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CAIRO- a Belgian Shepard training to Dutch Verbal-Commands, to Attack.
Cairo "was" a Cook County Sheriff Dog who was brought to this facility for LOVE and Training. He's a Year and a half and a very nice dog, who's gotta grip with his mouth- that you
do not
want to be at the receiving end of.
Each unit has it's own role to play in the Pathfinder task force, but reconnaissance is all about information gathering, geographical planning, and discovering hostile troop movements, which is what makes the Command Variant the heart of the task force. If this unit is in the area, and you fight under a different flag, it's going to find you. Outfitted with some of the most advanced, and expensive equipment available, it can detect just about anything and everything within a certain range.
Fitted with a powerful ground radar, with a range of up to 30 miles, uncovering enemies in plain sight is effortless, but not all enemies are so easily exposed, so a satellite uplink and control module gives a birds eye view of the entire battlefield, allowing for a much greater assessment of the situation. The Command variant has communication interception equipment for tapping into enemy radio traffic, but it also has counter communication tapping equipment, so that the enemy can't tap into friendly radio chatter. Also fitted to the unit is a radio frequency override system, which hijacks enemy radio equipment and sends out a ping, allowing for the unit to get an exact fix on the location of the radio transmission, and then feed into any other communication equipment that the hijacked radio broadcasts to, effectively creating a network of who's talking to who, and where, all while unknown to the enemy. The front of the vehicle is fitted with multiple antenna so that the Command Variant can keep in touch with multiple friendly units at all times.
Taking out a command vehicle doesn't quite have the potency it did forty of fifty years ago, in that you'd leave the attached task force isolated and cut off. With each member of the task being in constant contact with the command center, if one unit discovers the enemy, all units discover the enemy, and the command center does too, but that being said, the Command Variant is undoubtedly the eyes and ears of the task force, and any information it gathers is fed directly back to the command center in real time, so even if the unit is destroyed, it's work has already been done.
Although this variant has no weapons, any sharp eyed and mindful hostile soldier would have this unit on the top of his kill list, denying his enemy a vital piece of battlefield equipment, and without a doubt keeping many of his allies alive and undiscovered.
As with all Pathfinder vehicles, this unit has a crew of three, including a commander, an intelligence analyst officer, and a driver.
U.S. Army Reserve Spc. Christopher Landon, a motor transport operator assigned to the 182nd Transportation Company, fires an M240B machine gun as part of Operation Cold Steel II, hosted by the 79th Theater Sustainment Command at Fort Hunter Liggett, Calif., Dec. 2, 2017. Operation Cold Steel is the U.S. Army Reserve’s crew-served weapons qualification and validation exercise to ensure that America’s Army Reserve units and Soldiers are trained and ready to deploy on short-notice as part of Ready Force X and bring combat-ready and lethal firepower in support of the Army and our joint partners anywhere in the world. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Sgt. Heather Doppke)www.dvids.hub.net
OKINAWA, Japan (May 16, 2023) - U.S. Marines with 3d Reconnaissance Battalion jump from a KC-130J Super Hercules assigned to Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 152, Marine Aircraft Wing 36 during Military Free Fall and Low-Level Static Line parachute operations over Ie Shima, Okinawa, Japan, May 16, 2023. The training sustains operational readiness while ensuring Marines are prepared to rapidly insert into austere environments through multiple methods. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael Taggart) 230516-M-EJ408-1051
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An unmarked Mercedes Sprinter Mobile Command Center assisting with security for an Ohio State University Football game. I believe this is an FBI unit built by Frontline Communications.
Still in progress as I post this...
A link to the story:
www.azfamily.com/2025/01/25/search-inmate-who-escaped-tuc...
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UPDATE!!!
Just found out that the guy WAS in our park, spotted early this morning by a neighbor who called 911. Said he walked down the street then jumped into the wash and headed East.
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You may not know this but about a mile from our house (as the crow flies) there is the United States Penitentiary - Tucson, the Arizona State Prison Complex Tucson, and the Federal Correctional Institution For Women- Tucson. That's a lot of inmates in a pretty close area.
Evidently last night close to midnight the worst happened and one of the prisoners escaped. As of right now they are still searching for him and it seems to be focused right on our neighborhood. There have been no shelter in place orders but it's always possible.
This is a command post they've got set up just down the street from us, lot's of undercover vehicles! Nothing like a good jailbreak to get us Seasoned Citizens up and out in the street!
A CC-177 Globemaster aircraft from 8 Wing Trenton lands at Resolute Bay airport carrying deployed members and equipment for Operation NUNALIVUT 2018, February 27, 2018.
Photo: Major Jean-Francois Robert, Commander Assessment Team Commander
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Un CC-177 Globemaster de la 8e Escadre Trenton transportant des militaires en déploiement et de l’équipement atterrit à l’aéroport de Resolute Bay dans le cadre de l’opération NUNALIVUT 2018, le 27 février 2018.
Photo : Major Jean-François Robert, équipe d’évaluation du commandant
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This is the first time I have ever posted one of my graphic design projects on Flickr. I always figured Flickr was not really the venue for it.
That said, I couldn't find my firewire cable for my external drive today, so I figured I'd find something hidden away on my laptop to post. And so, here we have this project. I think I will miss the open-ended, imaginary-project coolness of school assignments.
“Following rendezvous, and when the LEM is approximately 500 feet from the coupled Command/Service Modules, the LEM’s Commander will manually maneuver the module to a docking attitude and increase or decrease the rate of closure until complete docking is accomplished.
Once the coupling process is complete, the two-man LEM crew prepares to transfer to the Command Module and rejoin the third member of the Apollo team. Pressures between the modules are equalized, LEM subsystems are turned off, and scientific equipment and collected specimens are passed into the Command Module. When the transfer is complete, the LEM is jettisoned in orbit, and left to impact upon the moon at a later time. This concludes the LEM mission.”
Reads like an early Grumman description, a little stiff & 'clinical', not something composed by a journalist.
I’ve never seen this depiction before, and it’s the first time I’ve ever seen a rendition of the Command/Service Modules by Mr. Kavafes. Which btw is sporting dual dissimilar antennas, interesting. Finally, note also the LEM Commander’s face, visible through the spacecraft’s window.
PHILIPPINE SEA (Nov. 12, 2015) - F/A-18s launch from the flight deck of the U.S. Navy's only forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Ronald Reagan, and its embarked air wing, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5, provide a combat-ready force that protects the collective maritime interests of its allies and partners in the Indo-Asia-Pacific Region. (U.S. Navy photo by MC3 Ryan McFarlane/Released) 151112-N-IN729-100
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This mobile command center (aka incident command unit) for the Steinburg fire department was built by Gimaex-Schmidt on an MAN TGX 26.400 6x2 chassis.
The truck serves as the local command center for larger incidents. The truck features a large conference room with 8 workstations for the command staff, a seperate room with workstations for 3 radio operators and a small galley.
The communication equipment includes digital and analog radios, mobile phone and data and a full SATCOM unit for data and telephone communication when mobile networks are out of order.
SOUTH CHINA SEA (Feb. 12, 2017) - The littoral combat ship USS Coronado (LCS 4) transits the South China Sea during training. Currently on a rotational deployment in support of the Asia-Pacific rebalance, Coronado is a fast and agile warship tailor-made to patrol the region's littorals and work hull-to-hull with partner navies, providing 7th Fleet with the flexible capabilities it needs now and in the future. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Amy M. Ressler/Released) 170212-N-WV703-923
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Swebrick Christmas Contest - Day 22, Max 110 pieces
(A marathon competition. One build per day from 1/12 to 24/12. Piece limit starts at 5 and increases with 5 for each day)
Colas Railfreight Class 60002 leads another passenger train down the Barrow Hill line during the rarities diesel gala 2015.
This model started as a valkyrie riding a giant eagle, except valkyries do not ride eagles, and I also did not get my LUG bulk order in time. So here is a pivot to a hunter and her wolf companion. A bit of an abstract composition for this Summer Joust theme.
Another image here:
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Armee de L'Air & de L'Space Boeing E-3CF AWACS 204/702-CD heads home at FL340 as FAF9025
Earlier it had tracked North to a point over Scotland where it provided Command & Control services for on-going Exercises
for a couple of hours before returning home via the East Coast and then down over Seaford Head
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VIA J.L. Pickering. REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont.
NASA INFO: The Apollo 11 rocket towers over the Kennedy Space Center’s crawlerway during the May 20, 1969 rollout from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39A. The Saturn V launched astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin on the first lunar landing mission two months later.
By Bob Granath,
NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
Construction of the Vehicle Assembly Building, or VAB, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida began a half-century ago this summer. After serving through the Apollo and Space Shuttle Programs, the mammoth structure now is undergoing renovations to accommodate future launch vehicles and to continue as a major part of America's efforts to explore space for another 50 years.
Construction began with driving the first steel pilings on Aug. 2, 1963. It was part of NASA's massive effort to send astronauts to the moon for the Apollo Program. Altogether, 4,225 pilings were driven down 164 feet to bedrock with a foundation consisting of 30,000 cubic yards of concrete. Construction of the VAB required 98,590 tons of steel.
When completed in 1965, the VAB was one of the largest buildings in the world with 129,428,000 cubic feet of interior volume. The structure covers eight acres, is 525 feet tall and 518 feet wide.
To accommodate moving, processing and stacking rocket stages, 71 cranes and hoists, including two 250-ton bridge cranes were installed. On the east and west sides are four high bay doors, each designed to open 456 feet in height allowing rollout of the Apollo/Saturn V moon rockets mounted atop launch umbilical towers.The VAB was constructed 3.5 miles from Launch Pad 39A and 4.2 miles from Launch Pad 39B. A pair of crawler-transporters, among the largest machines ever built to move on land, carried the assembled rockets to the pads.
After the conclusion of Apollo in the 1970s, the building was refurbished to accommodate the space shuttle. Inside the VAB, the shuttle solid rocket boosters were stacked atop a mobile launcher platform. The external fuel tank was attached between the two boosters and the shuttle mounted to the tank. Following three decades of flight, the shuttle was retired in 2011.
Modifications of the VAB are underway to support the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft, which also will result in the ability to process multiple launch vehicle types. SLS will be the agency’s advanced heavy-lift launch vehicle providing a new capability for human exploration beyond Earth orbit. However, NASA also is partnering with private industry on launch vehicle and spacecraft development options for taking astronauts to low-Earth orbit and the International Space Station.
Last year shuttle-era work platforms were removed from the VAB's High Bay 3 as a project of Ground Systems Development and Operations, or GSDO, to accommodate the SLS heavy-lift rocket.
According to Jose Lopez, the VAB senior project manager in the Vehicle Integration and Launch Support Branch of GSDO, the changes are part of a centerwide modernization and refurbishment initiative in preparation for the next generation of human spaceflight.
Lopez noted that some of the utilities and systems scheduled for replacement at the VAB have been used since the facility was originally built. This initial work is required to support any launch vehicle operated from Launch Complex 39 and will allow NASA to begin modernizing the facilities while vehicle-specific requirements are being developed.
Plans for 2014 include awarding the construction contract for new access platforms, including structures and systems required for the SLS.
Some of the current work has included removal of over 150 miles of obsolete Apollo- and shuttle-era cabling. This will make room for installation of more efficient, state-of-the-art command, communication, control and power systems needed to perform testing and verification prior to the SLS and other rockets being rolled out to the launch pad.
As plans move ahead to outfit the VAB with the new infrastructure, code upgrades and safety improvements, the building will continue in its role as a central hub for the Florida spaceport well into the future.