Tagged: operations

Air National Guard / Airshow / EAA / military / Military Special Operations / U.S. Air Force

September 11, 2021

U.S. Air Force Special Operations Aircraft at EAA’s AirVenture 2021

EAA’s AirVenture Oshkosh 2021 featured a great deal of American military aircraft. Between active military airplanes, helicopters, UAVs and their crews, plus warbirds – which are retired military aircraft now owned and operated by civilians – a great collection...

Base Visits / Red Flag / U.S. Air Force / U.S. Army / U.S. Marines / U.S. Navy

March 1, 2018

Winds of Change to Standard Red Flag Operations.

In late January, the first of three planned Red Flag exercises for fiscal year 2018 kicked off at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, Nevada. All four branches of the United States Armed Forces, as well as those...

air force / Australia / Base Visits / Exercises / fighters / Marines / military / Royal Canadian Air Force / tanker ride / Transports / U.S. Air Force / U.S. Marines

September 7, 2016

Pitch Black 2016, Part 2 – Operations

Run over the first three weeks of August, Exercise Pitch Black 2016 ran a “Media Embed Program” for the benefit of local and international media organisations, during the exercise. PHOTORECON was privileged to be invited to participate. Briefings were...

Aerial Firefighters / bombers

July 1, 2015

Palmer Base Expands Operations For the Alaskan Sockeye and Card Street Fires

Monday, June 15, 2015 was a newsworthy day in the town of Willow, Alaska, about a two hour drive north of Anchorage. The nearby wildfire, known as the Sockeye Fire to forestry and firefighting personnel, had grown alarmingly fast...

europe / fighters / military

March 23, 2014

Peter Boschert in Greece, Hellenic Air Force A-7 operations.

In 1975 Grecce ordered 75 A-7H. These were like the A-7D of the USAF but lacked the inflight refueling capacity. Five two-seat TA-7H completed the order. These A-7s were based by the Hellenic Air Force with the...