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

Video July 26, 2021 Hutchins AAron

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

Video July 26, 2021 Hutchins AAron

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

Video July 25, 2021 Hutchins AAron

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.

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

Video July 25, 2021 Hutchins AAron

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

Idaho, Technology

U.S. Wildfire 2021: K-Max & 10 Tanker, waiting for the call

Video July 24, 2021 Hutchins AAron

When the wildfire season officially starts in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, little used Pocatello Regional Airport becomes Pocatello Airtanker Base.

Idaho Wildfires 2012:

Photo by AAron B. Hutchins, 2012.

CANADAIR CL 215

This year (despite the hype by main-stream national news), and the past few years, Pocatello Airtanker Base hasn’t been as busy as it was between the years 2012 and 2017. We had a plethora of water bombers, various types of fixed wing and rotary wing, some even coming from Canada.

A couple of BAEs and an ancient Neptune, September 2012. Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

Pocatello Tanker Base 2012:

Photo by AAron B. Hutchins, 2012.

SIKORSKY & USMC IN TOWN

The area is still getting smoked-out by regional fires, but nothing like the amount of smoke during the 2012-2018 years. In 2018 the smoke from record setting California fires was bad enough that I taped furnace filters to my windows (I don’t have central air conditioning). So since about 2019, most of what you see on Pocatello Airtanker Base are a DC-10, a helicopter or two, and the always present Air Tractors.

On 23JUL2021, I just happened to be checking out the airport and caught the crew of a Mountain West Helicopters K-Max, waiting for a call to action, sitting near the tarmac in 90+ Fahrenheit temperatures.

Video from 2008, Mountainwest Helicopters K-Max using Bambi Bucket during Piute Mountain wildfire:

Lockheed Martin video showing a K-Max drone (remote control, no pilot) dropping water on a fire:

And I was lucky enough to just catch a glimpse of a DC-10 returning from a water-drop mission.

Kit builders should note the noticeable gap between the water tank and the fuselage.

Also notice that 10 Tanker has given their DC-10s a new livery.

2020 video of 10 Tanker #911 bombing a fire near homes in California:

2016 video of 10 Tanker training in New Mexico, note that the big water bombers are led-in by smaller FAC aircraft:

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

FOR FIRST TIME, IDAHO MOBILIZES MILITIA FOR FIRE DUTY!

Idaho Wildfires 2019:

DC-10, IDAHO’S 911

U.S. Forest Service FAC (Forward Air Controller) taking off from Pocatello Airtanker Base. Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

MD-87 WATER BOMBER, NEW KING AIR F-A-C

Pocatello Airtanker Base 2017:

Photo by AAron B. Hutchins, August 2017.

SMOKE ’EM IF YOU GOT ’EM! THE FIRE BOMBERS ARE BACK!

U.S. Wildfires 2016: DC-10 POCATELLO AIRPORT

Pocatello Air Tanker Base, September 2012: MORE AIR TANKERS ARRIVE AT POCATELLO TANKER BASE. EVACUATIONS IN EFFECT!

MORE CANADIAN AIRCRAFT ARRIVE AT POCATELLO

CONAIR’s Convair, notice the retardant stains, from the day before, have been cleaned off. Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

CANADA JOINS THE FIGHT

Pocatello Air Tanker Base, August 2012:

MAFFS 5 gets airborne! Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

MAFFS C-130s RETURN TO POCATELLO AIRPORT, IDAHO NATIONAL GUARD JOINS BATTLE!

12 July 2012:

Comin’ down! Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

BUSY 30 MINUTES AT POCATELLO AIRPORT, AS A VARIETY OF FIRE FIGHTING AIRCRAFT FLY INTO ACTION

International

Typhoon 2021: Secure your Trash!

Video July 22, 2021 Hutchins AAron

On 21-22 July 2021, Southern Japan was hit by Typhoon In-Fa, in Philippines is was called Typhoon Fabian, whatever you call it the U.S. Marines in Southern Japan were ready.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Alex Fairchild.

On Camp Foster, Okinawa, Japan, U.S. Marines dug in for the 2021 Typhoon season: “Today we handed out upwards of 3-thousand-5-hundred MRE’s. We have been preparing all week, and it has been a daunting task, but as Marines we are and have to be prepared for anything that comes our way.”-Private First Class Anthony Prophet, Marine Wing Support Squadron 172, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Alex Fairchild.

Marines on Camp Foster filled sandbags, boarded up buildings, tied down anything that could blow away, secured sources of water, protected anything electronic, and even collected trash: “When it comes to bulk refuse [re-fuuss, as in trash, not ree-fyuse as in reject], we keep our typhoon cage open through Tropical Typhoon Condition of Readiness 2 so that any trash that isn’t contracted for pickup can be disposed of.”-Sergeant Shane Holum, Camp Services

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Alex Fairchild.

USMC video report, by Corporal Brennan J. Beauton, explaining that Camp Lester and Plaza Housing were also prepped:

U.S. Navy SeaBees and USMC Engineers actually practiced boarding up buildings on 08JUL2021. USMC video report by Corporal Ryan H. Pulliam:

Typhoon prep 2021: What is T-C-C-O-R?

International, Technology

A Banshee heralds the coming global war: New Ghostrider in the skies over New Mexico!

Video July 21, 2021 Hutchins AAron

“The arrival of Cannon’s first AC-130J Ghostrider represents a significant expansion of force generation capacity as AFSOC structures for the reemergence of great power competition, tightening fiscal constraints, and the accelerating rate of technological change, demanding significant transformation to ensure Air Commandos are ready to successfully operate in this new environment.”-27th Special Operations Wing Public Affairs, 19JUL2021

A banshee is a female ghost that forewarns of the death of the living by wailing or shrieking.

U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Eboni Reece.

In May 2015, the last of the 27th Special Operations Wing (SOW) AC-130H Specters made its final flight into retirement.

Video report by Senior Airman Elizabeth Taranto:

One of these AC-130Js belongs to the 27th SOW, the other belongs to 4th Special Operations Squadron. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Peter Reft.

On 19JUL2021, the 27th SOW (Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico) got a brand new AC-130J Ghostrider: “The lethality has increased exponentially.”-Major Ryan Whitehead, 27th Special Operations Group (SOG)

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Peter Reft.

The AC-130J is a fifth generation gunship: “The AC-130J has been built on the backs of giants, evolving from four variants of the AC-130 to the AC-119 and AC-47. The Air Commands who fly, maintain, and support the AC-130J are committed to continuing that proud heritage by developing into a force that presents challenges to our nation’s adversaries in new ways and places.”-Lieutenant Colonel Drew Saylor, 27th SOG Detachment-2

USAF photo by Senior Airman Marcel Williams.

Video report by Airman First Class Drew Cyburt:

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

Vehicle I-D: LAST ‘SPOOKY’ DAYS OF THE AC-130U GUNSHIP?

Weapon I-D:

U.S. Air Force photo.

THE HAPPY MINIGUNNER

Operation CoViD-19: USCG MAKES 1ST ‘BILL & MELINDA GATES’ VACCINE DELIVERY TO HAITI

International

Trident of Poseidon: NATO’s new U.S. HQ fully operational!

Video July 20, 2021 Hutchins AAron

“The survival of NATO and the success or failure in combat in a future war in Europe, will largely depend on the success or failure of this command.”-General Mark Milley, U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff (sounding a little paranoid)

In 2018, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, which has become a global military since the end of the Cold War) announced that it would establish a new headquarters (HQ) in Norfolk, Virginia. On 15JUL2021, NATO declared that HQ fully operational (Full Operational Capability).

U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Video, opening ceremonies where it’s admitted that NATO is more than just a military organization:

Essentially, NATO felt threatened by Russia and decided to create new ‘secondary’ military HQs outside of Europe, far away from Russia. NATO’s Atlantic and European operations can now be directed from Virginia.

In this DoD video it becomes obvious that NATO considers itself a ‘christian’ organization:

In September 2020, NATO announced Initial Operational Capacity for its Norfolk HQ. It is officially known as Joint Force Command (JFC) Norfolk, and is one of three JFCs around the world, it is the only JFC in North America. All the JFCs report to the Supreme Allied Commander Europe in Casteau, Belgium. In other words, a military HQ commanded by officials based in Europe is now located in the United States.

DoD video, U.S. Army General Mark Milley admits the seven-decades old U.S.-NATO alliance is about maintaining global dominance (“established international order”) by the ‘West’ under the guise of preventing a Third World War:

U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer Second Class Joshua M. Tolbert, 23JUN2021.

JFC Norfolk hosts military personnel from 19 ‘allied’ nations and two ‘partner’ nations. In June 2021, NATO’s Theater Component Commanders, and leaders from national headquarters around the Atlantic Rim, converged on JFC Norfolk to discuss ways to coordinate military activities: “The security environment has changed; it is more critical than ever that we, the military leaders within NATO, continue to reinforce our commitment achieving our shared visions. The strength of our nations is inherently linked and the security and stability of the Alliance depends on it.”-Vice Admiral Andrew Lewis, JFC Norfolk (sounding a little paranoid)

USN photo by Petty Officer Second Class Joshua M. Tolbert, 23JUN2021.

Terminator: ONE RING TO RULE THEM ALL, GLOBAL INFORMATION DOMINANCE ‘EXPERIMENT’

NATO: APACHES & HINDS, FOR THE FIRST TIME?

Control through Chaos: USING THE BIBLE AS YOUR GUIDE TO DESTROY SOCIETY!

Technology

Old skool Talon tests new-tech Global Information Dominance Experiment

Video July 20, 2021 Hutchins AAron

The first flight of a T-38 Talon was in 1959, it is still in use, and even testing the latest in military artificial intelligence designed to control all electronic systems, globally.

U.S. Air Force photo by Tom Hill, 15JUL2021.

During the first half of July 2021, U.S. Northern Command (NorthCom) and North American Aerospace Defense Command (aka Nor-ad) conducted what they call a Global Information Dominance Experiment (GIDE-3), part of an Architecture Demonstration and Evaluation (ADE-5).

USAF photo by Tom Hill.

The GIDE-3 included T-38 Talons flown by the 586th Flight Test Squadron. The GIDE-3/ADE-5 flights were launched from Alpena Combat Training Center, Michigan.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Devin M. Rumbaugh, 16JUL2021.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Devin M. Rumbaugh.

U.S. Air Force (USAF) video by Technical Sergeant Amy Picard and Staff Sergeant Devin M. Rumbaugh:

USAF photo by Tom Hill.

USAF video by Tom Hill:

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Devin M. Rumbaugh, 16JUL2021.

USAF video by Senior Airman Frank Rohrig, T-38 take-off:

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Devin M. Rumbaugh, 16JUL2021.

Vehicle I-D:

T-38 PACER CLASSIC-3

RED HAWK REPLACES TALON

T-38 25TH FTS HERITAGE

Gate Guard: REPAIRING 1/1 SCALE T-38 TALON

Hi-tech fail: USAF USES WW2 AIRCRAFT TO DEVELOP MODERN DRONE TECH!

GERMANY STILL TRAINS UP OLD-SKOOL CAVALRY!

CLIMATE CHANGE is the BIGGEST THREAT TO BILLION DOLLAR WEAPON SYSTEMS!

USN ADMITS HI-TECH MILITARY GEAR DEFEATED BY MOTHER EARTH’S TINY SEA CREATURES!

Influenza

Operation CoViD-19: USCG makes 1st ‘Bill & Melinda Gates’ vaccine delivery to Haiti

Video July 18, 2021 Hutchins AAron

“Until yesterday, Haiti was the only country in the Americas without a single dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Today, 500,000 doses of vaccine donated by the U.S government through COVAX landed in Port-Au-Prince, the capital city of Haiti.”-United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF)

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Senior Chief Petty Officer Sara Muir.

On 14JUL2021, a U.S. Coast Guard HC-130J delivered half-a-million doses of CoViD-19 vaccines to eternally impoverished Haiti, at U.S. taxpayer expense of course.

USCG photo by Senior Chief Petty Officer Sara Muir.

HC-130J-2013 is nicknamed Elizabeth City, because of where it is based in New Jersey.

USCG photo by Senior Chief Petty Officer Sara Muir, 14JUL2021.

Elizabeth City was up-loaded with U.S. taxpayer funded (Department of Health and Human Services, aka HHS), Gavi directed COVAX vaccines in Memphis, by the Tennessee Air National Guard’s 164th Logistics Readiness Squadron.

Once on Haiti, Elizabeth City’s crew off-loaded the vaccines to U.S. Embassy personnel. USCG video report by Senior Chief Petty Officer Sara Muir: