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World War 3: Final Shock for a Controversial Carrier?

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U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communications Specialist Third Class Jackson Adkins, 07AUG2021.

The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) was the first aircraft carrier since 1987 to undergo Full Ship Shock Trials (FSST) by the U.S. Navy (USN).

USN photo, 08AUG2021.

The third and final FSST for CVN 78 was 08AUG2021.

USN photo, 08AUG2021.

USN photo, 08AUG2021.

USN photo, 08AUG2021.

USN video by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Novalee Manzella, third FSST for CVN 78, 08AUG2021:

USN photo by Mass Communications Specialist Jackson Adkins, 16JUL2021.

The second shock trial was held in July of this year.  The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) was also the subject of that shock test.

USN video, by Seaman Apprentice Zachary Guth, of first CVN 78 FSST explosion and swell, 18JUN2021:

The USN conducts shock trials of new-build ships to find out if they can withstand combat conditions. CVN 78 is the USN’s newest aircraft carrier, and already is controversial.

Daily Press: Years late and billions more, The USS Gerald R. Ford is a lesson in how the Navy builds ships

Forbes: USS Ford Heads To Shock Trials With 4 Broken Elevators

The USN has used FSSTs for decades, testing new ship designs.

USN video of USS Milwaukee (LCS 5) FSST, September 2016:

USN photo Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Michael Bevan, 10JUN2016.

The USS Jackson (LCS 6) was the Guinea pig for a 2016 FSST:

USS Mesa Verde (LPD 19) FSST, September 2008:

FSSTs were conducted against the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) in 1990, the guided missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay (CG 53) in 1987, and the last time an aircraft carrier felt an FSST was USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) in 1987.

World War 3: USAF PREPS TO USE U.S. HIGHWAYS AS AIR BASES!

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World War 3: USAF preps to use U.S. Highways as Air Bases!

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“Our adversaries have advanced weapons systems and advanced technology that they can use against us, so we need to be able to operate efficiently in austere situations and gain proficiency in those operations.”-Lieutenant Colonel Brian Wyrzykowski, 127th Wing, Michigan Air National Guard

Michigan Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant David Kujawa, 05AUG2021.

Claiming to be a first, intentionally operating combat aircraft from a U.S. state highway (such operations having been done in Europe since the Cold War), the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and Michigan Air National Guard conducted operation Thunder LZ (Landing Zone), beginning on 05AUG2021. Thunder LZ involved Michigan Air Guard A-10Cs, U.S. Air Force A-10Cs from Arizona, and USAF C-146As from Florida.

Michigan Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Scott Thompson, 05AUG2021.

Notice how close the A-10C touched down to the police and fire vehicles.

Michigan Air National Guard cockpit video of Alpena (aka M32) Highway landing, 05AUG2021:

Michigan Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant David Kujawa.

It is part of wargame Exercise Northern Strike.  The highway is M-32, and involved the Michigan Department of Transportation, and a local electricity utility which had to take down some lines so the aircraft could safely land and take-off.  Local police were on scene, as well as fire fighters just in case.  But first, the M-32 had to be ‘taken’ (secured) by Special Tactics Airmen assigned to the 24th Special Operations Wing.

Michigan Air National Guard video explainer, by Staff Sergeant Drew Schumann:

More Michigan Air National Guard video, by Staff Sergeant Drew Schumann, of A-10Cs landing on the highway:

What if you were driving down the highway when you saw this coming at you? More video from by Staff Sergeant Drew Schumann:

Landings and take-offs:

Michigan Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Scott Thompson, 05AUG2021.

The USAF says using highways is part of its ‘near peer threat’ Agile Combat Employment (ACE) tactic. The aircraft used are C-146As (Dornier 328) and A-10Cs: “The A-10 allows us to land a lot more places to get fuel, weapons and other armaments so we can operate anywhere, anytime. This will allow us to get away from using built-up bases that our adversaries can target, by moving much more rapidly.”-Captain John Renner, 354th Fighter Squadron, Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona

Michigan Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Scott Thompson, 05AUG2021.

Michigan Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Scott Thompson, 05AUG2021.

Staff Sergeant Andrew Schumann shows what it looks like to see a C-146A land on the highway:

Notice that the U.S. military’s C-146A Wolfhound (Dornier 328) wears a ‘silly-vilian’ (civilian) paint scheme. More video of A-10Cs and the C-146A:

20JUN2016, National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant Amy M. Lovgren.

It’s not the first time using a highway for A-10Cs from Michigan’s 127th Wing.  In June 2016, 127th A-10Cs used a highway in Estonia, during wargame Saber Strike.

Since the days of the undeclared Cold War, NATO and ‘enemy’ forces have practiced using highways for impromptu air bases.  The use of Michigan’s M-32 is supposedly the first time a highway within the U.S. was used for such operations.  Sounds like the Cold War never went away.

Cold War NATO 1980: ‘Highway 84’ operations in Germany  

Banshee Heralds the Third World War: NEW GHOSTRIDER IN THE SKIES OVER NEW MEXICO!

RUSSIA INVADES FLORIDA?

Total Force/Pivot to Asia: OPERATION TURNING POINT

2017: “NEAR PEER THREATS”, CODE FOR RUSSIA & CHINA AND THE COMING 3RD WORLD WAR?

2014: “THIS IS WHERE ARMOR FIGHTS!” IDAHO NATIONAL GUARD RETURNS TO COLD WAR ERA ‘TOTAL FORCE’ WARFARE TRAINING!

 

Influenza

Vaccine Fail: New data says vaccines turn people into Super Incubators-Super Spreaders!

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A supposed ‘leak’ of a U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) report revealed that vaccines are not working to prevent infections, or to stop the spread of pathogens.  The new data also shows that it is actually vaccinated people that have become the biggest threat to people who are not vaccinated, not the other way ’round!

U.S. Navy photo by Macy Hinds.

One of the Powerpoint subtitles to the leaked CDC report is Breakthrough cases may reduce public confidence in vaccines, and also mentions Primary Vaccine Failure.  Breakthrough cases refer to vaccinated people getting infected and sick, even hospitalized, by the very thing the vaccine was supposed to prevent.  Click on this to read the leaked CDC Powerpoint presentation. 

In this video, Doctor John Campbell discusses the recently ‘leaked’ U.S. CDC’s Powerpoint presentation to the U.S. Congress, which explains why the CDC wants a return to mask wearing for everybody (vaccines actually turn people into super incubators/spreaders):

In this video, the U.S. state of Georgia warns residents that the Delta variant is as contagious as chickenpox, even if you’ve been vaccinated, vaccines will not halt the spread of new variants:

“Overall, 274 (79%) vaccinated patients with breakthrough infection were symptomatic. Among five COVID-19 patients who were hospitalized, four were fully vaccinated….. ….CDC recommended that all persons, including those who are fully vaccinated, should wear masks….”-CDC report titled Outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 Infections, Including COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Infections, Associated with Large Public Gatherings — Barnstable County, Massachusetts, July 2021

Pandemic Perfidy 2021: WORSE THAN WUHAN! IT’S IN THE SEWAGE! BLAME VACCINES?

Operation CoViD-19: COVERT PLAN TO DUMB-DOWN GLOBAL EDUCATION?

Vaccine Fail: MALARIA VS COVID, OR IS IT MALARIA + COVID?

Influenza

Pandemic Perfidy 2021: Worse than Wuhan! It’s in the sewage! Blame vaccines?

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It looks more and more like The Pandemic is actually a cover-up for some kind of global lockdown.  Incomplete list of links to news reports and studies, as of 02AUG2021:

Pokémon GO game makes changes, blames it on pandemic panic in United States and New Zealand!

CHINA: Millions under lockdown due to ‘Worse than Wuhan’ outbreak! 

Beijing now under travel restrictions, effectively sealing-off outside world! 

CoViD-19 tracking app crashes! 

Chinese ‘experts’ warn New York City to beware of new variants in the sewage!  

2019 Wuhan lab leak caused by waste treatment system renovations? 

Hong Kong begins forced vaccinations! 

COMMONEWEALTH OF NATIONS:

Australia; Despite strict lockdowns, 15-thousand rich people were allowed to travel into Australia in 2020! 

City of Sydney calls in the Army!

Brisbane now in lockdown! 

Queensland now in lockdown! 

Canada; Two U.S. citizens are fined for traveling with fake vaccine passports! 

India; Pandemic crashes sex industry, most sex workers went without work for as long as 16 months! 

New Zealand; Study says pandemic policies pushed 18-thousand children into poverty! 

South Africa; Lead scientist for CoViD research gives up, goes back to HIV research! 

Singapore; People allergic to mRNA vaccines told to take Sinovac. 

United Kingdom; Scientists say it’s only matter of time before coronavirus becomes vaccine proof!

U.K. using pandemic as excuse to control movement of people in and out of the Kingdom? 

DJIBOUTI:

U.S. Army photo by Private First Class Gauret Stearns.

Djibouti employees on Chabelley Airfield/Airport were vaccinated with U.S. vaccines on 29JUL2021.

INDONESEA: Extends Level 4 lockdown! 

U.S. Army photo by Specialist Rachel Christensen.

U.S. Army personnel got tested for CoViD in Baturaja, 28JUL2021, during wargame Garuda Shield.  Vaccines were also issued.

ISRAEL: Scientists say Pfizer vaccine is only 39% effective!

ITALY: Hackers shutdown vaccination appointment site!

JAPAN:

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Isaac W. Munce.

Japanese employees of U.S. Camp Foster, Okinawa, get U.S. vaccines on 26JUL2021.

PHILIPPINES: Extends night lockdown for Manila! 

THAILAND: Turns to home isolation as hospitals overwhelmed! 

UNITED STATES: 70% vaccination rate achieved, yet new infections skyrocket! 

The U.S. military is now telling military parents to combine multiple CoViD vaccines into one shot for their children!

Fauci swears U.S. taxpayer funding of China’s Wuhan Lab was necessary!

CDC admits vaccinated people are getting infected with new variants (75% of new cases in a Massachusetts town involved vaccinated people), it’s called Breakthrough Infections! CDC also confirms vaccinated people can spread coronavirus! 

Biden admin creates army of pro-vaccine propagandists, some states creating force of “local micro influencers” to push vaccines!   

Colleges are using pandemic taxpayer funding as a back-door way of helping returning students pay-down loans!

Employers forcing employees to get vaccinated is only dividing the country more!  

Colorado; City and county employees forced to be vaccinated! 

Florida; Sewage treatment operations in central Florida discover new variant in sewage! 

Year-in-Review video report on Florida National Guard’s response to pandemic:

 

Idaho; Pandemic refugees from fleeing metro areas flood into The Gem State, destroying the quality of life! 

Illinois; Testing proves it’s in the sewage!

Iowa; Officials confirm it’s in the sewage! 

Missouri; New variants spreading through sewage! 

University of Missouri found Delta variant in sewage almost one month before people started getting sick with Delta variant! 

Nevada; Lambda variant found in wastewater treatment centers!

New York; ‘Vaccine-dodging’ Covid variants found running rampant in New York City sewers as ‘DOGS and RATS now infected’!

Four new vaccine proof CoViD variants found in NYC!

Ohio;

Ohio Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Kregg York.

The state National Guard is greatly reducing its pandemic response force to just 40 personnel, and will focus on logistics and vaccinations, at least until federal funding runs out in September.

Washington; While claiming to have a high degree of confidence in vaccines, U.S. Navy Hospital Bremerton covertly admitted vaccines don’t work when they mandated mask wearing: “Regardless of vaccination status, masks will be worn whenever indoors in Department of Defense controlled buildings, such as the clinics and hospital, in areas of substantial or higher community transmission. Do not enter without a facemask!”-Captain Jeff Feinberg, NHB/NMRTC Bremerton

Wyoming: Yellowstone National Park mandates mask wearing “regardless of vaccination status”!

Operation Jupiter: COVID-19 JUST THE BEGINNING, GET READY FOR BIO-ELECTRIC WARFARE!

Pandemic Panic 2021: RECORD # OF FLU VAXS SHIPPED! H5N1 DEATH CONFIRMED! BLAME THE BRITISH EMPIRE?

Influenza

Operation CoViD-19: Covert plan to Dumb-Down Global Education?

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I stopped writing my Dumbing Down U.S.A. series in 2020 because schools shutdown, not just in the United States but globally.  In 2021, it is clear to me that the obviously leftist-liberal controlled global education system is just using the pandemic-panic-attack to hasten their control-through-dumbing-down agenda.

Incomplete (Tip-o-the-Iceberg) list of publicly announced education related layoffs, shutdowns and crimes, as of 30 July 2021:

Medical education is expected to become a big profit maker.

Governments around the world promise to somehow come up with USD$4-billion for global education CoViD-19 recovery! 

CHINA: Leftist-Liberal Communists lockdown companies involved in the education system.

New rules to reign-in private education. 

Commonwealth of Nations (British Empire since 1926): Survey shows Australian youth report that pandemic school lockdowns are the main reason for increased anxiety among students. 

Australia‘s strict pandemic travel restrictions are eroding international student programs for universities, more than AUD$2-billion lost in 2020 due lack of international students! 

Despite creating pandemic havoc with its own education system, Australia promises to spend millions from Aussie tax revenues on other countries education systems, through the Global Partnership for Education!

Canada’s education system being called “terribly expensive babysitting service”.

Canada‘s higher education system is failing in science.

Study says too many international students are coming from the same countries, reducing diversity on Canadian campuses. 

Organization calls for child-care and early childhood education, to be fully integrated into Canada‘s national school system. 

India used the 2020 pandemic-panic-attack to implement radical changes to the education system.

United Kingdom’s Prime Minister says the global education system is now the cure-all to every problem!

U.K. used 2020 pandemic-panic-attack to cut funding to United Nations’ education programs for females by 85%!

Online education company based in U.K. reports jump in profits due to pandemic forcing more students online! 

U.K. education safety ‘experts’ say taxpayers need to be squeezed for more anti-violence funding!

GERMANY: University students angry because they are still locked out of classrooms, despite people being allowed to go to bars and dance clubs. 

German taxpayer funded TV report about education problems in central Africa countries due to violence and pandemic-panic-attack.  As you watch the report, be aware that the United Nations is pushing for more and higher education in African countries that have no industries in which to provide employment to highly educated people, in other words they are putting the cart before the horse:

ISRAEL: Education minister opposes mandatory vaccines in schools! 

MONGOLIA: Since 2019, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has been paying Mongolian contractors to build kindergartens, more school construction projects are planned for 2022: “The U.S. government wants to provide buildings that are sustainable for Mongolia and it is helping to improve the Mongolia building standards by providing more energy efficient structures.”-Rebecca Rosenquist, USACE project manager

UNITED STATES: Study says the pandemic-panic-attack school shutdowns appears to have targeted ‘high-poverty’ students. 

Six People Indicted in International Scheme to Defraud Qatari School Founder and then Launder over $1 Million in Illicit Proceeds.

Dozens of parents begin protesting after a local board of education, in Alabama, unanimously approved school mask requirement.

An Alabama school resource officer (cop) arrested for sex crimes. 

Arkansas high school teacher pleads guilty to sex crime.

Leftist-Liberal Gavin Newsom establishes taxpayer raping $100-million ‘special education dispute’ fund, to settle possible lawsuits over California‘s pandemic-panic-attack school shutdowns!

California high school coach gets arrested for rape, school officials must’ve known because they fired the coach the day before the arrest.  

High school teacher in Colorado arrested for sex crimes.

Colorado music teacher accused of multiple sex crimes.

Test scores for Florida students crash, blamed on pandemic.

Georgia creates new Office of Rural Education and Innovation to enforce leftist-liberal agenda in the back-woods.

Obviously leftist-liberal Idaho Education News blames lack of more liberal education policies on Fox News and the Idaho Freedom Foundation.

Leftist-Liberal teachers in Iowa paranoid of students who are not vaccinated.

Two Iowa school employees found dead after they were accused of sex crimes.

Hawaii creates new distance learning rules.

Minnesota first grade teacher accused of grabbing student in the crotch.

Mississippi teacher will not be tried for a sex crime, apparently due to a technicality? 

Missouri universities offer scholarships for getting vaccinated! 

Nebraska Department of Education strips most references to gender identity from proposed health standards.

New Hampshire parents force politicians to change special education policies. 

In New Mexico, a high school coach is accused of dozens of same-sex sex crimes with students. 

New York elementary school principal accused of sex crimes with 24 students. 

Irony as Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, in New York, admit that their medical students are being stressed-out by pandemic-panic-attack policies at the school!

New York State Education Department admits they are being played like puppets by the Governor and State Health Department!

NYC wants more special education services.

Special education ‘providers’ in NYC demand more money.

South Carolina wants mandatory masks and vaccines in schools.

Tennessee creates law that would force beauty/barber schools to teach students how to identify signs of domestic violence. 

Texas introduces new education funding codes to reflect federal taxpayer funding directly related to the pandemic-panic-attack. 

In Virginia, officials at College of William & Mary reneged on their policy to wait until the U.S. FDA actually approved a CoViD vaccine (which is has not thus far, only for emergency use), and now mandates pandemic vaccinations for students! 

In Washington DC, the Federal Department of Education to spend $600-million in pandemic funding on homeless students. 

In Wisconsin, the city of Milwaukee wants to know how to improve education for ‘black’ males, apparently they believe the education system is just fine for everybody else. 

This video shows how the day-to-day operation of the U.S. education system is eerily similar to how prisons are operated:

Dumbing Down the U.S.A., January 2019: “IT’S OVERWHELMING.”

Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS): A phrase created by me to describe a phenomenon has been taking place across the United States for more than a decade, affecting both privately and publicly funded schools, from Kindergarten all the way through University levels.

Idaho, Technology, U.S.

U.S. Wildfires 2021: Wyoming & Colorado activates MAFFS, Nevada’s MAFF mission extended!

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“The request for additional support shows just how challenging this fire season is and how critical our MAFFS aircraft, aircrews and maintenance personnel are to supporting NIFC [National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho].”-Colonel Jeremy Ford, 152nd Airlift Wing, Nevada Air National Guard

Wyoming ANG photo by Technical Sergeant Jon Alderman.

On 19JUL2021, a Wyoming Air National Guard (ANG) C-130H MAFFS (Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System) was activated, and on 20JUL2021 was sent to battle wildfires in California.

Wyoming ANG photo by Technical Sergeant Jon Alderman.

The C-130H has been upgraded with a new propeller system.

Wyoming ANG photo by Technical Sergeant Jon Alderman.

Wyoming ANG video by Jacqueline Marshall, 19JUL2021:

Wyoming ANG photo by Technical Sergeant Jon Alderman.

Also on 19JUL2021, Colorado ANG activated a MAFFS to fight the fires in California.  Music video announcement by Staff Sergeant Laura Fitsmorris:

Earlier in the month, one California ANG C-130 MAFFS, and two Nevada ANG ‘High Rollers’ C-130 MAFFS began fighting fires in California.

CAL FIRE Air Tanker Base, McClellan Park. Nevada ANG photo by Senior Master Sergeant Paula Macomber.

Nevada’s ‘High Rollers’ just had their mission in California extended until August 26th!

MAFFS aircraft are only activated when it becomes clear that the private sector water bombers are overwhelmed, or will soon be, by the volume of wildfires.

NIFC in Boise, Idaho, warns that ‘Scary Fuel’ shortage could ground firefighting aircraft.

U.S. Wildfires 2021: Wyoming governor waves federal pandemic restrictions to ease aviation fuel shortage for water bombers

K-MAX & 10 TANKER, WAITING FOR THE CALL IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO

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U.S. Disaster 2021: Arizona Militia responds to flooding on top of Pandemic

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After more than a year and a half of pandemic-panic-attack operations, the Arizona Army National Guard (AZNG) is also dealing with flooding in Coconino County.

AZNG photo by Staff Sergeant Adrian Borunda.

AZNG video by Staff Sergeant Adrian Borunda, road repair in Coconino County, 22JUL2021:

AZNG photo by Staff Sergeant Elizabeth Smith.

AZNG video interviews by Staff Sergeant Elizabeth Smith, 24JUL2021:

U.S. Food Crisis, June 2021: Arizona National Guard continues pandemic-panic-attack food operations due to private sector logistics failure

U.S. Food Crisis, March 2021: National Guard pandemic food operations proves the private sector market system has failed

Operation CoViD-19:  Arizona National Guard using taxpayer funded trucks to transport produce to civilian owned grocery stores, April 2020

Food Crisis Hurricane Irma: ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA, MINNESOTA MILITIAS DELIVER SUSTENANCE!

Hurricane Harvey: ARIZONA MILITIA DEPLOYED

International

Disaster 2021: German Flood clean-up, USAF style

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Spangdahlem Air Base personnel volunteer to help with flood clean-up in Kyllburg and Auw an der Kyll, 14 -16 July 2021.

U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sergeant Laura Beckley.

USAF video by Master Sergeant Laura Beckley, clean-up operations in Auw an der Kyll, 16JUL2021:

USAF photo by Master Sergeant Laura Beckley.

USAF photo by Master Sergeant Laura Beckley.

USAF video interview by Technical Sergeant Anthony Plyler, Kyllburg, 14JUL2021:

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Anthony Plyler.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Anthony Plyler.

Disaster 2021: U.S. MILITARY RESPONDS TO GERMAN FLOOD, KNEW FLOOD WAS IMMINENT

International, Technology

Vehicle I-D: Last Days of the Digger’s M113

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Exercise Koolendong at Bradshaw Field Training Area, Northern Territory. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Sarah E. Taggett, 25AUG2021.

U.S. Marines walk along side a Digger-113. USMC photo by Corporal Lydia Gordon, 25AUG2021.

USMC photo by Cpl. Lydia Gordon, 25AUG2021.

USMC photo by Cpl. Lydia Gordon, 25AUG2021.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Sarah E. Taggett, 25AUG2021:

U.S. Army photo by Private First Class Matthew Mackintosh, 30JUL2021.

USA photo by Private First Class Matthew Mackintosh, 30JUL2021.

USMC photo by First Lieutenant Isaac Lamberth, 29JUL2021.

Digger is a nickname for Australian soldier.

M113AS4 night fire, 24JUL2021. Australian Defence Forces photo by Corporal Madhur Chitnis.

Wargame Talisman Saber (spelled Sabre in Australia) was first launched in 2005, it is held every two years, just missing the pandemic panic attack of 2020.  However, this year’s wargames (July 2021) supposedly included CoViD-19 health considerations, according to the U.S. Department of Defense that means reduced number of personnel and a mandatory 14-day quarantine.

USMC photo by Corporal Michael Jefferson Estillomo, 23JUL2021.

Officially the wargame was started by Australia and United States as part of the undeclared War on Terrorism (U.S. Congress never  declared war, they just authorized the President’s actions. A U.S. declaration of war is the same as declaring martial law domestically).  International participants in the Talisman Saber wargames now include British Empire (Commonwealth of Nations) members Canada, New Zealand and United Kingdom, and East Asian-U.S. occupied Japan and South Korea.  There were a couple of wargames where China deployed a Type 815G Dongdiao-class electronic surveillance ship to observe the goings-on.

USMC photo by Corporal Michael Jefferson Estillomo, 23JUL2021.

Since 1964 Australia has used the U.S. designed M113.  Originally with the gasoline motor, later the diesel motor, most were license built in Australia.  The Aussies have regularly upgraded their M113s, the latest in use is the Tenix M113AS4, in various versions like APC, Fitter, Logistics (a tracked pick-up truck).  However, the most recent round of upgrades was delayed by several years (as much as six years), now there is talk of phasing-out the M113 with a true Infantry Fighting Vehicle, possibly by a German or Korean company.

You know you’re in Australia when it says “Caution, Left Hand Drive”. USMC photo by Corporal Michael Jefferson Estillomo, 23JUL2021.

The M113s conduct their Talisman Saber games in Queensland.

USMC photo by Corporal Michael Jefferson Estillomo, 23JUL2021.

U.S. Navy Video, by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Jen S. Martinez, of Aussie Digger M113s waiting for something to do, 24JUL2021:

 

Older type M113s on a landing craft, July 2019. U.S. Army photo by Sergeant First Class Whitney C. Houston.

July 2017, Australian Defence Forces photo by Leading Aircraftman Dillon Anderson.

Notice the six roadwheels on the Digger’s M113, the U.S. M113 has five.

M113AS4, Exercise Talisman Saber 17 at Shoalwater Bay Training Area, Queensland. Australian Defence Forces photo by Sergeant Tiffany Edwards, 20JUL2017.

U.S. Navy photo by Woody Paschall, 15JUL2011.

USN photo by Woody Paschall, 15JUL2011.

Remember, NATO ‘partner across the globe’ Australia is also a member of the Commonwealth of Nations (the official name used for the British Empire since 1926). In 2002, while visiting the armor (armour) folks on Edmonton, I was told by members of the Canadian Lord Strathcona’s Horse that the United States had been secretly brought back into the Empire.  Australia’s M113 were produced by Tenix Defence, but in 2008 BAE (formerly known as British Aerospace or BAe) took over Tenix and created BAE Systems Australia.

Here’s some recent Empire shenanigans:

2021:  BRITISH EMPIRE & U.S. SPACE FORCE, ‘ALLIED BY DESIGN’?

The new U.S. M109A7 PALADIN is made by a BRITISH EMPIRE company!

Rivet Joint-Airseeker, 2020: RC-135V/W PATRIOT & RED COAT

Gun Ban Fail, 2019: SHOOTING IN AUSTRALIA, AGAIN! COPS KNEW WHO IT WAS AND DID NOTHING! 

Vaccine Fail 2017: 156% INCREASE IN AUSTRALIAN ‘HORROR FLU’! EXPERTS FALSELY BLAME SUPER SPREADER CHILDREN!

2016:  USAF B-52 TAKES PART IN AUSTRALIA’S CELEBRATION OF THE VIETNAM OCCUPATION!

OBAMA REGIME SECRET REFUGEE DEAL WITH AUSTRALIA!

FRACKING SETS AUSTRALIAN RIVER ON FIRE!

Destroy U.S. Dollar, 2015: AUSTRALIA FIRST TO USE CHINESE YUAN IN MAJOR TRANSACTIONS!

Gun Ban Fail, 2015: YET ANOTHER GUN RELATED INCIDENT IN COUNTRY THAT TOTALLY BANS GUNS!

2014: AUSTRALIA CREATES G20 MARTIAL LAWS! MORE PROOF YOUR ‘FEARLESS’ LEADERS ARE A BUNCH OF PARANOID-SCHIZOIDS!

World War Three, 2012: FIRST UNIT OF U.S. MARINES ARRIVES IN AUSTRALIA

MILITARY PACT WITH AUSTRALIA……..OBAMA SAYS THINGS WILL GET WORSE!

World War Three, 2011: PEACEPRIZE WINNER, OBAMA, SENDING THOUSANDS OF U.S. MARINES TO AUSTRALIA. PREP FOR WAR WITH CHINA, OR TRYING TO SAVE MONEY?

Idaho, Technology

Sentimental Journey: 1986-2021

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In July 2021, Sentimental Journey returned to the Pocatello Regional Airport, in Southeast Idaho.  It seems I always cross paths with this ancient restored aircraft, from the two decades when it was flown by the Confederate Air Force, to today’s Commemorative Air Force (just call it CAF).

Topping off the tanks.

Old meets new as modern day Challenger and Mustang drive out for a photo opportunity.

Staging the Challenger and Mustang.

Now it’s the people’s turn.

The people are so interested in the old bomber they don’t seem to notice the giant DC-10 water bomber that just landed.

If you had enough money you could get a ride in the B-17G bomber. Notice the K-Max firefighting helicopter in the background, lots of smoke in the air.

In March 2018, Sentimental Journey took part in CAF’s Tora, Tora, Tora display, over Luke Air Force Base in Arizona. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Tyler J. Bolken.

02OCT2012, at the War Eagles Air Museum, Doña Ana County Airport, New Mexico. Photo by Sergeant Jonathan Thomas.

U.S. Air Force video by Sergeant Adam Ross, getting ‘sentimental’ over the B-17, October 2012:

May 2001: Confederate Air Force has grown to more than nine thousand members in 27 states and three countries, however, many (‘woke’) members hate the name

November 2000: Confederate Air Force to change its Name due to the insidious ‘political correctness’ movement

Summer 1999, Pocatello Regional Airport.  My children Denise M. Hutchins, Aryssa M. Hutchins, Alexander B. Hutchins and Jennette McKay-Schow.

Nose gunner/bombardier station.

Alex loves .50-cals.

Denise’s .50-cal just jammed, Alex looks concerned!  The Japanese Zeros are swarming!

I don’t remember having to pay to tour the B-17G, but I did buy these Sentimental souvenirs, and a T-shirt which I wore-out long ago.

Me.

1991, ‘Don’t Mess with the Texas Confederate Air Force’ video:

December 1986: A Navigator’s final B-17 flight in Sentimental Journey

My immediate family’s connection to Sentimental Journey began in Summer 1986, when the restored flying fortress visited Edwards Air Force Base, California.  Photos by my father William Lewis Hutchins.

My baby brother Ernst F. Hutchins.

U.S. Air force photo by a Staff Sergeant Simons.

From 27APR1986, over Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, during the Gathering of Eagles ’86 tour.

According to CAF, the B-17G that became Sentimental Journey spent the last few months of World War Two over the Pacific.  After the war it was converted to serve as a boat carrying Search And Rescue plane out of Florida.  In the 1950s it was used as a drone controller during nuclear weapons tests.  In 1959, it went to the Bone Yard in Arizona, but shortly after that it was purchased by a firefighting company in California.  Sentimental Journey still uses the registration number assigned while it was a fire fighter.  In 1978 the B-17 water bomber was donated to the Arizona chapter of the CAF.  The name Sentimental Journey was the result of a local newspaper holding a contest for the name. The Arizona CAF members restored Sentimental Journey to its World War Two bomber configuration.  Amazingly, Sentimental Journey was fully restored as a bomber and flying air shows by the end of 1985/beginning of 1986.

1982, half hour long documentary explaining the reason for the Confederate Air Force-Ghost Squadron:

1981, British made hour long documentary explaining that the Confederate Air Force-Ghost Squadron was led by a totally made-up Confederate officer named Colonel Culpepper, and why the CAF was originally created.  Notice that at the beginning of the film one of the members says “…we shouldn’t apologize to anybody in the world for what we are or what we’ve been.”:

1963: THE CONFEDERATE AIR FORCE FLIES AT LAST

HOW TO PAINT YOUR 1:1 SCALE B-17 MEMPHIS BELLE WITH ‘PERIOD CORRECT’ (correctly mixed that is, 1940s style) PAINT

Pocatello Airport 1999, 2012 & 2014: Section Eight & Ole Yeller flies on