by Lee Cloer | Mar 13, 2020 | General Interest
As a bad storm moves across the Midwest landscape, a team of meteorologists study the weather’s behavior and make quick predictions. The information they gather on the approaching thunderhead prepares the community for rain as well as alerts them to any potential...
by Lee Cloer | Mar 6, 2020 | General Interest, Jet Fridays, Video
The Dassault Dornier Alpha Jet is a light attack jet aircraft that first entered into service in November of 1977. Designed to perform for both the French and German Air Forces, this twin-jet two-seater aircraft was developed for both training and tactical support....
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...