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USAF, USN, NASA Photos of the Day: Flare-Dazzle. Falling. Surfacing. Oil. Saving a 4-day-old baby!
United States Air Force (Air Force Link - Photos) ^ | December 5, 2002 | Senior Airman Greg Davis

Posted on 09/19/2006 10:54:54 PM PDT by EnjoyingLife

Photo #1. Flares and smoke from the flare salvo -- fired by an overland United States Air Force C-141B Starlifter Cargo and Troop Transport, a jet-powered airlifter -- leaves in the sky a bright, dazzling-to-the-eye, white, spectacular formation with glowing 'tips' that are very hot. The well-defined vortex on the left is caused by air turbulence created by the flight of the C-141B StarLifter aircraft. The flare countermeasure, a self-defense decoy operation or technique, is used to help protect the aircraft from an attack (or attacks) by deadly heat-seeking missiles. Photo Credit: Senior Airman Greg Davis, Air Force Link - Photos (http://www.af.mil/photos, 021205-O-9999G-017, 'Fireworks display'), United States Air Force (USAF, http://www.af.mil), United States Department of Defense (DoD, http://www.DefenseLink.mil or http://www.dod.gov), Government of the United States of America (USA). C-141 StarLifter fact sheets from the United States Air Force <http://www.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=93> and Lockheed Martin Corporation <http://www.lockheedmartin.com/wms/findPage.do?dsp=fec&ci=11166&sc=400>. Photo #1. Somewhere on planet Earth a USAF C-141B Starlifter Cargo and Troop Transport lights up the sky with a spectacular and awesome flare release. USAF Image ID: 021205-O-9999G-017.

Photographer
Senior Airman Greg Davis, United States Air Force

Courtesies
http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/021205-O-9999G-017.jpg
http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20060914.htm (photo as sized above, ALT text, caption info)



Photo #2. With the Parachute Fully Deployed, a Parachuter With Explosive Ordnance Mobile Unit Eight (EODMU-8) Floats Down to Earth Out of the Blue Sky at Sunrise or Sunset, August 28, 2006. Sigonella, Sicily, Repubblica Italiana - Italian Republic (Italy). Photo Credit: Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Chad Zenthoefer, Navy NewsStand - Eye on the Fleet Photo Gallery (http://www.news.navy.mil/view_photos.asp, 060828-N-3572Z-025), United States Navy (USN, http://www.navy.mil), United States Department of Defense (DoD, http://www.DefenseLink.mil or http://www.dod.gov), Government of the United States of America (USA).
Photo #2. Italy, August 28, 2006: A Member of Explosive Ordnance Mobile Unit Eight (EODMU-8) practices static line parachute proficiency operations with combat equipment on board Naval Air Station (NAS) Sigonella, Italy. USN Image ID: 060828-N-3572Z-025.

Photographer
Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Chad Zenthoefer, United States Navy

Courtesies
http://www.news.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=38550 (caption)
http://www.news.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/060828-N-3572Z-025.jpg
http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20060905.htm (picture as sized above, ALT text)



Photo #3. The United States Navy Attack Submarine USS Columbus (SSN 762) Performs a Submarine Emergency Surfacing Drill In the Vast Pacific Ocean, June 4, 1998, Off the Coast of Oahu, State of Hawaii, USA. Photo Credit: Photographer's Mate 2nd Class David C. Duncan, Navy NewsStand - Eye on the Fleet Photo Gallery (http://www.news.navy.mil/view_photos.asp, 980604-N-7726D-002), United States Navy (USN, http://www.navy.mil), United States Department of Defense (DoD, http://www.DefenseLink.mil or http://www.dod.gov), Government of the United States of America (USA). Photo #3. In the Pacific Ocean, thirty-five (35) miles off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii on June 4, 1998: United States Navy attack submarine USS Columbus (SSN 762) surfaces from beneath the Pacific Ocean -- a Submarine Emergency Surfacing Drill. USN Image ID: 980604-N-7726D-002
Photographer
Photographer's Mate 2nd Class David C. Duncan, United States Navy

Courtesies
http://www.news.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=639
http://www.news.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/980604-N-7726D-002.jpg
http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20060917.htm (photograph as sized above, ALT text, caption information)



Photo #4. View From Outer Space of a Small Portion of Earth, Our Home Planet, November 1996: Dawlat al Kuwayt - State of Kuwait. Photo Credit: Persian Gulf, Kuwait City, Al Burqan Oil Field, and Kuwait's plain and desert; NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia: STS-80 Mission; NASA-Johnson Space Center. 'Astronaut Photography of Earth - Display Record.' <http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/efs/images.pl?photo=STS080-733-21>; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, http://www.nasa.gov), Government of the United States of America (USA). The photo's full size request URL is <http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/LargeImageAccess.pl?directory=EFS/highres/STS080&filename=STS080-733-21.JPG&filesize=11112114>
Photo #4. High above Earth, November 1996: Kuwait City, Kuwait Al Burqan Oil Field, and the Persian Gulf as seen from space on a perfectly clear day. NASA Image ID: STS080-733-21

Photographer
Crew of NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia, STS-80 Mission,
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-80/mission-sts-80.html

Courtesies
http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/efs/photoinfo.pl?PHOTO=STS080-733-21
http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/efs/images.pl?photo=STS080-733-21
http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/LargeImageAccess.pl?directory=EFS/highres/STS080&filename=STS080-733-21.JPG&filesize=11112114 (Huge image)
http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20060916.htm (photo as sized above, ALT text, caption info; larger image link, but smaller than the "Huge image", is also at this link)



Photo #5. Saving Hands. Healing Hands. Four visible hands belonging to -- from left to right, Major Jeanette Gonzalez, Senior Airman Kris Vensel, Captain Karen Long -- personnel with the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) team are giving medication to a newborn. The 4-day-old baby is safely aboard the enormous USAF C-17 Globemaster III aircraft. He is in the care of the large ECMO medical team specifically sent from United States Air Force 59th Medical Wing, Wilford Hall Medical Center (located at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, USA) to Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (USA) to bring him to San Antonio, Texas, USA, for specialized care. July 21, 2006, Aboard the C-17 Globemaster III Military Transport. Read the full story at 'Medical team transports newborn from Puerto Rico' <http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123024023>, with additional photographs at <http://www.af.mil/news/story_media.asp?storyID=123024023>. Photo Credit: Master Sgt. Scott Reed, United States Air Force; Air Force Link - Week in Photos, July 28, 2006 (http://www.af.mil/weekinphotos/060728-03.html and http://www.af.mil/weekinphotos/wipgallery.asp?week=178, 060721-F-4884R-109, 'ECMO medical team transports newborn'), United States Air Force (USAF, http://www.af.mil), United States Department of Defense (DoD, http://www.DefenseLink.mil or http://www.dod.gov), Government of the United States of America (USA). C-17 Globemaster III fact sheets from the United States Air Force <http://www.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=86> and The Boeing Company <http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/military/c17/index.htm>.
"Saving Hands. Healing Hands."
Photo #5. Aboard a USAF C-17 Globemaster III, Somewhere between Puerto Rico and Texas, July 21, 2006: Four visible hands belonging to -- from left to right, Major Jeanette Gonzalez, Senior Airman Kris Vensel, Captain Karen Long -- personnel with the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) team are giving medication to a newborn. The 4-day-old baby is safely aboard the enormous USAF C-17 Globemaster III aircraft. He's in the care of the large ECMO medical team specifically sent from United States Air Force 59th Medical Wing, Wilford Hall Medical Center (located at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, USA) to Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (USA) to bring him to San Antonio, Texas, USA, for specialized care. USAF Image ID: 060721-F-4884R-109

Photographer
Master Sgt. Scott Reed, United States Air Force

The Touching Story in Words and Photos
"Medical team transports newborn from Puerto Rico", http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123024023
http://www.af.mil/news/story_media.asp?storyID=123024023 (photo gallery)

Courtesies
http://www.af.mil/weekinphotos/060728-03.html and http://www.af.mil/weekinphotos/wipgallery.asp?week=178
http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/060721-F-4884R-109.jpg
http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20060908.htm ("Healing Hands. Saving Hands." title, photo as sized above, ALT text, caption)



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: attack; c141b; c17; columbia; columbus; ecmo; extracorporeal; fields; flare; globemaster; italy; kuwait; kuwaitcity; membrane; mission; nasa; oil; oxygenation; parachute; release; rescue; salvo; shuttle; space; ssn762; sts80; submarine; usaf; usn; uss
1. Was Photo #1 snapped in the United States?

2. Is the baby in Photo #5 recovering OK?

1 posted on 09/19/2006 10:55:05 PM PDT by EnjoyingLife
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To: EnjoyingLife

A suprise to me, I thought all the C-141's were retired.


2 posted on 09/20/2006 5:47:06 AM PDT by ops33 (Retired USAF Senior Master Sergeant)
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To: EnjoyingLife

Photo #1 is old...the C-141B has been completely retired.


3 posted on 09/20/2006 5:47:08 AM PDT by JRios1968 (Tagline wanted...inquire within)
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