For some unknown reason, for a short time during the Cold War the U.S./NATO called both the BRDM-1 and BRDM-2 the BTR-40.
Warsaw Pact Poland BRDM-2 crossing a river.
BRDM-2 captured by U.S. forces during the invasion of Grenada (Operation Urgent Fury). U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Mike Creen, October 1983.
U.S. Marines captured this BRDM-2 during Operation Urgent Fury. U.S. Navy photo by Peter D. Sundberg, October 1983.
BRDM Sagger anti-tank missile version, referred to as the BTR-40 in some Western publications. U.S. Department of Defense photo dated November 1984.
Sagger missile launcher retracted. U.S. Department of Defense photo dated November 1984.
Launcher raised, one Sagger AT-3 onboard. U.S. Department of Defense photo dated November 1984.
A 1987 Czechoslovak film (including 1980s ‘East Bloc’ music) promoting the BRDM-2:
Photo released in the United States in April 1989, BRDM-2s follow behind a BTR-50P.
On display, Fort Irwin, National Training Center, California. U.S. Army photo dated January 1991.
On display, Fort Irwin, National Training Center, California. U.S. Army photo dated January 1991.
The U.S. Army added ‘Fake News’ Spandrel anti-tank missiles to this BRDM. Fort Irwin, National Training Center, California. U.S. Army photo dated January 1991.
Abandoned Iraqi BRDM-2 in Kuwait, during Operation Desert Storm. Apparently it was being used to haul trash. U.S. Department of Defense photo dated February 1991.
Several years after the unofficial Cold War ended, the U.S. Marine Corps was using BRDM-2s in a war game called Kernel Blitz ’97. U.S. Navy photo by Paul Self, 21JUN1997.
In 2014, a BRDM-2 was seen being used as a taxi in Saint Petersburg, Russia:
Russian Western Military District photo, August 2021.
Billions of investor dollars have been pumped into the vaccine maker’s coffers, along with the billions of taxpayer dollars used to purchase the vaccines for so-called free distribution to the public. For the past two years the global economy has been forced, by mandates of various governments, to focus on what has become what I call The Pandemic Industry, but will recent court rulings bring that financial/economic Tower of Babel crashing down?
Here’s an incomplete list of videos and links to reports out of the United States:
January 2022: Investment adviser in New York City says 28% of all U.S. dollars were created in 2020 & 2021 (essentially because of what I call The Pandemic Industry), and that continued government Pandemic focused spending will actually crash the economy for everybody else (he calls it a ‘Cobra Effect’). Also, The Pandemic has been used to hide inflation, which is now painfully obvious:
March 2020: Financial Times explains how much money is spent on (what I call The Pandemic Industry) vaccines:
Individuals in the United States suffering adverse reactions to vaccines need to self-report to the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Victims who have done so say it is time consuming and complicated, as if intended to dissuade you from making a report.
Official U.S. government video explanation of ‘no fault’ Childhood NVICP (which also hears cases involving adults):
“Applicants are likely to succeed on the merits of their claim that the Secretary lacked authority to impose the mandate. Administrative agencies are creatures of statute. They accordingly possess only the authority that Congress has provided. The Secretary has ordered 84 million Americans to either obtain a COVID–19 vaccine or undergo weekly medical testing at their own expense. This is no ‘everyday exercise of federal power.’ In re MCP No. 165, 20 F. 4th, at 272 (Sutton, C. J., dissenting). It is instead a significant encroachment into the lives—and health—of a vast number of employees.”–13JAN2022, U.S. Supreme Court ruling regarding the U.S. Secretary of Labor’s implementation of Biden’s vaccine mandate
Now, what happens to all those thousands of employers who began removing employees who refused to comply with the now illegal Biden vax mandate? Massive class-action lawsuits, anybody?
Individuals in the United States suffering adverse reactions to vaccines need to self-report to the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Victims who have done so say it is time consuming and complicated, as if intended to dissuade you from making a report.
Official U.S. government video explanation of ‘no fault’ Childhood NVICP (which also hears cases involving adults):
“The purpose of the exercise is to demonstrate a proof-in-concept that Kingsley Field is capable of hosting large-scale cargo aircraft in the event of a Cascadia Subduction Zone natural disaster.”– Lieutenant Colonel Chris Wright, 173rd Fighter Wing, Oregon Air National Guard
In June2019, the Oregon Air National Guard conducted the Cascadia Airlift disaster response exercise. It also included active U.S. Air Force units from Little Rock Air Force Base in Arkansas, and Yokota Air Base in Japan.
Oregon Air National Guard photo by Airman First Class Adam Smith, 07JUN2019.
The aircrews flew over the Astoria area of Oregon, practicing dropping humanitarian supplies from their C-130J Super Hercules aircraft. Oregon’s Kingsley Field has been selected as a location that might still be accessible after a CSZ (Cascadia Subduction Zone) event, and thereby allow government disaster response personnel to operate from.
Oregon Air National Guard photo by Airman First Class Adam Smith, 03JUN2019.
Oregon Air National Guard music video report, by Airman First Class Adam Smith, about the 2019 Cascadia Airlift Exercise:
But this was not the first Cascadia Airlift exercise, the first one was in July2018, also in Oregon. This involved C-130Js from Arkansas and Oregon’s 173rd Fighter Wing, on Kingsley Field. This shows the concern over a CSZ as the 173rd operates F-15 Eagle fighters, not C-130J cargo planes: “…we don’t normally host airlift. It was a blank slate and first proof-of-concept.”-Lieutenant Colonel Chris Wright, 173rd Fighter Wing, Oregon Air National Guard
Oregon Air National Guard photo by Airman First Class Adam Smith, 14JUL2018.
Oregon Air National Guard music video report, by Staff Sergeant Riley Johnson and Technical Sergeant Jason Van Mourik, about the 2018 Cascadia Airlift Exercise:
The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a fault that extends more than 6-hundred miles up the Pacific Coast, from Northern California to Canada, and historically (about every 3-hundred years) has generate 9+ magnitude catastrophic earthquakes, followed by massive tsunamis.
U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Paul Seeber, 15JAN2022.
U.S. Navy video by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Paul Seeber, worth only one penny Kitty Hawk leaves Naval Base Kitsap–Bremerton, Washington, for the breakers in Brownsville, Texas, 15JAN2022:
The estimated cost to build the Kitty Hawk range from $200-million to $400-million, in 1961 dollars. It was also estimated that every time the steam powered ‘supercarrier’ was overhauled it cost taxpayers between $65-million and $100-million. Kitty Hawk also underwent an $800-million Service Life Extension Program from 1990 to 1993. And the yearly cost (according to 1996 data) to operate the aircraft carrier was $141-million.
The Supercarrier’s keel was laid in December 1956, launched in May 1960, officially commissioned in April 1961.
Silent USN film by F. J. Stitt, christening of Kitty Hawk, 21MAY1960:
Silent USN film of Kitty Hawk’s commissioning day ceremonies, the film’s slate info is dated March 1961, yet the USN gives the commissioning date as April 1961 (the USN tends to hold the ceremonies a month before the ‘official’ commissionings/decommissionings):
In the middle of November 1961, the brand new CVA-63 took part in its first wargame at Camp Pendleton, California. I edited silent USN films (recorded by personnel with the last names of Miller, and Cobbs) to show just the scenes of CVA-63, there weren’t many scenes of CVA-63:
From 05 June to 07 June 1963, President John F. Kennedy paid a visit to CVA-63, to observe the 32 vessel “fleet weapons demonstration” and give a speech influenced by the previous year’s Cuban Missile Crisis. Silent USN film by J. H. Sturdevant:
In May2009, Kitty Hawk was ‘officially’ decommissioned and sent to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, State of Washington, for ‘mothballing’. Kitty Hawk was stricken from Naval records in October 2017.
U.S. Navy photo by Wendy Hallmark, 09MAR2021.
In March 2021, while the world was grappling with the new Delta Pandemic fear mongering, quietly the Kitty Hawk was moved into Dry Dock 6, of the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard-Intermediate Maintenance Facility, to prepare it for scrapping.
USN photo by Seaman Josue Escobosa, 02SEP2008.
In September 2008, Kitty Hawk sailed into Bremerton, Washington, for its decommissioning.
USN photo by Kyle Gahlau, 22AUG2008.
While in San Diego for its last time, Sailors removed anything that wasn’t tied down, like bedding.
USN photo by Kyle Gahlau, 07AUG2008.
After completing its last RimPac (Rim of the Pacific Exercise) in 2008, steam powered Kitty Hawk sailed past its replacement in San Diego, the nuclear powered USS George Washington CV-73. USS George Washington then left to take Kitty Hawk’s place at the port of Yokosuka, Japan, making CV-73 the first ‘forward deployed’ nuclear powered U.S. aircraft carrier.
USN video by Petty Officer Crockett, Kitty Hawk arriving for RimPac 2008:
USN photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew White, 28MAY2008.
In May 2008, Kitty Hawk left its home port of Yokosuka, where it had been based from 1998 to 2008.
Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily halted President Biden’s vaccine mandate for private sector workers, including cross border truckers. However, Canada has imposed a vax mandate on truckers crossing the U.S.-Canada border and already Canada is reporting that the cost to truck produce (fruit & veg) from the U.S. into Canada jumped by 25%!
Canada’s vax mandate on truckers began on 15 January, while Biden’s mandate was supposed to start on 22 January. Canada’s mandate is already causing massive delays in shipping, even cancelations, which result in less product in the stores to meet demand, which jacks-up prices. Also, ‘fully’ vaccinated drivers can now command top pay, again causing prices for end users (consumers) to go up.
Driver’s from Mexico, crossing through the U.S. into Canada, must also meet the new vax mandate.
Don’t take my word, here’s a list of links and video reports:
Truck dispatching company, AFT Dispatch/A2C Logistics Co, says Canada-U.S. vax mandates are double whammy for already struggling logistics operations, affecting at least 38-thousand truckers, as well as prices for food, lumber and oil:
CTV News warns of massive loss of drivers, government official says vax mandates are a good thing:
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reports government officials made an ‘error’ in reporting vax mandate for truckers:
South Carolina National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Jorge Intriago, 10JUL2012.
In July 2012, the skeletal remains of a South Dakota National Guard Bell H-13B Sioux (serial #1, built in 1948, note that this Sioux used wheels instead of skids) was loaded into the belly of a South Carolina National Guard Boeing CH-47D Chinook.
South Carolina National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Jorge Intriago, 10JUL2012.
The Sioux flew from South Dakota’s National Guard Museum, to South Carolina for restoration and display in the South Carolina Military Museum.
South Carolina National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Jorge Intriago, 10JUL2012.
The Sioux being worked towards a hungry Chinook.
South Carolina National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Jorge Intriago, 10JUL2012.
Sioux #1 chained, heading for a new home.
South Carolina National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Jorge Intriago, 10JUL2012.
Hungry, hungry Chinook!
South Carolina National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Jorge Intriago, 10JUL2012.
In 2014, Sioux #1 was ready for display in the South Carolina Military Museum’s new second building (which happened by February 2015).
Silent film from Korea Police Action, 26AUG1951, a Sioux H-13B on the ground as an H-13D (with skids instead of wheels) lands behind it, they were transporting officials to some kind of ceremony:
This is the U.S. Navy/Coast Guard version known as the HTL.
On 07JAN2022, the commander of 97% fully vaccinated Wright Paterson Air Force Base in Ohio, United States, raised the Health Condition Alert to ‘Delta’, blaming it on infection rates in the civilian communities surrounding the U.S. Air Force base, note that fully vaccinated healthcare workers are getting infected as well, the commander then begs people to wear masks despite the recent proof that masks don’t work:
Incomplete list of videos and links to global main-stream reports about what is now being called ‘Delta-cron’:
It is grammatically incorrect to say somebody is ‘unvaccinated’. You cannot vaccinate a person and then un-vaccinate them! People who are not vaccinated are simply ‘not vaccinated’ or ‘non-vaccinated’, they cannot be ‘unvaccinated’!
UNITED KINGDOM: Taxpayer funded doctor confronts the Health Secretary, says that despite new vaccine mandates he will not get vaccinated, points out that natural immunity is better than booster shots, for booster shots to work people will have to get them every month:
Prime Minister says people who don’t get vaccinated are “absolutely crazy”:
Incomplete list of photos and videos of the latest U.S. military operations inside private sector hospitals, under the guise of fighting the Pandemic (so called Whole-of-Government Covid Response, run by U.S. Army Northern Command, beginning on August 2021), as of 08January 2022:
07JAN2022, AZ Family report says Arizona‘s Pandemic ‘senior adviser’ wants to militarize hospitals:
Photo via FEMA/DLA, 07JAN2022.
The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency opened a FEMA ordered federal ‘surge’ testing center in southwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 07JAN2022.
06JAN2022, WMGT report on militarization of hospitals in Georgia:
U.S. Army video by Specialist Richard Barnes, showing U.S. Air Force medics operating inside Yuma Medical Center and the Yuma Monoclonal antibodies clinic, in Arizona, 06JAN2022:
U.S. Defense Logistics Agency photo by Shannon Mormon, 06JAN2022.
In-processing of Ohio National Guard personnel, for duty in hospitals across the state, continued on 06JAN2022 at the U.S. Defense Supply Center in Columbus.
Ohio’s governor, and his wife, observe the in-processing of thousands of Guard personnel at the U.S. Defense Supply Center in Columbus. U.S. Defense Logistics Agency photo by Shannon Mormon, 06JAN2022.
It was in mid-December that the gov’na of Ohio ordered 2-thousand-3-hundred National Guard to report for hospital duty!
06JAN2022, KPBS report on militarization of San Juan Regional Medical Center in New Mexico:
Louisiana National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant David Kirtland, 05JAN2022, New Orleans, Louisiana.
The Louisiana National Guard is still conducting drive-thru testing in the Mahalia Jackson Center in New Orleans.
New Jersey National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Jorge Morales, 05JAN2022, Sea Girt, New Jersey.
On 05JAN2022, additional New Jersey Air and Army National Guard personnel began reporting for the ongoing Task Force Covid Guardian. The gov’na of New Jersey announced the expansion of Task Force Covid Guardian a day after the above photo was taken.
U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Kaden D. Pitt, 05JAN2022, Elliot Hospital in Manchester, New Hampshire.
On 05JAN2022, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) deployed medics to Elliot Hospital in New Hampshire. Video, by U.S. Army (USA) Sergeant Kaden D. Pitt, of USAF medics getting familiar with operations at Elliot Hospital:
Maryland National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Chris Schepers, 04JAN2022, governor’s meeting about Pandemic operations.
04JAN2022, WTHR gives update on militarization of IU Health and Riley Children’s hospitals in Indiana:
USA Specialist Raekwon Jenkins video interviews with USAF medics working on Mercy Health Mercy Campus in Muskegon, Michigan, 04JAN2022:
Connecticut National Guard photo by Second Lieutenant Steven Tucker, 04JAN2022, Hartford, Connecticut.
As of 04JAN2022, the Connecticut National Guard was still operating mass-testing sites for the Pandemic.
Video by USA Specialist Logan Ludwig, showing U.S. military personnel working in Bellin Hospital in Green Bay, Wisconsin, 04JAN2022:
Puerto Rico National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Tomas Ramirez, 04JAN2022, Caguas, Puerto Rico.
Operation Continue Safe is Puerto Rico‘s drive-thru Pandemic testing operation, conducted by the National Guard.
Amazingly, on 03JAN2022 the state of Oregon began reducing the number of National Guard medics working in private sector hospitals. The state-ordered hospital militarization operation is called Joint Task Force Reassurance, and between August and the end of December 2021 more than 1-thousand-5-hundred Guard personnel were deployed, many with short notice creating a burden for their civilian employers.
Connecticut National Guard video, by Timothy Koster, showing the distribution of taxpayer funded at-home Pandemic test kits, 03JAN2022, in North Haven:
USA video by Specialist Ashleigh Maxwell, showing USAF medics working in WellSpan York Hospital, Pennsylvania, 03JAN2022:
USA photo by Sergeant Andre Taylor, 02JAN2022, Commonwealth Health Regional Hospital of Scranton in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
On 02JAN2022, USAF medics from Mississippi began reporting for duty at Commonwealth Health Regional Hospital of Scranton, in Pennsylvania.
Is this about lack of staffing at private sector hospitals, is it about private sector hospitals getting free (taxpayer funded) medical help, is it the failure of ‘Obamacare’/ACA healthcare, or is there some other ulterior reason?
SOVIET ARMOR OF THE U.S. MARINE CORPS
Ukraine still uses BRDM-2s
