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In the 1960s, as the Vietnam ... on US military aviation. Many of its technologies, notably its helmet-mounted sight and advanced fire-control systems, became standard in later helicopters like ...
Northwest Florida is proud of its tradition of military service, and Veterans Memorial Park in Pensacola honors those who have seen combat.
A World War II memorial, crafted by U.S ... battle helmet, depicting a child awaiting the return of a loved one deployed or gone to war. In the center of everything stands the Marine Aviation ...
Gerald Hickey spent 17 years as a civilian in Vietnam, both before and during the U.S.-led war ... After the war he flew offshore helicopters, taught military pilots in Iran, then operated ...
The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the ...
OBPA spokesman Tommy Head is one of the Vietnam generation ... effort to destroy U.S. ships off Okinawa. “They sent down everything they could get in the air and every pilot that knew how ...
An intimate crowd of veterans, their families and community members gathered at Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and ...
The US military's research arm is researching how to improve sleep for combat troops and pilots. The DoD has long known that chronic sleeplessness can pose serious long-term health risks.
NASHVILLE—The U.S. Army’s broad restructuring of its aviation component will be painful ... along with ending a re-engining effort for the attack helicopter and the UH-60M Black Hawk.
More details are emerging about the second major shake-up of the US Army’s aviation enterprise in ... all of its remaining Boeing AH-64D attack helicopters, the older variant of the combat ...
Lockheed Martin plans to offer what it calls a “turnkey solution” for the US ... helicopter so that our pilots, when they come out of flight school, they are expert pilots,” said army ...