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F-18’s, A-10’s and a RNLAF F-35A do level passes in the desert canyons of California. Featured image of an A-10 Thunderbolt II ground attack aircraft pulling up sharply out of a low-level strafing run by U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Parker Gyokeres

  In every clime and place, you’ll find Marines, and not too far away, their chaplains. The chaplains will even follow and support them to the frozen Kumamoto training area where Marines participated in Exercise Forest Light. Marine Corporal Calvin Hilt took an Osprey to the training area with one of Marine Corps Air Station […]

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Chris Brandal performs preflight inspections on a C-130H Hercules while maintenance group members inspect the hydraulic systems during bitter cold temperatures at the 179th Airlift Wing in Mansfield, Ohio, Jan. 16, 2018. The wing’s maintenance members regularly inspect all aspects of their aircraft to maintain mission readiness. – US Department of […]

Residents of southeast Michigan were left a bit shaken Tuesday night after a big bright flash lit up the sky and the ground beneath them shook. The National Weather Service eventually solved the mystery, tweeting “USGS confirms meteor occurred around 810 pm, causing a magnitude 2.0 earthquake.” – ABC News Featured image by video screen capture

Recent heavy rains in California made for an interesting sight on the tarmac. Heavy rains soak the flightline at Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton, Calif., Jan. 9, 2018. – US Department of Defense Marine Corps photo by Pfc. Drake Nickels Heavy rains in Southern California didn’t stop training at Marine Corps Air Station Camp […]

In 1942, German test pilot Helmut Schenck becomes the first person to use an ejection seat to successfully exit his aircraft in an emergency. – We Are The Mighty Featured image from video screen capture

Has Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works already produced the mysterious SR-72 and is it a drone? Did VP of Skunk Works Jack O’Bannion, slip up when his recent comments suggest it may have already been built?   Jack O’Bannion, VP of Strategy at Skunk Works, is speaking today at SciTech conference. He showed a slide of the […]

An MH-65 Dolphin rescue helicopter crew medevacs an ill fisherman from the deck of the Coast Guard Cutter Willow about 60 miles east of Atlantic City, N.J., Jan. 11, 2018. The helicopter transported the man, who had been working on the fishing vessel Illusion, to a regional medical center. – US Department of Defense Coast […]

The Lockheed Martin C-130 has a storied history and may be the versatile aircraft in the US inventory. The C-130J Super Hercules is the world’s most advanced tactical airlifter. Designed and developed with mission flexibility in mind, the C-130J has a unique mix of agility and performance to complete any mission, anytime, anywhere. The C-130J […]

  B-52 Stratofortress bombers began arriving Tuesday at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, temporarily providing the Pentagon with a rarity as tensions with North Korea percolate: the presence of three kinds of bombers in the Pacific. The six B-52s and 300 airmen from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana will take over the U.S. […]

An Air Force C-130J Super Hercules flies near Mount Fuji during a routine sortie out of Yokota Air Base, Japan, Jan. 12, 2018. The aircraft is assigned to the 36th Airlift Squadron. – US Air Force Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe

Through images and video, here’s what the day-to-day grind of working and living on a US Navy Aircraft Carrier is really like. – We Are The Mighty Featured image from Pixabay public domain