As if it isn't bad enough that Senator John Thune is a tool of the military/industrial complex where Ellsworth Air Force Base aids and abets pilots who kill children and practice-bombs parts of four states he wants to bring a doomed fighter to Sioux Falls.
My ex-stepson currently flies F-16s for the South Dakota's 114th Fighter Wing but he'll retire as a full colonel before the F-35 is deployed.
How should I feel?
The F-35 “is a dog …overweight and underpowered,” said Winslow Wheeler, director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Project on Government Oversight in Washington. According to a 2008 Rand Corporation analysis, the F-35, “can’t turn, can’t climb, can’t run.” Defense analyst Richard Aboulafia told the publication Intelligent Aerospace, “The F-35 is coming to eat us all alive, there’s no way to sugar-coat it.” Despite all these early reviews, the F-35 refuses to die, and is on track to become the military’s standard warplane. The Pentagon expects to order nearly 2,500 of them in the coming decades at a cost of over $400 million. Lockheed-Martin has been accused of conspiring with the Defense Department to jack up the cost of the plane, leading Sen. John McCain to observe, “It is the kind of cronyism that should make us all vigilant against… the military-industrial complex." [AlterNet]Oh, look: Lockheed Martin gave Thune nearly $40,000 just last cycle.
My ex-stepson currently flies F-16s for the South Dakota's 114th Fighter Wing but he'll retire as a full colonel before the F-35 is deployed.
How should I feel?
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Dyess AFB has a fly ash play pen at:
32 degrees 26' 21.90"N by 99 degrees 50' 49.24" W
Wright Patterson AFB fly ash pile/processors:
39 degrees 50' 35.75"N by 84 degrees 02' 27.65" W
Hill AFB fly ash pile:
41 degrees 07' 28.27" N by 111 degrees 56' 19.63" W
Mountain Home AFB, not even concealed ash/processor next runway:
43 degrees 02' 04.11" N by 115 degrees 50' 50.90" W
Nellis AFB fly ash pit operation:
36 degrees 17' 33.77" N by 114 degrees 59' 12.75" W
Kirkland AFB fly ash pile:
35 degrees 01' 42.08" N by 106 degrees 37' 10.53" W
Fly ash is widely used in runway concrete construction.
Yes, we are building the shit out of every USAF runway it seems. Doing it over extended periods of time, with little perceivable change in the runways, while there are notable changes in the fly ash piles. The Ellwsorth chemical piping job is slick, in that they did resurface the northwest perimeter fence road while laying pipe underneath. You can follow it clockwise around the runway, and see the ditch-work lead off to an added loading pad area.
You can get a detailed look at a plane siting on the tarmac at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, in the Google Earth photo dated 3/8/2014.
It is at 35 degrees 01' 46.32" N by 106 degrees 37' 33.54" W
It is the lone white plane being serviced, and it is sitting across the runway from the fly ash pile I denoted in my last post. The side clearly reads "10 TANKER AIR CARRIER" and is the standard white with red trim geo-plane. Immediately to the west of the craft sit chemical pods on trailers for loading, to the immediate east is a group of empty chemical trailers from a previous loading.
Retrofitting 1980s era B-1 Lancers feels like putting a plow behind a similar era Corvette to me; It smacks of desperation. I'm living under their new air pattern in West River, and now that the Lancers participate it is truly obnoxious, and expectedly unprofessional in comparison to the more seasoned applicators.
A Lancer doing geo-work really stands out from the traditional work of the white and red planes, like the one you can see at the coordinates above.
Note how there was announcement of this activity declared as an exercise; however, tradition was broken in not giving the massive exercise a name, so everyone gets a tee shirt and coffee mug of "Operation Extinction Event".
Also on Albuquerque:
Private "Ash-holes" seem to be going to fucking town at "Double EAGLE II Airport" west of town; particularly massive ash piles west of the strip on 7/24/2011. Again, over time, lots of ash change with no runway change.
Also in Albuquerque, air-born radiation is way off the charts this week, with 20 CPM being what used to be normal. I don't know if the atmospheric processes/operations include radiation mitigation:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/01/02/your-radiation-this-week-no-37/
"Well they say, that Santa Fe, is less than, ninety miles away..."
That bass player is now sole owner of Zeona, South Dakota 57758
Very curious non-ash (?) material stockpiles immediately north of Double Eagle II Airport on 3/8/2014:
35 degrees 09' 38.26" N by 106 degrees 47' 31.84" W
'45 degrees 01'18.88" North by 104 degrees 04' 32.81" West' (45.021911N,104.075781W) Location of 'Morgan Ranch Airport' per Google Earth in Montana.
Yes, that rectangle is the alleged spot; I can't see any discernible modern plane activity even in the oldest photos, but even they are a decade newer than the activity.
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