This weekly column features media from around the American Redoubt region. [1] (Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Wyoming.) Much of the region is also more commonly known as The Inland Northwest.
Redoubt News Links
- Four crew members eject safely after two Navy jets collide during air show in Idaho [2]. JWR’s Comments: Thankfully, the two pilots and the two GIBs (“Guys in Back”) from VAQ-129 punched out and parachuted to the ground safely. The EA-18G Growler is a particularly expensive F/A-18 variant, and difficult to replace. Figure a replacement cost of about $130 million per plane, with a multi-year lead time. There were 152 of them in the Navy inventory. Now there are 150. For a squadron to lose two of them in a training/PR event accident is, as they say: “Not career enhancing.” Update: Here is video of the belly-to-belly collision [3].
- Bear spray is exploding in the trash near Yellowstone National Park [4].
- Another news story to file under “Perps from outside of the Redoubt”: Three arrested after traffic stop in Boise, large quantities of marijuana and THC seized [5].
- Tensions Rise at Public Hearing for Pocatello AI Data Center Proposal [6].
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Please send your links to media from the American Redoubt region to JWR [7]. Any photos that are posted or re-posted must be uncopyrighted. You can do so either via e-mail or via our Contact [8] form.