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A flying M48A1? Or, how to paint your 1:1 scale M48A1.

U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Anri Baril, 19DEC2019.

In December 2019, a serviced and freshly painted M48 Patton was returned to the U.S. Army Central HQ on Shaw Air Force Base, in South Carolina.

Arrival at the Fort Knox paint shop. USA photo by Bianka Lathan, 13NOV2019.

USA photo by Bianka Lathan, 13NOV2019.

The M48 spent about two months at Fort Knox, Kentucky, getting a make-over at the Logistics Readiness Center.

USA photo by Bianka Lathan, 13NOV2019.

USA photo by Bianka Lathan, 13NOV2019.

From this view of the engine deck you can see it’s a M48A1 Patton.

USA photo by Bianka Lathan, 03DEC2019.

USA photo by Bianka Lathan, 03DEC2019.

USA photo by Staff Sergeant Anri Baril, 26SEP2019.

In September 2019, the faded gate guard was taken away from its post in front of Patton Hall on Shaw Air Force Base.

USA photo by Staff Sergeant Anri Baril, 26SEP2019.

USA photo by Staff Sergeant Anri Baril, 26SEP2019.

USA photo by Staff Sergeant Anri Baril, 26SEP2019.

USA photo by Sergeant Victor Everhart, 13MAR2015.

It’s been guarding Patton Hall since the building’s dedication in 2011.

New clothes for the old tank. USA photo by Staff Sergeant Anri Baril, 16DEC2019.

The Minnesota Military Museum’s M48. Minnesota National Guard photo, 05FEB2013.

M48A2C ‘gate guard’ on display in Republic of Korea (South Korea). USA photo by Private First Class SeoWon Lee, 05MAR2015.

VEHICLE I-D: ZOMBIE TANK T-55, THEY’RE EVERYWHERE!

VEHICLE I-D: GIANT R-C TANKS SEEN TEARING-UP WASHINGTON STATE!

VEHICLE I-D: M4 SHERMAN

VEHICLE I-D: Idaho’s 1-148 FIELD ARTILLERY GATE GUARDS

New Tail Feathers for Oregon Eagle, B-17 Bomber style! Plus, Mini-Eagle, Kawaii!

A large VFW mural honoring the 173rd Fighter Wing and its namesake, Lt. David R. Kingsley, in downtown Klamath Falls.

“We wanted to put mil-spec paint on the jet instead of the automotive paint that we dealt with last time. They don’t really make B-17 colors anymore so we had to put a special order. They have to shut down the production line and then do spray-outs and testing to make sure they are matching our federal paint standard codes.”-Master Sergeant Paul Allen

Oregon Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Jennifer Shirar, 07JAN2020.

Oregon Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Jennifer Shirar, 07JAN2020.

Official video report:

For Xmas 2019, Oregon Air National Guard’s 173rd Fighter Wing got a new paint job for their F-15C “Sandman” Eagle, but they had to go to Edwards Air Force Base, in California, to get it.  Supposedly it’s because the paint facilities in Oregon couldn’t handled the custom paint job.

Oregon Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Paul Allen, 20DEC2019.

The F-15 was painted with colors as close as possible to a World War Two Boeing B-17 bomber, which required olive drab, green and grey colors with a catalyst.  It also has invasion stripes and star-n-bar insignia as seen on WW-2 USAAF fighters.

Oregon Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Jennifer Shirar, 08JAN2020.

Relying on ground shipping services turned out to be a losing deal as only half the paint and half the catalyst was delivered.  The paint supplier was located in the Los Angeles area so the team, who drove all the way down from Oregon, drove out to LA to get the orange color (as in OrANG, Oregon Air National Guard?).  Turns out the paint shop at Edwards had enough of the other colors in stock to get the rest of the job done.

Oregon Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Paul Allen, 23DEC2019.

The paint job crew included Drew Sorlien, Tim Bodner, Cameron Curtin, Jeff Southern, and Derek Larman.  It’s dedicated to Second Lieutenant David R. Kingsley, a radio operator on B-17s, killed in action on 23JUN1944, after a bombing mission over the oil fields at Ploesti, Romania.  He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for taking off his parachute and strapping it on a wounded member of the crew.  The 173rd Fighter Wing is based at Kingsley Field, named in honor of David Kingsley.

Here’s video from April 2019, unveiling the all new Mini-Eagle:

173rd and 142nd F-15s formate along the Oregon coast.

Another F-15 painted to celebrate 75 years of the Oregon Air National Guard.

2016 video of the 75th Anni OrANG Eagle:

2016 video report 20th Anni 173rd Fighter Wing:

D-DAY F-15E STRIKE EAGLE

MOUNTAIN HOME AFB F-15E WALK-AROUND

Happy New Year!: Immigrant Invasion U.S.A., 01-05 January 2020

Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of main-stream-news links about global immigrant/border operations affecting the United States taxpayers, first week of Gregorian January 2020.

Ever hear of the Cascadia Innovation Corridor (CIC), it’s an economic operation uniting Oregon, Washington and Canada in bringing more immigrants into the Pacific Northwest, to work in the hi-tech industry!

FLORIDA:  Miami christian event could mix pastors, politics and undocumented immigrants

U.S. Coast Guard captures illegal immigrants 25 miles southeast of Tavernier Creek, 02JAN2020.

MARYLAND:  Maryland signs onto President Trump’s new refugee resettlement program

MISSOURI:  Missouri signs onto President Trump’s new refugee resettlement program

NEW MEXICO: ICE reports French detainee died in Albuquerque hospital

NEW YORK: ICE arrests illegal after he was released from a local jail (local authorities released him even though he was accused of killing somebody in a hit and run accident)

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Washington DC:  Farm organizations demand the federal government bring in more foreign farm workers

To Produce Citizenship Data, Homeland Security To Share Records With Census

U.S. Immigration Officials Deny Detaining Iranians

DHS to review state laws granting driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants

IMMIGRANT INVASION U.S.A., DECEMBER 2019: POPULATION DEATH SPIRAL, RATS LEAVING A SINKING SHIP! (includes ICE video showing immigrants knowingly enrolled in ‘fake university’ classes they never intended to take, I published this way before the main stream news media)

Trump is not the one who started programs to get local cops to cooperate with ICE, Obama did under operation ‘Secure Communities’.  Find out if it worked. 

U.S. taxpayers send Aussie Prime Minister a model boat!

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison is now the modern day ‘Nero that fiddled while Rome burned’, regarding his slow response to the unprecedented wildfires (even being on vacation!) during the Gregorian month of December, 2019.

Three months prior, in September 2019, the U.S. Secretary of Defense ordered the Office of the Curator of Ship Models at Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division to build PM Morrison a model of the USS Canberra, as a gift!

Apparently the USS (United States Ship) Canberra-LCS-30 (not to be confused with USS Canberra-CA-70) is named after the HMAS (His/Her Majesty’s Australian Ship) Canberra, which was sunk by the Japanese during World War Two.

The Office of the Curator of Ship Models at Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division was given short notice of the taxpayer funded build, only a few days, so they had to modify an existing model of the USS Independence-LCS-2.

Hope the Aussie PM is enjoying his U.S. taxpayer funded model boat.

Australia is part of the British empire, commonly known as The Commonwealth of Nations, or more simply The Commonwealth.  This includes many countries that have falsely been reported as ‘gaining independence’.  The current Queen of England is the boss.

M777 : PROOF THE UNITED STATES IS THE TOOL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE!

U.S. ARMY now COMMANDED BY RED COATS?

OBAMA TURNS BENEDICT ARNOLD, IS TOOL OF PRINCE OF EVIL BRITISH EMPIRE

U.S. Air Force REMINDS YOU THAT OUR MORTAL ENEMY IS THE BRITISH EMPIRE!

Iran sends hot pink model of captured U.S. stealth drone to President Obama!

Welcome to BEC Hell! Baghdad Embassy Compound

“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!

Thanksgiving Hell: Immigrant Invasion U.S.A., November 2019

Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of main-stream-news links about global immigrant/border operations affecting the United States taxpayers, November 2019.

Smithsonian Natural Museum of the American Indian explains why Native Americans refuse to recognize the official Thanksgiving Holiday: European Immigrants  (also see WHY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE BAD: THANKSGIVING, CHRISTIANITY’S OPEN HUNTING SEASON ON NATIVE AMERICANS!)

Revealed; former Democrat President Bill Clinton ordered mass incarceration of immigrants, victims demand apology, Clinton’s now claim to have no memory of it

United Nations official admits he made a mistake regarding immigrant children in U.S. detention, data used was from the Obama administration, not current Trump administration (which shows child detentions are actually lower than during the Obama regime)

There’s a push by southern border states to get Mexican immigrants living in colonies on the U.S. side to take part in the Census, because it means more federal tax dollars for those border states

Mexican immigrant to lead U.S. Catholic bishops

More proof U.S. dollars are being siphoned away by immigrants! Filipinos in the U.S. prove to be biggest supporters of Philippines’ economy, sending 32-billion U.S. dollars back to their Filipino homes in 2018!    That’s $32-billion that could’ve been spent in the United States!

How many undocumented immigrants are in the United States and who are they?

Federal judge grants DACA stay, temporarily

Despite claims that illegal immigrants are coming to the U.S. for a better life, and that they boost the U.S. economy, a Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry article says  children of undocumented parents in America are more likely to suffer from poverty and reliance on taxpayer funded social services!

While families in the U.S. struggle with food insecurity, it was revealed that at the end of October the USAF delivered enough rice to feed 500-thousand people, in Honduras! It was delivered on a C-17 Globemaster-3 assigned to the 62nd Airlift Wing, out of Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.

While ObamaCare (ACA) has failed in the United States, the U.S. Navy spent U.S. taxes providing medical care to the people of Haiti, 10NOV2019.

ALABAMA: University of Alabama now has an Illegal People course (AMS 300)

ALASKA: FBI claims crimes against illegals in Alaska doubled, police need more tax funding to cope

ARIZONA: After helping illegal migrants in the Arizona desert, an activist was charged with a felony. Now, he’s been acquitted.

More than 200 undocumented immigrants surrender to border agents

Tucson Counts illegal immigrant Sanctuary City Vote, Mohave County declares Itself Gun ‘Sanctuary’

Contractors working for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers continue construction of border wall near Yuma.

CALIFORNIA: A retired cop explains, using help from a professor of military history, why California is a failed-state and now there is a massive exodus of retired government employees!

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Why is there currently not a single statewide Republican officeholder?  Masses of Republican voters fleeing the pro-illegal immigrant state!

Okies disappearing, replaced by Latino migrants

Illegal Koreans find safe haven in non-profit clinics

University of California favors illegal students

San Jose State favors illegal students

UC San Francisco favors illegal students

California DMV makes money selling data of citizens and illegals

COLORADO: DMVs in five more communities will allow illegal immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses and ID cards

Colorado University Anschutz favors illegal students

Man pleads guilty to ripping-off his illegal employees

Colorado bans both illegal and legal immigrants from voting

CONNECTICUT:  Illegal woman claims ICE sexually assaulted her

More proof this could end up in a civil war as University of Connecticut students, as well as state residents, split over DACA

DELAWARE: ‘I want the Norman Rockwell America back’: In Delaware, the land of Biden, evidence of strong Trump support

FLORIDA:  State prison guards given authority to work with ICE

GUAM: Unemployed/pregnant migrant worker shot while walking home, police say it’s a random shooting

HAWAII:  Yet more proof immigrants are a burden on taxpayers; “Unfortunately, the related costs of FAS [Freely Associated States] migrants residing in Hawai‘i, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and Samoa have ballooned far beyond the assistance provided by our federal government, and the affected jurisdictions can no longer reasonably be expected to bear the burden of this federal responsibility.”-Ed Case, U.S. Representative for Hawaii

IDAHO: Preston Police kill knife wielding migrant farm worker. 

More proof the city of Boise has been favoring ‘refugees’ as it was revealed taxpayer funded health and human services contractor Jannus, along with the Idaho Office for Refugees, provides training, resources and land for refugees who want to grow produce to feed their families or to sell to the community!

Idahoans finally getting pissed at skyrocketing domestic migrants from California!

Idaho farmers praise new bill that would increase the number of migrant farm workers.

Anti-Trump and pro leftist-liberal books disappearing from Idaho libraries?

ILLINOIS: “By applying as a student from Illinois and meeting specific criteria, undocumented students may be eligible for the in-state tuition rate.”

Chicago declared most immigrant friendly city in United States

INDIANA: Upper court rules lower courts must decide child custody cases involving illegal immigrants

Hi-tech engineering school now favors illegal students

IOWA: Non-profits favor illegal immigrants

KANSAS: Dodge City addicted to illegals, record population growth due to importation of immigrants

KENTUCKY: Public grade schools have specialized classes for immigrants

University of Kansas School of Social Welfare leading a program to expand the use of immigrant farm workers in research

LOUISIANA:  Whistleblower injured in Hard Rock hotel collapse deported to Honduras (the main stream news media is missing the point that the construction company was employing illegal workers)

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MAINE: Portland confirms arrival of migrants from Africa, expects more

17 illegals captured, they came into the U.S. legally with work visas but violated the work visa rules and were ordered to leave in August, they refused

MARYLAND:  Montgomery County releases yet another illegal accused of child molestation

After releasing numerous illegals accused of rape, pro-illegal Montgomery County (which called ICE a terrorist organization) claims it will now cooperate with ICE

Illegal immigrant suing state Department of Natural Resources after he was arrested for illegally cutting down a tree

More than a dozen federal, state and local agencies in the Sector Maryland-National Capital Region continue to inspect trucks and shipping containers at the Port of Baltimore.  The inspections also include checking that the truck drives are legally allowed to work in the U.S.

MASSACHUSETTS: Video of part of the ICE operation, in Boston, that captured 19 illegal immigrant drug dealers:

MICHIGAN: More than 250 illegals arrested at fake college

Don’t blame Trump, revealed; ICE’s fake college sting ops against illegals was ordered by Barack Obama!

U.S. Border Patrol personnel assaulted while trying to arrest illegal immigrant

MINNESOTA: 71% increase in back-log of immigration court cases

Woman arrested for scam in which she helped illegals get visas by claiming their ‘original’ documents were stolen

Construction contractor pleads guilty to running human trafficking operation

Immigrants, both legal and illegal, being blamed for Minnesota’s out of control population increase

MISSISSIPPI: Revealed; the majority of the hundreds of illegals captured in a work place raid back in August were using the stolen I-Ds of U.S. citizens

Here’s more from a different news source; “…47 of the 119 indicted undocumented immigrants have pled guilty, with a number of others indicating their intent to plead guilty. Of those who have already pled guilty, 26 admitted to fraudulently using the Social Security Number of an American citizen. 21 of the undocumented workers have pled guilty to unlawfully reentering the United States after having been previously deported or removed.” 

MONTANA: 19 illegals captured

Four human trafficking suspects captured

Local TV news reports on 100+ years of illegal immigrants and drug smuggling, from Canada 

NEBRASKA: Couple sentenced to ten years in federal prison for ripping-off illegal workers by virtually enslaving them in permanent debt

Frustrated citizen students leave anti-illegal notes on windshields at pro-illegal University of Nebraska

NEVADA: Nevada State College helps illegals get around student loan applications

Federal court rulings, conflicting county and city laws, are overwhelming Las Vegas cops when it comes to the homeless people and illegal immigrants

NEW JERSEY:  In Blue New Jersey, a Conservative Backlash on Immigration

NEW YORK:  Taxpayer funded Long Island-NYC company in trouble for lying about where its hi-tech gear for the U.S. military was made.  Aventura Technologies claimed the $20-million worth of items were made in the United States, but in reality they were made in China and included items that could be used to spy on the U.S. military.

 Illegal immigrant charged with second-degree vehicular manslaughter (having a drivers’ license wouldn’t have stopped it)

County Clerks Revolt Over Drivers’ Licenses for Undocumented Immigrants!

Cuban immigrant gets 14 years in prison for extorting illegals

NORTH CAROLINA:  Sheriffs Attack ICE to Hide the Failures of Sanctuary Policies

Walmart and Publix addicted to xmas trees and wreaths made by  immigrant workers 

OHIO:  Foster homes hope to make money by housing illegal immigrant children

More proof migrant workers are about making money for farmers; university officials explain that the new Federal rules for migrant farm workers mean farmers can hire more and pay them less

OREGON: Undocumented immigrant, who ‘killed an 81-year-old woman in an illegal street race’ fled to Mexico after jail staff refused to comply with orders from ICE and released him

PUERTO RICO: Coast Guard Repatriates 13 Dominican Migrants, Ends Search for 3 Others Who Are Missing

Coast Guard Repatriates 23 Migrants to the Dominican Republic 

U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Dominican Republic Navy air and surface units interdicted 52 migrants

PENNSYLVANIA: Undocumented immigrant charged in hit-and-run death of Vietnam veteran

Boss of for-profit private prison, which makes part of its taxpayer funded money off illegal immigrants, accused of abuse of power

State’s illegal immigrant worker population, in rural areas, is exploding to at least 170-thousand

State now requires construction companies to use federal E-verify system to weed out illegals

SOUTH CAROLINA: Nearly 7-thousand illegal college students using taxpayer supported higher education

Couple accused of kidnapping girl from Nicaragua

TENNESSEE:  Metro Nashville Council favors the city’s estimated 31-thousand illegal immigrants

TEXAS:  43 illegals found armed with guns and hiding in a Laredo house 

Laredo woman hired through Instagram to smuggle illegal immigrants

  Plano company investigated by federal authorities for continuing to employ illegal workers after previously being caught and fined for it

  Two illegal immigrants captured after scamming people across four states

San Antonio man wanted for sneaking undocumented immigrants into the U.S.

Over the past year, student enrollment at Cactus Elementary has surged from 300 to 400 children. The majority are from Guatemala.

UTAH:

Illegal immigrant wanted for murder in Mexico captured in the pro-illegal Mormon controlled Utah

VERMONT:  Vermont DMV makes money selling data of citizens and illegals

VIRGINIA:  Exploding illegal population blamed on the ‘Californication’ of Virginia with help from CIA, GEICO, U.S. Army

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) opened the new Angel Watch Center in Fairfax.  It was built to deal with the growing number of cases of immigrant child sex trafficking, an 18% increase since 2018!

WASHINGTON: ICE says lack of cooperation by pro-illegal King County led to Seattle man’s murder

Father of slain teen says he might still be alive if King Co. notified ICE sooner

WISCONSIN: Struggling dairy farms addicted to cheap immigrant labor

WYOMING: New contractor run ICE facility closer to reality

Immigrant invasion U.S.A., October 2019: “THESE DRUNKS WILL RUN OVER YOUR CHILDREN”

Typhoon & WMD event? FEMA deploys Hawaii National Guard to Guam!

For the second time a FEMA disaster event hit Guam.  During the last half of November 2019, Hawaii National Guard’s 93rd Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team deployed to assist Guam’s National Guard in responding to a Mass Destruction event.

In this video, emergency responders inspect a school hit by WMD, dramatic medivac of responder who got contaminated during inspection:

Guam is part of FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) Region 9, according to reports the U.S. island territory was hit by both a typhoon and a WMD terrorist attack!  Emergency responders from California, New Mexico, Alaska, and Utah also provided assistance.

Fortunately this was part of what is now standard FEMA training for National Guard units across all the FEMA Regions, called Vigilant Guard.

Official video report, Vigilant Guard 2020:

Silly-vilians should be concerned, every year since the creation of Vigilant Guard the scenarios have gotten more elaborate because the U.S. Department of Defense, and FEMA, are expecting something really big to happen.

NEW JERSEY MILITIA ROBOT RESPONDS TO WMD CRIME SCENE

THE U.S. MILITARY TRAINS TO SAVE YOUR PET FROM DISASTER!

Painting & decaling a 1:1 scale M4 Sherman

The above World War Two photo is considered to depict the third In The Mood, a M4A1 76(w).  Note that the gun tube has no muzzle break.  The current restored In The Mood does.  Apparently all three In The Moods had extremely short lives.  There’s more info about the confusion over the various In The Mood M4s @ SSgt Lafayete Pool-“In The Mood”.

Despite bad luck with losing tanks, In The Mood’s tank commander, Lafayete Pool, is considered the U.S. Army’s tank ace of aces.

It took about 5-hundred hours and five volunteers, working from July to August 2019, to restore the current In The Mood.

Video of painting and decaling of restored In The Mood.  Note the use of the M60 AVLB to tow the Sherman out of the hanger. In the interview the volunteer refers to the engine as a “star engine”, another term for radial engine.  The volunteer mistakenly says the gun tube is 107.62mm, it’s actually 76.2mm (commonly stated as 76mm, known as 76w).

To see video of the moving of In The Mood from Belgium to Grafenwoehr, Germany, for its restoration, check out Vehicle I-D: M4 Sherman.

American Forces Network music video of restored In The Mood:

Vehicle I-D: Model T & White Motor Warriors

At the beginning of November 2019, the Illinois State Military Museum held its Great War Encampment event and two 1917 Ford Model Ts showed up.

The Ford Model T gun truck is owned by John Krug, he also brought his 1917 Model T Ambulance.

In May 2018, Oregon’s Military Museum held its 22nd Annual Living History Day and retired Reservist Jack Gieson drove down from neighboring Washington in his 1917 Model T ambulance.

https://youtu.be/2rBzyseQ-54

A standardized class B truck, or ‘Liberty Truck’, also made the Living History Day show.

According to the folks at the AMedD (Army Medical Department) Museum at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, during World War One the U.S. Army also bought two 1917 White Motor Company ambulances.   While they look similar to the Model Ts, they were smaller than the Ford ambulance. In 1917 they cost about $1,650 each.

I so far haven’t found any information as to why the White ambulance has a GMC radiator.  U.S. Army orders for White logistical vehicles, during World War One, made White the top producer of trucks in the United States, which was a burden since the company was new to truck building.  Immediately prior to WW-1 the White Motor Company began shifting from car production to truck production, but was only able to make the truck chassis, they had to contract with Riddle Coach and Hearse Company to make the bodies of the trucks.  It’s possible White was also outsourcing for powertrain parts.

The driver’s seat sits on the fuel tank.

World War Two FORD FIRETRUCK RETURNS TO SERVICE WITH THE U.S. Air Force!

Bare Metal: NASA’s MD-11 experimental, your taxes saving the ‘private sector’ airline industry

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Between August and November 1995, an experimental McDonnell Douglas MD-11 conducted landings under engine power only.

It happened at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California, and it was the first time a transport aircraft landed with normal controls switched off.

It was part of a NASA project to develop a computer-assisted engine control system that enables a pilot to land a plane safely when its normal control surfaces fail.

The Propulsion-Controlled Aircraft (PCA) system uses standard autopilot controls already present in the cockpit, together with the new programming in the aircraft’s flight control computers.

The first PCA tests by NASA were carried out with a modified twin-engine F-15 Eagle research aircraft.  The F-15A was the second U.S. Air Force Eagle (71-0281), sent to work with NASA in 1976.

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BARE METAL: C-17 STRIPPED (with video)

 C-130 PAINT PREP, OR THE EMPEROR GETS SOME NEW CLOTHES

 B-1B & B-52H