Air Force
The dumbassery of a 747
Hopefully life won’t overtake this – I am traveling this weekend so writing is taking place early. We’ll see if what I do Tuesday lasts till Friday! Oh, Lord, everyone is making noise about Qatar’s gift of a luxo 747 to serve as Air Force One. Trump is hailing it as a wonderful gift: “So […]
Valor Friday
Today I present something a bit different. If you haven’t discovered the YouTube Yarnhub channel, you’re missing out. They do 3D animated military history videos that are overall very good. A recent video highlighted the actions of Andrew Mynarski. He was a Royal Canadian Air Force airman who was mortally wounded when his Lancaster bomber […]
B-2’s on The Footprint of Freedom
‘Spirit’ Stealth Bomber B-2 Bombers Arrive on Diego Garcia in Unusual Show of Force By Unshin Lee Harpley B-2 Spirit bombers have landed on Diego Garcia, a tiny island in the Indian Ocean that serves as a strategic hub for operations everywhere from the Middle East to Africa to the Indo-Pacific, a spokesperson for Air […]
Valor Friday
The humble looking enlisted man you see before you with a CIB has a distinctive little ribbon just below that among his fruit salad. Even without the photo being in color, the brilliant light blue ribbon with its five white stars stands out among the other awards on display. Bill Crawford was a young private […]
Boeing wins F-47 fighter contract, heads explode
The competition between Boeing and Lockheed Martin for the Next Generation Air Dominance Fighter (NGAD) is over, with Boeing taking first prize. During the Oval Office announcement ceremony, Trump displayed a poster showing the first glimpse of the F-47 design, revealing a forward fuselage and sharply swept back wings but no further design features. The […]
Recycling old AF stuff
This adds a bit to AW1Ed’s column of deploying assets on our southern flank. The Air Force is finding some love for assets many of you probably thought had gone away. U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin has confirmed that U-2 Dragon Lady spy planes have been flying missions around the […]
Blue city rewards thieves
This one is just a miserable comment on why crime doesn’t pay. San Antonio likes to bill itself as Military City, USA. Given the amount of space and people devoted to the military there, with both Army AND Air Force facilities, medical training too, as I recall – there should be some incentive to stay […]
President Donald Trump fires the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
President Donald Trump fired General CQ Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Trump also fired Admiral Lisa Franchetti, Chief of Naval Operations, and General Jim Slife, Air Force Chief of Staff. Air Force Lieutenant General Dan Caine has been nominated to fill the role of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Defense […]
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