U.S. Army photo by Mark Cleghorn, 02OCT2017.
“The vehicles needed a number of redesigns to address these obsolescence issues and known systemic design issues causing failures. One major redesign was the Thermal Sight Unit, which addressed the OSV’s ability to stay competitive and more accurately simulate a foreign force. There is a new emphasis on these systems because they are 20-years old.”-Justin King, U.S. Army’s Integrated Logistics Support Center
U.S. Army photo by Mark Cleghorn, 02OCT2017.
Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoty (Боевая Машина Пехоты)= literally Battle Machine Infantry (not infantry fighting vehicle as many military sites say)
U.S. Army photo by Mark Cleghorn, 03OCT2017.
The following pics are from the 2017 Anniston Army Depot, Alabama, re-build of fake BMP-2 armored vehicles.
USA photo by Mark Cleghorn, 02OCT2017.
USA photo by Mark Cleghorn, 02OCT2017.
It might be apparent that they used old M113 Armored Personnel Carriers (APC, also including many former hammerhead 113s; M901 TOW and M981 FiST-V) but it turns out they also adapted and modified M2A2 Bradley turrets to fit on the M113 hulls, before covering the whole thing in panels to make them look ‘Russian’.
USA photo by Mark Cleghorn, 02OCT2017.
To replicate the clam-shell doors on the real BMP they removed the ramp, then built a hull extension box before adding doors.
USA photo by Mark Cleghorn, 02OCT2017.
USA photo by Mark Cleghorn, 02OCT2017.
U.S. Army sources say the first M113 Opposing-Forces Surrogate Vehicles (OSV) was developed in 1994, with full conversion-production starting in 1996.
USA photo by Mark Cleghorn, 02OCT2017.
From 2005 to 2019 the Anniston Army Depot overhauled more than 2-hundred of the 335 OSVs in the program.
USA photo by Mark Cleghorn, 02OCT2017.
USA photo by Mark Cleghorn, 02OCT2017.
USA photo by Mark Cleghorn, 03OCT2017.
In the above pic notice the side-boxes on the hull. The one on the driver’s right has vents while the one on the driver’s left does not. The vents are possibly for the engine’s air intake?
USA photo by Mark Cleghorn, 03OCT2017.
USA photo by Specialist Angel Heraldez, 12AUG2018.
11th ACR (Armored Cavalry Regiment) OSV BMP-2s were seen roaming Fort Irwin, California, in August 2018.
USA photo by Sergeant Justin May, 06AUG2018.
A Polish company called Red Tank Miniature offers a 1:72 scale resin model of the OSV-BMP-2. Their website is useless, they have a facebook page.
VEHICLE I-D : 
M113 disguised as BMP
PAINTING & DECALING A 1:1 SCALE M4 SHERMAN
“NEAR PEER THREATS”, CODE FOR RUSSIA & CHINA AND THE COMING 3RD WORLD WAR?
WORLD WAR 3: “THIS IS WHERE ARMOR FIGHTS!” IDAHO NATIONAL GUARD RETURNS TO COLD WAR ERA “TOTAL FORCE” WARFARE TRAINING!
Sign posted at Norfolk Naval Station childcare center in Virginia.
At the U.S. Army basic training base Fort Benning, Georgia; “At this time, there are no known cases of this virus reported on Fort Benning. Should a case come to our attention, the entire team will take immediate measures to address it.” For those concerned checkout 
U.S. Coast Guard evacuates Grand Princess passenger sick with non-CoViD-19 medical problem, 08MAR2020, San Francisco, California.
USS Toledo (SSN-769) arrives at Ice Camp Seadragon on the Arctic Ocean, 04MAR2020.
Ice Exercise (IcEx) is a three-week, once every two years Arctic training event.
USS Toledo homecoming in September 2019. Naval Submarine Base, New London in Groton, Connecticut. USS Toledo is a Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine.
2017, New London.
2016, New London.
2016, Persian Gulf.
2012, New London.
Experiencing the Magnetic Silencing Facility at Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia, 2010.
According to an official USN press release; 
Parade of Ships, Florida, 2009.
From 20FEB2020 to 07MAR2020, Army National Guard units from Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Utah, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin, are taking part in Arctic Eagle-20, held in Alaska.
Also taking place about the same time is Arctic Edge-20, running from 24FEB2020 to 06MAR2020. It includes the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Coast Guard and Canadian forces.
These U.S. taxpayer funded coastal patrol boats, called Defender, were given to the country of Djibouti on 22FEB2020, for use in patrolling their coastal borders!
U.S. Marine with Marine Wing Support Squadron 171, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, takes part in the U.S. taxpayer co-funded building of a school in Thailand, 23FEB2020.
This pic might look like a happy tour boat, but the reason there are Coast Guard personnel onboard is that it was an illegal operation! It happened near Bahia Hutchinson Island, 23FEB2020, the boat operator was ticketed for three violations of boating regulations.
Yet another abandoned boat found by the U.S. Coast Guard, this time on Tiki Island, 28FEB2020. For the past year it seems the number of abandoned boats found by the Coast Guard has gone up, from Hawaii in the Pacific to Puerto Rico in the Atlantic. It is bad luck for boat owners, or smugglers of drugs/humans?
They’re not really on ice, but ice is on them.
Rotor-wash.
1:48 scale, first issued 1961.
First issued 2006, also boxed by Revell-Germany.
Black Dog issues resin detail parts, including skis for snow.
Over the Atlantic Ocean the U.S. Navy (USN) is paying close attention to the Saharan Air Layer (SAL). The SAL can move 14-million-metric-tons (tonnes) of dust from Africa to the Caribbean every year, and with climate change it’s expected to get worse! The USN has joined with NOAA, NASA, and the National Weather Service to establish a ‘baseline’ in order to study health affects of the massive dust transfer and to create an early warning system for people in and around the Caribbean area.
The USN recently concluded data collection for their study of Monsoon Intra-Seasonal Oscillations (MISO) in the Indian Ocean. Researchers from University of Notre Dame, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, and National Aquatic Research and Resources Agency in Sri Lanka, also took part. The purpose is to better predict rapidly changing weather patterns affecting the Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, and South China Sea.
On 24 February, NATO forces conducted a bomb search in a smoke filled house during the extreme cold weather training event known as Exercise Cold Response.
Also during Exercise Cold Response, NATO personnel conducted an ice dive, 25 February, to train for port damage repair, and hydrographic surveying in an extreme cold weather/ice environment.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began taking snowpack samples in North Dakota, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Measuring snowpack allows officials to estimate the amount of water runoff/flooding when the snow melts.
The US Army Corps of Engineers plans to increase releases from Gavins Point Dam in order to “…provide the greatest amount of flood risk reduction across the basin.” The dam affects areas of Nebraska and South Dakota.
New Hampshire Army National Guard flew to Alaska to take part in an extreme cold weather contamination training event. Note the Corona(virus) beer bottles.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that after years of upgrades to the Center Hill Lake Dam the lake is soon to return to ‘normal’ operations, and will allow the Nashville District to handle additional water flows into the reservoir.
