Vehicle I-D: C1 Ariete Italiana

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Amanda Fry.

Italian C1 Ariete playing the bad guy OpFor (Opposition Forces) during Dragoon Ready ’21, Hohenfels Training Area, 20APR2021.

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Julian Padua.

These photos show Italian C1 Arietes during the U.S. Army’s (USA) Combined Resolve XV wargame, in Hohenfels, […] Continue Reading…

Idaho home to first ever National Guard D-A-G-I-R!

05 April 2021 (15:50-UTC-07 Tango 06) 16 Farvardin 1400/22 Sha’ban 1442/24 Ren-Chen 4719

Notice the ladder looking antenna coming off the bustle rack. Idaho National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 04MAR2021.

The vastness of the Steppes of South Western Idaho.  Back when I was ‘in’ we called it Orchard Training […] Continue Reading…

Re-Build a 1:1 scale F-15 Canopy

“We are set up to be part of the sustainment effort for F-15 aircraft canopies. We are part of the team that does the replacement parts like the canopies, stabilizers or any of the other flight controls that keep F-15 aircraft flying.”-Alberto Garza-Mayer, 572nd Commodities Maintenance Squadron, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, February 2021

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B-1B Ruptured Duck saved from the Boneyard, but it’ll never fly again!

On 23FEB2021, a ‘divested’ B-1B bomber landed at Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) in California, being saved from the ‘boneyard’ in Arizona, but never to fly again.

U.S. Air Force photo by May Straight.

The B-1B tail number 86-0099 arrived with Ruptured Duck artwork on the side.

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Silly-vilian airliner brought back from the dead, to serve in the military!

U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez.

On 03MAR2021, a mummified civilian airliner was hauled off to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, drafted for use as an emergency response trainer for the U.S. military.

USAF photo by R.J. Oriez. USAF photo by R.J. Oriez.

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U.S. Navy Air Base has front row seat to Mount Etna eruptions!

03 April 2021 (02:57-UTC-07 Tango 06) 14 Farvardin 1400/20 Sha’ban 1442/22 Ren-Chen 4719

U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer Second Class Austin Ingram.

This photo, taken from a U.S. Navy (USN) P-8A Poseidon, shows Mount Etna on 14JAN2021, before the eruptions started.

U.S. Navy photo by Captain Kevin Pickard, […] Continue Reading…

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