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Mexican helicopter attacks USS Conolly!

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Photo by Alan Gragg, 29APR2009.

In 2009, a Mexican MBB (Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm) Bo-105 Bolkow helicopter attacked the former USS Conolly (DD-979).  It was part of a multi-national effort to sink the ex-U.S. Navy ship.

It was part of an international wargame called UNITAS Gold (‘Gold’ referring to the 50th Anniversary of the wargames).  Participating countries were Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Germany, Mexico, Peru, United States and Uruguay.

2.75 inch rocket hits Conolly in the signal tower.

Photo by Alan Gragg.

U.S. Navy’s guided-missile destroyer USS Oscar Austin (DDG-79) joins in, firing on the Conolly in the background.

USN photo by Petty Officer Third Class Seth Johnson.

The Spruance class destroyer was named for Admiral Richard Lansing Conolly.  Laid down 29SEP1975, launched 19FEB1977,  commissioned 14OCT1978, decommissioned 18SEP1998, sunk 29APR2009.  Efforts were made to turn it into a museum ship in Illinois, but failed due to lack of financial support.

Radar equipped Bo-105, 26APR2009, USN photo by Petty Officer Second Class Brandon Shelander.

Video report about UNITAS 2009:

Vehicle I-D: MARINA ARMADA DE MÉXICO MIL 17

U.S.

Biden’s War: Connecticut deploys to Africa!

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On 10MAR2021, just short of six hundred Connecticut National Guard personnel deployed to ‘The Horn of Africa’.  Now that Joe Biden is President, it’s his war now!

Connecticut Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Steven Tucker.

New England Patriots football team airliner, a Boeing 767-300ER, is used to transport more than one hundred Army National Guard infantry, from Bradley Air National Guard Base in East Granby, to somewhere in East Africa (after a short diversion to Fort Bliss, Texas, for deployment training).

Connecticut Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Steven Tucker.

The Patriots’ 767s are former American Airlines airliners.  Two ‘AirKraft’ 767s were bought in 2017.

Video from 07MAR2021, by Staff Sergeant Katie Gandori, of Connecticut’s 1-102 Infantry prepping for deployment:

Connecticut Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Steven Tucker.

Back in April 2020, the Patriot’s airliner delivered one million Chinese made N95 masks to Massachusetts.

(Project Air Bridge: RECORD SETTING PANDEMIC AIRBRIDGE CONTINUES.)

Connecticut Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Steven Tucker.

Video interview, by Timothy Koster, where Command Sergeant Major Daniel Morgan and Lieutenant Colonel Frank Tantillo respond to questions about deploying under the pandemic panic-attack restrictions of CoViD-19:

Connecticut Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Steven Tucker.

The Patriot’s airliner was one of several ‘silly-vilian’ contracted airliners that were used to deploy the state militia.

Connecticut National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Katie Grandori.

Connecticut National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Katie Grandori.

Trump’s War:  IDAHO MILITIA’S EUROPEAN DEPLOYMENT CANCELED, SUDDENLY DEPLOYED TO MIDDLE EAST

Great Reneger:  DEPLOYMENTS SO COMMON EVEN BEERS ARE NAMED AFTER THEM

Influenza

Going Viral: Influenza waiting in the wings!

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List of links to news reports and medical studies concerning influenza, as of 09 March 2021:

More proof it’s about the money: Influenza Medication Market Size and Share to Reach $993.7 Million by 2026.

Yet another study says if you’re poor and live in a leftist-liberal metro area, you’ll probably die from influenza!

A new type of CRISPR targets both influenza and CoViD RNA.

A new computer program will predict future CoViD and influenza pandemics.

25 European Union member countries affected by Bird Flu.

A long article by BBC-Brazil warns of a new swine flu pandemic because “flu is evolving twice as fast in North America” due to industrial pig farming practices!

CANADA:  Health officials refuse to declare a flu season, due to lack of reported cases!

Influenza confirmed in Newfoundland and Labrador.

ITALY: 

On 09JAN2021, civilian employees, and family members of U.S. Air Force (USAF) personnel on Aviano Air Base, lined up to get flu shots. Video by Staff Sergeant Jayson Burns:

Here’s an amazing interview (by Staff Sergeant Jayson Burns) with a USAF vaccination specialist who admits that vaccines will not prevent infection, but as she’s giving other reasons why you should still get the shot she claims that you getting vaccinated will (somehow) protect those who can’t be vaccinated:

U.S. Army photo by Cristina Piosa, 08JAN2021, Vicenza, Italy.

On 15JAN2021, the U.S. Army Health Center in Vicenza reported that reservations had been made for more than one thousand people to get influenza vaccines.

NETHERLANDS: Health officials claim there are no influenza cases this season!

NORWAY: Penguins are being vaccinated against influenza!

RUSSIA:  Human cases of H5N8 Bird Flu confirmed.

SPAIN: The number of deaths in just over a week from Covid-19  reaches 3,925 people, the same number of deaths from INFLUENZA all last year.

First influenza cases reported in February.

UNITED KINGDOM:  If control measures are stopping flu in its tracks, why aren’t they stopping coronavirus?

A ‘top expert’ is warning Brits to prep for “hard winter” of influenza!

UNITED STATES:  Last flu season two hundred children died, so far this flu season only one child death has been reported!

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is conducting a study into the use of non-vaccine methods to control influenza outbreaks.

A report reveals that most of today’s ‘swine flus’ actually originated in humans or birds.  Until late 1990s, hog farms were dealing with only one type of flu, now for the first time a long term study of flu vaccines used in sows has been completed, with interesting results and yet more questions as to the effectiveness of vaccines.

Arkansas;  No flu cases reported.

California; 

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Alexander Merchak, 14JAN2021, Travis AFB, California.

On 14JAN2021, in just one day more than one thousand two hundred personnel on Travis Air Force Base, California, got vaccinated specifically for influenza!

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Chief Warrant Officer-2 Zachary Dyer, 22JAN2021, Camp Pendleton, California.

On 22JAN2021,  both CoViD-19 and influenza vaccines were issued to personnel on Camp Pendleton, California.

Michigan; Influenza cases begin to creep up.

Minnesota;  Another case of influenza confirmed, required hospitalization.

Missouri; University of Missouri study says flu shots appear to reduce symptoms of CoViD-19 in children.

Montana; No flu cases reported, so far.

New York;  Adolfo García-Sastre, director of the Institute for Global Health and Emerging Pathogens at Mount Sinai Hospital, has predicted that the end of the pandemic will end “once we reach the end of the year for the COVID problem to become a flu-like problem.”  (Gee, isn’t that what President Donald Trump said last year?)

Oregon; 

Oregon National Guard photo by Master Sergeant John Hughel, 09JAN2021, Anderson Readiness Center, Oregon.

On 09JAN2021, Oregon National Guard personnel were given flu shots.

Texas;  It was explained that anybody eligible for influenza vaccines, on the U.S. Army post called Fort Hood, were automatically eligible for CoViD-19 vaccines.

Washington;  On 03FEB2021, U.S. Naval Hospital at Bremerton warned that the CoViD pandemic and influenza were overlapping.  U.S. Navy officials noted that personnel were not getting the annual flu vaccine possibly because of the pandemic: “We strongly encourage everyone to get the flu vaccine. It’s now more important than ever due to the ongoing pandemic. It is especially important for pregnant women and people with chronic diseases like asthma and diabetes, and those that have weakened immune systems.”-Doctor Dan Frederick, public health emergency officer

Wisconsin; H3N2 infection confirmed.

Pandemic Panic-Attack:  CAT LITTER SHORTAGE? BLAME LOGISTICS COMPETITION AND ROBOTS!

Going Viral: FLU MUTATING DUE TO COVID? USAF GIVES WARNING ABOUT VACCINES!

February 2020: THE WORLD PANICS OVER COVID-19, YET INFLUENZA IS STILL KING KILLER!

Kit Bashing, Technology

Vehicle I-D: A-10C SEA Camo

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The U.S. Air Force’s Heritage Flight operates at least three A-10Cs, one in grey, one with World War Two invasion stripes and now another with Viet Nam era South East Asia (SEA) camouflage.

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Sergio A. Gamboa.

In January 2021,  an A-10C was prepped for its new SEA camo at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, in Arizona.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Sergio A. Gamboa.

The plane was ready for public viewing by the end of February.

USAF A-10 Thunderbolt-II Demonstration Team photo.

Video by Senior Airman Blake Gonzales of USAF Heritage Flight A-10C in SEA camo, 06MAR2021:

USAF A-10 Thunderbolt-II Demonstration Team photo.

USAF A-10 Thunderbolt-II Demonstration Team photo.

USAF A-10 Thunderbolt-II Demonstration Team photo.

U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer Third Class Drew Verbis.

The SEA A-10C made its air show debut at Naval Air Station El Centro, California, 13MAR2021.

USN photo by Petty Officer Third Class Drew Verbis.

“Our latest message with the A-10 Demo Team is to promote an annual heritage paint-scheme.  This year we are inspired by the United States Navy River Rats and the F-105 Thunderchiefs of the Vietnam War. I think it’s a fitting tribute because like the A-10, the F-105 was a dominant attack aircraft.”-Technical Sergeant Brian Pontes, crew chief

USN photo by Petty Officer Third Class Drew Verbis.

Pandemic Overflight: A-10C (C FOR COVID?) THUNDERBOLT-2

Vehicle I-D: ANOTHER A-10C WITH INVASION STRIPES

International, Technology

Vehicle I-D: Marina Armada de México Mil 17

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Mil 17=NATO reporting name ‘Hip’.

Marina=Marine, as in ocean/sea/water.

Armada=Fleet of ocean going military vehicles, or navy.

U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer Second Class John Stratton, 31JAN2010.

Mexican Mil 17-V5 delivers aid to Haiti, 31JAN2010.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Eric T. Crosby, 20JUL2012.

Mexican Navy Mi-17 Hip lands behind a U.S. Marine CH-53E Sea Stallion on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2).

USN photo by Petty Officer First Class Paul Seeber, 13JUL2012.

Mil 17-1V flying off ARM Usumacinta A412 (ex-U.S. Navy USS Frederick LST1184 tank landing ship) during Rim of the Pacific war games (RimPac), 13JUL2012.

USN photo by Petty Officer First Class Paul Seeber, 14JUL2012.

Maintenance on an Mi-17-1V, July 2012.

USN photo by Petty Officer First Class Paul Seeber, 11JUL2012.

U.S. Navy video by Petty Officer First Class Paul Seeber, fast roping from a Mexican Hip, during RimPac, 15JUL2012:

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Captain Naomi Dorren, 16AUG2014.

Infanteria de Marina (Infantry of the Ocean) board a Mil 17-1V during exercise Partnership of the Americas, in Chile, August 2014.

USMC photo by Private First Class Devan Gowans, 06SEP2015.

Mil 17-1V lands on ARM Usumacinta A412 during Exercise Dawn Blitz, 06SEP2015.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Frank Cordoba.

During 2016’s RimPac wargames, Mexican navy Mi-17-V5 were used in training operations on Hawaii and California.  This is a medevac operation on San Clemente Island, California, 28JUL2016.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Jason Estevez.

Mexican Marina Mil 17-V5 arrives on U.S. Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina, 23OCT2017, for exercise Bold Alligator.

USMC photo by Corporal Jason Estevez, 23OCT2017.

U.S. Marine Corps video by Chief Warrant Officer Izzel Sanchez, 23OCT2017:

USMC photo by Corporal Jason Estevez, 23OCT2017.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Cody J. Ohira.

Mi-17-V5 parked near a CH-53E Super Stallion, MCAS New River, North Carolina, 23OCT2017.

Vehicle I-D: UH-60 FOR AFGHANISTAN, KILLED-OFF BY THE MIL 17?

U.S.

Biden’s Borderland: Child shelter cages now full, Border Patrol releases videos of children lining up to get in legally!

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Welcome to borderland hell under the new U.S. President, incomplete list of links to news reports as of 01 March 2021:

U.S. Border Patrol quietly shifts personnel from Canadian border to Mexican border as at least 1-thousand people per day try to swarm in, Biden admin denies it!

97% of cages full of children, Biden scrambles to deal with swarms of illegal children!

Arrests of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children at Southern Border Surge!
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ARIZONA:   Man hurt in fall from border fence

Border Patrol begins small scale releases of detained illegals in Yuma

CALIFORNIA:  Border Patrol captures illegal who was armed with loaded gun

 14 illegals Apprehended During Brazen Smuggling Event

How a Guatemalan asylum seeker is testing immigration policy.
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FLORIDA:

U.S. Coast Guard photo.

On 26FEB2021, the U.S. Coast Guard found this boat, eight miles south of Plantation Key, with two illegals from Cuba in it.

MARYLAND: State will pay illegals, and non-citizens, taxpayer funded pandemic relief.

NEW MEXICO: Border Patrol captures 3-hundred pounds of illegal bologna!

PENNSYLVANIA: Revealed; illegals detained in Berks County Residential Center were secretly released!

TEXAS:  Border Patrol captures vehicles used for human smuggling, including a ‘cloned’ vehicle.

40 illegals captured in Laredo Sector

Laredo Sector captures $2.6-million worth of meth

Alternate route on Winn road opens for truck drivers headed to Mexico

Border Patrol Agents Seize 1-thousand Pounds of Mexican Gold.
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College apologizes after undocumented migrants refused vaccine.
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Sanctuary city spends millions of tax dollars defending itself after violating state immigration law!

Texas Democrat says Biden’s reforms will “blow up” Biden’s administration.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection video, by Mani Albrecht, showing asylum seekers legally crossing in El Paso, under the Trump era Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), 26FEB2021.  Please notice how many are children:

U.S. Customs and Border Protection video, by Jerry Glaser, showing asylum seekers legally crossing in Brownsville, under the Trump era Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), 26FEB2021.  Please notice how many are children:

 

UTAH: Leaders in Salt Lake County want more immigrants, praise Biden’s reforms

Washington DC: President Biden’s immigration reform continues to paint immigrants as criminals.

Department of Justice appeals immigrant detention ruling.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operations (AMO) National Air Security Operations Center (NASOC) report they captured $58-million worth of cocaine in February, mainly on the Pacific side of the country.  The drug smugglers were spotted by the crews onboard P-3 Orion aircraft.

Biden’s Borderland as of 24FEB2021:  HYPOCRISY IS THE POLICY

U.S. Food Crisis: PANDEMIC AND WINTER STORMS JOIN FORCES

International, Technology

Already-paid-for Obama-era Patrol Boat, sunk by Biden? Re-floated by Ukraine Crisis!

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(This report has been updated) In June 2022, the U.S. Navy (USN) announced a replacement for the expensive Mark VI(6) patrol boat; the 40PB Defiant. 

As of January 2022, Ukraine placed an order for 12 Mark-6 patrol boats.  This was part of a U.S. Department of State subsidized deal for 16 boats, announced back in June 2020!

In May 2021, the USN suspended their planned ‘divestment’ of the Mark-6 patrol boat.

Surprisingly, in February 2021 the USN announced that it will get rid of the Mark-6 by the end of the year, despite the fact that U.S. taxpayers already paid $15-million per Mark-6 Patrol Boat!  The USN blames it on reliability problems and cost of operations, and the claim that the U.S. President Joseph Robinette Biden Junior wants to cut funding to the military!

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Brienna Tuck, 25FEB2021.

U.S. Navy Mark VI (6) patrol boat with 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) in The Philippine Sea, 25FEB2021.  The Mark-6 was intended to replace much older Riverine boats.  It looked like the Mark-6 was a highly capable patrol boat.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Brienna Tuck, 25FEB2021.

A Mark-6 refuels from USS Ashland (LSD 48) in The Philippine Sea, 25FEB2021.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Brienna Tuck, 25FEB2021.

The news of the USN’s decision to ‘divest’ their Mark-6 Patrol Boats comes a month after (January 2021) Ukraine signed a U.S. State Department Foreign Military Sales deal to buy the 16 new-build Mark-6 boats from SAFE Boats International. The total cost of the U.S. taxpayer subsidized deal comes to $600-million!

USMC photo by Sergeant Jennessa Davey, 06JAN2021.

In June 2020, the U.S. Department of State announced a Foreign Military Sale for up to 16 Mark-6 patrol boats, and associated equipment, to Ukraine.  State Department Foreign Military Sales are subsidized with U.S. taxpayer funding, because the sales are considered a form of “security assistance”!

U.S. Army photo by Specialist Cody Rich, 06MAY2020.

Somewhere in the Arabian/Persian Gulf, May 2020.

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Kory Alsberry, 06MAY2020.

Video by Petty Officer Second Class William Carlisle, .50 cal. (12.7mm x 99mm) and 7.62mm NATO (7.62mm x 51mm) live fire near Bahrain, 16APR2020 (don’t get sea-sick):

In 2019, two Mark-6 boats set a record for nautical miles sailed by coastal/river patrol boats. 

USN photo by Chief Boatswain’s Mate Nelson Doromal Junior, 19SEP2019.

Mark-6 off San Diego, California, 19SEP2019.

USN photo by Chief Boatswain’s Mate Nelson Doromal Junior, 19SEP2019.

USN photo by Petty Officer First Class Woody Paschall, 05JUN2019.

Mark-6 off San Diego, California, 05JUN2019.

USN photo by Petty Officer First Class Woody Paschall, 05JUN2019.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class John Philip Wagner Junior, 17MAY2019.

Mark-6 Patrol Boat delivered to Santa Rita, Guam, 17MAY2019.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class John Philip Wagner Junior, 17MAY2019.

Music video by Petty Officer Second Class Kelsey L. Adams, .50 cal. live fire, including remote .50 cal. weapon system, near Santa Rita, Guam, 29MAR2019:

U.S. Navy video report by Petty Officer First Class Stacy D. Laseter, 23APR2018:

The 12th USN Mark-6 was delivered in 2017 (Trump era).

Video by Petty Officer First Class Arthurgwain L. Marquez, Coastal Riverine Squadron Two (CRS-2) sails near Santa Rita, Guam, 30SEP2016:

USN photo by Petty Officer Second Class Shannon Burns, 16DEC2016.

Three types of patrol boats, as of December 2016, from left to right; Sea Ark, Coastal Command boat, and Mark VI patrol boat.

SAFE Boats International delivered the first Mark-6, to the USN, in 2014 (Obama era).  Originally it was thought that 48 patrol boats would be ordered, but only 12 were paid for.

River Gun Boat: ROMÂNIA

Vehicle I-D: U.S. NAVY KEEPS OLD U.S. ARMY BOAT-TRUCK AFLOAT

USMC 2020: LAST RIDE FOR 1ST, 2ND & 4TH TANK

Technology

Vehicle I-D: Red Hawk replaces Talon, another example of foreigners controlling U.S. taxpayers

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The Boeing and Saab (of Sweden) T-7A Red Hawk is the new advanced trainer for the U.S. Air Force (USAF).

Boeing photo.

In September 2018, it was announced that a contract worth $9.2-billion was given to Boeing-Saab for their T-X (Boeing-T-X) training aircraft (first flying in December 2016), to replace the vintage T-38 Talon.

Boeing photo.

Boeing T-X first flight, cockpit view, 20DEC2016:

Boeing photo.

The two B-T-X prototypes fly over Saint Louis, Missouri, April 2017.

The T-7A is more in-line with prepping pilots to fly the F-35.  In May 2019, Saab announced it would build a Red Hawk factory in the U.S. state of Indiana.

Video, Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) flight test over Saint Louis, Missouri, July 2019:

 On 23FEB2021, Boeing published this video claiming production was underway at its Saint Louis, Missouri, factory: 

Boeing photo.

The USAF wants 351 T-7A Red Hawks (name chosen in September 2019), 46 simulators, and associated ground equipment, with the first Red Hawks arriving on base sometime in 2023-24.

Boeing: T-7A Red Hawk

Saab: T-7A Red Hawk

Vehicle I-D: T-38 PACER CLASSIC-3

USAF F-35A “COMBAT READY” IN UTAH

TAXPAYER PARIAH F-35 CALLS IDAHO HOME!

APACHE TO MUSTANG

Technology

Vehicle I-D: T-38 Pacer Classic-3

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U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Stormy Archer, 31JUL2015.

The first completed T-38 Talon from the Pacer Classic III program was unveiled 31JUL2015, at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Stormy Archer, 31JUL2015.

Pacer Classic III (PC-3), the largest single structural modification ever undertaken on the T-38C aircraft, is intended to ensure structural airworthiness of 150 aircraft until 2029.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Stormy Archer, 31JUL2015.

“We are replacing 185 separate primary structures such as longerons, bulkheads, skins and former assemblies; inspecting and assessing the life of a 155 additional components, and repairing or replacing hundreds of other parts.”-Joe Lopez, 575th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (AMXS) director

USAF photo by Alex R. Lloyd.

USAF photo by Alex R. Lloyd.

USAF photo by Alex R. Lloyd.

The ‘tiger stripes’ will go away when the Talon gets a new paint-job.

USAF photo by Alex R. Lloyd.

USAF video report, by Sean Schroeder, explaining the PC-3 program:

Vehicle I-D: T-38 25TH FTS HERITAGE

Kit Bashing, Technology

Vehicle I-D: T-38 25th FTS Heritage

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Towards the end of 2019, the 25th Flying Training Squadron (FTS) at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma, painted one of their T-38 Talons in the pre-World War Two colors of the U.S. Army Air Corps.

U.S. Air Force photos by Senior Airman Octavius Thompson.

Video by Senior Airman Octavius Thompson, flight over Enid, Oklahoma, 09DEC2019:

Video, cockpit view, May 2020 pandemic panic-attack morale flight over Oklahoma:

USAF photo by Senior Airman Taylor Crul, 18SEP2020.

The 25th FTS is part of the 71st Flying Training Wing, which got permission to paint one aircraft from each of its squadrons in a ‘heritage’ color scheme.

Vehicle I-D: ANOTHER A-10C WITH INVASION STRIPES

D-DAY F-15E STRIKE EAGLE

HERITAGE SABER & MIG FIGHT IT OUT…OVER SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA?