“You do not forget this sound, ever! North Vietnamese people, we know what is B-52.”-Vu Duy Thanh, survivor of B-52 strikes in Vietnam, and witness to B-52 strikes on Iraq during Operation Desert Storm
Delamere Training Range in Northern Australia
On 18 August 2016, U.S. Air Force B-52H bombers taking part in exercise Pitch Black were diverted to the British empire country of Australia, to take part in Australia’s Vietnam Remembrance Day.
Video fo B-52s being diverted over Australia:
Australia’s Vietnam Rememberance Day is set on the date of the Battle of Long Tan, which took place in 1966. Supposedly 1-hundred Diggers (Aussie soldiers) and three Kiwis (New Zealanders) were surrounded by 2-thousand Vietnamese. According to Australian news sources, without explanation the Vietnamese halted their assaults after three-and-a-half hours. 18 Diggers killed, 21 wounded. The Australians claim they killed 245 Vietnamese druing the battle.
Royal Australian Regiment (the ‘Royal’ means they’re still under controll of the British monarchy) following the sudden end of the Battle of Long Tan
It should be noted that veteran Digger commander Harry Smith, who took part in the Battle of Long Tan, openly criticizes Australia’s Vietnam Rememberance Day pointing out that Australians would be “up in arms” if Japan had an national holiday celebrating it’s bombing of the Aussie port of Darwin (Japan conducted air raids on Australia from 1942-43).
Amazingly there are news reports saying Vietnam actually gave the Aussie government the go-ahead to celebrate the U.S. led occupation of Vietnam, in Vietnam! More than 1-thousand Australians went to Vietnam for Vietnam Rememberance Day, that’s ten times the number of Diggers surrounded at the Battle of Long Tan!
But to add even more insult to the Vietnamese veterans who fought against occupation, the U.S. Air Force diverted two B-52H bombers to Australia for the celibrations. The B-52 bomber became an infamous icon of genocide during the Vietnam occuation after bombing “them into the Stone Age”. In 1995, the Vietnamese government claimed that U.S. airstrikes (from 1965-74) caused most of the 2-million civilian causualties during the occupation!
The final, and ‘heaviest’ B-52 bombing missions over Vietnam were ordered by president Richard Nixon, about 20-thousand tons of bombs dropped in one week of December 1972!
Remains of B-52 still visible in Hanoi today. For a long time the USAF denied its B-52s were being shot down by the ‘stone aged’ Vietnamese
B-52 shoot down over Hanoi:
It was called Linebacker II, also known as Christmas Bombings (isn’t that nice of you ‘christians’?). Here’s audio of Nixon and Henry Kissinger talking about creating a False Flag excuse for launching the Christmas Bombings:
They were bombed “back to the Stone Age”, the U.S. and Australia never lost a battle, but who won the war?
“The Americans are still relying on their large, sophisticated war machine with electronics and awesome carpet bombs. That’s their strong point. But they have always underestimated their enemy. That’s their weakness…”-Bui Tin, former Colonel in People’s Army of Viet-Nam (PAVN), February 1991
“No army has ever surrendered because they were subjected to heavy bombardment.”-Eugene J. Carroll Junior, retired USN Rear Admiral, February 1991
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Clarence A. Leake.
USMC 1st Tank Battalion, 1st Marine Division, during a Large Scale Exercise (LSE) on Twentynine Palms, California, August 2016.
USMC photo by Corporal Clarence A. Leake.
Being a ‘tanker’ is more than just ‘humping’ rounds; there’s lots of busting wheel hubs and tracks, fueling, a little mine/lane clearing and then finally some live fire:
USMC photo by Corporal Clarence A. Leake.
USMC photo by Corporal Clarence A. Leake.
Notice the 120mm round has a shell casing made of clear combustible plastic/cellulose, the silver-grey color is the explosive charge. The steel end-cap on the combustible shell-casing is called the afcap, it contains the primer charge. The afcaps get recycled onto new 120mm rounds. Kit bashers note that USMC M1A1s have features not found on U.S. Army M1A1s.
USMC photo by Corporal Clarence A. Leake.
A Mine Clearing Line Charge (MCLC, pronounced mic-lic) fired from an amphibious AAV.
USMC photo by Corporal Clarence A. Leake.
MCLC explosion.
In this video a Marine officer tells you how proud he is of his tankers:
On 16 August, while conducting search ops in Saint Amant, Louisiana, the U.S. Coast Guard spotted a herd of cows nonchalantly walking down the flooded main street of town:
Since 13 August, the U.S. Coast Guard has rescued more than 2-hundred people and at least 57 pets from the record level flooding in Louisiana!
As a show of force against ‘enemies’ in the oil rich South China Sea area (anybody remember the U.S. occupation of Vietnam?) The U.S. Air Force is conducting strategic bomber ops using all three of its strategic bombers for the first time.
“The unique thing about our opportunities here as part of the continuous bomber presence is we really have the chance to train across all of the mission sets that the B-1 is capable of. We will routinely, on a day-in and day-out basis, get to train with the land, air and naval forces of both the US and our allies and partners in the region. It’s really an unmatched training opportunity for our squadron.”-Lieutenant Colonel Seth Spanier, commnader 34th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron
B-1B Lancer (aka Bone) from South Dakota takes part in bomber operations at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam
“It also gives us the chance to work with other bomber aircraft we have inside Air Force Global Strike Command as well as some of our regional allies and partners for national security and deterrence in this part of the world.”-Lieutenant Colonel Keith Butler, 13th Bomb Squadron director of operations for the B-2
B-2 Spirit from Missouri taking part in bomber operations at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam
“We’ve been out here the past six months flying Pacific Power Projection sorties, so all over the Pacific area of responsibility doing assurance deterrence missions.”-Captain Kaitlin Tardieu, B-52 driver
B-52 Stratofortress from North Dakota takes part in bomber ops at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam
The B-1, B-2 and B-52 have been to the U.S. Territory of Guam before, but not as a combined bomber team. The U.S. Pacific Command’s area of operation covers 52% of the world!
Just days after unprecedented rainfall, causing ongoing deadly flooding, the air force of South American country Columbia seized Barksdale U.S. Air Force Base in Louisiana!
Columbian C-130 Herky Bird parked in front of USAF B-52 Stratofortress
A-29B Super Tucano COIN (COunter INsurgency) birds and C-130 transports of the Fuerza Aérea Colombiana touched down at Barksdale the day after the record flooding began.
National Guard F-16
Don’t worry, It’s not a real invasion, it’s part of wargames called Green Flag East, and includes F-16s from the Alabama and Texas militias. Video of FAC arrival:
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.