by Lee Cloer | Mar 28, 2016 | Repair and Engineering |
It’s 0247 in the morning at Shindand Air Base in western Afghanistan. An air traffic controlman (ATC) with the Air National Guard sits in a mobile control tower, observing five blips spread out on his radar screen. Two blips near the edge of his screen are moving...
by Lee Cloer | Mar 22, 2016 | Repair and Engineering, Video |
Since 1979, the UH-60 Black Hawk has provided tactical transport and air utility services to U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division. As you can see in the video below, the Black Hawk, with air support provided by the AH-64 Apache, enables the 101st to have an unmatched...
by Lee Cloer | Apr 20, 2015 | General Interest |
At daybreak, the temperature is already a muggy 88 degrees in the tropical environment. An enemy observation post is perched midway up a hill with a view of the quiet valley floor below, their position well masked by foliage around the fighting hole, but not well...
by Lee Cloer | Apr 4, 2015 | General Interest, Repair and Engineering, Video |
On a dry, hot desert evening, two forward observers from a U.S. Army Stryker Fire Support Team take cover on a hill one thousand yards away from an Iraqi T-72 battle tank. The tank is partially hidden under camouflage netting, providing defense for a small listening...
by Lee Cloer | Apr 1, 2015 | General Interest, Repair and Engineering |
In the middle of the night, four container trucks loaded with supplies rumble down a dark desert road headed to resupply an insurgent camp in the hills of Afghanistan. With headlights off and the drivers on high alert, the convoy and its two smaller pickup truck...