The National Guard grounded its pilots after the Dec. 8 crash that killed Capt. Durwood “Hawk” Jones, a 37-year-old combat veteran from New Mexico assigned to the 115th Fighter Wing.
No, Chinese troops are not on the Canadian border and the dangers of misinformation December 15, 2020 No, there are no Chinese troops on the border with Maine. This photo, originally taken in October 2020, shows refurbished howitzers being moved in Maine. (Screengrab via Twitter) It may seem like an updated version of the 1966 comedy “The Russians Are Coming! The Russians are Coming!” but there is nothing funny about conspiratorial ravings from the Twitterverse that Chinese troops massed along the border with Maine were schwacked in an airstrike. Recent posts from a QAnon-backing Twitter handle with nearly 50,000 followers claimed that tens of thousands of Chinese troops had amassed along Maine’s border with Canada and that an F-16 fighter that crashed last week in Michigan was actually shot down presumably by the Chinese.
A small earthquake in Maine and a fatal F-16 crash in Michigan have given rise to a new and extreme conspiracy theory claiming that 50,000 Chinese troops have invaded the US.
There s nothing to that claim, and the proliferation of that conspiracy theory and others like it can actually threaten national security if they spread unchecked.
Every evolution of American politics gets the conspiracy theories it deserves.
During the administration of President George W. Bush, an alarming number of Americans believed that the September 11 attacks were an inside job; during President Barack Obama s time in office, others maintained that the commander-in-chief was actually a Muslim terrorist and domestic military exercises like the vaguely-sinister-sounding Jade Helm were actually preludes to martial law.
Search underway for pilot of Madison-based F-16 jet that crashed in Michigan s Upper Peninsula [The Wisconsin State Journal] dailyrepublic.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailyrepublic.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Search continues for pilot of Madison-based F-16 jet that crashed in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula [The Wisconsin State Journal]
Dec. 9 The search continued Wednesday for a pilot of an F-16 Fighting Falcon jet based in Madison that crashed Tuesday night in the wilderness of Michigan’sUpper Peninsula during a scheduled training exercise.
It was not known if the pilot, with the Wisconsin Air National Guard’s 115th Fighter Wing at Truax Field, ejected from the aircraft just prior to it crashing about 15 miles northwest of Manistique, Michigan, and 250 miles from Madison.
“The status of the pilot is still unknown,” Capt. Leslie Westmont, of the state Department of Military Affairs told the Wisconsin State Journal Wednesday. “We don’t have any information on that right now.”