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Focus on Eldercare's response to COVID-19
At the purpose when the noxious impacts of COVID-19 showed first in Wuhan, the entire city and therefore the entire of Hubei Province ground to a halt. The lockdown of Wuhan brought remarkable torment and threatening difficulties for several individual occupants therein first focus. Presently, COVID-19 represents those equivalent difficulties for individuals and social welfare frameworks all-inclusive. Especially, it tests our aggregate endeavors to believe one another, particularly the foremost defenseless among us.
As a populace, individuals quite 70 will generally have more fragile insusceptible frameworks and progressively fundamental conditions that obstruct their capacity to battle the infection. They're likewise sure to dwell on bunch day to day environments, nearby people. Floods of COVID-19 passings in nursing homes — first within the Seattle territory, at that time on the brink of Sacramento and now during the country — have underscored this inauspicious reality. Up until now, Californians quite 65 have made up, at any rate, a fourth of the state's affirmed instances of COVID-19.
Be that because it may, guidelines, especially for helping living offices, are unsafely failing to satisfy the expectations in protecting California's older folks from this infection. Luck, Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan on Aging activity, as of now ongoing, presents an opportunity to forcefully address this peril and find how to secure an enormous number of more seasoned Americans.
Helped living focuses are an aid to the Eldercare business and therefore the enormous corporate proprietors that currently command the market. Simultaneously, in any case, an absence of guideline and oversight of staffing levels and capabilities — particularly prerequisites for on-location doctors and much prepared clinical experts — has left the business defenseless against misuse and unfortunate results. One glaring issue that has got to be tended to: helped living focuses are directed by the state Department of Social Services rather than the Department of Public Health.
In any case, it helped to measure maybe a piece of social welfare and clinical consideration conveyance framework, not only a direction for living. Propelled a year ago, Newsom's plan on Aging has framed a warning advisory group, is holding open gatherings and within the fall is planned to offer a 10-year plan which will address issues from lodging and vagrancy to crisis readiness to manhandle and disrespect. The venture has made a "Value Committee" to urge a contribution from a progressively differing gathering of residents and associations, including agents of the crippled network, Native Americans and other ethnic minorities.
Considering the spreading coronavirus general wellbeing emerging, it's basic that the representative's plan on Aging takes on an expansive and genuine open arrangement job. We weren't bothered with elevated level clichés for tending to the wants of the old. We'd like solid arrangements, solid guidelines with implementation teeth and a guarantee to continued oversight.
The Age of COVID-19
Older people who get themselves out of the blue alone without authority over their conditions are at specific hazards for an assortment of serious, even hazardous, physical and psychological well-being conditions, including a subjective decrease. Limitations on the opportunity of development ought to be proportionate and not founded solely on age.
COVID-19, as different irresistible melodies, represents a higher hazard to populaces that live in nearness. This hazard is especially intense in nursing or matured consideration offices, where the infection can spread quickly and has just brought about numerous passings. About 1.5 million older people individuals live in the nursing homes in the US, barring helped living offices and different settings making nearness.
Twenty-three individuals kicked the bucket in a flare-up at an office in Washington State in February and March, and the US Centers for Disease Control detailed 400 additional cases in offices as of April 1. On March 31, wellbeing experts in the Grand East district of France detailed 570 passings of older people in nursing homes.
Older people often end up in nursing homes due to governments' inability to offer adequate social types of assistance for individuals to live freely in the network, approaches that have put millions at included danger of getting the infection as a result of their organization. Governments ought to guarantee the progression of network-based administrations with the goal that individuals don't wind up in organizations without different alternatives.
Expound now on the roles played via care laborers in continuing the lives of the old during that emergency, and who, however dreadful themselves, by and by remain day in and outing inside the bounds of their wards to offer fundamental consideration.
Care supervisor Chang, the woman in charge of the consideration laborers among whom I led my hands-on work, coordinated the change of her ward into a self-sufficient fixed of a unit of care. The passage to her floor is carefully monitored; just fundamental conveyances are permitted, for instance, nourishment and clothing. Since nobody can enter or leave the structure, the flask for the older was transformed into a dozing region for care laborers. Despite the very fact that a lot of consideration laborers have their circle of relatives to require care of, they put that piece of their life under the control of others. Care specialist Lin, whose spouse died at the start of the pandemic, did not have the chance to completely grieve his passing due to incessant understaffing at Sunlight. She came back to figure following the burial service, despite realizing that she not, at now expected to figure at Sunlight to hide her significant other's clinical costs. Lin's arrival says much regarding her promise to her calling, to her colleagues, and to the old she had come to understand so well. My examination with care laborers recommends that it's an enthusiastic association and an awareness of other's expectations that propels them to remain the end of the day in care work. This is often borne out immediately.
Carefully add China is often seen as being grimy and unfortunate, thanks to an excellent extension to its nearby hook up with the realistic consideration required by slight, skilled bodies. Chinese consideration laborers are for the foremost part provincial to urban transients or urban specialists laid far away from previous state-claimed processing plants. In any case, direct consideration is intricate. In any case, its unpredictability goes unrecognized, or maybe disregarded by institutional powers that organize benefits and generalize the old as bodies to chip away at, to the disregard of their social-passionate necessities. As is valid with Sunlight, things which might typically undermine the keenness of care laborers, for instance, the absence of institutional acknowledgment for his or her enthusiastic work, are required to be postponed. Care specialists are currently centered around a shared objective: ensuring the gift assistance of the older. COVID-19 propels care laborers to consider what kind of care is required and the way to offer that care. It fills in as a channel through which the elemental beliefs of care are observed. Care is about common human weakness and our intrinsic association. Care laborers at Sunlight, in their aggregate every minute of everyday endeavors to secure the older, typify this ethic through their consideration. May the respectful regard, they hold of the older in their consideration redound on them and everyone consideration laborers overall who are fighting this pandemic on the bleeding edge!
Like the consideration laborers at Sunlight, the laborers in numerous nations are regarded human life so that we cannot be embarrassed to return clean with the leading edge about ourselves. Salute the spearheading staff who salutes our purposeful endeavors to handle the pandemic in numerous settings around the globe, within the daylight, yet additionally to ensure that veterans are appropriately treated, took care of and washed.
We all hope and pray that the coronavirus will soon be controlled and subdued. And that when the crisis is behind us, that we continue the important work of protecting the elderly and other vulnerable segments of our citizenry.
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Paratroopers prepare to land during a Joint Forcible Entry exercise as part of exercise Swift Response 15 on Hohenburg drop zone in Hohenfels, Germany, Aug. 26, 2015. Swift Response 15 is the U.S. Army’s largest combined airborne training event in Europe since the end of the Cold War. More than 4,800 service members from 11 NATO nations – including Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States – will take part in the exercise on training areas in Bulgaria, Germany, Italy and Romania, Aug. 17-Sept. 13, 2015. Swift Response 15 is designed to integrate multiple Allied nations’ crisis response forces into a cohesive team and demonstrate the combined ability to rapidly deploy and operate in support of maintaining a strong and secure Europe. To learn more about Swift Response, visit the U.S. Army Europe homepage at www.eur.army.mil. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Nikayla Shodeen)
POSTOJNA, Slovenia - Slovenia hosted Albanian and British Soldiers for situational training exercises as part of the multi-national exercise Immediate Response 15 near Postojna, Slovenia September 13, 2015. Immediate Response 15 is a multinational, brigade-level exercise utilizing computer-assisted simulations and field training exercises spanning two countries. The exercises and simulations are built upon a scenario designed to enhance regional stability, strengthen partner capacity and improve interoperability between partner nations. Immediate Response is an annual exercise, and the fifth iteration is scheduled to run Sept. 9-22, 2015. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Walter E. van Ochten)
Paratroopers conduct a static-line jump during a Joint Forcible Entry exercise as part of exercise Swift Response 15 on Hohenburg drop zone in Hohenfels, Germany, Aug. 26, 2015. Swift Response 15 is the U.S. Army’s largest combined airborne training event in Europe since the end of the Cold War. More than 4,800 service members from 11 NATO nations participated during the exercise. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kwadwo Frimpong / Released)
British Army parachutists descend from the skies over the U.S. Army's Hohenfels Training Area (Germany) on Exercise Swift Response 2015, Aug. 26, 2015.
Nearly 5,000 personnel from 11 NATO countries are participating in Exercise Swift Response, the largest combined airborne training exercise in Europe since the end of the Cold War. The exercise is being held from 18th August to 12th September in Germany, Romania, Bulgaria and Italy and one of the major events featured over 1,000 multinational troops parachuting into a Drop Zone on a single day in Hohenfels, Bavaria. (Photo courtesy of Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe)
POSTOJNA, Slovenia - Slovenia hosted Albanian and British Soldiers for situational training exercises as part of the multi-national exercise Immediate Response 15 near Postojna, Slovenia September 13, 2015. Immediate Response 15 is a multinational, brigade-level exercise utilizing computer-assisted simulations and field training exercises spanning two countries. The exercises and simulations are built upon a scenario designed to enhance regional stability, strengthen partner capacity and improve interoperability between partner nations. Immediate Response is an annual exercise, and the fifth iteration is scheduled to run Sept. 9-22, 2015. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Walter E. van Ochten)
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Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service Scania P260 pump DK19BFJ (Fleet No. 1396) seen in attendance at premises in Rowson Street, New Brighton, 02.07.2022, as Birkenhead Papa 1, in company with Wallasey Papa 1, in response to what is thought to have been an Automatic Fire Alarm.
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Airborne forces show Swift Response
British airborne forces are training alongside NATO counterparts to develop their ability to work together to deliver a Swift Response to international crises.
16 Air Assault Brigade is on Exercise Swift Response, which brings together more than 5,000 personnel from 10 nations and takes place in Poland and Germany between May 27-June 26, 2016.
Under the command of Headquarters 16 Air Assault Brigade some 2,000 troops are taking part, the largest British contingent to deploy on a NATO exercise in 2016. The joint force includes 3 PARA Battlegroup, including engineer, artillery, logistics, signals, medical, provost and ISTAR support; Apache attack helicopters from 4 Regiment Army Air Corps; and RAF Chinook and Puma support helicopters and C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
The training involves mass parachute jumps and air assault operations as part of a simulated mission to restore stability to a troubled region. It is key to developing interoperability with 82nd Airborne Division and 11e Brigade Parachutists, the Brigade’s key partners in the US and French armies respectively, as well as wider allies.
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POSTOJNA, Slovenia - More than 1400 participants, including U.S. Service Members, took part in two opening ceremonies held for the multinational exercise Immediate Response 15. The ceremonies took place in Postojna, Slovenia and one in Slunj, Croatia, on September 9, 2015. Immediate Response 15 is an annual exercise designed to provide opportunities to plan and synchronize missions and responsibilities among allied and partnered nations to enhance combat readiness and compatibility in the current operational environment. This year’s participants include contingents from Slovenia, Croatia, The United States, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and United Kingdom. (U.S. Army Photo by SGT. 1st Class Walter E. van Ochten 118th MPAD TARNG).
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A U.S. Soldier assigned to the 1st Infantry Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division repacks his parachute while conducting airborne operations during exercise Swift Response 15 at the U.S. Army's Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, Aug. 26, 2015. The purpose of the exercise is to conduct joint and combined training events in order to evaluate brigade and battalion level execution of strategic out-load in conjunction with Allied Partner nations through an intermediate staging base. Swift Response 15 is the U.S. Armyâs largest combined airborne training event in Europe since the end of the Cold War. More than 4,800 service members from 11 NATO nations- including Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States- will take part in the exercise on training areas in Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, and Romania, Aug. 17- Sept. 13, 2015. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Lloyd Villanueva/Released)
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Thane White, 39th Airlift Squadron loadmaster, directs a humve off a C-130J Hercules during exercise Swift Response 16, June 8, 2016 at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Swift Response is a joint, multinational-exercise designed to train the U.S. Global Response Force alongside high-readiness forces from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. The men and women of the 40th AS support theater commanders' requirements with combat-delivery capability through tactical airland and airdrop operations as well as humanitarian efforts and aeromedical evacuation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. DeAndre Curtiss/Released)
More than 1,000 paratroopers from Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, the U.K and the U.S. conducted an airborne operation as part of exercise Swift Response 15 on Hohenburg drop zone in Hohenfels, Germany, Aug. 26, 2015. Swift Response 15 is the U.S. Army’s largest combined airborne training event in Europe since the end of the Cold War. More than 4,800 service members from 11 NATO nations - Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States - will take part in the exercise on training areas in Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, and Romania, Aug. 17 - Sept. 13, 2015. Swift Response 15 is designed to integrate multiple allied nations’ crisis response forces into a cohesive team and demonstrate the combined ability to rapidly deployed and operate in support of maintaining a strong and secure Europe. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Juan F. Jimenez/Released)
POSTOJNA, Slovenia - Slovenia hosted Albanian and British Soldiers for situational training exercises as part of the multi-national exercise Immediate Response 15 near Postojna, Slovenia September 13, 2015. Immediate Response 15 is a multinational, brigade-level exercise utilizing computer-assisted simulations and field training exercises spanning two countries. The exercises and simulations are built upon a scenario designed to enhance regional stability, strengthen partner capacity and improve interoperability between partner nations. Immediate Response is an annual exercise, and the fifth iteration is scheduled to run Sept. 9-22, 2015. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Walter E. van Ochten)
A U.S. Army 173rd Airborne Brigade jumpmaster rests on a C-130J Hercules flight during exercise Swift Response 16, June 15, 2016 at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Swift Response is a joint, multinational-exercise designed to train the U.S. Global Response Force alongside high-readiness forces from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. DeAndre Curtiss/Released)
A military tactical vehicle prepares to engage it's target during Exercise Swift Response. The exercise is one of the premier military crisis response training events for multi-national airborne forces in the world. The exercise is designed to enhance the readiness of the combat core of the U.S. Global Response Force-currently the 82nd Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team-to conduct rapid-response, joint-forcible entry and follow-on operations alongside Allied high-readiness forces in Europe. Swift Response 16 includes more than 5,000 Soldiers and Airmen from Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britian, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the United States and takes place in Poland and Germany, May 27-June 26, 2016. (U.S. Army photo by Visual Information Specialist Jason Johnston/Released)
POSTOJNA, Slovenian - Slovenia was the host to Albanian and British Soldiers for situational training exercise drills as part of the multi-national exercise Immediate Response 15 near Postojna, Slovenia September 13, 2015. Immediate Response 15 is a multinational, brigade-level exercise utilizing computer-assisted simulations and field training exercises spanning two countries. The exercises and simulations are built upon a scenario designed to enhance regional stability, strengthen partner capacity and improve interoperability between partner nations. Immediate Response is an annual exercise, and the fifth iteration is scheduled to run Sept. 9-22, 2015. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Walter E. van Ochten)
A U.S. Air Force C-130J Hercules flies in formation during exercise Swift Response 16, June 8, 2016 at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Swift Response is a joint, multinational-exercise designed to train the U.S. Global Response Force alongside high-readiness forces from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. The men and women of the 40th AS support theater commanders' requirements with combat-delivery capability through tactical airland and airdrop operations as well as humanitarian efforts and aeromedical evacuation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. DeAndre Curtiss/Released)
Exercise Swift Response 16 went in to high gear June 7, 2016, as more than 1,500 paratroopers from the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division, the British 16 Air Assault Brigade and the Polish 6th Airborne Brigade conducted a combined jump on to a drop zone near the city of Torun, Poland.
Hurricane Harvey disaster response, Captain Patrick Gesner of The Salvation Army Coastal Bend reports that he and three staff members who remained in Corpus Christi overnight at the FEMA dome are doing well. The Salvation Army is concentrating their early efforts to feed the 200 first responders who are staged at the FEMA dome.
Gen. Mark A. Milley, the U.S. Army Chief of Staff, listens to a briefing on Exercise Swift Response 16 from Maj. Tara Kaiser, the 82nd Airborne Division chief planner, before elements of the Division headquarters and 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team conduction an Airborne joint forcible entry into Torun, Poland. Exercise Swift Response 16 is one of the premier military crisis response training events for multi-national airborne forces in the world. The exercise is designed to enhance the readiness of the combat core of the U.S. Global Response Force to conduct rapid-response, joint forcible entry and follow-on operations alongside Allied high-readiness forces in Europe. Swift Response 16 includes more than 5,000 Soldiers and Airmen from Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the United States and takes place in Poland and Germany, May 27-June 26. (Sgt. 1st Class Alexander Burnett, 82nd Airborne Division PAO)
The United States Army Garrison Italy conducted a routine annual full-scale exercise Lion Response 2017 on Caserma Ederle May 10.
This year’s exercise tested the cooperation of Italian and American security forces and emergency Italian and U.S. personnel to react to an emergency situation, which included a terrorist attack and a mass casualty situation on Caserma Ederle and a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device at Camp Darby in Livorno.
Photo by Laura Kreider/USAG Italy PAO
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Members of the 301st Chemical Company from the Kentucky National Guard assist civil authorities during search and rescue operations in the city of West Liberty, which was hit by a tornado on March 2
(U.S. Army photo by Maj. David Page, Kentucky National Guard, Public Affairs)
POSTOJNA, Slovenia - More than 1400 participants, including U.S. Service Members, took part in two opening ceremonies held for the multinational exercise Immediate Response 15. The ceremonies took place in Postojna, Slovenia and one in Slunj, Croatia, on September 9, 2015. Immediate Response 15 is an annual exercise designed to provide opportunities to plan and synchronize missions and responsibilities among allied and partnered nations to enhance combat readiness and compatibility in the current operational environment. This year’s participants include contingents from Slovenia, Croatia, The United States, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and United Kingdom. (U.S. Army Photo by SGT. 1st Class Walter E. van Ochten 118th MPAD TARNG).
A U.S. Army paratrooper from the 173rd Airborne Brigade conducts a night mission in Bulgaria during exercise Swift Response 15, Aug 24, 2015. Swift Response 15 is the U.S. Army’s largest combined airborne training event in Europe since the end of the Cold War. More than 4,800 service members from 11 NATO nations – including Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States – will take part in the exercise on training areas in Bulgaria, Germany, Italy and Romania, Aug. 17-Sept. 13, 2015. Swift Response 15 is designed to integrate multiple Allied nations’ crisis response forces into a cohesive team and demonstrate the combined ability to rapidly deploy and operate in support of maintaining a strong and secure Europe. To learn more about Swift Response, visit the U.S. Army Europe homepage at www.eur.army.mil. (U.S. Army Photo)
Air Force, Tech. Sgt. Mark Chapman from the 202nd Red
Horse Squadron out of Jacksonville, Fla., supervises a rubble clearing
mission after a simulated nuclear explosion at The National Guard's Muscatatuck Urban Training Center in Butlerville, Ind., July 16, during Vibrant Response 10.2, a U.S.
Army North national emergency response exercise, involving more than 3,000 disaster response personnel from across the United States. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Will Hill)
A U.S. Army soldier from the 82nd Airborne Division demonstrates proper airborne procedures to Polish paratroopers during pre-jump training in Baumholder, Germany as part of exercise Swift Response 15, Aug 23, 2015. Swift Response 15 is the U.S. Army’s largest combined airborne training event in Europe since the end of the Cold War. More than 4,800 service members from 11 NATO nations – including Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States – will take part in the exercise on training areas in Bulgaria, Germany, Italy and Romania, Aug. 17-Sept. 13, 2015. Swift Response 15 is designed to integrate multiple Allied nations’ crisis response forces into a cohesive team and demonstrate the combined ability to rapidly deploy and operate in support of maintaining a strong and secure Europe. To learn more about Swift Response, visit the U.S. Army Europe homepage at www.eur.army.mil. (U.S. Army Photo)
The Jaguar programme began in the early 1960s, in response to a British requirement (Air Staff Target 362) for an advanced supersonic jet trainer to replace the Folland Gnat T1 and Hawker Hunter T7, and a French requirement (ECAT or École de Combat et d'Appui Tactique, "Tactical Combat Support Trainer") for a cheap, subsonic dual role trainer and light attack aircraft to replace the Fouga Magister, Lockheed T-33 and Dassault Mystère IV. In both countries several companies tendered designs: BAC, Hunting, Hawker Siddeley and Folland in Britain; Breguet, Potez, Sud-Aviation, Nord, and Dassault from France. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed in May 1965 for the two countries to develop two aircraft, a trainer based on the ECAT, and the larger AFVG (Anglo-French Variable Geometry).
Cross-channel negotiations led to the formation of SEPECAT (Société Européenne de Production de l'Avion d'École de Combat et d'Appui Tactique – the "European company for the production of a combat trainer and tactical support aircraft") in 1966 as a joint venture between Breguet and the British Aircraft Corporation to produce the airframe. Though based in part on the Breguet, using the same basic configuration and an innovative French-designed landing gear, the Jaguar was built incorporating major elements of design from BAC, notably the wing and high lift devices.
Production of components would be split between Breguet and BAC, and the aircraft themselves would be assembled on two production lines; one in the UK and one in France, To avoid any duplication of work, each aircraft component had only one source. The British light strike/tactical support versions were the most demanding design, requiring supersonic performance, superior avionics, a cutting edge nav/attack system of more accuracy and complexity than the French version, moving map display, laser range-finder and marked-target seeker (LRMTS). As a result, the initial Br.121 design needed a thinner wing, redesigned fuselage, a higher rear cockpit, and after-burning engines. While putting on smiling faces for the public, maintaining the illusion of a shared design, the British design departed from the French sub-sonic Breguet 121 to such a degree that it was effectively a new design.
A separate partnership was formed between Rolls-Royce and Turbomeca to develop the Adour afterburning turbofan engine. The Br.121 was proposed with Turbomeca's Tourmalet engine for ECAT but Breguet preferred the RR RB.172 and their joint venture would use elements of both. The new engine, which would be used for the AFVG as well, would be built in Derby and Tarnos.
Previous collaborative efforts between Britain and France had been complicated – the AFVG programme ended in cancellation, and controversy surrounded the development of the supersonic airliner Concorde. Whilst the technical collaboration between BAC and Breguet went well, when Dassault took over Breguet in 1971 it encouraged acceptance of its own designs, such as the Super Étendard naval attack aircraft and the Mirage F1, for which it would receive more profit, over the Anglo-French Jaguar.
The initial plan was for Britain to buy 150 Jaguar "B" trainers, with its strike requirements being met by the advanced BAC-Dassault AFVG aircraft, with France to buy 75 "E" trainers (école) and 75 "A" single-seat strike attack aircraft (appui). Dassault favoured its own Mirage G aircraft above the collaborative AFVG, and in June 1967, France cancelled the AFVG on cost grounds. This left a gap in the RAF's planned strike capabilities for the 1970s at the same time as France's cancellation of the AFVG, Germany was expressing a serious interest in the Jaguar and thus the design became more oriented towards the low-level strike role.
With the cancellation of both the BAC TSR-2 tactical strike aircraft and Hawker Siddeley P.1154 supersonic V/STOL fighter, the RAF were looking increasingly hard at their future light strike needs and realizing that they now needed more than just advanced trainers with some secondary counter insurgency capability. At this point, the RAF's proposed strike fleet was to be the American General Dynamics F-111s plus the AFVG for lighter strike purposes. There was concern that both F-111 and AFVG were high risk projects and with the French already planning on a strike role for the Jaguar, there was an opportunity to introduce a credible backup plan for the RAF's future strike needs – the Jaguar. As a result, by October 1970, the RAF's requirements had changed to 165 single-seat strike aircraft and 35 trainers.
The Jaguar was to replace the McDonnell Douglas Phantom FGR2 in the close air support, tactical reconnaissance and tactical strike roles, freeing the Phantom to be used for air defence. Both the French and British trainer requirements had developed significantly, and were eventually fulfilled instead by the Alpha Jet and Hawker Siddeley Hawk respectively. The French, meanwhile, had chosen the Jaguar to replace the Aeronavale's Dassault Étendard IV, and increased their order to include an initial 40 of a carrier-capable maritime version of the Jaguar, the Jaguar M. From these apparently disparate aims would come a single and entirely different aircraft: relatively high-tech, supersonic, and optimised for ground-attack in a high-threat environment.
POSTOJNA, Slovenia - Slovenia hosted Albanian and British Soldiers for situational training exercises as part of the multi-national exercise Immediate Response 15 near Postojna, Slovenia September 13, 2015. Immediate Response 15 is a multinational, brigade-level exercise utilizing computer-assisted simulations and field training exercises spanning two countries. The exercises and simulations are built upon a scenario designed to enhance regional stability, strengthen partner capacity and improve interoperability between partner nations. Immediate Response is an annual exercise, and the fifth iteration is scheduled to run Sept. 9-22, 2015. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Walter E. van Ochten)
POSTOJNA, Slovenia - Slovenia hosted Albanian and British Soldiers for situational training exercises as part of the multi-national exercise Immediate Response 15 near Postojna, Slovenia September 13, 2015. Immediate Response 15 is a multinational, brigade-level exercise utilizing computer-assisted simulations and field training exercises spanning two countries. The exercises and simulations are built upon a scenario designed to enhance regional stability, strengthen partner capacity and improve interoperability between partner nations. Immediate Response is an annual exercise, and the fifth iteration is scheduled to run Sept. 9-22, 2015. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Walter E. van Ochten)
A German C-160 Transall unloads members of allied and partner nations over the Hohenburg drop zone while conducting airborne operations during exercise Swift Response 15 at the U.S. Army’s Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, Aug. 26, 2015. Swift Response 15 is the U.S. Army’s largest combined airborne training event in Europe since the end of the Cold War. More than 4,800 service members from 11 NATO nations – including Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States – will take part in the exercise on training areas in Bulgaria, Germany, Italy and Romania, Aug. 17-Sept. 13, 2015. Swift Response 15 is designed to integrate multiple Allied nations’ crisis response forces into a cohesive team and demonstrate the combined ability to rapidly deploy and operate in support of maintaining a strong and secure Europe. To learn more about Swift Response, visit the U.S. Army Europe homepage at www.eur.army.mil. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Ian Schell)
POSTOJNA, Slovenia - More than 1400 participants, including U.S. Service Members, took part in two opening ceremonies held for the multinational exercise Immediate Response 15. The ceremonies took place in Postojna, Slovenia and one in Slunj, Croatia, on September 9, 2015. Immediate Response 15 is an annual exercise designed to provide opportunities to plan and synchronize missions and responsibilities among allied and partnered nations to enhance combat readiness and compatibility in the current operational environment. This year’s participants include contingents from Slovenia, Croatia, The United States, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and United Kingdom. (U.S. Army Photo by SGT. 1st Class Walter E. van Ochten 118th MPAD TARNG).
A French enlisted soldier just parachuted into Hohenfels Jump Zone, at Joint Multinational Readiness Center, in southwestern Germany during Operation Swift Response, June 15, 2016. Exercise Swift Response is one of the premier military crisis response training events for multi-national airborne forces in the world. The exercise is designed to enhance the readiness of the combat core of the U.S. Global Response Force -- currently the 82nd Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team -- to conduct rapid response, joint-forcible entry and follow-on operations alongside Allied high-readiness forces in Europe. Swift Response 16 includes more than 5,000 Soldiers and Airmen from Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the United states and takes place in Poland and Germany, May 27-June 26, 2016. (Photo by U.S. Army National Guard Sgt. Adrian Shelton)
An 82nd Airborne Division Paratrooper prepares to land on a drop zone in Torun, Poland during Exercise Swift Response 16, June 7. Exercise Swift Response 16 is one of the premier military crisis response training events for multi-national airborne forces in the world. The exercise is designed to enhance the readiness of the combat core of the U.S. Global Response Force to conduct rapid-response, joint forcible entry and follow-on operations alongside Allied high-readiness forces in Europe. Swift Response 16 includes more than 5,000 Soldiers and Airmen from Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the United States and takes place in Poland and Germany, May 27-June 26. (Sgt. 1st Class Alexander Burnett, 82nd Airborne Division PAO)
U.S. Army Major James Armstrong an observer control officer from the Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Hohenfells, Germany, briefs the Croatian Land Forces Commander Lt. Gen. Mate Ostovic and other distinguished visitors about the ongoing training at Exercise Immediate Response 15. Immediate Response 15 is a multinational, brigade-level exercise utilizing computer-assisted simulations and field training exercises in Croatia and Slovenia. The exercises and simulations are built upon a scenario designed to enhance regional stability, strengthen partner capacity and improve interoperability between partner nations. The exercise will run Sept. 9-22, 2015, and will include more than 1,400 soldiers from Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia, the U.S. and the United Kingdom. Immediate Response 15 supports the goal of a “Strong Europe” in that partner nations are trained and ready to combine forces to ensure unified security across allied nations. Immediate Response is a preplanned exercise that has occurred annually for the past five years.
Photo by: U.S. Army Photo (Mr. Tony Sweeney)
EPA monitoring station in NYC's favorite Superfund site. Taken at the semi-abandoned wing of the whole foods lot. I love the way the light works in this spot. You don't get the nasty orange from the street lamps, so the lavender gowanus sky really comes through.
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PAPA AIR BASE, Hungary — Soldiers don gear in preparation for an airborne operation while riggers and jumpmasters check for faults, July 18. The 449 paratroopers participating in the operation include Allies from Canada, Hungary and Italy. The operation is part of Swift Response, a U.S.- led airborne exercise, which will include two airfield seizures, an air assault operation and air movement of a platoon of Strykers from 2nd Cavalry Regiment. The paratroopers will board multiple C-130 Hercules, provided by U.S. Air Force bases. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Shiloh Capers)
A Polish paratrooper packs his chute during a Joint Forcible Entry exercise as part of exercise Swift Response 15 on Hohenburg drop zone in Hohenfels, Germany, Aug. 26, 2015. Swift Response 15 is the U.S. Army’s largest combined airborne training event in Europe since the end of the Cold War. More than 4,800 service members from 11 NATO nations – including Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States – will take part in the exercise on training areas in Bulgaria, Germany, Italy and Romania, Aug. 17-Sept. 13, 2015. Swift Response 15 is designed to integrate multiple Allied nations’ crisis response forces into a cohesive team and demonstrate the combined ability to rapidly deploy and operate in support of maintaining a strong and secure Europe. To learn more about Swift Response, visit the U.S. Army Europe homepage at www.eur.army.mil. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Nikayla Shodeen)
A Paratrooper from 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, prepares to conduct a night mission during Swift Response 2015. Swift Response 15 is the U.S. Army’s largest combined airborne training event in Europe since the end of the Cold War. More than 4,800 service members from 11 NATO nations - Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States - will take part in the exercise on training areas in Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, and Romania, Aug. 17 - Sept. 13, 2015. Swift Response 15 is designed to integrate multiple Allied nations’ crisis response forces into a cohesive team and demonstrate the combined ability to rapidly deploy and operate in support of maintaining a strong and secure Europe. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Javier Orona/Released)
British army parachute regiment paratroopers conduct a static line jump during exercise Swift Response 16, June 15, 2016 at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Swift Response is a joint, multinational-exercise designed to train the U.S. Global Response Force alongside high-readiness forces from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. DeAndre Curtiss/Released)
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A German paratrooper packs his parachute and moves to meet up with his team during a joint forcible entry exercise as part of Swift Response 15 on Hohenburg drop zone in Hohenfels, Germany, Aug. 26, 2015. More than 1,000 paratroopers from Germany Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, the U.K and the U.S. conducted an airborne operation as part of exercise Swift Response 15 on Hohenburg drop zone in Hohenfels, Germany, Aug. 26, 2015. Swift Response 15 is the U.S. Army’s largest combined airborne training event in Europe since the end of the Cold War. More than 4,800 service members from 11 NATO nations- Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States- will take part in the exercise on training areas in Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, and Romania, Aug. 17 - Sept. 13, 2015. Swift Response 15 is designed to integrate multiple allied nations’ crisis response forces into a cohesive team and demonstrate the combined ability to rapidly deployed and operate in support of maintaining a strong and secure Europe. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Juan F. Jimenez/Released)