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Cold War Vehicle I-D: ‘Bombing-up’ your F-80 Shooting Star in Korea!

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Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).

Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star, developed at the end of World War Two.

In June 1950, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (north) invaded the Republic of Korea (south) in an attempt to unite the country (something that had been promised at the end of World War Two).  The recently created United Nations essentially declared war and created the United Nations Command, invading Korea in September 1950.  The United Nations Command still operates in South Korea, today.

Date and location not given, very likely to be Kimpo Air Base, 1950.

The F-80 had up to six Browning M3 .50 caliber (12.7mm x 99mm) machine guns.

General Purpose (GP) bombs.

I edited this silent USAF film (by H. E. Reid) showing the re-arming/re-fueling of F-80s on Kimpo, Korea, 19DEC1950:

Tiny Tim rocket and napalm bomb.

Filling up the ‘tip tank’.

Cold War Vehicle I-D:

Korea, date not known.

How to fuel & arm your USAF F-86 Sabre in Korea

Technology, U.S.

1st ever Beale AFB car-show!

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U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Shaei Rodriguez, 18MAY2024.

On 18MAY2024, Beale Air Force Base, in California, hosted its inaugural car show.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Shaei Rodriguez, 18MAY2024.

U.S. Air Force (USAF) officials claim more than 5-hundred vehicles were on display, and more than 8-thousand people showed up to look at them!

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Shaei Rodriguez, 18MAY2024.

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Shaei Rodriguez, 18MAY2024.

USAF video (by Staff Sergeant Frederick Brown), of course being on an air force base there are aircraft as well:

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Shaei Rodriguez, 18MAY2024.

USAF officials also claim that the car show was practice for a big air show scheduled in 2025.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Shaei Rodriguez, 18MAY2024.

Promotional photo for the inaugural Beale AFB Auto Expo, made on 13MAR2024.

Promotional photo for the inaugural Beale AFB Auto Expo, made on 13MAR2024.

Promotional photo for the inaugural Beale AFB Auto Expo, made on 13MAR2024.

Promotional photo for the inaugural Beale AFB Auto Expo, made on 13MAR2024.

U.S. Veterans Day: A DECADE OF CARS & TRUCKS

Idaho

Great Power Competition: Idaho’s Garrison Forward “…accepts more risk deliberately.”

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12 March 2024 (12:43-UTC-07 Tango 06) 22 Esfand 1402/02 Ramadan 1445/03 Ding-Mao 4722/12 март 2024 года

For many years the U.S. National Security Affairs (NSA) and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) have used the code phrase Great Power Competition to refer to World War Three.  Since 2021, the People’s Republic of China has been considered to be the most likely adversary in the coming Great Power Competition.

“We are moving into a realm of operations that accepts more risk deliberately. It makes sense to condition our aircrew and support agencies into taking on non-standard operations and accepting more risk in a calculated manner.”-Major Gina Dickinson, 366th Operations Support Squadron director of operations

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Alexandria Byrd, 13FEB2024.

Taxiways are normally shorter and narrower than runways, and most taxiways are located near the parking area (apron, flightline, ramp) of other aircraft, making landing on them difficult and dangerous.  The 366th Fighter Wing (FW) ‘Gunfighters’ practiced landing on the taxiway on Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, 13FEB2024.  This is part of preparations by the United States Air Force (USAF) for the coming war with China, code phrase Great Power Competition.

USAF graphic released on 12FEB2024.

Landing two F-15E Strike Eagle (366th FW ‘Gunfighters’) on the taxiway of Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, 13FEB2024 (however the U.S. Air Force did not release the video until 05MAR2024), during phase one of wargame Garrison Forward:

“Garrison Forward brought together Gunfighters from every group to contribute to a common mission: making the 366th Fighter Wing more agile and survivable in a great power competition.  Doing hard tasks during peacetime operations prepares our warfighters for potential future conflict. I’m so proud of the men and women of the 366th Fighter Wing coming together to codify our alternate landing surface operations. We will remain lethal anytime, anywhere, and under any circumstance.”-Colonel David Stamps, 366th Operations Group commander

Great Power Competition, Utah: MOUNTAIN WEST MILITIA’S CODE PHRASE FOR 3RD WORLD WAR!

Oregon:

OREGON GETS NEW WEAPONS, SHOOTS-UP IDAHO? MORE PROOF THE U.S. MILITARY IS OWNED BY FOREIGNERS!

International, Technology, U.S.

Secret B-1B Lancer mission revealed!

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Dyess AFB, Texas, 01FEB2024. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Leon Redfern.

On 25JAN2024, B-1B bombers based on Ellsworth Air Force Base (AFB), South Dakota, were re-deployed to one of my old alma maters, Dyess AFB in Texas, in a ConUS-to-ConUS (Continental United States) mission.  On 29JAN2024, local South Dakota news media were told it was to facilitate the investigation into the recent crash of a B-1B:

South Dakota Lancers onboard Dyess AFB, Texas, 01FEB2024. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Holly Cook.

In actuality, the South Dakota Lancers joined the Texas 7th Bomb Wing Lancers in the ‘First Tier’ strikes against targets in Syria and Iraq.

On 31JAN2024, JDAM bombs (Joint Direct Attack Munitions) were prepped. USAF photo by Senior Airman Leon Redfern.

U.S. Air Force video by Airman First Class Emma Anderson, released on 01FEB20204.  Bombing-up the Lancer:

USAF photo by Senior Airman Leon Redfern, 01FEB2024.

Launching the secret mission, video by Airman First Class Emma Anderson, released on 01FEB20204:

Forever Wars: “STAY IN THE FIGHT!” ARIZONA NATIONAL GUARD GENERAL UPDATES CASUALTY DATA IN JORDAN ATTACK.

Idaho, U.S.

Saylor Creek: USMC & Idaho Air Guard invades, preps JTAC for ‘Near Peer’ fight! With China?

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“This is a world-class range that is run very well. The units here in Idaho, along with the range, OCTC [Orchard Combat Training Center], and Mountain Home communities have taken care of us every time we’ve come up here. If we find ourselves in a jam, or need something or don’t know this procedure or that procedure, we get nothing but help here.”-Master Sergeant Daniel Haack, JTAC manager for 11th Marine Regiment, 1st MARDIV

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Dean Gurule, 17APR2023.

In April 2023, the U.S. Marine Corps launched operation (Exercise) Garnet Rattler, seizing the U.S. Air Force’s gunnery range known as Saylor Creek, in Southern Idaho.

USMC photo by Corporal Dean Gurule, 17APR2023.

The use of the word ‘garnet’ is appropriate because Idaho is officially known as The Gem State.  Exercise Garnet Rattler is about training Joint Tactical Air Controllers (JTAC): “Garnet Rattler’s main objective is to take entry level joint terminal attack controllers, forward air controllers, air officers and joint fires observers, and put them in a live-fire environment that has a lot of maneuver flexibility, as well as aviation employment, in order to train realistic scenarios for their entry level controls in the fleet.”-Master Sergeant Daniel Haack, JTAC manager for 11th Marine Regiment, 1st MARDIV

U.S. Marine Corps video report by Corporal Dean Gurule, 29APR2023, note the Idaho Air National Guard’s 124th Fighter Wing/190th Fighter Squadron A-10Cs in action, also, a Mountain Home Air Force Base (AFB) F-15E pilot admits it is all about “…the Air Force and Marines are starting look to the Pacific and preparations for the Near Peer fight…”:

The following USMC videos, recorded (between 10-29APR2023) by Corporal Dean Gurule and Lance Corporal Juan Torres, have been edited by me.

“Rotors comin’ in!”:

Mountain Home AFB F-15E Strike Eagle:

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Juan Torres, 26APR2023.

Machine guns & mortars:

Idaho National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Joseph Morgan, 25APR2023.

Idaho Air National Guard’s 124th Fighter Wing/190th Fighter Squadron’s A-10C Thunderbolt-2 (remember, the ‘woke’ USAF has been trying to get rid of this awesome aircraft):

Saylor Creek: IDAHO’S TACP/JTACs TRAIN WITH INFANTRY WEAPONS!

Idaho, U.S.

U.S. Labor Shenanigans: Idaho home to 1st woke ‘Total Force’ recruiting office for the PNW!

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“The benefit of sharing and collaborating in this space with our active duty counterparts is the opportunities we can provide prospective recruits. If a ‘customer’ isn’t looking for something full-time, they have Guard recruiters at their disposal. If they’re looking to explore full-time opportunities, active duty recruiters are twenty feet away.”-Senior Master Sergeant Casey Bermensolo, Idaho Air National Guard Recruiting

Idaho National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Joseph Morgan, 02MAY2023.

The Pacific North West (PNW) of the United States has its first joint U.S. Air Force (USAF)/Air National Guard ‘Total Force’ recruiting center, in Meridian, Idaho.

Idaho National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Joseph Morgan, 02MAY2023.

The grand opening was on 02MAY2023. The Total Force Recruiting Office is jointly operated by the Idaho Air National Guard and the USAF’s 368th Recruiting Squadron based on Hill Air Force Base, in Utah.

Idaho National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Joseph Morgan, 02MAY2023.

The USAF hopes this is a way of addressing the collapsing recruiting numbers: “This is the toughest it’s been in a long time for both active duty and Air National Guard recruiting. The fact that we’re forging these relationships and building this infrastructure during these complicated times, I believe, ensures our success going forward.”-Captain Annie Driscoll, USAF 368th Recruiting Squadron

So far, only two other states have USAF/Air National Guard Total Force Recruiting Offices; Illinois and Georgia.

March 2023: NATO-GERMANY INVADES IDAHO?

February 2023: IDAHO AIR NATIONAL GUARD’S 124TH FIGHTER WING GIVES YOU AN UPDATE.

U.S. Disaster 2022: IDAHO AIR GUARD DEPLOYS TO CHEROKEE NATION!

 IDAHO AIR GUARD PREPS FOR SOCIAL COLLAPSE!

Pandemic Moral Booster, 2021: A-10C GUN-RUN IN IDAHO!

2018: IDAHO AIR MILITIA PREPS CIVILIANS FOR NATURAL DISASTER!

2016: Coup attempt in NATO-Turkey inadvertently reveals the secret deployment location of Idaho Air Guard A-10Cs!

Battle Damage:

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Joshua C. Allmaras, 24OCT2016.

NATO-TURKEY DEPLOYMENT REVEALS IDAHO A-10Cs ARE A BUNCH OF DIRTY PIGS!

Business/Economics, U.S.

U.S. Hunger Games: ‘Woke’ U.S. Air Force creates Mobile Food Pantry for its Airmen!

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30 March 2023 (09:52-UTC-07 Tango 06) 10 Farvardin 1402/08 Ramadan 1444/09 Yi-Mao(2nd month) 4721/30 марта 2023 года

When I first enlisted in the U.S. military, in 1982, I got a whoping $6-hundred per month as an E1!  Today, in 2023, the Defense Financing and Accounting Service reports that an E1 gets paid $1-thousand-917 per month!  And don’t forget the extra pay; basic allowance for subsistence (BAS, aka food), clothing allowance, aviation incentive pay, submarine duty, dive duty, foreign language, hardship duty, hazardous duty, imminent danger pay, exemption from FICA taxes if on active duty for more than 30 days, health professions bonuses, muster duty allowance, ROTC allowance, exempt from paying taxes while in a combat zone!

Did you notice the BAS (food)?  That is correct, the Department of Defense already pays military personnel extra for food (where food is not available on-base, or when living off-base), the BAS rate for enlisted personnel is $452 per month.  But wait, there is more, they have a BAS-2 rate, which is now at $905 per month!  When I got married in the mid-1980s, the most I got from the BAS was $2-hundred, and no USAF supplied food pantries then!

Amazingly, even with extra pay specifically for food, the Department of Defense claims that 24% of active-duty military personnel are food insecure, wow!!!

U.S. Air Force photo, Hurlburt Air Force Base, Florida, 24FEB2023.

So why then has the U.S. Air Force begun its first ever mobile food pantry truck service specifically for its own Airmen?  Hurlburt Field Air Force Base, in sunny Florida, began its Hurlburt Field Mobile Food Pantry service in February 2023.

The USAF is using a food truck operated by an organization called Feeding the Gulf Coast (part of the covert military operation known as Feeding America), volunteers with the Hurlburt Field Mobile Food Pantry say they handed out 5-thousand pounds of food last month.  And apparently it is a once per month event, every fourth Friday of every month, unless it is a holiday.  All Airmen and their families, regardless of rank, will not be turned away: “We’ll put the food in their car, and they can go about their merry way.”-Mauli Patel, volunteer

U.S. Air Force photo, Hurlburt Air Force Base, Florida, 24FEB2023.

The Hurlburt Field Mobile Food Pantry is in addition to the regular brick-n-mortar (in the base chapel) food pantry operations on the base.

Is this proof the United States is in much worse economic shape than officials are admitting to, or, are ‘woke’ military personnel just fat and spoiled?

U.S. Hunger Games, 2023:

BIDEN’S HEALTHCARE FOR FOOD, DON’T THEY ALREADY DO THAT?

U.S. Hunger Games, 2022: AGED INFRASTRUCTURE CUTS OFF WATER SUPPLY TO ARKANSAS SCHOOL/CITY, NATIONAL GUARD DEPLOYED!

THE MILITARY CHOWS DOWN ON THE REAL HUNGER GAMES!

MILITARY PERSONNEL AS FOOD AID DISTRIBUTORS IS NOW Standard Operating Procedure!

U.S. Hunger Games, 2021: MILITARY FOOD DISTRIBUTION SUCCESS PROVES THE MARKET SYSTEM HAS FAILED!

LOCAL SCHOOLS GETTING FOOD FROM U.S. MILITARY, AND DEMAND IS UP!

U.S.

Ultimate Caduceus: “Surge the System”, FEMA Region 10 Mass-Med-evacuation!

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26 March 2023 (16:05-UTC-07 Tango 06) 06 Farvardin 1402/04 Ramadan 1444/05 Yi-Mao(2nd month) 4721/26 марта 2023 года

McChord Field, Washington, 15MAR2023. Photo by John Wayne Liston.

From March 13th through 17th, 2023, FEMA Region 10 underwent a mass aero-medical evacuation, affecting the states of Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington!

The U.S. Transportation Command (TransCom) coordinated the medevac.  More than 4-hundred military (Regular [Active Duty], Reserve and National Guard) and civilian personnel from across the U.S. were involved, including personnel from the the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Defense Health Agency.

McChord Field, Washington, 15MAR2023. Photo by John Wayne Liston.

Most of the medevac took place on McChord Field in Washington, but also included Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska; Gowen Field (Boise Airport), Idaho; and Portland Air National Guard Base (Portland Airport), Oregon.

Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, 13MAR2023. USAF photo by Airman First Class J. Michael Peña.

Fortunately it was all a massive training event: “It allows in a controlled environment to surge the system, identify what needs to be improved, then to act on those areas to train to the highest standards.”-Major Donna Olson, 446th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron

“You want to make the training as realistic as possible with some stressors you would find out in the real world. Making sure the players aren’t completely stressed out, but proper learning is done.”– Master Sergeant Robert McNeal, North Carolina Air National Guard

“It’s important to do exercises like this to give people a sense of what happens in real world situations. The more you do it the less you have to think about it when it actually happens.”-Technical Sergeant Shannon Glover, 446th Operations Support Squadron

U.S. Air Force video report by Airman First Class Quatasia Carter, 13MAR2023:

A Boeing C-17 Globmaster-3, on McChord Field in Washington, was used to move the victims, video by Staff Sergeant Chris Sommers, 14-15MAR2023:

Some of the victims were delivered via UH-60 Black Hawk rotary wings, with the help of Portland Fire, video by Staff Sergeant Chris Sommers, 17MAR2023:

Some victims were transferred from the C-17 to awaiting Black Hawks, video by Staff Sergeant Chris Sommers, 15MAR2023:

CH-47 Chinooks also brought in victims, video by Staff Sergeant Chris Sommers, 17MAR2023:

Some CH-47s delivered directly to the waiting C-17, video by Staff Sergeant Chris Sommers, 14MAR2023:

Washington Army National Guard video, by Peter Chang, 17MAR2023:

Exercise Ultimate Caduceus has been conducted since at least 2011, but it is not always in FEMA’s Region 10.  Ultimate Caduceus 2011 took place in FEMA Region 4, and the scenario was disaster response to a massive New Madrid earthquake.

FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) Region 10:  Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington.

U.S. Disaster, 2022: UTAH’S NEW FEMA REGION 8 URBAN DISASTER TRAINING SITE

CASCADIA RISING, FEMA PREPARATIONS, CANADA ONBOARD!

Pandemic Perfidy, 2021: MILITARY MEDICAL TEAMS DEPLOY TO FEMA REGIONS 4, 6, 8 & 10!

Idaho, International, U.S.

WW3 Shenanigans: New F-15 Eagle forces Qatar to invade Idaho?

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25 March 2023 (12:05-UTC-07 Tango 06) 05 Farvardin 1402/03 Ramadan 1444/04 Yi-Mao(2nd month) 4721/25 марта 2023 года

“The F-15QA aircraft is the most advanced version of the fighter ever built. It brings to its operators next-generation technologies such as fly-by-wire flight controls, digital cockpit, modernized sensors, radar, and electronic warfare capabilities, and the world’s fastest mission computer. Increases in reliability, sustainability and maintainability allow defense operators to affordably remain ahead of current and evolving threats. The F-15QA’s advances will enable it to bolster the U.S. and allied coalition’s ability to project lethal force and protect allied forces and locations.”-Boeing

Essentially, the F-15QA is a Qatari version of the new F-15EX.

Top-brass of Qatar Emiri Air Force meet top-brass of Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, 14MAR2023. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Krista Reed Choate.

On 14MAR2023, the military leaders of the Qatar Emiri Air Force paid a visit to Mountain Home Air Force Base (AFB), in Southern Idaho.  The purpose of the visit was to scout-out a new U.S. based home for a Qatari Air Force unit!

A Qatar Emiri Air Force Major General meets silly-vilian (civilian) officials on Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, 14MAR2023. USAF photo by Airman First Class Krista Reed Choate.

Establishing a Qatari military unit on a U.S. Air Force (USAF) base inside the United States is known as the Qatar Emiri Air Force Bed-down Proposal.

A Qatar Emiri Air Force F-15QA/Falcon-5 flies in formation with a USAF B-52H Stratofortress in the ‘Central Command Area of Responsibility’, 12MAR2023. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Zachary Wright.

This is connected to Qatar’s recent purchase of the new Boeing F-15QA.  The F-15QA is a new Eagle built specifically for Qatar.  In 2017, Qatar ordered 36 F-15QAs.  It is also known as the Falcon-5.

The USAF issued an environmental report claiming that the additional F-15s (Singapore operates F-15SGs from Mountain Home) will have “no significant impact” on the local ecology.  However, a final decision on where to ‘beddown’ the new Qatari F-15QA/Falcon-5 unit has not been made.

Roll-out of F-15QA/Falcon-5. USAF photo by Master Sergeant Nancy Falcon, 25AUG2021.

In 2021, Qatar began receiving some of its new F-15QA/Falcon-5 aircraft.

USAF photo by Master Sergeant Nancy Falcon, 25AUG2021.

Air Force Times, May 2021: F-15QA bound for Qatar declares emergency, USAF pilot ejects.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, August 2020: Contract awarded for Falcon 5/F-15 Beddown, State of Qatar. The air base facilities contract award amount was $524-million-416-thousand-9-hundred. This is apparently for the F-15QAs that are being based inside Qatar. The contract was through the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program, which is subsidized by U.S. taxpayers.

F-15 Eagle 50th Anniversary, 2022: EAGLES HIT 10-THOUSAND HOURS, WAY PAST THEIR ‘PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE’!

Vehicle I-D, 2021: F-15EX HAS ARRIVED! COMMANDER SAYS “IT’S AN EX-CITING DAY!”

World War Three Shenanigans:

United Arab Emirates INVADES LOUISIANA?

NATO-Germany INVADES IDAHO?

International, Technology, U.S.

New Facebook Meta Censorship, this time over a taxpayer funded public domain video!

Facebook-Meta is blocking my participation in public and private groups, apparently because somebody made a copyright claim against one of the taxpayer funded U.S. Air Force public domain videos I posted!

I even named the USAF personnel who edited the video, in the post!  The video is about the 50th Anniversary of the F-15 Eagle.  It is one of the videos in my report COLD WAR TO UKRAINE CRISIS: F-15 EAGLE NOW 50 YEARS OLD.

Facebook-Meta did not notify me of the restriction, I only found out when I tried to post a comment in one of the groups.  Only after I inquired did I learn of the copyright claim against me for the U.S. taxpayer funded public domain video!

I submitted a dispute explaining that it was a taxpayer funded public domain video, but that seems to have only encouraged Facebook-Meta in restricting me! A Facebook-Meta automated message explained that anybody from any country can make such a copyright claim, as part of Meta’s new policies.  Facebook-Meta claims the copyright violation is about the music used in the video.  Instead of taking it up with the USAF, they are taking it out on me?

11OCT2022: FACEBOOK’S FACT CHECKERS ARE NOT “NON-PARTISAN”!

10OCT2022: FACEBOOK’S FAKE NEWS FACT CHECKERS IN HOT WATER AFTER BLOCKING RESPECTED SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL!

July 2017: OPERATION FAKEBUSTER: FACEBOOK’s FACT CHECKERS JOIN NATO!

June 2017: NEW OIL WAR: TRUMP DEPLOYS COMBAT TROOPS TO PHILIPPINES? FACEBOOK ASKED TO HELP!

March 2017: FACEBOOK JOINS FORCES WITH EVIL ‘CHRISTIAN’ INQUISITION MACHINE (private prison contractor) G4S!

January 2016: SWEDEN MAKES FACEBOOK POLICY THE LAW!

March 2012: UNITED KINGDOM: MAN ARRESTED FOR QUESTIONING AFGHANISTAN WAR ON FACEBOOK

August 2011: GERMANY TO BAN “LIKE” BUTTON ON FACEBOOK, BECAUSE IT’S A SPY TOOL FOR THE UNITED STATES