Category: military

Dawn Blitz 2013 – Air Assault

It’s was a bright typical summer day at Camp Pendleton in sunny Southern California. The Dawn Blitz 2013 Exercise has been taking place since early June. Dawn Blitz 2013 is a multinational exercise that the Navy and Marine Corps...

Going Low In The Mach Loop

Remember the time that spotting was a hobby which needed patience? You just went to any airfield in the hope to see something. You know, before the web………. hello, anybody? For those of you who miss that time or...

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 embarked on a journey to...

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 base for the latest Marine...

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 a certain house being protected...

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 seventh fuselage tank, the AN-APQ-120...

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 and Massachusetts coastlines too) is...

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