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Commissioned Officer Training School students take action in a simulated deployment scenario exercise at an Officer Training School complex at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., July 24, 2014. The exercise tested their leadership and decision-making skills as well as their contingency operations knowledge. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Natasha Stannard/Released)
MEDITERRANEAN SEA (July 12, 2017) A Boeing F/A-18E "Super Hornet" attached to the "Tomcatters" of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 31 launches from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). The ship and its carrier strike group are conducting naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe and Africa.
The Sikorsky SH-60/MH-60 Seahawk is a twin turboshaft engine, multi-mission United States Navy helicopter based on the airframe of the United States Army UH-60 Black Hawk and a member of the Sikorsky S-70 family.
The U.S. Navy uses the H-60 airframe under the model designations SH-60B, SH-60F, HH-60H, MH-60R, and MH-60S. Able to deploy aboard any air-capable frigate, destroyer, cruiser, fast combat support ship, amphibious assault ship, or aircraft carrier, the Seahawk can handle antisubmarine warfare (ASW), undersea warfare (USW), anti-surface warfare (ASUW), naval special warfare (NSW) insertion, search and rescue (SAR), combat search and rescue (CSAR), vertical replenishment (VERTREP), and medical evacuation (MEDEVAC). All Navy H-60s carry either the Lucas Western or Breeze Eastern rescue hoist for SAR/CSAR missions.
The MH-60R is designed to replace the SH-60Bs and SH-60Fs, and be a true multi-mission helicopter. Its sensors include the ASE package, MTS-FLIR, an advanced airborne fleet data link, and a more advanced airborne active sonar. It does not carry the MAD suite. Pilot instrumentation will be based on the MH-60S’s glass cockpit, using several digital monitors instead of the complex array of dials and gauges in Bravo and Foxtrot aircraft. Offensive capabilities are improved by the addition of new Mk-54 air-launched torpedoes and Hellfire missiles. All Helicopter Anti-Submarine Light (HSL) squadrons that receive the Romeo will be redesignated Helicopter Maritime Strike (HSM).
The Fleet Replacement Squadron (FRS), HSM-41, received the R-model aircraft in December 2005 and has begun training the first set of pilots. In 2007, the MH-60R successfully underwent final testing for incorporation into the fleet. As of August 2008, the first 11 combat-ready examples equipped HSM-71, a squadron assigned to the USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74). According to Lockheed Martin, "secondary missions include search and rescue, vertical replenishment, naval surface fire support, logistics support, personnel transport, medical evacuation and communications and data relay."
Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 41 (HSM 41) is the Navy’s Fleet Replacement Squadron dedicated to training new MH-60R pilots and aircrew. When commissioned on January 21, 1983, as Helicopter Anti-Submarine Light 41 (HSL-41) it was the Navy’s first Light Airborne Multi-Purpose System (LAMPS) MK III squadron and flew the Sikorsky SH-60B helicopter. HSL-41 trained pilots and aircrew for the west coast HSL squadrons in San Diego, Hawaii, and Japan.
The success of West Coast LAMPS detachments in the Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, and Arabian Gulf is a tribute to the quality of initial and follow-on training that has been the hallmark of HSM 41. As a result, the squadron was awarded the Meritorious Unit Commendation in 1985, 1988, 1991 and 2002.
On December 8th, 2006, HSL-41 changed its name from Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light 41 to Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 41. In February 2008, HSM 41 surpassed 140,000 flight hours without a major aircraft incident and celebrated its 25th anniversary. Since 1983, HSM 41 has trained over 3000 Fleet Replacement Pilots and Aircrew for service in LAMPS MK III and MH-60R fleet squadrons.
Cal is well known for advocating the PragProgrammer's one button deploy pattern. Now that we're exposing our deploys on code.flickr.com (look at the footer), I thought people might want some clarification on how it works.
When we say "one button", we actually mean a button. And this is that button.
A suicide bomber in Iraq injured Marine veteran Keith Buckmon, native of Capitol Heights, Md., in 2008, resulting in the complete reconstruction of both of his legs and his right arm using bone grafts and metal plates. Buckmon has also struggled with losing the Marines who died during the attack and battles the symptoms post-traumatic stress disorder every day. Now, Buckmon is an athlete in the 2013 Marine Corps Trials who competes in seated volleyball, wheelchair basketball, seated shot put and discus and shooting. Buckmon says his wife and two daughters, Damaris Buckmon, Iz'Abella Amaris Buckmon and Jy'Zella-leilani Grace Clark, are his motivation to keep pushing to get better because he strives to be a good husband and father. Buckmon has a tattoo on his shoulder that depicts a Purple Heart medal and the date he was injured. The Trials is an opportunity for wounded Marines, veterans and allies to compete in wheelchair basketball, sitting volleyball, track and field, swimming, archery and shooting. The top 50 athletes will go on to compete against wounded warriors from the other branches of military service at the Warrior Games in Colorado Springs, Colo., in May.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Tyler L. Main)
LCPL C Perana calls out fire instructions during the live fire attack on Exercise Alam Halfa, Waiouru
Exercise Alam Halfa - May 2014
With all guns blazing the New Zealand Army has embarked on one of its biggest exercises of the year at Waiouru Military Camp.
Exercise Alam Halfa involves artillery, gunnery and engineers plus combat support units to train jointly with the Royal New Zealand Air Force, to synchronise effort and resources and show agility and adaptability for future combat environments. There are also a small group of US Army and US Marines taking part.
The exercise scenario involves the troops aiming to restore peace between two fictitious nations Bekara and Alpiria, following on from previous exercises such as Southern Katipo in the South Island last year.
As well as training at Waiouru troops are also deployed around the Bay of Plenty and - later on - will deploy to Hawkes Bay where the training scenarios will mean they will be more visible to the general public when they conduct street patrols.
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With the deployment of Earth's Bifrost orbital ring, Mars' Beanstalk space elevator and the Moon's magnetic catapult, the System's logistics are vastly easier and cheaper than in the old days of the dawn of the true Space Age, when expensive and fuel-inefficient chemical rockets were needed to lift payloads into orbit. However, the far-flung nature of the System means that there are plenty of planetside or moonside colonies and outposts which lack such massive infrastructure investments but do have significant gravity wells to climb out of.
The LL-218 Patrick Moore-class of autonomous cargo lifter are one of the primary solutions in use in the System.
A simple reusable nuclear-thermal rocket able to take off and land vertically from a gravity well up to 2/3 Earth standard (or approximately twice Martian gravity), the Patrick Moore rockets are sufficiently efficient that quite a large payload can be lifted for a relatively small fuel mass, and sufficiently flexible in their basing requirements that even the smallest outposts can throw together landing and refueling stations.
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A desperately simple model, but I'm quite pleased with the fact that I can now tile a whole 20x20 square and make a semi-decent small landing pad.
Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, meets with deployed Sailors and Marines aboard the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) in the Arabian Gulf, Dec. 23, 2018. Dunford, along with USO entertainers, visited service members who are away from home during the holidays at various locations. This year’s entertainers include actors Milo Ventimiglia, Wilmer Valderrama, DJ J Dayz, Fittest Man on Earth Matt Fraser, 3-time Olympic Gold Medalist Shaun White, Country Music Singer Kellie Pickler, and comedian Jessiemae Peluso. (DoD photo by Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Dominique A. Pineiro)
Caption: KITGUM, Uganda, Oct 20 -- Pfc. Kendra Hinds, a medic deployed to Uganda with the Army Reserve's 7225th Medical Support Unit (MSU) searches for a vein in order to give a patient an IV. The expectant mother arrived at the Pajimo Clinic in the north of Uganda and delivered a healthy baby boy about 90 minutes later. (Photo credit Maj. Corey Schultz, Army Reserve Communications.)
Full Story:
Army Reserve Nurse Delivers Baby in Rural Uganda
By Maj.Corey Schultz, U.S. Army Reserve Command
KITGUM, Uganda -- When 1st Lt. Victoria Lynn Watson deployed to Uganda for Natural Fire 10, she never imagined using her labor and delivery nursing skills during the exercise.
But when a Ugandan woman, Linda, arrived in labor at Pajimo medical clinic, where the Army Reserve's 7225th Medical Support Unit was partnering with East African medics to offer healthcare to the Kitgum community, Watson sprang into action.
She checked her watch. It was nearly 2:30 pm when medics hurried the 19-year-old expectant mother from the clinic gates where hundreds had gathered to receive care.
During the 10-day exercise, the medics run a daily clinic to treat upwards of 700 Ugandans a day for ailments such as arthritis, minor wounds, skin infections --and dental and optometry care. Soldiers from Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya and Burundi are working alongside U.S. troops on medical, dental and engineering projects in the Kitgum region. Meanwhile, each nation is also taking part in security training and a simulated disaster relief exercise.
While pregnancy was not a planned treatment, the Pajimo clinic staffs a midwife and Watson was eager to assist. If the U.S. Army Reserve officer were back home in Abilene, Texas, she would do the same.
"This is what I do. I'm a labor and delivery nurse in my civilian job," Watson said, hurrying past Ugandan families clutching medicines and awaiting dental checks, "This is what I live for."
Watson serves with the 7231st Medical Support Unit in Lubbock, Texas, but volunteered to augment the 7225th for Uganda.
Once in the clinics maternity ward, Watson and Pfc. Kendra Hinds, a U.S. Army Reserve medic from Lubbock, Texas, joined Stella, the Ugandan midwife. Stella asked the lieutenant to work with her to deliver the child.
Stella and her Ugandan assistant prepared the delivery room. Watson's examined the woman - nine centimeters and having contractions. Her watch read 3 p.m.
Hinds never helped a woman give birth. So, Watson talked her through the exam as they felt the mother's stomach to see where the baby was.
"You can feel the contractions," Watson said to Hines. "Her sides and belly get hard. Feel here...that's the head. It's in the right place, that's good. The baby is aligned right."
The midwife, Stella Betty Lamono – who goes by Stella, produced a Pinnard Horn - a wooden listening device not often seen in America that is used to hear the baby's heartbeat. Watson and Hinds took turns listening.
Then Stella posed a question.
"You are delivering," Stella said. "You should name the baby."
"OK, I'll name the baby," Watson said, in a light-hearted way. "How about, let's see...Gracie for a girl? Yes, I like Gracie."
"And a boy?" asked Stella.
"Okay, for a boy...Cage. I like Cage."
Stella translated. The mother smiled, amused despite her obvious discomfort. It was nearly 3:30 p.m., the baby was coming but the delivery team still had things to do. They tried to start an intravenous drip.
There was a problem, they couldn't find a vein. They spoke with the mother and found she had not eaten anything for two days.
"She's dehydrated, she needs something with sugar," Watson said.
Soldiers offered sweet powdered drink pack from their daily rations - MRE's, such as lemon-flavored ice tea and a lemon-lime electrolyte drinks.
Watson stirred each drink in a green plastic cup and gave it to the mother, who drank thirstily.
The team then found a vein for an IV, the mother tried to relax. From time to time, she would lift a pink curtain and gaze through the window into the dusty yard. Things quieted.
Meanwhile, her sister arranged swaddling clothes on the receiving table at the other side of the room.
"How many weeks is she?" Hinds asked.
"Thirty-eight," Stella said, confidently.
Ugandan midwives determine the duration of the pregnancy by feeling the stomach for the size of the baby's head versus the height of the fundus -- how high the uterus has pressed upwards into the diaphragm.
"This is amazing," Watson said. "In the States, doctors run a sonogram over the belly, ask for the date of the last menstrual period, and go from there. We learn the 'old school' way, but we never actually do it like Stella has."
Certified Ugandan midwifes attend a three-year school, Stella said, herself a midwife with seven years experience who delivers up to 28 babies each month -- often in rural clinics.
The contractions continued. The mother remained stoic despite the lack of any pain medicine. Sweat beaded on her face, veins throbbed along her neck. She would lay calm more moments, the moan softly and slap the nearby wall. Hinds grabbed a cloth and patted her face and held her hands through contractions.
"Most girls in the States would be yelling and hollering by now," Watson said.
Unlike in the States, the clinic had no monitors, electrical gadgetry or air conditioning. It did have clean water, sterilized equipment and a trained midwife, plus her U.S. counterparts.
It was around 4 p.m., when the mother groaned and slapped the wall again.
"She's in second stage," Watson said. "All she has to do now is push."
A few minutes passed, the mother began to push – Hinds held her hand and continued to comfort her. Then came a loud cry from a healthy baby boy. It was 4:30 p.m.
Watson wiped him down. He waved his tiny hands and stared around the room with large, alert eyes. Stella tied up the stump of the umbilical cord
"You delivered the baby, what name did you pick for a baby boy,” Stella said, reminding Watson.
“Cage," Watson replied. "But I can't name her baby. It's her baby!"
Hinds placed the infant into his mother's arms. The new mom smiled.
"What is she going to name him?" Watson asked. Stella translated. The mother answered --and Stella began to laugh.
"What did she say?" Watson asked.
"She decided she liked the name you picked," Stella said. "She named her little boy 'Cage'."
Outside, U.S. and East African medics were closing up for the day, handing out the final doses of vitamins and routine medications, when they learned the good news. An officer took out the records reflecting the number of people treated, changing 714 to 715, to add Cage - Kitgum's newest resident.
"It's pretty amazing there's a little one out here that I named and that I helped bring into this world," Watson said. "Pretty amazing."
To learn more about United States Army Africa or Natural Fire 10, visit us online at www.usaraf.army.mil
The Enrai is an electronic warfare jet developed in Japan and deployed ahead of schedule due to the Japanese Insurgencies. Many suck quirks have been worked out in the B variant since then. There is a Jammer and Reconnaissance UAV that detaches from the underbelly of the jet. The WSO’s are capable of controlling and looking through the cameras of the UAV.
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ARABIAN SEA (June 30, 2019) Aviation Structural Mechanic Airman David Lau, from Mobile, Ala., plays the guitar during a church service held in the forecastle of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations in support of naval operations to ensure maritime stability and security in the Central Region, connecting the Mediterranean and the Pacific through the western Indian Ocean and three strategic choke points. With Abraham Lincoln as the flagship, deployed strike group assets include staffs, ships and aircraft of Carrier Strike Group 12 (CSG 12), Destroyer Squadron 2 (DESRON 2), USS Leyte Gulf (CG 55) and Carrier Air Wing 7 (CVW 7). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Tristan Kyle Labuguen/Released)
U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visit a site in southern Israel where the U.S. European Command (EUCOM) deployed a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system, March 6, 2019.
Arizona Army National Guard Sgt. Cynthia Hernandez, an aircraft structural repairer in Company B, 640th Aviation Support Battalion, 40th Combat Aviation Brigade, works on an AH-64 Apache helicopter at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, March 27, 2016. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Ian Kummer)
FWC Division of Law Enforcement storm response Hurricane Harvey; August 28, 2017.
FWC photo by Robert Klepper
FWC Division of Law Enforcement storm response Hurricane Harvey; August 28, 2017.
FWC photo by Shanna Chatraw
Staff deploy weighted recycled Christmas trees to create fish habitat in Wye Mills Lake, winter 2020.
Iron Man Mark VII Stealth mode version
Codice Ufficiale HT MMS282
Anno di Produzione 2015
Licenza Marvel
Scala 1/6
Misure 30,48 cm
Peso 1,36 kg
Punti di Articolazione 36
Caratteristiche Speciali Asian Limited Edition
The 1/6th scale Mark VII (Stealth Mode Version) Collectible Figure specially features:
- Authentic and detailed likeness of Mark VII in stealth mode
- Specially applied multiple layers and shades of metallic and matte black-colored painting with digital camouflage design on armor
- Translucent black removable chest armor and articulated flaps on back of legs
- Approximately 30 cm tall
- Over 30 points of articulations
- LED-lighted eyes and circle-shaped Arc Reactor on chest (white light, battery operated)
- Stark Industries decals on various parts of the armor
- One (1) pair of interchangeable forearm rockets
- One (1) pair of interchangeable wrist guards for posing with repulsor firing palms
- Three (3) pairs of interchangeable palms including:
- One (1) pair with movable fingers and light-up repulsors (white light, battery operated)
- One (1) pair of fists
- One (1) pair of repulsor firing palms with light-up function (white light, battery operated)
- Two (2) sets of interchangeable shoulder armors (normal & missile styles)
- Articulations on waist armor which allow flexible movement
- Fully deployable air flaps on the back of the armor
Accessory:
- Specially designed dynamic figure stand with Mark VII nameplate and movie logo
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I photographed a very special family farewelling their sailor husband/father for a 6 month deployment to the Middle East. So much emotion, such a beautiful family! The countdown is on for his return in March when I'll be back to capture all the joy.
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Patrick D. Spivey, a military working dog handler from Antelope, Calif., teamed with Bodro, a 2-year-old Belgian Malinois, attached to Task Force Currhaee, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, to run through patrol and attack drills at Bagram Air Field Dec. 16, 2010. The dog team trains regularly to maintain readiness for when the skill may be called upon to save lives. (Courtesy photo)
PHILIPPINE SEA (June 18, 2020) Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) 1st Class Tony Malone, from Munford, Tennessee, performs safety checks on an F/A-18E Super Hornet, attached to the Eagles of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 115, on the flight deck of the Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), ensuring aircraft readiness during flight operations. Ronald Reagan, the flagship of Carrier Strike Group 5, provides a combat-ready force that protects and defends the collective maritime interests of its allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Erica Bechard)
VARPALOTA TRAINING AREA, Hungary - A pair of CV90 Infantry Fighting Vehicles from the 11th Royal Netherlands Army Maneuver Brigade deploy smoke grenades during Exercise Saker Falcon 2014 here, April 2.Saker Falcon is a multinational training exercise involving roughly 200 Soldiers from U.S. Army Europe's 12th Combat Aviation Brigade, two Dutch Air Assault battalions, and Hungarian military forces. The objectives of the training include enhancing joint combined interoperability with allied and partner nations and preparing participants to operate in a joint, multinational, integrated environment with support from Hungarian governmental agencies. Saker Falcon, underway from April 3 through April 17, reinforces U.S. Army Europe's strategic objectives to increase regional flexibility, preserve and enhance NATO interoperability, and facilitate multinational training. (U.S. Army Europe photo by Spc. Joshua Leonard)
FWC Division of Law Enforcement storm response Hurricane Harvey; August 29, 2017.
FWC photo by Robert Klepper
Testing the deployment of the Sentinel-1A radar antenna in the cleanroom at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France, on 21 January 2014. As the satellite is designed to operate in orbit, it is hung from a structure during tests to simulate weightlessness.
Credits: ESA–M. Pedoussaut, 2014
Soldiers from U.S. Army Europe's 5th Battalion, 7th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command, board a plane at Ramstein Air Base, Germany Dec. 2 to start an expected yearlong deployment to Turkey. The air defenders are headed to the Turkish city of Gazantiep, where they will replace the 3rd Battalion, 2nd ADA from Fort Sill, Okla., in fulfilling the U.S. commitment to a NATO mission to augment Turkish air defenses. Batteries from NATO allies Germany and the Netherlands are also taking part in the mission, which began last December, from bases at other sites in Turkey. (Photo by Sgt. Dan Cole)