Posted by Java Joe on April 11, 2024 · Leave a Comment
NAS Patuxent River has instituted a 100 % ID check policy for all personnel entering the base. While the Trusted Traveler Program remains in effect, all vehicle passengers must present valid state or federal government ID in order to gain entry to the base.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Bryce Steven Pedicinia, C-Dome, Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Curtis Bay, F/A-18 Super Hornet, Frank Kendall, Jeff Merkley, Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Patapsco River, Peter Welch (D-VT), Port of Baltimore, Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Trusted Traveler Program
Posted by Java Joe on February 27, 2023 · Leave a Comment
Naval Air Forces investigators found that pilot error caused an F-35C Lightning II fighter jet to crash onto the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson before sliding into the South China Sea last year. The error “was not conducted in a reckless manner nor with malicious intent,” according to the Naval Air Forces Command.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags 5G, BAE Systems, Boeing, C-130, F-35C crash, F/A-18 Super Hornet, Hardware Open Systems Technology HOST, IDEX defense expo, Jonathan Ortega, Juniper Networks, Lockheed Martin, mental health, NAVAIR PMA-209, Outlying Field Webster, rear admiral promotions, Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance, Ukraine
Posted by Java Joe on July 12, 2022 · Leave a Comment
US Marine Corps commandant GEN David Berger said the past four months of war in Ukraine has been a “fantastic case study” in information warfare. “If you can manage information, you can actually gain an advantage,” he said.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags 2022 Primary Election, covid vaccine, David Berger, F/A-18 Super Hornet, First lady Jill Biden, Global Unified Environment, L-3 Communications Vertex Aerospace, LANCE, Lockheed Martin, Normandy, Ukraine, USS Carl Vinson, USS Harry S. Truman
Posted by Lexi Leader on May 25, 2021 · Leave a Comment
The US Navy completed an Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile – Extended Range (AARGM-ER) captive carry flight on an F/A-18 Super Hornet on April 22 at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in support of the first live fire event this spring.
Posted by Java Joe on March 4, 2021 · Leave a Comment
The F-16 Fighting Falcon and F/A-18 Super Hornet flight formation grew out of a series of joint training opportunities for the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds held in 2020 and 2021.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Alexei Navalny, Avril Haines, Blue Angels, Cavour, CH-53K King Stallion, Confederates names, David Berger, F-16 Fighting Falcon, F/A-18 Super Hornet, Little Foot, RADM Michael Studeman, Senior Airman Samantha Campos, Tammy Duckworth, thunderbirds, VADM Sean Buck
Posted by Java Joe on April 15, 2019 · Leave a Comment
The US Navy’s Blue Angels are tentatively set to start flying the F/A-18 Super Hornet in 2021. The move to the Super Hornet will mark the first time the fighter jet demonstration team has changed aircraft since it moved from the A-4F Skyhawk II to the F/A-18 Hornet in 1986.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags AAROW Electrical Solutions LLC, American Electronic Warfare Associates, Blue Angels, E-2D Advanced Hawkeye, F-15X, F-35, F/A-18 Super Hornet, GPS, ISIS, Japanese F-35A, John Abizaid, Mike Busch, NASA, National Reconnaissance Office, rockfish, RQ-7 Shadow UAS, superbug
Posted by Java Joe on August 20, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Senate Majority Leader notes alleged meddling in US and European elections and the 2014 annexation of Crimea, saying, “The Russians are not our friends … [they] are acting like the old Soviet Union used to act,”
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Air Force One, Election security, electronic warfare, F/A-18 Super Hornet, Marines, Military Spending Act, mitch mcconnell, National Guard, Norway, Russia, Russian border, South China Sea, space force, university of north florida
Posted by Java Joe on October 31, 2017 · Leave a Comment
The US is amassing its military power in the Pacific region.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Afghanistan, C2-A Greyhounds, CH-53K King Stallion, drones, Ellen Lord, F-16, F-35B Lightning II, F/A-18 Hornet, F/A-18 Super Hornet, Greek Air Force, Henry Kissinger, M-60 Seahawk, Michael Griffin, mine-hunting, Modern Technology Solutions Inc., South China Sea, veteran suicides
Posted by Java Joe on April 11, 2017 · Leave a Comment
The Navy has extended the grounding of all of its T-45 training jets indefinitely after a group of instructor pilots refused to fly the aircraft. The service’s engineers need to figure out what’s causing a spike in dangerous physical symptoms in pilots brought on by a drop in oxygen in the cockpit.
Posted by Java Joe on April 3, 2017 · Leave a Comment
RADM Mat Winter has been nominated to lead the Department of Defense’s F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter program office.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags David Shulkin, EA-18G Growler Aircraft, F-15C, F-18 E/F Super Hornet, F-35 joint strike fighter, F/A-18 Super Hornet, Harris Corp, Heather Wilson, Michael Gilmore, Northrup Grumman, P-8A Poseidon, RADM Mat Winter, URS Federal Services Inc.
