Friday, September 23, 2011
Jacked up road march...
I never heard of so many heat casualties in one training evolution. Wonder what was going on?
FORT BRAGG, N.C. --- Dozens of Soldiers at North Carolina's Fort Bragg suffered heat-related problems after participating in an early morning march.Base spokesman Ben Abel said Friday that 37 Soldiers required medical treatment. Of those, 13 were taken to Womack Army Medical Center.One Soldier remains in the hospital's intensive care unit.About 60 Soldiers from various units at the sprawling Army base in the southeastern area of the state set out at about 5:30 a.m. for a road march in full combat gear as part of final training to receive their expert field medical badge.Doesn't seem like it was crazy hot...I wonder what the pace was and the type of Soldiers involved (their MOS...if these were grunts then something weird is going on).Temperatures were in the 70s but with a light rain and humidity as high as 95 percent.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Recon gets into the breeze...
Reconnaissance Marines with the 11th MEU watch their fellow service members parachute from a CH-46E on Camp Pendleton |
Reconnaissance Marines with the 11th MEU prepare their gear before they jump out of a CH-46E on Camp Pendleton |
Reconnaissance Marines with the 11th MEU jump out of a CH-46E on Camp Pendleton Sept. 22 |
24th MEU trains at Army base Fort Pickett
Photos by Sgt. Richard Blumenstein
First Steps To The Deck
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Dept. Of Defense sees the value of STOVL aircraft.
via the Washington Times..
In addition to announcing the Taiwanese military upgrade, the Pentagon this week will release a congressionally mandated study on Taiwan’s air power.Read the whole thing. Understand that the WT was able to find an "expert" that shot down the report as simply being justification not to sell new F-16's to Taiwan. But in my opinion there is more to it than just that. It should be obvious to all that the nation of Taiwan is vulnerable and that the only aircraft that will be able to get into the air after a missile strike is on that is STOVL.
The study concludes that Taiwan's military should buy short-takeoff and vertical-landing jets such as the British-design AV-8B Harrier jump jet or the new F-35B vertical-takeoff version, according to the officials familiar with the aircraft.
That conclusion was based on anticipated Chinese missile strikes against Taiwanese airfields with cratering munitions that would thwart takeoffs by F-16s and other jets
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