QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Target drones operate out of Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico.
Video first sortie, February 2017:
Video QF-4 retirement, replaced by QF-16 December 2016:
Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, May 2015
ALABAMA F-16s DEPLOY TO MIDDLE EAST!
FLORIDA F-16s JOIN ITALY & ISRAEL TO INVADE GREECE!
DRONE WARS: QF-4 TO QF-16
SPECIAL LAS VEGAS SHOOTING EDITION F-16 & F-15
UTAH: PHINAL PHANTOM PHLIGHT, NO MORE USAF F-4 PHANTOMS!
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:
Video report Fleet Week:
Video Coast Guard diver school:
GEORGIA: 
More proof ObamaCare-ACA is a total failure; U.S. Department of Defense deployed hundreds of personnel under Operation Empower Health- Greater Savannah, which provided free (taxpayer funded) healthcare to people and their pets!!!
GREENLAND:
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:
WASHINGTON DC: 48th Annual Washington Conference on the Americas
AMERICA SPREAD THIN: NORTH AMERICA, APRIL 2018
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More proof you can’t blame man made air pollution on Global Warming-Climate Change for coral reef deaths: In November 2015 the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) warned Skincare Chemical Threatens Coral Reefs.
Time.com, in 2015, said Sunscreen Killing Reefs.
In February 2018, the Sweden based International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) revealed the impacts of sunscreens on coral reefs.
In April 2018 National Geographic reported Sunscreen, Clothing, And Other Coral Reef-Safe Alternatives.
At the end of June, 2018, Mother Nature News said Why your sunscreen is bad for coral reefs.
And for more proof you can’t blame man made air pollution on Global Warming-Climate Change glacier melt-off, recent discoveries reveal that polar ice sheets are actually melting due to volcanic activity. In August 2017 The Guardian reported Scientists discover 91 volcanoes below Antarctic ice sheet.
In October 2017 The Weather Channel reported Volcanic Eruptions May Be Rapidly Melting Arctic Ice Sheets.
In June 2018, the Independent reported Active volcano discovered beneath Antarctic ice sheet could be contributing to rapidly melting glacier.
Now onto the most recent volcanic/seismic activity around the Pacific Ring of Fire.
Which Ring of Fire Volcano is next to blow?
Volcanoes from Space: 50 Breathtaking Astronaut and Satellite Photos
Latin America’s Top Most Dangerous Volcanoes
Volcanic activity worldwide 8 Jul 2018
CANADA: Seismologist warns peers to be careful about what they tell the news media!
Red flag over tsunami warning system
expected powerful earthquake with thousands of victims
CHILE: Minor earthquake – Antofagasta
Volcanic complex in Chile’s south could erupt within days
ECUADOR: Mag. 3.8 earthquake – NEAR COAST OF ECUADOR
Galapagos’ Sierra Negra volcano eruption triggers evacuation
GUATEMALA: Survivors of deadly Fuego Volcano begging United States for Temporary Protected Status, or TPS.
Are the Central American Volcanoes Waking Up?
INDONESIA: Krakatau erupts
Ritual sacrifice draws crowds to Indonesia volcano
Moderate earthquake – Southern Sumatra
Third earthquake in 2018 in Lebak: Is Jakarta ready for megathrust quake?
Earthquake jolts Indonesia’s Bali after Mount Agung erupts
JAPAN: Strong 6.0 earthquake rocks Tokyo
Government Map Forecasts Likely Future Japanese Earthquakes
Volcanic Ash Advisory Center Tokyo, eruption of Ebeko
Death toll climbs after 6.1 temblor strikes Osaka
MEXICO: Moderate earthquake – Off Coast Of Chiapas
Magnitude 6.0 quake strikes off Jalisco coast
NEW ZEALAND: Taranaki probably the volcano most at risk of large eruption
A Māori view of the rising volcanic activity
PERU: Sabancaya Volcanic Ash Advisory
Moderate earthquake – Central Peru
RUSSIA: Earthquake HITS volcanic Kamchatka Peninsula
Mag. 5.1 earthquake – Southeastern Siberia
Video, Russian ice lava:
UNITED STATES: The U.S. has over 160 active volcanoes.
Alaska: Volcano Mount Cleveland Could Erupt Soon
California: 4.6 earthquake shakes California-Nevada state line
Earthquake Rattles San Bernardino County
Beyond lava and ash: Stanford geologists explain what makes volcanoes dangerous
Geologists detail likely site of San Andreas Fault’s next major quake
Scientists Fear ‘Slow Earthquakes’ Will Lead To The Next Big California Quake
Salton Sea Could be Ground Zero for Next Big California Earthquake
A Seismic Change in Predicting How Earthquakes Will Shake Tall Buildings
Hawaii: In July, Hawaii became first U.S. state to ban sunscreen.
Scientists defy ‘force of nature’ to unlock secrets of Hawaii volcano
Volcano evacuees suffering ‘shelter fatigue’
American Land in Pacific Grows Bigger
Idaho: Yet more unexplained Minor earthquakes in Soda Springs
Nevada: 3rd most earthquake-active state in U.S.
Oregon: Earthquake Simulation Reveals Dangers
City mayor doubts Oregon State University computer Cascadia Event models
Cascadia Event training, Warrenton, Oregon, June 2018
Despite doubts by a city mayor, Oregon’s National Guard conducted a small Cascadia Event exercise during June. Dubbed Pathfinder-Minuteman refresher training it revealed that the biggest problem for emergency responders is communication between different groups: “The biggest part of all of this training is team communication. I watched other teams struggle because of communication issues…”-Allison Journey, volunteer taking part in the training for the first time
Small earthquake off coast becomes fifth to strike since April
Earthquake alert funding and southern Oregon
Washington: Yet another Cascadia Event FEMA drill planned, including Idaho and Oregon
Tsunami from Cascadia Event would reach Bellingham in 90 minutes!
Future 9.0 Cascadia Event could produce 5.5-meter (18 feet) deep tsunami
Skagit County gets new maps for tsunami planning
Wyoming: Strange things are happening here
Canadians who walked on Yellowstone hot spring die
Yellowstone’s normally dormant Steamboat Geyser erupts 11th time in 2018
After first poo-pooing eruptions, scientists are finally concerned over Steamboat Geyser’s sudden re-awakening
Yellowstone’s magma chamber is more powerful than we knew
Yellowstone super-volcano warning as heat build-up stronger than first reported
PACIFIC RING OF FIRE: ACTIVITY STRIKES IDAHO? VOLCANOES JUST DESTROYED ALL HUMAN ATTEMPTS TO STOP CLIMATE CHANGE! GET READY FOR CASCADIA!
PACIFIC RING OF FIRE: SEISMOLOGIST SAYS PEOPLE SHOULD PREPARE FOR QUAKE THAT WILL LAST AN HOUR AND CREATE DAYS OF TSUNAMIS!
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Yet again, in total gun ban China students were attacked by a man with a knife.
Three boys and a woman were attacked near Shanghai World Foreign Language Primary School, two of the boys died.
Police arrested the stabber, saying he had just moved to the area looking for a job and was “taking revenge on society”. Not being able to find a job is the number one reason why men in China go on slashing/stabbing sprees. Not being able to find a woman who will marry them is the number two reason.
But this wasn’t the only knife attack in Shanghai, just a week earlier another man killed two people and wounded five in the Pudong district. He too was unemployed.
In May, another man killed nine junior high school students in Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, ten were wounded. In this case the slasher said he was getting revenge for being bullied when he was a student at the school!
In all three cases the edge weapons users were in their late 20s.
Edged weapons attacks have become so common in Total Gun Ban China that police have published a Monty Python style video on how to survive a knife attack, can you say Run Away? (be warned, it’s hilarious):
GUN BAN FAILURE: YET MORE MASS STABBINGS OF CHILDREN IN TOTAL GUN BAN CHINA!
MARTIAL LAW CHINA: GUN BAN FAILS TO STOP GUN RUNNING! 10,500 GUNS CAPTURED!
GUN CONTROL CHINA: STRICT GUN BAN FAILS TO PREVENT 29 PEOPLE BEING KILLED WITH KNIVES, IN A MATTER OF MINUTES!
MARTIAL LAW CHINA: COPS START CARRYING GUNS DESPITE OUTRIGHT GUN BAN!
NBCNews: 33 Dead, 130 Injured in China Knife-Wielding Spree
WORLD WAR 3, GUN CONTROL FRONT: CHINA’S GUN BAN FAILS TO STOP MASS KILLING!
U.S. CIVIL WAR(?) & MEDIA EVIL: U.S. REPORTERS CALLING FOR GUN CONTROL AFTER DEADLY SCHOOL SHOOTING, BUT NO MENTION THAT IN CHINA ALMOST AS MANY STUDENTS WERE ATTACKED BY A MAN WITH A KNIFE!
Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of U.S. drugs related crimes and oddities for the month of May 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
United States Naval Institute News: U.S. Navy admits at least 10 Navy SEALs were high on cocaine
Official Air National Guard video promoting the concept of prescription drug ‘Take Away’, “Bag it, Ship it, Forget it!”:
NBC: Foreign cartels embrace home-grown marijuana in pot-legal states
ALABAMA: Walker County has the highest percentage of drug deaths relating to its population. Drug raid in Dekalb County captures 1.3-kilos (three pounds) of meth, 1.3-kilos of marijuana, 20 illegal guns, $30-thousand USD in cash and captured two men believed to be from Mexico. Three children were also found in the home, the raid was the result of “several months” of investigations. Tallapoosa County Narcotics Task Force conducted multiple raids, capturing 14 alleged druggies, 180-grams of synthetic marijuana, 100-grams of marijuana, several grams of methamphetamine, crack and heroin, four guns, one vehicle and $8-thousand-761 in cash. Marshall County Drug Task Force captured more than 50 people (they had warrants for 1-hundred) in one night, Sheriff Scott Walls says it’s the biggest round-up of druggies in the past 38 years: “The majority of these arrests are crystal meth, there are heroin cases mixed in with this. We’re living in a time where that seems to be the norm, where people are selling in their communities, and we have a lot of drug abuse, and this is the first step to solving some of those problems.”
What’s sad about the above statement is that these druggie round-ups have been going on ever since the Reagan Era of the War on Drugs, and as you can see it has had no effect on the reduction of illegal drug use. Also, local news media is publishing the names of the people captured, I mean arrested. In the United States you’re supposed to be considered innocent until proven otherwise in court, not by police, news media or by public opinion.
ALASKA: The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy declared Alaska to be a high-intensity drug trafficking area, opening up federal level taxpayer funding to police. Federal prosecutors in Anchorage discovered a new tactic of drug dealers; intentionally getting captured. People are intentionally getting arrested in the hopes they can smuggle into prison drugs and illegal guns.
Alaska Public Media: Is meth back in Alaska? Or did it never leave?
KTVA: 7 accused in violent Sitka drug trafficking conspiracy
Daily News-Minor: Illegal booze, drugs smuggled into remote villages
The Marshall Project: Want to Escape a Criminal Past? Move to Alaska
ARIZONA: Merry Jane: Arizona Group Pushing to Legalize All Drugs in 2018
Reflections Recovery Center: Arizona Opioid Addiction Statistics 2018
KNXV: Two suspected north Phoenix drug dealers arrested
Arizona Daily Independent: Teens Turn To Drug Trafficking In Nogales
Arizona Daily Independent drug crime reports
AzCentral: 5 arrested on suspicion of running meth trafficking ring
DailyMiner: Kingman, Arizona & Mohave counties crime reports
Border Patrol agent sentenced for helping smuggle drugs into Arizona
ARKANSAS: Arkansas Online: Two people found in Cleburn County park die from O-D
In 3rd big bust in weeks, 200 pounds of pot captured
KARK: Multiple Arrests Made in Year Long Drug Investigation in Prairie County
KLRT: 4 Arrests Made in Ouachita County Drug Bust
KFSM: Arkansas Highway Police Seize 340 Pounds Of Marijuana
KTHV: Arkansas ranks 3rd in nation for Spring 2018 ‘Prescription Drug Take Back Day’
The state National Guard warns in this video that even exercise supplements are ‘drugs’:
CALIFORNIA: Several state National Guard Counterdrug Task Force personnel officially became DARE officers, even though the program has been proven, multiple times, to be a failure (LiveScience: Was D.A.R.E. Effective? VOX: Why anti-drug campaigns like DARE fail VICE: We Asked Seven Drug Addicts What They Learned from D.A.R.E. Time: Just Say No to DARE Common Sense for Drug Policy: DARE Admits Failure).
U.S. News & World Report: Mexican Mafia Busted for Running Crime in LA County Jails
The Mercury News: Authorities arrest 85 people, seize drugs in major Orange County gang crackdown aimed at disrupting Mexican Mafia
BBC: Police find border drug tunnel from Mexico to California
Riverside police arrest 23 in undercover drug sting
New York Times: Needle by Needle, a Heroin Crisis Grips California’s Rural North
NPR: Big Jump Seen In Number Of Inmates Prescribed Psychiatric Drugs In California
COLORADO: The Denver Post: Officials charge 37 people and seize 141 pounds of meth in drug bust spanning Colorado and two other states, The drug ring as been operating in Colorado since at least July 1, 2015
CONNECTICUT: NBC: Triple killings motivated by guns, cash and drugs
Meriden Record-Journal: Local Walgreens robbed of 3-thousand pills worth $60-thousand USD
RepublicanAmerican: Police find huge drug cache in Waterbury
DELAWARE: WDEL: Joint task force makes Wilmington drug bust
Delaware State News: drug reports
First State Update: drug crime reports
Delaware State Police: crime reports
FLORIDA: BuzzFeedNews: U.S. Navy SEAL Smuggled 10 Kilos Of Cocaine Into Miami
Miami Herald: Florida cuts drug programs, costing hundreds of jobs
Pensacola News Journal: Santa Rosa County Sheriff captures more than 23 pounds of illegal drugs and 52 people during Operation Spring Cleaning
WJXT: Statewide, Operation Spring Cleaning captures 5-thousand people and 27-thousand pounds of drugs
TCPalm: Saint Lucie County captures guns, drugs and 17 people
WTXL: Suwannee County sheriff announces massive drug bust
WPLG: 6 arrested, 6 others sought by Miami-Dade police in drug bust
Coast Guard Cutter Resolute off-loaded almost 0.9 tonne (1 ton) of ganja in Saint Petersburg, 08MAY2018
NavyTimes: Coast Guard unloads 6 tons of seized cocaine in Florida
At Port Everglades, Coast Guard Cutter James off-loads almost 5.4 tonnes (metric tons/6 short [U.S.] tons) on 10MAY2018, all captured in the eastern Pacific
The Recovery Village: Florida’s Top 10 Counties for Drug Overdose Deaths
Florida Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association: may 2018 patterns and trends of substance use
INDIANA: RTV: Indiana is one of the worst states for drug use
WANE: 1,500 Indiana drug cases a month … and rising
WLFI: Police respond to string of overdoses
WTTV: 15 people face federal charges in connection with drug trafficking ring that prompted Kokomo raids
The Herald Bulletin: ‘Clean Sweep’ nets 52 suspects, guns and drugs
IOWA: DesMoinesRegister: 20 years after the meth crisis began, Iowa’s addiction is worse than ever
Governor’s Office of Drug Control Policy: Drug Trends in Iowa – May 2018
KANSAS: The Kansas City Star: Operation Triple Beam, 200 people arrested
KENTUCKY: USA Today: Kentucky football player charged with drug trafficking
Courier Journal: Mexican drug cartels saturate Louisville with deadliest meth ever
Louisville company wins FDA approval to produce opioid withdrawal drug
WDRD: Arrests, drugs and more than $1 million in cash during Operation Safe Haven
KFVS: More than $11000 of drugs seized
WAVE: Opioids infiltrate ranks of organ donors, rendering donations unusable
LOUISIANA: U.S. News & World Report: DEA orders Louisiana pharmaceutical wholesaler Must Stop Selling Controlled Drugs
The Advocate: Born addicted: Louisiana’s rate of newborns dependent on opioids is rising, pregnant women lack treatment options
The Times Picayune: Despite opioid crisis, Louisiana may cut drug treatment options
MAINE: Coast Guard Cutter Campbell returned to Kittery, after capturing 5896.7 kilos (13-thousand pounds) of cocaine in the eastern Pacific.
Bangor Daily News: Drug agents bust 9 in Aroostook County trafficking ring
Central Maine: Augusta police arrest 4 on drug charges
WABI: Center Street home drug bust in Bangor, 6 arrested
MARYLAND: WJZ-TV: Mother Arrested After 8-Month-Old Ingests Drugs
WTOP: Maryland curbs prisoner access to books, citing drug smuggling
MASSACHUSETTS: U.S. News & World Report: 13 Arrested in Bust of Major Drug Trafficking Ring
WBUR: Black Drug Users Grapple With Surging Opioid Overdose Death Rates
WWLP: 7 arrested, 3 wanted in Massachusetts drug sweep
MASS.gov: Current opioid statistics
MICHIGAN: MichiganLive: Michigan has 4th biggest drug problem in United States
DetroitNews: New Michigan opioid laws may mean longer prescription wait times
ClickOnDetroit: 3 pharmacists, 2 ‘recruiters,’ doctor charged in $9.6M prescription drug scheme
MINNESOTA: KIMT: 27 people arrested in Olmsted County
PostBulletin: Austin drug bust nets $100,000 worth of meth, cocaine
MPRNews: Federal taxpayer funded grant funds heroin trafficking investigations
MISSISSIPPI: Clarion Ledger: Feds charge 11 in multi-state ‘Operation Highlife’
MSNewsNow: Marijuana, $69000 cash seized in north Jackson drug bust
WTVA: Officers seize package containing drugs in Nettleton
U.S. News & World Report: Woman Arrested, Signed for Parcel Carrying Drug
MISSOURI: News Tribune: Jefferson City woman arrested in traffic stop turned drug bust
KOAM: Three Missouri Residents Arrested For Illegal Drug Activity
Missouri Sheriff’s Association: Major Drug Operation Nets 5 Arrests
Herald-Whig: Man dies after apparent meth overdose
MONTANA: KULR: Montana school bus provider accused of dealing meth
KXLF: Feds raid home in Deer Lodge as part of ongoing investigation
Missoulan: 48 marijuana plants found in Missoula warehouse
U.S. Food & Drug Administration: Montana Compounding Pharmacy and Wellness Center fails inspection, “which put patients at risk.”
NEBRASKA: The Washington Post: Record drug bust finds enough fentanyl to kill 26-Million people (let’s call it chemical warfare, it’s definitely a weapon of mass destruction)
NEVADA: The Spectrum: Mesquite traffic stop turns drug bust
The Washington Post: Nebraska pushes to carry out the country’s first execution using fentanyl
NEW HAMPSHIRE: New Hampshire Public Radio: New Hampshire’s Opioid Crisis
The New York Times: Drug Arrests at Immigration Checkpoint Violated Constitution
NEW JERSEY: NorthJersey: Drugs and prostitution: What might be next for New Jersey
LehighValleyLive: 2 arrested in P’burg police drug raid in Alpha
The Trentonian: $2 million drug bust
WPVI: NJ State Police arrest Philly duo, seize $2K in drugs
NEW MEXICO: Albuquerque Business First: New Mexico has the sixth biggest drug problem
New Mexico-Indicator Based Information System (NM-IBIS): New Mexico’s drug overdose death rate has been one of the highest in the nation for most of the last two decades
NEW YORK: A Venezuelan veterinarian is now in NYC facing federal drug charges after a 2005 drug raid in Columbus revealed the veterinarian was sewing up bags of liquid heroin inside puppies for transport to the U.S. The so called animal doctor was finally caught in Spain in 2015.
New York Post: Drug Bust reports
The New York Times: Overdoses From ‘Dangerous Batch’
Drug Abuse and Traffic reports
You’re Not a Drug Dealer? Here’s Why the Police Might Disagree
NYPD News: Narcotics Archives
NORTH CAROLINA: WNCN: NC drug bust highlights ‘meth highway’ as I-85
KABC: 90M worth of liquid meth found in semi-truck fuel tank
KTVD: Drug, gun bust leaves police looking for suspects
WECT: Smithfield Foods employees arrested in multi-agency drug bust
NORTH DAKOTA: KFGO: Guns, drugs, cash seized from Fargo home
Reservation drug bust nets $100,000 in narcotics
KVRR: Meth Archives
Grand Forks Herald: Drug reports
OHIO: KULR: Ohio Highway Patrol makes $3.7M heroin, meth bust
Cincinnati.com: Candidates say they’ve tackled heroin crisis. But it’s getting worse
OKLAHOMA: NewsOK: Addicted Oklahoma reports
News On 6: Two Men Caught In Canadian County Drug Bust
OREGON: KOBI: drugs Archives
KDRV: Suspected Drug Den in Medford
KOIN: Man gets 17 years for Mexico-to-Oregon drug trafficking
PENNSYLVANIA: PhillyNews: prosecutors are charging heroin dealers with killing their customers
KPMT: York City Police arrest 7 in connection to drug trafficking
PUERTO RICO: U.S. Department of Justice: Seven Puerto Rico Police Officers Arrested For Corrupt Activities Including Drug Trafficking And Firearms Violations
Boston Globe: 10 charged in cocaine ring that brought drugs from Puerto Rico
RHODE ISLAND: The Sun Chronicle: Police arrest 49 people and seize 53 illegal guns and a large quantity of drugs during Operation Patched Out
SOUTH CAROLINA: WISTV: South Congaree drug bust nets thousands in heroin
Meth, money and Mercedes seized in major drug bust
GoUpstate: Operation Rolling thunder hits University of South Carolina
The Herald: 11 arrested in York County drug raid
The Washington Post: South Carolina anti-drug police unit admits to violating 4th Amendment Rights of U.S. citizens by conducting ‘no-knock’ home invasions!
SOUTH DAKOTA: KSFY: After being busted two years ago, a drug dealer finally sentenced to 30 years in federal prison, and then ten years of probation after that
TENNESSEE: WVLT: Four arrests in ‘one of the largest’ drug busts in Harriman
Knox News: raid seizes 10000 Xanax pills, 8 pounds of pot
Drugs land more women behind bars
TEXAS: Times Record News: Man kidnapped, part of finger chopped off by gang members in meth ring
KRGV: Bust at Donna Home Yields Drugs, 3 Arrests
KLTV: Drug bust takes dealer who sold to both kids, adults, off street
7 arrested in drug search in Van Zandt County
Star-Telegram: 10 schemed to load drugs, weapons and explosives on aircraft at DFW Airport
Corridor News: Texas Border And Port Narcotic Seizures, Arrests And Apprehensions For The Week Of May 2 – May 8
Your tax dollars at work tearing down ‘drug houses’ in Corpus Christi. Local elementary students were indoctrinated into the government’s latest vain attempt at looking like its fighting the War on Drugs by observing the National Guard knock-down known as Operation Crackdown, while chanting “Knock it down! Knock it down!” (as if it were some kind-o sporting event)
UTAH: KUTV: ‘This is a big one,’ feds announce Utah drug bust
KSTU: Meth ‘forgotten drug,’ seizures skyrocketing in Utah
KTVX: Flesh-eating drug may have made its way to Utah
Salt Lake Tribune: The cheap drug spice is on the rise in Salt Lake City — and it’s killing
Deseret News: New tenant arrested in large drug bust
VERMONT: CNN: Vermont law could allow state to import cheaper Canadian drugs
VIRGINIA: WSLS: 21 people arrested in ‘Operation Blue Thunder’
WASHINGTON: KHQ: Police seize 50 pounds of meth from truck after traffic stop
The Daily News: Three Lewis County drug busts in two weeks
CNN: Mussels from Puget Sound test positive for opioids
Official video Coast Guard Cutter Active, home-port Port Angeles, cocaine interdiction somewhere in the eastern Pacific, 18MAY2018:
Washington DC: Perry Center Hosts Hemispheric Forum on Efforts to Address the Opioid Crisis and Transnational Organized Crime with the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. Read the Official Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) crime report website. Read official Department of Justice (DoJ) crime report website.
WEST VIRGINIA: WSAZ: police find more than $40,000 in heroin
The Herald-Dispatch: Drug firms deny role in sparking opioid epidemic in WV
WVNews: Mason County man arrested after deputies find drugs, guns
WVVA: Monroe County indicted 19 people on 46 felony offenses
MetroNews: Two charged after drug overdose in Upshur County
Appalachia High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (AHIDTA): West Virginia drug crime reports
WISCONSIN: Wisconsin State Journal: Madison man charged with selling heroin that killed drug purchaser
South Side drug search nets cash, drugs, gun
DoseOfReality: Native Americans in Wisconsin get $2.4-million USD to fight opioid addiction
WKBT: Wisconsin 3rd in nation with drug disposal program
WYOMING: CBSNews: U.S. Air Force admits Airmen guarding nuclear missiles in Wyoming used LSD
Idaho State Journal: Wyoming troopers seize $425000 worth of meth
DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, April 2018: More proof your government/police is behind drugs; TAKE BACK DAY, as Chinese news media reveal that China is behind major California drug ops!
DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, FEBRUARY 2018: “TEACHING KIDS ABOUT THE HARM OF DRUGS…DOESN’T REALLY WORK.”
SUMERIAN LAMENT: HISTORY SHOWS IMMIGRANTS ARE GREATEST SELF-INFLICTED THREAT TO EMPIRES!
THE NEW GREAT OPIUM WAR: MYANMAR NOW SECOND LARGEST PRODUCER OF OPIUM! (thanks to United States?)
2012: Occupation of Afghanistan designed to raise the price of opioids
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“No one shall possess a firearm or firearms or a sword or swords.”-Japanese law, however, after a long permitting procedure a person can own a single-fire gun designed for hunting or sport-shooting (you must first own a shotgun for ten years without incident before owning a rifle)
Once again, U.S. puppet Japan’s total gun ban has failed. This time a military veteran stabbed to death a cop, took his gun and shoots to death a school security guard. 4-hundred students hunkered down in the small Okuda Elementary School’s gym. The military vet was then shot and wounded by police.
On Japanese state TV (NHK) stunned parents made the usual statement; “I never thought it could happen here!” But as opposed to the United States, where owning a military grade weapon (that’s what the word ‘arms’ means) is a Constitutional Right, in Japan there is a near total gun ban (even edged weapons).
Toyama Police say the veteran had three knives in his possession, they became aware of the veteran after people called in saying a man with knives was hanging around the school. Reports say teachers tried defending the school with broomsticks (after the security guard was killed). A woman told The Japan Times that she thought the area was safe “because there’s a police box near here.” She never thought anybody would attack a gun armed cop with a knife.
Update: Japanese news reports suggest the veteran might have been bullied at work, by his boss.
Japan’s national police agency admitted that in 2017 there were at least 22 documented cases of guns being used in crimes.
And let’s not forget knives: Japanese blogger stabbed to death after giving lecture on how to manage online disputes
TOTAL GUN BAN FAIL: JAPAN, COPS, BULLIES, SUICIDE
RED NECK FAIL: COVERT CIVIL WAR IN TEXAS CAUSES BULLIED IMMIGRANT TO SHOOT UP SCHOOL WITH SHOTGUN?
Washington Post: College Board is accused of using school shootings to promote its Advanced Placement
Blind Bat News 2014: February 2013 Washington Post article, which reported that Chicago schools get extra money from the U.S. Department of Education to “recover” from the trauma of shootings!
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Georgia Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Jamila A. Haven, 10MAY2018.
In May, the Department of Defense deployed hundreds of personnel to the U.S. state of Georgia. It was part of Operation Empower Health Greater Savannah, in response to the fact the economy has not recovered (and ObamaCare isn’t working). Not only can’t people pay for their own healthcare, but they can’t pay for the care of their pets!
Wyoming Air National Guard Photo by Technical Sergeant John Galvin, 13MAY2018.
The military operation was conducted in conjunction with Humane Society for Greater Savannah, Georgia Southern University and the christian owned Saint Joseph/Chandler hospital system (“No proof of income, residency or picture ID is required for services”).
Official video explainer:
MARIA: FREE SHOTS FOR PUERTO RICO PETS!
HARVEY: WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR PETS?
LOUISIANA MILITIA RESCUES FLOOD VICTIMS & THEIR PETS!
WORLD ANIMAL DAY: EVER WONDER WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR PETS DURING WAR? IT AIN’T PRETTY!
MEDICAL MARTIAL LAW AS SPANISH COPS START KILLING EBOLA VICTIM’S PETS!
PETS ABANDONED TO DIE ALONE IN ALABAMA!
FLUORIDE WARS: STUDIES SHOW YOUR PETS ARE BEING POISONED BY FLUORIDATED WATER & GRAPES!
Fukushima: DOGS & CATS STILL ABANDONED IN RADIATION ZONES
Incomplete (tip-o-the-iceberg) list of healthcare related layoffs, shutdowns and crimes in May 2018:
Kaiser Family Foundation: 22% increase in healthcare costs
Bloomberg: Even doctors are canceling their health insurance
The Harris Poll: 66% of people say insurance cost is a major source of stress in their lives (gee, wasn’t ObamaCare supposed to remedy that?)
eHealth: 74% of people consider ObamaCare-ACA insurance rates unfair
Law360: Humana Fights To Keep $45-billion tax dollar funded Tricare Deal secret
VOX: Humana hits patient with surprise bill even though his surgery was ‘in-network’ (the hospital was in-network, but not the doctors)
NTT Data: Medicare Advantage online enrollment process is confusing
Health Affairs: 86% of doctors suspicious of genetic test results, concern over insurance discrimination
Arizona: Banner Health reports a 55% crash in net income for its first quarter of 2018 due to increased operating costs.
California: A now former fraud investigator for insurance company Anthem facing charges of fraud himself, accused of helping two San Fernando Valley plastic surgery clinics falsify about $20-million USD in claims. IDEX Health & Science issued a shutdown WARN for its Carlsbad ops, 58 jobs gone by the end of July. Concentra suddenly killed 180 jobs in Valencia! Molina Healthcare eliminating 93 jobs in Sacramento and Los Angeles by July. In Paradise, SunBridge Paradise Rehabilitation Center eliminating 78 jobs by July.
Colorado: Penrose-Saint Francis Health Services suddenly laid off 42 people, including a CAO, in an attempt “to increase efficiency of operations”.
Connecticut: UnitedHealth and AARP (American Association of Retired Persons) being sued in federal court for allegedly diverting $400-million USD per year in Medigap rebates in violation of state law. Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics eliminating 198 jobs in Brookfield by September! Homecare provider Maplewood at Home issued a shutdown WARN for its Danbury ops, 115 jobs gone by mid-July!
Delaware: In May, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield revealed to state regulators that back in March it sent 507 customers the wrong benefits information.
Florida: A now former CEO of Calhoun Liberty Hospital charged with stealing $1-million USD from the hospital. Baptist Health South Florida eliminating 588 jobs by the end of July!
Georgia: Schizophrenic HCA Healthcare controlled Memorial Healthcare suddenly laid off 85 people but then said it would be hiring 2-hundred. Atlanta based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that the number of people without health insurance increased in 2017, compared to 2016, however it decreased when compared to 2014. Bottom line is that ObamaCare-ACA didn’t significantly reduce the number of people without health insurance (yet it’s costing people more money).
More proof ObamaCare-ACA is a total failure; U.S. Department of Defense deployed hundreds of personnel under Operation Empower Health- Greater Savannah, which provided free (taxpayer funded) healthcare to people and their pets!!!
Illinois: State inspectors discovered that Cook County’s taxpayer funded Health and Hospitals System lost at least $165-million in revenue due to billing errors, over the past three years! Siemens Medical Solutions Advanced Therapies Division issued a shutdown WARN for its Hoffman Estates ops, 104 jobs gone by March 2019! After 20 years non-profit nursing home River to River shutting down due to lack of money, which is caused by lack of patients (occupancy rate only 51%).
Indiana: Medical device maker DJO Global issued a shutdown WARN for its Plainfield location, 70 jobs gone by October.
Iowa: Mercy Medical Center issued a layoff WARN, 43 jobs gone by July. University of Iowa Health Ventures issued a layoff WARN, 190 jobs gone by the end of June!
Kansas: The CFO of Shawnee Mission Health accused of being part of the now settled 20 hospital kick-back fraud by god’s own Adventists Health.
Maryland: ObamaCare-ACA insurance companies demanding a 30% increase in premiums in 2019. Two now former Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services officials found guilty of helping a New York investment company get inside information on taxpayer funded operations.
Michigan: Sparrow Carson Hospital halted inpatient obstetrics, resulting in an undisclosed number of layoffs, blaming it on the increasing number of people who don’t want to get pregnant (population death spiral).
Minnesota: Eastern European hackers took control of the computer records of Associates in Psychiatry and Psychology, which agreed to pay a ransom of just under $4-thousand worth of Bitcoin to free-up their computers. MedTronic eliminating 30 jobs in Saint Paul by the end of June.
Missouri: Local politician owned pharmacy chain (20 stores) Family Pharmacy now chapter 11 bankrupt busted and selling its assets to Smith Drug Company. Twin Rivers Regional Medical Center shutting down, 259 jobs gone by the end of June due to ObamaCare-ACA forcing the hospital to focus on outpatient care only! Politicians are calling for an investigation into Hospital Partners-Putnam County Memorial Hospital after a state audit discovered that the small 15 bed hospital was paid $92-million USD for lab work that was actually done at other hospitals!
New Jersey: According to the 2017 New Jersey Health & Well-Being Poll, one in seven New Jersey adults get a surprise medical bill. The University Medical Center charged a woman $5,751 for an ice pack, even though she refused treatment when she found out the hospital was not ‘in-network’.
New York: ‘Over the counter’ lotion maker Geritrex issued a shutdown WARN, 26 jobs gone by the end of June. Center for Nursing & Rehabilitation issued a shutdown WARN for its Brooklyn-NYC ops, 305 jobs threatened because the company sold-out to a competitor! Nassau Health Care-Nassau University Medical Center owes the New York State Health Insurance Program $62.6-million USD in insurance premiums for its own employees! NYC Health + Hospitals accuses UnitedHealthcare of wrongfully rejecting insurance claims of $11.5-million, from 2014 to 2017: “For too long, NYC Health + Hospitals has been leaving money on the table and subsidizing private insurance companies by letting denials slide.”-Mitchell Katz, CEO NYC Health + Hospitals
North Carolina: A now former finance director for High Point Regional Hospital sentenced to eight and-a-half years in prison for stealing $3.9-million USD from the hospital.
Ohio: Salem Regional Medical Center eliminated 26 jobs, one week after shutting down its maternity ward. IBM controlled Watson Health suddenly laid off at least 40 people in Cleveland, a now former employee posted online “….to close the shop, will happen in early 2019. … This round of cuts is much bigger than anyone is reporting, they cutting deep and wide, there is no recovery from this one…” Toledo based ProMedica reported a $2.7-million USD operating loss for its first quarter of 2018, due to increased operating costs.
Oklahoma: BlueCross BlueShield charged a retired doctor, who underwent foot surgery, $619 for a saw blade, $4,265 for a drill bit and $15,076 for three screws used in the surgery!
Oregon: CNN reports UnitedHealthcare denied a dying mother’s liver transplant.
Pennsylvania: MedTronic issued a shutdown WARN for its Bala Cynwyd location, 76 jobs gone.
Rhode Island: Blue Cross Blue Shield facing federal level antitrust lawsuit which accuses the insurance company of “purposely” stopping the sale of financially troubled Landmark Medical Center over insurance reimbursement rates.
Tennessee: A Rite Aid Pharmacy in Springfield shutting down mid-June, as a result of Rite Aid being taken over by Walgreens (there’s a Walgreens across the street from the Rite Aid). Envision Healthcare straight-up blamed insurance companies and the government (ObamaCare-ACA) for screwing with patient’s healthcare coverage, saying “We strongly believe payers, regulators and providers must work collaboratively. We object to many of the current payer tactics that fuel conflict and adversely impact the unique relationship between patient and physician.”
Texas: Doctors in The Lone Star State saying Blue Cross Blue Shield’s new insurance policy “…will create deaths. This will kill people. People will die because of this.” Acuity Healthcare shutting down its ten years old San Antonio Acuity Hospital mid-July, due to declining revenue and industry changes. Also in San Antonio, Illinois based medical supply company Arjo eliminating 54 jobs in June due to “a global decision”. A Texas doctor facing federal charges of intentionally misdiagnosing patients with cancer as part of a $240-million USD fraud to provide the doctor and his co-conspirators with a “lavish and opulent lifestyle”, many people were subjected to toxic cancer treatments when they didn’t have cancer! Another Texas man was convicted of impersonating electronic health records company Cerner, causing several victims to lose millions of dollars, another man pled guilty. Three former executives of now bankrupt busted billing company Constellation Healthcare Technologies face charges of falsifying bank records to make the company appear to be worth more than $300-million USD. Memorial Hermann Health System paying a $19-million fine for filing false Medicare claims. 
In Webster, after only four years of operations Bay Area Regional Medical Center suddenly went bankrupt busted and shutdown, 9-hundred jobs suddenly gone (Bay Area Regional also unable to make final paychecks and is ‘working’ with creditors to attempt to pay the now former employees)! Several now former employees have filed a class action lawsuit against the short-lived defunct hospital. Insurance companies Cigna and Aetna claim the hospital owes them $43-million USD, however Bay Area Regional Medical Center blames lack of ObamaCare-ACA insurance reimbursements for their demise: “When it came to negotiations with our managed care contracts we were unable to come to an agreement, a favorable agreement and due to overhead, we couldn’t survive.”-Santiago Mendoza
Wisconsin: Medical equipment renter Degen-Berglund issued a layoff WARN for La Crosse, 30 jobs gone in July.
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
ObamaCare (ACA) death spiral April 2018: “NEW NORMAL”
West Asia, or as the U.S. Department of Defense calls it Southwest Asia. Iran, Iraq and Turkey are sometimes considered part of West Asia and sometimes Central Asia. I consider Iraq and Turkey part of West Asia and Iran is part of Central Asia.
The following is a smidgen of what the United States is involved in, in the Middle East, during April 2018:
On 04APR2018 an honor guard from MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, receive the body of Major Andreas B. O’Keeffe, who was killed in Iraq while flying an HH-60 Pave Hawk for the 106th Rescue Wing.
At Patrick Air Force Base, Florida, the body of para-rescueman Master Sergeant William Posch, killed in Iraq, was brought home:
Another Florida resident, Staff Sergeant Carl Enis, was also killed in Iraq.
Hawaii Army National Guard personnel with 1st Battalion, 171st Aviation Regiment, deployed to somewhere in South West Asia.
At Fort Shafter, Hawaii, 47 USA (U.S.Army) personnel with the 8th Human Resources Sustainment Center, 8th Theater Sustainment Command, returned from supporting ops in Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan.
On 15APR2018, the Louisiana Air National Guard honored 16 Airmen from the 259th Air Traffic Control Squadron for their service in Iraq: “These 16 Airmen went over there and basically took charge of airfield operations. They did an outstanding job delivering sorties and increasing the payload of goods coming in and out to support our warfighters. The thing that impressed me is that they increased the MedEvac time by 75%!”-Major General Glenn Curtis
North Carolina Army National Guard‘s 449th Combat Aviation Brigade, along with British empire United Kingdom-NATO personnel, conduct aeromedical evacuation (MedEvac) training at Camp Taji, Iraq. The North Carolina National Guard, and Vanderbilt University, donated medical books to the Iraqi Army Hospital, Camp Taji, at the end of March.
Between the end of March and beginning of April, about 285 personnel from Ohio National Guard‘s 2nd Battalion, 174th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, returned from a year-long deployment to Afghanistan and Iraq.
At Fort Hood, Texas, the U.S. Army 3rd Cavalry Regiment deploying to Iraq:
On 03APR2018, a Wisconsin Air National Guard 128th Air Refueling Wing KC-135 refuels USAF E-3 Sentry AWAC as it conducts missions over Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Wisconsin National Guard soon deploying personnel to Kuwait, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Oman and the United Arab Emirates.
A missile armed MQ-1C Gray Eagle Unmanned Aircraft System at an undisclosed location (secret) returns sans one missile after an anti-ISIS (DAIISH) mission over Iraq
‘Undisclosed Location’: Official video USAF 336th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron says good-bye to SouthWest Asia:
USAF F-15E Strike Eagle gets refueld from a KC-10 Extender, somewhere over SouthWest Asia, 21APR2018
Bahrain:
U.S. 5th Fleet observes Denim Day in Manama, Bahrain, 25APR2018
Iraq:
Iraqi Army fast rope training from U.S. taxpayer funded Russian made Mil Mi-17 helicopter, U.S. taxpayer funded contractors are also maintaining the Russian helicopters for Iraq
U.S. Army, 2011: Army equipping Afghans, Iraqis on Mi-17s
U.S. Army conducts Combat LifeSaver course for Iraqi Army personnel
Israel:
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, 29APR2018
South Carolina National Guard take part in change of command ceremonies for the 13th Missile Defense Battery in Israel, 10APR2018
Jordan: Jordan is increasingly being drawn into the influence of NATO.
Closing ceremonies for NATO – Jordan Planning Course, 04APR2018
Official USMC/USN video explainer of Eager Lion 18:
U.S. Army town clearing video, 19APR2018:
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia:
U.S. military leaders meet with Royal Saudi military leaders at Ministry of Defense Officer’s Club, Riyadh, KSA, 19APR2018
Kuwait:
More than 45 U.S. and Kuwait Land Forces soldiers took part in CBRN training, Camp Patriot, Kuwait, 25APR2018
U.S. Army combat engineers employ the Talon Robot, and VMR/2 Mine Hound, at Camp Patriot, Kuwait, 10APR2018
Qatar:
Mom and daughter with Pennsylvania Air National Guard deployed to Qatar; Staff Sergeant Victoria Moran and Senior Master Sergeant Michelle Mersing
Official video of Pennsylvania Air National Guard rapid repair training at Al Udeid Air Base, Kuwait:
Syria:
USAF C-17 moves cargo between undisclosed (secret) locations from Iraq to Syria, 13APR2018
A Syrian contractor demonstrates to U.S.-NATO advisers that the Zir Water Pumping Station, near Busayrah, is now working, 21APR2018
Video of Tomahawk cruise missile launch against Syria from USS Monterey, 14APR2018:
USAF F-15C Eagle refuels during mission over Syria, 14APR2018
Video of NATO airstrike against supposed DAIISH headquarters in Abu Kamal, 17APR2018:
(BRITISH EMPIRE, LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR: ISLAMIC STATE DAIISH)
Turkey: Official video of NATO operated AWACs based at FOB (Forward Operating Base) Konya, and used over Iraq and Syria:
United Arab Emirates:
USAF F-22 Raptor based at Al Dhafra Air Base, UAE, gets refueled inflight, 01APR2018
Official video, U.S. Army and UAE deployment of high mobility artillery rocket system (HiMARS):
AMERICA SPREAD THIN: NORTH AMERICA, APRIL 2018
AMERICA SPREAD THIN: WEST ASIA, MARCH 2018
Forget the CH-53 Super Stallion, there’s a new heavy lift Marine coming onboard; CH-53K King Stallion.
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Ethan Pumphret.
Marine Operational Test & Evaluation Squadron-1 load the main gear box of the new CH-53K King Stallion onto the aircraft, Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) New River, North Carolina, 03OCT2018.
USMC photo by Lance Corporal Samuel Lyden.
The first CH-53K King Stallion hovers above the flight line at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) New River, North Carolina, 16MAY2018.It’s not a rebuild, it’s completely new with reduced weight yet stronger construction, fly-by-wire, and able to lift three times more that the Super Stallion (externally transport 27-thousand pounds/12247 kilos over 110 nautical miles/127 miles/203.7km and has a max external lift of 36-thousand pounds/16329.3 kilos). The most noticeable visual difference is the cockpit/nose section of the rotary wing aircraft.
USMC photo by Sergeant Matthew Callahan.
The first CH-53K King Stallion taxis across the flight line at MCAS New River, North Carolina, 16MAY2018.
Offical U.S. Marine Corps video explainer:
USMC photo by Lance Corporal Samuel Lyden.
Another video, MCAS New River, North Carolina, 16MAY2018:
USMC photo by Sergeant Matthew Callahan.
USMC photo by Lance Cpl. Leynard Kyle Plazo.
USMC photo by Corporal Hailey D. Clay.
USMC General checks out the new CH-53K at the Berlin Air Show, Berlin ExpoCenter Airport, Schönefeld, Deutschland, 25APR2018.
USMC photo by Corporal Hailey D. Clay.
Video of heavy lift demo at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, 18JAN2018:
USMC photo by Lance Corporal Molly Hampton.
Test flight over West Palm Beach, Florida, 22MAR2017.
Official video from April 2017:
USMC photo by Lance Corporal Molly Hampton.
By April 2017, the CH-53K had passed its Defense Acquisition Board assessment, and low-rate initial production began. The CH-53K is scheduled to completely replace the CH-53E Super Stallion by 2030.
USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Gabriela Garcia.
“Experimental” silly-vilian colors (and nose) at Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation in Florida, 08MAR2016.
USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Gabriela Garcia.
Vehicle I-D: CH-53 SEA STALLION MCAS-YUMA, APRIL 2017