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Influenza is apparently back, and with a vengeance as government health care ‘experts’ are stocking up on record number of flu vaccines! Incomplete list of links to news reports and studies, as of 27JUL2021:

Selling flu vaccines becomes a $9.5-billion market!

United Nations’ World Health Organization reports; no human influenza reported in Caribbean, no human influenza reported in Southeast Asia, no human influenza reported in South America, influenza B/Victoria increased in China.

BRITISH EMPIRE, aka since 1926 ‘COMMONWEALTH of NATIONS’:

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sergeant Micha Pierce, 12JUL2021, Darwin, Australia.

In Darwin, Australia, U.S. Navy and Marines Corps personnel were vaccinated for both CoViD and influenza, on 12JUL2021.

United Kingdom based, but Australian owned, vaccine maker Seqirus asked to supply 60-million flu shots to the United States!

United Kingdom based GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) ships another record breaking number of flu shots to the United States!

Socialized medicine British doctors commit “catalog of errors” resulting in girl’s death by influenza!

United Kingdom member England prepping for largest flu jab effort ever!

India confirms human death by H5N1-bird flu!

GERMANY: Concerns by heath ‘experts’ that the ‘year without the flu’ has weakened our immune systems!

Study concludes that healthcare workers who were not vaccinated for influenza, did not infect a single hospital patient!!!

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg launches adverse flu, pneumococci, TBE, tetanus and CoViD vaccine reaction study: “So far there are no data from Germany on the safety of Covid vaccines. Therefore, as part of our project, the first thing we want to do is compare the frequencies of adverse events – broken down according to the different vaccines and combinations – and then compare them with side effects from other vaccinations.”

MEXICO: In the vaccine mandated socialized healthcare system, ‘experts’ are demanding that people get vaccinated for CoViD before the flu season starts because they fear having a CoViD infection could be made worse by influenza!

SPAIN: Study reveals that “Among patients with asthma and confirmed influenza, current-season vaccination did not reduce the odds of hospital admission (adjusted OR 1.05, 95% CI 0.51 to 2.18). Influenza vaccination effects were similar for patients with and without asthma.”

UNITED STATES:

U.S. Army graphic by Jennifer Donnelly.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Department of Defense (DoD) have picked the month of August as National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM) .

Code 1 Supply distributing testing kits that work for both coronavirus and influenza, as requested by CDC.

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warns of vengeful influenza season!

Study says hospitalized children must be vaccinated for influenza before they are discharged from the hospital!

Study blames low rates of vaccination among pregnant women on ethnic disparities.

Palm Beach, Florida, reports influenza outbreak in dogs, vaccine drive-throughs initiated.

VIETNAM: Poultry industry shutdown due to H5N8-bird flu outbreak.

Operation Jupiter: COVID ‘BUBBLE BOY’ BOX? PROJECT WAS STARTED BEFORE THE PANDEMIC & YOU PAID FOR IT!

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

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

Going Viral: INFLUENZA WAITING IN THE WINGS!

February 2020: THE WORLD PANICS OVER COVID-19, YET INFLUENZA IS STILL KING KILLER!

Operation Jupiter 2018: MILITARY’S SECRET FLU IMITATING VIRUS EXPOSED, VACCINATIONS FOR MILITARY ONLY!

International

Mother of all Money Pits: Yet more Toyotas for Iraq, courtesy of you! $50-million in paychecks for Kurds!

Image July 27, 2021 Hutchins AAron

“Since 2014, the CTEF program funded by the U.S. has provided over $5 billion of equipment, vehicles, uniforms, stipends, medical supplies, etc.”-Colonel Wayne Marotto, U.S. Army in Iraq

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant First Class Class Christie R. Smith, 26JUL2021.

On 26JUL2021, the same day U.S. President Joe Biden announced an end to U.S. combat action in Iraq, U.S. forces in Iraq handed over $25-million worth of ‘strategic communication and maintenance equipment’ to Iraqi forces. The U.S. military officially calls it ‘divestiture’ or ‘divestment’, it’s part of the never ending Counter-ISIS Train and Equip Fund (CTEF) program.

USA photo by Specialist Clara Soria-Hernandez, 26JUL2021.

Also, the Ministry of Peshmerga-Kurdistan Region received more than 70 HMMWVs and Navistars from U.S. taxpayers, on 26JUL2021!

USA photo by Specialist Clara Soria-Hernandez, 26JUL2021.

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant First Class Ernest Henderson, 19JUL2021.

That wasn’t the only giveaway in July 2021, on the 19th of July U.S. forces gave Iraqi forces ammunition and Toyota ‘ambulances’ and pick-ups, valued at more than $2.75 million!

USA photo by Sergeant First Class Ernest Henderson, 19JUL2021.

USA photo by Sergeant First Class Ernest Henderson, 19JUL2021.

Also included were several Navistar flatbed trucks. Navistar has been paid tens of millions of U.S. dollars since 2007, to deliver trucks to Iraq.

USA photo by Corporal Jacob Gleich, 10JUL2021.

Then on 10JUL2021, U.S. taxpayers gave Iraqi forces $2.5-million worth of Toyotas and backhoe loaders!

But wait, there is more for the latest CTEF financial rip-offs. CTEF also gave 98 U.S. taxpayer funded Toyotas to Kurdish Peshmerga militia in January of this year: “We are going to see in the next 10 to 18 months is the divestment of up to 12 brigades worth of equipment to the Ministry of Peshmerga’s Regional Guard Brigades. It’s about $166 million worth of equipment that will be issued out.”-Colonel David Williams, U.S. Army Director of the Kurdistan Coordination Center

USA photo by Sergeant First Class Ernest Henderson, 12JUL2021.

Also, in May of this year, a Kurdish news outlet revealed that U.S. forces issued just over $50-million in ‘back pay’ to Peshmerga forces in Northern Iraq.

USA photo by Specialist Clara Soria-Hernandez, 11JUL2021.

Biden’s War: U.S. FORCES ENTER SYRIA, AGAIN

Mother of all Money Pits, January 2021: U.S. TAXPAYERS FUND JAPANESE MILITARY VEHICLES FOR IRAQ, AGAIN!

U.S. DoD Inspector General, February 2020: Audit of the DoD’s Accountability of Counter-Islamic State of Iraq and Syria funding

World War Three 2015: NATO Turkey bombs Iraqi Kurds

ROJAVA KURDS REVEAL PRO-GUN ANTI-TAX REVOLUTION!

KURDS & U.S. ADVISORS HIT WITH ISLAMIC STATE GAS ATTACKS, OBAMA REGIME COVER-UP!

World War Three 2011: KURDISH REBELS IN IRAN ADMIT THEY ARE BEING ARMED BY THE UNITED STATES

Iraqi officials demand U.S. leave

Occupation Shenanigans, 2010-11: 140 M1A1M Abrams tanks were delivered to Iraq, some of which ended up with pro-Iranian militias. In 2018, Iraq said it was trading-in the M1A1M for Russian made T-90S.

Mother of all Money Pits, 2007: U.S. citizens paid $3.5-million dollars per helicopter, to fix ex-Jordanian Hueys for Iraq!

Idaho, Technology, U.S.

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

Video July 27, 2021 Hutchins AAron

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

Wyoming ANG photo by Technical Sergeant Jon Alderman.

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

Wyoming ANG photo by Technical Sergeant Jon Alderman.

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

Wyoming ANG photo by Technical Sergeant Jon Alderman.

Wyoming ANG video by Jacqueline Marshall, 19JUL2021:

Wyoming ANG photo by Technical Sergeant Jon Alderman.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

U.S.

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

Denton Program Failure: Canadian Fire Trucks, U.S. Air Force, Central America

Image July 26, 2021 Hutchins AAron

U.S. Air Force photo by Peter Borys, 02JUN2021.

At the beginning of June 2021, Canadian fire trucks rolled onto New York’s Niagara Falls International Airport where they were loaded onto a U.S. Air Force (USAF) C-5M Super Galaxy transport and flown to Nicaragua.

USAF photo by Peter Borys, 02JUN2021.

The fire trucks, as well as humanitarian supplies, came from an outfit called Global Medic in Toronto, Canada. The entire operation was coordinated through the Denton Humanitarian Assistance Program.

The Denton Program also includes other items listed as ‘humanitarian’. USAF photo by Peter Borys, 02JUN2021.

It’s not the first time, towards the end of July 2020 a firetruck and two ambulances from Canada got a ride on a USAF C-5M, bound for Nicaragua.

A new 44-passenger bus loaded onto a C-17 in North Carolina, 04JUN2021. North Carolina Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Nathan Clark.

North Carolina Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Laura Montgomery, 06MAY2017.

In 2017, the Denton Humanitarian Assistance Program got the help of the North Carolina Air National Guard, packing a fire truck and other vehicles into a C-17 Globemaster-3.

USAF Reserve Airman weigh an International Harvester water truck before shipment to Nicaragua, September 2017. USAF photo by Master Sergeant Eric Amidon.

The Denton Humanitarian Assistance Program is not an independent charity but a taxpayer/’donation’ funded operation of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Agency for International Development (USAID). It is also known as Denton Cargo Program or Denton Program, and was started in 1987, after a 1985 change to Title 10 United States Code. It allows private charities to use space-available on taxpayer funded U.S. military aircraft to deliver their humanitarian supplies, mainly to Central American countries.

In July 2020, the USAF issued a press release claiming the Denton Program was “unfunded”, which is a blatant lie because the fuel, maintenance, and pay for the military personnel, is in the millions of U.S. dollars for just one flight of those giant transports! The USAF rationalizes that it is ‘unfunded’ because it uses what is called ‘space available’. This means that if a military aircraft is flying to a certain destination and it has empty space in its cargo hold, then it can be used for the Denton Program, but reality-check, the flight is still funded by the taxpayers.

Another faux pas in justifying the Denton Program Central American operations is this 2020 statement by Technical Sergeant Ryan Padgett: “By providing them with these resources, they are more likely to thrive, their economy will receive a boost which has the potential to lead to better health care, education and an overall higher standard of living.”

Spartan Guardian fire trucks loaded onto a U.S Air Force C-5M Super Galaxy, in Montana, 06NOV2021. Montana Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant Joesph Davis.

If the covertly taxpayer/’donor’ funded Title 10 Denton Program (on-going since 1987) is helping Central American countries (Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua) improve life for their residents, then why are there record numbers of Central Americans (specifically from Guatemala) swarming into the United States?

More examples of the Denton Program.

Biden’s Borderland: INDEPENDENCE?

2019: 1942 FORD FIRETRUCK RETURNS TO SERVICE WITH THE USAF!

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 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

Technology

‘Restored’ F-4C gets new Home

Image July 23, 2021 Hutchins AAron

Georgia Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Roger Parsons.

On 20JUL2021, an old F-4C Phantom-2 found a new home in front of the headquarters of the 116th Air Control Wing (ACW), Georgia Air National Guard, on Robins Air Force Base (AFB).