Task Force Spartan photo by Master Sergeant Matthew Keeler, 23FEB2023.
Externally, the M1A2K looks like the M1A2SEP with remote controlled Tank Commander’s (TC) weapon system, and an external cooling and auxiliary electrical power generator mounted in the bustle rack on the back of the turret.
Kuwaiti Land Forces photo, July 2021.
One promotional photo shows an M1A2K with an additional .50 cal machine gun mounted on the main-gun-mantlet, ‘Israeli’ style, as well as a possible .50 cal mounted on the gun-ring of the Loader’s hatch.
Kuwaiti Land Forces photo, July 2021.
‘In the field’ photos of the M1A2K shows the standard M240 machine gun at the Loader’s station, no .50 cal mounted on the main-gun-mantlet but there is a machine gun mount present. Perhaps the only visual identifier is the .50 cal machine gun mount on the main-gun-mantlet?
Video (by Claudia LaMantia) of brand new M1A2K Abrams offloaded upon the Port of Shuaiba, Kuwait, 03MAR2023:
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Camp Buehring, Kuwait, photo by Specialist Rhema Eggleston, 15MAY2023.
The 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team (aka Snake River Brigade, one of my military alma maters) is Idaho’s largest Army National Guard unit. The brigade is located in more than 20 Idaho communities as well as units in Montana, Nevada and Oregon. The 2-116th Cavalry Regiment is headquartered in Caldwell with units in Emmett and Nampa, but is currently deployed to Kuwait as the 2-116 Combined Arms Battalion (2-116 CAB).
Camp Buehring, Kuwait, photo by Specialist Rhema Eggleston, 15MAY2023.
Photo by Staff Sergeant Latasha Price, 18MAY2023.
Photo by Specialist LaTasha Ross, 18MAY2023.
Video by Claudia LaMantia, M1A2 Abrams live fire on Udairi Range, Kuwait, 19MAY2023:
M12A1 Heavy Decontamination Apparatus. Photo by Specialist LaTasha Ross, 18MAY2023.
2-116th CAB M1A2 on Camp Buehring, Kuwait, 20FEB2023. Task Force Spartan photo by Specialist David Campos-Contreras.
An Idaho Army National Guard 2-116 CAB M1A2 Abrams battle tank gets loaded onto a USAF C-17 Globemaster-3 (from Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina), on Ali Al Salem air base, Kuwait, 20MAY2023. USAF video by Senior Airman Jacob Cabanero:
Idaho’s 2-116 CAB relieved their sibling unit, Bravo Company of the the 3-116 Cavalry, towards the end of 2022 (which had deployed at the end of 2021). While the 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team is based in Idaho, the 3rd Battalion of the 116th CBCT is located in Oregon.
A 3-116th Cav M1A2 is loaded onto a C-17 cargo plane. U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sergeant Matthew Plew, 22AUG2022.
B-Co/3-116th officially ended their deployment on 05MAR2023, with a demobilization ceremony in Hermiston, Oregon.
“This is a world-class range that is run very well. The units here in Idaho, along with the range, OCTC [Orchard Combat Training Center], and Mountain Home communities have taken care of us every time we’ve come up here. If we find ourselves in a jam, or need something or don’t know this procedure or that procedure, we get nothing but help here.”-Master Sergeant Daniel Haack, JTAC manager for 11th Marine Regiment, 1st MARDIV
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Dean Gurule, 17APR2023.
In April 2023, the U.S. Marine Corps launched operation (Exercise) Garnet Rattler, seizing the U.S. Air Force’s gunnery range known as Saylor Creek, in Southern Idaho.
USMC photo by Corporal Dean Gurule, 17APR2023.
The use of the word ‘garnet’ is appropriate because Idaho is officially known as The Gem State. Exercise Garnet Rattler is about training Joint Tactical Air Controllers (JTAC): “Garnet Rattler’s main objective is to take entry level joint terminal attack controllers, forward air controllers, air officers and joint fires observers, and put them in a live-fire environment that has a lot of maneuver flexibility, as well as aviation employment, in order to train realistic scenarios for their entry level controls in the fleet.”-Master Sergeant Daniel Haack, JTAC manager for 11th Marine Regiment, 1st MARDIV
U.S. Marine Corps video report by Corporal Dean Gurule, 29APR2023, note the Idaho Air National Guard’s 124th Fighter Wing/190th Fighter Squadron A-10Cs in action, also, a Mountain Home Air Force Base (AFB) F-15E pilot admits it is all about “…the Air Force and Marines are starting look to the Pacific and preparations for the Near Peer fight…”:
The following USMC videos, recorded (between 10-29APR2023) by Corporal Dean Gurule and Lance Corporal Juan Torres, have been edited by me.
“Rotors comin’ in!”:
Mountain Home AFB F-15E Strike Eagle:
USMC photo by Lance Corporal Juan Torres, 26APR2023.
Machine guns & mortars:
Idaho National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Joseph Morgan, 25APR2023.
Idaho Air National Guard’s 124th Fighter Wing/190th Fighter Squadron’s A-10C Thunderbolt-2 (remember, the ‘woke’ USAF has been trying to get rid of this awesome aircraft):
Mexican news media report drug gangs on the U.S./Mexico border are using anti-tank weapons (they are Swedish made AT-4 non-guided anti-tank rockets, the report incorrectly calls them Javelin guided anti-tank missiles):
24 hours after the governors of South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia announced deployments of Army National Guard personnel to the Joint Task Force Lone Star operation, in Texas, several more states throw their hats in the ring.
On 01JUN2023, Arkansas, North Dakota and Ohio ordered additional militia personnel to the border with Mexico.
El Paso fence. Joint Task Force Lone Star photo by Mark Otte, 10MAY2023.
The Statehouse News Bureau reports that Mike DeWine, Governor of Ohio, ordered a new rotation of 50 National Guard personnel, for October. There are currently 125 Ohio state militia personnel in Texas.
On 31MAY2023, the governors of South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia ordered National Guard units to patrol the Texas/Mexico border! There are now eight U.S. states deploying National Guard units to take part in Operation Lone Star (aka Joint Task Force Lone Star), along the border with Mexico.
Texas Army National Guard video by Specialist Joe Cantu, Joint Task Force Lone Star (JTFLS), El Paso, 09MAY2023:
Idaho’s 124thFW/190thFS A-10C and Brazilian A-29B Super Tucano, on Nellis AFB, Nevada, June 2019.
Remember when Idaho and Brazil joined forces and occupied the U.S. Air Force’s Nellis Air Force Base (AFB) near Las Vegas, in Nevada, so they could launch airstrikes on the U.S. Army’s National Training Center in California?
It was called Operation Green Flag West, launched from Nellis AFB, Nevada, 03-14JUN2019.
A-10C Thunderbolt-2 (aka Warthog). Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Mercedee Wilds, 08JUN2019.
Brazilian A-29B (Embraer EMB 314) Super Tucano. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Joshua C. Allmaras, 08JUN2019.
U.S. Air Force report (edited by Staff Sergeant Danny Rangel) explaining why Idaho and Brazil joined forces, 09JUN2019:
Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Joshua C. Allmaras, 08JUN2019.
Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Mercedee Wilds, 08JUN2019.
14JUN2019, another USAF video explainer (by Technical Sergeant Danny Rangel):
Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Mercedee Wilds, 08JUN2019.
Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Joshua C. Allmaras, 04JUN2019.
Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of video reports, and links, to U.S. Christian Rapture oddities, as of 30MAY2023 of the Gregorian (western christian) calendar.
The following is an incomplete list of video reports, and links to official news reports, about the purge of U.S. military commanding officers, for the past year!
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Robert ‘Rob’ Roos, representative to the European so-called Parliament, from Netherlands, gives warning about new United Nations attempt to become defacto global government through healthcare:
Incomplete list of video reports, and links to news reports, of recent state National Guard developments, as of 26MAY2023:
More proof never ending deployments are having a negative effect on U.S. families:
ARKANSAS:
Arkansas Army National Guard Photo by Sergeant Maddie Fortune, 12MAY2023.
The Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion-153d Infantry Regiment, prepped for their deployment to the Middle East/Operation Spartan Shield!
National Guard video (by Sergeant Madeline Fortune) of Arkansas and Missouri Guard personnel learning how to use the Javelin for their deployment:
CALIFORNIA: National Guard deployed to San Francisco, as the drug crisis explodes in ‘The Golden City’!
FLORIDA: 8-hundred National Guard personnel deploying alongside police, to Texas!
ILLINOIS:
Illinois Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Trenton Fouche, 04MAY2023.
From 02-06MAY2023, the 6/54th Security Force Assistance Brigade conducted ‘pre-mobilization’ training.
IOWA:
U.S. Army photo by Master Sergeant Daniel Griego, 24MAY2023.
The Air National Guard’s 132nd Medical Group took part in medical training in the Gjakova District of Kosovo, 24MAY2023.
LOUISIANA: 773rd Military Police Battalion deploying to NATO-Europe!
MICHIGAN:
Michigan Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Patrick Mayabb, 13MAY2023.
Bravo Battery-1-182nd Field Artillery Regiment, Michigan Army National Guard, practiced loading their HIMARS onto a C-17, while deployed to NATO-Estonia, 13MAY2023.
New Jersey Army National Guard photo by Specialist Michael Schwenk, 21MAY2023.
On 21MAY2023, Army National Guard personnel boarded busses for Fort Polk, Louisiana, to take part in a massive ‘large scale combat operations in a multi-domain setting against a near-peer opposing force’ wargame. The more than 5-thousand National Guard personnel wargame will also include militia personnel from Puerto Rico!
New York Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Sean Madden, 06MAY2023.
New York and Massachusetts National Guard units conducted combat rescue Operation Jawbreaker training on Warren Grove Range, in New Jersey, 05-07MAY2023: “These Special Forces units can greatly enhance our warfighting and ground base defense capabilities so that we are able to better prepare for near-peer adversaries.”-First Lieutenant Al Romano
NEW YORK:
New York Army National Guard photo by Specialist Jean Sanon.
160 Army National Guard Military Police said goodbye to their friends and family during a deployment ceremony at Monroe Community College on 16MAY2023. They are deploying for the next year to NATO-Poland, but first stop is Fort Bliss, Texas, for additional training.
U.S. Army photo by Private Zachary Brown, 02MAY2023.
Rhode Island Army National Guard practiced loading their vehicles onto Rhode Island Air National Guard C-130J Super Hercules, while on Fort Drum in New York, 02MAY2023.
NORTH CAROLINA: National Guard trains for cyber warfare, Operation Tobacco Road.
OHIO:
Ohio Air National Guard photo by Airman First Class Sarah Stalder Lundgren, 05MAY2023.
Air National Guard F-16 Falcons took part in a large-scale readiness exercise, in Swanton, 05MAY2023.
OKLAHOMA: National Guardsman arrested in Texas!
TENNESSEE: 1-hundred militia personnel deploying to Texas!
Washington National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Adeline Witherspoon, 10MAY2023.
On 10-11MAY2023, the Washington and Montana National Guards spent the weekend conducting FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) Region 10 training to integrate guard units with federal and local civilian emergency response personnel, for chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear disasters. The training included load-up of a C-130J Super Hercules: “This is a true joint-training event between the Washington and Montana National Guard and active duty. This was also the first time we practiced loading onto a C-130J airframe.”-Senior Master Sergeant Adam Brunneman
Washington Army National Guard photo by Private First Class Abigail Clark, 07MAY2023.
Washington Army National Guard’s Field Support teams 1556 and 1567 deploying to U.S. Southern Command (SouthCom) and Central Command (CentCom) areas of responsibility.
Washington Army National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Adeline Witherspoon, 30APR2023.
At the end of April, the Washington National Guard began prepping for the 2023 wildfire season.
Washington DC:
Washington DC National Guard photo by Senior Airman Natalie Filzen, 21APR2023.
DC Air National Guard personnel prepare for possible deployment from Joint Base Andrews, in Maryland, 21APR2023.
IDAHO ARMOR ROLLS OVER KUWAIT!
KUWAITI القوات الجوية الكويتية A-4KU SKYHAWK
