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Idaho’s heritage A-10C ‘8N’

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Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Joshua C. Allmaras.

P-47D Thunderbolt bubble-top 8N-X.

“It’s more than just history, it’s our heritage, it’s who we are.”-Major Tom Silkowski, Idaho’s 190th Fighter Squadron

P-47D Thunderbolt ‘Black Jack’ code 8N-O, 371st FG-405th FS.

Towards the end of May 2021, the Idaho Air National Guard unveiled their heritage ‘8N’ A-10C Thunderbolt-2.  8N is the squadron code for the U.S. Army 9th Air Force-371st Fighter Group’s 405th Fighter Squadron.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Joshua C. Allmaras.

It was part of 75th anniversary celebrations for the 190th Fighter Squadron’s(FS) birthday, 24MAY1946.  The old 405th FS logo was added to the nacelles after returning from its heritage paint job in Iowa.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Joshua C. Allmaras.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Joshua C. Allmaras.

The 190th FS evolved out of the 405th FS, which flew P-47 Thunderbolts during World War Two (hence the false tail number 405190). In 1944, P-47s of the 405th carried the code 8N on their fuselages: “Every aspect of that paint job, down to the smallest detail, is deliberate and faithful to how our P-47’s looked in the summer of 1944. We weren’t going for glitz and a superficial ‘wow factor.’ This isn’t a toy airplane; it’s one of our beautiful A-10 Thunderbolt-2s dressed in the same scheme worn by our P-47 Thunderbolts in World War Two. It’s like a little boy wearing his dad’s military uniform. I think that’s what makes it so special.”-Major Tom Silkowski, Idaho’s 190th FS

An ‘8N’ P-47D somewhere in France, 1944.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Joshua C. Allmaras.

On 07JUL2021, 8N took part in refuel training over Mountain Home Air Force Base (AFB), Idaho.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Mercedee Wilds.

The refueling was done by a KC-135 Stratotanker from the 507th Air Refueling Wing (ARW), Tinker AFB, out of Oklahoma.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Mercedee Wilds.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Mercedee Wilds.

But it is not the first time 8N got refueled mid-flight.  On its way home from the heritage paint job (done at the Air National Guard Paint Facility in Sioux City), the Iowa Air National Guard’s 185th ARW provided fuel for the flight back to Idaho.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Mercedee Wilds.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Mercedee Wilds.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Mercedee Wilds.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Mercedee Wilds.

Iowa Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot.

Iowa Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot.

Iowa Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot.

Iowa Air National Guard video, by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, of 8N (sans 405th FS logo) being pull from the paint shop, 05MAY2021:

Iowa Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot.

1944(?) France, P-47 ‘Mumbling Joe’ 8N-H, 371st FG-405th FS.

March 2021: MORALE BOOSTER A-10C GUN-RUN IN IDAHO!

2012 Pocatello Airport:

The awesome A-10 is the last of Idaho’s Air National Guard air assets. Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

IDAHO NATIONAL GUARD A-10C THUNDERBOLT 2 ‘walkaround’

Idaho, U.S.

U.S. Wildfires, 2021: For first time, Idaho mobilizes Militia for fire duty!

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For the first time in Idaho’s history, the governor has mobilized the National Guard specifically for fighting fires:

Snake River Complex Fire, KHQ-TV says residents told to fight the fire themselves!

People told to evacuate areas around John Creek Fire.
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Real time Idaho fire map: idfg.idaho.gov

Federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM): Idaho Fires

Idaho Department of Lands: Fire News Feed

Idaho, 2021: COLD CREEK FIRE NEAR AMERICAN FALLS

Idaho 2018, Pocatello’s Snake River Hot Shots:

Idaho 2012, Charlotte Fire:

On Interstate-15 northbound, Tender 1 racing towards Pocatello, Idaho, 28 June 2012.  Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

POCATELLO BURNING! EVACUATIONS! SOUTHEAST IDAHO BURNING! BANNOCK COUNTY BANS FIREWORKS, DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY!

How Idaho’s ‘Big Burn’ fire of 1910 shaped the way wildfires are fought.

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U.S. Wildfires, 2021: Beckwourth Complex, MAFFS joins the fight

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According to the U.S. National Interagency Fire Center, 57 fires have burned 667-thousand-346 acres across Arizona, California, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, Oregon and Washington, as of 10JUL2021.

08JUL2021. Nevada Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Paula Macomber.

In Northern California there is a complex of fires that have been ongoing, and difficult to combat, known as Beckwourth.  It’s so frustrating that the California and Nevada Air National Guards are now involved in that combat.

Nevada Air National Guard C-130, MAFFS 9 out of Reno, near Frenchman Lake 09JUL2021. Nevada ANG photo by Senior Master Sergeant Paula Macomber.

A single C-130 MAFFS from the California ANG, and two C-130 MAFFS from Nevada ANG, began bombing runs in the Frenchman Lake area, on 09JUL2021.

Nevada ANG photo by Senior Master Sergeant Paula Macomber.

California National Guard video report by Master Sergeant David Loeffler, MAFFS joins the fight:

California: MAFFS PREP WILDFIRE 2021

Lone S-64 Skycrane water-dropper, near Frenchman Lake, 08JUL2021. Nevada ANG photo by Senior Master Sergeant Paula Macomber.

Beckwourth Complex Fire Morning Update July 9, 2021

Privately operated DC-10 near Frenchman Lake, 09JUL2021. Nevada ANG photo by Senior Master Sergeant Paula Macomber.

Privately operated BAe 146 near Frenchman Lake, 09JUL2021. Nevada ANG photo by Senior Master Sergeant Paula Macomber.

Privately operated MD-87 near Frenchman Lake, 09JUL2021. Nevada ANG photo by Senior Master Sergeant Paula Macomber.

U.S. Wildfire Prep, 2021: OREGON MOBILIZES FOR RED CARD!

U.S. Wildfires, 2021: SIERRA FIRE

Idaho, 2019:

Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

DC-10, IDAHO’S 911

Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

Erickson MD-87 WATER BOMBER at Pocatello

Idaho, 2012:

Operated by Erickson Air-Crane fire fighting service.

SIKORSKY SKYCRANE LEAVES POCATELLO AIRPORT FOR COX’S WELL FIRE

Ducks in a row. BAe 146-200s and the old Convair CV580, at Pocatello airport during Idaho’s 2012 wildfire outbreaks. Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

MORE CANADIAN BAe 146 ARRIVE AT POCATELLO

Idaho, U.S.

Biden’s Borderland: Independence?

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Welcome to borderland hell under the new U.S. President, incomplete list of links to news/government agency reports as of 09 July 2021:

Germany says Tesla’s new car factory near Berlin is being built illegally!

Canada refuses to open border with U.S. to people who are not vaccinated!

Mexico Creates Vaccine Oasis in Bid to Reopen U.S. Border.
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Ex-U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) deputy commissioner says border crisis “unlike anything I’ve ever seen” warns of broken system.
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U.S. Coast Guard photo.

On 03JUL2021, U.S. Coast Guard captured nine illegals from Cuba, near Cay Sal Island, Bahamas.  On 06JUL2021, the illegals were sent back to Cuba.
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BlackCatFireworks claims to be ‘Made in the USA’ but turns out they are owned and made by Li & Fung of China.
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AmericanFireworks claims to be U.S. owned since 1902:

CALIFORNIA: 758 pounds of liquid meth inside school bus captured in San Diego Sector.

City of Fresno spends tax dollars helping immigrant families with legal funding!
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GEORGIA: Mexican National pleads guilty to employing and exploiting illegals in the U.S.

IDAHO: State Police deploy to border with Mexico.

City of Idaho Falls claims ‘most’ of the fireworks they use are made in the United States.

Fireworks seller for 30 years reveals his ‘U.S.’ brand fireworks are actually made in China (reality check; while most fireworks companies list U.S. addresses for their HQs, the fireworks are actually made in China):

ILLINOIS: China blames pandemic-panic-attack for why it has cut shipments of fireworks to the U.S.

IOWA: State Patrol deployed to border with Mexico.

KENTUCKY: State National Guard deploy to border with Mexico.

LOUISIANNA: State government knew of human trafficking since at least 2015.

6-thousand Chinese made false eye-lashes captured in New Orleans.

MICHIGAN: Police officer punished for speaking the truth, after saying that people can cross the U.S./Mexico border “at any time”!

MISSOURI: ‘Out-of-staters’ captured trying to trafficking endangered paddlefish out of the state.

MONTANA: Lincoln County’s  economy suffering because of Canada’s pandemic border shutdown!

NEW YORK: Number of Immigrant Detainees Skyrockets.

Illegal immigrant investor says he was cheated out of his investments into Younkers construction companies with threats of deportation!

NORTH CAROLINA: Man found guilty of human trafficking.

TEXAS: Court rules Facebook is liable for human-sex trafficking.

CBP says 7-thousand illegals per week now crossing just in the Del Rio area!

UTAH: Carnival owner arrested for using illegals as slave labor!

VERMONT:  Car chase and capture of illegal Canadians and Europeans, crossing from Canada on Independence Day, caught on video:

Washington DC:  Biden claims Cuba’s humanitarian medical missions are nothing more than human trafficking operations!

Biden to free pregnant women who crossed border illegally.
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WEST VIRGINIA: China slows shipments of fireworks to the U.S.

Biden’s Borderland, 30 June 2021: MORE DRUGS, BOAT PEOPLE, CHILDREN ALONE……WHERE’S THE U.S. PRESIDENT?

Idaho, U.S.

“…a perfect terrible storm.”: Crawling Mormon Crickets & Flying Grasshoppers join forces?

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Children on Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, get a lesson on how to eat crickets during a survival course. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Jessica Weissman.

When I first moved to Southeastern Idaho (25 years ago), I experienced one of the cyclical swarming of grasshoppers in the region.  When grasshoppers swarm and eat everything in site they are called Locust.

U.S. Forest Service personnel instruct Marine Corps & Navy personnel how to survive by eating bugs like crickets. U.S. Navy photo by Seaman Matthew F. Jackson.

Not only was my garden in my yard being inundated with plant eating grasshoppers, but while hiking in the Scout Mountain area I observed tens of thousands of grasshoppers cannibalizing each other.  In an open field the ground was undulating, upon closer inspection it was a carpet of grasshoppers doing battle, biting each other’s heads off and then eating the loser (and I they were bleeding red blood)!

U.S. military personnel taking a survival course on Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, get a boxed lunch of crickets. USAF photo by Airman First Class Gustavo Castillo.

That was back in the late 1990s, today there is a new problem; grasshoppers (which can fly) and Mormon Crickets (which cannot fly) have joined forces by seemingly syncing their once individual swarm cycles, and it could have everything to do with the decades long drought in the Western United States (U.S.).

https://youtu.be/ZRHaLqJmtsE

U.S. Army soldier chows-down on roasted crickets during survival training on Camp Friendship, in Thailand. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant David N. Beckstrom.

Another possible reason is that it was recently discovered that Utah state Department of Agriculture employees ‘mishandled’ federal grant funding that was intended for use in insect control programs, instead spending the money on transportation expenses!

The situation is so threatening to U.S. farming operations that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is spending $2.8-million in tax funding to suppress the new ‘Locust’.  While this situation might be new to most of us, agriculture officials have been warning since 2003 of the coming Mormon Cricket storm.

Here is a list of links to recent local news reports on the spread of Mormon Crickets to new areas of the U.S., and syncing with grasshopper swarms:

COLORADO: Migrating Mormon Crickets affecting farms and children’s summer camps!

2013, National Geographic;

IDAHO:  Video, fourth year in a row of Mormon Cricket invasion:

Grasshopper, cricket activity on the rise

Time is now to eradicate Idaho’s most dangerous infestation

Millions of Mormon crickets are marching in the Idaho desert
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NEVADA: Mormon crickets now appearing in Elko

2020, Cannibal Crickets;

2018; Mormon Crickets Swarm Land Near Winnemucca

OREGON: 2018; Oregon town fights back against invading Mormon crickets

2017; ‘Spraying insecticide is not an option’: Swarms of Mormon crickets invade Oregon

UTAH: Study says too much vegetation and bright city lights cause Locust swarms

“…a  perfect terrible storm.”:

West Nile Virus: LARVAE SWARM AFTER IDAHO RAIN STORM! STANDING WATER CLAIM A MYTH?

Hurricane Harvey: NEW THREAT, PESTILENCE!

Valentine Hell:  BUYING FLOWERS FROM OVERSEAS IS A NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT!

June 2021: SOLAR FLARES TO SINK U.S. NAVY? USN scientists are preparing!

U.S. Wildfire prep, 2021:  CONNECTICUT & NEW YORK JOIN FORCES FOR COMING DISASTER!

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Biden’s Borderland: More drugs, boat people, children alone……where’s the U.S. President?

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Welcome to borderland hell under the new U.S. President, incomplete list of links to news/government agency reports as of 30 June 2021:

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) video on how to enter the U.S. through airports, legally:

CBP video for cross-border semi-truck drivers, new bill of lading Automated Commercial Environment:

 

CALIFORNIA:  El Centro Sector captures convicted sex offenders.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection photo.

Five years old girl from Guatemala found wandering alone along the Tijuana River channel, 07JUN2021.

FLORIDA:

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Third Class Ryan Estrada.

23JUN2021, U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) captured 11 illegals from Cuba, in their home made corrugated boat.

USCG photo by Chief Petty Officer Charly Tautfest.

14JUN2021, USCG off-loads more than 7-thousand-5-hundred pounds of cocaine at Port Everglades, in Fort Lauderdale.

USCG photo by Petty Officer Second Class Ashley Johnson.

The USCG, and local Florida police, captured 16 illegals from Cuba, 09JUN2021.

USCG photo by Petty Officer Second Class Ashley Johnson.

05JUN2021, USCG captures 21 Haitians and one Colombian.  20 of the illegals from Haiti were sent back home on 10JUN2021.

USCG photo.

USCG chases a boat filled with a dozen illegals from Cuba, 03JUN2021.  USCG reports they captured so many Cubans that week that on 08JUN2021 they sent home 82 of them.

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Thomas Sjoberg.

On 19MAY2021, packages of cocaine began washing up on the beach of Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.  The illegal drug was found by the Station’s wildlife manager while conducting a sea turtle nesting survey.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Thomas Sjoberg.

The origin of the nearly 30 kilograms of cocaine is still being investigated.

IDAHO: Will support Arizona and Texas in securing the border with Mexico!

INDIANA: CBP captures 661 Fake Championship Rings Worth Over $800K, from China

KENTUCKY: CBP captures more than half-a-million dollars worth of fake jewelry from Hong Kong (China)

MARYLAND: CBP captures tens of thousands of U.S. dollars, possibly being smuggled to Jamaica!

MINNESOTA: U.S. CBP and Royal Canadian Mounties captured a car thief.  The car had been stolen in Oklahoma.

NEW JERSEY:  Car caravan blocks Turnpike for 10 minutes at rush hour in call for undocumented immigrant funding

NEW MEXICO:  $5-million to be spent upgrading/expanding the Santa Teresa Land Port of Entry.

NEW YORK:  CBP captures more than half-a-million dollars worth of illegal lottery tickets from United Kingdom!

PENNSYLVANIA: CBP Officers Seize illegal Ketamine Shipment from Italy

PUERTO RICO:

USCG photo.

On 25JUN2021, the USCG/Caribbean Border Interagency Group sent back home 38 illegals from Dominican Republic.  They built themselves a homemade boat, but were captured on 24JUN2021.

SOUTH DAKOTA: Confirmed, National Guard’s border mission being funded with private money, not taxes!

TEXAS: Galveston County declares emergency due to illegals!

CBP reports 911% percent increase in illegals hiding on trains!

Rio Grande Valley Sector captures convicted violent criminals.

Border Patrol Agents capture illegals who had stolen guns from a Texas home.

Victoria County Sheriff’s deputies investigated three separate smuggling incidents in one day.

State Department of Public Safety officer captures semi-truck filled with 30 illegals.

Former U.S. President visits wall he promises to finish.

Even leftist liberal news media admits Fentanyl seizures at U.S.-Mexican border rise by 4-thousand percent!

46 pounds of meth captured at one check point in one day!

Border Patrol agent rescues Guatemalan child from Texas pond.

VERMONT:  State Senate overrides governor’s veto of bill that will allow illegals to vote!

VIRGINA: CBP officers welcomed 65 Ukraine orphans.

WASHINGTON: Taxes will be spent to save a grocery store that is losing money due to the U.S.-Canadian pandemic-panic-attack border shutdown.

Washington DC: Department of Homeland Security announces ban on silicone products made by slave labor in China

Supreme Court Rules Noncitizens Who Re-Enter U.S. Illegally Must Be Held.
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Biden’s Borderland, May 2021:  DRONES AND SCAMS

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Cascadia Rising: Prep for 2022, “…extraordinary levels of mass casualties…”!

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“….plan, organize, equip, train, exercise for responding to and recovering from a catastrophic incident resulting in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage or disruption severely affecting the population, infrastructure, environment, economy, morale and/or government functions.”-Major General Bret D. Daugherty, Washington National Guard

Since a massive tsunami would render all the sea ports useless, on 05JUN 2016 they practiced using a Heavy Ground Mobility System (HGMS) truck to deploy a temporary modular roadway. This is known as a Joint Logistics Over the Shore (JLOTS) operation. Washington Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Michael Tietjen.

Video of Modular Roadway deployment:

Video of JLOTS operation:

Video report explaining why JLOTS would be needed after a Cascadia Event, Washington Army National Guard’s 331st Transportation Company boasts that it is the only U.S. unit with this specific Combined Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore (CJLOTS) configuration:

 

Navy Region North West (NRNW) Operations Center, in Washington state, will serve as a command & control after a CSZ event. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Jeffry Willadsen, 08JUN2016.

Cascadia Rising 2016 was directed from Naval Base Kitsap, Washington, in coordination with FEMA. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer Third Class Jessica Maue.

In 2016, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), as well as Oregon and Washington National Guards, conducted a training event called Cascadia Rising.  They are preparing for a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami, resulting from an overdue jolt along the Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) off the Pacific Northwest coast of the United States.

07JUN2016, U.S. Coast Guard tested their Deployable Contingency Communications System near Ellensburg, Washington. U.S. Coast Guard District 13 photo.

07JUN2016, Oregon Air National Guard practiced emergency supply operations using TACPs and C-130s. Oregon Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant Emily Thompson.

Mass casualty training on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, 08JUN2016. Washington Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Michael Tietjen.

The Idaho, Oregon and Washington National Guards are prepping for another Cascadia Rising training event, to be held in June 2022, called Cascadia Rising 2022 (aka CR22).  FEMA is calling the CR22 training National Level Exercise 2022 (NLE 2022).   Supposedly, the CR22/NLE 2022 is a scenario that is placed four days after the CSZ event, an event that is expected to affect at least three U.S. states, with an expected 70-thousand plus casualties.  Idaho could become a ‘refugee’ center for survivors from Washington and Oregon.    (Canada’s British Columbia is also going to be affected)

Washington Air National Guard joined with Pierce County Corrections to prevent any breakouts at the Pierce County Jail, 08JUN2016. Washington Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant Paul Rider.

While Washington’s Air National Guard tried to prevent a jail break, Washington’s Army National Guard help prisoners ‘escape’ the Hoquiam Jail due to approaching tsunami, 09JUN2016. Washington National Guard photo by Captain Colette Muller.

The first Cascadia Rising event was in 2016, and was considered to be the largest ever disaster response training in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. Cascadia Rising 2016 revealed to authorities that everybody, and every local government operation, needed to be self-supplied for a minimum of two weeks to survive such a catastrophe: “The Cascadia Rising 2016 exercise highlighted a number of critical areas that we, the emergency management community, should improve before this fault ruptures, which will impact large portions of our residents and infrastructure. …..The exercise highlighted a number of infrastructure interdependencies our residents have come to rely on, such as electricity, communications, fuel, water and our roads.  Most of these sectors would be heavily disrupted after a CSZ event and plans are being developed and exercised that focus on the efficient recovery of these essential services.”-Sharon Loper, FEMA Region 10

Kentucky and Oregon National Guard conducted mass casualty training at Camp Rilea. Oregon Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant John Hughel.

It is also expected that the CSZ event will create toxic environments. Oregon Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant John Hughel.

To show you how seriously the DoD and FEMA are taking the overdue CSZ jolt, Cascadia Rising 2016 involved almost 20-thousand personnel from the U.S. Air Force Reserve, U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, Kentucky National Guard, Oregon and Washington National Guards, Tribes, and civilian emergency response agencies.

Wearing contamination protective gear, Kentucky National Guard conducted rescues of people ‘swept’ into the forest. Kentucky National Guard photo by First Lieutenant Michael Reinersman.

Video interviews, by Staff Sergeant Amy Elker, concerning the nine Tribes in Oregon, in relation to the coming CSZ event:

Wearing contamination protective gear, Kentucky National Guard approach a collapsed building on Camp Rilea, Oregon, 08JUN2016. Kentucky National Guard photo by First Lieutenant Michael Reinersman.

Searching trough collapsed buildings, 09JUN2016. Oregon Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant John Hughel.

U.S. Coast Guard Mobile Medical Ship during Cascadia Rising exercise at Naval Magazine Station Indian Island, Washington, 09JUN2016. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Third Class Andrea Anderson.

Cascadia Rising preparations also include crowd control. Oregon Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant John Hughel, 10JUN2016.

On 15JUN2016, personnel from the Japan Self Defense Forces toured Port Tacoma, Washington, and gave advice on how to respond to a tsunami. U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Eliverto V Larios.

Washington Emergency Management Division: Cascadia Rising 2022

Pacific Ring of Fire, May 2021: WARNINGS FOR ALASKA, HAWAII & WASHINGTON

Pacific Ring of Fire, January 2020: “THAT CASCADIAN EVENT’S GOING TO HAPPEN!”

January 2018: GET READY FOR CASCADIA!

Influenza, U.S.

Hurricane 2021: U.S. Army loves giant Maps, FEMA preps for nation-wide disasters + pandemic!

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“A secure and resilient nation with the capabilities required across the whole community to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from the threats and hazards that pose the greatest risk.”–Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

During the first week of June, 2021, U.S. Army’s Northern Command (aka Army North) conducted a Rehearsal of Concept (RoC) major nation-wide disaster response discussion, at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas: “This RoC drill helps us synchronize our whole-of-government effort for an all-hazards response, whether it is a response to a natural disaster, pandemic, man-made hazard, terrorist attack or cyberattack. Having everyone here to synchronize and integrate is extremely important for us to be ready to fulfill our requirements as an integrated, interagency task force to meet the National Preparedness Goal.”-Lieutenant General Laura J. Richardson, Army North

U.S. Army photo by Specialist Jamil Birden.

The nation-wide RoC included the National Guard Bureau and  U.S. Transportation Command.  Hurricane scenarios focused on category 4 and 5 storms targeting Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.  Scenarios also discussed dealing with post-pandemic/CoViD-19 environment ‘challenges’: “These are unprecedented times.”-Damon Penn, FEMA

Recent FEMA Public Service Announcement (PSA) warning people about pandemic and natural disasters:

September 2012: WHY IS FEMA RUNNING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS P-S-A SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE 1989 LOMA PRIETA QUAKE?

May 2021: FEMA REGIONS PREP FOR DISASTER & SPEND YOUR MONEY LIKE IT’S WATER

February 2021: BIDEN ORDERS FEMA MASS-VAX SITES! NAVY BUILDING FEMA COVID CAMPS!

April 2020: FEMA BUILDING MASSIVE ISLAND HOSPITAL?

Hurricane Michael:  U.S. NAVY TO SPEND $9-MILLION+ TO REPAIR 2018 DAMAGE TO ONE BUILDING!

Hurricane 2018: ALABAMA MILITIA PREPS FOR HURRICANE USING WORLD’S LARGEST ALABAMA MAP!

Hurricane 2021: SOUTH CAROLINA PREPS MILITIA!

U.S. taxes at work in other countries: U.S. ARMY SPENDS YOUR MONEY BUILDING DISASTER RESPONSE STATIONS FOR ARMENIA!

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Typhoon 2021: TCCOR prep

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“Everyone should have their emergency supplies on hand already. Don’t wait until the last minute to go to the store to buy food. Purchase your supplies, get your free sandbags and you’ll be properly prepared.”-Master Sergeant Randy Golleher, U.S. Air Force, Okinawa, Japan

Kadena Air Base, Japan, 10JUN2021. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Yosselin Perla.

In the Pacific region, hurricanes are called typhoons.  They can happen anytime, but the United States Forces Japan (USFJ) considers official Typhoon Season to be June 1st through November 30th.

U.S. Marines Corps graphic.

April is considered Typhoon Prep Month, they’ve even developed the Tropical Cyclone Conditions of Readiness (TCCOR) system: “When a typhoon is approaching, we stand up the virtual Emergency Operations Center with all of our island partners. We also begin to monitor the typhoon through the Defense Communications System and we make sure all military branches understand what TCCOR level we’re in.”-Master Sergeant Randy Golleher, USAF, Okinawa

On the U.S. island territory of Guam, the U.S. Air Force issued a typhoon explainer/prep video. On Guam, official Typhoon Season is May through November:

Also, the Airmen of Anderson Air Force Base, Guam, put together this ‘cheesy’ video on how to properly use a generator to supply electrical power to your home:

Typhoon 2019: FEMA DEPLOYS HAWAII NATIONAL GUARD TO GUAM!

Hurricane 2021: U.S. MILITARY says MAJOR HURRICANES CAN DEVELOP RAPIDLY WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING!

Hurricane 2021: WC-130J WX HUNTERS DEPLOY

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Hurricane 2021: U.S. military; major hurricanes can develop rapidly with little or no warning!

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This U.S. Marine Corps graphic was designed by Lance Corporal Devin Darden, and displayed in the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, South Carolina.

U.S. Air Force hurricane explainer video (by Staff Sergeant Heather Fejerang) issued by MacDill Air Force Base in Florida.  It’s a little boring, but with good advice:

Hurricane 2021: USMC PREPS FOR DESTRUCTIVE WX EVENT!