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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 six of Operation Alcatraz.
Rail Operations Group class 37 No. 37884 ‘Cepheus’ grumbles through the flat fens in the morning sun hauling Greater Anglian class 317s to scrap, 317885 and 317341, on the approach to Waterbeach working 5Q76 08:00 Ely MLF Papworth Sidings to Newport Docks (Simsgroup) running 30 minutes late. 15/02/2023.
I’d tried this location before in the summer with this same loco when the class 317s were being taken to Papworth to storage. The shot didn’t go well as something wasn’t right about it l, not to mention the fact I mucked up the composure but mainly because the vegetation next to the track had grown up making it difficult to see the train. I was wanting to go out for this movement today as it was half term and I had the day free so I was checking Google Maps for good locations when this one came to mind. The spot is taken on the edge of Bannold Road on a grass verge before a field and works well most of the day as the sun position up until about 14:00 this time of year. I had to make sure that the vegetation wasn’t going to be too high this time of year and luckily street view was taken during colder months and showed a lot of of what I knew was there before.
Luckily for the shot, there service was running half an hour late which gave the sun more time to break through the clouds and fog, if it had passed on time, the sun would not have broken through yet. Very happy with how this shot tuned out, I've never had a good shot with this loco so pleased to finally get one. I used my bigger set of steps for this which have 4 steps, I was stood on the highest point, this was necessary to attempt to be more level with the train at this location as the railway is slightly higher than the road. An extra note is the Union Flag positioned above the coupling on the front of 37884, it may not be very visible in my shot as I am aware you can't zoom in very far but I noticed it afterwards and though I best point it out.
The final shot of the final train of an awesome trip, Amtrak Train 6 departs Naperville along the Metra BNSF Line as they continue towards Chicago, led by Amtrak's sharp Operation Lifesaver unit, P42DC 203.
"You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world."- Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower.
80 years ago today, the largest land, air, and sea invasion in the history of the world took place. After years of careful planning and deception, the Allied powers began the invasion of Nazi occupied Europe. In the early morning hours of June 6th, 1944, American and British paratroopers descended from their planes into the towns of Normandy to secure strategic towns and bridges, while the Allied navy was transporting the ground forces across the English Channel. The Americans would land at Omaha and Utah beaches, while the British and Canadians would land at Gold, Sword, and Juno beaches. They were also accompanied by free French, Dutch, Greek, Norwegian, Polish, Czech and others from occupied nations. A total of 156,000 of allied troops would take part in the invasion.
Upon landing, the Allies would encounter fierce German resistance, and the defenses of the Atlantic Wall. Despite suffering heavy casualties, the landings were successful. The Germans did not expect landings at such a scale to take place in Normandy, and instead prepared for landings at Calais. Within months, much of France would be liberated, with few remaining German holdouts. By the end of the invasion, a total of 1.4 million allied troops would be in France, with more on the way. The success of the invasion would pave the way for the eventual end of the war against Nazi Germany.
Shhhh
I'm performing surgery
Close your mouth, close your eyes
He has a ticking part
That may pop out
And cause someone surprise
Don't worry
There won't be much blood
It will be quick, he'll never know
That his ticking part
His missing part
Is something that has to go
Baobao zong-ed out in the afternoon. He is very good at flip-flopping and doing bunny impersonations.
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NS Local Freight Train AB-14 works Finley Yard in North Birmingham, AL. getting ready to work industries around the Birmingham, AL. area.
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[Helicopter news footage from the CLB invasion of France]
["We managed to get this footage... looks like a civilian sports car was destroyed, no driver visible; two dead NATO soldiers, however-- one being dragged into an alley, the other in front of the car and... and a third soldier, ankles and arms broken, on his knees with a gun to the back of his head, dear god, this is terrible!"]
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Borders are just lines on paper. Viva la Uprising!
If you have the chance and the time, visit the USS Midway Aircraft Carrier museum in San Diego's harbor. Take the time for the guide island tour. On the command center for flight deck operations you will find the list shown in the picture. Quite interesting detail you will get on the ready room's tour, all the names are pilots which are died, missing or get captured.
Rail Operations Group Class 37 diesel locomotive 37608 "Andromeda" hauls Stadler tri-mode Class 93 locomotive 93001 past Barton under Needwood working 0Q67 08.36 Worksop Down Yaed to Long Marston. The Class 93 was attending the Rail Live event at Long Marston.
A repainted Operation Lifesaver Dash-9 teams up with a former CSX SD80MAC to move empty coal gons back west for another load of black diamonds.
A surveillance team from the Combined Anti-Terrorism Task Force continued to surveil an insurgent lieutenant and a courier of a known arms dealer. The team followed them to a shipping container port.
The team witnessed a briefcase being exchanged and a container being loaded onto a container truck. Afterwards, the insurgent lieutenant drove off with the container truck.
The forward deployed team was put on stand-by to intercept the container truck. The surveillance team continued to follow the courier while a UAV was dispatched and followed the container truck.
To be continued...
Resting along Green Street in front of the Bensenville diesel house, Milwaukee Road SD40-2 #19 holds onto its fading identity. Originally built as #180, it would eventually be retired prior to being patched for the Soo Line.
Note the track just above the radiator grills which used to support icicle breakers for operations on the Pacific Extension. Photo taken in September of 1986 by Bob Yanosey.
When I served aboard the USS Midway, Commander Vern Jumper was a distant legend. During the fall of Saigon at the end of America's war in Vietnam, on April 29, 1975, the USS Midway was part of the evacuation effort known as Operation Frequent Wind. Commander Vern Jumper was the Air Boss aboard the USS Midway at the time. The Air Boss' responsibility extends to every aircraft within five miles of the ship.
A total of 1,373 Americans and 5,595 at risk Vietnamese and people from other countries were evacuated from South Vietnam by helicopter. Over three thousand of these flew to the USS Midway. . At one time, Vern states there were twenty-one helicopters circling the ship, all extremely low on fuel, and each loaded to capacity with human souls. The total number of Vietnamese self-evacuated or rescued in Operation Frequent Wind and resettled in the United States reached more than 138,869 people.
On day two of the evacuation a small single engine "Bird Dog" observation plane began to circle the Midway. It had no radio, and Vern had no idea who was inside. Several notes were tossed to the deck but they all blew over the side. Finally the pilot placed a note in a holster and tossed it out the plane's window to the deck. The note was retrieved and quickly taken to the ship's skipper. It read: " Can you move those helicopters to the other side? I can land on your runway. I can fly one more hour, We have enough time to move. Please rescue us. Major Buong, wife and 5 child." Major Buong was beyond the point of no return. He did not have enough fuel to return to dry land.
Vern conferred with the Midway's skipper, Captain Larry Chambers. The flight deck was covered with Huey helicopters waiting for fuel. After first considering a sea ditching with a rescue by swimmers, this plan of action was discarded because the nose heavy aircraft would have quickly sank if it even held together in such a move.
Ultimately, in a gambit that would make him a legend, Vern made a ready deck and risked court martial by ordering the flight deck crew to jettison three Hueys and one Chinook helicopter over the side into the ocean. The Midway turned into the wind. South Vietnamese Air Force Maj. Buong Ly, who had never seen an aircraft carrier before, made his carrier landing with no tailhook. The flight deck crew rushed the plane to prevent it from going over the side. After Major Buong exited the small plane, his wife got out with an infant in her arms, and then four children exited. The plane was quickly moved forward as the Major and his family were whisked away to the ship's island.
All of this occurred while helicopters continued to circle the ship Low on fuel and brimming with refugees. Vern says he didn't have time to even celebrate the unique carrier landing. Immediately afterwards Vern began recovering helicopters and having them refueled to return to evacuate more people. The deck quickly filled. Then a helicopter pilot radioed Vern saying "Boss, I have five minutes of fuel and 53 souls aboard."
Again, there was no room. Vern had the most ready helicopter, which had ten minutes of fuel lift off the deck and had the airborne helicopter slip in underneath it.
The collapse of the government of South Vietnam led to an aerial exodus as scores of South Vietnamese military helicopters loaded with refugees sped out to sea hoping to find a friendly deck. Some could land aboard, but eventually others were only allowed to touch down long enough to drop off passengers and then the pilot had to lift off over the sea and jump from mid-air to be rescued by boat. In all, some 45 Huey and 3 larger Chinook helicopters ferried refugees to the USS Midway, Many eventually had to be pushed overboard to make room for newer arrivals. Vern proudly states that not a single life was lost in the controlled chaos that was Operation Frequent Wind.
The crew of the USS Midway ultimately established a fund to help resettle Major Buong Ly and his family in the United States. The actual note that he tucked into a holster and tossed to the flight deck of the USS Midway is enshrined on the hangar deck underneath his aircraft.
Vern talks about Operation Frequent Wind
Commander Vern Jumper and Captain Larry Chambers recall Operation Frequent Wind
Thank you Vern for being the 196th stranger in my 100 Strangers project. It was an honor to meet you and shake your hand. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the flickr group page.
Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) CALGARY conducts Officer of the Watch maneuvers during Operation PROJECTION on October 16, 2018.
Photo: LS Zachariah Stopa, Canadian Forces Combat Camera
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Our collaboration (created by Deltaforceguy) at Brickfair VA 2012.
Based off Operation: Iraqi Freedom.
Overall view of the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center at the Manned Spacecraft Center, during the fourth television transmission from the Apollo 13 spacecraft while en route to the Moon. Eugene F. Kranz (foreground, back to camera), one of four Apollo 13 Flight Directors, views the large screen at front of MOCR. Astronaut Fred W. Haise Jr., lunar module pilot, is seen on the screen. The fourth television transmission from the Apollo 13 mission was on the evening of April 13, 1970. Shortly after the transmission ended and during a routine procedure that required the crew to flip a switch that stirred one of the cryogenic liquid oxygen tanks, an explosion occurred that ended any hope of a lunar landing and jeopardized the lives of the three crew members.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S70-35136
Date: April 13, 1970
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 tasks were assigned to the TF through drawing straws. The assault team consisted of Team 8, the Squadron Master Chief (Callsign Orca-minor), and two machine gunners from Team 7. The extraction team consisted of Team 55 with Squadron Commander (Callsign Orca-actual), and a fire support section from the Special Operations Regiment. The extraction team are mounted in two GMV, one LAV-FSV, one LAV-ICV, and one HMWV Cargo. The remaining operators from Team 7 in two HH-60 Pave Hawks would be the QRF and positioned at FOB Spade. 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, the extraction team departed the staging base and arrived at a rendezvous point.
To be continued...
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
The 2017 field season was record-breaking for Operation IceBridge, NASA’s aerial survey of the state of polar ice. For the first time in its nine-year history, the mission, which aims to close the gap between two NASA satellite campaigns that study changes in the height of polar ice, carried out seven field campaigns in the Arctic and Antarctic in a single year. In total, the IceBridge scientists and instruments flew over 214,000 miles, the equivalent of orbiting the Earth 8.6 times at the equator.
The mission of Operation IceBridge, NASA’s longest-running airborne mission to monitor polar ice, is to collect data on changing polar land and sea ice and maintain continuity of measurements between ICESat missions. The original ICESat mission launched in 2003 and ended in 2009, and its successor, ICESat-2, is scheduled for launch in the fall of 2018. Operation IceBridge began in 2009 and is currently funded until 2020. The planned overlap with ICESat-2 will help scientists connect with the satellite’s measurements.
Read more: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/big-year-for-icebridge
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Once this was the biggest airfield in Eastern Germany with thousands of Soviet soldiers living here - but when the Iron Curtain was lifted, they left. For 30 years now, this has been a ghost town. This time, we set out to explore a Soviet wasteland! Learn the full story in this episode on YouTube: youtu.be/t-pYZenXMyk
Aug 2oth 1968. The rumble of Russian tanks broke the silence of the streets of Prague Czechoslovakia. 250,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 2000 tanks entered the Country.
Operation Perch began on 7 June and was the attempt to capture Caen after the direct attack on D-day failed. The plan called for the 7th Armoured Division, supported by the 50th Division to strike south to capture Tilly-sur-Seulles, following which the 7th Armoured Division would capture Villers-Bocage and Evrecy. On 7 June, the 50th Division occupied Bayeux and advanced 3 miles (4.8 km) south. On 8 June a column from the division started south over the Caen–Bayeux railway into the Bocage. Advancing 6,000 yards (5,500 m) to the bridges between Tilly and Saint-Pierre (~1 mile (1.6 km) to the east), they were joined by the 8th D.L.I. but had placed themselves in a salient facing the Panzer Lehr Division and the SS Hitlerjugend Division. Saint-Pierre was captured after close-quarters fighting by 8 D.L.I. and 24th Lancers on 9 June. Counter-attacked on 10 June, they were for a time surrounded. This counter-attack blunted the advance to Villers-Bocage that day and the 69th Brigade attack on Cristot. The 8th D.L.I was finally withdrawn on 12 June after losing 212 officers and men in the struggle. During this time the remainder of the division had fought forward to hold a line (either side of the 7th Armoured Division) between La Belle Epine and Point 103 (~1 mile (1.6 km)) to the north-east of Saint Pierre.
-Wikipedia
A CH-146 Griffon helicopter flight engineer waits to escort the CH-147F Chinook on its first flight of Operation PRESENCE-Mali at Camp Castor in Gao, Mali on July 25, 2018.
Photo: Corporal Ken Beliwicz
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Un mécanicien de bord d’un CH-146 Griffon s’apprête à escorter le CH-147F Chinook lors de son premier vol dans le cadre de l’opération PRESENCE-Mali au Camp Castor à Gao, au Mali, le 25 juillet 2018.
Photo : Caporal Ken Beliwicz
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CSX's Operation Lifesaver 50th Anniversary unit rolls CSX train I015 (Chambersburg, PA to Bedford Park, IL, stacks) by the old Acme steel mill, now under the banner of Cleveland-Cliffs in Riverdale, Illinois on CSX's former B&OCT Barr Sub.
CSXT 4568 is a SD70MAC and was built by EMD for CSX as CSXT 768 in March of 2000.
An M1A1 Abrams tank with Alpha Company, 1st Tank Battalion, Regimental Combat Team 6, patrols through the desert north of the Kajaki Dam, May 31. The Marines supported Operation Branding Iron.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Mark Stroud)
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Five Star Bus Company Inc.
Bus Number: 1001
Coachbuilder: Trans-Oriental Motor Builders, Inc.
Body Model: Golden Dragon XML6126 "Superstar" (replica)
Chassis: MAN R39 18.350 HOCL
Classification: Air-Conditioned Provincial Operation Bus
Engine: MAN D2066LOH12
Suspension: Air-Suspension
Seating Configuration: 2x2 Seats
Capacity: 49 Passengers
Shot Location: Balintawak
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 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.