#FARP Training

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U.S. Army soldiers assigned to the 1-101st Attack Battalion refuel AH-64E Apache helicopters at the forward arming and refueling point (FARP) in Tunica, Mississippi Air Center during August. The 101st Airborne Division conducted a large-scale, long-range (L2A2) Air Assault in support of 2nd Mobile Brigade Combat Team Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) 24-10 rotation at Fort Johnson, Louisiana.

📸 U.S. Army photo by SPC Parris Kersey

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AC-130J Ghostrider Gunship Has Operated From A Highway For The First Time

Operating from highways could make AC-130J gunships more survivable and flexible, but questions remain about their role in high-end fights.

Joseph Trevithick Posted on Aug 5, 2024 1:51 PM EDT

The US Air Force says an AC-130J Ghostrider gunship has operated from a highway for the first time as part of the service's larger push to reduce its dependence on traditional runways. This is also comes amid questions about the future of the gunships in future high-end fights.

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An AC-130J Ghostrider gunship has operated from a highway for the first time during a recent exercise, according to the U.S. Air Force. This reflects a push across the U.S. military to be less dependent on traditional runways and established bases that would be high-priority targets for enemy forces during a future major conflict, such as one in the Pacific against China. This also comes as hard questions are being asked about what roles and missions there might be for the AC-130J in a high-end fight after the type has spent the past two decades supporting counter-terrorism and other lower-intensity operations.

The AC-130J in question landed on and then subsequently took off from a stretch of U.S. Highway 63 in Bono, Arkansas, on August 4 as part of the larger Emerald Warrior Field Training Exercise II (FTX II). An MC-130J Commando II special operations tanker-transport, a C-146A Wolfhound special operations light transport aircraft, and a standard C-130H cargo plane also participated in the road operations training. With the exception of the C-130H, all of these aircraft were from units assigned to Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC). The C-130H was from the Arkansas Air National Guard’s 189th Airlift Wing.

“The MC-130J crew then set up a Forward Arming and Refueling Point (FARP), as the AC-130J assigned to the 1st Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, Florida, made its approach, landed, refueled, rearmed, and took off again,” according to an Air Force release. “The primary objective of this exercise was to validate AFSOC’s capability to operate in austere environments with minimal infrastructure.”

A picture showing personnel setting up the Forward Arming and Refueling Point (FARP) using the MC-130J as the hub during the road operations portion of Emerald Warrior FTX II. USAF Senior Airman Ty Pilgrim

“The exercise provided an opportunity for participating units to refine their skills and advance ongoing pathfinding and experimentation efforts within AFSOC,” the release added.

A picture for the road operations portion of Emerald Warrior FTX II showed what appears to be a Common Launch Tube (CLT) being unloaded from a transit canister. What other munitions Air Force personnel may have practiced loading aboard the AC-130J in this austere environment is unclear.

What looks to be a Common Launch Tube (CLT) being unloaded during the road operations portions of Emerald Warrior FTX II. USAF Senior Airman Ty Pilgrim

The AC-130J’s current armament package consists of a 30mm automatic cannon and a 105mm howitzer that fire out the left side of the aircraft, as well as the ability to employ a variety of precision-guided bombs and missiles. This includes precision munitions that are launched via CLTs, such as the GBU-44/B Viper Strike glide bomb and AGM-176 Griffin missile.

“This exercise serves as a significant milestone for AFSOC, demonstrating our ability to operate in diverse and austere environments,” Tech. Sgt. Robert Gallagher, assigned to the AFSOC Air Commando Development Center, who acted as the lead planner for the highway landings, said, according to the Air Force release. “By leveraging ACE concepts, we enhance our operational flexibility and resilience.”

ACE here stands for Agile Combat Employment, which refers to a set of concepts of operations centered on expeditionary and distributed deployments that occur at irregular intervals across a broadening number of operating locations. The core function of ACE is to upend enemy targeting cycles, and by extension reduce the vulnerability of friendly forces, by operating in a less predictable fashion. The video at the top of this story from Emerald Warrior FTX II highlights all of this by showing the AC-130J being able to get in and out relatively quickly. The C-130 family’s impressive reverse thrust capability is on display, as well.

Being able to operate from remote and austere environments, such as highways, is a key element of current ACE planning. As such, the Air Force special operations aircraft, like MC-130Js and C-146As, as well as conventional ones, like A-10 Warthog ground attack aircraft and standard C-130 cargo planes, have been conducting road operations training on an increasingly regular basis. MQ-9 Reaper drones have also participated in similar exercises in the past.

Other services have been involved in this new burst of roadway exercises in the past few years. The U.S. Marine Corps has also been very actively training to use roads and other alternatives to large traditional runways as part of the service’s own array of new expeditionary and distributed concepts of operations.

AFSOC, as well as other elements of the U.S. special operations community, already have a long history of operating from impromptu forward locations, often in sensitive or denied areas, but generally on a more ad-hoc mission-to-mission basis.

“We’ve recently been returning to tactics, techniques, and procedures to find out where all of the 3,000-foot straight highways in the world are” as part of a broader push to become “runway agnostic,” Air Force Lt. Gen. Tony Bauernfeind, then head of AFSOC, said last year. Bauernfeind is now superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy.

The C-130H from the 189th Airlift Wing on during the road operations portion of Emerald Warrior FTX II. Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Samuel Zang

For AC-130Js operating in their traditional special operations support role, being able to operate from roads and other remote locations on a more general basis could help allow them to fly (as well as refuel and rearm) closer to designated operating areas. This could increase their time on station and shorten how long it might take them to get to and from where they need to be, as well as just generally expand their operational flexibility.

At the same time, as the U.S. military shifts its main focus away from counter-terrorism and other low-intensity missions to preparing for high-end operations, especially in a potential future conflict against China, questions have emerged about AC-130J’s future. Even during the past two decades of support operations in largely permissive airspace over places like Iraq and Afghanistan, AC-130 gunships have operated almost exclusively at night in part to reduce vulnerability to potential threats from the ground. The War Zone just explored these broader issues facing the Ghostrider in the context of a rare appearance by one of the gunships at a sinking exercise (SINKEX) during the larger biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise, which just wrapped last week.

An AC-130J from the 27th Special Operations Wing at Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay in Hawaii during RIMPAC 2024. USAF

The Air Force is in the midst now of a review of the Ghostrider’s current and future capabilities that could lead to the aircraft losing their iconic, but relatively short-ranged 105mm howitzers. A plan to integrate a laser-directed energy weapon, described originally as having immense potential in lower-intensity warfare contexts, has already been scrapped.

There is growing emphasis now on increasing the AC-130J’s stand-off strike capabilities, including through the addition of small cruise missiles to the Ghostrider’s arsenal. The Air Force is looking into the potential of using other C-130 variants, including MC-130Js, as well as the C-17, as launch platforms for larger cruise missiles and other munitions using a palletized system called Rapid Dragon.

In addition, AFSOC is interested in adding a new active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar to the AC-130Js to help extend the reach of their targeting capabilities, as well as provide added situational awareness. The gunships have already been receiving upgrades to their electronic warfare and communications suites.

The AC-130J, its capabilities, and its roles and missions appear set to evolve significantly in the coming years. Operating more regularly from highways and other roads looks now to be on the horizon for the Ghostriders.

Contact the author: joe@twz.com

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One point of tension between Zelensky and the Biden admins was the issue of allowing ATACMS strikes inside Russia. Frontelligence Insight conducted geospatial analysis and spoke with former U.S. officials and experts from leading US think tanks. Summary of our report:

When a Pentagon spokesperson suggested that Russia had moved assets capable of KAB strikes from airfields within ATACMS range, the statement was correct. Our research confirms that Russia relocated Su-34/35 jets from bases like Voronezh Air Base.

At the same time, our analysis of satellite imagery from September 28 reveals that at least 14 combat and transport helicopters, along with eight Su-25 close-air-support jets, were stationed at the Kursk airport when the images were captured.

Lipetsk Air Base is over 290 kilometers from the edges of Kharkiv Oblast. It hosts various Su jets, including Su-24, Su-30, Su-27, Su-34, and Su-35, all capable of deploying KAB bombs. However, it lies beyond ATACMS range unless Ukraine positions launchers at the border.

Russia continues to use Forward Arming and Refueling Points within the ATACMS range, including near Kursk Air Base in Kursk Oblast. At the same time, FARPs typically host only a few helicopters, making the potential impact of a strike limited.

Military warehouses, railroad stations, and ammo depots in Rostov, Voronezh, Bryansk, Kursk, and Belgorod oblasts fall within ATACMS range. Destruction of supply trains disrupts troop effectiveness, as seen in the attack on Toropets, which damaged or destroyed 20 railcars.

In a plausible scenario, a single artillery ammo delivery train could have 10 covered wagons and 10 flatbeds, each carrying two containers. A single strike could destroy over 13,400 152mm shells, along with railcars and the locomotive, temporarily blocking the route

Our team has identified many more cases, including air defense sites and training camps, which you can find in our report linked at the end of this thread. Given all these factors and their potential impact, one might ask: why there is no green light on ATACMS strikes?

Contrary to popular belief, the main concern within the U.S. security community is not nuclear escalation, but the broader implications for U.S. interests globally - particularly the risk of strengthening adversaries and their proxies in key regions.

A prime example is the potential for Russia, in response to U.S. missile deliveries, to share advanced missile (P-800) and rocket technologies with Iran or its proxies, like the Houthis in Yemen. This could introduce a new threat to the U.S. and its allies in the Middle East

This scenario isn't hypothetical - Russia has indeed supplied targeting data to the Houthis, facilitating attacks on global shipping and raising stakes for the West with potentially multi-billion dollar implications.

Russia keeps leverage through its partnership with North Korea, threatening the transfer of missile, EW, and air defense technologies. Russia’s ability to enhance North Korea’s ICBM capabilities, directly threatening the U.S. mainland cannot be ignored by Washington

Another factor, shared by one of our sources, is the ATACMS interception rate - a number that you can find in our full report. This raises concerns among U.S. officials, who worry that the risks will outweigh any benefits, given the interception and low salvo rates

This aligns with issues from Ukraine's summer 2023 counteroffensive, where Storm Shadow strikes often lacked coordinated operational intent, displaying Ukraine's poor ability to integrate missile strikes into the broader operational picture.

These are legitimate concerns that cannot be easily dismissed. The U.S. security community's primary focus is safeguarding US security. The key question is whether the potential benefits of Ukraine using ATACMS to strike Russian airfields outweigh the risks.

Considering that the U.S.

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An AH-1Z Viper from Marine Rotational Force – Darwin ascends after refueling in Australia by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Via Flickr: DARWIN, NT, Australia (April 23, 2021) - Two U.S. Marine Corps pilots with Marine Rotational Force – Darwin ascend in an AH-1Z Viper after refueling during a forward arming refueling point exercise at Royal Australian Air Force Base Darwin, NT, Australia, April 23, 2021. Marines with MRF-D conducted a FARP exercise to test their ability to provide fuel for tiltrotor and fixed wing aircraft in a tactical environment. The training hones the Marines' capabilities as a skilled and lethal expeditionary fighting force, capable of responding to a potential crisis or contingency. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Micha Pierce) 210423-M-MH051-1544 ** Interested in following U.S. Indo-Pacific Command? Engage and connect with us at www.facebook.com/indopacom | twitter.com/INDOPACOM | www.instagram.com/indopacom | www.flickr.com/photos/us-pacific-command; | www.youtube.com/user/USPacificCommand | www.pacom.mil/ **

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Don’t use a neural network to name your next pub

The King’s Arms. The Bell and Bucket. The Black Bull Inn. The Beggar’s Bridge. A pub’s name is part of its soul, often highly unique, often hundreds of years old, often with a story behind it. A simple computer program couldn’t hope to give a proper name to a pub. But what if it tried?

Timothea Armour asked me to find out, as part of a project called “The Last Hour!” on the cultural peculiarities of pubs, commissioned by Collective, a gallery in Scotland. I’ve been training a type of computer program called a neural network to generate names for all kinds of things - guinea pigs, craft beers, and paint colors. Neural networks are a bit different from regular computer programs: In the usual kind of computer programming, a human invents rules that a computer has to follow. With neural networks, however, the human only gives the computer some examples to learn from, and the computer invents its own rules about how to make more examples.

Timothea gave me a list of 1,053 pubs from the northeast of England from a database compiled by Colin Anderson, and I fed these names into an open-source neural network framework. 

After just a little bit of time training, the neural network had made some progress - after all, it starts with no idea of whether it’s supposed to be generating prose or musical notation or Finnish grocery lists. It had to form its own rules about capitalization, and line breaks, and which letters go with which other letters. And these names - well, some of them - are already identifiable as possibly pub-like, though at this stage none of them are usable.

Euceseeettigwtird Arms Tea Posh Basei Innery Ga iral Ferk Thod Inn Inn Darn Funk Inn Alan Ars Swoos Loveles Noms Lick Aams Tteat Armharoh Hams Olk Ars Hotle Moveam Treee Slamlongs Arms Roll Brrew keg Arme Horel Booge Houne Arse Inn Tumen Poodes Cavel Coundor Horse Baak Hotey Bead Inn Fl Wlofler Arms Oleetrar Moor Corore oad Bite & Chuts Wotee Vonehscon Cresks Arms

After the neural network has looked through the list of names about 11 times, it has made a bit more progress. These mostly sound like pub names, though there’s definitely still something off about them.

Tostars Inn Liad Cush House Blawky Arms Stons Of Horse Blaksigth Arms Whistle Plan Hotel Bracken of Crovn Coksarnss Hotel Vulck fod Lick Bool House Many Inn Horshy Ban Crownreal Top Drock of Conshersland Prickhomidd Arms Bill Inn Dhodalgoat Hotel Facg Manf Hell Hotel

By 17 times through the dataset, the neural network still doesn’t quite have the knack for this.

Whoneas Grey Hotel Hotel Hotel Trlety Eln's Arms Phite Meathord Green Head Hotel Bhickloy Farp Arms Wharberb Bark Hirlamion Crapy Grile & Fumthorse Male Dora Rey Ofe White Bear Pivsing Jambork Hotel Cumperlel Watersy Head Ox Cadder Inn Bar of El Carhey Orb Boak Hotel Inn Whee Blinf Plowde Tree Bleak Clad Angely Arms

By 21 times through the dataset, the neural network has shown some signs of improvement, but most of the names still need work.

Elden Mens Collick Inn King Brad Inn Load Hotel Torn House Inn Rob Inn Thanes of Lampel Gurn uf Staneton Hell Garled Blorge Roods Cocket Horn Blawde Inn House Inn Tivern Got Blewe Wot n Arms Hotel Arm Savers

The names eventually get more consistently pronounceable, and very occasionally, even believable.  But mostly, they’re a bit substandard. At this stage, the neural network has had 35 tries at the original dataset, and still thinks “Bill” is a pretty good name for a pub.

Green Green Frown Arms Plucksick Bill Horse Long Bog Lede Lick Hotel Farter Inn Ports Bean Fin Dune The Beelly Gam Tha Dlee Fark House Phan House Naw Old Mess Now and Inn Fripy Whee Bore Inn Ladside Inn Hogs Thee Inn Shur Hiad House Hotel Hotel Old Ash Ox Horse Inn Bleak Clab Bark Inn Blisksmerd Shorthood Rat Horses Wheee Travel Sham New Shins Ferp's Brel

Forty times through the dataset, and it also has not relented on its odd preference for rude-sounding names. The pubs of northeast England are in general a lot more innocuous than this. 

F'ing Hotel The Gland Greene Old Farders Arms King Shams Bliyffinge The Blande Tree Blink Bear Gole Clown Hotel Hall of Sprong Firdwock Hotel Dur & Thimpers Dorty Hounds Phage Farm Ox Kings Kingfarter Mantle

I’m not even trying here. As the neural network progresses in its training, the proportion of terrible pub names only increases.

Bollock Hotel Flee Sun Farm Pubber Arms Blanding Weed Willey Farters Red Hotel F Kings Moldy Goine Pant Cabber Hell Castle Stan Crown & Three Hotel Grey Trip

Now that the neural network has gone through the dataset a hundred times, I can only conclude: don’t use a computer to name your next pub.

Belle Inn Crow's Rest Mingside Arms Crown & Fathous Stonebredde Arms Old Festerlan Burn Horse Hotel Doss of Wulling of Stank Shore's Castle Crustle Hotel Lick Inn Odd Lingwion Lambles Loons Hall Thringeron Arms Flint Horse The All House Dean & Funtling Old Hell Kick Jolly Trocks Wallow Arms

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Sniper Dialogue: A Special Missions Sniper

This article is written by my friend Dave Nielsen. Dave served in the Ranger Regiment and then became a Special Missions Operator. He also served as a Sniper. 

Foreword: In sniper training, the dialogue between sniper team members – the shooter and spotter – is formatted and purposeful. The spotter, usually the senior of the two, has held the job of shooter. He is the team leader, makes decisions, provides security for the shooter who is occupied, and maintains communication with the others. The others, the rest of the platoon may be on the next hilltop over; they could be hours away by helicopter. It doesn’t matter; the sniper team is alone for days at a time. Sniper Dialogue is the two-way exchange of vital information between teammates. It is the spotter walking the shooter onto a target maybe a mile away. It is the shooter reporting observations (for hours or days at a time) to the spotter, up to the others. Sometimes, though, it’s just banter between brothers. Necessary but not reported, the chat can get philosophical, bickering, tragi-comic, or just hilarious. Below is just one of many such dialogues.

 Act I Scene I

Jessica Lynch mission, Iraq 2003 S1: So much for a good fight; what’d we each shoot, once? No other positions shot that I heard. S2: I drilled that guy in the window though. He was shooting and then disappeared right when I shot. You think I hit him? S1: Do you think you hit him? S2: My crosshairs were on his upper chest, I pulled clean on the trigger. It’s not even 200 meters. I wonder if I hit him, he disappeared right after the round cracked. My night vision to scope mount is boogered up again. I couldn’t miss at this range, right? S1: I think he’s dead. Oh my God, what is that smell? (sound of men throwing up at the base of building the snipers are on top of). Radio traffic: PC secure, moving to exfill LZ. All elements prepare to evacuate. Roger. BREAK BREAK BREAK. Gravesites located, all elements remain on target. Air elements push out to FARP. Translation: Assault force has Lynch, let’s leave. Everyone move back to the vehicle you came in on or helicopter landing zone briefed in the plan. WAIT A MINUTE- EVERYONE SHUT UP – we found the 9 Americans that went missing with Lynch and are Missing in Action. We’re going to dig them up. Helicopters move to refueling point and await call to pick us up. S2: Whoa, they found the bodies.

S1: Whoa. Radio traffic: (an hour into the recovery. Radio etiquette and protocol gone) Roger sir, we’re almost done. We need to rotate guys out sir, my guys are sick and most of our E-tools (collapsible military shovels) are broken. Have them drink water and take a break Sergeant Fader. Sir we’ve done that and BLAAAAAAEECH. We’ve done that sir HUUUUUPH. Spit. We’re all throwing up sir, can we rotate our guys out? I thought you said they were shallow graves Sergeant Fader. Roger sir. Then what’s the problem, can you finish up? We have to get out of here. Sir we.. FUCK sir we need more E-tools, they’re all broken. Everyone is throwing up. Understood Sergeant Fader. You have 9 bodies, correct? How many are bagged and ready for exfil? I’d say... I think... 7, wait.. 8 heads or heads with upper bodies. Their eyes are coming out sir... Sergeant Fader? We have 9 heads and torsos now and most of the parts. Just get us some fucking shovels. Please. Sir. Sergeant Fader how close to recovery complete, over... Sergeant Fader how close to recovery complete, over... S2: They’re crawling around on the ground throwing up. I want to go give them my water ok? Fader’s the man. BLAAAACH. Spit. S1: Go. Help em dig too, then come switch out with me. Fader is the fucking man. BLAAACH. Spit. Fader, are you done yet Fader. Fader, I need to know when you’ll be done. Did you get the shovels? How about when we’re fucking done Sir. How about we leave when we’re done. BLAAACH. Spit. No we didn’t get the shovels. The guys are digging with their hands.

We’re almost done. We’re getting everything we can but guts are spilling out. Limbs fall off when we try to pull them out of the graves. Scene 2 S1 is retired, working in the civilian world and speaking with a friend. S2 still active duty. A decade of war and hundreds of missions later, the sniper dialogue has become the unconscious: the repeating dream. It’s the voice in the head; the sniper dialogue takes its directors chair deep in the soul. CIVILIAN FRIEND: Jessica Lynch; was that even a thing? Did it even happen? I heard it was nothing but a media event. None of our force were killed on that mission right? S1: None of us were killed on the mission. FRIEND: Wow. What a cover-up. The media says they feel duped, that it wasn’t a real rescue mission. S1: Wow. FRIEND: Wow what? S1: Nothing. It’s not a cover-up; forget it. The more I try to explain this stuff the worse it gets. But I have to try, or this will drive me insane. Do you remember when Greg was killed in our senior year of high school? FRIEND: Of course bro. What’s that got to do with Jessica Lynch? S1: Nothing. And everything. Remember Greg’s parents for the week it took to find his body? FRIEND: Oh God. They were hysterical. Inconsolable. S1: Remember his parents after they found him and buried him? FRIEND: Sad but at peace. Yeah, what a difference – all the difference in the world. But Jessica Lynch lived, right? What am I missing? S1: The 9 dead soldiers we brought home. Their missing bodies. We recovered them. FRIEND: WHAT?! S1: The 9 dead soldiers we brought..

FRIEND: I heard you, but I didn’t hear about this. All the media talked about was how the military made it out to be a heroic rescue mission, but that it was overhyped. How did you recover the bodies?! How long had they been dead? Who were they? Why don’t people know about this?? S1: Let me start from the end. This dude named Fader was in charge of the Ranger platoon my sniper team was supporting. We were in a HUM-V driving back from the mission; broad daylight, hot desert sun and we’re right behind the 5 ton flatbed truck carrying the 9 bodies in body bags. They weren’t shaped like bodies anymore man; each bag looked more like a hockey bag stuffed with equipment. It didn’t make sense to the human eye... <S1 spits> Then the bags started leaking. Sloshing around. The smell.. oh man the smell. Guys were throwing up, dry heaving while we drove, until we crashed. The driver fell asleep, we’d been up for 3 days and nights. What a mess. FRIEND: Dude.. wait.. wow. Body bags sloshing around looking like gym bags. How long were they dead? S1: about 10 days buried in shallow graves. In April, in the desert. It’s well over 110 degrees in April. FRIEND: How did you dig up the bodies? S1: We used shovels and our hands to dig them up. FRIEND: How many people have you told? S1: Just you. FRIEND: Why me? S1: You’re the first one to ask.

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DYSFUNCTION #7 1/ An Art History from the point of view of Human Activity

By Marie-Pierre Duquoc with the support of Adrian Owen for English translation and interpretation

Published on the occasion of DYSFUNCTION DAY, December 4th & 5th, 2019 organized by Philippe Mairesse, Bertrand Agostini and Estelle Durand ICN Business School Artem, Nancy

2/ A History of Art Workers. (HAW) This history is our history. Here is a version, a vision, it is a starting point, it is incomplete, and completely not objective. It is open to discussion.

3/ In the centre, art... ...around which are organized the works that art produces, and the ArAp: men and women in the service of art and the works that art produces. We make a distinction here among the Art Workers: MA and FA, for male and female art workers, the Ar and the Ap for the Artists and the Arts Professionals with careers in the artistic sector. There is in our history, the FAr and the MAr, the FArP, and the MAp. This small world recognizes itself in the community of the ArAp called the ArApians.

4/ We have HA: Human Activity and CAA: Cultural and Artistic activity. In the activity of the ArAp in the service of art and culture, we distinguish the H for the men and women of the public, the O for artworks; the artists, the actors, in small, medium and large size. We differentiate the amateur artists AmAr, from the professional artists ProAr. Our history will be about the community of Pro ArAp and Art Workers, those who work and live from their work in the field of art, or at least try to.

5/ Cultural Activity and Creation, CAC, for Pro ArAp. In the centre AA, we have Artistic Activity and the ArAp: artists and arts professionals. The artworks and community outreach radiate in the direction of H, men and women of  the public. We can observe how ArApians work together in the direction of the public, and how art, art workers, the ArAp; implement constructions, modalities of exchange and relation in the service of producing artworks. Their circulation, their outreach aim towards the community of men and women, the public.

6/ Frameworks of actions, systems of organization, fields of action, Artistic Activities and Creations (AAC) conditions the shape of artwork. In the centre, the connection of the artwork with one of the sectors conditions the modus operandi, economics, logistics, and education which participate in the production, distribution, and influence of the work. Education, training, influence, selling allow artworks to circulate in private or public frameworks, in various scales, both locally and internationally, each sector determining its specific criteria.

7/ Movements at work in the work, its implementation in movement and circulation. In summary the ArApian's activity is connected at the same time with contexts, conjectures, environments. It is the object of choice, political and economic, aesthetic and cultural; which play out at the level of each ArAp, group of ArAp and far beyond the group, a territory, territories, a nation, nations. It is the imprint of the specific culture from each sector with a lot of nuances, there are many ArAp within other groups and different movements within every sector. Each one in their network embodies, transmits and transports through the production of works and gestures around these works, a certain number of values and beliefs peculiar to the culture of their sector. On the whole, beliefs provoke action and works, sometimes to play, to thwart, to undo and reformulate other beliefs. These beliefs which make choices or these choices which form beliefs, and submit to the movement of the work (Work, here central, because it is at the centre of the activity of the ArAp) and its outreach, in other cultures, other beliefs, other choices and politics. These environmental and contextual variables continuously renew the work, its field, its effects, incidences, influences etc.. whether they be aesthetic, symbolic, economic, societal, political...

8/ Our history will concern the Visual Arts VA.

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Key Words: Art History, Sociology, Human Activity, Visual Arts, Contemporary Art, Professional Artists

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Judging the RAF Photography Competition; swipe through for more pictures including a winning image from the Photographer Of The Year portfolio and also Image Of The Year. Full details on my blog photothisandthat.co.uk Stargazer - A CH-47 Chinook helicopter rests at night during a training mission in the Arizona desert. The Chinook was being used at a FARP (Forward Arming Refuelling Point) to refuel USMC helicopters whilst deployed at the Marine Corps Air Base, in Yuma, Arizona, USA to take part in the twice yearly training and development programme known as WTI (Weapons and Tactics Instructor). Photo: Cpl Tim Laurence – ACSSU, RAF Halton. Concorde - The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, the Red Arrows perform Concorde over the deep blue sea of Greece. On the 21st May, Red 10 and Circus 10 photo chased a full display at the Hotel Datum in glorious afternoon sunshine, whilst deployed on Ex SPRINGHAWK 19 in Greece where they refine the display ready for the Public Display Authority (PDA). Photo: Cpl Ash Keates – RAFAT #raf #royalairforce #rafphotographer @rafphotographers @royalairforceuk @rafredarrows #chinook #chinookhelicopter #redarrows #photographycompetition https://www.instagram.com/p/B1nxrLqHz10/?igshid=6adw2oq509h3

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U.S. Army AH-64E V6 helicopters assigned to 4-2nd Attack Battalion, 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade, are waiting on the FARP for their next training mission during exercise Freedom Shield 2024.

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British and US helicopters operate together in the Swift Response 2022 Exercise

Diego Alves By Diego Alves 05/23/22 - 1:00 PM in Helicopters, Military

British and American helicopters have demonstrated their abilities by working together in the Swift Response Exercise. Aviation Task Force 1 of the Joint Helicopter Command (ATF-1), which commands the attack, reconnaissance and support helicopters in the British Army's global response force, is flying in support of the main multinational exercise in North Macedonia.

The British Army issued a press release:

“The Apache attack helicopters of the 4 Regiment Army Air Corps (AAC), 1st Aviation Brigade Combat Team and the Chinook support helicopters of the 18 Squadron of the RAF are working alongside the Chinook and Blackhawk support helicopters of the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade of the U.S. Army, known as the Wolfes Task Force In the exercise, mountains more than 2,000 m high and dusty soil create challenging flight conditions, while the ground team is working on the field at Advanced Weapons and Refueling Points (FARP), the military equivalent of a Formula 1 pit stop.

British and French paratroopers have demonstrated the firepower they can use during the demanding shooting training in the hills of North Macedonia.

A key activity was the shooting exercise with combined weapons. Protected by the Apaches, Chinooks and Blackhawks landed soldiers from the 2nd Battalion of the Paratrooper Regiment, with the Apaches providing fire support from their 30 mm cannons and Chinooks from their 7.62 mm miniguns and machine guns. ”

ATF-1 commander, Lieutenant Colonel Alex Harris, said:

“What we are delivering in Swift Response is incredibly challenging. We deploy helicopters and everything we need to operate them thousands of kilometers across Europe to establish an austere location, quickly build a relationship with another unit with different procedures and equipment, and now we are planning and carrying out complex airstrikes on missions together. Being able to do this is proof of the quality of our soldiers - their skills, physical and mental robustness - and they are taking the chance to go out and do their job."

U.S. Army UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters fly over during the NATO exercise 'Swift Response 22' at the Krivolak Army Training Camp. Photo by EPA-EFE/GEORGI LICOVSKI

American Warrant Officer Daniel Thompson, HH-60 Blackhawk pilot said:

"I've been flying with British doctors and our role is to evacuate the victims, both in the exercise scenario and if there is any real situation. Together with the British, we have attack helicopters, heavy cargo and medical evacuation that form a very powerful team, where each of us has brought different experiences. I first served with the British in Afghanistan in 2003 and we worked very well together. This training aims to further build trust between us, so that we can be ready to respond to any global contingencies."

The Swift Response Exercise is carried out with more than 3,000 soldiers from eight NATO countries in North Macedonia under the command of 16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team, with about 2,000 British soldiers and aviators participating.

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U.S. Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit conduct rapid airfield seizure exercise from ships of the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group to Ie Shima Training Facility in order to set conditions to establish a forward arming and refueling point (FARP), according to a recent service news release.

The 31st MEU and Amphibious Squadron 11, aboard Wasp Amphibious Ready Group ships, conducted a series of sequential operations which simulated naval expeditionary combined-arms maneuver from amphibious assets to shore, utilizing Marine Air-Ground Task Force capabilities integrated across all warfighting domains.

Prior to seizing the airfield at Ie Shima Training Facility, Reconnaissance Marines with the 31st MEU’s Amphibious Reconnaissance Platoon conducted a high altitude low opening parachute jump onto the island to conduct reconnaissance and surveillance of the area. After the reconnaissance team finished surveilling the airfield, Marines with Echo Company, Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion,1st Marines, vertically inserted via MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft from the USS Wasp (LHD 1) more than 250 miles away, rapidly seizing the objective in just over one hour.

After perimeter security was set at the airfield, a CH-53E Super Stallion air-delivered three crates with the Helicopter Expeditionary Refueling System equipment necessary to establish a FARP. Next, Marines from I Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 265 (Reinforced), and Echo Company moved the gear from the drop zone and began FARP set-up. From delivery to completion, the FARP, which consisted of 5,500 lbs. of fuel delivered by a CH-53E, was set up in four and a half hours.

With the airfield seized and the FARP established, the MEU demonstrated a long-range CASEVAC via KC-130. The airfield seizure involved the 31st MEU subordinate units VMM-265 (REIN) and Echo Company from the Battalion Landing Team, and U.S. Air Force 353rd Special Operations Group (SOG) medical technicians. While coordinating with the FARP officer-in-charge 1st Lieutenant Guirong Cai and the Marine Air Traffic Control Mobile Team on the runway, the KC-130 landed within Echo Company’s security cordon. Ten simulated casualties were treated by three medical technicians from 353rd SOG and given blood transfusions before being loaded into the KC-130 for in-flight medical treatment en route to Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.

“The speed with which the Marines were able to establish the FARP demonstrates a capability that is critical to conducting expeditionary operations in a contested environment. Their proficiency in swiftly setting up a refueling point with 5,500 pounds of fuel demonstrates the 31st MEU’s ability to rapidly refuel and redeploy our air assets as the mission requires,” said Cai.

Overall, from the initial insertion of Reconnaissance Marines to the ground treatment of simulated casualties, the operation was successfully executed in 11 hours, quickly followed by the CASEVAC and with Echo Company prepared for follow-on expeditionary operations.

As the primary forward-Marine presence in the Indo-Pacific region, III Marine Expeditionary Force prides itself on being able to rapidly conduct sequential expeditionary operations, according to Maj. Anthony Cesaro, Air Officer with the 31st MEU.

“This event demonstrates the speed and flexibility of the 31st MEU to quickly seize a limited objective from a significant distance with nothing but airborne assets. In addition, the forces ashore were able to set conditions to support not only rotary wing and tiltrotor FARP operations, but also support larger fixed wing aircraft, such as KC-130s,” said Cesaro. “Furthermore, the simulated long-range joint casualty evacuation exhibited one option the commander would have to help get wounded personnel from an austere forward location back to a higher level of medical care. This type of raid gives the commanders in the Indo-Pacific region the ability to project power and conduct expeditionary operations in a potentially contested littoral environment.”

The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed MEU, provides a flexible and lethal force ready to perform a wide range of military operations as the premier crisis response force in the Indo-Pacific region.

Photo by Lance Cpl. Kenny Nunez Bigay

Photo by Lance Cpl. Kenny Nunez Bigay

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U.S. Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit conduct rapid airfield seizure exercise from ships of the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group to Ie Shima Training Facility in order to set conditions to establish a forward arming and refueling point (FARP), according to a recent service news release.

The 31st MEU and Amphibious Squadron 11, aboard Wasp Amphibious Ready Group ships, conducted a series of sequential operations which simulated naval expeditionary combined-arms maneuver from amphibious assets to shore, utilizing Marine Air-Ground Task Force capabilities integrated across all warfighting domains.

Prior to seizing the airfield at Ie Shima Training Facility, Reconnaissance Marines with the 31st MEU’s Amphibious Reconnaissance Platoon conducted a high altitude low opening parachute jump onto the island to conduct reconnaissance and surveillance of the area. After the reconnaissance team finished surveilling the airfield, Marines with Echo Company, Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion,1st Marines, vertically inserted via MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft from the USS Wasp (LHD 1) more than 250 miles away, rapidly seizing the objective in just over one hour.

After perimeter security was set at the airfield, a CH-53E Super Stallion air-delivered three crates with the Helicopter Expeditionary Refueling System equipment necessary to establish a FARP. Next, Marines from I Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 265 (Reinforced), and Echo Company moved the gear from the drop zone and began FARP set-up. From delivery to completion, the FARP, which consisted of 5,500 lbs. of fuel delivered by a CH-53E, was set up in four and a half hours.

With the airfield seized and the FARP established, the MEU demonstrated a long-range CASEVAC via KC-130. The airfield seizure involved the 31st MEU subordinate units VMM-265 (REIN) and Echo Company from the Battalion Landing Team, and U.S. Air Force 353rd Special Operations Group (SOG) medical technicians. While coordinating with the FARP officer-in-charge 1st Lieutenant Guirong Cai and the Marine Air Traffic Control Mobile Team on the runway, the KC-130 landed within Echo Company’s security cordon. Ten simulated casualties were treated by three medical technicians from 353rd SOG and given blood transfusions before being loaded into the KC-130 for in-flight medical treatment en route to Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.

“The speed with which the Marines were able to establish the FARP demonstrates a capability that is critical to conducting expeditionary operations in a contested environment. Their proficiency in swiftly setting up a refueling point with 5,500 pounds of fuel demonstrates the 31st MEU’s ability to rapidly refuel and redeploy our air assets as the mission requires,” said Cai.

Overall, from the initial insertion of Reconnaissance Marines to the ground treatment of simulated casualties, the operation was successfully executed in 11 hours, quickly followed by the CASEVAC and with Echo Company prepared for follow-on expeditionary operations.

As the primary forward-Marine presence in the Indo-Pacific region, III Marine Expeditionary Force prides itself on being able to rapidly conduct sequential expeditionary operations, according to Maj. Anthony Cesaro, Air Officer with the 31st MEU.

“This event demonstrates the speed and flexibility of the 31st MEU to quickly seize a limited objective from a significant distance with nothing but airborne assets. In addition, the forces ashore were able to set conditions to support not only rotary wing and tiltrotor FARP operations, but also support larger fixed wing aircraft, such as KC-130s,” said Cesaro. “Furthermore, the simulated long-range joint casualty evacuation exhibited one option the commander would have to help get wounded personnel from an austere forward location back to a higher level of medical care. This type of raid gives the commanders in the Indo-Pacific region the ability to project power and conduct expeditionary operations in a potentially contested littoral environment.”

The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed MEU, provides a flexible and lethal force ready to perform a wide range of military operations as the premier crisis response force in the Indo-Pacific region.

Photo by Lance Cpl. Kenny Nunez Bigay

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