Kentucky dog trains to rescue Alaskans from a HC-130J!

Tennessee Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Darby Arnold, 25JUN2019.

K9 Callie and her handler, Technical Sergeant Rudy Parsons, a para-rescueman (aka Para-Jumper, PJ) with the 123rd Special Tactics Squadron, Kentucky Air National Guard, wait to jump into the icy water off Alaska, 25JUN2019.

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“un despiche total”: Pacific Ring of Fire, June 2019

Incomplete list of seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, June 2019.  Not only is quake and volcano activity ramping up around the Pacific Ring of Fire, it’s ramping up around the planet.

4,700-Years-Old Rock Art May Show An Erupting Volcano

Photos of the Tallest Volcano on Every Continent

Scientists Narrow Link Between Tides and Earthquakes

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Vehicle I-D: U.S. military(?) Ferrari and Lamborghini

 

USAF photo by Airman First Class Gage Daniel, 26MAY2018.

MiG-17 races a ‘Navy’ Ferrari at Cannon AFB, May 2018.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Gage Daniel, 27MAY2018.

Racing the USN Ferrari, from the cockpit of the challenging USAF Lamborghini, Cannon AFB, May 2018.

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World War 3(?): Soviet MiG 17 vs U.S. Navy Ferrari, only in ‘Amerika’

MiG 17, NATO reporting name Fresco.

U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Maxwell Daigle, 17MAY2019.

USAF video, by Staff Sergeant Philip Bryant, MiG-17F attacks Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, 17MAY2019.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Damon Kasberg, 17MAY2019.

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F-100 Super Saber gate guards

Saber=U.S. English spelling

Sabre=Queen’s English spelling (and also the spelling accepted by North American and USAF)

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Matthew Seefeldt, 07JAN2019.

An F-100 Super Sabre on display at Kadena Air Base, Japan, January 2019.

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Repairing 1/1 scale T-38 Talon and other Whiteman Gate Guards (and a reduced scale B-2 bomber)

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Parker J. McCauley, 18JUN2019.

During the middle of June, 2019, 509th Maintenance Squadron ‘low-observable maintenance’ Airmen began work to restore Whiteman Air Force Base’s (in Missouri) T-38 gate guard named Spirit of Heartland.

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F-105 Thunderchief Gate Guards

Kadena Air Base, Japan. The F-105 flew out of Kadena AB from 1962 to 1972.

U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado, 19JUN2017.

A-10C Thunderbolt-2s over-fly a weathered F-105 at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Arizona, 18SEP2015.

Repairs being made to the F-105B gate guard at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, 01MAY2017.

 

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