The E-11A that crashed was carrying sensitive intelligence information. U.S. forces recovered the flight data recorder. The aircraft was then destroyed as reported by VOA news which cited officials: “Officials said troops also found what they believe to be the plane’s flight data recorder, removing it with the remains before destroying what was left of …
Statement of the Ministry of Defense! January 29, 2020 62 members of #ANDSF, that were held in a Taliban prison in Bokan area of Balamorghab district of Badghis province, were freed by Afghan Commando forces. MOD Below The video of an #ANA soldier who was bravely freed from the Taliban terrorist prison in Bala Murghab …
Insider Attack Kills 11 Afghan Security Forces in Baghlan, Afghan Security forces suffer heavy casualties in Kunduz By Nizam Rezahi / in Afghanistan / Khaama Press Reports say that insurgents first attacked a checkpoint near the base, and then infiltrated inside the compound with ease due to the assumed connection they had inside the base. Mabobullah Ghafari, a provincial …
UPDATE: DOD Identifies Air Force Casualties, 29 January The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of two Airmen who were supporting Operation Freedom’s Sentinel. They died January 27 in the crash of a Bombardier E-11A aircraft in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. The cause of the crash is under investigation. Killed were: Lt. Col. Paul K. …
A nurse takes a patient’s pulse in the influenza ward at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C., near the end of the Spanish Flu epidemic, Nov. 1, 1918. Fresh air was believed to help prevent the spread of the disease, which killed 50 million to 100 million people worldwide. Pandemic flus such as this are …
Review Finds No Systemic Ethical Problems in Special Ops Airmen load a 105 mm cannon aboard an AC-130U Spooky gunship at Hurlburt Field, Fla., Nov. 5, 2019. JAN. 28, 2020 | BY JIM GARAMONE, DOD NEWS U.S. special operations forces have no “systemic” failures of ethics, but a review points to the need for strengthening leadership at all …
Guadalcanal Campaign—Battle of Rennell Island and Operation KeSamuel J. Cox, Director NHHC Most narratives of the Guadalcanal campaign tend to peter out after the Battle of Tassafaronga and jump to the final Japanese defeat and evacuation in February 1943. The reality is that the Japanese navy continued to fight with extraordinary audacity and tenacity, on several …
Guadalcanal Campaign—Battle of Rennell Island and Operation KeSamuel J. Cox, Director NHHC Most narratives of the Guadalcanal campaign tend to peter out after the Battle of Tassafaronga and jump to the final Japanese defeat and evacuation in February 1943. The reality is that the Japanese navy continued to fight with extraordinary audacity and tenacity, on several …
