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Incomplete list of links to official reports from around the world:
David Nabarro, World Health Organization special envoy for CoViD-19, warned in 08OCT2020 video interview, with the Spectator’s The Week in 60 Minutes, admits that nobody knows how to properly respond to CoViD and that lockdowns could be worse than the pandemic: “We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control….. …..lockdowns have just one consequence….making poor people an awful lot poorer.”
UNITED STATES: “You’re going to lose more people by putting a country into a massive recession or depression. You’re going to lose people. You’re going to have suicides by the thousands.”-President Donald Trump, 24MAR2020, regarding a possible national lockdown
05OCT2020 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers video report, by Michael Glasch, revealing that responding to natural disasters is being made more complicated due to CoViD-19 restrictions:
Arizona National Guard delivers a trailer full of food and supplies to the Navajo Nation, 06OCT2020. Since the beginning of the outbreak the Arizona National Guard took over transportation of food throughout the state.
Arizona National Guard stock the shelves of a food pantry in Sun City, 09OCT2020. Since the beginning of the outbreak in the U.S., the Arizona National Guard took over civilian food operations across the state.
A sign your system has failed; 08OCT2020 video report by Staff Sergeant Eddie Siguenza, California National Guard delivers record 100-million meals to people due to CoViD lockdown:
04OCT2020, video report by Staff Sergeant Bradley Tipton, U.S. Reserve military units from Florida talk about sudden call-up to deploy to NYC for new massive lockdown operations:
05OCT2020, Texas National Guard taking part in food growing operations in San Antonio, as part of Joint Task Force Longhorn. Texas mobilized its Guard units in April 2020, for CoViD-19 response.
CoViD-19 fearmongering restrictions kill-off more restaurants in Eastern Idaho (some of those fearmongering restrictions are the fault of the restaurant owners themselves, one Asian style buffet in Pocatello is now open only four days per week and requires you to wear a mask, except when you are actually shoveling food into your mouth, and if you don’t have a mask they force you to buy one of theirs)
“You’re going to lose more people by putting a country into a massive recession or depression. You’re going to lose people. You’re going to have suicides by the thousands.”-President Donald Trump, 24MAR2020, regarding a possible national lockdown
Below is an incomplete list of links to some of the many real news media reports about the suicidal impact of coronavirus 2019 lockdowns.
Kentucky: Operations and Planning officer Joel Tiotuico claims that he worked on a 2007 flu pandemic war game/table-top scenario, at Fort Knox, which is eerily similar to what is happening with CoViD-19. The original article about the 2007 flu pandemic wargame was published in the now defunct Turret newspaper.
National Guard photos by Second Lieutenant Anna Doo and Sergeant John Montoya. Videos by Second Lieutenant Anna Doo and Sergeant Zechariah Freeman. Dig photos via New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Image
In October 2015, the New Mexico Army National Guard was called-up for a mission unlike any other; sling-load a 65-million years old baby Pentaceratops out of the desert: “This ranks very high in the importance of Pentaceratops discoveries because it is the first baby skeleton, including the skull, ever recovered, and one of less than 10 adult Pentaceratops skulls unearthed.”-Spencer Lucas, Chief Curator of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
The baby three horned dinosaur was actually discovered back in 2011, in the Bisti/De-na-zin Wilderness Area south of Farmington. In 2013, an adult was found in the Ah-shi-sle-pah Wilderness Study Area, 10 miles (16 kilometers) away. The paleontologists had a problem; no wheeled vehicles are allowed in those federally controlled areas, and once encased in protective plaster, the two dinosaur skeletons could weight as much as one U.S. ton.
In 2014, administrators with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, New Mexico National Guard, New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, agreed to airlift the bones using UH-60 Blackhawks from New Mexico National Guard’s Company C, 1st Battalion, 171st Aviation.
It took four hours to position just the encased baby skeleton for sling-load by the Blackhawk: “The process, since it was an unconventional load, took some different planning. We had the right personnel here and were able to brainstorm together. There was never really a set way that we had. We knew once we got in there we’d take a look at everything and figure out the best option. My favorite part was getting the jackets onto the sling loads. That was something we hadn’t had experience with and we knew it was going to be a difficult process. That was our biggest hurdle. Once we got past that we knew we had the capability to do everything else that we needed to.”-Staff Sergeant Jonathon Velarde, 1st Battalion-200th Infantry, National Guard site leader at the Bisti location
But when the day came for the airlift, it was discovered that the plaster surrounding the baby and adult Pentaceratops skeletons were water damaged from recent rain storms and could not be airlifted, only the skulls could be sling-loaded. However, it was soon discovered that the plaster jacketed skulls were much heavier than estimated. The Blackhawk crew trying to lift the adult skull reported it weighed 5-thousand-5-hundred pounds (2494.8 kilograms) and the UH-60 was not able to safely lift it. The jacketed baby skull weighed 4-thousand-5-hundred pounds (2041 kilograms), more than twice the estimate.
To make the lift the Blackhawk helicopters flew around burning off expensive fuel to lighten themselves. Keep in mind that the National Guard personnel on the ground, heaving the heavy skulls into positions, even pushing one uphill, were unaware that they were dealing with weights that were more than twice what they were expecting.
Video, baby skull flip:
Apparently it took two days (28-29OCT2015) of struggling to position the two skulls for sling-load.
Video, adult skull flip:
Video interview, Staff Sergeant Jonathon Velarde explains the proper positioning of the sling-load net:
Video, skull lift:
Video, incoming skull:
The skulls were flown out of the ground vehicle restricted areas to a location where a M984 HEMTT (Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck) was waiting to take them to the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science: “The mission went really well and it was good training for the traditional Soldiers. The mission was accomplished and everyone was safe. We were able to really show the capabilities of the National Guard as far as our air assets, the Infantry piece as far as them having to go out there and rig it, and our transportation assets as far as being able to move it, as well as working with the civilians and the general public.”-First Lieutenant Jerome Bustamante, 116th Transportation Company, New Mexico National Guard
Lockheed’s fast transport C-141 was designed according to Cold War requirements in 1960, and first flew in 1963. It was the world’s first turbofan powered military transport aircraft: “The C-141 has a noble record of achievement in its support of the U.S. military. Participating in every military operation from Vietnam to Iraqi Freedom, StarLifter crews have also performed humanitarian relief flights to nearly 70 countries on six continents. Most recently, the StarLifter served those affected by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The aircraft has served NASA, conducted Antarctic resupply flights for nearly three decades and has been a key asset for flight research serving science for two decades.”-Ross Reynolds, Lockheed Martin vice president of Air Mobility
USAF photo from July 1966, Military Air Transport Service (MATS) C-141A (short) on Tan Son Nhut Airbase, Viet Nam.
Quick silent film, by somebody with last name of Anderson, of iconic comedian Bob Hope arriving in Korea, via a C-141A, for one of his famous USO Christmas shows, 27DEC1970:
C-141As loaded with former prisoners of war (PoW), leaving Viet Nam for the United States, March 1973.
Silent U.S. Army film, by somebody with the last name of Fraser, showing soldiers with The Big Red One (1st Infantry Division) boarding C-141As outbound for wargame ReForGer (Return of Forces to Germany) in West Germany, October 1973 (with some film of USAF cargo ops tacked on at the end, obviously filmed during warmer months):
Silent U.S. Navy film, by Todd Thompson, showing the arrival of a C-141A on U.S. Naval Air Station Cubi Point, Philippines, to pick-up refugees from Viet Nam and fly them to the United States, 29APR1975:
It was quickly realized that the C-141A had enough power to transport far more than what could be crammed into its slim cargo hold. It was decided to stretch the fuselage by 23 feet, creating the YC-141B.
Comparison of C-141A to YC-141B. The ‘B’ version also got inflight refueling apparatus.
Photo via author’s collection.
From the Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) Photo Shop, YC-141B aerial refueling test over the Mojave Desert, California, Spring 1977.
The stretching of 270 C-141As took place from 1977 to 1982, first deliveries began in 1979.
Photo via author’s collection.
In this photo you can see the unpainted fuselage ‘plug’ used to extend the C-141As into C-141Bs, as well as the aerial refueling sections.
USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Robert C. Marshall, July 1980.
C-141A still in use, Norton AFB, California, July 1980.
USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Bob Fehringer, 31OCT1980.
Fans of the movie The Thing, yes there is a McMurdo Station, and C-141As went there, in 1980, as part of Operation Deep Freeze.
USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Rose Reynolds.
Sometime in the early to mid 1980s, a C-141B leaves Travis AFB, California.
Unknown photographer, 26OCT1983.
During the U.S. invasion of Grenada (aka Operation Urgent Fury) in October 1983, C-141s not only brought in ground troops, but took out U.S. citizens who were taking college courses on the island.
Photo by Robert C. Keffer, 25OCT1983.
Also in October 1983, the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, was blown-up by a suicide bomber driving a truck full of explosives. C-141s also acted as flying hospitals, flying wounded Marines back to Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany.
Whatever happened to the N(for NASA)C-141A #12777 ‘The Gambler’, a test aircraft for experimental ECM equipment destined for the B-1B and B-2 bombers? (click here and find out the ugly truth)
In 1986, climate problems caused a hay shortage for farmers in the Southeastern U.S. C-141s were used to transport 170 tons of hay from the Mid-Western states, in just one day of Operation Haylift. This video shows President Ronald Reagan kicking-off the first day of Op Haylift, 24JUL1986:
USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Theodore J. Koniares, May/June 1987.
Oops, a C-141B ran off the runway on Marine Corp Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, sometime in Summer(?) 1987.
February 1991, Operation Desert Storm. U.S. military personnel pass by a Military Airlift Command (MAC) C-141B (C-5 Galaxy in the background) somewhere (“undisclosed location”) on the Arabian Peninsula. According to McChord Air Museum, Washington, during Operations Desert Shield-Desert Storm USAF C-141s were landing every 10 minutes, 24 hours a day, for 7 months in Saudi Arabia.
USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Theodore J. Koniares, 22JUN1994.
Two M113 Personnel Carriers are loaded into a C-141B, on Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany, for deployment to Uganda for United Nations ‘peacekeeping’ duty, 22JUN1994.
USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Val Gempis, 03AUG1994.
C-141B delivers humanitarian aid to Rwanda refugees in Zaire, August 1994.
In 1996, NC-141A #12776, based on Edwards AFB, became the ‘Electric Starlifter’ with fly-by-wire controls. In the 1990s, 63 C-141Bs were upgraded to C-141Cs with the latest in digital equipment.
NASA photo by Tom Tschida, 20DEC1997.
In December 1997 a C-141A was used by NASA to tow a QF-106 to high altitude before release, to test the feasibility of similar launching of future space vehicles. It was called Project Eclipse. C-141A #12775 is now at the Air Mobility Command Museum.
NC-141A #12779 with ‘universal radar nose’, wasting away on the Air Force Flight Test Center Museum’s South Base flightline, in California.
USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Lance Cheung, 22SEP2000.
Upgraded ‘glass cockpit’ of a C-141C, September 2000, during a ‘Project Trans-Am’ mission.
USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Ken Bergmann, 12OCT2001.
A Tennessee Air National Guard C-141 gets loaded with war gear on U.S. Naval Air Station Sigonella, in NATO Italy, for the start of the undeclared War on Terror (Operation Enduring Freedom), October 2001.
USAF photo by Master Sergeant Lance Cheung, 22SEP2005.
Hurricane Rita final hours of an air evacuation from the Southeast Texas Regional Airport, onboard a Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Starlifter.
USAF photo by Master Sergeant Lance Cheung, 22SEP2005.
Video report by Airman First Class Kahdija Slaughter, January 2015. Preserving the Starlifter Gate Guard at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina:
USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Bryan Hull, 06AUG2016.
Kelsey Schmidt, Miss Washington 2016, rechristens ‘gate guard’ Tacoma Starlifter, (#65-0277) on Heritage Hill, Joint Base Lewis-McChord (click here to see Sandra Marth, Miss Washington 1966, christen Tacoma Starlifter the first time). Tacoma Starlifter first arrived on Lewis-McChord in August 1966 and took part in 1973’s Operation Homecoming, bringing Prisoners of War (PoW) back home to the U.S. from Viet Nam. The last C-141 stationed on Lewis-McChord was retired in April 2002.
USAF photo by Airman First Class Zachary Martyn, 07APR2017.
Airman conduct weekly inspections of ‘gate guards’, like The Garden State Starlifter, on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey.
Video report by Staff Sergeant John Ayre, April 2015, 50th anniversary of Golden Bear:
USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Liliana Moreno, 30MAR2018.
‘War on Terror’ veteran Brandon Jones and his service dog, Apache, pose in front of Golden Bear on Travis Air Force Base, California.
Video report by Kenneth Wright, October 2018. History of the C-141 from the viewpoint of the personnel of the 349th Air Mobility Wing (formerly Military Airlift Wing), U.S. Air Force Reserve on Travis AFB, California:
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Jess Gray, 28JUL2020.
The new C-130J Fat Albert on second functional check-flight over Cambridge, England, 28JUL2020.
USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Jess Gray, 28JUL2020.
The ‘new’ Blue Angels Fat Albert is actually an old British empire Royal Air Force C-130J, which underwent rebuild by Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group in United Kingdom. A Forbes report says it cost U.S. taxpayers $29.7-million. (which isn’t too bad, considering that in 2014 a new C-130J would cost between $67-million and $167-million depending on options)
Video by Marshall Aerospace, dressing the bare-metal C-130J in its new Blue Angels uniform:
USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Jess Gray, 06AUG2020.
On 06AUG2020, C-130J Fat Albert arrived on Fort Worth Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base, Texas.
Video, by Petty Officer Second Class Cody Hendrix, C-130J Fat Albert flying over algae bloom off the Atlantic coast of Florida, 17AUG2020:
USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Cody Hendrix, 17AUG2020.
USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Cody Hendrix, 17AUG2020.
Nobody is on the beach, what is this, CoViD-19 lockdown?
Photo by AAron B. Hutchins, 1989.
This is a photo I took of a C-130T Fat Albert at the Vandenberg AFB air show in California, Spring 1989. Notice that it is not painted blue and white.
Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of main-stream-news links about global immigrant/border operations from August 2020 to the beginning of September 2020.
KOSOVO: U.S. Army National Guard units from Oregon and Texas are in Kosovo and, among other things like CoViD-19 response, are conducting joint border patrols with the Kosovo Border Police, in the municipality of Kamenicë (Kamenica). Photo by Captain Nadine Wiley De Moura.
Near Naco, Arizona, a new section of wall (San Pedro River Project) has been started under Section 284 of Title 10, U.S. Code:
On the top of the Tinajas Atlas Mountains, in Arizona, a new ‘border road’ was started on 05AUG2020. Photo by George F. Jozens, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Photo by Jerry Glaser, U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
From California to Texas, 3-hundred miles (483 kilometers) of new border wall sections were completed:
The U.S. Coast Guard reports capturing 16 illegals from Bahamas near the Hanover Inlet of Florida, 12AUG2020. One human trafficker (smuggler) was detained. The illegals were returned to Bahamas. Photo by Petty Officer Third Class Brandon Murray.
Near the coast of Marathon, Florida, the U.S. Coast Guard captured 20 illegals from Cuba, 19AUG2020. The U.S. Coast Guard reports a huge drop in illegals coming from Cuba; so far this fiscal year only 140 have been captured, compared to the 482 in fiscal 2019.
In the state of Michigan, National Guard personnel are being used to test migrant farm workers for CoViD-19. This is the result of the state Department of Health and Human Services issuing an emergency order at the beginning of August, requiring that all agricultural and food processing workers who are living in migrant housing camps must be tested for CoViD-19 within 48 hours of entering the state. The program is taxpayer funded and involves the Michigan National Guard because apparently a lot of Guard personnel speak Spanish: “We do have a large migrant population as well in our community, because of our influx of migrant workers during the summer and fall months. So having somebody who does speak Spanish is important because it gives them access too.”-Heather Alberda, Ottawa County Department of Public Health
On 07AUG2020, the U.S. Coast Guard captured this boat with 16 illegals from Dominican Republic, near Puerto Rico. The illegals were sent back to their home country.
16AUG2020, the U.S. Coast Guard claims this boat was packed with 52 illegals from Dominican Republic, heading to Puerto Rico. On 17AUG2020 the illegals were handed over to the Armada de Republica Dominicana.
Texas Army National Guard assist with operations at border checkpoints, 14AUG2020. Photo by Staff Sergeant DeJon Williams.
Texas Army National Guard performs maintenance on U.S. Border Patrol vehicles.
14AUG2020, pilots at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, conducted a CoViD-19 flight carrying flags to honor the members of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection killed by CoViD-19. Photo by Senior Airman Anne McCready.
On 01SEP2020, vintage World War Two aircraft (and a post war Trojan trainer) flew over Oahu, Hawaii, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of WW2 in the Pacific (V-J Day).
Takeoffs & landings, video via U.S. Indo-Pacific Command:
Photos by Master Sergeant Andrew Porch, Technical Sergeant Anthony Nelson, Staff Sergeant Mikaley Kline, Sergeant Ryan Jenkins, Sergeant Sarah Sangster, Petty Officer First Class Gilbert Bolibol and Lieutenant Darin Russell.
B-25 ‘Old Glory’ is a true combat vet, video interview by Specialist Carlie Lopez:
Twin engined B-25 Mitchell and single engine Avenger.
Video from T-6 Texan owner Jason Karlin showing Avenger and another T-6/SNJ:
B-25 and Catalina Flying Boat.
What it is like to fly in a PBY, video via U.S. Indo-Pacific Command:
A young PBY owner tells war stories, video by Specialist Carlie Lopez:
SNJ/T-6 Texan trainer taxis on Wheeler Army Airfield, 27AUG2020.
U.S. Army video interview (by Specialist Carlie Lopez) of T-6 Texan owner:
View of USS Missouri, the battleship where Japanese officials signed the documents of surrender.
Video by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command concerning Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz’s thoughts about the 02SEP1945 surrender ceremony aboard USS Missouri (BB 63):
F4F/FM-2 Wildcat.
Stearman-Kaydet.
Kaydet owner explains what his plane did during WW2. Video by Ryan Jenkins:
Developed during WW2, but not used in the war, an F8F Bearcat taxis on Wheeler Army Airfield, 27AUG2020.
Proud F8F owner explains how German engineering helped make the Bearcat the best interceptor, and the first Blue Angel, only jet powered aircraft could beat it. Video by Ryan Jenkins:
U.S. Navy photos by Petty Officer Second Class Jessica Blackwell, Petty Officer Second Class Kenneth Rodriguez, Petty Officer Third Class Christina Ross, Petty Officer Third Class Wesley Richardson, and Seaman Jaimar Carson Bondurant.
To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two, in the Pacific, the United States military is assembling surviving WW2 aircraft at Pearl Harbor (aka Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickham), Hawaii.
Most of the airplanes were sailed-in aboard the USS Essex-LHD 2. Video by Petty Officer Second Class Kenneth Rodriguez:
Some of you might say that the low-wing twin-engined aircraft, parked next to the PBY Catalina, is not from World War Two, and you’re correct. The USS Essex was also delivering a C-12U Huron to the Hawaiian Air National Guard. Hawaii Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant Andrew Jackson.
An old pre-war Boeing Stearman–Kaydet, Naval Air Station North Island-San Diego, 26JUL2020.
Kaydet load-up, Naval Air Station North Island-San Diego, 26JUL2020. Video by Chief Petty Officer Ace Rheaume:
The workhorse U.S. training aircraft of WW2 is the T-6 Texan, known as SNJ in the U.S. Navy/Marines. The aircraft was so successful it was used decades after the war ended, by various countries around the world.
T-6/SNJ load-up aboard USS Essex at Naval Air Station North Island-San Diego, 25JUL2020. Video by Chief Petty Officer Ace Rheaume:
This Texan is in U.S. Air Force markings, which is post-WW2 as the USAF was created in September 1947, two years after WW2 ended.
Video, T-6/SNJ off-loaded in Hawaii, 10AUG2020:
More T-6/SNJ off-load videos, 10AUG2020:
Commemorative Air Force (originally known as Confederate Air Force) FM-2 (General Motors version of F4F) Wildcat.
Video, Wildcat upload, load-up aboard USS Essex at Naval Air Station North Island-San Diego, 27JUL2020. Video by Chief Petty Officer Ace Rheaume:
P-51D Mustang.
Video, P-51D upload, load-up aboard USS Essex at Naval Air Station North Island-San Diego, 27JUL2020. Video by Chief Petty Officer Ace Rheaume:
Video, P-51D off-load in Hawaii, 11AUG2020:
B-25 Mitchell.
U.S. Navy photo by Shannon Haney, 10AUG2020.
U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant. Anthony Nelson Junior, 10AUG2020.
The U.S. Army Air Force’s B-25 was the first U.S. aircraft to bomb Japan, flown off the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet-CV 8 (The Doolittle Raid). B-25 off-load video by Petty Officer Second Class Jessica Blackwell:
U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Ryan Jenkins, 25AUG2020.