by Lee Cloer | Jan 15, 2020 | General Interest
He was born on October 2, 1918, in Portland, Maine in the United States. Like many men in the U.S. military in the early 1950s, he would die while serving his country halfway around the world in Korea. His service does not begin there. By the time Major Charles J....
by Lee Cloer | Nov 21, 2019 | General Interest
It’s finally a cloud-free morning. A mother and her two children step out of a shelter for the first time since the powerful winds and rain passed 9 hours before. The distraught mom looks around at what is remaining of the small community she has lived in all her...
by Lee Cloer | Oct 24, 2019 | General Interest, Video
The F-105 Thunderchief project began in 1951 and was introduced into service in 1958 as a replacement for the F-84F Thunderstreak fighter-bomber. The single-seat Thunderchief was a fighter-bomber capable of near Mach 2 and originally developed to be a nuclear attack...
by Lee Cloer | Jul 19, 2019 | General Interest, Jet Fridays, Video |
Having command and control of the battlespace cannot be completely accomplished without the ability to also control the air. Controlling the airspace in a combat environment is important for both the eyes in the air and the troops on the ground. If you want to...
by Lee Cloer | Jun 13, 2019 | General Interest |
A flight of two A-10 Thunderbolt IIs, piloted by then 1st Lieutenant Rob “Sweetness” Sweet and his flight commander, Captain Stephen R. Phillis, crossed the northern border of Kuwait headed farther into Iraq than any A-10 had gone before. Both men were graduates of...