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Wicomico County Task Force Honda Pilot on a traffic stop backed up by a Salisbury Police Dept Chevrolet Caprice on Business Route 50 near Booth Street in Salisbury, Maryland.
An Afghan National Policeman, demonstrates arrest techniques.
The next generation of Afghan policemen are beginning their careers, having completed their British-led training and graduated.
A total of 89 newly-trained patrolmen and 28 junior commanders graduated on Saturday 13th November 2010 at a passing out parade at the Helmand Police Training Centre, just outside the Helmand provincial capital of Lashkar Gah.
The officers will now be deployed across Helmand Province with the task of providing added security in the urban centres, while the Afghan National Army continue to provide security and deter the Taleban threat in the rural areas.
Policing techniques and standards continue to improve across Helmand following the opening of Helmand Police Training Centre in November 2009. HPTC is now capable of turning out 180 newly qualified policemen every three weeks, following an intensive eight week course run by soldiers from The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland (5 SCOTS), supported by members of the Ministry of Defence Police.
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Photographer: Sgt Rupert Frere RLC
Image 45152095.jpg from www.defenceimages.mod.uk
A herding dog caught mid-task, surrounded by sheep that look equal parts clueless and defiant. It's part pastoral scene, part fever dream, with wild lines and unexpected colour choices. The meaning might be metaphor, might be mess, might be both. Either way, it tracks. This neighbourhood has a lot of stray dogs, a lot of strange art, and more dog shit per square metre than anywhere I’ve ever walked. Maybe the mural’s just trying to organise the chaos. Good luck to it.
Members of 3rd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment (3 RCR) conduct an insertion extraction with the Latvian search and rescue helicopter during EXERCISE Summer Shield XII in Adazi, Latvia on March 27, 2015.
Photo: Land Task Element, DND
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Des membres du 3e Bataillon du Royal Canadian Regiment (3 RCR) pratiquent des techniques d’insertion et d’extraction à l’aide de l’hélicoptère de recherche et sauvetage letton au cours de l’exercice Summer Shield XII, à Adazi, en Lettonie, le 27 mars 2015.
Photo : Élément opérationnel terrestre, MDN
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PRO84 Elliott Erwitt - Emulation Assignment October 09
Mission:
To emulate the style of Elliott Erwitt, Born Paris 1928.
This will become clearer as you read further and as you study his work. However, at this moment, your task is to find a human, tender, amusing or downright funny moment involving people or animals and to depict it in a way that we are seeing the moment - not the decisive moment - just the snapshot moment where two things came together and the result was the unexpected - a tender human moment - or funny, but always real life and making us appreciate the 'sense of the ridiculous' all around us.
He uses juxtaposition of elements not meant to be together, but when they are, we smile.
Of course his work was not always to make us smile or laugh, but I do feel that this is his most self-effacing asset. Through his work, we are part of the end product and can share the 'indecisive moment' (as he himself puts it) with him. Elliott Erwitt was not above engineering those moments – in fact, he used to carry a noisy horn to spook dogs into jumping at the moment he took the photo.
But he also saw the potential in many situations. This is where your imagination comes into play. Do you see a Billboard which would be hilarious with (say) horses underneath it? Or even the child carrying a balloon, which looks like a substitute head at different angles? Or like one of Elliott Erwitt’s classics, the woman sitting with a dog on her lap – and it is the dog we see for the top half of her body.
WIT: I took my daughter and niece to the park to play so I could look for EE situations. I had no luck so I decided to use the kids for props. We walked along a trail and I had the girls act out every sign we came to. This was one of their best interpretations. For post processing I cropped the shot square and created two b&w versions (one to work on the sky and trees, and another for the sign and girls) and overlayed them with some layer masking.
I really like Erwitt's sense of irony and humor, it fits me well. Although there were no particular EE photos that I used for inspiration, I am hoping my submission has his sense of juxtaposition and humor. It was very frustrating not to be able to find other/better examples around town. I think this is one of those things where if you look too hard you wont be able to find it. Just let it happen and hope you have your camera with you.
IOIO 2018
Designed by Peter Stein (Germany)
Marcelo Arispe-Guzman (USA)
No time to shape well, so just simply clean folded.
The kit and its assembly:
This build was a submission to the “Hunter, Lightning, Canberra” group build at whatifmodellers.com, and one of my personal ultimate challenges – a project that you think about very often, but the you put the thought back into its box when you realize that turning this idea into hardware will be a VERY tedious, complex and work-intensive task. But the thematic group build was the perfect occasion to eventually tackle the idea of a model of a “side-by-side engine BAC Lightning”, a.k.a. a “Flatning”, as a rather conservative alternative to its unique and unusual design with stacked engines in the fuselage, which brought a multitude of other design consequences that led to a really outstanding aircraft in history.
And it sound so simple: take a Lightning, just change the tail section. But it’s not that simple, because the whole fuselage shape would be different, resulting in less depth, the wings have to be attached somewhere and somehow, the landing gear might have to be adjusted/shortened, and how the fuselage diameter shape changes along the hull, so that you get a more or less smooth shape, was also totally uncertain!
Initially I considered a MiG Ye-152 as a body donor, but that was rejected due to the sheer price of the only available kit (ModelSvit). A Chinese Shenyang J-8I would also have been ideal – but there’s not 1:72 kit of this aircraft around, just of its successor with side intakes, a 1:72 J-8II from trumpeter.
I eventually decided to keep costs low, and I settled for the shaggy PM Model Su-15 (marketed as Su-21) “Flagon” as main body donor: it’s cheap, the engines have a good size for Avons and the pen nib fairing has a certain retro touch that goes well with the Lightning’s Fifties design.
The rest of this "Flatning" came from a Hasegawa 1:72 BAC Lightning F.6 (Revell re-boxing).
Massive modifications were necessary, though, and lots of PSR. In an initial step the Flagon lost its lower wing halves, which are an integral part of the lower fuselage half. The cockpit section was cut away where the intake ducts begin. The Lightning had its belly tank removed (set aside for a potential later re-installation), and dry-fitting and crude measures suggested that only the cockpit section from the Lightning, its spine and the separate fin would make it onto the new fuselage.
Integrating the parts was tough, though! The problem that caused the biggest headaches: how to create a "smooth" fuselage from the Lightning's rounded front end with a single nose intake that originally develops into a narrow, vertical hull, combined with the boxy and rather wide Flagon fuselage with large Phantom-esque intakes? My solution: taking out deep wedges from all (rather massive) hull parts along the intake ducts, bend the leftover side walls inwards and glue them into place, so that the width becomes equal with the Lightning's cockpit section. VERY crude and massive body work!
However, the Lightning's cockpit section for the following hull with stacked engines is much deeper than the Flagon's side-by-side layout. My initial idea was to place the cockpit section higher, but I would have had to transplant a part of the Lightning's upper fuselage (with the spine on top, too!) onto the "flat" Flagon’s back. But this would have looked VERY weird, and I'd have had to bridge the round ventral shape of the Lightning into the boxy Flagon underside, too. This was no viable option, so that the cockpit section had to be further modified; I cut away the whole ventral cockpit section, at the height of the lower intake lip. Similar to my former Austrian Hasegawa Lightning, I also cut away the vertical bulkhead directly behind the intake opening - even though I did not improve the cockpit with a better tub with side consoles. At the back end, the Flagon's jet exhausts were opened and received afterburner dummies inside as a cosmetic upgrade.
Massive PSR work followed all around the hull. The now-open area under the cockpit was filled with lead beads to keep the front wheel down, and I implanted a landing gear well (IIRC, it's from an Xtrakit Swift). With the fuselage literally taking shape, the wings were glued together and the locator holes for the overwing tanks filled, because they would not be mounted.
To mount the wings to the new hull, crude measurements suggested that wedges had to be cut away from the Lightning's wing roots to match the weird fuselage shape. They were then glued to the shoulders, right behind the cockpit due to the reduced fuselage depth. At this stage, the Lightning’s stabilizer attachment points were transplanted, so that they end up in a similar low position on the rounded Su-15 tail. Again, lots of PSR…
At this stage I contemplated the next steps, primarily: belly tank or not? The “Flatning” would have worked without it, but the profile would look rather un-Lightning-ish and rather “flat”. On the other side, a conformal tank would probably look quite strange on the new wide and flat ventral fuselage...? Only experiments could yield and answer, so I glued together the leftover belly bulge parts from the Hasegawa kit and played around with it. I also thought about a wider belly tank, but I guess that this would have looked too ugly. I eventually settled upon the narrow F.6 tank, and also used the section on which the arrestor hook rests. I just reduced its depth by ~2 mm with a slight slope towards the rear because I felt (righteously) that the higher wings would lower the model’s stance. More massive PSR…. As side benefit, though, the belly bulge could be sold as a kind of retrofitted ventral "Küchemann Carrot" to compensate for the wide waist (inspired by the F-102's pair of "butt-cheeks"). 😉
Due to the assumed poor ground clearance the Lightning’s stabilizing ventral fins were fitted directly under the fuselage edges rather than on the belly tank. Red Top pylons were mounted to the lower front fuselage and cable fairings, scratched from styrene profiles, were added to the lower flanks, stretching the hull optically and giving more structure to the hull.
To my surprise, I did not have to shorten the landing gear’s main legs! The wings ended up a little higher on the fuselage than on the original Lightning, and the front wheel sits a bit further back and deeper inside of its donor well, too, so that the fuselage comes probably 2 mm closer to the ground than an OOB Lightning model. Just like on the real aircraft, ground clearance is marginal, but when the main wheels were finally in place, the model had a low but proper stance, a little F8U-ish.
If only Hipstamatic had a film with this frame but in color, I'd be such a happy camper.... (Though strictly speaking, this isn't a true B&W film; it just has very, VERY low saturation...you can see a hint of color in Bloodgood's coat though.)
I'm beginning to work on my list of "My Favorite 1000 Songs of All Time," a task that I expect will take me well into my 80s. I'm starting with songs that are an absolute lock to make the final Top 1000 cut.
The first selection: Deep Purple - "Smoke on the Water"
In April of 1973, I was a sophomore at Mississippi State University and was living in the Page Building on Main Street in Starkville, Mississippi. A single room, the only furniture was a dresser and one chair (I threw a mattress on the floor to perfect the feng shui), shared bathroom -- $25 a month. The Page Building was full of dopers, Jesus Freaks, Taiwanese grad students (6 to a room), and old winos. Wayyyyy better (and cheaper) than a dorm room.
I was on the third floor of the Page Building and had gotten to know my neighbors pretty well.
The guy next door, who I shared a bathroom with, was a seriously smart Campus Crusade for Christer and we had a great time debating the existence of God until the wee hours of the morning. There was a nice old alcoholic down the hall, a serious druggie just beyond him (he was partial to weed laced with PCP, a cow tranquilizer), and even a Wobbly – the only self-proclaimed Wobbly I’ve ever known or probably will ever know.
The Wobbly was an odd but entertaining guy. He opened a coffee house in the ground floor of the Page Building and somehow found folkies in Starkville, Mississippi who knew old IWW/labor songs like "Which Side Are You On." The Wobbly was usually a very gentle man, though his favorite pastime was toking up and fantasizing about assassinating Mississippi's staunchly segregationist Senator James O. Eastland.
I can hear you saying, “What about Deep Purple?”
Well, one of the few people on the third floor I didn’t know was in the room right next to mine (other side from the Jesus freak). I didn’t share a bathroom with him and I’m not sure I ever saw him. I only knew he existed (I know he was a “he” because there were no women living in the Page Building) because he had side two of Deep Purple’s Machine Head on his turntable on repeat play. Whenever he came in, Smoke on the Water (5:42), Lazy (7:19), and Space Truckin’ (4:31) would play on endless repeat, crystal clear through the paper-thin Page Building walls.
My faceless neighbor slept and woke to side two of Machine Head. It didn’t keep me awake since he slept during the day, but even with just daytime listening I soon grew to hate Lazy and (especially) Space Truckin’ – but I never tired of Smoke on the Water, which I probably heard a hundred times during my eight months in the Page Building.
In mid-April 1973, the converted hotel/student flophouse next door to the Page Building burned to the ground and several of the residents of the destroyed building moved over to the Page Building for the rest of the semester.
At the very end of April, around 2 a.m., the fire alarms in the Page Building went off. It was clear this no drill, as the whole building was full of smoke. I’m a weakling, but I carried the old drunk from down the hall in my arms down two flights of stairs. As I descended, I saw flames spouting from a room on the second floor. I was really glad to get down to the ground and drop my seriously drunk alcoholic friend off on the safety of the sidewalk.
But I had to get back up to the third floor, smoke and flames or not. Why? Because Smoke on the Water was playing through the fire alarms and the smoke. I knew my faceless neighbor had to be in his room, probably passed out from something (whether alcohol, PCP, or religious intoxication I didn’t know). I was pounding on his door and trying to break it down and screaming “fire” (through the dum dum dum DUM dum dum dum of Fire on the Water) when the building manager came up with a master key, opened the door … and found an empty room except for the record player playing Smoke on the Water. The firemen put out the fire on the second floor and everybody went back to bed.
Kind of an anti-climax to this shaggy dog story I guess. But there are a couple of sad codas and one happy one.
Coda #1: I probably caused the fire. Some of the refugees from the burned-down building next to the Page Building had invited me to ride out to the Crossroads to get a beer. (At the time, in Starkville 19-year olds could only buy hard liquor legally – to get beer you had to go to Lowndes County and the Crossroads was right on the county line.) I ended up in the back seat with two of the guys from the other building. One of them had a crotch-to-ankle plaster cast on one of his legs. Being a friendly guy, I asked him, “Hey, how did you hurt your leg?” The other guy in the back seat elbowed me in the ribs, hard, and hissed, “Shut the f**k up! I’ll explain at the Crossroads.” The guy with the cast was furious at me – he glowered the rest of the ride and didn’t speak a word the rest of the night, but every time I looked at him he was staring daggers at me.
It turned out the crotch-to-ankle plaster cast was to keep my back seat companion from repeatedly stabbing himself in the leg with a big knife. He was the son of the owner of a shoe store on Main Street in Starkville and he was the leading suspect in the arson that had destroyed the building next door to the Page Building.
And I had seriously pissed him off by asking about the cast. Within a couple of hours of us getting back from the Crossroads, he had set his second-floor room in the Page Building on fire. I heard from his friends that his next stop was institutionalization.
Coda #2: I was very excited that night (19 years old and not all that calm in emergencies even now at age 60, truth be told). So I didn’t think anything about it when the firemen asked me who lived in the Wobbly’s room. I told them his name and forgot about it. I made no connection between their question and the big easy chair the Wobbly had set up in the hallway outside his room – which had an ashtray with a still smoldering joint in it. I feel awful to this day that I didn’t think to warn the Wobbly before the cops showed up the next day with a search warrant and arrested him for possession of marijuana.
Coda #3 – Toni and I were getting married (at the ripe old age of 19) the next week anyway. I moved out of the Page Building a few days early and moved into our luxurious $65 a month apartment, which was infested by huge roaches but was blissfully flame-and-Machine Head-side-two free, and thus the ideal spot for us to begin our forty years of (mostly) happy-ever-after.
Competitors thermalling on the final Task (5) day out west of Mt Borah. The lift was weak, so the gaggles were tight at times, especially after Task windows opened.
U.S. service members assigned to Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa participated in a Norwegian Foot March at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, Nov. 5, 2022. The march was sponsored by members of Task Force Wolfhound, a contingent of New York Army National Guard Soldiers sourced from 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Squadron, 101st Cavalry, and 2nd Battalion, 108th Infantry Regiment. During the march, participants were required to march 18.6 miles carrying a 25lbs rucksack within a set timeframe to earn the Norwegian Foot March Badge. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Alexander Rector)
Rangers from A Company, 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, conducts live fire training during 2nd Battalion’s Task Force Training at Yakima Training Center, Washington, 27 March 2013. (U.S. Army photo by SGT Mikki Sprenkle)
I bundle them by chapter. I put new post-it as chapter name. They will be used for writing PoIC manual.
Chaos to cosmos. This is how to reduce entropy (randomness) of the system.
Aircraft information
ModeS
401285
Registration
G-TASK
Type code
C404
Type
Cessna 404 Titan
S/N
404-0829
Airline
Reconnaissance Ventures
A set of indexcards I chose to make Keynote. This name is taken from Watanabe (1976).
These indexcards are selected, work for special duty/mission, tied and well organized. I think this name is quite appropriate. :)
Units: 30 each, Paper: 3.75*3.75 cm, No glue
Left: Striped (adjusted the center square to 1/8, originally designed by Meenakshi Mukerji)
Right: Ribbon, modified (originally designed by Mio Tsugawa)
Back: IOIO 2013 - III. Task 7/ "Sonobe variation" Version by Andrey Hechuev, reverse-engineered
Members of the Georgia Army National Guard prepare their CH-47 Chinook heavy-lift helicopter for a flight from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. to Staten Island, N.Y. The aircraft was moving members of the National Search and Rescue Task Force to conduct house-to-house searches, Nov 3, 2012. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Parker Gyokeres/Released)
Members of the Special Operations Task Group (SOTG) prepare for a patrol in southern Afghanistan.
In line with the Government's decision to increase troop commitment in Afghanistan, approximately 300 personnel have deployed as part of a Special Operations Task Group (SOTG) into Oruzgan Province in southern Afghanistan..
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The SOTG consist of Commando's, members of the Special Air Service Regiment and enabling and support personnel..
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The SOTG operates in support of ISAF security operations and will enhance provincial security by working to disrupt Taliban extremists command and control routes of supply in remote areas. .
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These disruption activities will directly support the Reconstruction Task Force's (RTF) reconstruction efforts, support the development of Afghan National Security Forces and reinforce the legitimacy of the Afghan Government..
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The SOTG's unique skills will be utilised in the remote regions of the province, thereby directly influencing the security situation in more populated areas.