More than 170 Puerto Rico Air National Guard Airmen set to deploy for multiple worldwide operations. During the first week of March 2019, Airman began their Personnel Deployment Function (PDF): “The PDF is great and it makes me feel like I have all my documents up to date and my affairs in order. I’m headed to Afghanistan for six months.”-Senior Airman Daniel Morales, 156th Ariel Port Squadron
Puerto Rican Airmen will be deployed to Middle East and Europe.
Video interview in English & Español:
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“We are going to have to stop being the policemen of the world.”-Donald Trump, August 2015 interview with Hugh Hewitt
MARIA: ARMY RESERVE RESPONDE AL LLAMADO DE AYUDA EN PUERTO RICO!
MARIA: MILITARIZATION OF PUERTO RICO & VIRGIN ISLANDS
U.S. military took part in the Great Tohoku Earthquake remembrance, 11MAR2019.
Local emergency responders practice casualty evacuation during Pacific Partnership-19, 16MAR2019.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District conducted an earthquake continuity of operations training by simulating an emergency move of their Los Angeles HQ to Pheonix, Arizona. Think about that, the Army Corps of Engineers is prepping for a southern California quake so big that they’ll have to move their HQ out of California! According to the military report, preps for such a scenario began in 2018, as part of a Presidential Directive, Public Law and Corps regulations.
04MAR2019, fast transport ship USNS Brunswick (T-EPF 6) departs Naval Base Guam for Pacific Partnership 2019, the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific.
U.S. military/USAID Humanitarian Assistance Response Training conducted 06MAR2019, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.
On 09MAR2019, more than 120 state militia personnel (National Guard) took part in FEMA Region 9 mass-casualty training: “Det. 1 Hawaii is poised in the middle of the pacific, where we train to respond quickly with a team made up of professional responders. Some of our Airmen are already in the local fire department, police and EMS departments. It makes it easy to just sync right in. So there’s a credibility that we worry less about catching up to the civilian standards, because we come trained, equipped and interoperable with our civilian response partners. We have a small, close knit community in Hawaii, but at the same time, it’s also like we’re one big, extended family always find ways to provide kokua.”-Lieutenant Colonel James Faumuina, 154th Medical Group’s Detachment 1
Idaho Air National Guard, along with local responders, trained for mountain disaster/rescue ops 08MAR2019.
From 07-13MAR2019, the Idaho Army National Guard conducted Idaho Response-19 at Orchard Combat Training Center (aka Orchard Training Area). More than 350 Guard personnel from Idaho, Washington, Montana and Utah took part. Apparently the chemical weapons suits were part of an earthquake simulation in which the earthquake caused an argon gas leak.
Washington National Guard’s 10th Homeland Response Force took part in Idaho Response-19, despite the ‘bad’ weather: “It’s actually good training…because the weather will almost certainly not be ideal if we were called to a real world disaster.”-Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Bugbee
A UH-60 Blackhawk with Idaho’s 1-183rd Aviation Battalion taxies at Gowen Field, Boise, Idaho, 10FEB2019.
‘Get on the bus!’
‘I see you!’
Gowen Field, Boise, Idaho, 10FEB2019.
Idaho’s 124th Medical Group conducts ‘post chemical attack’ checks of Gowen Field, 10FEB2019.
‘Winter testing’ the 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team’s Bradley Fighting Vehicle at Orchard Training Area.
Infantry squad live fire qualifications at Orchard Training Area, 20FEB2019.
Somewhere in the East China Sea, U.S. Navy and Marines personnel conducted Nightingale, a mass casualty exercise aboard USS Wasp (LHD 1), 04FEB2019.
U.S. Marines and Sailors trained with Japanese forces on Okinawa, for Humanitarian Assistance-Disaster Relief, 01FEB2019.
At ‘Sector San Diego’ U.S. Coast Guard cutter Haddock conducted mass casualty training, 06FEB2019.
U.S. personnel board a Japanese Air Force C-130H at Andersen Air Force Base, in preparation to resume the humanitarian assistance and disaster relief portion of COPE North, 25FEB2019.
U.S. Air Force Band of the Pacific members perform for a crowd during Aero India, 23FEB2019.
USAF B-52 bomber from Guam overflies Aero India, 20FEB2019.
USAF F-16 from Misawa Air Base, Japan, overflies Aero India, 20FEB2019.
USAF C-17 shows-off at Aero India, 23FEB2019.
U.S. Navy F/A-18 from VFA-27 on display at Aero India, 23FEB2019.
India’s own design Light Combat Helicopter TD1, 21FEB2019.
India’s Russian designed two-seat Sukhoi-30 flies alongside India’s own design Tejas, 20FEB2019.
These Russian marked Yakovlev aerobatic planes are actually operated by the British empire’s United Kingdom based 
Indian Air Force helicopter display team Sarang, flying India’s own Dhruv/ALH helicopters, 20FEB2019.
U.S. Ambassador to India, Kenneth I. Juster, is on hand to promote the sale of U.S. military gear.
U.S. Army personnel tested water purification systems, and electrical power generators, at Soto Cano Air Base, 17JAN2019, in preparation for a natural disaster.
National Guard units from four states took part in disaster response training in San Francisco, during the last week of January, which included responding to ‘chemical incidents’.
