Indonesia, the island country trying to recover from a tsunami caused by a 7.5 magnitude earthquake, just got hit by the volcanic eruption of Mount Soputan.
July thru August: Earthquake swarm; 6.4, 7.0, 5.9 and another 6.4
July: Mount Anak erupts
June: Mount Agung erupts
Mount Merapi erupts, again
May: Mount Merapi erupts
April: Mount Sinabung erupts, again
February: Mount Sinabung erupts
Video report from Wall Street Journal 2017:
The original story of Atlantis wasn’t just about a natural disaster, it was about human ignorance and arrogance due to the false belief that their technologies could save them from the ‘wrath of the gods’, as well as their immorality caused by their wealth, and never ending wars in order to create more wealth to support their addiction to technology.
USMC Combat Logistics deployed vehicles and equipment to Los Angeles, as part of Humanitarian Assistance Disaster Relief Village demonstration, 29AUG2018.
From July; Cascadia Airlift Exercise 2018: “It’s a two-in-one exercise. The main objective is to be able to host airlift-centered planes during a humanitarian response to the Cascadia earthquake and identify limiting factors in being able to properly manage them. We also had the added benefit of being able to have the C-130s and F-15Cs fly together.”– Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Wright, 173rd Fighter Wing, Oregon Air National Guard
Washington:
Olympic Ambulance, Bremerton Fire Department and Central Kitsap Fire Rescue stand by following a mock earthquake at Naval Hospital Bremerton, during the Citadel Rumble drill, the first week of September 2018.
In August, the Washington Army National Guard/Washington Emergency Management Division and Malaysia Armed Forces/National Disaster Management Agency agreed to work together on Pacific Ring of Fire disasters: “We want to not only build stronger partnerships, military to military, but expand civilian partnerships as well. Part of the long-term success will include emergency management.”-Major General Bret Daugherty
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.
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.
