Air Base 201

[@abeurts]

Time to pick up those tents and go home.

[@rusty6365]

I wonder how many of those airmen will end up homeless on the streets after they come back to the good old usa. Sounds like an important mission....

[@frankcrozier2592]

Why not in the in US that is your territory.

[@Goulma227]

Nice job I live there it is my home town they did a nice work

[@SCHRUBBE1966]

Now it’s going to close. 110 million in concrete.

[@JamesBrown-ux9ds]

7:25 following - the women everywhere are more or less immediately friends, understand, start to network and cooperate, build up, share, live in harmony, non-violent. 0:57 It's not 'hell' - it's the beloved home area of the people who live their, we judge wrong, it's our fault. And because of that it had been tried bottom up with israelian and palastinean women about 20 years ago already (a project of civilization at work) - and Netanjahu and friends destroyed it - as soon as they saw this works. 1:00 - look the locals, how pretty. Uniform is alien here. I think to blend in in a way would be more smart 'than just to dominate'. And we know why the white mans soldiers are here: A. To patrol the airspace from Morroco to River Nil and from the mediterrane sea down way into the Sahel and b. protect Uran mining in Arlit. Maybe c. provide a more safe playground for europes leisure desert tourists. D. fulfill US craving - 'no place on earth is without us having a real time picture'. ('Autogenic training' - 'Empires come, empires go, I stay 100% relaxed')

[@leftifornian2066]

Aaaaaaaaaaasnd ITS GONE !

[@DM-kv8ee]

Well done ALL... I was in Agadez in 1983 when it was a small town.

[@pantherasad2114]

Oh boy this aged like milk...

[@Mikell-h2c]

Why??

[@aminabbaszadeh1066]

When you see the US bases with temporary tents in places like Afghanistan, you know they are going to close them somehow.

[@jakmak1345]

This was a great video.

[@Addi_Teacha509]

Did they ever engage one of the terrorists after they had killed a village of Africans?

[@donotneed]

@Addi_Teacha509, they were the terrorists!

[@Addi_Teacha509]

Go build in Nevada

[@ellachimbiru1950]

Did you plant any trees

[@fetengineer9151]

Damn, I was there! And boy was it major milestone in all of my 31 year career.

[@kennymoran4137]

How do you get money over there? Do they have banks?

[@fetengineer9151]

@@kennymoran4137 yes most larger locations will typically have a working finance office which is equivalent to a civilian bank or credit union. There you can get a cash advace, make transfers, etc. And if you were on a smaller location they would bring finance teams out to you at least once a month. We also could get cardboard like AAFES "pogs" which is kinda like poker chip money or load up your electronic AAFES Green Card to make purchases on Base... like a debit card. Basically, I was never short of money while I was on any of my deployments. Also depending on your remote location AAFES would airdrop at least one 53" Connex trailer full of American items like junk food to personal items, etc for you to spend all your hard earned money.

[@longshotny]

​@@fetengineer9151such a better approach, works with the locals

[@diddydum]

Colonisers never learn

[@kipropering]

They built it for Russia lmao

[@sksman71]

My son who based @ Barksdale AFB told me today that he can be deployed at anytime.He is apart of security forces. This is his first base and been in less than a year

[@Addi_Teacha509]

Security for what? Africans were getting massacred all around, those drones for what? There's a desert in nevada to play with

[@pog4life89]

That sky at night. I would love to see that.

[@JanB1605]

Gotta hate the desert. The dust gets EVERYWHERE.

[@derellraid6315]

Devil in plan clothes! Just like Columbus with his nice gifts. I'm sure that village has survived for decades without the help of outsiders!

[@LadyCeCeFromThaDirty]

Colonists will never change. Their luck is not of God tho. It will run out. Africa will rise.

[@yankiefrenz1367]

now it belongs to Wagner 😅

[@reredongy]

y’all should of never went back just because of the weather but yet 4 troops died because of people that went back to the base over small weather problems

[@ScubaLemur]

I was just there last year lmao this video is so dramatic

[@tristianblaney2737]

Was your pay tax free out there?

[@ScubaLemur]

@@tristianblaney2737 nope it was taxed if youre in the dorms you have literally zero incentive to be there

[@DM-kv8ee]

@@ScubaLemur You're helping others by being there, think long term of those who may appreciate it. I do and thanks for the efforts.

[@ScubaLemur]

@@DM-kv8ee theyre already thinking about shutting down the base and I tried organizing something to donate all the extra food and toiletries that we get in care packages and they told me no. And Im not kidding this stuff was sitting on shelves for months collecting dust so I said lets just fill up some trash bags and hand it out off base to “help people” they said no because they couldnt figure out how to give everyone credit for the epr bullet no ones helping shit there dont let the over idealism of the military fool you if you wanna help people do it yourself

[@DM-kv8ee]

@@ScubaLemur Thanks for thinking of the locals, I enjoyed the local people a lot. I was there in 1985 as a kid visiting as part of the US Embassy, which my father was part of. The closes type of town to this is Timbuktu in Mali's north. Unfortunately bureaucracy has much faults - too bad, thanks for ur thoughts.

[@charleskobold115]

I was flying into Agadez for the 2019 Cure Salle and a US C130 was landing at the same time (I think that is what it was). Their area of the airport (not very handsome to say the least) was surrounded by Nigerien soldiers on the back of Toyotas with chinese copies of Soviet 12.7s, to keep the locals away. Niger is so poor (a sad fact due to many factors such as a huge population, arid climate, poor soil, and on and on and on) that they need every penny they get from the US and France for military bases. But I don't think the majority of the people in Agadez like them. I was there as a tourist so they liked me (I overpaid for everything on purpose) but talk about two totally different cultures (not better or worse, simply different).

[@ishtar9531]

you did nothing them

[@PD-we8vf]

Awesome work, but Russia builds their airplanes durable enough to take off from the flat desert sand.

[@JanB1605]

Just because you can doesn't mean you should. ;)

[@johndonald3566]

Doubt it's about that as well. Try add thunderstorms and microbursts to that desert terrain. Try land any aircraft in those conditions and you're going to have a big problem without a decent surface. I have experienced some of the worst flying weather in my career in that region.

[@djibrilali4275]

We

[@hinternsaubachel5109]

This is not aging well...

[@leenjiru7766]

Certainly it finally hasn't at all

[@Addictedtoyoutube9]

I hope it would be better to lose condescending attitude its hurtful to all black people 😢

[@pawan1855]

another meddling..😒

[@f1aziz]

Go home Yankee, Yankee go home.

[@abdirahmaanmohamed1582]

Nobody wanted you here