Cross-Country Trek Honoring Our Fallen
While I was attending the F-35B media day at MCAS Yuma on 5-9-2013, Photorecon had the distinct honor to meet Joe “Tiger” Patrick II. Patrick is a veteran of Desert Storm and he has...
Category: military
A Morning visit to MCAS Yuma.
On May 9th, the United States Marine Corps invited a select few members of the media to the Air Station for an “Open House” of the new faculties that have been built on the...
Marines Training In The Old West.
While it may resemble Brawley, CA, it’s actually is the country of “Black”, and in one of the smaller towns, there is an insurgent leader who Intelligence has found out, is holed up in...
Phantoms Pharewell By Peter Boschert
The German Air Force bought 175 F-4F and 10 F-4E in 1971. The first aircraft had its maiden flight on 18th May 1973.The difference to the common F-4E were the the omission of the...
Pease Greeters Welcome Their 600th Flight
The Portsmouth International Airport at Pease has earned its’ International” moniker hundreds of times over during the past eight years. The location of the airport in New Hampshire’s Seacoast region (and near the Maine...
Pieter Stroobach Visits Albania Airbases
Albania is a not so lucky nation in terms of aviation history. For that matter Albania was not so lucky on being in the USSR sphere of influence after WOII but that is another...
Thunderbirds and Blue Angels: 2013 the Stealth Season
For all the people in Congress in Washington DC…. THANKS…. You are screwing up an American tradition. If any of you read this, please drop me a note. I’d love to chat. Now that...
Red Flag 13-3
Red Flag 13-3 was held at Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas, Nevada, from Feb. 25 to March 15, 2013. While twenty-nine different countries have participated in Red Flag exercises since 1975, this particular...
USS Ronald Reagan returns to Homeport
San Diego, CA — The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) returned to its homeport here, Thursday, March 21, after more than a year away. The ship and her 2,500 person crew departed...
Beginning of the End……..
Today marked another step for the decommissioning of an old warrior. The first time it took to the sky was in August of 1962, the Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight, has gone on to...
