U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Sandra Welch, 20AUG2018.
In August, the 17th Special Tactics Squadron took part in Jaded Thunder.
A child tests a plasma ball on the Micron STEM Bus. USAF photo by Senior Airman Malissa Armstrong, 07AUG2018.
Mountain Home AFB got a visit from Idaho based computer tech company Micron‘s STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) Bus.
Students try out a game recreating an image they see on a tablet. USAF photo by Senior Airman Malissa Armstrong, 07AUG2018.
USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Jeremy L. Mosier, 04AUG2018.
Also in August, while many local Idaho school districts struggle, grade school students on Mountain Home AFB got 2-hundred new backpacks filled with supplies, courtesy of the Airman and Family Readiness Center’s Back to School Brigade.
USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Jeremy L. Mosier, 04AUG2018.
F-15Es from the 366th Fighter Wing, Mountain Home Air Force Base, on Gowen Field National Guard base, Boise Airport, Idaho, 12JUL2018. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant John Winn.
In July, F-15E Strike Eagles from Mountain Home AFB, along with C-17 transports from Travis AFB in California, converged on Idaho National Guard’s Gowen Field for what’s called Adaptive Base Training (aka Gunfighter Flag 18-3). The Louisiana National Guard’s 159th Fighter Wing joined in, as well as Idaho National Guard A-10Cs.
Idaho Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant John Winn, 12JUL2018.
Idaho Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant John Winn, 12JUL2018.
USAF photo by Airman First Class JaNae Capuno, 12JUL2018.
USAF photo by Airman First Class JaNae Capuno, 12JUL2018.
USAF photo by Airman First Class Hailey Bivens, 30JUN2018.
366th Security Forces Squadron took part in exercises to prep them for Defender Challenge 2018.
391st Fighter Squadron from Mountain Home AFB bombs Utah, 03JUL2018. USAF photo by Airman First Class Codie Trimble.
USAF photo by Senior Airman Parker Dubois, June 2018.
The first weekend of June, the F-22 Raptor made an appearance at the Gunfighter Skies Air and Space Celebration, over Mountain Home AFB, even dogfighting a P-51D Mustang (hey, that’s one of ours!).
USAF photo by Senior Airman Parker Dubois, June 2018.
Idaho Air National Guard Photo by Airman First Class Mercedee Schwartz, 06MAY2018.
In May, Idaho National Guard A-10C Thunderbolt-2s shot-up the Saylor Creek Range on Mountain Home AFB.
The following video is from 2017, but shows you what Idaho National Guard A-10s do to the Saylor Creek Range:
Video, Mountain Home AFB F-15, Thunderbolts and Bold Tigers:
Video report, history of 366 Thunderbolts/Gunfighters:
It’s been six years since I last wrote one of my Japan, Modern Day Atlantis articles, but its looks like 2018 is another big-bad-year for Japan. The original story of Atlantis wasn’t just about a natural disaster, it was about human ignorance, arrogance, immorality and never ending wars.
The following is an incomplete list of main stream news articles from the first eight months of the Gregorian year 2018, concerning the Modern Day Atlantis of Japan.
In 2012, Columbia took part in its first participation in the USAF’s Red Flag wargames at Nellis AFB, Nevada. Columbia used their Israeli made Kfir COA (Kfir C.12, heavily modified Dassault Mirage).
The older HMMWV parts are being harvested for use on the brand new Oshkosh Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTV).
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Kristen Murphy, 01MAY2018.
The U.S. Marines Corps is cannibalizing older High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles in an attempt to save taxpayers millions of dollars, and “increase the JLTV’s survivability.”
Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of U.S. drugs related crimes and oddities for the month of June 2018.
“If we don’t get tough on the drug dealers, we are wasting our time. And that toughness includes the death penalty.”-President Donald Trump, Manchester, New Hampshire, 19MAR2018
$2-million USD worth of marijuana captured by Coast Guard is off-loaded in Key West.
5443 kilos (12-thousand pounds) of cocaine captured by Coast Guard is off-loaded in Port Everglades.
Do your research, you’ll find that Florida is the main dumping point for drugs ‘captured’ by the U.S. government. The federal government claims the drugs are used as evidence in court cases. or destroyed. Florida was also the cocaine dumping grounds for Oliver North’s Iran-Contra Affair.
As such, the Florida National Guard and local municipalities are struggling to fight illegal, and prescription, drug use through the Civil Operations Program (COP). Saint Johns County alone reported that they collected 943 pounds of prescription medication in just four hours, during national Take Back Day!
ILLINOIS: K9 Assists in $10 Million Drug Bust in ChicagoVideo, Customs & Border Patrol’s Perro the drug dog working Chicago O’Hare’s International Airport, finds DVD case containing drugs:
Video, Customs & Border Patrol unveils new laser device for determining type of drugs without opening the package:
11 Members of drug ring, including a cop, arrested: “This investigation started out as a narcotics investigation, but we came across information regarding something unique and that was a casino heist involving an active police officer.”-Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini
Pakistani citizen pleads guilty to drug trafficking, in NYC court: “He agreed to send huge amounts of deadly drugs to American streets and neighborhoods, which would have fueled the current opioid epidemic and facilitated addiction and abuse by supplying huge amounts of heroin to New York and nationwide. We are pleased he is facing American justice in a United States court of law.”-Geoffrey Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
The Texas National Guard was given a class on anti-drug ops by the Illinois National Guard, which makes sense because ever since Barack Obama became the President of the U.S., Chicago has been the heroin gateway to the United States.
The 180 crew members of the Coast Guard Cutter Mellon, homeported in Seattle, divide their illegal activity patrols (like illegal fishing by foreigners and drug smuggling) between the central American country of Guatemala and the U.S. state of Alaska.
Washington DC: The federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) reports that for April’s Take Back Day 430480-kilograms (474 U.S. tons) of drugs were collected nation wide. I’ve pointed out before that the phrase Take Back Day used by the government implies that it was the government that gave/sold you the drugs.
During May 2018, U.S. Coast Guard rescued several Sea Turtles found entangled in abandoned fishing nets, in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
The Coast Guard Cutter Campbell, from Kittery, Maine, was in the Pacific Ocean on anti-drugs operations when the crew spotted the struggling Sea Turtles.
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Sean Evans, 15MAR2018.
Alaska Army National Guard photo by Specialist Michael Risinger, 09FEB2019.
This Alaska Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk is wearing just the tail ski. U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Peña, 30MAY2018.
The rear portion of the main skis can be lowered for hoisting operations. U.S. Air Force photo by Justin Connaher, 30JUL2016.
U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Peña, 21NOV2017.
Alaska Air National Guard photo by David Bedard, 05JUN2018.
Alaska Air National Guard photo by David Bedard, 05JUN2018.
Photo by John Pennell, 28NOV2017.
Video, aerial refueling March 2018:
U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Peña, 21NOV2017.
U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Peña, 29JUL2016.
U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Pena, 24FEB2015.
Video, Operation Rock and a Hard Place, March 2015:
‘Hang Ten’ was originally a symbol of surfing in late 1950s California, then becoming the logo of a surf-clothing company in the 1960s. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Joshua Turner, 20AUG2015.
‘Hang Ten’ video, people jumping out of a perfectly good helicopter with Hang Ten painted skies in the middle of an Alaskan Winter, 2014:
Video report, Arctic Care 2013:
U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sergeant Burt Traynor, 13JUN2019.
These are just a few of the U.S. military operations happening across the North American region for the Gregorian month of May, 2018.
ALABAMA: More proof ObamaCare-ACA is a total failure; U.S. Department of Defense deployed hundreds of Active, Guard and Reserve personnel from around the U.S. for the Alabama Wellness Innovative Readiness Training mission.
ALASKA:The National Guard Best Warrior Region VI 2018 competition was held on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. State militia competitors come from Alaska, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming.
Red Flag Alaska 2018 included units from NATO countries
ARKANSAS:
Arkansas National Guard deployed Lakotas to the New Mexico/Mexico border, as part of Operation Guardian Support
ARIZONA:
National Guard personnel clear brush as part of Operation Guardian Support in Yuma
Missouri National Guard preps for air patrol of border, in Tucson, as part of Operation Guardian Support
CALIFORNIA: Why does our government keep insisting the War on Terror isn’t about religion? In violation of the U.S. Constitution, Travis Air Force Base became the headquarters for Firefighters for Christ, a specifically christian organization using christianity to influence firefighters from Sweden, the Philippines, Germany, Northern Ireland, Canada and Switzerland: “While the experiences of someone who is Muslim or Jewish may differ from our own, we enjoy the opportunity to deepen each other’s spiritual resilience.”-John Speakman, Travis Fire Emergency Services
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan inspected border wall construction efforts in Calexico
National Guard getting briefed on their deployment to border patrol near San Diego, as part of Operation Guardian Support
U.S. Border Patrol at Friendship Park just south of Imperial Beach
Video of Australian’s invading (?) Camp Pendleton (RIMPAC):
Video report Fort Hunter Liggett burned by wildfires:
Cub Scouts help Army Corps of Engineers restore native plants along the Santa Ana River
Army Corps of Engineers declares debris removal, from January’s Santa Barbara County mudslides, complete
CANADA:U.S. Army Reserve units from California and South Dakota took part in Maple Resolve 18-01, Wainwright, Alberta.
COSTA RICA:
The USAF spent three weeks training Costa Rican police in anti-drug ops
DELAWARE:
Attempting to save taxpayer’s money by installing solar panels at Dover Air Force Base
EL SALVADOR: Texas Air National Guard video explainer of what they’re doing in El Salvador:
67th Signal Battalion, from Georgia, video explainer of what they’re doing in El Salvador:
Video report Puerto Rico National Guard serving up food in El Salvador:
Your tax dollars at work building schools in El Salvador:
FLORIDA:
Your tax dollars at work at the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference in Tampa, 23MAY2018
Video report U.S. Special Operations Command CAPEX in Tampa:
New York Air National Guard attends Kool Skool at Camp Raven
GUATEMALA:
U.S. military personnel honored by Guatemala with the Medalla Monja Blanca (Medal of the White Nun), after spending a year training up elite naval special forces in counter-narcotics operations.
HAWAII: Video National Guard responds to volcano:
HONDURAS:
USA Sergeant First Class Levon Fernandez awarded the Soldier’s Medal for Heroism for helping two Honduran pilots after their plane crashed
INDIANA: Video report NetWars Operation Cybershield:
Military propaganda at the Indy 500
LOUISIANA:
Louisiana National Guard deployed Lakotas to the Texas/Mexico border, as part of Operation Guardian Support
MARYLAND:
Army Corps of Engineers begins jetty project on Rhodes Point Smith Island
NEW MEXICO:
Region 7 Best Warrior Competition
Red Flag Rescue 18-2
NEW YORK:New York Army National Guard along with State Police, U.S. Health and Human Services, Brookhaven Labs and the Federal Bureau of Investigation took part in a Weapons of Mass Destruction training event at the Plum Island Animal Disease Research Facility.
USN/USMC personnel help renovate a building in Brooklyn-NYC for Habitat for Humanity
Video San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock USS Arlington during Fleet Week:
Video USAF Alpha Warrior Challenge:
New York Army National Guard’s 101st Expeditionary Signal Battalion deploys to Kuwait
OKLAHOMA:
290 Army National Guardsmen from across the nation took part in Air Assault, Pathfinder and Rappel Master Schools in Oklahoma
OREGON:
Oregon National Guard CH-47 Chinook crews trained for expected ‘domestic missions’, mainly responding to natural disasters
I’m still upset over how many local TV news reporters and anchors still say “Have a happy Memorial Day.” Only the ‘enemy’ would be happy about that.
Oregon Army National Guard fire their M119 Howitzers at Willamette National Cemetery, for Memorial Day
PANAMA:
U.S. tax dollars and military personnel help the Panamanian Ministry of Health hand out drugs to silly-vilians
PENNSYLVANIA:
Pennsylvania National Guard plans for hurricane season
PUERTO RICO: Video of funeral for Major José Ramón:
Army Corps of Engineers and taxpayer funded contractors so far have collected 4-million cubic yards of dead vegetation since Hurricane Maria hit in September 2017!
SOUTH CAROLINA: USMC video prepping for hurricanes:
TEXAS:
South Carolina National Guard deployed their Lakotas to Texas as part of Operation Guardian Response
Airmen from Dyess AFB deploy to Afghanistan
Texas Army National Guard 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment deploys to the Horn of Africa
UTAH: 807th Medical Command Deployment Support video explainer:
WASHINGTON: Video 100 years of the Army Chemical Corps:
The Texas National Guard was given a class on anti-drug ops by the Illinois National Guard, which makes sense because ever since Barack Obama became the President of the U.S., 
The Coast Guard Cutter Campbell, from Kittery, Maine, was in the Pacific Ocean on anti-drugs operations when the crew spotted the struggling Sea Turtles.
More proof ObamaCare-ACA is a total failure; U.S. Department of Defense deployed hundreds of Active, Guard and Reserve personnel from around the U.S. for the Alabama Wellness Innovative Readiness Training mission.
The National Guard Best Warrior Region VI 2018 competition was held on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. 
State militia competitors come from Alaska, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming. 
U.S. Army Reserve units from California and South Dakota took part in Maple Resolve 18-01, Wainwright, Alberta. 
More proof ObamaCare-ACA is a total failure; U.S. Department of Defense deployed hundreds of personnel under Operation Empower Health- Greater Savannah, 
New York Army National Guard along with State Police, U.S. Health and Human Services, Brookhaven Labs and the Federal Bureau of Investigation took part in a Weapons of Mass Destruction training event at the Plum Island Animal Disease Research Facility.
Army Corps of Engineers and taxpayer funded contractors so far have collected 4-million cubic yards of dead vegetation since Hurricane Maria hit in September 2017!
