Drunken Cobra Recovery: Pre-Pandemic N95 Mask wearing?

AH-1W (Alpha Hotel-One Wiskey) Super-Cobra.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Carley Vedro, 17OCT2019.

Checking for booby-traps planted near an abandoned AH-1W Super Cobra.

USMC photo by Corporal Carley Vedro, 17OCT2019.

Aircraft recovery training at Twentynine Palms, California, 17OCT2019.

USMC photo by Corporal Carley Vedro, 17OCT2019.

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“Insidious” infection onboard USS Kidd, crew replaced?

You might have heard about the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) with the controversial administrative treatment of the commander who tried to warn of the CoViD-19 infection, and that the crew was replaced while docked in Guam, but what about the USS Kidd (DDG 100)?

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Apache fights through Pandemic

U.S. Army ‘Rotary Wing Assets’, including Apaches, aboard USS Lewis B. Puller (the first of its kind mobile helicopter base-ship) somewhere in the Persian Gulf, 15APR2020.

The 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, is deploying to Europe to take part in anti-Russia operation Atlantic Resolve.  Video, AH-64 Apache live fire, 01MAY2020, Fort Campbell Kentucky:

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Vehicle I-D: EA-6B Prowler upclose & thirsty

Video, 28th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron KC-135 Stratotanker refuels Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 2 (VMAQ-2) EA-6B over Iraq, June 2018:

Video, night refueling over Persian Gulf, June 2018:

Video, EA-6B Prowler assigned to Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One (MAWTS-1) gets fuel from a KC-130 near Welton, Arizona, […] Continue Reading…

Hi-Tech Fail: XQ-58A, the other Valkyrie, already a failed museum piece?

On 23JAN2020, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (Kratos) conducted a successful 4th flight of the XQ-58A low-cost, long-range attack ‘drone’ (Low Cost Attritable Aircraft Technology), over the U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Grounds (YPG) in Arizona.

Length 9.14m, wingspan 8.2m, dry weight 1134kg, maximum take-off weight 2722kg.  Internal […] Continue Reading…

Michigan militia flood rescues

“I heard about the flooding about 30-minutes after the first dam collapsed.  I received a call from my command around 11pm last night to come in right away and have been working since.”-Private First Class Lydia Humphrey, 1073rd Maintenance Company, Michigan Army National Guard

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Pandemic Perfidy: Negative Pressure Flying Hospitals, wait didn’t we use those before, Viet Nam?

U.S. Air Force personnel of the 379th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron simulate transporting COVID-19 patients on a static C-130 Hercules aircraft during training on the Negative Pressurized Conex- Lite (NPC-L) at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. USAF photo by Senior Airman Ashley Perdue, 07AUG2020.

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Pandemic OverFlight: A-10C (for CoViD?) Thunderbolt-2

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 Airman First Class Jacob T. Stephens, 14MAY2020.

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