This video is a great montage of the life of a JTAC assigned to the 720th Special Tactics Group’s only Air Support Operations Squadron, the 17th ASOS.
Archive for the ‘Forces Focus’ Category
Forces Focus – 17th ASOS
Saturday, September 29th, 2012The Smoke Jumper’s Toolkit
Thursday, August 30th, 2012
MARSOC – Today Will Be Different
Thursday, August 16th, 2012
US Army SF FTW
Friday, August 10th, 2012
For 60 years now US Army Special Forces have been serving around the world as America’s premier Unconventional Warfare force.
Send Me
Monday, July 23rd, 2012From someone honoring the 27th Special Operations Wing comes this montage of AFSOC awesomeness set to “Send Me” by Max Impact.
Forces Focus – USAF Special Tactics
Sunday, July 22nd, 2012We ran across this great B roll footage of Special Tactics Airmen training.
Forces Focus – Finnish Sotilaspoliisit
Monday, July 9th, 2012Part of the Finnish Guards Jaeger Regiment, the Sotilaspoliisit is a small Military Police unit.
Reader JP had this to say about the video –
“The Regiment has a strong homeland defence focus, and co-operation with LE agencies and civil authorities is close.
In the video you can see a 9month conscript- based MP reserve company training in assault force operations alongside Finnish National Police. During a sustained national crisis this assistance would be a typical mission profile, especially if foreign involvement is clear.
The training scenario here is pretty much an “Urban Shield” equivalent where all necessary elements, including the reserve company have been activated in response to a large scale event. The company is tasked in the briefing to strike a location identified as being used as a crash pad by the bad guys. See what happens…
Equipmentwise a lot of the stuff is Finnish, like the Sisu XA-180 APC, the breach blankets by Verseidag Ballistic Protection, the Valmet RK95 TP rifles etc. On the other hand you can see ACOGs, Aimpoint CS, NICO bangs, Insight Technologies stuff and Dynamic Entry tools put to good use… Not to mention an oldie but goody Partner Saw!”
Thanks JP!
Forces Focus – USMC and UK Jump Ops
Sunday, July 8th, 2012Marines and Sailors from 1st and 3rd Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Companies conducted a live jump with members of the British Army’s 148th Forward Observer Battery (Commando) at Edwards Air Force Base, CA, on June 15th. Years ago, when I was in the Army I went drinking with some of the members of the 148th when they and I were, by happenstance, all at Camp Lejeune on TDY. It resulted in one of the most epic hangovers of my life. The dive trip I took the next day at Topsail Beach basically sucked but I must say, those boys could hold their liquor and were some really great guys.
