The economic collapse of one of California’s iconic port cities, San Francisco, is not because of increased crimes, in fact it could be argued that the increased crime is a result of the very ‘rainbow-woke’ liberal-progressive economic policies that are the true cause of ‘The City’s’ economic collapse.
The following are just a scratch at the economic reality of the larger Frisco Bay Area.
ABC7 News Bay Area, 15FEB2024: Revealed, San Francisco’s economic warfare against 30 non-rainbow woke states, backfired!
12FEB2024: San Fran extends ban on legally, yes legally, permitted street vending, in the name of ‘safety’.
Taxpayer funded military police dog with the U.S. Coast Guard’s Marine Safety and Security Team San Francisco, over-watches the crowd outside SF 49ers’ Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, 11NOV2019. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Second Class Jordan Akiyama.
Image from a video by Technical Sergeant Danny Whitlock, 03FEB2024.
Now, at the beginning of February 2024, the commander of the Utah Air and Army National Guard used a new phrase (code words?) for World War Three; the ‘great power competition’: “As we engage in great power competition, it is crucial that we innovate and optimize our force. We must adapt and change how we train and fight; conflict against China will be very different from any battle we’ve ever had. We must aggressively push new and sometimes uncomfortable tactics to win. This exercise lets the warfighters push their limits to create and perfect capabilities they need to deter and defeat our adversaries.”-Major General Daniel Boyack, Adjutant General of the Utah National Guard
Utah Air National Guard photo by Major Christopher Kroeber, 03FEB2024.
‘Mountain West Militia’ members from Utah Air National Guard’s 151st Wing, and the Air Force Reserve’s 419th Fighter Wing, took part in Exercise Perses, during the first weekend of February.
Utah Air National Guard video by First Lieutenant Jaycee Baker, 03FEB2024:
The training event involved transporting munitions (such as AIM 120 missiles) for fighter aircraft, as well as aerial refueling of F-35s from Hill Air Force Base, in Utah.
AIM-120 ‘coffins’. Utah Air National Guard photo by Second Lieutenant Marliyn Alba, 04FEB2024.
Utah Air National Guard photo by Second Lieutenant Marliyn Alba, 04FEB2024.
Utah Air National Guard video by Master Sergeant Colton Elliott, 03FEB2024:
Camp Williams, Utah, 31JAN2024. Utah Air National Guard photo by Airman First Class Kyle Blackham.
At the end of January 2024, the Utah Army National Guard also took part in Exercise Perses, using their UH-60 Black Hawks to sling-load supplies.
Utah Air National Guard photo by Airman First Class Kyle Blackham, 31JAN2024.
The “great power competition” training also included finding better ways to conduct transportation/communications operations.
Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th President of the United States of America, 1981 to 1989.
Reagan played football for Eureka College in 1929.
Ronald W. Reagan became famous for his 1940 movie portrayal of Notre Dame football running back George Gipp, who died of pneumonia. The film also recreated the famous ‘win just one for the Gipper’ speech by Notre Dame’s football coach Knute Rockne. The nickname Gipper stuck with Reagan for the rest of his life.
31JAN1988, SUPER BOWL-22
For the second time the Washington DC Redskins win the Super Bowl (defeating the Denver Broncos 42 to 10) while Ronald Reagan was President of the United States. Video via Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, part-1:
Part-2, setting the records straight:
Part-3, making the pass:
Redskins’ quarterback Doug Williams, 03FEB1988.
President Reagan tosses one to Redskins’ wide receiver Ricky Sanders, 03FEB1988.
25JAN1987, SUPER BOWL-21
After beating the Denver Broncos 39 to 20, the New York Giants paid a visit to the White House, 13FEB1987. Video via Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, part-1:
Part-2:
Part 3, The Gipper finally gets his shirt:
Giants linebacker Harry Carson dumps popcorn on ‘The Gipper’.
13 February 1987.
20JAN1985, SUPER BOWL-19
How many rehearsals does the U.S. President need to make a Super Bowl (Miami versus San Francisco) coin toss?
Super Bowl champions Washington DC Redskins (27-17 victory over Miami Dolphins) meet with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, and First Lady Nancy Reagan, on Dulles International Airport, 31JAN1983.
Incomplete list of U.S. border wars shenanigans for January 2024.
Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation flight from Louisiana to Venezuela, 03JAN2024:
ICE deportation flight from Louisiana to Venezuela, 10JAN2024:
Photo by U.S. Coast Guard District 7 PADET, 12JAN2024.
On 12JAN2024, the U.S. Coast Guard returned 53 illegals to the Dominican Republic. The group had been captured near Puerto Rico’s Mona Passage on 10JAN2024.
ICE deportation flight from Louisiana to Venezuela, 17JAN2024:
ICE deportation flight from Louisiana to Peru, 18JAN2024:
ICE deportation flight from Louisiana to Venezuela, 24JAN2024:
A so-called Denton Program fire truck is loaded onto a C-17, for delivery to Guatemala. While the fire truck supposedly came from charity, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) C-17 flight is taxpayer funded. The Denton Humanitarian Assistance Program is not an independent charity but a taxpayer/’donation’ funded operation of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Agency for International Development (USAID). It is also known as Denton Cargo Program or Denton Program, and was started in 1987, after a 1985 change to Title 10 United States Code, and is specifically intended to reduce illegals coming from Central America by helping the emergency response services of their home countries. USAF video by Senior Airman Madeline Baisey, 26JAN2024:
ICE deportation flight from Florida to Cuba, 26JAN2024:
U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s International Affairs-Fisheries, U.S. Department of State’s Office of Oceans and Polar Affairs, along with the U.S. Coast Guard, reveal a major destination for illegals being trafficked globally is the fishing industry! U.S. Coast Guard video interview by Telfair H. Brown, 26JAN2024:
21JAN2024, Texas Air National Guard deploys the Modular Mobile Surveillance System, or M2S2, surveillance system:
Army Aviation Support Facility-1, Salem, Oregon, 19JAN 2024. Oregon National Guard photo by John Hughel.
On 19JAN2024, the Oregon Army National Guard’s Detachment 1- Company Alpha-1st Battalion–112th Aviation returned home from a 12 months deployment with other National Guard personnel from Idaho, North Dakota, Montana and Wisconsin, in helping to patrol the Texas/Mexico border. The unit used UH-72 Lakota helicopters to conduct 385 missions during the day and at night, accumulating more than 1-thousand-825 flight hours patrolling the Rio Grande Valley and Laredo sectors. Video of demobilization ceremony by Major Wayne Clyne:
Oregon Captain explains the use of the UH-72 Lakota in assisting the federal Customs & Border Protection (aka Border Patrol) in Texas, video interview by Major Wayne Clyne:
14JAN2024, Operation Lone Star video update (edited by Private Second Class Steven Day) showing command post operations in Eagle Pass:
This is a 09JAN2024, Texas National Guard-Operation Lone Star video update (edited by Private Second Class Steven Day), revealing that illegals (including known criminals) have been trained in anti-tracking tactics:
This is a 04JAN2024, Texas National Guard-Operation Lone Star video update, edited by Private Second Class Steven Day:
Texas National Guard supporting Operation Lone Star along the Texas-Mexico border surpassed one million ‘events’ in 2023. Video report by Private Second Class Steven Day:
This is a 14JAN2024 update to the 01JAN2024, 7.6 magnitude Richter scale (7 Japan Meteorological Agency [JMA] scale) earthquake in Japan.
Deaths of people that happened during the quake are now at 221, at least 22 people are still missing. Almost 5-hundred people in 15 communities across Ishikawa Prefecture remain cut off because of damaged roads.
Israel occupied The Gaza Strip during the Cold War, in 1967 (what is known in the U.S. as the 1967 War). 1967 is also the year that the U.S. became imbedded into the Tar-Baby called Israel, with a visit, and promise of support, from a politician who would later become the President of the United States:
Today, history being made again. On 11JAN2024, South Africa presented its accusations of a “pattern of genocidal conduct” by Israel to the International Court of Justice, stating that “This killing is nothing short of destruction of Palestinian life. It is inflicted deliberately, no-one is spared, not even newborn babies.”
Incomplete list of Regular/Active Duty, Reserve and state National Guard (state militia) unit deployments revealed during December 2023 and the first week of January 2024.
ARIZONA:
U.S. Army Reserve photo by Captain Fernando Ochoa, 02DEC2023.
Army Reserve unit Bravo Company-98th Signal Battalion conducted a deployment ceremony on the Arizona State University campus, 02DEC2023. They are deploying to NATO-Poland.
CALIFORNIA:
On 04JAN2024, the California Air National Guard’s 129th Rescue Wing deployed for The Middle East:
Photo by Captain Fernando Ochoa, 06JAN2024.
Army Reserve unit Charlie Company-98th Signal Battalion conducted a deployment ceremony on Camp Pendleton, 06JAN2024. They are being deployed to The Middle East.
COLORADO:
Space Force photo by Emily Peacock, 07DEC2023.
On 07DEC2023, the Space Force conducted a flag ceremony on Peterson Space Force Base, prior to the deployments of 160th, 161st, and 162nd Electromagnetic Warfare (EW) Combat Detachments.
GEORGIA:
Georgia Army National Guard photo by Captain Amanda Russell, 12DEC2023.
Militia personnel with the 1st Battalion-118th Field Artillery Regiment deploying to The Middle East (CentCom area of responsibility). They will be focusing on counter-artillery and counter-drone missions.
HAWAI’I:
The state militia’s (National Guard) 1st Battalion-487th Field Artillery Regiment-Target Acquisition Section-29th Brigade Support Battalion announced they are “about to go downrange” to The Middle East. Hawai’i Army National Guard video by Corporal Casandra B. Ancheta, 06JAN2024:
USAFR photo by James Bowman, 13DEC2023.
On 13DEC2023, U.S. Air Force Reserve Airmen conducted a ‘Pre-Deployment Function’ (PDF) on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, to make sure everybody is caught-up on red-tape and vaccinations for future deployments.
ILLINOIS: State Militia personnel with Chicago-based 1863rd Financial Management Support Detachment are deploying to NATO-Europe.
Photo by Senior Master Sergeant Daniel Farrell, 03DEC2023.
On top of that, the Louisiana Air National Guard deploying about 3-hundred militia Airmen (from the 159th Fighter Wing) to the Indo-Pacific region.
MINNESOTA: The state militia deploying personnel assigned to the 34th Red Bull Infantry Division, along with militia personnel who live in Iowa, Wisconsin, North & South Dakota, and several other states, are deploying to The Middle East. Minnesota Army National Guard video by Specialist Tyler Becker, showing a so-called Family Preparation Academy for deployment, 02DEC2023:
OKLAHOMA:
Oklahoma Army National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Reece Heck, 30DEC2023.
USAFR photo by Technical Sergeant Monica Ricci, 05DEC2023.
On 05DEC2023, 514th Aeromedical Airmen flying home from their deployment to Kuwait had to employ their training when a fellow airline passenger went down.
Army National Guard’s 2nd Battalion-112th Infantry Regiment-56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team-28th Infantry Division conducts deployment ceremony on 17DEC2023. They are deploying to the African Continent:
VIRGINIA:
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Raymond Maddocks, 01DEC2023.
On 01DEC2023, the U.S. Navy officially launched the new Mobilization and Deployment Support Command (MDSC), on Naval Station Norfolk: “MDSC is being established to provide oversight of all Reserve Component mobilizations and Active Component Individual Augmented mobilizations. This is a wholesale re-imagining of the legacy, centralized mobilization process and is the realization of the Reserve’s shift from operational support through a centralized center of excellence to strategic reserve via adaptive, distributed mobilizations.”-Rear Admiral Michael J. Steffen, Commander, Navy Reserve Forces Command
Incomplete list of federal government response to the ongoing wildfires on the Hawaiian Islands.
On 28DEC2023, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)-Honolulu District revealed plans for a temporary campus for displaced students of King Kamehameha-the-Third elementary school. USACE video by Charles Delano:
USAEC was ordered in September, by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), to design and build a temporary elementary school. The work is actually being done by contractor Pono Aina Management of Waianae, Hawaiʻi. The temporary school is using taxpayer-leased modular buildings, and could be in use for the next five years!
Kula, Maui, 27DEC2023. USACE photo by Brigida I. Sanchez.
Debris removal includes trees that are considered to be a potential threat, possibly falling onto the public, so they are cut down and removed.
Hawaii Army National Guard’s UH-60 Black Hawks and CH-47 Chinook rotary wings respond to wildfire on O’ahu, near Mililani Mauka, 04NOV2023. So far, the Hawaii National Guard has dropped at least 30-thousand gallons of water on the O’ahu wildfires. Video by Sergeant Lianne M. Hirano:
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Second Class Brandon Hillard, 01NOV2023.
The U.S. Coast Guard-Station Maui oversees the contracted salvage and recovery operations of sunken boats in the Lahaina Harbor.
Hawaii Army National Guard CH-47 Chinook drops water on the wildfire on Mililani, O’ahu, Hawaii, 01NOV2023. Video by Master Sergeant Andrew Jackson:
USACE photo by Erin Jimenez, 24OCT2023.
In October, USACE employees, working the Hawai‘i Wildfire Recovery Field Office in Kiehi, were so stressed-out that they got a visit from therapy dogs.
On 21OCT2023, the USACE began the first site assessment for Phase-1 private property debris removal in Kula:
U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Megan Geiger, 19OCT2023.
In October, donations were collected on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, in the Evergreen State of Washington. The donations were then picked up and shipped to Hawai’i by a Seattle based food pantry organization.
A-10C on Gowen Field, Boise Airport, Idaho, 20DEC2023. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur.
The A-10A (first flight May 1972) was the result of U.S. Air Force experience with ground attack missions over Viet Nam.
An F-16A belonging to Hill AFB, Utah, flies over Nellis AFB, Nevada, December 1979. USAF photo by Ken Hackman.
The F-16A (first flight in 1976) was developed as a replacement for the F-5E Tiger-2 (itself a replacement for the F-5A Freedom Fighter, designed to be a low cost aircraft for countries who did not have the money to buy the big combat planes, and was subsidized by U.S. taxpayers through the MAP [Military Assistance Program]).
The first USAF unit deployment of F-16s to Europe involved Falcons from Hill Air Force Base, Utah, in 1981. They were sent to Flesland Air Station, in NATO-Norway. U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sergeant Don Sutherland, 01MAR1981.
The division between those in the USAF who liked the A-10 and those who liked the F-16 began during the development of the prototypes, in the 1970s. My father worked at Edwards Air Force Base, California, during that time, and was one of the pro-F-16’ers. Edwards AFB is where both aircraft were originally developed. My father would come home from work stating that he hoped something bad happened to the A-10, so that the USAF would choose the F-16. What people (including my father) didn’t seem to understand is that both aircraft were the result of combat experiences over Viet Nam, and were intentionally designed for specific missions, which is why at that time the USAF wanted both aircraft.
A-10C on Gowen Field, Boise Airport, Idaho, 20DEC2023. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur.
Both aircraft have been upgraded over the decades, yet ever since the Obama regime was in power the U.S. Air Force has pushed to replace the decades old A-10 with the decades old F-16.
A-10C on Gowen Field, Boise Airport, Idaho, 20DEC2023. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur.
Gowen Field Air Show, 27AUG2023. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur.
Idaho A-10C on Lechfeld Air Base, Germany, 06JUN2023. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur.
Idaho A-10C over Southwestern Idaho, 15MAR2023. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur.
