On 17JUN2021, the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (U.S. Air Force Reserve) began launching their WC-130J hurricane hunters from Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, for the 2021 Atlantic Hurricane season.
Planning an ‘LLI’ mission. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Kristen […] Continue Reading…
On 21JUN2021, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) deployed a Engineer Command and Control Vehicle-7 (ECCV-7) to Puerto Rico, for the 2021 Atlantic Hurricane season.
USACE photo by Mark Rankin.It is also called Deployable Tactical Operating System (DTOS). It allows USACE personnel to integrate with local, federal and state authorities. […] Continue Reading…
On 16JUN2021, the United State Marine Corps (USMC) began preparing for what it calls DWX (Destructive Weather), for the 2021 hurricane season (officially June 1st thru November 30th).
Tarawa Terrace Elementary School, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. USMC photo by Corporal Karina Lopezmata.On […] Continue Reading…
C-12 Huron pilots with Tennessee Army National Guard’s Detachment 6, A Company, 2nd Battalion, 641st Aviation Regiment, held a deployment ceremony on 12JUN2021. They will be spending nine months in Africa, after deployment training on Fort Bliss, Texas.
Then, on 22JUN2021, five militiamen […] Continue Reading…
On 10JUN2021, New York Army National Guard’s 501st Ordnance Battalion, 53rd Troop Command, held a deployment ceremony at the Armed Forces Reserve Center in Glenville.
New York Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Sebastian Rothwyn.The 23 personnel of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) support headquarters company are, apparently, deploying to Kuwait. […] Continue Reading…
“I study solar flares and I spent my career modeling them. We generally think of flares in terms of their size or their brightness, but we often ignore the part about their duration.”-Jeff Reep, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
On 15JUN2021, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory published a story concerning the expected increase in duration of […] Continue Reading…
Towards the end of February 2021, the U.S. Department of Defense’s American Forces Network (AFN) warned that this year’s solar activity will interfere with television signals.
Specifically; the solar phenomena known as Sun Fade, Sun Transit or Sun Outage, is expected to target signals from AFN’s Riverside, California, broadcast center at various times this year.
“What happens on the Sun has significant effects on the Earth’s upper atmosphere, which is important for communication and radar technologies that rely on over-the-horizon or ground-to-space radio frequency propagation…”-Christoph Englert, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Space Science Division
“They can cause damage to satellites and other space objects. The high energy particles themselves are microscopic, […] Continue Reading…
On 15JUN2021, more than 2-hundred militia personnel of the 1st Squadron, 104th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat team, 28th Infantry Division, Pennsylvania Army National Guard, deployed to Texas (for deployment training on Fort Bliss), and then to northern Africa.
During the middle of June 2021, Oregon Air National Guard personnel responded to a mass-casualty CBRNE (Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear Explosive) event at a place called Camp Rilea.
Oregon ANG photo by First Lieutenant N. Daniel Delgado.Thankfully […] Continue Reading…