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Technology

Robot Wars: Junk Heap that floats?

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U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer Second Class Brandon T. Williams-Church, April 2021.

One of the ‘robot’ ships at the U.S. Navy’s UxS IBP 21 looks like something ‘boat people’ from Cuba would make.

USN photo by Petty Officer Second Class Brandon T. Williams-Church.

This floating target is based on the Low-Cost Modular Target (LCMT) system.  The LCMT system was designed to replace all previous different towed target systems.  At UxS IBP 21 all kinds of radar, sat-com, and other electronics were piled onto the LCMT.  The triangular things are radar reflectors designed to mimic a much larger ship.

Perhaps the hi-tech LCMT was the ‘beyond the line of sight’ target sacrificed to a Standard Missile-6 launched by USS John Finn (DDG 113), on 25APR2021: “We are going to do a live-fire offensive exercise. We are going to use the unmanned surface, unmanned air and manned air and surface to provide a targeting solution…. It will be an offensive missile, and we’re going to strike a target well beyond line-of-sight.”-Rear Admiral Jim Aiken, Carrier Strike Group 3

 

UxS IBP 21 stands for Unmanned Systems (not sure why there is an ‘x’ in the acronym) Integrated Battle Problem 2021.  UxS IBP 21 is the first ‘classified’ USN wargame involving robot vehicles and weapons competing against people operated systems, apparently spurred by doubts coming from the U.S. Congress: “With the recent acquisition failures on the last several ship classes, those of us on this committee are skeptical of the Navy’s ability to shepherd this new technology into employable assets that contribute to the lethality of those forces.”-Representative Elaine Luria of Virginia

IBP 21 took place from April 19th to the 26th.

 

Robot Wars: SEAHAWK & SEA HUNTER

Influenza

Vaccine Fail: Pharmacies spoil vaccines, issue fake shots instead? Japan reveals deaths after getting shots!

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Incomplete list of links to reports and studies showing the vaccination campaign is a failure, as of 03MAY2021:

The United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO) has not approved a single CoViD vaccine!  CoViD shots have only been authorized for emergency use under the UN-WHO’s Emergency Use Listing (EUL), which states “The WHO Emergency Use Listing Procedure (EUL) is a risk-based procedure for assessing and listing unlicensed vaccines, therapeutics and in vitro diagnostics with the ultimate aim of expediting the availability of these products to people affected by a public health emergency.” 

BRAZIL:  Claims the Russian vaccine has active common-cold virus in it!

CANADA: Despite government demands that people get vaccinated, the Canadian Pharmacists Association says that for some reason they are not being supplied with enough vaccines, claiming that “thousands of pharmacies across the country are still waiting to get involved.”

As news media criticizes Canada for lack of vaccines, government health experts to suspend use of J&J vax!

Despite the fact that Canada is having problems issuing vaccines to its own citizens, ‘woke’ health ‘experts’ say Canada isn’t sharing enough vaccines with India!

British Columbia drops minimum age for blood-clot causing AstrZeneca shot to 30.

You now need a vaccine passport to enter Canada.

FRANCE: Glut of vaccine a result of not sending supply where there is demand for it.

GERMANY: New rules will keep unvaccinated people in lockdown slavery, while vaccinated people go free!

U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Milton Hamilton.

For the first time, the U.S. Air Force is vaccinating German employees on Ramstein Air Base, 29APR2021.

ITALY:

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant K. Tucker Owen.

For the first time, the U.S. Air Force is vaccinating Italian employees on Aviano Air Base, 30APR2021.

JAPAN: Revealed; dozens of cases of severe allergic reactions to CoViD shots, so far 19 people died after getting the vaccine!

Revealed; 14-million doses of CoViD vaccines wasted!

UNITED KINGDOM:  Study says just one dose of Pfizer vax will not protect you from new variants.

UNITED STATES: Government data reveals that pharmacies across the United States have wasted almost 200-thousand doses of vaccine, CVS and Walgreens account for most of the wasted shots!

Ignorant Bloomberg writer says the best way to get more people to get vaccinated is to have the government/taxpayers pay pharmacies!

Iowa; The state Department of Public Health refused 71% of federal government issued vaccines, due to the reality that most people refuse to get the “authorized for emergency use only” (not truly approved) shots!

Kansas; At least half of nursing home healthcare workers still refuse to get vaccinated!

Louisiana; The state Department of Health is now begging people to get vaccinated as more than 1-thousand-5-hundred pharmacies are stocked with shots that could end up expiring.

Minnesota;

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Mikaley Kline.

U.S. military/FEMA operated mass-vax site (Community Vaccination Center, aka CVC) at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in Saint Paul, 01MAY2021.

Nebraska; Hy-Vee pharmacies have so much vaccine that you don’t need to make an appointment, just walk in.

North Carolina;  Walgreens accused of issuing saline shots instead of CoViD vaccines!

Pennsylvania; Despite Erie County pharmacies complaining that not enough people are wanting to get vaccinated (“We began offering the vaccine on Wednesday and we didn’t give a single shot. We did five vaccinations Thursday and none so far Friday.”-Jennifer Barlekoff, Pharmacy Innovations.), weekly infections rates in Erie County have been dropping!

South Carolina;

South Carolina Army National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Brad Mincey.

South Carolina National Guard conduct mass-vax drive-thru operations in Saluda, 01MAY2021.

Texas; Despite revealing a surplus of vaccines (to be sent to Austin for some reason), the Department of State Health Services is demanding that even more vaccines be ordered!

Washington; Grade schools to be used as mass-vax sites for children!

Washington DC; Not one of the so-called CoViD vaccines in use in the United States have been approved as a vaccine under the USFDA!  All the propaganda by government officials and main-stream news media is hyperbole, the USFDA has only “authorized for emergency use only”, which is technically and legally not the same as ‘approving’ as a vaccine, mainly because the ‘experimental medical technologies’ did not go through the more intensive testing required for a true approved vaccine!

Vaccine Fail: OH-CANADA, CONFIRMS DEATH BY VACCINE! REVEALED; CHINESE VACCINES DISABLE & KILL! HERD IMMUNITY FAILS INDIA!

Biden’s Borderland:  MORE BOAT-PEOPLE, MORE DRUGS, AND THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE?

Technology

Robot Wars: Seahawk & Sea Hunter

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On 20APR2021, a couple of composite trimaran hulled robots sailed around San Diego, California.  One is called Sea Hunter, the other Seahawk.

U.S. Navy photo by Chief Petty Officer Shannon Renfroe.

This one is called Seahawk.

USN photo by Chief Petty Officer Shannon Renfroe, 21APR2021.

Seahawk.

USN photo by Chief Petty Officer Shannon Renfroe, 21APR2021.

USN video of Seahawk and Sea Hunter, by Petty Officer First Class David Mora, 20APR2021:

USN photo by Petty Officer Second Class Thomas Gooley.

This one is Sea Hunter.  It is already five years old, with more than 30-thousand miles of sailing.

USN photo by Chief Petty Officer Shannon Renfroe.

Sea Hunter is the result of a DARPA Anti-Submarine Warfare challenge.  Anybody old enough to remember when the activities of DARPA were considered nothing more than ‘conspiracy theories’?

USN video by Aaron Lebsack, Sea Hunter’s arrival (by barge) in San Diego, May 2016:

USN video report announcing the DARPA Sea Hunter:

USN photo by Petty Officer Second Class Thomas Gooley.

A closer look at the newer $35.5-million Seahawk, departing Naval Base Point Loma, 20APR2021.  Construction of Seahawk began after a contract was signed at the end of 2017.  Delivery of Seahawk was made just days before the U.S. Navy’s (USN) UxS IBP 21 in San Diego, California.

USN photo by Chief Petty Officer Shannon Renfroe.

Another look at Seahawk during UxS IBP 21.   Seahawk and Sea Hunter are made by a company called Leidos.

UxS IBP 21 stands for Unmanned Systems (not sure why there is an ‘x’ in the acronym) Integrated Battle Problem 2021.  UxS IBP 21 is the first ‘classified’ USN wargame involving robot vehicles and weapons competing against people operated systems, apparently spurred by doubts coming from the U.S. Congress: “With the recent acquisition failures on the last several ship classes, those of us on this committee are skeptical of the Navy’s ability to shepherd this new technology into employable assets that contribute to the lethality of those forces.”-Representative Elaine Luria of Virginia

IBP 21 took place from April 19th to the 26th.

Robot Wars: MANTAS DEVIL RAY

DOG ROBOTS AND BREATHALIZERS CAN TELL IF YOU HAVE CANCER?

DON’T HAVE A HEART ATTACK, BUT SOON ARMY ROBOTS WILL SAVE YOUR ASS!

ROBOTS TO KILL 80-MILLION JOBS!

IDAHO ROBOTS REVEAL FUKUSHIMA RADIATION LEVELS TOO HIGH FOR HUMANS

Technology

Vehicle I-D: Soviet armor of the U.S. Marine Corps

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U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer First Class Paul Self.

MTLBs operated by 3rd Amphibious Armored Vehicle Battalion, 1ST Marine Division, acting as opposing forces (OpFor) during wargame Kernel Blitz in June 1997, Camp Pendleton, California.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sergeant Ryan Ward.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Timothy Reynolds.

USMC photo by Sergeant Ryan Ward.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Timothy Reynolds.

USMC photo by Sergeant Ryan Ward.

ZSU-23-4 during Kernel Blitz ’97.

USN photo by Petty Officer First Class Paul Self.

BRDM during Kernel Blitz ’97.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Timothy Reynolds.

T-72 during Kernel Blitz ’97.

Vehicle I-D: MORE U.S. ARMY FAKE-NEWS TANKS, TIGER STRIPES ANYBODY?

Technology

Robot Wars: MANTAS Devil Ray

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On 17APR2021, the Maritime Tactical Systems‘ ManTAS (Man-Portable Tactical Autonomous Systems) T38 Devil Ray robot boat was demonstrated just prior to the U.S. Navy’s (USN) UxS IBP 21, in San Diego, California.

U.S. Navy photo by Senior Chief Petty Officer Michael Jones, 17APR2021.

According to an article published in March 2021, the T38 (38 feet long) Devil Ray is a combat resupply boat able to carry up to 4-thousand-5-hundred pounds in a single load.  It is the latest in a line of unsatisfactory attempts to create a compact robot logistics system.

USN photo by Petty Officer Third Class Alexander P. Perlman.

Video, by Petty Officer 3rd Class Casey Trietsch, of the Devil Ray tooling around San Diego:

The Devil Ray looks like a racing boat because it is a racing boat.  According to BlueZone Group (Maritime Tactical Systems’s dealer in Australia and New Zealand) “The MANTAS USV vessel is a catamaran hull design based on a powerboat racing vessel that set world speed records.” 

USN photo by Senior Chief Petty Officer Michael Jones, 17APR2021.

UxS IBP 21 stands for Unmanned Systems (not sure why there is an ‘x’ in the acronym) Integrated Battle Problem 2021.  UxS IBP 21 is the first ‘classified’ USN wargame involving robot vehicles and weapons competing against people operated systems, apparently spurred by doubts coming from the U.S. Congress: “With the recent acquisition failures on the last several ship classes, those of us on this committee are skeptical of the Navy’s ability to shepherd this new technology into employable assets that contribute to the lethality of those forces.”-Representative Elaine Luria of Virginia

IBP 21 took place from April 19th to the 26th.

Robot Wars 2020:  USN’S NEW ROBOT GUN BOAT, OR CUSV

Technology

Texas turns to robots to wash F-16

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Texas Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Ryan Mancuso, 28APR2021.

In 2021, the Texas Air National Guard revealed their latest autonomous system, a robot that washes airplanes.

Texas Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Ryan Mancuso, 28APR2021.

The 149th Fighter Wing, on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, sacrificed one of their F-16s for the demonstration.

Texas Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Ryan Mancuso, 28APR2021.

Texas Air National Guard video by Senior Airman Ryan Mancuso, 14JAN2021:

The robot washer is part of a project funded by AFWERX.  The Texas Air National Guard claims the robot will save taxpayers some money.  The switch to robots is part of the Air Force 2025 program, which was the result of U.S. Air Force planning, originating in 1995.

Robots: PANDEMIC PANIC-ATTACK HITS CAT LITTER? BLAME LOGISTICS COMPETITION AND ROBOTS!

ROBOTS STRIP AN A-10 NAKED!

U.S. Navy’s NEW ROBOT GUN BOAT, OR CUSV

Wash: WASH YOUR HAWK!

KC-135 STRATOTANKER BATH

U.S.

Biden’s Borderland: More boat-people, more drugs, and the Zombie Apocalypse?

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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 01 May 2021:

On the Mexican side of the border, in one location so many illegals are expected that charities have built a ‘home’, and already they have tenants.

In another border location, the City of Tijuana is moving a border-crosser camp to a new location, due to massive overcrowding including 5-hundred children.

Due to increased various forms of fraud committed against U.S. businesses by foreigners, the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) in partnership with Michigan State University’s Center for Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection (A-CAPP), U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the Better Business Bureau announced the launch of IP Protect.  It is a free service for small to mid-size businesses.

ARIZONA: Yuma Sector Border Patrol intercept human smuggling vehicle on Interstate 8.  The smugglers are from California, three of the illegals have prior records in the U.S.

Yuma Sector Border Patrol reports capturing known sex offender trying to get into the U.S.

Yuma County Sheriff’s deputies conducting a welfare check discovered the home was being used the hide illegals.

A Jamaican citizen, who had been living in Utah, gets prison time for ripping-off old people and money laundering.

CALIFORNIA:  U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) reports increase in attempts to enter the U.S. in the San Diego Sector.

  Emergency detention site set to welcome 250 illegal children.

Biden has continued the use of Title 42, California news media claims that as a result kidnappings and extortion is on the rise!

Report says ‘Essential Worker’ status for migrant workers is not being applied to migrant women.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection video by Mani Albrecht, people smugglers use rope to drop two years old and six years old from the wall, 23APR2021:

FEMA will pay for funerals of illegals who died due to pandemic complications.

COLORADO: Man goes to prison as a result of working for Mexican drug dealers.

DELAWARE:  CBP is calling it Zombie Apocalypse ammo.  Somebody tried to ship 40 rounds of Zombie Terminator .38 caliber ammo to Honduras.

FLORIDA:

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Petty Officer Charly Tautfest.

On 25APR2021, the Coast Guard Cutter Bear intercepted this small boat near Fort Lauderdale.  When it was off-loaded it was discovered to have approximately 2-thousand-3-hundred pounds of cocaine.  In April 2020, President Donald Trump authorized Enhanced Counter Narcotics Operations in an effort to slow the increased smuggling of illegal drugs.

USCG photo by Petty Officer Third Class Brandon Murray.

On April 22, Coast Guard Cutter Charles Sexton took-on 72 illegals from Haiti, captured by Customs and Border Protection just ten miles from Lake Worth.  They were sent back to Haiti on 27 April.

USCG photo by Chief Petty Officer Charly Tautfest.

On 20 April, the crew of Coast Guard Cutter Tampa off-loaded approximately 5-thousand-5-hundred pounds of cocaine on Base Miami Beach.  The illegal drug was captured on April 9th, with the help of Tampa Police, when a ‘low-profile vessel’ was captured off the coast of Punta Gallinas, Colombia:

USCG photo.

These two illegals from Cuba are using surf boards in an attempt to get to the United States.  They were captured 70 miles southwest from Key West, on 16 April.  The 16th was a busy day for the U.S. Coast Guard, capturing a total of 23 illegals from Cuba, on three ‘boats’ in different locations off Florida, all were sent back.

USCG photo.

On 10 April this crazy ‘boat’ was found with 14 illegals from Cuba, off Key West.  The illegals were returned to Cuba on the 13th.

GEORGIA:  Illegals can get professional licenses, easy.

Large-scale noncitizen (illegals) visa fraud victimized Saint Simons Island businesses.
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ILLINOIS: Chinese citizen goes to prison as a result of working for Mexican drug dealers.

MAINE: Gives federal tax funded healthcare to illegals.

MARYLAND:

USCG photo by Petty Officer Third Class Kimberly Reaves.

A Port Safety and Security inspection team, from Coast Guard Sector Maryland-National Capital Region, inspects a container to look for undeclared hazards, in conjunction with Customs and Border Protection officers, during a multi-agency strike force operation at the Port of Baltimore, 20APR2021.

NEBRASKA: Mexican citizen gets prison time for identity theft.

NEW YORK: Immigrant loving Empire State creates administrative nightmare with free money for illegals!

NYC’s immigration boss leaves De Blasio admin.

No Plan Yet On How Undocumented People Apply For NY COVID Relief.
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NEW JERSEY: Illegals get driver’s licenses. 

Will New Jersey give $40-million in federal tax dollars to illegals?

PUERTO RICO: 

USCG photo.

On 20 April,  Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Tezanos captured 17 illegals in the Mona Passage.  With no documents, they claimed to be from Dominican Republic and were handed over to the Dominican Navy on 22 April.

USCG photo.

13 April, Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Napier captured 15 illegals from Dominican Republic, in the Mona Passage.  They were sent back.

TEXAS: 33 illegals from Guatemala captured in a safe-house.

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol reports a busy last week of April, capturing  4-thousand-640 illegals, smugglers and known criminals!

In one day CBP personnel working the Pharr International Bridge captured more than $8-million worth of illegal drugs coming in from Mexico!

WASHINGTON: Border Patrol screws-up, detains men legally allowed in the U.S., now has to pay for it.

Washington DC:  Remember when Democrats and the news media continually called President Trump a racists for imposing pandemic travel restrictions against other countries? Guess who just imposed travel restrictions against India? 

The new official word for illegal is non-citizen.

Supreme Court justices rules in favor of undocumented immigrant citing legal technicality.
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Biden’s Borderland: “SMUGGLERS JUST DROP THEM OFF”, BORDER FACILITIES BECOME REVOLVING DOOR OPERATIONS!

U.S.

United Police States: Green Berets show you how to conduct a drive-by-shooting

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U.S. Army photo, 22APR2021.

The U.S. Army’s (USA) 1st Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group-Airborne, traveled to New Hampshire in April 2021.

USA photo, 22APR2021.

They were training for what’s called Low-Visibility Force Protection Training, specifically while using silly-vilian vehicles, in preparation for Low-Visibility Operations in hostile urban/city environments.

USA photo, 22APR2021.

Eyes calls it ‘drive-by-shooting’.

USA photo, 22APR2021.

It even involves defensive driving, i.e. PIT (pursuit intervention technique) maneuver, TVI (tactical vehicle intervention), or what used to be known as a demolition derby.

USA photo, 22APR2021.

 

United Police States, 2016: OBAMA APPROVES EXTRA FUNDING FOR PRISONS!

United Police States, 2015:COPS ABOUT TO OPENLY TAKE YOUR GUNS, NO REASON NEEDED!

IDAHO NEWS MEDIA LIE ABOUT CRIMINAL POLICE RECORDS!

United Police States, 2014: IDAHO GOVERNOR ORDERS SURPRISE INVESTIGATION INTO EVIL FOR-PROFIT PRISON OPERATOR CCA!

‘CHRISTIAN’ NEBRASKA COPS VIOLATE U.S. CONSTITUTION & KIDNAP FAMILY’S CHILDREN BECAUSE OF “IMMORAL” CHOICE OF WORDS USED ON HOME VIDEO!

United Police States, 2013: IDAHO CHILD PRISON COVERING UP SEX CRIMES, DEFIES FEDERAL COURT ORDER! CULTURE OF SYSTEMIC CORRUPTION IN ‘CHRISTIAN’ GEM STATE!

 PROOF YOUR Federal GOVERNMENT IS THE BIGGEST CRIME SYNDICATE EVER!

PRISON is the NUMBER ONE REASON MEN ARE UNEMPLOYED?

YOUR TAX DOLLARS PAY FOR TEXAS RAPE CAMPS!!!

SICK COP BLASTS KITTENS WITH HIS GOVERNMENT AUTHORIZED GUN, IN FRONT OF CHILDREN! TURNS OUT IT’S OFFICIAL POLICY!

‘CHRISTIAN’ MORMONS BEHIND PRIVATELY RUN CONCENTRATION CAMP IN MISSISSIPPI….SAME COMPANY BEHIND ABU GHRAIB?

United Police States, 2012: CALIFORNIA FEMALE COP SHOOTS MAN who was ALREADY RESTRAINED!

MORE THAN 2,000 INNOCENT PEOPLE SENT TO PRISON IN THE UNITED STATES, JUST THE “TIP OF THE ICEBERG”!

UTAH NATIONAL GUARD BASE TO BECOME SITE OF LARGEST PERSONAL DATA CENTER IN THE U.S., YOU ARE THE TARGET!

International, U.S.

Biden’s War: South Carolina’s F-16C/J launch to Saudi Arabia!

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South Carolina Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Edward Snyder.

On 12APR2021, South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing (FW) launched their F-16CJs (SEAD Wild Weasels) to Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia.

South Carolina ANG photo by Lieutenant Colonel Jim Saint-Clair.

About 3-hundred state air-militia-personnel deployed, the unit is know as the Swamp Foxes: “Our Citizen-Airmen are fully integrated with our active component brothers and sisters to partner with our allies in the Central Command area of responsibility to deliver air power where and when needed. As we have done numerous times in the past, the Swamp Foxes will illustrate the force multiplying capabilities of our air reserve component forces.”-Colonel Akshai Gandhi, 169th FW commander

South Carolina ANG photo by Senior Master Sergeant Edward Snyder.

While most personnel deployed during the day, the F-16CJs left McEntire Joint National Guard Base during the night:

Biden’s War: OREGON DEPLOYED TO POLAND!

Idaho

Hawgsmoke 2021: Idaho Air-Militia brings home the Bacon!

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Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 17APR2021.

Pilots with Idaho Air National Guard’s 124th Fighter Wing, 190th Fighter Squadron, accepted top honors at the Hawgsmoke 2021 competition, and it’s not about Barbeque…..

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Rachel Perkinson, 14APR2021.

…or was it?  Notice all the broken shot-glasses.  Part of the opening ceremonies, remembering fallen warriors with booze.

Hawgsmoke 2021 was held at Moody Air Force Base (AFB) in Georgia, from April 14th to the 17th.  More than 150 personnel from 13 A-10C units took part in the secretive competition: “You don’t know what the events are until about 10 minutes before takeoff. They might give you general idea of what to prepare for, but you never know until you are sitting in the cockpit.”-Lieutenant Colonel Jason Cobb, 190th Fighter Squadron, Idaho Air National Guard

And the winners are (Idaho in bold).

USAF photo by Airman Rachel Perkinson, 16APR2021

 Top Overall Flying Team: Skull Flight, 190th Fighter Squadron (FS).

 Top Tactical Team: Skull Flight, 190th FS.

 Top Basic Surface Attack: Skull Flight, 190th FS.

Individual Top Gun Overall: Captain Taylor ‘Pistol’ Price, 104th FS.

Individual Top Gun Dive Bomb: Lieutenant Colonel Aaron ‘Puff’ Palan, 358th FS.

 Individual Top Gun Low Bomb: Captain Taylor ‘Pistol’ Price, 104th FS.

 Individual Top Gun Strafe: Captain Taylor ‘Petrie’ Bye, 75th FS.

Weapons Load Competition: Staff Sergenat Riley McIrvin, Airman First Class Maria Bermudez and Senior Airman Najee King, 354th Aircraft Maintenance Unit.

Marshalling Award: 354th AMU, Airman First Class Derek Delosh.

 Overall Maintenance Award: 104th AMU.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Jasmine M. Barnes, 06APR2021.

In the above photo you can see the trophies being made, these are for Best Maintenance Team.  Hey, I have the same skull cap!

USAF photo by Airman First Class Jasmine M. Barnes, 15APR2021.

This A-10 is being used in the first-ever for Hawgsmoke Weapons Loading competition.

Music video by Staff Sergeant Devin Boyer of first-ever Hawgsmoke Weapons Load comp:

USAF photo by Senior Airman Hayden Legg, 16APR2021.

Here’s a really dangerous part of aircraft operations, uploading liquid oxygen for the pilot can breath. An Indiana Air National Guard Airman fills the LOX (Liquid OXygen) bottle on one of his unit’s A-10s, at Hawgsmoke 2021.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Briana Beavers, 15APR2021.

Some of the private donors (yes, Hawgsmoke is partly funded by private donations!), and other ‘distinguished visitors’, got a tour of Hawgsmoke 2021.  Hawgsmoke is a resurrection of the old Gunsmoke competition over Nellis AFB, in Nevada.  Despite military press writers, and even military personnel, constantly using the wrong word to describe when Hawgsmoke happens, it is a biennial event (not biannual, meaning twice per year), taking place every other year.  Biennial and biannual are pronounced differently, so I don’t know why personnel are constantly saying biannual for an every other year event.

“Going to Boise!” video, by Airman First Class Megan Estrada:

The Idaho Air National Guard has hosted Hawgsmoke in 2008 and 2010, and will host the Hawgsmoke competition in 2023.  It would be launched from Gowen Field, and conducted over the Orchard Combat Training Area.

April 2021: Idaho hosts .50 cal Door Gunner shoot

IDAHO HOME TO FIRST EVER NATIONAL GUARD D-A-G-I-R!

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