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You're welcome! And THANK YOU for no longer showing the secret building security code (XXX1) for the Weapons Storage Building on a map in the visitor's center!
Now, here's how THAT came about:
On the evening of July 18, 2005, I was visited at home by two
special agents of the USAF Office of Special Investigation.
They'd been sent over from Cheyenne to see if I represented a threat to the USAF Thunderbirds! I told them that whomever sent them to see me is a fool and a year late (then I outlined two REAL security threats to Warren AFB, which I'll bet they're looking into tonight!)
Then I wrote this to the Warren AFB base commander (about this page and why OSI was looking at me):
"...Speaking of a security threat, the reason that OSI came to see me tonight was to see if I presented a threat to the USAF Thunderbirds next week when they come to Cheyenne again (because of the documented lies and abuse that I suffered at the hands of both the USAF Thunderbirds and Warren AFB public affairs in 2004; As I put together the most comprehensive T-bird media flight proposal that's ever been received by Warren and Nellis AFB). I don't represent a threat to the Thunderbirds, Colonel. And whatever OSI/Security moron at Warren who sent the two gentlemen over here tonight is just a fool (and a year late if I was a genuine threat). What I do represent is a "journalistic threat" to the careers of abusive USAF Public Affairs officers (like T-Bird PA Steven Rolenc and Warren's PA Captain Neary) who lie to the American people and who "reward" only ass-kissing propagandists willing to "spin" lies and deception and turn the process and function of American journalism into something resembling the Soviet model of the Cold War! If America is going to remain the best country in the world, it will only do so by retaining the values that founded this nation-- not abdicating them to the spin of arrogant journalistic amateurs who've been to a PA training course at Ft Meade and have become "Spin cycle artists" at the expense of military honor and professional integrity!
"I have waited a year to bring my concerns about this perverted PA function (which I experienced last year) to the attention of the appropriate under-sectretary of the Air Force. If I was a "hothead" I'd have done this already. But I've got a life. Now is when Captains Steven Rolenc and Warren Neary will come to the attention of Washington. The cultural approval of this abuse by the current commander of the T-birds will also be reviewed by the commanding general of Combat Command. To all of the above, I'll be quoting the lies told to the Silver State News Service in Reno by Rolenc. And I'll also describe how artwork (of the T-bird's #3 pilot) which I'd given to the Warren public affairs office in 2003 appears to have been "taken home" (by 2004) by Sgt Jeff Bohn (and when I brought this to the attention of base security in 2004, nothing happened).
"Please don't feel I need to hear back from you Colonel.
I know you're busy and I appreciate your good efforts as commander of America's leading
land-based strategic deterrent forces.
I'm enclosing a couple letters (from a previous Warren commander and from VP Cheney)
so you'll hopefully be assured that I'm not some total whacko, wasting your time.
Of the journalistic abuses, lies, internet surveillance and other Information Warfare-level bullshit that was conducted by the Thunderbirds in 2004, against American journalists in Nevada and Wyoming by the Thunderbird team's public affairs unit, while under the command of a USAF Academy biology graduate, Captain Steven Rolenc. At this same time, the Warren AFB public affairs office participated in the abuse, while directed by a public affairs officer, Captain Warren Neary, who had just-completed a tour of duty as a propagandist, assigned to the public affairs office of Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba!
While a 1st Lt. Public Affairs Officer Course student at the Fort Meade Defense Information
School, Mr. Neary made a name for himself. According to the base's online newspaper, Soundoff!, "Most of the guests who stay in billeting are happy with the accommodations,
according to Larry Williams, a front-desk employee at Brett Hall.
"We do get complaints, but most are easily resolved. Since we are an Army post, people from other
services sometimes have problems with the way we do things," he said. Air Force 1st Lt. Warren
Neary had his complaint handled in a matter of minutes. "I had to share a bathroom with an
enlisted person," said the Public Affairs Officer Course student. "The Air Force doesn't
normally do that, and the people here were able to get me another room in about two minutes,"
he said.
Well, isn't that special?
So, being a civilian myself, I should have realized that I'm below even an enlisted person! And that would explain my being dumped on by the arrogant and counter-productive conduct of the Thunderbirds and Warren AFB public affairs staff (regarding the 2004 Media Orientation Flight proposal I submitted for the team's 2004 Cheyenne Frontier Days appearance). It was the most comprehensive proposal they'd ever received: 35 news organizations in four media, in five languages.
To be considered for the "media flight" the Warren PA staff FIRST said to submit a POST-FLIGHT media plan. THEN they changed their minds and said that what the Air Force wanted was a propagandist who could provide PRE-FLIGHT publicity to the event. OK, so I put that together with three TV stations and the top AM talk radio station in Denver. THEN they blew it all down the toilet and said that the decision of the Thunderbirds was to consider a night show performer from Cheyenne Frontier Days-- who would provide NEITHER pre-flight publicity OR post flight coverage!
The whole "media orientation flight game" IS a game! And American taxpayers are paying for this BS, where the top flight demonstration team in the U.S. is reduced to being a limo service for a millionaire that nobody outside of Nashville had even heard of! And this ongoing contempt for the American taxpayer is also documented in the lies, propagandized by Thunderbird public affairs to the Reno, Nevada, SILVER STATE NEWS SERVICE, regarding the crash of the #6 aircraft during the 2003 season at Mountain Home, ID.
It appears that the Thunderbird public affairs office let stand a false story in the Reno NV Silver State News Service about the cause of a crash at Mountain Home AFB in Idaho in 2003. Somebody's a liar when it's said that, "the day following the Thunderbirds' last appearance at Reno. Captain Chris Stricklin, of Shelby, Alabama, who was flying F-16 Fighting Falcon Solo 6, safely ejected from the fighter when it appeared to lose power while in the crucial moment of a maneuver during an Air Show at that base.possible engine malfunction".
In that disgusting and misleading "news story", both Thunderbird public affairs commander, Captain Rolenc and his able media liason, SSgt Katie Garcia were quoted in the "media spin cycle". Captain Rolenc had apparently become too used to "patriotic" lying journalists, willing to kiss ass and spin the truth. And my asking questions about his choice of flying a millionare celebrity at Cheyenne-- instead of a journalist (me or anyone)-- didn't "set well". He can kiss MY ass!
The TRUTH about the Mountain Home accident(according to the official USAF accident report) is that former Thunderbird #6, Captain Strickland planted his F-16 at Mountain Home like a $25 million hot potato because he screwed up reading his altimeter and was about 800 feet closer to the ground than he thought when he called out "3-5-ZERO!" and flipped his plane over for a high speed runway pass! NO ENGINE MALFUNCTION was mentioned in the official report.
Two things came out of the accident:
1. Capt. Strickland was last heard of, flying a desk at the Pentagon.
2. Changes were made in the Thunderbird pilot protocol, to ensure that future
airshow performances by the pilots relied on Above Ground Level readings of their altimeters--
not absolute values above sea level.
You can see this accident for yourself!
Cockpit video of ejection at Mt. Home
Ground video of ejection and crash
Bottom Line: In the age of Information Warfare, the U.S. military is now resorting to false propaganda, surveillance and other abuse of civilian journalists and the American taxpayer!
This web page will disturb many simple-minded, flag-waving "Real Americans".
But as a Homeland Security liason agent told this journalist in 2004 (on another matter), "Yea, we looked at you and decided that you
were just better informed than most people-- but hadn't revealed anything classified."
I know what I'm talking about, whether you like it or not!
And, on a positive note, this web page is my tribute to the REAL SPIRIT of the USAF Thunderbird precision flight team-- which has been corrupted by the lies and half-truth-telling propaganda and journalistic abuse, stemming from amateurish Public Affairs officers, operating with utter contempt for the American people's need AND RIGHT TO KNOW how their tax money is being spent and used; And to what effect.
Following "9/11", the relationship between professional military and the American civilian (represented by journalistic inquiry) is NOT that of corrupt police-- "Boys in Blue"-- versus the citizens of the national community.
Yet, as this Wyoming Press Association-accredited journalist found out the hard way in 2004, the USAF public affairs function has been taken over by officers with degrees in biology and outright information warriors-- straight from posting at the informationally sick no-man's-land of Camp Delta in Cuba!
"Patriotic" idiots, please take note:
There has been a misperception on some people's part that, because I didn't get to go for a joyride at the 2004 Cheyenne
Frontier Days in their shiny white F-16 two-seater like the "What was his name?"
celebrity singer from Nashville who vomited in his facemask and thus didn't provide a
LICK of public affairs benefit or statewide or regional coverage for the Thunderbird appearance
at Frontier Days, because as one TV producer said, "It wasn't newsworthy"...
that I'm now being a pissy and whiny "liberal" and not a "real American" ass-kisser.
Get this straight: I'm an American journalist who's cooperated in the past with the NSA, the CIA and the FBI in regards to foreign intelligence efforts to penetrate American hypersonic research. And I'm NOT some piss-ass who's mad because he didn't get the "opportunity" to go subsonic over Laramie county in a jet with a thrust/weight ratio of 1:1.
Actually, the 2002 Tbirds themselves told me the jet that THEY wanted to fly (in) is the Russian Su-27. And I can afford to pay the Russians for a supersonic flight in one of those, out of Zhukovskii, any time I want! And to do that, I wont have to kiss the asses of game-playing propagandists like those now embedded in the public affairs functions of Nellis and Warren Air Force Bases.
The documented DISA surveillance (based on incoming IP address) began on July 19,2004:
198.26.126.13 - - [19/Jul/2004:15:20:30 -0400]
And a week after Cheyenne Frontier Days, the Thunderbirds themselves began
jerking themselves (on government time and systems) with followup visits
132.58.234.102 - - [03/Aug/2004:14:26:44 -0400] "GET /tbirds.html
What got me ignored-- then branded "inflamatory"-- by these game-playing bastards and put under surveillance was my asking a simple fucking question...
Here's what I wrote on July 2,2004:
To Whom This May Concern,
I am extremely disappointed that nobody from either Nellis or Warren
public affairs have had the professional courtesy to indicate to me, in
any way, that a final selection has been made for primary and alternate
media flight candidates for CFD, 2004. I'd like to know who the primary
and alternate are, so that I can contact the 35 news organizations that
were interested in my candidacy
http://www.laserradio.com/newspaper.html
Like me, these news organizations deserve an answer. And unlike you,
I'll provide them with that answer-- instead of leaving them hanging.
I'm frankly not surprised about this lack of feedback from you, considering the ever-changing selection criteria for a media candidate... and particularly considering the lack of any follow-through by anyone at Nellis or at Warren, regarding my backup proposal to produce a "Day in the Life of the Thunderbirds" for Wyoming Public Television and The Discovery Channel (an alternate proposal that I came up with, when it became clear that the ill-conceived notion of flying a celebrity at CFD was going forward-- despite the nation being at war and despite the fact that celebrity flights, in themselves, don't do a thing for the mission of USAF Public Affairs in the eyes of the American taxpayer). The last time I heard from Captain Rolenc, he said he was "extremely interested" in the documentary-- then nothing from anyone."
In his "answer" the jerkoff Captain who then ran Thunderbird Public Affairs, Captain Steven Rolenc, wrote back with this "have a nice day" hand job-- without simply answering the question, "Who did you pick and what day are they flying?" (probably because he didn't want a "hostile" (read independent and non ass-kissing) journlalistic review of the millionaire celebrity's free joyride at taxpayer expense over Cheyenne... while America was fighting two wars in Asia.
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Get a load of Capt. Rolenc' "have a nice day" hand job!
"Mr. Guthrie,
I do appreciate your open feedback and willingness to showcase the
Thunderbirds in your various endeavors. In a previous conversation, I did
tell you that your documentary ideas were interesting. However, they do not
fit into my communication plan for the Thunderbirds' visit to Cheyenne this
year. I thought this was conveyed to you in previous e-mails, but
apparently that message did not come across clear enough.
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Captain Rolenc never sent any such email. He was just covering his ass and hoping
that a "have a nice day" hand job would get rid of the "problem".
Then, he and his bunch of liars at Nellis, started trading emails with the Air Force jerkoffs at Warren AFB in Cheyenne (so they'd all be on the same page of game-playing)
For weeks, they traded emails about me, notified the DISA in the Pentagon to visit this web site and started looking into my personal life! Some DISA visits included looking at my Ferrari!
THAT is the kind of shit they're into, wasting time and money on government internet systems, while on USAF payroll-- instead of serving the public interest and answering a journalist's simple question, "Who did you pick for Cheyenne and when will the flight occur?"
Furthermore, an art print of the Thunderbirds, given by me to the Public Affairs office at Warren AFB in 2003, was apparently stolen by an enlisted person (Sgt Jeff Bohn) who then worked in the Warren PA office. Warren AFB base security didn't investigate this theft since the corrupt bastards in the PA office apparently covered up for Bohn.
Today's U.S. military operates under a doctrine of Information Warfare.
And the military is dragging U.S. civilians into the front lines of IW.
For example, Echostar satellite's uplink in Cheyenne, according to the Wyoming Telecom Council, is a
covert part of the U.S. military's information warfare infrastructure.
So, it's no wonder that the USAF Public Affairs and the Thunderbird propagandists use information warfare techniques against American journalists who ask too many questions.
This journalist has evidence of these Information Warfare techniques being used: Information Denial, Deception and Semantic Infiltration.
Details to follow:
Including tape recorded phone calls to Warren AFB public affairs, where Captain Warren Neary says that asking the simple question, "Who are you flying?" (asking as a Wyoming Press Association-accredited journalist) was "Inflamatory".
As it turns out, Capt Steven Rolenc, PA officer for the Thunderbirds, chose an obscure
country singer to fly on the media flight-- instead of a journalist, while America is
at war in two countries. And all the U.S. taxpayer got from this absurd decision
was a single photo of the singer, Chris Cagle, getting into his flight suit with the
help of a Thunderbird Sgt named Ron Ruzek.
According to a Cheyenne TV producer, Cagle vomited in
his oxygen mask during the flight. And no footage (or even mention) of Cagle's
celebrity ride made it onto TV because, the producer said, "It wasn't newsworthy".
In fact, the producer said that all the PA officials she knew of thought the decision to fly Cagle was idiotic. Nobody knew who Cagle even was.
That's what I told Capt Steven Rolenc in March, 2004. And that little, insecure asshole (who has the obvious news judgement of a biology student from the Air Force Academy) probably took me off the list of journalist candidates at that point. Rolenc then apparently traded emails about me to the PA office at Warren AFB in Cheyenne and the man I accuse of being a fucking thief, Sgt Jeff Bohn, then took me off the list of "recognized journalists" so I'd be completely out of the loop and branded "Inflamatory" in true Information Warfare terms (Information denial and Semantic infiltration).
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I --USED-- to be a friend of the U.S. Air Force and the Thunderbirds:
Cheyenne is the oldest civilian performance venue for the Thunderbirds... beginning in 1953, the year I was born in Laramie, 50 miles to the west.
I was invited to the flight line, primarily because of a painting that I'd done as a gift to the team in 1991. This painting, "Into the Saddle" was also based on the team's appearance at Cheyenne. And it is now at the home of the Thunderbirds, Nellis AFB, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Summer is the airshow season for the Thunderbirds. And from June-to-September, the team members leave their homes and loved ones in Las Vegas and consistently work 12-18 hour days... performing and then moving... from one performance venue to another.
Across America and Europe, the team thrills crowds with heart-stopping, precision flight demonstrations, with the wingtips of their 18,000 pound (dryweight) aircraft separated by as little as 18-36 inches. And when they're not in the air, the team also puts in routine appearances at (venue-related) public events: At shopping malls, pancake breakfasts, parades and so forth. They do all of this-- in addition to ensuring that their aircraft and hundred-plus crew member support team are maintained, properly housed, fed and "up to speed". Occasionally, the team gets "a night out". In Cheyenne, that meant the rodeo and night show at Frontier Days, "The Daddy of em all!"
So, here I was on a sunny Wednesday morning in July...positioned high up on a six foot metal ladder, about 30 feet to the left of the nose of the #1 aircraft. In my lens, I could see right down the line of the team's six, gleaming, F-16 team aircraft(two, additional F-16's are two-seaters. They're used to fly local media at each venue-- and are available as backup aircraft for actual performances... should anything happen to one of the single-seat, primary aircraft).
The following sequence of photos show how the six, aircraft-assigned teams of crew chiefs and pilots of the Thunderbird team synchronize themselves into one unit-- even before they start the engines of their F-16s.
My mission as the visiting (read "privileged") photographer, was to capture the one photo that exemplified this team's (and our nation's) unity and cohesiveness of national purpose... uniting the skills of brave officers, skilled enlisted personnel and the superb capability of the F-16... a single-engine fighter that continues to out-fly almost anything else on the planet... that is, when it's flown by the superbly-trained pilots of the United States Air Force... almost 30 years after it was first designed and flown in 1975!
Click here for information on purchasing a limited edition art print of the painting, "Into the Saddle".
