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September 24 1944 somewhere in Holland
Finally some more reinforcements…
The last 8 days where pure hell for me and the rest…
I made this in respect for the people how lost there life’s in operation market garden.
Because Operation Market Graden was happening now 67 years ago.
A Sunwing passenger jet (SW703) traveling from Barkley Island to Victoria was hijacked by two gunmen from the Samedi Gang.
After two weeks of neogiation, an exchange of food and water for hostages, and the indication that the gunmen had a remote control, possibly a trigger for a bomb onboard, the Government of Victoria approved a hostage rescue and Team 7 of the National Mission Unit was deployed.
Just at dawn, snipers from Team 7 established an over-watch. Approaching from the plane's blind spot, the assault team also moved into position.
To be continued...
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
One of the former operation rooms in Pripyat hospital. Operating lights and medication are all that remain here....Did the workers and firemen after the Chernobyl Disaster pass through here those fateful hours and days after the explosion?
A Victorian special operations task force was assigned to ambush an exchange of radioactive material and capture a high value individual (HVI) codename Panther, a Russian arms dealer. Although Team 8 form the task force has setup an ambush to intercept the radioactive material and capture Panther, the arms dealer arrived at the exchange in a BTR armored personnel carrier along with a Russian Spetsnaz unit. A strategic decision was made for Team 8 to stand down, fearing a direct engagement with Russian troops.
Although Panther was allowed to escape, the task force had a "bump plan" to intercept the radioactive material. The Advanced Force Operations teams continued to track the vehicles carrying the radioactive material. As the vehicles entered the Great Desert, Team 7 performed a heliborne interception.
Team 7 successfully intercepted the two vehicles and the two insurgents immediately surrended. The team also captured the radioactive material. Once the team had secured the radioactive material, the entire task force exfil from the area.
Based on the gear, weapons, and movement of the Spetsnaz unit, the task force believed that it was a top tier unit. The fact that Panther was under the close protection of a top tier unit at the exchange, intelligence believed that Panther is not merely a Russian arms dealer but a Russian intelligence agent. Although the TF did not capture Panther at the exchange, it did further the CATF’s understanding of his role. The TF also successfully prevented radioactive material to fall into the hands of the insurgents and prevented their plot in building dirty bombs threatening Victoria and her allies. The mission was deemed a success.
- The End -
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
A Victorian special operations task force was assigned to ambush an exchange of radioactive material and capture a high value individual (HVI) codename Panther, a Russian arms dealer.
Since the exchange would take place in an area within the Russian sphere of influence, no ISR or air asset would be available. The plan was to insert reconnaissance teams before the exchange to perform advanced force operations (AFO) and to provide overwatch during the exchange. An assault team would then enter the area of operations (AO) by high altitude high opening (HAHO) insertion and setup an ambush at the exchange.
A ground extraction team will infiltrate the AO by vehicles (including HMMWVs and Grizzly LAVs) under the guise of a routine patrol to extract the assault team once the radioactive material and the HVI have been secured.
The remaining of the task force would be the quick reaction force (QRF) loaded in helicopters waiting at a forward operating base (FOB) and called upon if needed.
A 6-man team from the Deep Reconnaissance Platoon (callsign Talon-2-1) was tasked with route reconnaissance to ensure the ground convoy has a safe route for insertion and extraction.
To be continued...
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
During Operation Blue Moon www.flickr.com/photos/8212187@N05/49182441817/in/datepost..., the Combined Anti-Terrorism Task Force (CATF) captured an Al-Asad financier. Interrogation of the financier revealed that they were in the process of purchasing radioactive material from Panther (a Russian arms dealer name Ulysses Klaue) as the terror group planned to build several dirty bombs to target Victoria, United States and the United Kingdom. He could not provide further details on the location of Panther, but the TF believed the plan was derailed with his capture. The financier, however, did revealed the location of several high value individuals in the network. The CATF began to surveil these individuals.
Several months later, the CATF captured a high value individual through the intelligence obtained from the financier. The HVI confirmed that Al-Asad did indeed had plans to obtain radioactive materials to build several dirty bombs and the plans became dormant since the capture of the financier. However, the plot had recently been revived. Further, the HVI provided the TF with the location where the terror group will be receiving the materials from Panther. The exchange would occur in an area within the Russian sphere of influence and Panther himself would be at the exchange. However, according to the HVI, security would be light since they wanted to avoid drawing any attention at the exchange. It was expected that they would be traveling in civilian vehicles.
The intelligence was shared among allied nations. After a discussion at the highest Government level, it was decided that CATF would be assigned to capture both the radioactive material and the HVT Panther.
A Victorian special operations task force was assigned with the operation. To keep the operation a secret, a task force out of rotation was assigned. After receiving their orders from the Squadron HQ's SCIF, the team commanders immediately gave Warning Orders to their team members and made preparations to depart for Camp Oasis.
To be continued...
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
The Night Watch is a 1642 painting by Rembrandt van Rijn. It is in the collection of the Amsterdam Museum but is prominently displayed in the Rijksmuseum as the best known painting in its collection. The Night Watch is one of the most famous Dutch Golden Age paintings.
The painting is famous for three things: its colossal size (363 cm × 437 cm (11.91 ft × 14.34 ft)), the dramatic use of light and shadow (tenebrism) and the perception of motion in what would have traditionally been a static military group portrait. The painting was completed in 1642, at the peak of the Dutch Golden Age. It depicts the eponymous company moving out, led by Captain Frans Banninck Cocq (dressed in black, with a red sash) and his lieutenant, Willem van Ruytenburch (dressed in yellow, with a white sash). With effective use of sunlight and shade, Rembrandt leads the eye to the three most important characters among the crowd: the two men in the centre (from whom the painting gets its original title), and the woman in the centre-left background carrying a chicken. Behind them, the company's colours are carried by the ensign, Jan Visscher Cornelissen. The figures are almost life-size.
Operation Night Watch will be the biggest and most wide-ranging research and conservation project in the history of Rembrandt’s masterpiece. The goal of Operation Night Watch is the long-term preservation of the painting. The entire operation will take place in a specially designed glass chamber so the visiting public can watch.
The Night Watch will be scanned millimetre by millimetre using a macro X-ray fluorescence scanner (macro-XRF scanner). This instrument uses X-rays to analyse the different chemical elements in the paint, such as calcium, iron, potassium and cobalt. From the resulting distribution maps of the various chemical elements in the paint it is possible to determine which pigments were used. The macro-XRF scans can also reveal underlying changes in the composition, offering insights into Rembrandt's painting process. To scan the entire surface of the The Night Watch it will be necesary to make 56 scans, each one of which will take 24 hours.
Operations image of the week:
This vivid image shows China’s space station Tiangong-1 – the name means ‘heavenly palace’ – and was captured by French astrophotographer Alain Figer on 27 November 2017. It was taken from a ski area in the Hautes-Alpes region of southeast France as the station passed overhead near dusk.
The station is seen at lower right as a white streak, resulting from the exposure of several seconds, just above the summit of the snowy peak of Eyssina (2837 m altitude). Several artefacts in the original have been removed.
Tiangong-1 is 12 m long with a diameter of 3.3 m and had a launch mass of 8506 kg. It has been unoccupied since 2013 and there has been no contact with it since 2016.
The craft is now at about 280 km altitude in an orbit that will inevitably decay some time in March–April 2018, when it is expected to mostly burn up in the atmosphere.
“Owing to the geometry of the orbit, we can already exclude the possibility that any fragments will fall over any spot further north than 43ºN or further south than 43ºS,” says Holger Krag, head of ESA’s Space Debris Office.
“This means that reentry may take place over any spot on Earth between these latitudes, which includes several European countries, for example.”
“The date, time and geographic footprint can only be predicted with large uncertainties. Even shortly before reentry, only a very large time and geographical window can be estimated.”
The station’s mass and construction materials mean there is a possibility that some portions of it will survive and reach the ground.
In the history of spaceflight, no casualties from falling space debris have ever been confirmed.
ESA is hosting a test campaign to follow the reentry, which will be conducted by the Inter Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee, a grouping of the world’s top space agencies including ESA, NASA and the China National Space Administration.
Credit: A. Figer. Used by permission.
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More images from Alain Figer
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Rail Operations Group/ Europhoenix Class 37 37884 and Class 47 47848 accelerate through Stourbridge Junction with the 13:15 (7 late) Matlock Peak Rail to Worcester Shrub Hill "The Lickey Incline II".
A Victorian special operations task force was assigned to ambush an exchange of radioactive material and capture a high value individual (HVI) codename Panther, a Russian arms dealer. Although Team 8 form the task force has setup an ambush to intercept the radioactive material and capture Panther, the arms dealer arrived at the exchange in a BTR armored personnel carrier along with a Russian Spetsnaz unit. A strategic decision was made for Team 8 to stand down, fearing a direct engagement with Russian troops.
Although Panther was allowed to escape, the task force had a "bump plan" to intercept the radioactive material. The Advanced Force Operations teams continued to track the vehicles carrying the radioactive material. As the vehicles entered the Great Desert, Team 7 performed a heliborne interception.
Did Team 7 capture the radioactive material? To be continued...
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
A Victorian special operations task force was assigned to ambush an exchange of radioactive material and capture a high value individual (HVI) codename Panther, a Russian arms dealer. Although Team 8 form the task force has setup an ambush to intercept the radioactive material and capture Panther, the arms dealer arrived at the exchange in a BTR armored personnel carrier along with a Russian Spetsnaz unit. A strategic decision was made for Team 8 to stand down, fearing a direct engagement with Russian troops.
Although Panther was allowed to escape, the task force had a "bump plan" to intercept the radioactive material. The Advanced Force Operations teams continued to track the vehicles carrying the radioactive material. As the vehicles entered the Great Desert, Team 7 performed a heliborne interception.
Did Team 7 capture the radioactive material? To be continued...
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
A task force was assaulting a cave complex and just as the operators made entry, a loud burst of machine gun fire came from a bunker inside the cave. The operators immediately got to cover. As a steady sound of gunfire streamed from the cave, the task force commander radioed the SBF position for support.
The SBF fired a bunker defeat munition and quickly destroyed the machine gun emplacement, clearing the way for the assault team to make entry.
To be continued...
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
A direct action team from the Combined Anti-Terrorism Task Force was tasked to intercept a container truck after a surveillance team witnessed an exchange between an insurgent lieutenant and a courier of a known arms dealer at a shipping container port. An 8-man team launched from two MH-6 helicopters and caught up with the container truck after it moved away from densely populated area.
The team performed an heliborne vehicle interdiction and quickly captured the insurgent lieutenant.
To be continued...
February 2014. Due to flooding along the Godstone Road into Purley, the 412 was instead diverted to Purley station forecourt. Here we see Y496UGC (DLA296) recently transferred to Croydon arriving at this temporary terminus. This vehicle has since been withdrawn from operation in London
A Victorian special operations task force was assigned to ambush an exchange of radioactive material and capture a high value individual (HVI) codename Panther, a Russian arms dealer.
The teams in the TF were assigned with different tasks. Team 8: the assault team, Team 55: the extraction team, and Team 7: the Quick Reaction Force (QRF). Video links with the Task Force's TOC, Victoria’s National Command Centre (NCC), United States’ Situation Room and United Kingdom’s COBRA were also setup to monitor the mission on the day of the exchange.
As the assault team patrol to the exchange site after being inserted into the AO by high altitude high opening (HAHO) insertion and the extraction team arrived at the rendezvous point, the QRF pre-positioned at FOB Spade ready to react.
To be continued...
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
Metra's Operation North Pole trainset arrives into Des Plaines, IL with a inbound train. It was cool to finally catch this fully wrapped train, and on Christmas Eve to boot!
A CC-130 Hercules carrying supplies for Operation PRESENCE - Mali lands at the airfield in Gao, Mali on July 10, 2018.
Photo: MCpl Jennifer Kusche
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Operation AVRO is a forcewide initiative that delivers a surge of extra resources and specialist officers to a different district within Greater Manchester each month.
This month (June 2022) saw the operation take place in Bolton.
The operation targets crimes that members of the public in that district have told us give them the most concern.
Members of the press and key partners, including local representatives, are invited to attend Operation AVRO deployments to see results first-hand and conduct important multi-agency work, such as welfare visits.
More details on AVRO can be found by visiting gmp.police.uk and following us on social media.
You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
You can access many of our services online at www.gmp.police.uk
A Polish Armed Forces soldier trains a Ukrainian soldier in operating a Leopard 2A4 main battle tank at the driving circuit during Operation UNIFIER in south-western Poland, on February 20, 2023.
Photo by Corporal Marco Tijam, Operation UNIFIER, Canadian Armed Forces Photo
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Un soldat des forces armées polonaises donne de l’instruction à un soldat ukrainien sur la conduite d’un char de combat principal Leopard 2A4 sur le circuit de conduite au cours de l’opération UNIFIER, dans le sud ouest de la Pologne, le 20 février 2023.
Photo : Caporal Marco Tijam, opération UNIFIER, Forces armées canadiennes
A Victorian special operations task force was assigned to ambush an exchange of radioactive material and capture a high value individual (HVI) codename Panther, a Russian arms dealer.
The teams in the TF were assigned with different tasks. Team 8: the assault team, Team 55: the extraction team, and Team 7: the Quick Reaction Force (QRF). Video links with the Task Force's TOC, Victoria’s National Command Centre (NCC), United States’ Situation Room and United Kingdom’s COBRA were also setup to monitor the mission on the day of the exchange.
After conducting a high altitude high opening (HAHO) insertion, the assault team successfully infiltrated into the AO undetected and setup an ambush at the exchange site. Initially things seemed to be going according to plan as only two insurgents arrived at the exchange in two vehicles. However, Panther arrived at the exchange in a BTR armored personnel carrier along with a Russian Spetsnaz Unit. The assault team immediately radioed the TOC for instructions.
Will the assault team get the authorization to engage? To be continued...
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
A surveillance team tasked to surveil an insurgent lieutenant followed him to a seafood restaurant in a major port city for the region. The lieutenant was seen meeting with a courier of a known arms dealer. The team continued to follow the lieutenant and began surveillance operation on the courier.
Intelligence assessed that a weapons exchange was imminent. A team from the Combined Anti-terrorism Task Force was forward deployed to the region.
While waiting for the target package, the team enjoyed some rare downtime.
To be continued...
Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 Hornet pilots prepare to taxi out on a combat training flight during Operation REASSURANCE - Air Task Force Romania at Mihail Kogӑlniceanu Air Base, Romania, October 19, 2020.
Photo by: S1 Zach Barr, Air Task Force Romania
Des pilotes de chasseur CF-18 Hornet de l’Aviation royale canadienne affectés à la Force opérationnelle aérienne de l’opération REASSURANCE – Roumanie, s’apprêtent à effectuer un vol d’entraînement au combat, à la base aérienne Mihail Kogӑlniceanu, en Roumanie, le Romania, le 19 octobre 2020.
Photo : Mat 1 Zach Barr, Force opérationnelle aérienne – Roumanie
Royal Canadian Air Forces (RCAF) members conduct a jettison flare shoot with HMCS WINNIPEG's CH-148 Cyclone helicopter during Operation PROJECTION-NEON on 22 September 2020.
Photo: Sailor 1st Class Valerie LeClair, MARPAC Imaging Services
Des membres de l’Aviation royale canadienne (ARC) effectuent un tir de fusées éclairantes avec l’hélicoptère CH-148 Cyclone du NCSM WINNIPEG au cours de l’opération PROJECTION-NEON, le 22 septembre 2020.
Photo : Matelot de 1re classe Valerie LeClair, Services d’imagerie des FMAR(P)
US Naval Ship SUPPLY (centre) conducts a replenishment at sea with HMCS MONTREAL (bottom), and USS GONZALEZ (top), in the Mediterranean Sea during Operation REASSURANCE on February 15, 2022.
Please credit: Corporal Braden Trudeau, Canadian Armed Forces photo
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L’US Naval Ship (USNS) Supply (au centre) effectue un ravitaillement en mer avec le NCSM Montréal (en bas) et l’USS Gonzalez (en haut) dans la mer Méditerranée au cours de l’opération REASSURANCE, le 15 février 2022.
Photo : Caporal Braden Trudeau, photo des Forces armées canadiennes
Today (10 December 2015) saw a series of raids in the Wythenshawe area.
Police have launched a ’12 days of Christmas’ pre-emptive strike against offenders causing misery during the festive period.
The 12 high-profile days of action which will tackle the traditional spike in crime usually seen during this time of year.
The operation, which is codenamed ‘Bauble’, will see up to 1,000 officers take to the streets across Greater Manchester to disrupt criminal activity and stop offenders in their tracks.
Operation Bauble will target a range of offences including burglary, domestic abuse, robbery, handling stolen goods, dangerous and illegal driving and alcohol-fuelled violence.
Local officers will be joined by specialist resources during each of the 12 days, including traffic, tactical aid, ANPR, intercept teams, mounted and dog units. The teams will blitz areas and weed out individual’s intent on committing crime and preying on vulnerable people.
Police are also calling on communities to keep themselves and others safe, report crime and suspicious activity and look out for neighbours, relatives and friends.
Superintendent Craig Thompson said: “We want law-abiding people to remember Christmas for all the right reasons and to make sure this happens we’ll be doing everything we can to take offenders off our streets through Operation Bauble.
“Divisional officers with the support of specialist resources will be targeting local issues to ensure there isn’t a spike in crime and people can go about their daily business safely.
“The community can also do their bit to keep themselves and others safe this time of year by keeping their homes secure, arranging a safe mode of transport after a night out or checking on elderly neighbours to see if they are OK.”
To report crime call Greater Manchester Police on 101 or 999 in an emergency. Alternatively please contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 111 555.
Keep up-to-date with news from the Operation Bauble Team by following #OpBauble and #GMPChristmas on Twitter.
Members of the Canadian Armed Forces take their post as part of Exercise Crystal Arrow during Operation REASSURANCE at Camp Adazi, Latvia on March 22, 2023.
Photo: Canadian Armed Forces Photo
Des membres des Forces armées canadiennes sont en position au cours de l’exercice Crystal Arrow dans le cadre de l’opération REASSURANCE, au Camp Adazi, en Lettonie, le 22 mars 2023.
Photo : Forces armées canadiennes
Operation PRESENCE-Mali's Force Protection team assists a simulated casualty during a combat casualty exercise in Mali on December 17, 2018.
Photo: Corporal Ken Beliwicz
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During Operation Blue Moon www.flickr.com/photos/8212187@N05/49182441817/in/datepost..., the Combined Anti-Terrorism Task Force (CATF) captured an Al-Asad financier. Interrogation of the financier revealed that they were in the process of purchasing radioactive material from Panther (a Russian arms dealer name Ulysses Klaue) as the terror group planned to build several dirty bombs to target Victoria, United States and the United Kingdom. He could not provide further details on the location of Panther, but the TF believed the plan was derailed with his capture. The financier, however, did revealed the location of several high value individuals in the network. The CATF began to surveil these individuals.
Several months later, the CATF captured a high value individual through the intelligence obtained from the financier. The HVI confirmed that Al-Asad did indeed had plans to obtain radioactive materials to build several dirty bombs and the plans became dormant since the capture of the financier. However, the plot had recently been revived. Further, the HVI provided the TF with the location where the terror group will be receiving the materials from Panther. The exchange would occur in an area within the Russian sphere of influence and Panther himself would be at the exchange. However, according to the HVI, security would be light since they wanted to avoid drawing any attention at the exchange. It was expected that they would be traveling in civilian vehicles.
The intelligence was shared among allied nations. After a discussion at the highest Government level, it was decided that CATF would be assigned to capture both the radioactive material and the HVT Panther.
A Victorian special operations task force was assigned with the operation. To keep the operation a secret, a task force out of rotation was assigned. After receiving their orders from the Squadron HQ's SCIF, the team commanders immediately gave Warning Orders to their team members and made preparations to depart for Camp Oasis.
To be continued...
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
A Sunwing passenger jet (SW703) traveling from Barkley Island to Victoria was hijacked by two gunmen from the Samedi Gang.
After two weeks of neogiation, an exchange of food and water for hostages, and the indication that the gunmen had a remote control, possibly a trigger for a bomb onboard, the Government of Victoria approved a hostage rescue and Team 7 of the National Mission Unit was deployed.
Just at dawn, snipers from Team 7 established an over-watch. Approaching from the plane's blind spot, the assault team also moved into position. The breacher carefully placed an explosive charge on the door.
To be continued...
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
Her Majesty's Canadian Ship MONCTON sits at anchor in Pond Inlet, Nunavut during Operation QIMMIQ on August 21, 2015.
Photo: Corporal Felicia Ogunniya, 12 Wing Imaging Services
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Le Navire canadien de Sa Majesté MONCTON est à l’ancre à Pond Inlet, au Nunavut, au cours de l’opération QIMMIQ, le 21 août 2015.
Photo : Caporal Felicia Ogunniya, Services d’imagerie de la 12e Escadre
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A special operations forces team is tasked to intercept a convoy heading to a terrorist cell. The convoy is carrying a crate containing VX nerve gas. The team's objective is to ambush the convoy and retrieve the crate of VX gas.
The team ambushing the convoy.
Part five of Operation Alcatraz.
A CF-18 "Hornet" escorts a CC-150 "Polaris" after being refueled during Operation IMPACT on February 4, 2015.
Arriva Guildford & West Surrey no 3977 (GN07 AVT)
ADL Enviro 200
Route 465
Kingston upon Thames
10th October 2007
Arriva Guildford & West Surrey had taken over the residual Horsham operations of Arriva West Sussex in March 2007, and in June assumed operation of TfL route 465, running it from Horsham. However, this proved to be short-lived, as Arriva sold the Horsham operation, including the 465, to Metrobus in October 2009.
Date Taken: March 12, 2017
Basic Details:
Operator: JAM Liner, Inc.
Fleet Number: 1223
Classification: Air-Conditioned Provincial Operation Bus
Seating Configuration: 2x2 Seats
Seating Capacity: 45 Passengers
Body:
Coachbuilder: Sta. Rosa Motor Works, Inc.
Body Model: Sta. Rosa DaewooBus BF106
Chassis:
Chassis Model: Daewoo BF106
Layout: Front-Longitudinally-Mounted Engine Rear-Wheel Drive
Suspension: Leaf Springs Suspension
Engine:
Engine Model: Doosan DE08TIS
Cylinder Displacement: 8.1 Liters
Cylinder Configuration: Straight-6
Engine Aspiration: Turbocharged & Intercooled
Max. Power Output: 240 hp @ 2,300 rpm
Peak Torque Output: 883 N.m @ 1,200 rpm
Transmission:
Type: Manual Transmission
Gears: 6-Speed Forward, 1-Speed Reverse
* Some parts of the specifications may be subjected for verification and may be changed without prior notice...
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SOUTH CHINA SEA (Dec. 26, 2024) – Sailors launch aircraft during flight operations on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), Dec. 26, 2024. Vinson, the flagship of Carrier Strike Group ONE, is underway conducting routine operations in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nate Jordan)
Service members unload a U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk from a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III Oct. 30, 2014, during Operation United Assistance. The U.S. Africa Command-led operation provides command and control, logistics, training and engineering support to the U.S. government’s efforts to contain the Ebola virus outbreak in West African nations. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Gustavo Gonzalez/Released)
HMCS HALIFAX transits through Faroe Island as part of Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 (SNMG1) during Operation REASSURANCE on 5 June 2022.
Please credit: Pte Connor Bennett, Canadian Armed Forces photo
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Le NCSM HALIFAX, qui fait partie du 1er Groupe maritime permanent de l’OTAN (SNMG1), passe par les îles Féroé au cours de l’opération REASSURANCE, le 5 juin 2022.
Photo : Sdt Connor Bennett, Forces armées canadiennes
After the task force destroyed the machine gun bunker at the entrance, the assault team began the dangerous task of clearing the cave.
As the assault team slowly advanced the narrow cave, an insurgent emerged and attacked the lead assaulter. As the assaulter fell to the ground, Commander Whitmore, who was behind him, was able to fire two clean shots and neutralized the attacker.
To be continued...
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
Canadian Armed Forces members deployed on Operation IMPACT zero their weapons at a shooting range outside of Camp Canada, Ali Al Salem Airbase, Kuwait, on November 14, 2022.
Photo: Corporal Mitchell Paquette, Canadian Armed Forces Photo
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Des membres des Forces armées canadiennes en déploiement dans le cadre de l’opération IMPACT pointent leurs armes dans un champ de tir situé à l’extérieur du Camp Canada, à la base aérienne Ali Al Salem, au Koweït, le 14 novembre 2022.
Photo : Caporal Mitchell Paquette, Forces armées canadiennes
A Victorian special operations task force was assigned to ambush an exchange of radioactive material and capture a high value individual (HVI) codename Panther, a Russian arms dealer.
Since the exchange would take place in an area within the Russian sphere of influence, no ISR or air asset would be available. The plan was to insert reconnaissance teams before the exchange to perform advanced force operations (AFO) and to provide overwatch during the exchange. An assault team would then enter the area of operations (AO) by high altitude high opening (HAHO) insertion and setup an ambush at the exchange.
A ground extraction team will infiltrate the AO by vehicles (including HMMWVs and Grizzly LAVs) under the guise of a routine patrol to extract the assault team once the radioactive material and the HVI have been secured.
The remaining of the task force would be the quick reaction force (QRF) loaded in helicopters waiting at a forward operating base (FOB) and called upon if needed.
3 AFO teams (callsigns Sparrowhawk 2,3 &12) in UTVs were inserted into the AO by Chinook helicopters and setup observation posts (OPs) to conduct reconnaissance and to provide overwatch.
To be continued...
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
A true night operation with Heidemarie W. Schnaufer!
I shot this photo during an astrophotography night with friends and work colleagues. We drove out of town to meet at Lake George (40min drive) braving the cold and darkness.
This was shot in one exposure with a 30 second exposure to get the background combined with a few strategic hits with my flash using the testing feature. It took a few tries, but the results worked out perfectly!
I was hesitant to take her along due to how dark and the extra bulk it would entail but, in the end, it was totally worth it!
I hope ya'll enjoy the photo and come follow me on Instagram ~ www.instagram.com/df_figureart/.