U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says main stream “woke” news media is lying about Defense Department cuts! Welcomes DOGE inspectors:
The actual physical location of the Pentagon is in Virginia, not Washington DC. Washington DC is the mailing address for the Pentagon.
14FEB2025:
United States + NATO-Poland.
An early P-40 Warhawk.
AT-6 Texan versus P-40 Warhawk.
A row of early P-40s, no information came with the photo.
Somewhere in China, date not given.
26th Fighter Squadron, 51st Fighter Group, somewhere in China.
A pilot and his P-40.
Maintaining in Panama.
I got this from a silent color film, recorded sometime in 1942. It shows the nose-names applied to newly arrived P-40E Warhawks (to replace the P-40B/Cs that were destroyed by the Japanese) on Hickam Field, Territory of Hawaii:
Before the Second World War started France had ordered hundreds of Curtiss P-40 fighters, but did not receive them due to being invaded by Germany. After the United States invaded Morocco, U.S. General James Harold ‘Jimmy’ Doolittle presided over the official delivery ceremony of Warhawks to the newly ‘liberated’ French Groupe de Chasse GC II/5 (aka Lafayette Escadrille), on Casablanca-Cazas airfield in Morocco, on the African continent. I edited from a collection of color silent films recorded by B. O’Conner on 09JAN1943 (the date of the official ceremony, in reality the U.S. had already equipped the French unit in November 1942):
Casablanca-Cazas airfield in Morocco, 09JAN1943.
U.S. Army Photo Division personnel incorrectly listed the above photo as being in Algeria (Algiers), it is from the 09JAN1943 ceremony in Morocco.
P-40 Warhawk, Aleutian Islands, 11DEC1943.
The U.S. Army photo-info says this is a ‘E’ version, but the tail looks like the ‘K’ version.
P-40 Warhawk over Mount Vesuvius, supposedly before it erupted on 18MAR1944.
Uncle Sam preps for War:
Curtiss P-40 Warhawk
On 14JAN2025, during the last days of the Biden regime, a Strategic Partnership ‘agreement’ was signed between Armenia and United States of America. It includes, among other things, “nuclear cooperation”. Armenia sits on the southern border of Georgia (which itself sits on the southern border of Russia) and the northern border of Iran.
Video via U.S. Department of State, U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken with Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan, in the Harry S. Truman building, Washington DC:
U.S. Embassy Armenia: Charter on Strategic Partnership Between the United States of America and the Republic of Armenia
2021: USACE spends your money building fire stations for Armenia!
Vehicle I-D:
Armenian Armor Հայկական զրահ
Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister/Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, and United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, conduct press conference and report that their main concern is increasing taxpayer funding for the purpose of supporting the U.S. military industrial complex, and expanding Poland’s military industrial complex.
Video via U.S. Department of Defense, 14FEB2025, Warsaw, Poland:
Gaza? Lebanon? Syria? It has always been about Iran!
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and United States Secretary of State Marco A. Rubio conduct press conference on 16FEB2025, blaming Iran for the regional wars launched by Israel.
Video via U.S. Department of State, Jerusalem, Israel:
May 2024: U.S. DoS halts weapons deliveries to Israel! Says Israel has killed too many civilians!
April 2024: False Flag? Israel bombs ex-U.S. base in Iraq?
On a cold, blustery, snowy day, the Pocatello Model Railroad and Historical Society held another Open House. On 15FEB2025, non-club members could come in from the cold and watch some neat displays come to life. Hopefully the club, which also helps to preserve a very important part of Pocatello’s history, which many local railroad hating officials seem to want to bury (I’ve noted elsewhere that a major cause of the demise of the local economy is due to public officials making a decision that ultimately killed thousands of local Union Pacific jobs), will gain more members, or better yet, raise some much needed cash.
Always under construction.
Anybody remember their display in the old Pocatello Mall? Pocatello Model Railroad and Historical Society’s current location needs a new roof. My blustery video report:
East Idaho News, March 2024: “The railroad went to Chief Pocatello to get permission to lay their tracks through here. The Chief asked (what was in it for them) if they donated land. The railroad said, ‘Anytime you or your braves want to ride the train, we’ll let you ride it for free.’ That’s what it took to get the tracks through here.”-Larry Gilbreath, President of the Model Railroad and Historical Society
The ‘Big Room’.
Tax revolt? Some of my video from the Big Room:
Pocatello Model Railroad and Historical Society is funded with membership fees and donations. The club was started by Union Pacific railroad employees, and other fans of mini-trains.
Alas! No more passenger service.
More Big Room video:
If you missed the 15FEB2025 open house, no worries, since the end of the fake-news Pland-emic (which temporarily shutdown the club) they are usually open to the public every third Saturday of each month, from 10:00 to 14:00 hours.
Some of my video of the Middle Room:
They have a working telegraph, and you can try it out!
The Small Room:
You can see more of my PMRHS videos on my YouTube channel: Aaron Hutchins
Follow PHMRS here: https://www.facebook.com/PMRHS
KPVI, April 2023:
KIFI, PMRHS reopens after the Pland-emic, February 2022:
Idaho State Journal, 2010: Model train enthusiasts attend PMRHS event
Trains.com: Did UP’s Big Boy run through Pocatello?
Idaho economy:
Anybody wanna buy a hobby store?
Chubbuck:
JCPenney; the final domino falls at the Pine Ridge Mall, now under 4th ownership!
Pocatello:
Big Lots! failure, par-for-the-course.
U.S. economy, 2016-17: Model railroad hobby demise?
U.S. economy 2014: Model Power, a major internet model railroad retailer, is being killed off by Too Big to Jail banks!
“I can confirm that we have been working with Kohl’s to backfill the space that was the former home of the C-A-L Ranch store on the southern side of the mall property next to Hobby Lobby… …Everything north of the old C-A-L Ranch to where Planet Fitness is located in the former Herbergers would be demolished…”-Joshua Simon of SimonCRE, May 2024
The beleaguered Pine Ridge Mall, in the small Idaho city of Chubbuck, now under a new, fourth, owner: Scottsdale, Arizona, based SimonCRE, which just had their demolition plans approved by the City of Chubbuck.
Are they aware of what is underneath the property?:
The lie (starting in the early 2000s) that commercial property developers/REITs, and local officials, propagated:
According to the local newspaper, SimonCRE will begin demolishing the 1980s era mall, replacing it with free-standing businesses, as well as a Target store and a Kohl’s (aka the mall will be repurposed as an ‘outdoor shopping venue’). Supposedly the demolition begins in 2025, a completion date has not been determined, but the last surviving anchor store (also one of the first in the mall) JCPenney is shutting down, apparently by the month of May 2025.
No more indoor car shows, and what happened to ZCMI?:
Some newer buildings at the ‘mall’ will not be torn down because they are technically, and legally by contract, not part of the original mall structure. That includes Hobby Lobby (new built under the 3rd owner), C-A-L Ranch and Big Deal Outlet (both occupying the old Shopko building, which was never part of the original mall), and the Gem Prep charter school located in the old Sears building (which was added onto the mall in 1999 when Sears moved from the dead Pocatello Mall to the Pine Ridge Mall, the Pocatello Mall was replaced by a new expanded Fred Meyer).
A little history tour, and the true beginnings of the demise:
Some of the businesses inside the soon to be executed mall will move to new locations. Contrary to local news reports, Dillard’s was not one of the original anchor stores at the mall, it was a short lived replacement for the original two story Utah based, Brigham Young founded, anchor called ZCMI. Zion’s Co-operative Mercantile Institution was considered the first ‘department store’ in the United States, even though when it was founded Utah was still a territory and not a state. At the end of 1999, the ZCMI brand was sold-off and thus began a rapid confusing succession of owners and name changes, to include Dillard’s in 2001 and Macy’s in 2005-06.
What about the old Shopko/new C-A-L Ranch & Big Deal Outlet?:
2019: 
No more Idaho ShopKo? There never was a Shopko in Pocatello (it was in Chubbuck)!
As I’ve chronicled elsewhere, 1999-2007 are pivotal years for the U.S. retail market which directly impacted U.S. shopping malls. And this brings me to another point; for decades the ‘industry’ has been blaming the way the U.S. consumer shops for the radical changes the ‘industry’ made to brick-n-mortar operations. The truth is that online shopping has remained relatively steady over the decades, even during the pland-emic the expected rush of shoppers to the inter-web failed to materialize. The majority of shoppers still want to see and feel what they are buying and prefer brick-n-mortar stores. The misinformation postulated by the ‘industry’ was, and still is, a push by corporations, investors/REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts) to greatly increase their profit margins by massively cutting labor costs by shifting to online operations only. Those exalted ones have backed off their plan because operating huge online stores has proven to require just as many costly humans in warehousing and delivery, and expensive robots as well.
More history tour, what about the old Sears?:
2014:
Moved from Pocatello to Chubbuck in 1999, this Sears is finally dead!
Finally it’s official, Chubbuck/Pine Ridge Mall Sears going down!
2013: Chubbuck/Pine Ridge Mall Sears was already dead!
The Pine Ridge Mall is officially dead and will supposedly be gone sometime this year, leaving only one of the original three malls in the area; the Westwood Mall in Pocatello (which has been so radically remodeled it no longer has a semblance of the 1970s era mall it once was, with its wall-to-wall carpeting and big indoor fountain). However, in 2016 the City of Pocatello rezoned the Westwood Mall for a planned demolition and building of residential apartments. Eventually there will be no malls at all in the Pocatello/Chubbuck area.
Here’s what happened to the old Sears:
Even more history:
What happened to the short lived, but popular, Spencer’s? Blame the City of Chubbuck:
What happened to the beloved KB Toys? Blame Mitt Romney co-founded Bain Capital:
What happened to JJ North’s, the clinic, and racing events:
Pocatello, Idaho, Big Lots! failure:
Par-for-the-course, for U.S. national & local economies.
2024: Early Halloween, Trunk or Treat at the Pine Ridge Mall!
First ever (legal) Drift Car event, at the Pine Ridge Mall!
Inaugural(?) Summer AutoFest, Pine Ridge Mall, Idaho.
Inaugural(?) Pine Ridge Mall Spring Auto-Fest!
Inaugural(?) indoor Winter/New Year Car Show!
2018: Pine Ridge Mall loses yet another anchor store! Lazy ‘Experts’ continue to blame online sales!
East Idaho’s Pine Ridge Mall, in Chubbuck, sells for paltry $9 million!
Pine Ridge quietly put up to be auctioned off in November! Merry Xmas!
East Idaho’s Grand Teton Mall, in Idaho Falls, for sale! GGP dumping malls en masse!
Some independent local Eastern Idaho news outlets reported, in October 2024, that the Pocatello Big-Lots! was being shutdown. That’s 14 years of overpriced ‘resale’ merchandise, having opened the Pocatello location (in the Foothill Plaza Shopping Center) at the end of October 2010.
Photo by AAron B. Hutchins, early October 2010.
I say ‘overpriced’ because a couple of months after opening, in 2010, I checked out the new store and was shocked to find their prices to be higher than the same items sold in the Chubbuck WalMart and the Kroger owned Pocatello Fred Meyer! That was the first and last time I ‘shopped’ at the Pocatello Big-Lots!
Here is video (during a windy day) of my tirade about the closure of the Pocatello Big-Lots!, 08FEB2025:
Big-Lots! is a ‘reseller’, other wise known as a discount retail chain store, reselling products that the main stream-first run retail stores couldn’t sell. In Ohio, in 1967, the business started out as Consolidated Stores. Consolidated made investments into such troubled operations as Delorean Motor Company, CVS Pharmacy, Pic-N-Save and KB Toys (just naming a few among other troubled investments). In 2001 Consolidated became Big Lots! In 2005 Big Lots! shutdown 170 stores. In 2023, Big Lots! shutdown 52 stores and announced plans to shutdown dozens of stores in 2024. In October 2024 Big Lots! filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, and local news sources in Idaho reported that the Pocatello Big Lots! had made the latest hit list for shutdown. In December 2024 the Pocatello Big Lots! was closed permanently, on top of that Big Lots! announced that all stores would be shutdown or sold-off in 2025.
On 08FEB2025, in an attempt to take back control of their economy, the local population conducted a one day farmers market in the former Pocatello Big Lots! location. Maybe a massive Motorsports Complex (click this link to donate) will save our local economy:
I’ve been following/reporting on the local economy for more than a decade:
2019: POPEYES QUIETLY SHUTS DOWN FOUR IDAHO RESTAURANTS!
2018: Idaho’s economic destruction “CLOSED INDEFINITELY”!
2017: The truth about Chubbuck’s gentrification.
2016: FEDERAL AGENCY SAYS IDAHO IS DOMINATED BY POOR IMMIGRANTS!
Idaho Governor declares local economy has “RISEN FROM THE ASHES”!
2015: Taxpayer funded ‘BUY IDAHO’ program IS a BIG FAIL!
Hoku-Gate, PaveGate now Amy’s-Gate!
2013: Heinz pulls stake, Warren Buffett abandons Pocatello, Idaho! Happy New Year!
The Chubbuck & Pocatello BRIDGE TO NOWHERE?
Pocatello’s Old Fred Meyer & Albertsons on Yellowstone Ave, did not close down in the 1990s.
More than 16 years ago the Oregon Military Museum (near Clackamas/Camp Withycombe-Happy Valley) shutdown for renovations. The museum is expected to reopen during the Summer of 2025, a year later than originally planned.
In January 2025, final work was being completed for the weapons display.
Kathleen Sligar, Director/Curator of the Oregon Military Museum, talks about the final preparations for the weapons display in this video report, via Oregon National Guard’s First Sergeant Zachary Holden, released 29JAN2025:
Oregon National Guard photo by John Hughel, 23JAN2025.
Despite being closed for renovations, special tours were conducted for veterans organizations.
The museum has outdoor displays that visitors can view.
A woman with a mission: https://youtu.be/gg17C0W9BoU?list=OLAK5uy_kAZ6e1Hh1OnpO2PyMSjbMe7ajDbDDy6Ac
Oregon Military Museum, 2020:
How to assemble your 1:1 scale F-86
U.S. Secretary of Defense Peter Brian Hegseth reports, morning of 30JAN2025, about efforts to use Guantanamo Bay, on Cuba, to hold violent illegals. Video via Department of Defense:
CALIFORNIA: U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) video showing the capture of illegals, about 20 miles off the coast of Point Loma, by the crew of Cutter Terrell Horne (WPC-1131) during the early morning of 28JAN2025:
The USCG delivers illegals, captured 20 miles off the coast of Point Loma, to U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP, aka Border Patrol) on 28JAN2025.
On 31JAN2025, two U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey (Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron [VMM] 161-Marine Aircraft Group 16-3rd Marine Aircraft Wing) were assigned to help Border Patrol and National Guard conduct operations along the California/Mexico border. I edited down video via Staff Sergeant Luc Boatman:
FLORIDA: 
Crew from USCG Cutter Campbell (WMEC 909) offload more than 8-thousand pounds of cocaine (captured on the Eastern Pacific Ocean) on Port Everglades, 27JAN2025.
At the end of January, a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon, out of Naval Air Station Jacksonville (Patrol and Reconnaissance Squadron [VP] 45), began patrolling the U.S. southern border.
NEW MEXICO: 
Under Task Force Sentinel, National Guard personnel, and equipment (like this Arizona National Guard UH-72 Lakota), from several states are assisting the Border Patrol on the Dona Ana Airport, which helps to cover the El Paso Sector.
TEXAS: 
USCG Marine Safety Security Team (MSST) Houston, and the Border Patrol, patrolling on the Rio Grande River, 28JAN2025.
A militiaman with the 877th Engineer Company, Georgia Army National Guard supports Border Patrol operations along the southern border in Del Rio, Texas.
2025:
Trump’s Wall War is on!
2021: New year, new President, same war on drugs & illegals?
