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Biden’s War: Idaho gets ‘smart’ artillery rounds, reveals “upcoming mobilizations”

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“Receiving the PGK NET was a great opportunity that will enhance the battalion and the 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team’s lethality on the battlefield. We purposely sought to field the PGK prior to the brigade’s upcoming mobilizations. If the PGK capability exists in the theater of operations we end up in, then our soldiers will be trained to employ it and bring a precision capability to the fight.”-Lieutenant Colonel Eric Orcutt, 1st Battalion 148th Field Artillery Regiment

Idaho Army National Guard photo by Crystal Farris.

The Idaho Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion of the 148th Field Artillery Regiment (FAR), headquartered in Pocatello, learned how to use ‘smart’ artillery projectiles known as the M1156 Precision Guidance Kit (PKG).

During the last two weeks of July 2021, the 1-148 FAR was in next door Wyoming, on Camp Guernsey, for annual ‘summer camp’ training. The ‘smart’ projectiles they were launching through their M1096A6 Paladin 155mm gun tubes uses aerodynamic fins on the fuze to steer the projectile on target. If the smart projectile happens to be not so smart and impacts outside 150 meters of the target area, it won’t explode.

Not only does PKG make artillery projectiles more accurate, it’s hoped that accuracy will save taxpayers some money by not needing as many ‘dumb’ projectiles.

Round=projectile+case

Projectile=bullet, shot, slug

Cartridge Case=case or shell containing propellant

The M1096A6 Paladin gun does not use a cartridge case on its projectiles, instead it uses combustible bags, or combustible solid casings, of propellant shoved in behind the projectile.

The 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team, of which the 148th FAR is a part of, is scheduled for deployment in 2022 (apparently the location is still hush-hush, and this is despite President Biden’s pull-out from Afghanistan and his order to cease combat ops in Iraq).

Vehicle I-D:

1-116th Cav, 1-148th FA, Pocatello, Idaho. Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

1-148 FIELD ARTILLERY GATE GUARDS

M109A7 PALADIN, ANOTHER ‘TOOL’ OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE!

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World War Three 2014: “THIS IS WHERE ARMOR FIGHTS!” IDAHO NATIONAL GUARD RETURNS TO COLD WAR ERA ‘TOTAL FORCE’ WARFARE TRAINING! (with some photos of my 13 years history with the military)

Pocatello Airport, IDAHO ARMY NATIONAL GUARD M109

Idaho, International, Technology

Singapore Apaches test Idaho’s new D-A-G-I-R system

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At the beginning of 2021, the Idaho Army National Guard became the first Guard unit in the United States to employ the new DAGIR gunnery range system.

Gowen Field, Idaho, 23JUL2021. Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez.

Between June 30th and July 29th, the Republic of Singapore Air Force’s Peace Vanguard unit conducted AH-64 Longbow Apache gunnery on the Orchard Combat Training Center for the tenth year now, but this time they got to use Idaho’s new DAGIR system: “The scoring is instantaneous. The second a target is hit, we know about it. It’s a great feature because sometimes you’re not sure if the round went through the target or not.”-Lieutenant Colonel Jack Denton, U.S. Army Flight Training Detachment

Idaho ArNG photo by Thomas Alvarez, 23JUL2021.

The RSAF Peace Vanguard is based on the Arizona National Guard’s Silverbell Army Heliport, where they’ve been flying eight AH-64Ds since 2001.

Idaho ArNG photo by Thomas Alvarez, 23JUL2021.

Idaho’s Orchard Combat Training Center has at least 23 gunnery/bombing ranges. Currently it is one of only two DAGIR ranges in the entire U.S.

NATO: APACHES & HINDS, FOR THE FIRST TIME?

April 2021: IDAHO HOME TO FIRST EVER NATIONAL GUARD D-A-G-I-R!

March 2021: SINGAPORE’S IDAHO BASED SKY PIRATES BOMB LAS VEGAS?

2016: OBAMA DISAPPEARS THE LAST OF IDAHO’S APACHES?

Technology

Terminator: New F-16/X-62 Skyborg

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“We have found ways to use VISTA that were not envisioned by the original designers, so we were running into frustrating limitations. The modifications will address these limitations and profoundly improve our ability to quickly and safely test an almost unlimited variety of radical control law configurations. Even so, the X-62A will continue to serve as a curriculum aircraft, and will be an even brighter symbol of our aspirations.”-William Gray, VISTA and TPS chief test pilot

On 30JUL2021, the Edwards Air Force Base, California, 412th Test Wing Public Affairs announced that back on 14JUN2021 the NF-16D VISTA had been reclassified as the X-62A.

The Lockheed-Martin VISTA (Visual Interactive Simulation Training Application) program is being replaced with the Air Force Research Laboratory’s System for Autonomous Control of Simulation (SACS), aka Skyborg program.

Skyborg is yet another attempt to create artificial intelligence/machine learning weapon systems, this time the goal is to create ‘low-cost’ combat drones that can operate as teams in a hostile environment. It will also work alongside human piloted combat aircraft.

Anybody wondering what the ‘N’ in NF-16D means, it stands for Special Test-Permanent. Of course the ‘X’ in X-62A means radical or experimental.

Terminator: XQ-58A, THE OTHER VALKYRIE, already a failed museum piece?

Vehicle I-D 2019: ‘NEW’ NF-16D VISTA

International, U.S.

Biden’s War: Secret new Afghan-African Refugee operation revealed!

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Qatar Airways is already flying the Afghan refugees to Dulles International Airport, arriving under cover of darkness. Fort Lee, in Virginia, is serving as the main port of entry for Operation Allies Refuge.

On 29JUL2021, U.S. Northern Command revealed that between the 14th and 19th of July, President Joe Biden ordered Operation Allies Refuge.

Operation Allies Refuge is a Department of State lead mission to give people in Afghanistan, as well as in various African countries, Special Immigrant Visas. I can understand Afghanistan, because the U.S. obviously lost that 20 year undeclared war and Afghans that supported the U.S. military are now targets, but why Africa? Has the U.S. lost its covert war in the various African countries as well?

One of the first busses for the refugees arrives at the Dulles International Airport in Virginia. USA photo by Specialist Cody Nelson, 30JUL2021.

In Afghanistan the program is administered by the Afghanistan Coordination Task Force (ACTF), and already the Department of Defense is tasked with coordinating the transport of 3-thousand-5-hundred Afghan refugees!

U.S. Army photo by Specialist Christopher Rodrigo, 28JUL2021.

Civilian contractors began constructing the temporary in-processing buildings on 26JUL2021.

USA photo by First Lieutenant Tom Burcham the Fourth, 30JUL2021.

Some Afghan refugees will be staying at the Fort Lee, Virginia, Holiday Inn Express.

AAFEES photo.

The Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) is tasked with providing a temporary Mobile Field Exchange, so incoming refugees can go shopping.

USA photo by T. Anthony Bell, 28JUL2021.

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2016: OBAMA REGIME SECRET REFUGEE DEAL WITH AUSTRALIA!

2nd U.S. Civil War, 2016: NEW YORK & OBAMA’S HOMIE TOWN TOP CREATORS OF U.S. REFUGEES! WHERE ARE THEY GOING?

International

Mother of all Money Pits: Yet more Toyotas for Iraq, courtesy of you! $50-million in paychecks for Kurds!

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“Since 2014, the CTEF program funded by the U.S. has provided over $5 billion of equipment, vehicles, uniforms, stipends, medical supplies, etc.”-Colonel Wayne Marotto, U.S. Army in Iraq

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant First Class Class Christie R. Smith, 26JUL2021.

On 26JUL2021, the same day U.S. President Joe Biden announced an end to U.S. combat action in Iraq, U.S. forces in Iraq handed over $25-million worth of ‘strategic communication and maintenance equipment’ to Iraqi forces. The U.S. military officially calls it ‘divestiture’ or ‘divestment’, it’s part of the never ending Counter-ISIS Train and Equip Fund (CTEF) program.

USA photo by Specialist Clara Soria-Hernandez, 26JUL2021.

Also, the Ministry of Peshmerga-Kurdistan Region received more than 70 HMMWVs and Navistars from U.S. taxpayers, on 26JUL2021!

USA photo by Specialist Clara Soria-Hernandez, 26JUL2021.

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant First Class Ernest Henderson, 19JUL2021.

That wasn’t the only giveaway in July 2021, on the 19th of July U.S. forces gave Iraqi forces ammunition and Toyota ‘ambulances’ and pick-ups, valued at more than $2.75 million!

USA photo by Sergeant First Class Ernest Henderson, 19JUL2021.

USA photo by Sergeant First Class Ernest Henderson, 19JUL2021.

Also included were several Navistar flatbed trucks. Navistar has been paid tens of millions of U.S. dollars since 2007, to deliver trucks to Iraq.

USA photo by Corporal Jacob Gleich, 10JUL2021.

Then on 10JUL2021, U.S. taxpayers gave Iraqi forces $2.5-million worth of Toyotas and backhoe loaders!

But wait, there is more for the latest CTEF financial rip-offs. CTEF also gave 98 U.S. taxpayer funded Toyotas to Kurdish Peshmerga militia in January of this year: “We are going to see in the next 10 to 18 months is the divestment of up to 12 brigades worth of equipment to the Ministry of Peshmerga’s Regional Guard Brigades. It’s about $166 million worth of equipment that will be issued out.”-Colonel David Williams, U.S. Army Director of the Kurdistan Coordination Center

USA photo by Sergeant First Class Ernest Henderson, 12JUL2021.

Also, in May of this year, a Kurdish news outlet revealed that U.S. forces issued just over $50-million in ‘back pay’ to Peshmerga forces in Northern Iraq.

USA photo by Specialist Clara Soria-Hernandez, 11JUL2021.

Biden’s War: U.S. FORCES ENTER SYRIA, AGAIN

Mother of all Money Pits, January 2021: U.S. TAXPAYERS FUND JAPANESE MILITARY VEHICLES FOR IRAQ, AGAIN!

U.S. DoD Inspector General, February 2020: Audit of the DoD’s Accountability of Counter-Islamic State of Iraq and Syria funding

World War Three 2015: NATO Turkey bombs Iraqi Kurds

ROJAVA KURDS REVEAL PRO-GUN ANTI-TAX REVOLUTION!

KURDS & U.S. ADVISORS HIT WITH ISLAMIC STATE GAS ATTACKS, OBAMA REGIME COVER-UP!

World War Three 2011: KURDISH REBELS IN IRAN ADMIT THEY ARE BEING ARMED BY THE UNITED STATES

Iraqi officials demand U.S. leave

Occupation Shenanigans, 2010-11: 140 M1A1M Abrams tanks were delivered to Iraq, some of which ended up with pro-Iranian militias. In 2018, Iraq said it was trading-in the M1A1M for Russian made T-90S.

Mother of all Money Pits, 2007: U.S. citizens paid $3.5-million dollars per helicopter, to fix ex-Jordanian Hueys for Iraq!

International

Denton Program Failure: Canadian Fire Trucks, U.S. Air Force, Central America

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U.S. Air Force photo by Peter Borys, 02JUN2021.

At the beginning of June 2021, Canadian fire trucks rolled onto New York’s Niagara Falls International Airport where they were loaded onto a U.S. Air Force (USAF) C-5M Super Galaxy transport and flown to Nicaragua.

USAF photo by Peter Borys, 02JUN2021.

The fire trucks, as well as humanitarian supplies, came from an outfit called Global Medic in Toronto, Canada. The entire operation was coordinated through the Denton Humanitarian Assistance Program.

The Denton Program also includes other items listed as ‘humanitarian’. USAF photo by Peter Borys, 02JUN2021.

It’s not the first time, towards the end of July 2020 a firetruck and two ambulances from Canada got a ride on a USAF C-5M, bound for Nicaragua.

A new 44-passenger bus loaded onto a C-17 in North Carolina, 04JUN2021. North Carolina Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Nathan Clark.

North Carolina Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Laura Montgomery, 06MAY2017.

In 2017, the Denton Humanitarian Assistance Program got the help of the North Carolina Air National Guard, packing a fire truck and other vehicles into a C-17 Globemaster-3.

USAF Reserve Airman weigh an International Harvester water truck before shipment to Nicaragua, September 2017. USAF photo by Master Sergeant Eric Amidon.

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. It allows private charities to use space-available on taxpayer funded U.S. military aircraft to deliver their humanitarian supplies, mainly to Central American countries.

In July 2020, the USAF issued a press release claiming the Denton Program was “unfunded”, which is a blatant lie because the fuel, maintenance, and pay for the military personnel, is in the millions of U.S. dollars for just one flight of those giant transports! The USAF rationalizes that it is ‘unfunded’ because it uses what is called ‘space available’. This means that if a military aircraft is flying to a certain destination and it has empty space in its cargo hold, then it can be used for the Denton Program, but reality-check, the flight is still funded by the taxpayers.

Another faux pas in justifying the Denton Program Central American operations is this 2020 statement by Technical Sergeant Ryan Padgett: “By providing them with these resources, they are more likely to thrive, their economy will receive a boost which has the potential to lead to better health care, education and an overall higher standard of living.”

Spartan Guardian fire trucks loaded onto a U.S Air Force C-5M Super Galaxy, in Montana, 06NOV2021. Montana Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant Joesph Davis.

If the covertly taxpayer/’donor’ funded Title 10 Denton Program (on-going since 1987) is helping Central American countries (Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua) improve life for their residents, then why are there record numbers of Central Americans (specifically from Guatemala) swarming into the United States?

More examples of the Denton Program.

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Technology

‘Restored’ F-4C gets new Home

Image July 23, 2021 Hutchins AAron