Tagged: Marines

Helicopters / military / Search and Rescue

August 31, 2017

Aviation Assets Bring Aid to the Houston Area After Harvey’s Floods

U.S. Coast Guard MH-65D Dolphin Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the city of New Orleans, Louisiana in late August of 2005, serves as a benchmark to compare responses to natural disasters in the United States. Twelve years later, Hurricane Harvey...

military / Photography and Spotting

February 20, 2017

Rainbow Canyon California

Father Crowley Vista Point is a viewing platform on which you can look into the Rainbow Canyon. It is located at an altitude of about 4000 meters, is called R2508 complex and is managed by the Edwards AFB. It...

Exercises / fighters / military / Red Flag / U.S. Air Force / U.S. Marines / U.S. Navy

September 15, 2016

2016’s Summer of Flags

From July 11-29, and from August 15-26, 2016, the United States Air Force’s 414th Combat Training Squadron hosted a pair of ‘Red Flag’ exercises at Nellis Air Force Base just outside Las Vegas, Nevada. These exercises are advanced aerial...

Airshow / demo teams / europe / fighters / Formation Flying / military / Transports / U.S. Marines / U.S. Navy

March 24, 2016

Seventy Years Strong: The U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels

On April 24, 1946, shortly after the Second World War ended, Admiral Chester Nimitz, then Chief of Naval Operations, directed that a “flight demonstration team be organized within the Naval Advanced Training Command to represent the Navy at air...

Airshow / demo teams / Marines / navy / Transports

September 22, 2015

In the Back of Fat Albert

The Marines operate a Lockheed Martin C-130T Hercules as part of the storied Blue Angels Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron. Nicknamed Fat Albert, the four-engined tactical turboprop transport carries a mini-maintenance shop and the required non-piloting Blue Angels crew members...

Marines / military

May 14, 2013

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...