Tag: AIRBORNE
Iraqi Chicken Farmers Get Jumpstart With Egg Deli...
" BAGHDAD, April 28, 2008 – Chicken farmers in Mahmudiyah, 20 miles south of Baghdad, received the jumpstart their industry needed with the arrival of 45,000 eggs, each ready for hatching. Army Capt. Benjamin Neusse, a civil military operations officer with 3rd...
UK plane makes Emergency landing
"ATHENS, Greece, April 7 (UPI) -- An easyJet flight traveling from Greece to Britain was required to turn around because of a "technical problem," airline officials said.Flight EZY 2002 left for Luton, England, Sunday about 11 p.m. with 119 passengers and landed back in...
Half a Decade of War: Five Years After Iraq Invas...
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AMY GOODMAN: [Five years ago] on March 19th, 2003, the US began bombing Baghdad. The invasion was on. Six weeks later, President Bush stood under a banner reading “Mission Accomplished” and declared an end to major military combat operations in Iraq. Now, half a...
Stealth bomber crashes at Andersen AFB (Guam)
Update: USAF grounds B-2 fleet pending crash investigastion "a B-2 stealth bomber crashed at Andersen Air Force Base this morning. The incident happened at around 10:45am Saturday, as information we've...
More UFO kerfuffle in Texas
So the U.S. military is now saying it might have been their own F-16s that caused all the drama in Stephenville the past two weeks, even though they originally said there were no planes in the area.Meanwhile, some...
C-130 Gunship Gets LASER Weapon
Practical high energy LASER weapons will soon be deployed in the battlefield. Boeing is about to begin field testing a new chemical LASER system it has installed on a C-130H Gunship used widely for ground...
U.S. Army selects Airborne Aystems DragonFly and ...
"DragonFly is a precision guided parachute delivery system that uses Global Positioning System (GPS) signals to steer up to 10,000 lbs of cargo; dropping supplies to troops in remote or dangerous areas.
After being dropped from high altitude, DragonFly uses GPS and a...
U.S. Army buys IDM-304 from Symetrics
"Symetrics President and CEO, Mitch Garner stated, "We are absolutely thrilled with this order because it demonstrates the Army's confidence in our ability to execute a long-term, high volume production effort. The IDM-304 is the cornerstone of the Army's airborne element of...
Iraq Vets Respond ... to the New York Times Seven
There is a growing split within the military on the extent to which current soldiers serving anywhere in the world can express their views publically on op ed pages of major news papers. A Group of 7 soldiers, aka the New York Times Seven, serving in Iraq recently...
3 aviators declared dead in ocean crash
"NORFOLK, Va. — Three aviators on a twin-engine radar plane that crashed off North Carolina's coast have died, the Navy said Friday.
Search crews found debris from the E-2C Hawkeye turbo prop plane but no bodies,...
Dario Franchitti Survives to "Fly" Another Day - ...
"The IndyCar race at Michigan International Speedway was very exciting, close (to close), and virtually unwatched due to a rain delay that pushed the original start time and broadcast outlet off a good four hours...
Is the United States Army officially teaching ant...
Is the United States Army
officially teaching anti-Arab racism? It
would seem so and the evidence is in black and white.
After everything else, here
is a document issued to American military personnel on how...
With allies in enemy ranks, GIs in Iraq are no lo...
"BAGHDAD: Staff Sergeant David Safstrom does not regret his previous tours in Iraq, not even a difficult second stint when two comrades were killed while trying to capture insurgents.
"In Mosul, in 2003, it felt like...
Supercharge a Paper Airplane
The single-sheet paper airplanes you made when you were a kid (or perhaps last week in your cubicle) were, well, kid stuff compared to this beefed-up paper craft, which uses an electric motor from an old pager or toy powered by a big electrolytic capacitor. Known as a "Gold...
Back Iraqi Nationalists and Get Out by Charley Reese
"Gen. David Petraeus, touted by the Bush administration as the potential savior of the Iraq debacle, is like a lot of officers these days, a four-star general with relatively little combat experience.
He led the 101st Airborne Division during the initial invasion of Iraq and...
