Posted on July 9, 2026 by laststandonzombieisland Leave a comment Some 85 years ago this week, the 10,000-ton Dutch Java-Pacific Lijn/VNS passenger steamer SS Jaegersfontaine pulled out of San Francisco on 10 July and, steaming West across a wide and nervous ocean, arrived a little over 8,000 miles away at Rangoon in British Burma on the 28th, making it in aContinue reading “Always a good read – Hunter’s Fountain”
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Beale AFB picked to host new battle management squadron
By Courtney Mabeus-Brown U.S. Air Force U-2 Dragon Ladies and chase cars from the 99th Reconnaissance Squadron, T-38 Talons from the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron, and KC-135R Stratotankers from the 940th Air Refueling Wing conduct an elephant walk at Beale Air Force Base, California, Jan. 4, 2023. (Senior Airman Juliana Londono/Air Force) Beale Air Force Base, California, willContinue reading “Beale AFB picked to host new battle management squadron”
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) comes alongside the Military Sealift Command Oiler USNS John Lenthall (T-AO 189) for an underway replenishment (UNREP) while U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Dallas (WEHC-716) performs duties as plane guard.
Truman and Carrier Air Wing Three (CVW-3) are deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the multi-national coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer誷 Mate 3rd Class Christopher B. Stoltz. (RELEASED)
Humanitarian aid for Gaza is loaded onto a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III on March 16, 2024, at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.
The pallets of food and water were airdropped into the northern part of the Gaza Strip the following day. (J.P. Lawrence/Stars and Stripes) Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2024-03-18/al-udeid-gaza-aid-13355432.html?utm_source=Stars+and+Stripes+Emails&utm_campaign=Daily+Headlines&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Stars+and+Stripes+Emails&utm_campaign=1477c20227-Newsletter+-+Daily+Headlines&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0ab8697a7f-1477c20227-296803338Source – Stars and Stripes
Most Military Aircraft Are Conventional, But These 5 Really Make You Wonder
Keystone-France//Getty Images From (almost) nuclear powered to (literally) pancake shaped, these are the weirdest military aircraft in U.S. history.BY KYLE MIZOKAMIPUBLISHED: OCT 7, 2023SAVE ARTICLE The U.S. military-industrial complex has developed hundreds of planes since the start of World War II. As aviation engineers pushed the boundaries of known science and engineering, they occasionally veered into oddballContinue reading “Most Military Aircraft Are Conventional, But These 5 Really Make You Wonder”
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