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...
by Lee Cloer | Apr 1, 2019 | General Interest, Video
On March 21, 2019, one possible future replacement of the U.S. military’s UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter completed its first flight. The SB-1 Defiant, a coaxial rotor aircraft is Sikorsky Aircraft and Boeing’s entry for the Army’s Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program. The...
by Lee Cloer | Dec 4, 2018 | General Interest, Repair and Engineering
In 1961 during the beginning of the American Civil War, Thaddeus Lowe held a demonstration of a balloon’s ability to carry a man above the battlefield and telegraph enemy troop movements and direct artillery fire. President Lincoln was present for one...
by Lee Cloer | Nov 2, 2018 | Repair and Engineering, General Interest
The whop-whop-whop of helicopter blades breaks the night silence. Suddenly, two AH-6M Little Birds and two MH-60M Black Hawk helicopters pop up just over the low ridgeline and sink back down toward the valley trying to stay undetected. The flight is part of the Army’s...
