U.S. transported more than 1134kg (2,500 lbs) of food, water, medical and other aid to victims of Hurricane Irma
USCG personnel give water to a puppy
FOOD CRISIS IRMA: ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA, MINNESOTA MILITIAS DELIVER SUSTENANCE!
‘TAXPAYERS’ RESCUE PREGNANT DEER TRAPPED IN COASTAL ROCKS!
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“This is why we do what we do. It’s an opportunity to help people who need help, and I think it’s why most of us serve in the National Guard.”-Technical Sergeant Michael Gunderson, Air National Guard
While the U.S. Virgin islands are about to get walloped by category 5 Maria, National Guard units from three states are still flying in food aid for people suffering from Hurricane Irma.
Since 09 SEP 2017, 24 hours AirLift Control Flight(ACLF)-Contingency Response Flights have been underway at the Cyril E. King International Airport. Along with federal agencies and civilian contractors several thousands of tons of supplies have been delivered.
IRMA: MILITARY RESPONSE, SO FAR
IRMA FOOD CRISIS: COAST GUARD ALREADY HANDING OUT MREs!
U.S. FOOD CRISIS, AUGUST 2017: HARVEY KILLS TEXAS CROPS?
HARVEY FOOD CRISIS: MARINES DELIVER THE GOODS TO ORANGE!
HARVEY FOOD CRISIS: MASSIVE FOOD DELIVERY OPS FOR TEXAS UNDERWAY!
HARVEY FOOD CRISIS: BORDER PATROL MAKES HOME DELIVERIES!
“…..I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hades was following with him. Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth.”-Revelation 6:7, New American Standard Bible
Google Earth map of flooded Houston area
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) are sounding a new alarm over the aftermath of Harvey; due to the massive flooding insects that can transmit diseases are increasing significantly.
A USAF Reserve C-130 unit from Ohio is in eastern Texas preparing to spray millions of acres affected by flooding. The USAF’s 910th Airlift Wing, based at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, is the only Department of Defense unit equipped to carry out such a mission.
USAF reserve personnel prep a C-130H in San Antonio for aerial spraying ops, 12 SEP 2017
Bug spray mission over Lake Jackson, Texas, 13 SEP 2017
North of Beaumont, Texas, 31 AUG 2017
HARVEY: 3 WEEKS LATER RESCUE RECONS CONTINUE!
U.S. Marine Corps Reserve photo, 31AUG2017.
Ever want to ride in one of those AmTracks (aka Assault Amphibious Vehicle or AAV)? Some unlucky victims of Harvey, near Beaumont, Texas, got lucky and were rescued by Charlie Company, 4th Assault Amphibian Battalion, 4th Marine Division, USMC Reserve.
U.S. Marine Corps Reserve photo, 31AUG2017.
At least 60 USMC personnel used ten ‘AmTracks’ to rescue more than 3-hundred people.
U.S. Marine Corps Reserve photo, 29AUG2017.
The large amphibious troop carriers were originally developed by the same company that brought you the smaller U.S. Army M113 Armored Personnel Carrier (Food Machine Corporation aka FMC).
U.S. Marine Corps Reserve photo, 31AUG2017.
The AAV-P7 (originally called the LVTP-7) was developed in the late 1960s, with the USMC first using it in 1972, but I don’t think the designers ever thought the AAV would be used to rescue silly-vilians. In 1997 a program was approved to upgrade AAVs with the power-train and suspension from M2 Bradleys.
Upgraded AAV with supported track, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. USMC photo by Lance Corporal Taylor W. Cooper, 27JUN2017.
The upgraded AAVs can be identified by the support rollers on the track system, the earlier AAVs had what’s called unsupported track.
Galveston, Texas, 31AUG2017. USMC photo by Sergeant Ian Ferro.
Galveston, Texas, 31AUG2017. USMC photo by Sergeant Ian Ferro.
USMC photo by Corporal Devan Barnett, 02SEP2017.
U.S. Marine Corps Reserve photo, 03SEP2017.
Harvey: TEXAS MILITIA RUNNING ON FUMES?
USMC photo by Corporal Devan Barnett, 02SEP2017.
Harvey: WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR PETS?
“An army marches on its stomach.”-Napoleon Bonaparte
And a modern army rolls with fuel.
Texas Army National Guard personnel fuels-up a HMMWV at Logistical Staging Area Brenham. Utah Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Scott Wolfe, 09SEP2017.
“In the beginning, this place was pretty hectic. Units were all excited about getting in and getting to work.”-Major Luke Reynard
The Texas National Guard set up a ‘truck stop’ for its units taking part in Harvey rescue/recovery operations.
Utah Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Scott Wolfe, 09SEP2017.
Texas Army National Guard’s Logistical Staging Area Brenham is an hour west of Houston and provides food, cots, toilets and fuel.
“We’ve done a good job here. It’s been a good mission. Now we just need to get our people home safe so we can rest and reset for the next natural disaster.”-First Sergeant George Salazar
Soldiers from E Company, Forward Support Company, 1-158, 11th Expeditionary Combat Aviation Brigade, conducted fueling ops for helicopters near Conroe, Texas. U.S. Army Reserve photo by Staff Sergeant Felix R. Fimbres, 30AUG2017.
U.S. Air Force Airmen refuel the tanks on Jack Brooks Regional Airport. The fuel was flown in on a HC-130P Combat King-2. USAF photo by Staff Sgt. Ian Hoachlander, 31AUG2017.
HARVEY: EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL!
HARVEY FOOD CRISIS: MARINES DELIVER THE GOODS TO ORANGE!
Is it time to kill-off the old Hasegawa Heinkel 51 kit?
ICM (aka ICM Holding of Ukraine, I’m not sure what ICM means as even in Cyrillic the company uses ICM as its identifier) has made great advances since its early days of chunky low pressure injection kits, and is producing the most accurate (so far) version of the German biplane in 1:72 scale.
The main improvements are detailing and the upper wing. Overall the ICM kit has better detailing and a main wing that has the correct dihedral (upward sweep). The ancient Hasegawa kit (first issued in the 1970s) has no dihedral. However, it seems the ICM wingtips are questionable as they taper back, they should be more evenly rounded.
Click on the pics to make them bigger:
Rare Plane makes a vac-formed kit, the packaging photo looks to have dihedral in the upper wing but I’ve seen completed kits with no dihedral and oddly shaped horizontal tails. The problem with comparing vac-formed kits to injected kits is that a lot depends on the skill of the builder in cutting the parts from the plastic sheet and then shaping them to form a good join.
A drawback of the ICM kit is subtle, or no, attachment points. The old Hasegawa kit is easier to build. My conclusion in comparing the Hasegawa with the ICM He-51 is that while both can be built to look good the ICM has the better detailing and correct dihedral of the upper wing.
There are no major visual differences in the A, B or C versions of the Heinkel 51 (except with the float-plane version).
WORLD’S LARGEST C-141B STARLIFTER MODEL?
GROCERY STORE USES MODEL PLANES TO ATTRACT CUSTOMERS!
ITALERI 1:720 DEUTSCHLAND, LUTZOW, SCHEER & GRAF SPEE
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“This ensures a robust response to fluoride toxicity over diverse cellular environments. This ensures survival.”-Qi Zhang, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
In July 2017 researchers published their latest findings (An excited state underlies gene regulation of a transcriptional riboswitch) regarding the recently discovered fact (but not publicized by the main stream ‘real-fake’ news media) that fluoride is actually making deadly bacteria stronger: “It turns out that encoding this ‘hidden’ layer of regulation empowers the fluoride riboswitch with an unexpected capability. This fleeting switch can effectively and efficiently execute ligand-dependent switching across a wide range of speeds of RNA polymerase copying DNA into RNA. This ensures a robust response to fluoride toxicity over diverse cellular environments. This ensures survival.”
“If fluoride builds up to toxic levels for the bacteria in the cell, a fluoride riboswitch grabs the fluoride and then turns on genes that can overcome its effects.”-Ronald Breaker, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University
It was in 2011 that Yale University scientists, researching how bacteria become immune to antibiotics, revealed that fluoride activated previously unknown RNA switches in the microbes: “Our findings indicate that most organisms are naturally exposed to toxic levels of fluoride and that many species use fluoride-sensing RNAs to control the expression of proteins that alleviate the deleterious effects of this anion.“
Supposedly this discovery was accidental: “Interestingly, fluoride was on this short list of contaminants but none of us thought it was worth testing because we did not know that biology cared much about this ion.”
I say ‘supposedly’ because in 2010 another study (‘accepted’ in 2010, published in 2011) said this about fluoride and microbes: “….NosL tolerated fluorinated L-tryptophan as the substrate, allowing for production of a regiospecifically halogenated thiopeptide that has not been found among the more than 80 members of the naturally occurring thiopeptide family.“-Radical-mediated enzymatic carbon chain fragmentation-recombination
In 2014 researchers from Italy, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Spain published this statement: “…..we show that the Mg2+/F–/phosphate/water cluster at the center of the fluoride riboswitch is stable by its own and, once assembled, does not rely on any additional factor from the overall RNA fold………..the cluster in the binding pocket of fluoride-inhibited pyrophosphatase suggest that the peculiarity of fluoride is in its ability to establish much stronger metal-halide bonds.”
Despite this latest research showing a strong connection between fluoride and antibiotic resistance bacteria, many cities in the United States recently decided to continue adding the mind destroying nuclear industry by-product to their water supply.
FLUORIDE WARS: STUDIES SHOW YOUR PETS ARE BEING POISONED BY FLUORIDATED WATER & GRAPES!
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations aircrews and Office of Field Operations officers conducted a bottled water mission to Beaumont, Texas, 01 SEP 2017.
They also delivered food, gas and electricity generators.
U.S. Coast Guard personnel based at Coast Guard Sector San Juan, Puerto Rico, already handing out Meal Ready Eat (MRE) and bottled water in anticipation of record setting Hurricane Irma.
Rescue boats are already staged.
The Hurricane Irma Incident Command Post has already been established.
IRMA: PUERTO RICO TARGETED, FLORIDA & TEXAS PREPS!
“This was a small gesture to express our appreciation and gratitude to the U.S., and in particular the State of Texas, which have been good hosts for our Peace Prairie Detachment.”-Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore’s Prime Minister
Singapore Air Force CH-47 Chinook in Texas
Since 1996 Singapore has based a small unit at the Grand Prairie Army Aviation Support Facility in Dallas. They’ve helped out the Texas National Guard with other natural disasters like Hurricane Floyd in 1999, fire and flood operations in Texas in 2000, and Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
HARVEY: ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE JOINS RESCUE OPS!