by Lee Cloer | Jan 24, 2020 | General Interest, Jet Fridays, Video
In the Avengers movies, the secret group SHIELD used a massive full-size aircraft carrier called a helicarrier. This mammoth ship contained four gigantic fans that provided enough lift to help hide the carrier amongst the clouds. From the carrier, SHIELD could launch...
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 | Jul 3, 2019 | General Interest, Repair and Engineering, Video |
Miramar, California is home to a U.S. Marine Corps installation just outside San Diego. More than 12,000 Marines and Sailors are stationed there. But to most people, Miramar is probably more known for its days as the Naval Fighter Weapons School, also known as TOP...
by Lee Cloer | Jul 1, 2019 | General Interest |
24 hours a day, 7 days a week, the United States Coast Guard is on patrol on the seas surrounding the U.S. as well as in some central parts of the country’s interior monitoring large bodies of water like the Mississippi River. The Coast Guard’s 11 mission areas...
by Lee Cloer | Apr 22, 2019 | General Interest, Repair and Engineering
China Burma India Theater – It’s a bit of WWII history that is not known as much as the Pacific campaign or the landings at Normandy. But in this area of operations, something significant occurs that goes mostly unnoticed as the Allies assist the Chinese army...