Tag: military

Vice President Mike Pence, right, speaks to Patrick Shanahan, Deputy Secretary, Department of Defense, during the National Space Council meeting titled, “Moon, Mars, and Worlds Beyond, Winning the Next Frontier,” Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018 at the National War College at Fort Lesley J. McNair in Washington. Chaired by the Vice President, the council’s role is […]

Participants of the Swedish Basic Winter Warfare Course rest in front of a fire during the course’s culminating event in Arvidsjaur, Sweden, Jan. 23, 2018. Marines from the Black Sea Rotational Force and the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, along with troops from 9 other countries, participated in the Swedish Basic Winter Warfare Course.   U.S. […]

A U.S. Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 463, Marine Aircraft Group 24, provides on-scene awareness for a downed civilian helicopter that made an emergency landing on a sandbar in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, Oct. 22, 2018. The Marine Corps helicopters were in the area conducting routine operations when notified by the […]

Republic of Korea naval ships approach during the pass in review of the International Fleet Review (IFR) at Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, Oct. 11, 2018. The IFR included a pass in review, training demonstrations, the Western Pacific Naval Symposium, a Maritime Defense Industry Exhibition/Seminar, and a worldwide ship opening event.   U.S. Army photo […]

Shortly after 3 a.m. on Tuesday, a B-2 Spirit, sometimes referred to as a “Stealth Bomber,” was forced to make an emergency landing in Colorado Springs after the failure of what seems to have been at least two integral flight systems. According to recordings of FAA traffic surrounding the incident, the advanced deep penetration bomber […]

The Admiral Makarov, a Russian Admiral Grigorovich-class frigate, is the latest vessel to join Russia’s Black Sea fleet. The Black Sea has seen heightened tensions between Russian and NATO forces since Russia’s 2014 military annexation of Crimea.   Image courtesy of the Russian Ministry of Defense   Watch the Admiral Makarov conduct missile defense drills below:

Brian Easterling, a 96th Test Wing firefighter, extracts an injured pilot from an F-35 Lightning II during a major accident response exercise May 9. This was the first MARE involving the Air Force’s newest fighter aircraft at Eglin. First responders had to put out fires on debris from the aircraft after a hard landing. They […]

U.S. Army Pfc. Cole Burkhead and Pfc. Wyatt Jester, infantrymen assigned to Able Company, 2nd Battalion (Airborne), 503rd Infantry Regiment “The Rock”, 173rd Airborne Brigade, scan for targets during a demonstration at the Gunfighter Gym in Vicenza, Italy, June 22, 2018. The 173rd Airborne Brigade is the U.S. Army’s Contingency Response Force in Europe, providing […]

The Soyuz rocket is seen after being rolled out by train to the launch pad, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 57 crew members Nick Hague of NASA and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos subsequent launch in this very rocket was aborted two minutes into the flight. Both crew members returned […]

The International Space Station, with a crew of three on board, is seen in silhouette as it transits the Sun at roughly five miles per second, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2018 from Suffolk, Va. On board are Expedition 57 Commander Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency), Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA, and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos. […]

The US military is good at many things, but conspicuously bad at management. Its most recent survey found that the Army’s leadership skills are abominably low, marked by poor communication skills, little vision for the future, and discouragement of risk-taking. More than half of active duty junior officers reported they’d love to hop the army […]

South Florida Urban Search and Rescue, Florida Task Force 2, out of Miami, Fla., conduct reconnaissance missions in Bucksport, South Carolina, Sept. 25, 2018, by GPS marking neighborhoods to identify areas and properties that are flooded, as a result of rising waters in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence. These reconnaissance missions are critical for first […]