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Somalia Hopes to Reconstitute its Air Force with Renewed US Partnership

Jan. 27, 2022 | By Abraham Mahshie

AFRICAN AIR CHIEFS SYMPOSIUM, KIGALI, Rwanda—Somalia Air Force Brig. Gen. Sh Ali Mohamed Mohamud last sat in the cockpit of a Somali MiG fighter jet in March 1978.

His country’s civil war decimated the Air Force he joined at age 14 and has been part of for over 50 years. Ravaged by the al-Shabab terrorist group, Somalia now has no aircraft to fight back. Instead, the east African nation depends on the U.S. and African Union partners, but the 75-year-old Somali Air Chief hopes that with U.S. Air Force help Somalia can reconstitute what was once the most powerful Air Force in the Horn of Africa.

“The U.S. Air Force is starting now a cooperation. Before, we did not have any cooperation, Mohamud told Air Force Magazine on the sidelines of the African Air Chiefs Symposium in Kigali.

“No aircraft, no pilots, no technicians. We just secure our base,” he added.

Founded in 1954, the Somali Air Force once boasted MiG-17 and MiG-21 fighters. First a war with Ethiopia, which was backed by the Soviet Union, then civil war, led to the dissolution of the Air Force in 1991. Al-Shabab began to threaten the government and populace in the mid-2000s. The Somali Air Force was reconstituted in 2015.

Mohamud said U.S. Air Force manned and unmanned intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms used the Baledogle Airbase northwest of Mogadishu day and night using their own instruments. The ISR flights were not cooperative in nature but based on access rights.

The counterterrorism ISR missions did not stop when former President Donald J. Trump ordered all American troops out of Somalia by January 2021. The U.S. had been using Baledogle for special forces operations and training of the elite Danab Brigade of Somali National Army commander forces.

U.S. Africa Command declined to comment on questions about intelligence operations and potential future plans with the Somali Air Force, but underscored the U.S. commitment to security in the region.

“Our support to our Somali partners and [the African Union Mission in Somalia] has continued,” AFRICOM spokesperson Navy Lt. Cmdr. Timothy S. Pietrack told Air Force Magazine in a statement. “While we repositioned forces in the region, AFRICOM continued to execute the counterterrorism missions.”

Mohamud affirmed that the ISR missions continued unabated despite the withdrawal of U.S. troops.

“They did not stop, but they reduced the people,” the air chief said. “They stopped the training of special forces, but always they fly.”

Training of the Danab went remote, with Kenya hosting additional U.S. troops and others deployed throughout the region. With trainers flying in from neighboring countries, however, follow-up opportunities were limited.

American troops have now returned to Mogadishu, Mohamud said, and a budding Air Force partnership is beginning anew.

More:

https://www.airforcemag.com/somalia-hopes-to-reconstitute-its-air-force-with-renewed-us-partnership/

https://www.airforcemag.com/space-force-plans-two-new-exercises-polaris-hammer-and-black-skies/

>>117456

Making Agile Combat Employment Real

Jan. 27, 2022 | By Matthew Donovan

Not since the Cold War with the USSR has the United States faced the specter of high-end conflict with a peer competitor. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that our nation’s defense sits at a strategic inflection point based on the advancing military threats presented by China and Russia.

Today, the global strategic environment is categorized by the reemergence of strategic competition—with now two near-peer competitors—who can operate across all domains of warfare and simultaneously employ all aspects of their national power. Like our other military branches, the Air Force faces these emerging challenges while fielding a force only half the size, following force reductions in the decades since the Cold War.

America’s ability to globally defend the nation and its allies is grounded in its ability to project combat power anywhere on the planet. In the past, this meant maintaining a robust global posture; however, fiscal constraints resulting in reduced force structure, coupled with advances in threat capabilities, present an increased vulnerability to U.S. overseas military assets. Furthermore, our adversaries have studied our force deployment and invested heavily in pervasive intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance and all-domain long-range offensive capabilities that put our global footprint at risk.

To counter this emerging threat, the Air Force introduced Agile Combat Employment as a method to rapidly deploy across dispersed operating locations within a theater without sacrificing combat capability. When employed, ACE enables Airmen to conduct operations faster and at higher levels of complexity, all from distributed locations. Using ACE concepts, combat assets would continue to move from location to location, exploiting opportunities to attack while keeping key assets out of harm’s way.

The Air Force is already demonstrating an initial ability to bring ACE to the battlespace by focusing on non-material solutions like developing Multi-Capable Airmen. However, to fully mature this concept requires attention to the core elements that enable ACE’s operational framework.

By coupling ready-now solutions with the latest technological innovations, the mission essential capabilities required to implement ACE could be significantly bolstered. The Air Force has an opportunity to reimagine how they generate combat missions from austere locations and design tailorable force packages to enable Airmen to quickly conduct operations from bare base airfields in key theaters.

So, what capabilities could the Air Force include in these agile and connected force packages to enable operating combat missions from dispersed locations? Fortunately, many of the fundamental technologies needed to make ACE real already exist. Through a combination of space-based early warning systems, over-the-horizon radars, passive wide-area surveillance systems, and low-band radars, industry can provide commanders the indications and warning capabilities they need to make decisions and take decisive action at a moment’s notice through communications packages that are mobile, survivable, secure, and sustainable across the electromagnetic spectrum.

We can help ensure commanders get the right information, in real time, by deploying mobile, resilient, and protected communications networks with minimal infrastructure requirements. Providing mobile access to the military’s Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite communications network will be critical to closing this capability gap, as will the widespread adoption of other advanced communications technologies. Commanders need the ability to task their forces and provide a common operational picture in denied, disconnected, intermittent, or limited bandwidth environments.

More:

https://www.airforcemag.com/making-agile-combat-employment-real/

Tom

Whenyou get a minute, would you op over to the Habbenings thread and nuke

Habbenings thread

>117451

CP link shill is back

Added to MR UK bread as well

General Research #19585 >>>/qresearch/15484738

“I’ve Never Seen as Many Deaths.. It’s Around a 500 or 600% Increase” – Funeral Director in UK Reveals Increasing Number of Death in Vaccinated Young Adults

Funeral director John O’Looney of Milton Keynes family funeral services in Milton Keynes, England shared in his recent interview with kla.tv that deaths are at unprecedented levels at young people in their 20s, 30s and 40s and “all were vaccinated.”

According to John, along with group of experts, they are seeing an increase in number particularly of thrombosis deaths. (Thrombosis occurs when blood clots block veins or arteries can be life-threatening, such as a stroke or heart attack.)

“So, what we’re seeing is an ever-growing number, particularly of thrombosis deaths, interestingly. So, that comes across as heart attack, aneurysm, or stroke, and they’re in unprecedented numbers. I’ve never seen as many deaths. And not in just the elderly. It’s all manner of people. People in their 20s, in their 30s and 40s, and people that wouldn’t normally be dying, you know. And this was predicted and it’s (it has) come to pass,” John said.

John said the increase of thrombosis deaths this year is way greater than the previous 14 years and it is around 500 or 600% increase.

“Well, to give you an amount…I mean a greater than any one of those 14 years. The increase is phenomenal, though. It’s not a two or three-fold increase. It’s around a 500 or 600% increase. That kind of number. And generally, on the odd occasion, you would get a thrombosis it would be an elderly person. It’s not people in their 20s and 30s and 40s, and they’re all jabbed,” John added.

He said that 9 out of 10 with blood clots were vaccinated.

“I’ve got doctors and police ringing me, nurses ringing me, all saying the same thing. It’s a total lie. On our media, they are saying the hospitals are full of the non-vaccinated. That’s a total fabrication. It’s the polar opposite. 9 out of 10 patients in there, full of blood clots, are the vaccinated. I’ve heard that from so many professionals that I’ve lost count. So, whether you choose to believe it or not, it makes it no worse. That is the truth. That is the reality. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink,” he added.

As a funeral director, John said he can see the cause of death because it’s written down by the coroner and it’s e-mailed to him.

“As a funeral director I don’t need to see the death certificate, but what I do see is the coroner’s paperwork. So wherever there’s a sudden death, the coroner is involved, and he writes what’s called a Form-6. And part of my job as a funeral director is to collate the paperwork and collate the application for cremation, because the vast majority of funerals in the UK are cremation. I’d say about 5% are burials. And that tends to be a cultural thing, you know. So, I see this paperwork and I have to go through this paperwork and check this paperwork and make sure it’s correct. And I see the cause of death because it’s written down by the coroner. And it’s e-mailed to me. So I then print it off, check through it, and if there’s a problem; if there’s a mistake I would get back to the coroner and get it resent, you know,” John said.

John was infected with COVID last year. He believed that the virus exists but it is recoverable and it’s not this deadly pandemic.

“Don’t get me wrong. There is a covid. There is a covid. There is a virus out there. And I’ve spoken to many people. And I’ve had it myself, so it is out there. But it is recoverable; it’s not this deadly pandemic; it’s not something that requires experimental gene therapy every 12 weeks for the next 5 years,” John said.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/never-seen-many-deaths-around-500-600-increase-funeral-director-uk-reveals-increasing-number-death-vaccinated-young-adults/

Mail-in Ballots Found Unconstitutional by Pennsylvania Court, State Ordered to Follow Election Law

by Kyle Becker | January 28, 2022

A Pennsylvania court has ruled that the mass mail-in ballots that played a pivotal role in the 2020 election chaos are unconstitutional.

The Commonwealth Court ruled that Act 77, which allowed residents no-excuse absentee vote by mail in Pennsylvania, violates Article VII, Section 1 of the Pennsylvania constitution.

The Acting Secretary for the Pennsylvania Department of State had his application denied for summary relief. The ruling can be read in full below: (screencap, soure has downloadable .pdf)

Commonwealth Court President Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt, who presided over a five-person panel of judges, wrote: “If presented to the people, a constitutional amendment to end Article VII, Section 1 requirement of in-person voting is likely to be adopted. But a constitutional amendment must be presented to the people and adopted into our fundamental law before legislation allowing no-excuse mail-in voting can be ‘placed upon our statute books.'”

It is unclear why the judge was making political assessments in her filing, but nonetheless it stands that the changes to the law violated the Pennsylvania constitution.

As the ruling states: “Act 77,inter alia, created the opportunity for all Pennsylvania electors to vote by mail without having to demonstrate a valid reason for absence from their polling place on Election Day, i.e., a reason provided in the Pennsylvania Constitution.”

“The central question presented in this matter is whether Act 77 conforms to Article VII of the Pennsylvania Constitution, which article governs elections,” the ruling states. “In resolving this question, we recognize that ‘acts passed by the General Assembly are strongly presumed to be constitutional’ and that we will not declare a statute unconstitutional ‘unless it clearly, palpably, and plainly violates the Constitution. If there is any doubt that a challenger has failed to reach this high burden, then that doubt must be resolved in favor of finding the statute constitutional.’”

As has become usual in state politics, the rulings were cast along partisan lines. The three Republican judges ruled according to the constitution, and the two Democrats on the panel ruled according to political expediency.

The decision by a five-judge Commonwealth Court panel may be put on hold immediately due to an appeal by Governor Tom Wolf.

More:

https://trendingpolitics.com/breaking-mail-in-ballots-found-unconstitutional-by-pennsylvania-court-state-ordered-to-follow-election-law-knab/

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Nebraska Becomes 17th State To Call For Article V Convention Of States

https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/28/nebraska-becomes-17th-state-to-call-for-article-v-convention-of-states/n

https://twitter.com/FDRLST/status/1487149306176061440

Got this from next door

>>117486

Not the only name that tug has had

>>117489 (me)

More fun is as CAITLIN, she arrived in GITMO after sailing from Montreal. I wonder what she brought there from Canada I do I do

>>117493

Kek!, no shit at all

More than one maritime site be having the info. vesselfinder.com has a 3-day stop in Jacksonville, FL

>>117497

All good

General Research #19588 >>>/qresearch/15487231

Damn thats funny, sorta

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1487129688959074307?s=20&t=YmwjhqB_DqBeqEoiJ6p-rA

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General Research #19588 >>>/qresearch/15487257

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General Research #19588 >>>/qresearch/1548715

Joe Biden Beats Out Brussels Sprouts For America's Least Favorite Vegetable

U.S.—A new Gallup Poll shows President Biden beating out the infamous Brussels Sprout for America's least favorite vegetable. The poll, partially conducted as a survey for TV's Family Feud, has been criticized by the Biden administration as "unfair."

Press Secretary Jen Psaki addressed the polling data during her daily press briefing. "The president feels, and we agree, that he's not a vegetable because he occasionally moves around sometimes. A Brussel sprout or, excuse me, 'Brussels sprout' doesn't move. It is literally a vegetable. The president also feels that he tastes much better."

"Besides," Psaki continued. "We believe that while the president may be a less favorable vegetable, his being a vegetable is a major boon for us as a nation. Vegetables make you strong like Wolverine or Colossus."

The majority of the press in attendance appeared to be satisfied with the answer. Fox News Reporter Peter Doocy, however, pressed the issue. "But everyone hates Brussels sprouts!"

Psaki did not respond to Doocy's statement, but President Biden did later call him a "stupid shepherd's pie."

At publishing time, Jen Psaki apologized for implying that people in a vegetative state are like the X-Men.

https://babylonbee.com/news/joe-biden-beats-out-brussel-sprouts-for-americas-least-favorite-vegetable

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>>117518

PFs be starting to focus on illegal immigrant flights