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Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of main-stream-news links about global immigrant/border operations affecting the United States taxpayers, August 2019.

Following Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Hurricane Irma in Florida, both in 2017, more than 800 applicants were denied loans because they were “not a qualified alien.”

Mexico’s crackdown on illegal immigrants has trapped hundreds of illegals from African countries trying to get to the U.S. and Canada

Human smugglers face a dry spell with Mexico’s crackdown on Central American migration

India Has More than 630,000 Illegals in the United States

More than 1,100 U.S. Churches Providing Sanctuary to illegals

Crackdown on illegals is benefiting U.S. workers: Restaurant owners now offering bonuses and higher wages to attract U.S. workers!

Deportations of Undocumented Migrants has actually Slowed

ALABAMA: a coalition of 26 states, cities, and counties, as well as the U.S. Conference of Mayors, opposing the state of Alabama’s attempt to refuse to count undocumented immigrants in the 2020 census

ALASKA: “The working conditions are not humane. People will talk about how they got a cheap cruise—the reason they got a cheap cruise is because it’s on the back of the worker from the developing country.”: Ross Klein, sociologist at Memorial University in Newfoundland, talking about the results of his investigation into the booming cruise ship industry in Alaska and British Columbia

ARIZONA: THE U.S. BORDER PATROL AND AN ISRAELI MILITARY CONTRACTOR ARE PUTTING A NATIVE AMERICAN RESERVATION UNDER “PERSISTENT SURVEILLANCE”

Large groups of migrants stop crossing at the Arizona-Mexico border

drone video of 60 new miles of border wall

22AUG2019, near Lukeville the first wall panels went up, as part of the Tucson 5 Mile border wall project.

Judge tosses felony case against lawyer arrested during immigration rally

ARKANSAS: Sightings of an immigration enforcement bus caused panic for the immigrant community in Northwest Arkansas

CALIFORNIA: Hypocrisy; Leftist-liberal ‘pro-immigrant’ California somehow forgot to include immigrant workers in its latest plan to fight poverty!

More hypocrisy; Even California farm owners, who were once migrants themselves, are firing migrant workers who get sick or injured on the job!

Undocumented (illegal) Filipino, Pulitzer Prize Winner Gets High School Named After Him

NFL players help bail out undocumented immigrant

Secret ‘underground’ food bank for illegal immigrants revealed

22AUG2019, first border wall panel goes up near Calexico, as part of the 15 miles long El Centro project.

13AUG2019, U.S. Coast Guard captures 1-thousand-3-hundred pounds of illegal marijuana near Catalina Island, being smuggled into The Golden State despite the fact that marijuana is now legal there.

United States Border Patrol Acting San Diego Sector Chief Kathleen Scudder announces the completion of 14 miles of new border wall construction in San Ysidro.

COLORADO: Pro-immigrant activist killed by illegal immigrant from El Salvador, who was being protected by a Christian church!

ICE data reveals that immigrant detainees in a GEO for-profit prison have been locked up alone, 23 hours a day, for as long as nine months

CONNECTICUT: Mayor of New Haven unilaterally extends protects for illegal immigrants

State Department of Education clamps down on high school officials that wanted to know the immigration status of enrollees

DELAWARE: Joins lawsuit over rollback of child immigrant protections

FLORIDA: Fire bomb thrown into U.S. Citizenship and Immigration office

Greyhound bus riders are being asked for immigration papers

Feds search for site to house 500 immigrant children

01AUG2019, U.S. Coast Guard, and U.S. Customs & Border Protection, captures captured 67 packages of illegal drugs, along with seven illegal immigrants and one smuggler.

GEORGIA: TORTURE AND STUNNING NEGLECT END IN SUICIDE AT PRIVATELY RUN ICE PRISON

GUAM: More of what I call Operation Jupiter as health officials report dengue fever is being brought in by immigrants

(In 2015 I discovered a U.S. Army program called JUPITR ATD, and I found connections to disease outbreaks around the world and U.S. military operations.)

IDAHO: Can DACA students receive an Idaho Opportunity Scholarship?

IOWA: Iowa City Catholic Worker House hiding illegals

KANSAS: federal judge in Kansas has ruled that a law making it a crime to “encourage” or “induce” immigrants to enter or live in the country illegally is unconstitutional

KENTUCKY: After only 16 months of operations, an immigration court is suddenly shutdown!

Nearly 2-hundred LEGAL immigrants become U.S. citizens

Arturo Ruiz, speeding 12 miles over limit; reckless driving; operating motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol/drugs/etc., .08 — first-offense; operating on suspended or revoked operators license; failure to wear seat belts; failure to or improper signal; immigration detainer. Luis Castro, alcohol intoxication in a public place (first and second offenses); immigration detainer.

LOUISIANA: Illegal from Guatemala arrested for child rape

French immigrant arrested for $6-million bank fraud

MAINE: Mexican illegals crossed into the U.S. from Canada, then tried to steal a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle!

MARYLAND: Why is Montgomery County experiencing so many rapes by illegal immigrants?

Seventh illegal immigrant accused of sex crimes since July

Local police barred from working with ICE despite incidents of sexual assaults increasing nearly fourfold

MASSACHUSETTS: Judge suspended for protecting a twice deported illegal, with a long criminal history, will continue to be paid her $180-thousand taxpayer funded salary!

MINNESOTA: Who said immigrants improve the economy? Walmart shutting down its Midway Marketplace store claiming lack of sales, it turns out many of the employees AND customers are poor immigrants from Africa.

MISSISSIPPI: How Mississippi, where chicken is a multi-billion dollar business, repeatedly balked at getting tougher on illegal immigration

Children of undocumented immigrants arrested in Mississippi rely on strangers for food and shelter

MISSOURI: At least 55,000 people in Missouri are ‘illegal’. In the first six months of this year, 3,115 people in Missouri faced deportation cases. That’s more than the total number of cases filed in 2017.

NEBRASKA: Proof it’s all about profits as city & school officials, as well as local for-profit businesses, lament the loss of 130 illegal workers to an ICE raid last year, claiming the hiring of legal workers is costing them too much money, and for some reason they don’t trust the legal workers as much as they trusted the illegal workers! (ICE claims locals were illegally profiting off the illegal workers by forcing the illegals to kickback part of their low pay)

State residents almost evenly split on opinions about illegals

NEW JERSEY: Leftist liberal pro-illegal-immigrant politician admits “Who Do You Think Is Mowing Our Beautiful Lawns?”

NEW MEXICO: State refuses to approve application for illegal immigrant childrens’ shelter due to the for-profit operator lying about problems with its other shelters

23AUG2019, first wall panels go up near Columbus, as part of the El Paso border wall project.

NEW YORK: De Blasio Lowers Requirements to Enter Affordable Housing Lottery, To Benefit Undocumented (illegal) Immigrants

NORTH CAROLINA: Alamance County Detention Center gets $2.3-million tax dollars to house illegals

NORTH DAKOTA: 28AUG2019, opening of renovated U.S. CBP’s National Air Security Operations Center (airborne drones) on Grand Forks Air Force Base.

OHIO: Salvadoran man allegedly transported illegal immigrants through Ohio

OKLAHOMA: “We have no plan to remove ICE from the jail,” Sheriff’s office working to clarify ICE presence at detention center

OREGON: Hated governor now target of recall efforts for signing a new law providing undocumented immigrants with driver’s licenses, among other things

Pew Research Center estimates that as of 2016 more than 100-illegals call Oregon their temporary home, and that’s a decrease from the previous ten years!

PENNSYLVANIA: Newly unearthed documents reveal how an environmental-minded socialite became an ardent nativist whose money helped sow the seeds of the Trump anti-immigration agenda.(for more info on the elite funded anti-immigrant/pro-abortion operation go to ColcomFoundation.org)

RHODE ISLAND: ICE cop drives over pro-immigrant Jewish protesters who were blocking access to ICE prison

SOUTH CAROLINA: Faked ICE flyers claim ICE doesn’t need a warrant to invade your home

SOUTH DAKOTA: Revealed; South Dakota businesses are recruiting illegal immigrant workers from other U.S. states, and then turning them into literal slave laborers!

TENNESSEE: The former owner of a meat factory, that was the site of a massive immigration raid where nearly 100 people were arrested last year, was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

TEXAS: Governor under fire for asking supporters to ‘defend Texas’ from illegal immigration

In Brownsville, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted ‘Family Unit Removal’ of illegals from Guatemala. Since mid-July, Guatemala and the United States have implemented a new process to more expeditiously remove illegals. This enhanced cooperation results in reduced lengths of stays in custody for Guatemalan citizens.

UTAH: For-profit private prison company bows-out of planned Evanston immigration detention center

Immigrant wanted by ICE arrested in Ogden on child rape charges

VERMONT: man charged with sending fake tip to ICE

18 illegals captured along the border with Canada

VIRGINIA: A federal judge has thrown out an illegal immigrant’s claim that a Virginia sheriff violated his constitutional rights.

University of Virginia offers DACAs financial aid

WASHINGTON: State looking to fight new immigration rules

Washington State University teaches illegals how to beat the system!

Washington DC: Sick Migrants Undergoing Lifesaving Care Can Now Be Deported

Homeland Security moves $155 million from FEMA disaster relief for immigration enforcement

WISCONSIN: Immigrants told to avoid marijuana — even where it’s legal

Immigrant invasion U.S.A., July 2019: HUMAN TRAFFICKING HORROR SHOW

Kit Bashing

B-25 ¡Panchito!

Video September 15, 2019 Hutchins AAron

U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Madeline Herzog, 02APR2022.

Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, 02APR2022.

Panchito = A derogatory name

New Jersey Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant Matt Hecht, 14MAY2016.

Panchito is a North American B-25J-25-NC Mitchell built in the last year of World War Two. Through the 1950s it was used for training. In the 1960s it became water bomber ‘Tanker 32’. In the early 1970s it was a bug sprayer called Big Bertha. Since the mid-70s it was a museum bird, finally becoming Panchito in the late 1990s. That information pertains to the specific aircraft currently flying, the original Panchito flew bombing missions over Okinawa during the summer of 1945, and then was apparently buried in a Filipino ‘grave’, with a whole bunch of taxpayer funded aircraft, when the war ended.

USAF video report from June 2007, about Panchito:

In 1981, Monogram Models Incorporated issued their fine 1:48 scale B-25J Mitchell kit, with markings for the original Panchito (which has a different tail code than today’s Panchito). Unfortunately Monogram didn’t include any historical info about the plane (except for a small blurb on the side of the box-top).

U.S. Air Force photo by Roland Balik, 27AUG2017.

27AUG2017, Dover AFB air show, Delaware.

U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez, 17APR2017.

National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, 17APR2017.

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Valentina Lopez, 21SEP2016.

Manassas Regional Airport, Virginia, 21SEP2016

New Jersey Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant Matt Hecht, 14MAY2016.

Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, 14MAY2016.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Mackenzie Gibson, 29APR2016.

Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, 29APR2016.

Kentucky Air National Guard photo by Lieutenant Colonel Dale Greer, 22APR2017.

Louisville, Kentucky, 22APR2017.

USMC photo by Corporal Orlando Perez, 04MAY2012.

MCAS Cherry Point, North Carolina, 04MAY2012.

Video, start-up, taxi, take-off, return:

Take-off video from April 2012:

VEHICLE I-D: AIRBORNE HURRICANE HUNTERS, WHEN DID IT ALL START?

RF-84F THUNDERFLASH & YRF-84F, AN APPEAL TO MONOGRAM!

F-8 DFBW, OR ANOTHER REASON WHY TODAY’S TECHIE GENERATION OWES THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX!

C-47 DAKOTA/SKYTRAIN, DOUGLAS COMMERCIAL-3, R4D GOONIES!

U.S.

Red Bank & South Fire helicopter ops

Video September 15, 2019 Hutchins AAron

During the second week of September, 2019, California National Guard flew at least 290 firefighters to the Red Bank Fire and the South Fire, which are burning in rugged terrain.

Video California National Guard CH-47 Chinook ferries fire fighters to the Red Bank Fire in Tehama County:

Official video explainer of UH-60 and CH-47 operations:

Firefighters work 24 hour-shifts, here’s video of Black Hawks bringing back tired fire crews:

The UH-60s and CH-47s also played water bombers. In just one day, 10 September, they dropped 70-thousand-974 gallons of water just on the South Fire!

Video, UH-60M water bombing:

Daily maintenance was conducted on the six California National Guard helicopters assigned to help fight the Red Bank and South fires.

IDAHO WILD FIRES 2019: MD-87 WATER BOMBER, NEW KING AIR FAC

OREGON WILDFIRES: MILITIAS LOVE IT, CH-47F AIRBORNE FIREFIGHTER!

Technology

Blade folding Army Black Hawks

Video September 15, 2019 Hutchins AAron

U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Sharon Matthias, 10SEP2019.

Video, folding UH-60 blades for loading onto C-17 Globemaster, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, 09SEP2019:

U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Sharon Matthias, 10SEP2019.

Video, UH-60 blade folding for loading onto boats, Kuwait, 27APR2019:

Idaho blade folding: IDAHO BLACK HAWKS HEAD SOUTH, DOWN CENTRAL AMERICA WAY, YOU PAID FOR IT!

VEHICLE I-D: CBP’S BLACK HELICOPTERS DEPLOY TO PUERTO RICO, QUICK MINICRAFT REVIEW

MILITIA UH-60L LOOSES WINDSHIELD AT NTC!

SOUTH CAROLINA MILITIA’S SWITCH-BLADE APACHE

U.S.

Mount Whitney Death Trap, SAR Money Pit

Image September 14, 2019 Hutchins AAron

14 September 2019 (15:05 UTC-07 Tango 06) 23 Shahrivar 1398/14 Muharram 1441/16 Gui-You 4717

California Army National Guard photo by Chief Warrant Officer 2 Paul Mantiply, 25AUG2019.

It might look like Afghanistan, but it’s not.

Photo via Inyo County SAR, 25AUG2019.

On 25AUG2019 near Iceberg Lake, California, the National Guard’s Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 126th Aviation Regiment, flew-in Inyo County SAR (Search And Rescue) crews, about 13-thousand-8-hundred feet up Mount Whitney, to rescue a wounded female hiker. She was injured when a boulder cut loose and wedged her in a crevice.

Photo via Inyo County SAR, 25AUG2019.

The Inyo County SAR crew had to hike up to where the hiker was, just 7-hundred feet short of the 14-thousand-505 feet (4421 meter) peak, because the CH-47F helicopter couldn’t fit in-between a crevasse: “We attempted to hoist her out, but we didn’t have the rotor clearance the first time. We were down to about ten feet between the blades and the granite.”: Chief Warrant Officer 2 Paul Mantiply

Photo via Inyo County SAR, 25AUG2019.

The hiker was delivered to medical personnel at Bishop Airport, no word on her condition.

SAR ops are becoming so common place, across the U.S., and most SAR ops are paid for by taxpayers: “The United States Coast Guard is the leader in SAR operations, coming to the assistance of an average of 114 people per day at a total cost of $680 million annually…… It does not include man hours or money tied to the training of the personnel.

The National Park Service (NPS) is another agency heavily involved in SAR operations. In 2007, the NPS logged almost 3,600 incidents of search and rescue, 136 of which resulted in fatalities. This resulted in almost $5 million in associated expenses.

Other SAR missions around the Unites States are carried out by local sheriff’s offices, which are typically a mix of county employees working in concert with a staff of unpaid volunteers.”

In August 2018, mountaineering news outlet Outside declared Mount Whitney to be an “Overcrowded Catastrophe”, the author blames “Summit fever, a lack of mountaineering skills, and the allure of social media”, as well as weather conditions.

But Mount Whitney has a long history of injuries and deaths:

Inyo County SAR recent missions

June 2019; Body of missing hiker from Virginia found on Mt. Whitney

May 2019; Gonzaga leadership alums save hikers stranded overnight on California’s Mount Whitney

Mt Whitney Multiple Injuries June 11 2018

May 2018; Hiker, mountain climber fall to their deaths

July 2017; Mt Whitney SAR activity

August 2016; My Mt. Whitney day hike: up was easy; down … I’d rather not remember

This video from 2015 shows how easy it is to slip and fall;

September 2013; Man falls to death at Mt. Whitney

October 2010; Mt. Whitney climbers learn weather can shift wildly

July 1990; Hikers Find Death, Terror at Summit of Mt. Whitney

BlindBatNews: RESCUING DOGS, AND DOGS WHO’LL RESCUE YOU!

ENTANGLED SEA TURTLES RESCUED BY U.S. COAST GUARD

COLORADO MILITIA LAKOTA RESCUE TRAINING

IDAHO MILITIA PREPS FIREFIGHTERS FOR COMING NATURAL DISASTERS!

International

Tremor Event Has Begun: Pacific Ring of Fire, August 2019

Video September 9, 2019 Hutchins AAron

Incomplete list of seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, August 2019.

A Mega-Tsunami on Early Mars

Crack in Pacific seafloor caused volcanic chain to go dormant for 10-million years

What tourists/travelers need to do in after a disaster

AUSTRALIA: Oil industry seismic operations delayed

Hidden ‘Jurassic World’ of Volcanoes Uncovered

KitKat introduces rare volcanic chocolate

CANADA: Researchers discover why oil industry fracking causes earthquakes

BC school district braces for mega earthquake

CHILE: 6.8 earthquake reveals stress is building on the megathrust

Increased Volcanic activity threatens fish farms, plans being made to evacuate the fish!

CHINA: Insurance industry adopts new earthquake catastrophe model, to predict insurance payouts and identify buildings most at risk of failure

5.0 hits Taiwan

COLOMBIA: 5.3-magnitude quake hits 28 km NW of Guapi

ECUADOR: There are 47 volcanoes in Ecuador, and 27 of them are potentially active, and five of them have erupted since 2000.

EL SALVADOR: Colossal volcano behind ‘mystery’ global cooling finally found

FIJI: 5.0 earthquake – Fiji Islands Region on 27AUG2019

5.9 earthquake – Fiji Islands Region (Wallis & Futuna) on 22AUG2019

A floating ‘island’ made up of volcanic rock, meandering through the Pacific.

GUATEMALA: Appeals for more help from International Red Cross, for dealing with the 2018 eruption (is this why so many Guatemalans are flooding into the U.S.?)

HONDURAS: Mysterious white smoke emanating from mountain that is not considered a volcano

How many U.S. taxpayers know that over the past four decades a small outpost in Honduras has housed a mix of U.S. military forces, backed by aid organizations to provide medical assistance and disaster response for Latin American countries?

INDONESIA: volcano chaser documenting Indonesia’s volatile craters

Activities banned within 3 kilometers from the summit of Mount Merapi

Huge Oil Spill in Land of Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Volcanoes

JAPAN: belief in link between deep-sea fish sightings and quakes finally debunked

Asama-yama erupts

Underground links between quakes and eruptions of Japan’s biggest active volcano

5.4-magnitude quake strikes Aomori Prefecture

Video of Aomori Prefecture conducting a disaster drill, a week after 5.4 quake, in conjunction with U.S. Misawa Airbase:

MEXICO: Dramatic eruption by Mexico’s Popocatepetl

5.5 earthquake – Chiapas, 12AUG2019

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Video explainer of U.S. taxpayer supported Humanitarian Assistance Disaster Relief exercise PACIFIC ENDEAVOR:

PERU: Oil industry to increase offshore seismic operations

Proposes earthquake resistant cities

PHILIPPINES: 6.3 magnitude on the Richter scale shook the Luzon island

5.0 earthquake – Mindanao, 11AUG2019

European Union brings relief to victims of powerful earthquake

RUSSIA: Karymsky volcano spews

5.0 earthquake – East of Kuril Islands, 25AUG2019

Lightning strikes Ebeko volcano during eruption

TONGA: 5.4 earthquake – 24AUG2019

5.0 earthquake – 24AUG2019

new submarine volcanic eruption discovered

UNITED STATES: Watch tsunami waves from a 9.0 earthquake hit the Pacific Northwest in new simulation videos

Alaska; After major quake, budget cut to seismic monitoring system

California; UCBerkeley is in the middle of conducting seismic evaluations of the more than 600 buildings on campus.

Ridgecrest earthquakes caused up to $5 billion in damage to China Lake naval base

At Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, U.S. Navy SeaBees were recognized for their efforts to help with recovery after the July earthquakes.

In San Diego, the U.S. Navy conducted exercise Citadel Rumble, enlisting the help of Amateur Radio Emergency Service to test emergency radio communications between USN hospitals during natural disasters.

Groundbreaking earthquake catalog may have just solved a seismic mystery

Community Seismic Network has installed 1-thousand sensors across the region

Hawaii; Large Earthquakes, Hilina Fault System Relationship

What does water in Halema‘uma‘u mean?

Montana; More small quakes reported

60 years ago 7.3 magnitude earthquake killed 28 people

Nevada; UN Reno gets 1-million additional tax dollars for ShakeAlert quake warning system

Oregon; Critics blast Oregon repeal of tsunami-zone building ban

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake just struck

$1.6-million in additional taxpayer funding for ShakeAlert warning system

Washington; Funding from the U.S. Geological Survey is expected to double the number of sensors in the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network

Seismic Tremor Event Has Begun, Seismologists Say

Wyoming; 1959 quake changed landscape, structures and more in Yellowstone, 160 new geysers sprang to life

VANUATU: Mount Yasur is – incredibly or frighteningly, depending on how you look at it – open to members of the public game enough to walk up and peer into the belly of the Earth.

5.5 earthquake – Santa Cruz Islands (Vanuatu), 22AUG2019

6.3 earthquake strikes between Vanuatu, Solomon Islands

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE, JULY 2019: “LOST IN TIME”

U.S.

U.S. military provides taxpayer funded pet care in Appalachia!

Video September 8, 2019 Hutchins AAron

08 September 2019 (05:59 UTC-07 Tango 06) 17 Shahrivar 1398/08 Muharram 1441/10 Gui-You 4717

Taxpayer funded military veterinarians provide medical services for pets, 28AUG2019. Photo by Major Jeffrey Gruidl.

In August, the U.S. military conducted the now annual Appalachian Care, started under President Obama when it became obvious that ObamaCare/ACA (Affordable Care Act) would not cover everybody. But not only are humans provided taxpayer funded healthcare, so are their pets.

Michigan Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Sonia Pawloski, 22AUG2019.

Michigan Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Sonia Pawloski, 20AUG2019.

Michigan Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Sonia Pawloski, 22AUG2019.

Since 2014 the Appalachian Care/Appalachian Mountain Individual Readiness Training (IRT) ops have been taking place at various locations across the Appalachian Mountain region.

Communities interested in hosting an IRT mission can contact one of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense by going to https://irt.defense.gov

OPERATION APPALACHIAN CARE; PROOF OBAMACARE FAILED, AND OBAMA KNEW IT DID!

U.S.

Dorian: How to evacuate thousands of U.S. Marines

Image September 4, 2019 Hutchins AAron

On 03SEP2019, the threat of Hurricane Dorian forced Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, to start evacuating basic trainees.

Their new temp-home will be Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany, Georgia.

The trainees packed their rucks, and were handed a box of rations, and told to “Get on the bus!”

Hundreds of contracted tour buses rolled in to take them to Georgia.

It’s actually easy to evac thousands of military personnel, they’re under orders, and the food and transportation are provided. Realize how hard it is to get millions of silly-vilians to evacuate, without providing taxpayer funded food and transportation, or a place to go-to, before-hand.

I don’t know if this guy is yawning or yelling, but I’m sure there was a lot of hurry-up-and-wait.

VEHICLE I-D: USMC HAWKER HUNTER(?) spotted in South Carolina

VEHICLE I-D: USMC AAV7 VID-FEST

WHAT DO THE MARINES DO WITH ALL THAT AMMO THEY CAN’T USE?

MARINES GUILTY OF ENDEMIC VIOLENCE? GHOSTS OF MY FATHER & GRANDFATHER!

Hurricane HARVEY: MARINES USE AMPHIBIOUS COMBAT TANKS TO SAVE LIVES!

Technology, U.S.

Airborne Hurricane Hunters, when did it all start?

Video September 2, 2019 Hutchins AAron

The first hurricane (typhoon) hunter was a pilot flying a Second World War T-6 Texan through the eye of a hurricane, on a dare! Realizing that flying through a hurricane was doable, the U.S. Air Force set upon a long journey of modifying aircraft to collect weather data about hurricanes.

The first data collected, in 1944 by B-25 bombers (WB-25 Army Hurricane Reconnaissance Unit), is credited with saving hundreds of lives. Prior to the development of airborne hurricane hunters, thousands of people in the United States died as a result of hurricanes, but after the use of flying weather trackers the average death toll dropped significantly.

Painting by Thomas Wojahn of a WB-50 of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, Falcon Alpha Mission-1957.

Perhaps the name The Hurricane Hunters came from the the title of a book first published in 1955 about the U.S. military’s obsession with tracking hurricanes. Download your free copy here.

Silent U.S. Navy film, from 1961, showing the use of the EC-121 Warning Star (WV-2) ‘AWACS’ as a hurricane hunter:

Hunter AFB, WB-47E City of Savannah Hurricane Hunter I, September 1963.

Even the B-47 strategic bomber (WB-47) was used as a Hurricane Hunter.

WC-130 Hercules f the 815th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, 920th Weather Reconnaissance Group, being prepared for a mission to monitor Hurricane Allen, August 1980.

Official USAF video history report, including the T-6, B-25, B-29 (WB-50) and C-130:

A USAF WC-130 Hercules from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, ‘Hurricane Hunters’, Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi. USAF photo dated 1995.

But it not just lives that are saved with the creation of airborne hurricane hunters, in this 2018 video report about the purpose of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi) it’s revealed that mass evacuations of the public cost one-million USD per mile of coastline! Taxpayer costs can be reduced by providing accurate weather data to allow for more timely evacuation orders:

HurricaneHunters.com

WC-130J & WP-3D: HUNTING DORIAN

T-6 SNJ TEXAN POKEY AIRPORT, 2012 & 2014

Technology

Dorian more powerful than U.S. military aircraft?

Video September 2, 2019 Hutchins AAron

02SEP2019, U.S. Coast Guard deploys C-130s in anticipation of Hurricane Dorian.

Evacuation of E-8C J-STARS from Warner Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, 02SEP2019:

On 01SEP2019, U.S. Customs & Border Protection transferred one of their UH-60 Black Hawks from Puerto Rico to Homestead, Florida, to be used in hurricane rescue operations:

U.S. CBP also deployed P-3 Orions to Homestead, Florida, 31AUG2019.

Florida National Guard helicopters staged in the Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport, in anticipation of Hurricane Dorian, 01SEP2019.

MH-60R Sea Hawks assigned to USN’s Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 48, in Florida, were sent to Maxwell Air Force Base, in Alabama, to escape the wrath of Dorian, 01SEP2019.

Video of preparations to exodus Naval Air Station Jacksonville: