David
Tue December 17, 2002 2:31pm
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Polish soldiers transport
Polish soldiers transport one of their 'injured' soldiers to a US helicopter for medical evacuation to the divsional hospital in MNDN. Other than fire power, surveillance and transport, helicopters offer critical force protection with their ability to react to emergency situations.
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David
Thu December 19, 2002 1:36pm
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Secretary of the Army Tho
Secretary of the Army Thomas E. White stops during a walking tour of Camp X-Ray's detention facility to give thanks to servicemembers working there. "I think that the soldiers are doing a magnificent job. Not only are the soldiers from the Army, but Marines, Navy and Air Force people that are here are doing a magnificent job of a critically important task, obviously under difficult conditions," White said in regards to camp operations.
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David
Fri December 20, 2002 8:01am
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An Aviation Boatswain's M
An Aviation Boatswain's Mate directs a C-2A Greyhound from the ?Rawhides? of Carrier Logistics Support Squadron Four Zero (VRC-40) onto one of four steam catapults on the ship?s flight deck. The Greyhound provides critical logistics support to aircraft carriers and can deliver payloads of up to 10,000 pounds. The cabin can readily accommodate cargo, passengers or both. It is also equipped to accept litter patients in medical evacuation missions. The Norfolk, Va.-based George Washington is on a routine deployment. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Summer Anderson.
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David
Fri December 20, 2002 8:01am
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Members of the flight dec
Members of the flight deck crew are about to direct a C-2A Greyhound to one of the the carrier's four steam powered catapults aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). The Greyhound provides critical logistics support to aircraft carriers and can deliver payloads of up to 10,000 pounds. The cabin can readily accommodate cargo, passengers or both. It is also equipped to accept litter patients in medical evacuation missions. Theodore Roosevelt is underway in the Atlantic Ocean conducting flight deck certifications. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer?s Mate 2nd Class Floyd Grimm.
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David
Fri December 20, 2002 4:58pm
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Sailors aboard the mine c
Sailors aboard the mine countermeasures ship prepare to lower the AN/SLQ-48 ?Mine Neutralization Vehicle? into the water. The remotely operated vehicle uses sonar and video cameras to find and identify underwater objects. If the operators find a mine, the vehicle can place small explosive charges near the mine to neutralize it. USS Champion is participating in ?Gulf of Mexico Exercise 02-2? near Corpus Christi, TX. During the exercise, USS Champion was tasked with searching for and clearing exercise ?mines? from critical waterways in the area. U.S. Navy photo by Lieutenant Marc Boyd.
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David
Fri December 20, 2002 4:58pm
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Sailors aboard the mine c
Sailors aboard the mine countermeasures ship prepare to lower the AN/SLQ-48 ?Mine Neutralization Vehicle? into the water. The remotely operated vehicle uses sonar and video cameras to find and identify underwater objects. If the operators find a mine, the vehicle can place small explosive charges near the mine to neutralize it. USS Champion is participating in ?Gulf of Mexico Exercise 02-2? near Corpus Christi, TX. During the exercise, USS Champion was tasked with searching for and clearing exercise ?mines? from critical waterways in the area. U.S. Navy photo by Lieutenant Marc Boyd.
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David
Fri December 20, 2002 4:58pm
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A crewmember prepares to
A crewmember prepares to deploy a Side Scanning Sonar "fish" off the coast of Japan. The ?Fish? is a portable device, which provides ships the ability to conduct precision underwater mapping operations of ports and ocean floors, critical to planning mine countermeasure operations. USS Guardian is an ?Avenger? class mine countermeasures ship designed as mine hunter-killers capable of finding, classifying and destroying a wide variety of deployed mines. Guardian is forward deployed to Sasebo, Japan. U.S. Navy photo by Journalist Seaman Wes Eplen.
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David
Fri December 20, 2002 4:59pm
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A crewmember prepares to
A crewmember prepares to give the order for a Side Scanning Sonar "fish" to be lowered into the ocean off the coast of Japan. The ?Fish? is a portable device, which provides ships the ability to conduct precision underwater mapping operations of ports and ocean floors, critical to planning mine countermeasure operations. USS Guardian is an ?Avenger? class mine countermeasures ship designed as mine hunter-killers capable of finding, classifying and destroying a wide variety of deployed mines. Guardian is forward deployed to Sasebo, Japan. U.S. Navy photo by Journalist Seaman Wes Eplen.
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David
Wed January 8, 2003 12:02am
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General Dynamics F-111
The first F-111As, hot off the assembly lines, were sent to Vietnam in March 1968 for the Combat Lancer operation. Six tactical bombers of the 428th TFS had the chance to prove their worth in the battle zone, but the experiment was disastrous: three of the six were destroyed during unescorted missions at various times. Initially it was assumed they had been shot down by the enemy, but it later became clear that they had crashed because of structural faults. The detachment, having carried out 55 missions, was recalled to the US, where criticism of this already controversial aircraft reached a new peak. Yet the F-111A did eventually prove itself, again in Vietnam. On September 27, 1972, 48 F-111As of the 429th and 430th TFS of the 474th TFW arrived in Southeast Asia; they immediately went into action to help check the accelerating advance of the North Vietnamese. In five months, that is up to the end of the hostilities, they carried out over 4,000 sorties dropping about 74,000 tons of bombs with high results, and the loss of only six machines. It is worth noting that 3,980 of these 4,000 missions were effected by means of TFR (Terrain Following Radar), a radar system capable of guiding the plane at a height of only a few meters, encompassing the slightest unevenness of terrain, without intervention by the pilot, and flying beneath the net of the SAM missile radar systems. Such feats in Southeast Asia were crucial in establishing and later restoring the reputation for quality which this variable-sweep wing fighter-bomber from General Dynamics was intended to possess from the start. In action once more in April 1986, attacking targets in Tripoli and Benghazi, Libya, the F-111s confirmed their right to be considered the spearhead of the USAF tactical bombing operations.
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David
Wed January 8, 2003 12:02am
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General Dynamics F-111
The first F-111As, hot off the assembly lines, were sent to Vietnam in March 1968 for the Combat Lancer operation. Six tactical bombers of the 428th TFS had the chance to prove their worth in the battle zone, but the experiment was disastrous: three of the six were destroyed during unescorted missions at various times. Initially it was assumed they had been shot down by the enemy, but it later became clear that they had crashed because of structural faults. The detachment, having carried out 55 missions, was recalled to the US, where criticism of this already controversial aircraft reached a new peak. Yet the F-111A did eventually prove itself, again in Vietnam. On September 27, 1972, 48 F-111As of the 429th and 430th TFS of the 474th TFW arrived in Southeast Asia; they immediately went into action to help check the accelerating advance of the North Vietnamese. In five months, that is up to the end of the hostilities, they carried out over 4,000 sorties dropping about 74,000 tons of bombs with high results, and the loss of only six machines. It is worth noting that 3,980 of these 4,000 missions were effected by means of TFR (Terrain Following Radar), a radar system capable of guiding the plane at a height of only a few meters, encompassing the slightest unevenness of terrain, without intervention by the pilot, and flying beneath the net of the SAM missile radar systems. Such feats in Southeast Asia were crucial in establishing and later restoring the reputation for quality which this variable-sweep wing fighter-bomber from General Dynamics was intended to possess from the start. In action once more in April 1986, attacking targets in Tripoli and Benghazi, Libya, the F-111s confirmed their right to be considered the spearhead of the USAF tactical bombing operations.
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David
Wed January 8, 2003 12:02am
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General Dynamics F-111
The first F-111As, hot off the assembly lines, were sent to Vietnam in March 1968 for the Combat Lancer operation. Six tactical bombers of the 428th TFS had the chance to prove their worth in the battle zone, but the experiment was disastrous: three of the six were destroyed during unescorted missions at various times. Initially it was assumed they had been shot down by the enemy, but it later became clear that they had crashed because of structural faults. The detachment, having carried out 55 missions, was recalled to the US, where criticism of this already controversial aircraft reached a new peak. Yet the F-111A did eventually prove itself, again in Vietnam. On September 27, 1972, 48 F-111As of the 429th and 430th TFS of the 474th TFW arrived in Southeast Asia; they immediately went into action to help check the accelerating advance of the North Vietnamese. In five months, that is up to the end of the hostilities, they carried out over 4,000 sorties dropping about 74,000 tons of bombs with high results, and the loss of only six machines. It is worth noting that 3,980 of these 4,000 missions were effected by means of TFR (Terrain Following Radar), a radar system capable of guiding the plane at a height of only a few meters, encompassing the slightest unevenness of terrain, without intervention by the pilot, and flying beneath the net of the SAM missile radar systems. Such feats in Southeast Asia were crucial in establishing and later restoring the reputation for quality which this variable-sweep wing fighter-bomber from General Dynamics was intended to possess from the start. In action once more in April 1986, attacking targets in Tripoli and Benghazi, Libya, the F-111s confirmed their right to be considered the spearhead of the USAF tactical bombing operations.
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