Videos

Vehicle I-D: C1 Ariete Italiana

Video April 6, 2021 Hutchins AAron

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Amanda Fry.

Italian C1 Ariete playing the bad guy OpFor (Opposition Forces) during Dragoon Ready ’21, Hohenfels Training Area, 20APR2021.

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Julian Padua.

These photos show Italian C1 Arietes during the U.S. Army’s (USA) Combined Resolve XV wargame, in Hohenfels, Germany, which took place from February through March 2021.

USA photo by Sergeant Julian Padua.

Ariete means Aires in Italian, and Aires is Latin for ram.

USA photo by Sergeant Julian Padua.

USA photo by Specialist Savannah Miller.

USA photo by Specialist Uriel Ramirez.

U.S. Army video report by Sergeant Joseph McDonald, Combined Resolve XV:

USA photo by Joyce Costello.

USA photo by Specialist Enrique Moya.

2020 Esercito Italiano video report celebrating 93 years of Italian tanks:

Esercito photo.

Ariete with boresight device installed, sometime in 2020.

Esercito photo.

In August 2019, the Esercito (Italian Army) signed a contract to create Ariete upgrade prototypes to explore new motors, transmissions, fire control (ballistics) computers, sights, etc. It’s hoped a new upgraded Ariete would be ready in 2021.

2019 Esercito Italiano music video promoting the C1 Ariete:

2017 Esercito Italiano video promoting their armored cavalry school:

USA photo by Specialist Nathanael Mercado.

These photos are from the Strong Europe Tank Challenge (SETC), on Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, May 2016.

USA photo by Specialist Nathanael Mercado.

Vehicle I-D: SLOVENIJA M84A4 SNIPER, 2021

Vehicle I-D: NATO’S CV-90

Idaho, Technology, U.S.

Idaho home to first ever National Guard D-A-G-I-R!

Video April 5, 2021 Hutchins AAron

05 April 2021 (15:50-UTC-07 Tango 06) 16 Farvardin 1400/22 Sha’ban 1442/24 Ren-Chen 4719

Notice the ladder looking antenna coming off the bustle rack. Idaho National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 04MAR2021.

The vastness of the Steppes of South Western Idaho. Back when I was ‘in’ we called it Orchard Training Area (OTA), now it’s called Orchard Combat Training Center (OCTC). It is located on federal land (60% of land in Idaho is actually owned by the federales).

ING photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 04MAR2021.

On 04MAR2021, the Idaho National Guard revealed its new Digital Air Ground Integrated Range (DAGIR), the first to be operated by the National Guard. It’s the second DAGIR in operation in the United States, the other DAGIR is operated by the U.S. Army (USA) on Fort Bliss, Texas/New Mexico (a second USA DAGIR is currently under construction on Fort Knox, Kentucky).

A better view of the DAGIR antenna. ING photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 04MAR2021.

USA video report by David Poe, from November 2020, explaining the Fort Bliss DAGIR (which straddles the Texas-New Mexico border):

DAGIR allows armor, infantry and helicopter units to conduct combined arms live-fire wargames, while receiving performance feedback in real-time: “This fully instrumented range will make it possible for military personnel within Idaho and the United States to coordinate and practice accomplishing missions from the ground and air simultaneously.”-Colonel Matthew Godfrey, Idaho Army National Guard

As many as 2-hundred types of targets can be used in more than 4-hundred scenarios, all recorded for posterity: “Video doesn’t lie. Soldiers and leaders will have the ability to go back and re-watch what they just executed like never before. This will help fine-tune points you can’t see on most ranges and allow units to use the recording to prepare for future gunnery cycles and use it as a training tool.”-Major Joe Doyle, OCTC range officer

The Steppes of South West Idaho are so vast that the new DAGIR is only one of 23 other military ranges on the OTA, oops, I mean OCTC.

Idaho’s Sailor Creek Range: MORALE BOOSTER A-10C GUN-RUN!

February 2018: IDAHO MILITIA RANKED 2ND ONLY TO U.S. ARMY!

Martial Law 2014: WIMP-ASS IDAHO GOVERNOR BEGS OBAMA REGIME NOT TO STEAL ARMY NATIONAL GUARD’S AIR ASSETS!

Technology

Vehicle I-D: Slovenija M84A4 Sniper, 2021

Video April 5, 2021 Hutchins AAron

U.S. Army photo by Paolo Bovo.

19MAY2021, Slovenian M84 fires a shot in the rain during NATO wargame Adriatic Strike-21.

U.S. Army photo by Paolo Bovo

18MAY2021, Slovenian M84 fires a shot during NATO wargame Adriatic Strike-21.

USA photo by Paolo Bovo, 18MAY2021.

USA photo by Joyce Costello, 01MAR2021.

The M84 was a Cold War Yugoslav upgrade of the Soviet T-72 using ‘western’ tech (Yugoslavia was not part of the Warsaw Pact). The visual give-away is the wind sensor on the center-front of the top of the turret, just above and behind the main gun.

USA photo by Joyce Costello, 01MAR2021.

USA photo by Joyce Costello.

These photos show Slovenian M84A4s during the U.S. Army’s (USA) Combined Resolve XV wargame, in Hohenfels, Germany, which took place from February through March 2021.

USA photo by Joyce Costello, 01MAR2021.

USA photo by Sergeant Julian Padua, 01MAR2021.

The A4 ‘Sniper’ upgrade improved the day/night gun sight and the fire control (ballistics) computer. There are unconfirmed reports that the ‘Sniper’ is powered by a German made motor.

USA photo by Sergeant Julian Padua, 01MAR2021.

USA photo by Specialist Savannah Miller, 26FEB2021.

USA happy-happy-joy-joy ‘interoperability’ video report, by Sergeant Joseph McDonald, about building a turret down defensive position for M84 on Hohenfels, Germany, February 2021:

USA photo by Specialist Savannah Miller, 26FEB2021.

In the early 2000s, former Yugoslav member Slovenia upgraded their M84s to M84A4s and called them Sniper. The ‘A4 Sniper’ upgrade was created by former Yugoslav member Croatia, which operates a factory that has built M84s since the days of Yugoslavia (former Yugoslav member Serbia also builds upgraded versions of the M84).

USA photo by Specialist Savannah Miller, 26FEB2021.

USA photo by Joyce Costello, 26FEB2021.

The Republic of Slovenia became a member of NATO in March 2004.

Soviet era tanks in use by NATO: SLOVENIAN M84A4, 2015-2020

NATO: TARCZA POLSKI PT-91

Kit Bashing, Technology

Bare Metal: C-5M Super Galaxy Super Strip

Video April 4, 2021 Hutchins AAron

U.S. Air Force by Joseph Mather.

During the Summer of 2020, a C-5M Super Galaxy got stripped for depot level maintenance in the refurbished Hanger-125 on Robins Air Force Base (AFB), Georgia.

USAF by Joseph Mather.

The C-5M is the largest aircraft operated by the U.S. Air Force (USAF).

USAF by Joseph Mather.

By mid-November the C-5M rolled out, but still a little more work needed before test-flight and new clothes.

Photo by Rashida Banks.

In 2018, the World War Two era Hanger-125 underwent a $75-million renovation, supervised by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Photo by Rashida Banks.

Building (hanger) 125 is capable of fully enclosing multiple large aircraft at the same time, for depot level tear-down.

Photo by Rashida Banks.

Hanger-125 has four ‘docks’, which allows up to four C-5 type aircraft, or a whole bunch of smaller aircraft. Building/Hanger-125 takes-up 14.7 acres (5.9 hectares) of land.

USAF by Joseph Mather.

Rebuilders can perform mass-depot level maintenance on several smaller aircraft at the same time, like these F-15s which just happen to be stripped down at the same time as our C-5M, in Summer 2020.

USAF photo by Edward Aspera Junior.

In 2019, this naked C-5 was exposed to a group of looky-loos from other USAF depots, as part of a get-together discussing how best to do their jobs.

Time lapse USAF music video by Paul Wenzel, C-5 gets new clothes at Robins AFB, 2018:

Bare Metal: WISE GUY RESURRECTION

Bare Metal: NASA TRUCKS SAVING THE TRUCKING INDUSTRY

Bare Metal: KC-135R GETS STRIPPED

Technology

B-1B Ruptured Duck saved from the Boneyard, but it’ll never fly again!

Video April 3, 2021 Hutchins AAron

On 23FEB2021, a ‘divested’ B-1B bomber landed at Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) in California, being saved from the ‘boneyard’ in Arizona, but never to fly again.

U.S. Air Force photo by May Straight.

The B-1B tail number 86-0099 arrived with Ruptured Duck artwork on the side.

USAF photo by May Straight.

Under the National Defense Authorization Act, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) is required to divest 17 B-1B Lancers (aka Bones) in order to justify buying the new B-21 Raider (a new version of the B-2).

USAF photo by Giancarlo Casem, 23FEB2021..

Ruptured Duck is now the new Edwards Aircraft Ground Integration Lab (EAGIL) static test aircraft. It’s hoped the EAGIL program will save taxpayers money by reducing the costs of developing electronic upgrades for aircraft, compared to using flying test-beds.

USAF photo by Wesley Farnsworth, 17APR2017.

B-1B #86-0099 was named Ruptured Duck in 2017, on the 75th Anniversary of the Doolittle vengeance raid on Japan. One of the B-25 Mitchell bombers in that raid was named Ruptured Duck:

Official video explainer:

Natural sound video, by Giancarlo Casem, of Ruptured Duck’s arrival on Edwards AFB:

‘Divestiture’: ANOTHER B-1B ‘BONE’ SENT TO THE BONEYARD! IS THE END NEAR?

International

U.S. Navy Air Base has front row seat to Mount Etna eruptions!

Video April 3, 2021 Hutchins AAron

03 April 2021 (02:57-UTC-07 Tango 06) 14 Farvardin 1400/20 Sha’ban 1442/22 Ren-Chen 4719

U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer Second Class Austin Ingram.

This photo, taken from a U.S. Navy (USN) P-8A Poseidon, shows Mount Etna on 14JAN2021, before the eruptions started.

U.S. Navy photo by Captain Kevin Pickard, Junior.

As if dealing with pandemic panic-attack restrictions wasn’t enough, the personnel on U.S. Naval Air Station Sigonella have also been on alert since Mount Etna began erupting in February 2021.

USN photo by Captain Kevin Pickard, Junior.

NASA photo from 2006.

Mount Etna is located on Sicily, just off the toe of the Italian boot. It is considered one of the most active volcanos on Earth.

USN photo by Petty Officer Third Class Zach Dalton.

Another eruption, 04MAR2021. Since 16FEB2021, there have been at least 17 ‘ lava fountain episodes or paroxysms’. Writers at Volcano Discovery stated that “This eruptive episode had been very remarkable, even for Etna standards…”

USN photo by Petty Officer Third Class Zachary Dalton.

Compare this photo, taken in November 2020, to the one taken on 04MAR2021.

Day and night video by Michele Mammino, of the New South East Crater, recorded at the end of March 2021:

https://youtu.be/vq_j1mMu3XI

Pacific Ring of Fire, January 2020: ZOMBIE WHALES!

Volcanos, 2018: VOLCANOES & GLACIERS CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING?

Influenza

Vaccines are killing people, Governments now going after healthcare workers who refuse The Shot!

Video April 2, 2021 Hutchins AAron

Incomplete list of links to news reports and studies showing the vaccination campaign is a failure, as of 02APR2021:

Five countries that turned away more expensive Pfizer CoViD doses, in favor of a cheaper version from AstraZeneca, are paying the price.

AUSTRIA: Suspends use of AstraZenica vaccine after death

GERMANY: Restricts use of AstraZeneca vaccine

Vaccine causes 31 cases of blood clots, nine nurses killed!

Health ‘experts’ warn don’t get the second shot!

GEORGIA: Health Ministry restricts use of AstraZeneca vax after nurse dies!

GREECE: Pharmacy administrator resigns over AstraZeneca death!

HUNGARY: Despite highest percentage of vaccinations in the European Union, sets daily COVID deaths record!

ITALY: Study says being fat prevents vaccines from working, suggests higher doses of vaccine!

Nurses refuse to get vaccinated, government responds by making vaccination a requirement for employment!

NETHERLANDS: Halts use of AstraZeneca vaccine due to people getting blood clots!

Woman dies of lung embolism after AstraZeneca vaccine!

PHILIPPINES: Nurse dies after getting Chinese made vaccine!

SERBIA: While foreigners are flocking to Serbia to get vaccinated, Serbians are getting arrested for refusing to get vaccinated!

SOUTH AFRICA: Study says AstraZeneca vaccine does not work against South African (B1351) variant of coronavirus!

THAILAND: Monk dies after getting Covid-19 vaccine, 3 others treated at the hospital!

UNITED KINGDOM: Admits people are suffering blood clots after getting the U.K.’s AstraZeneca shot!

Woman suffers agonizing rash after Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID vaccine.

AstraZeneca Changes Name of its questionable Vaccine

VARIANTS

UNITED STATES: Health ‘expert’ says “We’re in a race between variants and vaccinations.”

Children are being blamed for new variants of CoViD!

At least 4-hundred healthcare workers died after the vaccines were issued!

Revealed, while nursing home residents were forced to get vaccinated, most nursing home employees refused to get vaccinated!

Nursing home infections crash despite nursing home employees refusing to get vaccinated!

AstraZeneca accused of using outdated data in applying for U.S. approval!

Revealed, U.S. already has 10-million doses of AstraZeneca vax in stockpile! Might ‘donate’ to African countries?

California: Santa Clara County warns of ‘worrying trend’ in COVID variants

3 cases of more severe COVID variants found in Tulare County.

Sheriff overrules health expert, declares man’s death due to vaccination!

Florida: Majority of long-term care staffers refused coronavirus vaccine!

U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sergeant Holly Roberts-Davis.

About 140 U.S. Air Force (USAF) Airmen deployed to Tampa to conduct federal mass vax operations.

Idaho: More deadly variants of coronavirus detected!

Doctor admits “I don’t think we truly know” the surge of infections, despite increased vaccinations!

Kansas: Woman dies after getting the shot!

Michigan: On 15MAR2021, FEMA ordered the Department of Defense to deploy military medical and support personnel to Michigan, to support federal Community Vaccination Centers (mass vax sites). FEMA Region 5 video of mass vax site in Ford Field:

Utah: Nurses suffer adverse reactions to second dose of vaccine, local news media questions why there is so little information about adverse reactions, explains how to report such reactions.

New York:

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Ashley Nicole Taylor.

About 140 USAF Airmen deployed to Brooklyn-NYC for mass vax operations.

North Carolina: Woman dies of stroke after getting vaccinated, death certificate states it was caused by the vaccine, pro-vaccine state health ‘experts’ say don’t rush to judgement!

Virginia: New law punishes healthcare workers who refuse to get vaccinated!

Washington: On 24MAR2021, FEMA ordered the Department of Defense to deploy military medical and support personnel to Washington for mass vax ops. Video report, on 31MAR2021, FEMA and the U.S. Army began vaccination ops in Yakima County:

Washington DC: On 01APR2021, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) ordered the Department of Defense to deploy military medical and support personnel to Maryland, Tennessee and Wisconsin, to support federal Community Vaccination Centers: “In support of FEMA, our service members continue to vaccinate more and more Americans. Once open, these three new sites will create thousands of additional opportunities each day for eligible Marylanders, Tennesseans and Wisconsinites to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.”-Lieutenant General Laura J. Richardson, U.S. Army North and the Joint Force Land Component Command of U.S. Northern Command

On 30MAR2021, FEMA ordered the Department of Defense to deploy military medical and support personnel to Massachusetts, New Jersey, Virginia, Indiana and Missouri, to support federal Community Vaccination Centers (mass vax sites).

Don’t forget, if vaccines are so safe, why did the U.S. government create the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)?

Pandemic Shenanigans: ONE RING TO RULE THEM, BIG BROTHERISM IN THE NAME OF FIGHTING A PANDEMIC? (U.S. Navy issues health monitoring rings to personnel)

Vaccine Fail: NEBRASKA NATIONAL GUARD REFUSE THE SHOT!

U.S.

Biden’s Borderland: “Smugglers just drop them off”, Border Facilities become Revolving Door operations!

Video April 1, 2021 Hutchins AAron

Welcome to borderland hell under the new U.S. President, incomplete list of links to news/government agency reports as of 01 April 2021:

Who said migrant workers aren’t infected? Canadian news media discover that the Canadian government built a secret 125 bed migrant farm worker hospital, so far one thousand migrant workers have been isolated there due to being infected with CoViD! The secret hospital was built last year and only now revealed because of government budget reviews! The secret hospital cost Canadian taxpayers CAD$17-million over the past 12 months.

U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer Second Class Tyler R. Fraser.

These U.S. Sailors are originally from Philippines, now they are U.S. citizens. They followed the legal steps to becoming citizens and were sworn in on 29MAR2021, during a United States Citizenship and Immigration Services naturalization ceremony onboard Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan.

ARIZONA: U.S. Attorney General’s office releases data for February, showing that 151 illegals (captured in Arizona) have prior criminal records for various crimes, including murder, committed within the United States!

U.S. Customs and Border Protection-Air and Marine Operations video of the rescue of an illegal who broke his leg trying to cross the Baboquivari Peak Wilderness, 30MAR2021:

CALIFORNIA: Increasing number of illegals with prior criminal convictions being captured in The Golden State!

Man charged in human smuggling that led to fatal Imperial County crash that killed 13.

Teachers in San Diego are being diverted from teaching citizens to teaching newly arrived illegals!

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Third Class Taylor Bacon.

The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Munro unloaded 19-thousand-6-hundred pounds (8890 kg) of captured illegal drugs in Alameda, 23MAR2021.

FLORIDA: Restaurant owners admit they gave illegals housing, and tax-free employment!

U.S. Coast Guard photo.

The U.S. Coast Guard helped capture these boats approximately five miles off West Palm Beach. The boats held illegals from Haiti, Jamaica, Bahamas and Dominican Republic. Department of Homeland Security detained some of the illegals because they are suspected of committing ‘other crimes’.

USCG photo.

On 18MAR2021, USCG captured 17 illegals from Cuba, approximately 54 miles south of Key West. They were sent back to Cuba.

USCG photo.

The USCG says it captured this boat, with three illegals from Cuba on it, approximately 50 miles southeast of the Bahamas, 14MAR2021. The illegals were returned to Cuba.

NEW JERSEY: State court ruling says liberal judges cannot detain illegals for the purpose of preventing their deportation!

NEW MEXICO: Christian organization preparing to take-on thousands of illegals!

TEXAS: “Smugglers just drop them off”, Inside an overcrowded migrant facility in Texas

Four years old boy found alone near river

Border facilities are so crowded that Border Patrol is forced to release illegals without any notice or in-processing documentation!

USCBP video showing operations of ‘temporary’ detention facility in Donna, your tax dollars at work, 17MAR2021:

Local Texas news media says border crisis is good for local economy!

WASHINGTON: A pro-illegal non-profit group takes over foster home, evicting the citizen foster family living there, so that illegals can be housed!

Washington DC: What Kamala Harris Has Said About Immigration Before Leading White House Border Response

Why are some farm workers opposed to the proposed to the Pathway to Citizenship (Farm Workforce Modernization Act) bill?

Great Reneger: Biden directly created border hell by cancelling Trump’s asylum treaties with the very countries that are now swamping our borders with children!

Biden’s Borderland: X-INGS SURGE BY 28%, WOULD BE HIGHER IF NOT FOR TRUMP’S WALL!

Technology

NATO Vehicle I-D: Tarcza Polski PT-91

Video March 30, 2021 Hutchins AAron

Just a few years before the official end to the unofficial Cold War, Poland’s military decided to modify its license built T-72M1s. The idea was to incorporate as many locally produced upgrades as possible. So many items were changed that the PT-91 Twardy (tough, strong) is almost a totally different tank from the T-72; engine, transmission, auto-loader, targeting system, etc.

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Andres Chandler, 13JUN2020.

Drawsko Pomorskie Training Area, Poland, June 2020.

USA photo by Sergeant Andres Chandler, 13JUN2020.

NATO video of PT-91 live-fire during wargame in Latvia, April 2020:

Canadian Forces photo.

Polish Hussars PT-91 during Assurance wargame in Latvia, 26JUL2018.

Michigan Army National Guard photo by Captain Tyler Piper, 06JUN2018.

Michigan Army National Guard photo by Specialist Alan Prince , 06JUN2018.

Bemowo Piskie Training Area, Poland, June 2018.

Michigan Army National Guard photo by Specialist Robert Douglas, 15JUN2018.

USA photo by Specialist Hubert D. Delany the Third, 06JUN2018.

Polish PT-91 in Latvia, at Camp Ādaži, 11MAR2018. Canadian Forces photo by Corporal Jean-Roch Chabot.

Canadian Forces photo by Corporal Jean-Roch Chabot.

In Latvia, February 2018, NATO wargame Reassurance. A PT-91 arrives for ‘decontamination’.

Canadian Forces photo by Corporal Jean-Roch Chabot.

A Slovenian soldier checks for ‘contamination’ of PT-91’s tracks/road wheels.

Canadian Forces photo by Corporal Jean-Roch Chabot.

Polish PT-91 about to get ‘decontaminated’ during CBRN (Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear) training in Latvia. Back in the Cold War, and through the 1990s, we called it NBC (nuclear Biological Chemical) training.

Camp Ādaži, Latvia. Canadian Forces photo by Master Corporal Gerald Cormier, 02OCT2017.

Canadian Forces video by Master Corporal Brandon O’Connell, Polish PT-91 during NATO wargame in Latvia, 2017:

Camp Ādaži, Latvia. Canadian Forces photo by Master Corporal Gerald Cormier, 02OCT2017.

U.S. Army photo by Charles Rosemond, 15JUN2017.

Adazi, Latvia, during NATO Saber Strike wargame, June 2017.

U.S. Army photo by Specialist Brandon Best, 04JUN2017.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by First Lieutenant Kristine Racicot.

Since the 1990s, many new versions of the PT-91 battle-tank have come out, with different designations and names. There’s even recovery vehicles, engineer vehicles, bridgelayers and self propelled artillery based on the PT-91. Besides Poland, Georgia, India and Malaysia use some type of PT-91 variant.

Soviet era Armor in use by NATO: POLAND

NATO: POLAND SUKHOI 22

Technology

TaCaMO: E-6B Mercury

Video March 28, 2021 Hutchins AAron

“This plane was built for the Cold War. It serves as the link between the national decision makers and the nuclear triad.”-Chief Petty Officer Jeffrey Penington, Task Force 124, July 2007

U.S. Air Force photo by Greg L. Davis, 23AUG2019.

U.S. Navy E-6B from Tinker Air Force Base (AFB), Oklahoma, flies over Colorado, 23AUG2019.

U.S. Air Force photo by Greg L. Davis, 23AUG2019.

The E-6B has a greatly strengthened airframe/wings/landing gear compared to its E-6A incarnation, due to greater weight caused by lots of electronic gear and extra fuel capacity. By 2003, the entire E-6A fleet was converted to B standard.

U.S. Air Force photo by Greg L. Davis, 23AUG2019.

E-6B Mercury refuels from a KC-135. The KC-135 and E-6B are not the same type of aircraft. The E-6B is based on the Boeing 707, the KC-135 is not. While the KC-135 is based on the same prototype-predecessor it was developed independently from the 707, and airframe parts are not interchangeable.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Jacob Skovo.

E-6B Mercury, assigned to Strategic Communications Wing 1 at Tinker AFB, Oklahoma, taxis on the flightline of Offutt AFB, Nebraska, 15JUL2019.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Jacob Skovo.

Notice what looks like a drogue type refueling system at the tail-end of the plane, it is reportedly a type of VLF antenna that’s five miles (8km) long when fully reeled out!

U.S. Air Force photo by Josh Plueger, 03OCT2017.

Panel removal from E-6B Mercury engine nacelle, 03OCT2017, Offutt AFB. The U.S. Navy (USN) has its own maintenance unit on Offutt AFB, for the purpose of maintaining aircraft used in Airborne Command Post (AbnCP, aka Looking Glass), and Take Charge and Move Out (TaCaMO) missions.

U.S. Air Force photo by Josh Plueger, 02OCT2017.

A worn out E-6B Mercury training aircraft on Offutt AFB, under USN guard, while waiting for turn-around inspection, 02OCT2017.

USAF photo by Josh Plueger.

USN E-6B Mercury takes flight from the USAF base of Offutt, Nebraska, 28AUG2015.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Jacob Skovo.

In 2007, E-6Bs with Task Force 124 were also serving as airborne radio relay stations over Iraq: “Our role here is basically as a convoy relay. When the convoys are moving and they can’t get a hold of someone to report something or even perform a radio check, they can contact us. Because we’re so high in the air we have a greater line of sight and therefore can communicate with all convoys and reporting authorities.”-Lieutenant Junior Grade Amy Simek, TF-124 battle staff mission commander

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Jacob Skovo.

USN photo, November 1984.

Take Charge and Move Out (TaCaMO) operations began in early 1960s, using EC-130s, for the purpose of directing nuclear ballistic missile launches from submarines.