On 19APR2022, it was reported that yet another Nigerian Alpha Jet crashed, killing the crew.
A contracted Canadian Alpha Jet, on 5 Wing Goose Bay, Newfoundland, 14JUN2021.Canadian Forces photo by Master Corporal Krista Blizzard.Alpha Jet on display at the Paris Air Show on Le Bourget Airfield, June […] Continue Reading…
On 24MAY2011, an Armée de l’Air NATO two seat Mirage 2000D crashed in Afghanistan. The crew ejected and survived.
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus.U.S. Army and Marines, along with French and Italian troops, conducted an […] Continue Reading…
Notice that none of these Marines are wearing N95 masks, during the year of The Pandemic.
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Julian Elliott-Drouin, 27JUN2020.AH-1W (Alpha Hotel-One Wiskey) Super-Cobra, during aircraft recovery training at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California, 27JUN2020.
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29 July 2020 / 02:08 (UTC-07 Tango 06) 08 Mordad 1399/08 Dhu l-Hijja 1441/09 Gui-Wei 4718
“A person who has acquired the chikungunya virus is infectious in the first week of illness, which means that the infected person can transmit the virus to another person through a mosquito bite…”-DTRA warning from 27APR2020
Since the end of […] Continue Reading…
This is just a fraction of the intense photos and videos captured by U.S. Navy personnel, 12-17 July 2020.
INFERNO
U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer Second Class Austin Haist, 12JUL2020.On the morning of 12JUL2020, and after two years of extensive retrofitting, USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) became a steel inferno while […] Continue Reading…
Idaho National Guard photos by Senior Airman Mercedee Wilds and Master Sergeant Joshua Allmaras
A member of the 266th Range Squadron, Idaho Air National Guard, works to off-load a 1:1 scale simulated 1S91 SURN tank at Fort Irwin National Training Center, California, June 2019.
The 266th played the bad guy (Opposition Force, OpFor) trying to shoot […] Continue Reading…
On the morning of 12JUL2020 a fire broke out inside amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme […] Continue Reading…
“They were great birds to fly. You could land them anywhere, in any type of environment; they were great for what we were using them for here.”-Captain Tyler Smith, Bravo Company commander, 1st Bn, 5th Avn Reg
The U.S. Army’s 1st Battalion, 5th Aviation Regiment OH-58C Kiowas fly over Fort Polk, Louisiana, for the last […] Continue Reading…
On 23 June 2020, perhaps too much self-restricting pandemic lockdown (I say “self-restricting” as most of us in Eastern Idaho are not adhering to CoViD-19 lockdown, and even the local Sheriff departments refuse to enforce such things) forced me to hit the road for […] Continue Reading…
California Air National Guard’s 144th Fighter Wing flies their F-15C Eagles over Fresno, in hopes of scaring-off the CoViD-19, 13MAY2020.
Video, launching a few F-15Cs to fight California CoViD-19:
Video, cockpit view F-15C 144th FW flyover, 13MAY2020:
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