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Israeli soldiers stand at the site of a stabbing attack in the West Bank checkpoint of Tapuah, near Nablus Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010.
IDF Joint Exercise
The IDF's Givati Infantry Brigade and the 46th Armor Battalion, a battalion in the 401st Armored Brigade, joined forces for an exercise this past week.
Photo Credit: Sgt. Shay Wagner, IDF Spokesperson's Unit
Irish Military Static Line Parachute Course
Members of the Irish Defence Force during the Military Static Line Parachute Course at the Defence Forces Training Centre – 29th March 2012
Photos: Sgt Paul Brady
IDF Desert Reconnaissance Battalion at the Urban Warfare Center
Last week, the Desert Reconnaissance Battalion conducted a drill in the Urban Warfare Training Center, simulating fighting in populated cities. The drill was conducted to assure maximum efficiency while fighting in urban centers by focusing solely on hostile targets.
The Desert Reconnaissance Battalion, also known as "the natural detectives" is comprised almost entirely of Bedouins whom, though exempt from service, volunteered to serve in the IDF. These soldiers use their unique abilities to track down infiltrators and other threats in the vast Israeli desert. April 2, 2012
Photographed by Cpl. Gal Asuach, IDF Spokesperson's Unit.
River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme.
These images were taken during the second week of June 2017.
Hard to believe - but I've been recording this project now for 5 years.
Most of the main civil engineering works have ceased along the Slang/Rehills section of the river bank.
However, the soil-shifters are at it again.
Smaller operation than before, but a steady process of removing soil, shifting soil and reshaping the banks.
You don't have to be a certified civil engineer to figure out that there are quicker and more efficient ways to move the soil.
Using one excavator, a few dumper-trucks and a single bulldozer is a process not driven by time/cost.
If you 'really' had to complete this work quickly, you'd line up a few 'bigboy' bulldozers . . . . . and shift the soil in days, rather than weeks-months.
This 'hurdler on the ditch' simply comments on the piecemeal nature of this planning!
Maybe they're eavesdropping . . . but, suddenly, man-mountains disappear, and level expanses appear.
Chinese People's Liberation Naval ship, Chang Zhou, sails into Sydney Harbour, bound for Fleet Base East, Sydney.
The Chinese People's Liberation Naval Ship, Chang Zhou, arrives in Sydney Harbour as she sails past to two of Sydney's iconic landmarks during a goodwill visit to Fleet Base East, Sydney.
Mid Caption: Three Chinese People's Liberation Army-Navy ships Yi Yang, Chang Zhou and Qian Dao Hu, arrived at Garden Island, Sydney today. The ships headed by Rear Admiral Zhou Xu-Ming, Commander of the Chinese Naval Task Group were welcomed by China's Ambassador to Australia, His Excellency Mr Chen Yuming, the Chinese Defence Attaché Senior Colonel Zhou Ming, and Acting Commander Australian Fleet, Commodore Jonathan Mead AM, RAN.
The ships are making the four day port visit on their return to China from counter-piracy duties in the Gulf of Aden. During the visit, Chinese and Australian Naval representatives will take the opportunity to share lessons learnt during counter-piracy operations. China is an important partner for Australia in the region, with the two nations sharing a positive and constructive defence relationship.
1997 built Eurocopter AS.350 Squirrel HT.1 ZJ260 of the Defence Helicopter Flying School based at RAF Shawbury hover taxiing for departure from RAF Waddington in June 1997. The aircraft had only been delivered to the MoD some five days earlier (scanned photograph)
After many hard hours of marching, the soldiers get closer to their destination – Jerusalem. They will finish the last kilometers of their march in urban terrain.
At the end of the gruesome eight month training that recruits of the IDF’s Paratroopers Brigade have to complete their final challenge. Before the recruits will be fully fledged soldiers of the Paratrooper’s Brigade they have to finish their ‘Masa Kumta’, which translates to ‘Beret March’. This is an all night 90km march in full gear, through any kind of weather, at the end of which young Paratroopers receive their red berets. This signifies the end of their training and full admission to the active forces of the Paratrooper’s Brigade.
Photos:Israel Defence Force
Sunday 9th perfect day - Essaouira
Last day, and an arranged one. Bus picked us up at 6.45 for a 3 hr. drive to Essaouira!
3 stops on the way. Comfort stop, we walked up the road to take photos, stop to see goats climbing Argan trees, and an Argan oil women's co-op. We bought some expensive oil to work on my wrinkles and get rid some excess dirhams.
Passed through some lovely countryside as we climbed the hills from the coast and down valleys to the other side.
Essaouira is an attractive town with a defensive wall and a CLEAN fish port using mostly Small open fishing boats. Some huge waves were breaking over rocks and small islands just off the seafront.
Guided by our annoying Arab guide, we visited the fish port, walked along ancient streets by the wall and up to the ramparts. Looked inside a typical small Riad and stopped at a restaurant for lunch.
Roger ordered steak; Our meal took nearly 1 hr. to come; time that would have been much better spent looking round on our own.
A lovely town to come back to and have more of our own time.
Returned for dinner and enough time to pack
Amsterdam, 5 februari 2016 / Amsterdam 5th of Februari.
Minister van Defensie Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert en Frederica Mogherini tijdens de persconferentie in het Europagebouw.
Dutch minister of Defense Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert and Frederica Mogherini during the press conference in Amsterdam.
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MAJDAL SHAMS, ISRAEL - JUNE 06: Israeli soldiers operate along Israel's border with Syria a day after Pro-Palestinian demonstrators stormed a ceasefire line, on June 6, 2011 in Israel. Yesterday marked the 44th Anniversary of the 1967 Six Day War and saw Israeli troops opening fire on protestors from Syria who stormed the ceasefire line in the occupied Golan Heights. Syrian authorities claimed that 23 protestors were killed, a figure that the IDF called exaggerated.
The Irish Defence Forces parachute Team are made up exclusively of Defence Forces members who compete in international competitions and oversee parachute training, which is an essential military skill, within the Defence Forces. 16th June 2011
Caracal Battalion Train in the South
This week, the Caracal Battalion held company-wide exercises to train the male and female combat soldiers the best manner to deal with any scenario that may happen in order to maintain peace and security on the southern border.
Photo credits: Gil Kremer
Caracal Battalion Train in the South
This week, the Caracal Battalion held company-wide exercises to train the male and female combat soldiers the best manner to deal with any scenario that may happen in order to maintain peace and security on the southern border.
Photo credits: Gil Kremer
Reconnaissance Platoon Trains in combat
The Reconnaissance Platoon of the 601st Brigade is a small unit in the Combat Engineering Corps. Last week, they held an exercise in a densely wooded area, where they practiced combat fighting, reconnaissance and evacuating injured soldiers. They also practiced fighting underground. February 6, 2013
Photo by Sgt. Shay Wagner, IDF Spokesperson Unit.
Umbutfo Swaziland Defence Force's (USDF) Brig. Gen. T.G. Dlamini and Maj. Gen. Timothy Simelane are greeted by Charge d' Affairs American Embassy Sarah Morrison prior to MEDFLAG 09 exercise's opening ceremony at the USDF Headquarters in Manzini, Swaziland Aug. 3, 2009. U.S. Army Africa is conducting
MEDFLAG in partnership with the USDF in order to enhance disaster readiness and ability to work together in combined military operations.
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(Photo by Air Force Staff Sgt. Lesley Waters)
Irish Military Static Line Parachute Course
Members of the Irish Defence Force during the Military Static Line Parachute Course at the Defence Forces Training Centre – 29th March 2012
Photos: Sgt Paul Brady
Irish Military Static Line Parachute Course
Members of the Irish Defence Force during the Military Static Line Parachute Course at the Defence Forces Training Centre – 29th March 2012
Photos: Sgt Paul Brady
Irish Military Static Line Parachute Course
Members of the Irish Defence Force during the Military Static Line Parachute Course at the Defence Forces Training Centre – 29th March 2012
Photos: Sgt Paul Brady
The Chief of the Defence Staff, General Sir Nicholas Houghton meets Prime Minister and Defence Minister Yingluck Shinawatra at the
Government House.
Southern Botswana -- Maj. Gen. (NC) Greg Lusk, Adjutant General of the NCNG, speaks with Sgt. Maj. Jacob Sebeella the Non-Commissioned Officer in charge of this southern area of Botswana’s border operations. Lusk along with Maj. Gen. Edward Leacock of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Army Col Andrew Frank of the Theater Intelligence Group and Marine Col. Patrick Looney of AFRICOM’s Joint Operations Center who were in Botswana for several days in November to discuss the interrelation of military operations and military intelligence. The AFRICOM sponsored visit included an operational visit to BDF units in the field conducting security operations. After receiving an update brief the American delegation visited an outpost where Soldiers stand vigilant to interdict illegal activity. (US Army photo by Maj. Matt Handley, Office of Security Cooperation, Botswana, AFRICOM)
Irish Military Static Line Parachute Course
Members of the Irish Defence Force during the Military Static Line Parachute Course at the Defence Forces Training Centre – 29th March 2012
Photos: Sgt Paul Brady
Tryouts For Nahal's Special Forces
Fresh into the army, IDF soldiers tryout to become an elite soldier in Nahal's special unit, the Gadsar. Soldiers are put through a couple days of intense mental and physical exercises all while having no sense of time and when the tryouts will end. Commanders leading the tryouts refer to each soldier as a number. At the end of the tryouts, the commanders gather and choose the best for the Gadsar. November 28, 2012
Photo by Zev Marmorstein, IDF Spokesperson's Unit
Irish Military Static Line Parachute Course
Members of the Irish Defence Force during the Military Static Line Parachute Course at the Defence Forces Training Centre – 29th March 2012
Photos: Sgt Paul Brady
River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme.
These images were taken in the first week of November 2014.
There is a noticeable drop-off in the level of activity on this site now.
There's still some finishing touches to the river bed itself, cosmetic work along the riverbank sides, and a jig-saw pattern of large boulders placed in mid-stream.
The main (final) focus will be on completing the profiles to the sheet-steel wall, securing the structure with poured concrete, and then the completion with the pre-fabricated stone capping.
The majority of operatives who attended through the summer months have since moved on to other sites/tasks.
And we can see a slow repatriation of heavy-duty equipment back to base.
The guys are attached steel frames to the recess of the sheet-steel uprights, prior to filling with concrete.
There's still a surprising amount of intricate manual work involved in completing tasks -- machines can only do so much!