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Can you spot the second kid? He's there. Sneaking up on me.
Don't worry, I see him.
It looks like I am assaulting children, I know, but the reality is they are climbing at their will as I am desperately trying to keep them from falling.
A return to Foregate Street in Worcester. This time I went into the Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum. The museum is free to enter.
The building is Grade II* listed,
City Museum and Library with Gates, Worcester
The Worcestershire Soldier
Worcestershire Soldier exhibition tells the story of the soldiers of the Worcestershire County regiments. They lived and sometimes died in the defence of the country and its Empire overseas.
The Worcestershire Soldier Galleries was opened in September 2003 by HRH The Princess Royal.
Modern combat uniform and equipment
Soldiers competing in the CSM Jack L. Clark Jr. Army Best Medic Competition begin with a physical fitness test - the Army Combat Fitness test
(ACFT) - aimed at directly connecting fitness with combat readiness for all Soldiers. The U.S. Army Medical Command hosts the Army Best Medic Competition at Fort Sam Houston and Camp Bullis, Texas, Sept. 16-20, 2018. More than 27 two-Soldier teams from all around the world travel to Texas to compete in the finals to be named the Army’s Best Medic. The competition is a 72-84 hour arduous test of the teams’ physical and mental skills.
Competitors must be agile, adaptive leaders who demonstrate mature judgement while testing collective team skills in areas of physical fitness, tactical marksmanship, leadership, warrior skills, land navigation and overall knowledge of medical, technical and tactical proficiencies through a series of hands-on tasks in a simulated operational environment.
(U.S. Army photo by David E. Gillespie/RELEASED)
We met this friendly man with his snake in St. James Park in London in the summer of 2009. Perhaps anyone has met him too? He told us he often comes there with one of his pets - and also a lot about snakes! I asked him if I could take some photos. "Of course" he said. And no - he's not sitting there to get some money. He spends his time there, because he's so lonely at his home beyond the veil of his wife. And every day he gets - and gives - some chats there. To combat the lonesomeness.
Members from the 82d Combat Aviation Brigade tear down a CH-47 Chinook at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouiti in preparation for redeployment, Jan. 26th, 2017. The 82d CAB rapidly deploys in support of the Global Response Force to conduct decisive aviation operations worldwide. Enabling the ground force commander with air assualt, air movement, attack, recon and medevac capabilities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Joshua J. Garcia)
Sgt. Thomas Green, a U.S. Army Reserve mechanic with the 447th Military Police Company (Combat Support), out of North Canton, Ohio, takes a brief rest while working inside a small storage space of an M117 Armored Security Vehicle (ASV) during a maintenance course hosted by the 99th Readiness Division in Schenectady, New York, March 14, 2018. This is the first maintenance course in the U.S. Army Reserve designed specifically for the ASV, which has hydraulic components and maintenance procedures that are unlike most other Army vehicles. The ASV is designed to resist the impact of roadside bombs while operating in urban environments. Its mounting systems allow the ASV to hold an M2 .50-caliber machine gun, a MK-19 grenade launcher and an M249 Squad Automatic Weapon at the same time. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Master Sgt. Michel Sauret)
Maj. Gen. Kurt Fuller, 25th Infantry Division Commander, is greeted by Col. Kenneth Hawley and Command Sgt. Maj. Erik Pitkus, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade Commander and CSM, 25th Inf. Div., outside the 25th CAB Wings of Lightning Dining Facility before serving a Thanksgiving meal to families and Soldiers of the 25th CAB on Thanksgiving Day.
Staff Sgt. Marcus Langley, squad leader, 1st Platoon, Battery A,
2nd Battalion, 44th Air Defense Artillery, places a Combat Patch
on Sgt. John Buron, land-based phalanx weapon system team
leader, 1st Platoon, Battery A, 2nd Bn., 44th ADA.
Mutirão da Meta 18 do CNJ prolatou 74 sentenças na ParaÃba no primeiro mês de esforço concentrado
Foto: Divulgação/ TJPB
Flying with the Blackshape Prime at air-combat.eu/ at Lelystad Airport in the Netherlands. Fantastic day :-)
The littoral combat ship (LCS) is a new family of surface ships for the US Navy. The LCS is a fast, highly maneuverable, networked surface combat ship. Built in Marinette, Wisconsin
"LOS COMBATES COTIDIANOS", de Manu Larcenet ¡Genial historia y geniales dibujos! Una gran obra. Mi blog: lalomimar.blogspot.com
The Lockheed Martin HC-130J Hercules The Combat King II is the U.S. Air Force's only dedicated fixed-wing personnel recovery platform and is flown by the Air Education and Training Command (AETC) and Air Combat Command (ACC). This C-130J variation specializes in tactical profiles and avoiding detection and recovery operations in austere environments. The HC-130J replaces HC-130P/Ns as the only dedicated fixed-wing Personnel Recovery platform in the Air Force inventory. It is an extended-range version of the C-130J Hercules transport. Its mission is to rapidly deploy to execute combatant commander directed recovery operations to austere airfields and denied territory for expeditionary, all weather personnel recovery operations to include airdrop, airland, helicopter air-to-air refueling, and forward area ground refueling missions. When tasked, the aircraft also conducts humanitarian assistance operations, disaster response, security cooperation/aviation advisory, emergency aeromedical evacuation, and noncombatant evacuation operations.
Features
Modifications to the HC-130J have improved navigation, threat detection and countermeasures systems. The aircraft fleet has a fully-integrated inertial navigation and global positioning systems, and night vision goggle, or NVG, compatible interior and exterior lighting. It also has forward-looking infrared, radar and missile warning receivers, chaff and flare dispensers, satellite and data-burst communications, and the ability to receive fuel inflight via a Universal Aerial Refueling Receptacle Slipway Installation (UARRSI).
The HC-130J can fly in the day; however, crews normally fly night at low to medium altitude levels in contested or sensitive environments, both over land or overwater. Crews use NVGs for tactical flight profiles to avoid detection to accomplish covert infiltration/exfiltration and transload operations. To enhance the probability of mission success and survivability near populated areas, crews employ tactics that include incorporating no external lighting or communications, and avoiding radar and weapons detection.
Drop zone objectives are done via personnel drops and equipment drops. Rescue bundles include illumination flares, marker smokes and rescue kits. Helicopter air-to-air refueling can be conducted at night, with blacked out communication with up to two simultaneous helicopters. Additionally, forward area refueling point operations can be executed to support a variety of joint and coalition partners.
Background
The HC-130J is a result of the HC/MC-130 recapitalization program and replaces Air Combat Command's aging HC-130P/N fleet as the dedicated fixed-wing personnel recovery platform in the Air Force inventory. The 71st and 79th Rescue Squadrons in Air Combat Command, the 550th Special Operations Squadron in Air Education and Training Command, the 920th Rescue Group in Air Force Reserve Command and the 106th Rescue Wing, 129th RQW and 176th Wing in the Air National Guard will operate the aircraft.
First flight was 29 July 2010, and the aircraft will serve the many roles and missions of the HC-130P/Ns. It is a modified KC-130J aircraft designed to conduct personnel recovery missions, provide a command and control platform, in-flight-refuel helicopters and carry supplemental fuel for extending range or air refueling.
In April 2006, the personnel recovery mission was transferred back to Air Combat Command at Langley AFB, Va. From 2003 to 2006, the mission was under the Air Force Special Operations Command at Hurlburt Field, Fla. Previously, HC-130s were assigned to ACC from 1992 to 2003. They were first assigned to the Air Rescue Service as part of Military Airlift Command.
General Characteristics
Primary function: Fixed-wing Personnel Recovery platform
Contractor: Lockheed Aircraft Corp.
Power Plant: Four Rolls Royce AE2100D3 turboprop engines
Thrust: 4,591 Propeller Shaft Horsepower, each engine
Wingspan: 132 feet, 7 inches (40.4 meters)
Length: 97 feet, 9 inches (29.57 meters)
Height: 38 feet, 9 inches (11.58 meters)
Operating Weight: 89,000 pounds (40,369 kilograms)
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 164,000 pounds (74,389 kilograms)
Fuel Capacity: 61,360 pounds (9,024 gallons)
Payload: 35,000 pounds (15,875 kilograms)
Speed: 316 knots indicated air speed at sea level
Range: beyond 4,000 miles (3,478 nautical miles)
Ceiling: 33,000 feet (10,000 meters)
Armament: countermeasures/flares, chaff
Basic Crew: Three officers (pilot, co-pilot, combat system officer) and two enlisted loadmasters
Unit Cost: $66 million (fiscal 2010 replacement cost)
Initial operating capability: 2013
Soldiers competing in the CSM Jack L. Clark Jr. Army Best Medic Competition begin with a physical fitness test - the Army Combat Fitness test
(ACFT) - aimed at directly connecting fitness with combat readiness for all Soldiers. The U.S. Army Medical Command hosts the Army Best Medic Competition at Fort Sam Houston and Camp Bullis, Texas, Sept. 16-20, 2018. More than 27 two-Soldier teams from all around the world travel to Texas to compete in the finals to be named the Army’s Best Medic. The competition is a 72-84 hour arduous test of the teams’ physical and mental skills.
Competitors must be agile, adaptive leaders who demonstrate mature judgement while testing collective team skills in areas of physical fitness, tactical marksmanship, leadership, warrior skills, land navigation and overall knowledge of medical, technical and tactical proficiencies through a series of hands-on tasks in a simulated operational environment.
(U.S. Army photo by David E. Gillespie/RELEASED)
TAJI MILITARY COMPLEX, Iraq - U.S. Army 248th Aviation Support Battalion, Company B Commander Maj. Eric Nelson is promoted to the rank of Lt. Col. by 449th Combat Aviation Brigade Commander Col. Joseph Bishop during his promotion ceremony at Camp Taji June 3, 2018. The 248th ASB provides maintenance operations to the 449th CAB in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Leticia Samuels, 449th Combat Aviation Brigade)