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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 [...]
US, French Soldiers Train Afghan Artillerymen
WARDAK PROVINCE, Afghanistan: Five Afghan National Army forward observers completed a 30-day training program with the 4th Battalion, 25th Field Artillery Regiment, at Forward Operating Base Airborne here. The class, which graduated May 5, was the first of the year, with more scheduled for the near future, officials said. A forward observer is a soldier [...]
US pilots train Finnish Air Force in aerial refueling operations
ROYAL AIR FORCE MILDENHALL, England: A group of Airmen with the 100th Air Refueling Wing traveled to Tampere, Finland, May 2 to participate in a week-long exercise with Navy and Finnish Air Force F-18 Hornet pilots. The Airmen helped teach the Finnish pilots how to refuel in-air from a KC-135 Stratotanker. The exercise marks the [...]
Test center officials link mobility to boots on the ground
TUCSON, Az In the Southern Arizona desert, three C-130 Hercules aircraft recently rumbled over the saguaros and airdropped training bundles to a waiting combat controller. The historic drop was conducted digitally with a tactical data link known as the Situational Awareness Data Link, or SADL. It was the first time an aircrew in a C-130, [...]
US buys Su-27 fighters from Ukraine for ‘aggressor’ training
MOSCOW: The United States has bought two Su-27 Flanker fighter aircraft to help train U.S. air force pilots to cope with the growing number of 4th-generation Russian aircraft sold around the world, a U.S. online magazine said. The two aircraft have been bought from a private Ukrainian company by the Reno-based Tac Air, which provides [...]
