PlaneFaggin’:CONUS Activity

SAM550 G5Assistant Sec. of State Daniel Kritenbrinkheading for JBA from a Hickam AFB, Oahu depart and arrived there yesterday from Canberra, Aussie depart.

It arrived there on 05/05 from a Hickam AFB depart and left JBA on 05/04

US won’t guarantee Australia will have complete control of Aukus submarines

A US official has declined to explicitly guarantee Australia will have full control of the Aukus nuclear-powered submarines, saying he won’t get “into some of the minutiae of various questions that are out there”. But the assistant secretary of state, Daniel Kritenbrink, played down broader concerns about whether a future US president would approve or block the planned sale of at least three Virginia class submarines to Australia in the 2030s. Kritenbrink said during a visit to Canberra on Tuesday that “no one should doubt the strength” of the US commitment to the Aukus pact, which also includes the UK and collaboration on other advanced defence technologies.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/australia-us-aukus-submarine-deal-control-daniel-kritenbrink

Moar Potato equipment C17 Globeys (and two from last night) >>20850893 lb

KECK229 and DEED216 C17 Globeys west from JBA heading for Moffett Airfield to p/u

RCH640 C17 departed Port au Prince, Haiti as RCH221 C17 heads to same from Charleston, SC