‘Hot crew swaps’: F-35s are the first single engine fighters to fly on repeat

By: Kyle Rempfer March 22, 2019

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An F-35A Lightning II flies above Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., March 1, 2019. (Sr. Amn. Alexander Cook/Air Force)

AIR FORCE NEWS:

F-35A Lightning IIs are the first single engine fighters capable of performing rapid crew swaps, in which a pilot takes off, flies a mission and lands to refuel while another pilot takes over the cockpit of the same jet.

During wartime, crew swaps allow a steady stream of rested and capable fighter pilots to rotate into the fight. And while the crew swaps could help cut down on maintenance work, problems with the F-35′s next-generation maintenance software reportedly linger.

Aircrew with the 388th Fighter Wing out of Hill Air Force Base, Utah, performed what they call “hot crew swaps” for the first time, Air Combat Command announced Wednesday.

“Other aircraft like bombers, tankers, helicopters, and twin engine fighters have been doing ‘hot crew swaps’ for some time. Until now, it hasn’t been safe to do with a single engine fighter, but the F-35’s maintenance-friendly design provided Airmen here an opportunity to develop this capability,” Col. Michael Miles, 388th Maintenance Group commander, said in an ACC news release.

MOAR: https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2019/03/22/hot-crew-swaps-f-35s-are-the-first-single-engine-fighters-to-fly-on-repeat/

Thousands more soldiers will deploy to Pacific to increase Army footprint

By: Todd South March 21, 2019

PHOTO: Soldiers from 5th Battalion-20th Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division and the Royal Thai Army conduct the hall clearing phase of a combined military operations in urban terrain training. (Army)

US ARMY NEWS:

In a move to bolster U.S. troop presence in the Pacific, the Army has plans to deploy thousands of soldiers to the region for ongoing rotations.

The new deployments could include as many as 5,000 to 10,000 troops, the equivalent of a division headquarters and several brigades, Gen. Robert Brown, commander of Army forces in the Pacific, told Stars and Stripes in a media roundtable interview this week.

Brown said that existing rotations and forces stationed in the region would remain in their assigned missions and that the new rotations would add to that force strength.

MOAR: https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/03/20/thousands-more-soldiers-will-deploy-to-pacific-to-increase-army-footprint/

Two US troops have been killed in Afghanistan

By: Kyle Rempfer March 22, 2019

PHOTO: Two U.S. service members were killed in action in Afghanistan on Friday. (DVIDS)

US MARINES NEWS: Two U.S. service members were killed while conducting an operation Friday in Afghanistan, U.S. military officials said in a short press release this morning.

The Pentagon waits 24 hours after a deceased service member’s next of kin has been notified before releasing their identity.

The New York Times reported that the Americans were killed during a joint operation with Afghan commando forces in northern Kunduz province. One Afghan commando was also killed, an Afghan spokesman told the Times.

The joint team was conducting an operation against the Taliban in Gul Tepa District, which is completely under Taliban control, a member of the Kunduz provincial council told the Times.

MOAR: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/03/22/two-us-troops-were-killed-in-afghanistan/

SEAL vet dishes on mysterious arrest in Haiti

By: Danica Coto and Michael Weissenstein, The Associated Press March 22, 2019

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A pedestrian walks near the Bank of the Republic of Haiti, right, in Port-au-Prince on Thursday. ( Dieu Nalio Chery/AP)

US NAVY NEWS:

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — An American security contractor at the center of a mysterious case roiling Haitian politics says that he and a group of fellow veterans were sent to Haiti on a mission to protect a businessman signing a more than $50 million contract at the country’s central bank.

Chris Osman, a 44-year-old retired Navy SEAL, told The Associated Press that he and six fellow contractors were arrested by Haitian police during what was supposed to be a simple Sunday afternoon reconnaissance of the route their client would take to the bank the following day, Feb. 18.

"It went bad for us," he said in the first on-the-record interview by any of the arrested men. "I don't know what the real truth is."

Osman said he and his fellow contractors — carrying a dozen semi-automatic rifles and pistols, along with satellite phones and other gear — had pulled away from the bank when they were stopped by police and detained for three days before they were set free by Haiti's Justice Ministry and allowed to fly home to the U.S., where they were released without charges.

MOAR: https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/03/21/seal-vet-dishes-on-mysterious-arrest-in-haiti/

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>>5825129

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