Tagged: UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS

September 21, 2015

Camarillo Air Show 2015

The Wings over Camarillo Airshow had something for everyone of all ages…just as billed. For those that showed up early, the Ventura County 99s cooked an amazing pancake breakfast, an annual treat of the show. For the kids in...

fighters / Marines / military

September 12, 2015

VMFAT-101 Visiting Long Beach Airport

The sound of military jets could be heard all over the city of Long Beach, California during the Labor Day weekend. The source of that sound was Marine Flight Attack Training Squadron VMFAT-101 know as “The Sharpshooters” based at...

Airshow / fighters / warbirds

August 17, 2015

Camarillo Preview 2015

Wing over Camarillo will be held August 22-23. If you have never come out to this air show, do yourself a favor and seize the opportunity this year. The show starts at 12:00pm and will conclude around 4:30pm each...

air force / Airshow / demo teams / europe / fighters / military / Trainers

June 11, 2015

Rhode Island Air Show Hits Jet Team Trifecta

The on-line dictionary Encarta defines the word trifecta like this: “1. bet on first 3 in race …a bet… that involves selecting the competitors that will come in the first three places in the correct order. 2. set of...

fighters / Marines / military

June 6, 2015

VMFA- 323 The Death Rattlers (a.k.a. The Snakes)

The Second World War was still raging in Europe and the Pacific on August 1, 1943, when Marine Fighter Squadron VMF-323, the “Death Rattlers” were commissioned at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Cherry Point in North Carolina. Arriving at...

favorite / military / navy / photocalls

May 15, 2015

Photorecon Visits The U.S.S. John C. Stennis – CVN 74

It’s often called “Four acres of American Sovereignty”, an American Aircraft Carrier can brings many different emotions to many different people and governments around the world, when one shows up offshore of a foreign country. Responding to emergencies such...

fighters / military / navy / post / tribute

May 5, 2015

Last Tomcats at NAS Oceana

The movie “Top Gun” made the F-14 Tomcat famous to most everyone. In 1997, after Naval Air Station Miramar was transferred to the United States Marine Corps, all F-14 Tomcats were moved to the East Coast, to NAS Oceana....

fighters / Marines / military

April 22, 2015

VMFAT-101 SHARPSHOOTERS – “Fighter Attack starts here”

Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 101 (VMFAT-101) was established at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, California on January 3rd 1969. The squadron trained naval aviators and naval flight officers for the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II. The Squadron...

air force / Airshow / warbirds

April 8, 2015

LA County Airshow 2015

The Los Angeles County Air Show roared back to life over the Antelope Valley on March 20th and 21st. Headlining this second year show was the United States Air Force Demonstration Team, the Thunderbirds. With a beautiful blue sky...

air force / Exercises / fighters / military

February 19, 2015

Red Flag 15-1 marks ‘Forty Years of Flag’

Forty years ago the United States Air Force needed to improve their success rate in aerial combat over Vietnam, where it had fallen from 10:1 during the Korean conflict, to lower than 1:1 at times, during the decade long Vietnam...

Marines / military / tribute

January 7, 2015

Saying Goodbye….

Men become attached, even grow to love certain non-human things, like a Cowboy to his horse, it was the same with the U.S. Marines and their Boeing Vertol CH-46 (Sea Knight) helicopters . First procured by the Marine Corps...

assignments / fighters / military / navy / photocalls

December 7, 2014

Naval Air Facility El Centro Photocall – Fall 2014

On November 20, approximately 100 photographers arrived outside the main gates of Naval Air Facility El Centro (NAFEC). They were there for one of two annual photocalls held at one of the most active airfield in the country.Naval Air...