The US Marines have removed a “public service announcement” they had published that used the case of former Marine Sgt Gary Stein as an example of what not to do in an election year.
Mike Barton, deputy director of public affairs at Cherry Point, said featuring Stein’s story in its PSA was meant to serve as a cautionary tale Read more
The US Army has announced it will end its decade-long NASCAR sponsorship after this year. The move has been praised by Betty McCollum (D-Minn), who has put forward amendments for at least two years attempting to strip the military’s ability to sponsor professional sports. For its part, the military generally considers such exposure good for recruiting. For the record, the Army will still be sponsoring a car in the National Hot Rod Association.
In his tradition of revising history, Michael Weinstein will likely claim this as a victory in his organization’s efforts to keep religious faith out of the military — not that Weinstein’s position has ever been consistent.
During every pilots’ recurring Emergency Procedures evaluation (whether in a simulator or in a table-top with an instructor), there comes a point where the evaluator needs to make the pilot “go around,” or wave off the landing, in order to observe the required “single-engine go around” or equivalent emergency go-around. This might take an extreme situation, because a pilot in an emergency would have wide latitude to land even if, for example, the control tower told him not to.
Unless, of course, there’s a busload of nuns on the runway. It never fails, Read more
In what may be an inauspicious bit of timing, given accusations of a frat-house like mentality in some government organizations, a young Public Affairs Airman documents a long-standing Air Force tradition: the combat dining-in:
This year, I was in the right place at the right time and was able to attend the 2012 Schriever Dining In… Read more
The US Navy has long relied on two-engine aircraft because, when you’re flying only over blue water, it likes the reassuring backup of a second engine. (The acceptance of the single-engine F-35 was a significant event.)
Unfortunately, sometimes two engines haven’t been enough, as with the F/A-18 Hornet crash last April in Virginia. The recently released report says both engines failed shortly after takeoff: Read more
On June 16th the Air Force’s X-37B unmanned spaceplane landed at Vandenberg AFB, California.
The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, one of two such vehicles, spent 469 days in orbit to conduct on-orbit experiments, primarily checkout of the vehicle itself…
Managed by the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, the X-37B Read more
The US Navy reported that both pilots had ejected from the Navy trainer T-45C Goshawk they were flying in Texas.
Navy Lt. John Supple says the aircraft from Training Squadron 22 at Naval Air Station Kingsville was on a routine training flight when it went down. He said the flight instructor and student have been recovered and taken to a hospital for examination, where both appear to be well.
The US Air Force has assigned Col Jeannie Leavitt, an F-15E Strike Eagle pilot, to be the commander of the 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour-Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. She is the first female to command a fighter wing.