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RAF gives training tips to the Pakistan Air Force
Members of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Flying Instructors School (FIS) have paid a visit to North Yorkshire to come face-to-face with their British RAF counterparts. The visit to RAF Linton-on-Ouse was part of a fact-finding mission to allow the PAF to find out more about the RAF’s training programmes, particularly the advanced courses for [...]
Demonstration to Showcase Life-saving Information-sharing Technologies
HAMPTON, Va.: Wildfires in California, hurricanes battering the East Coast and insurgents attacking a U.S. convoy are among simulated real-time events that will put life-saving information-sharing technologies on center stage during the Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration scheduled June 15-25. New and emerging technologies are positioned for testing as military members, emergency first responders and coalition [...]
Military training instructors transform recruits into Airmen
LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas: Rising at 3 a.m. is a small sacrifice for military training instructors. The future of the Air Force awaits. With uniforms in perfect order, they pull the immediately identifiable campaign hats low and straight, down their foreheads to nearly the eyebrows. With stern voices and stoic physical presences, they direct [...]
Baltic States Reached the Final Phase of Preparation for Duty in NRF
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania will begin the final phase of preparation for the standby in the NATO Response Force (NRF-14) as the “Baltic Eagle 2009″ international exercise of the joint Baltic Battalion will be conducted in Adaži Military Area, Latvia, on 2 -17 June 2009. Around 1,100 soldiers are going to take part in the [...]
Documentary highlights success of Land Warrior system
FORT BELVOIR, Va.: “Keep Up the Fire,” a new documentary produced by the Army’s Program Executive Office Soldier, tells the story of the first infantry unit deployed to Iraq with the Land Warrior system. In 2007, the 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, deployed to Iraq to help bring peace to a region paralyzed by war. [...]
Air Force team conducts air-assault training from Army helos
JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq: Airmen from the 532nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron jumped in and out of helicopters from the Army C Company, 1-137th Aviation Regiment during air-assault training here May 23. “The purpose of air-assault training is to add another option of infiltrating a targeted area,” said Master Sgt. Jose Zuniga, 532nd ESFS quick [...]
Engineers Get Route-clearance Vehicle Training in Afghanistan
KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan: The upgraded Mk3 Husky — the premier route-clearance vehicle in the Army’s Interim Vehicle Mounted Mine Detection Program — is being fielded in Afghanistan after protecting soldiers in Iraq since 2003. Army Pfc. Michael McKay assembles pieces of the Redpack mobile spare-parts unit during a three-day assembly process May 4, 2009, at [...]
First Iraqi ISR aircrew members graduate
NEW AL MUTHANA AIR BASE, Iraq: The first class of Iraqi Air Force Squadron 87 King Air intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircrew members completed their yearlong training May 17. The Iraqi King Air program, headed by Air Force and Navy aircrew instructors, trained four Iraqi pilots, seven co-pilots and five mission sensor operators. “We are [...]
Yak-130 Trainer for the Russian Air Force makes maiden flight
On 19th May 2009, the first of 12 Yak-130s ordered by the Russian AF conducted its maiden flight. The aircraft is due for handing over to the customer after acceptance tests at “Sokol” aviation plant The sortie was performed by a crew of test-pilots Roman Taskaev, Hero of Russia, and Sergey Kara. In the course [...]
