with existing ECM (Electronic Counter Measures) vehicles like the VROD (Versatile Radio Observation & Direction) and VMAX (VROD Modular Adpative Transmit) systems.
James Cook University (JCU) held a Health and Humanitarian Action in Emergencies (HHAE) course as part of a global disaster coordination plan, during the first week of June 2019. The concept for HHAE was originally developed by the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, United States, and JCU’s College of Health of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences.
U.S. Marines arrive at Soto Cano Air Base, 05JUN2019, officially for ‘security’ ops (Honduras is one of the countries flooding the U.S. with illegals), but their secondary mission is to be on ‘standby’ for natural disaster response.
U.S. Marine wearing gas mask during humanitarian assistance training at Marine Corps (pronounced -core-) Air Station Iwakuni, 10JUN2019.
Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief was the main topic at the Pacific Amphibious Leaders Symposium (PALS) on Marine Corps Base Hawaii, 06JUN2019.
03JUN2019, USAF Personnel from Little Rock AFB, Arkansas, and Yokota, Japan, traveled all the way to Oregon to take part in the now yearly Cascadia Airlift exercise, as part of Oregon National Guard’s preps for the coming Cascadia Subduction Zone event.