Salute to Heroes, Operation American Resolve, America Strong, or whatever is the latest Defense Department name for it, apparently massive flights of military aircraft flying over metro areas makes people feel more secure about fighting the “invisible enemy” of a Pandemic.
U.S. Air Force photo by Giancarlo Casem, 14MAY2020.
B-52 Stratofortress from the 412th Test Wing, Edwards Air Force Base, California, flies over Lancaster and Palmdale, 14MAY2020.
USAF photo by Giancarlo Casem, 14MAY2020.
From the ground video, USAF 2nd Bomb Wing and 307th Bomb Wing B-52s, and Louisiana Air National Guard 159th Fighter Wing F-15 Eagles, over New Orleans:
From the air video of same aircraft over Louisiana, 05MAY2020:
USAF photo by Senior Airman Lillian Miller, 01MAY2020.
Bare Metal:
USAF photo by Greg L. Davis.
A KC-135 leads a pack of F-16s and F-35s on a Air Force Salutes flight over Arizona, 01MAY2020. At least 15 aircraft were involved.
The crew of a Michigan Air National Guard 127th Wing KC-135 just before taking off for a Michigan Strong flyover, 13MAY2020.
KC-135R from the 914th Air Refueling Wing, Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station, in formation with F-35s from the 158th Fighter Wing, Vermont Air National Guard Base, 12MAY2020.
Ohio Air National Guard KC-135 flies with an F-16 during Operation American Resolve, 13MAY2020.
Tail boom of 134th Air Refueling Wing, Tennessee Air National Guard, 12MAY2020.
Reflection of Little Rock Air Force Base C-130J in the windows of a Arkansas hospital, 08MAY2020.
California Air National Guard’s 115th Airlift Squadron over the Mojave Desert near Palmdale, 14MAY2020.
403rd Wing’s 815th Airlift Squadron over Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, 28APR2020.
New York Air National Guard LC-130 (
A C-130H out of Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, conducting a second round of pandemic overflights on 07MAY2020. Not only did Ohio aircraft fly over Ohio, but also locations in Pennsylvania.
Two Ohio Air National Guard 179th Airlift Wing C-130Hs also flew pandemic overflights, 15MAY2020.
Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas, this Blue Angels C-130 was temporarily brought out of retirement to give moral support, 06MAY2020, unfortunately it was not flown.
Camp Shaheen.
November 2010, a maintenance supervisor with Company D, 186th Brigade Support Battalion, 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team cuts-up an old Soviet occupation armored vehicle in Durani Village, Parwan Province, Afghanistan. The villagers were able to sell the pieces of steel to recyclers for cash.
BTR-80, Panjshir Province, Afghanistan, January 2010.
T-54/55, Bamyan Province.
Nowzad, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, February 2011. Children line up for school while a relic (T-55) of the 1980s Soviet occupation rusts away in the background.
Derelict World War Two era Soviet T-34/85 in Muqer District, Ghazni Province, March 2012.
T-55 in Nowzad, Helmand Province, Afghanistan February 2012.
Remains of ZSU-23-4, Bala Hissar Fortress, August 2013. You can see where the anti-aircraft tank took a direct hit in the side.
BMP-1s and a T-54/55 (without bore evacuator) in Bamyan Province, February 2013.
Soviet occupation era T-55 still in use. The U.S. Marine Corps observed Afghan government forces use it against rebel troops in Sangin District, Helmand Province, August 2018.
