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Videos
NASCAR contender? USMC Pit Stop maneuver for E-2C Hawkeye
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Grounds crews at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, conduct ‘pit stop’ on USN E-2C Hawkeye. The electronics warfare aircraft was on its way to U.S. Naval Air Facility Atusgi.
U.S. TAX DOLLARS PAY RUSSIANS TO DELIVER C-130 SIMULATOR TO U.S. MARINES IN IWAKUNI
Paratroopers have their own official National Airborne Day! Video shows you why!
In 2001 the U.S. Congress created National Airborne Day, which is every 16th of August:
VEHICLE I-D: C-17 DUMPS HMMWVS ON SOUTH CAROLINA, AWESOME VID!
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE 82ND AIRBORNE HITS THE GROUND?
45 YEARS OF C-130 MAFFS OPS. WHO WOULD’VE KNOWN WILDFIRES WOULD BECOME SUCH A PROBLEM?
Weapon I-D: Wyoming Air Militia 50-Cal live fire!
Wyoming Air National Guard 153rd Airlift Wing, 153rd Security Forces Squadron fire up Camp Guernsey:
Weapon I-D: HOW TO PROPERLY THROW A HAND GRENADE
Vehicle I-D: UH-60 Black Hawk M240 live fire, Grafenwoehr
U.S. Army 3rd Battalion, 501st Aviation Regiment, 1st Armored Division Combat Aviation Brigade:
AH-64D LONGBOW APACHE, GRAFENWOEHR
116TH SNAKE RIVER’S 2015 NTC ROTATION
60 YEARS ON THE KC-135 FLYS ON!
Vehicle I-D: AH-64D Longbow Apache, Grafenwoehr
World War Three: 116th Snake River’s 2015 NTC Rotation
Oregon National Guard photo by Major W. Chris Clyne.
D Company, 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team (CBCT), Oregon Army National Guard. Oregon National Guard photo by Major W. Chris Clyne.
In August 2015, the 116th Cavalry (Cav-al-ry, not Cal-vary) Brigade Combat Team (Idaho, Montana & Oregon) deployed to Fort Irwin, California, for Total Force Warfare training.
Oregon National Guard photo by Major W. Chris Clyne.
Oregon Army National Guard photo by Specialist Michael Germundson.
126th Engineers, backhoes & bulldozers:
126th Engineers explainer:
M113 based M106 mortar carrier. Oregon Army National Guard photo by Specialist Michael Germundson.
M88A2 Hercules recovery vehicle. Oregon Army National Guard photo by Specialist Michael Germundson.
Logistics (lots-o-trucks), M2s and M1A2s arrive at Fort Irwin:
M2A3 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle. Oregon Army National Guard photo by Specialist Michael Germundson.
Oregon Army National Guard photo by Major W. Chris Clyne.
Idaho National Guard COLT (Combat Observation Lasing Teams) of the 1-148 FA (HQ in Pocatello), identified by the AN/TVQ-2 Ground/Vehicular Laser Locator Designator (G/VLLD, usually called a ‘glid’) mounted next to the .50 cal machine gun. Oregon Army National Guard photo by Major W. Chris Clyne. In 1998, I was at NTC representing the 1-148 FA as a FiST/V (Fire Support Team Vehicle) crewman.
Maneuvers:
Idaho Army National Guard UH-60, M240 door gunner with A Company, 1st Battalion, 183rd Aviation Reconnaissance Battalion. Oregon Army National Guard photo by Major W. Chris Clyne.
The August 2015 NTC rotation (15-09) also included National Guard units from six other states, providing air support through Task Force Talon:
Arkansas Army National Guard’s 1036th Engineer Company supports the 116th CBCT by detonating an M58 Mine Clearing Line Charge (MCLC, pronounced mic-lic). Oregon Army National Guard photo by Major W. Chris Clyne.
Video, Combined Arms Live Fire, “On the way!”:
The last time the 116th went to NTC was in 1998, with yours truly.
1998 Desert Avenger certificate of appreciation
“THIS IS WHERE ARMOR FIGHTS!” IDAHO NATIONAL GUARD
Russian Antonov delivers KC-130J simulator to U.S. Marines in Japan!
“We don’t do many jobs like this. It’s a great opportunity for our crew to carry some cargo for MCAS Iwakuni.”-Sergei Nenashev, radio operator of the Russian operated An-124
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Jacob A. Farbo.
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USMC photo by Lance Corporal Jacob A. Farbo, 02AUG2016.
USMC photo by Corporal Nathan Wicks, 02AUG2016.
USMC photo by Lance Corporal Jacob A. Farbo, 02AUG2016.
USMC photo by Corporal Nathan Wicks, 02AUG2016.
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Nathan Wicks.
If Russia is the ‘bad guy’ to the United States, then why are U.S. tax dollars being paid to Russian companies to make deliveries to U.S. military personnel?
A large Antonov 124 Ruslan transport plane delivered a KC-130J simulator to the USMC at Air Station Iwakuni in Japan.
USMC photo by Corporal Nathan Wicks, 02AUG2016.
It’s part of Obama’s plan to dominate East Asia (‘Pivot to Asia’ ‘Pacific Pathways’): “This simulator delivery is part of a larger project of standing up the Operation Training Complex. When completed, it will be the largest flight simulator training complex in the Marine Corps and nearly the largest in Asia, providing training to our Navy and Marine Corps aviators.”-Tyler VandenBerg, engineer on MCAS Iwakuni
Here’s the official USMC video report:
WHAT’S IN A PROPHECY? MABUS NAMES WARSHIP AFTER HOMOSEXUAL LEADER WHO LIED!
World War Three, 2016: Snake River M1A2 SEP, Live Fire Romania!
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U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Corey Baltos, 07JUL2016.
My ‘alma matter’ 116th Armored Cav in Cincu, Romania, July 2016. (SNAKE RIVER IFVS INVADE ROMANIA!)
USA photo by Staff Sergeant Corey Baltos, 28JUL2016.
Idaho Army National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Kyle J. Warner, 02AUG2016.
During the last days of Saber Guardian 2016, Idaho, Montana & Oregon Army National Guard’s 116th CBCT M1A2 SEP tanks conduct live fire with their 120mm Rheinmetall guns, and there’s some vid of Canadian infantry firing their personnel weapons:
Small UAV (R/C drone) aerial video:
116th Cavalry (pronounced Cav-al-ry, not cal-vary) Brigade Combat Team Colonel Farin Schwartz and Romanian Colonel Julian Daniliuc comment about Saber Guardian:
Oregon Army National Guard photo by Captain John Farmer, 06AUG2016.
Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team (Oregon chapter) shooting up the Romanian Land Forces Combat Training Center. (OREGON CAPTAIN EXPLAINS WHY IDAHO BASED MILITIA INVADED ROMANIA!)
USAF F-35A “COMBAT READY” IN UTAH
OBAMA DEPLOYS INDIANA BLACKSNAKES A-10s TO SLOVAKIA
C-17 DUMPS HMMWVS ON SOUTH CAROLINA, AWESOME VID!
Snake River 116th’s 2015 NTC rotation on video (including Combined Arms Live Fire)
Vehicle I-D: USAF Florida ‘Surge Week’ F-35A Lightning-2
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Crews of the expensive, and long delayed, F-35 completed extensive mission training at Eglin AFB, Florida:
TAXPAYER PARIAH F-35A CALLS IDAHO HOME!