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The president and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff should have been armed with the conviction to order a strike with our F-15Ks. When an island village is enveloped in flames, what rules of engagement should the military follow? The F-15K is an arms purchased with the citizens' blood, sweat and tears. And the purpose of the purchase was to use it at the time when President Lee and Chairman Han missed the chance for a historical bombing. At the Air Force base in Daegu, 45 F-15K pilots are crying. They are frustrated at the weak-hearted commander and...

The entire population is in a fury. The rhetoric pledging to strike back in “multi-fold” ways and upgrade artillery preparations is no different than the cries of wolf shouted by an unreliable shepherd boy. Fathers who served the military with staunch fortitude are astonished by the ludicrous state of the military, and mothers who after a teary embrace sent their sons to the Army are shocked when they return home in coffins. Where did all the colossal defense spending paid by our salaries go? What is in the minds of the uniformed men with stars on their chests when fishing...

"A squadron of F-22s should be sent to Osan Air Base in South Korea and start conducting air patrols along the DMZ and over South Korean territory that is targeted by the North. Anything that fires on the F-22s should be destroyed, just as the North should have destroyed the artillery guns that attacked its island this week. Let the F-22s show they have a real role to play in protecting our allies and in operating with impunity in conflict areas, just as they were designed to do. And let the message get through to Pyongyang that if we want...

Operation Desert Storm, 1 February 1991 -- A U.S. Navy F-14A Tomcat fighter jet (assigned to Fighter Squadron 211 (VF-211) at Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia) flies over burning Kuwaiti oil wells. Via http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20060914.htm (medium, large)  

"F-22 Raptor 4168 ascends over C-130H aircraft belonging to the 94th Airlift Wing at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Ga., shortly after taking off from the company's Marietta facility on its delivery flight to Langley AFB, Va., Tuesday [26 October 2010]. Raptor 4168 is the 15th F-22 delivered to the U.S. Air Force this year, the 168th overall."  

A USAF F-22A Raptor stealth fighter jet executes a max climb takeoff on 12 November 2010 during Aviation Nation 2010 at Nellis AFB, Nevada. Via http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-200905 (medium, large, huge)   The Photographer Master Sgt. Kevin J. Gruenwald, United States Air Force  

Raptor over California. Via http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20060917 (medium, large, huge)  

"The Spirit of Hawaii" -- a U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bomber -- taxies to get into formation at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, USA, during the "Beast Walk" Exercise on June 22, 1998. Via http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-200905.htm (medium, large)   The Photographer Senior Airman Jessica Kochman, United States Air Force  

Photo 1: Snapped while orbiting over the North Pacific Ocean (latitude 1.5, longitude -114.6) on January 3, 2010 at 12:28:57 GMT. Via http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20061021.htm (medium, large, huge) Photo 2: Male' and the Male' International Airport, Republic of Maldives on January 12, 2010 at 08:38:57 GMT. The length of the runway is 10,499 feet (3,200 meters). Via http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20060917.htm (medium, large, huge)

The International Space Station (ISS) was over the North Pacific Ocean (latitude 4.9, longitude -117.0) on January 3, 2010 at 12:27:52 GMT when this spectacular photo was taken by an astronaut aboard the ISS. Via http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20061021.htm (medium, large, huge)

Photo 1: USAF F-22A Raptor stealth fighters fly over the Western Pacific Ocean, 16 February 2010. Via http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-200905.htm (medium, large, huge) Photo 2: USAF F-22A Raptors continue their flight over the Western Pacific Ocean, 16 February 2010. Via http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-200905.htm (medium, large) The Photographer Staff Sgt. Jacob N. Bailey, United States Air Force  

Photo 1: USAF F-22A Raptor stealth fighter jet peels away from the F-15C Eagle fighter to land at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, USA, 16 July 2010. Via http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20050822.htm (medium, large, huge) Photo 2: F-22A Raptor and F-15C Eagle pull into a vertical climb over the Nevada Test and Training Range, 16 July 2010...see Photo 3. Via http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20050822.htm (medium, large, huge) Photo 3: And they're still climbing high above the Nevada Test and Training Range, Nevada, 16 July 2010. Via http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20051129.htm (medium, large, huge) Photo 4: USAF F-15C Eagle and USAF F-22A Raptor over the Grand Canyon in Arizona,...

Photo No. 1: USAF Lt. Col. Christopher Faurot, Hawaii Air National Guard's 199th Fighter Squadron commander, flying a USAF F-22A Raptor stealth fighter jet from Hill Air Force Base, Utah, to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, 2 July 20102200x1464 pixels + 3202x2130 pixels + 4256x2832 pixels via http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-200905.htm Photo No. 2: USAF Lt. Col. Christopher Faurot> en route to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, 2 July 20101504x1000 pixels + 2363x1572 pixels via http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-200905.htm Photo No. 3: The F-22 Arrival Ceremony at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, United States of America, on 9 July 2010.1600x1064 pixels + 4256x2832 pixels via...

U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer heavy bombers (assigned to the 28th Bomb Squadron in Dyess Air Force Base, Texas) on a training mission in New Mexico, USA1600 x 942 pixels + 2208 x 1300 pixels + 3200 x 1884 pixels + via http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20060914.htm The Photographer Master Sgt. Kevin J. Gruenwald, United States Air Force  

Prime Minister Putin praised Russia’s new fifth-generation fighter jet when he visited the Central Aerohydrodynamics Institute in the Moscow region on June 17. However, Putin was hasty in his remarks. The T-50 fighter jet, which performed its 16th test flight for Putin, can not be referred to as the fifth-generation aircraft. Experts claim that the plane has to be reequipped to obtain the title. For the time being, the PAK FA jet meets only a few requirements of the aircraft of this class, the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper said. According to experts’ estimates, if a plane does not correspond to two...

Ah, I'm so relieved that things are getting back to normal. I spent my formative years enraptured with the thrill of drop drills ('duck and cover;' remember that?) strategic missile gaps, the space race, submarine cat-and-mouse, missiles in Cuba, and other delights of the Cold War.

"Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is personally overseeing the country's efforts to create one of the most advanced fighter jets in the world. He stopped by the Zhukovsky airfield outside Moscow to watch a test flight of the Sukhoi T-50 jet. The plane features an array of technical and design innovations. Sukhoi, the company behind it, says it'll be a few more years before the fifth-generation jet is ready for mass production."

1536 x 1000 pixels + 2000 x 1302 pixels + 3000 x 1954 pixels + via http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-200905.htm The Photographer Tech. Sgt. Ben Bloker, United States Air Force  

"This isn't to deny the prevalence of anti-Americanism even in the Age of Obama. Nor is it to wish away the real threats to American power -- from external challenges (Iran, China, Islamist terrorists) to, more worrying, internal weaknesses (rising debt levels, decreasing military spending as a percentage of the federal budget, a shrinking Navy). But if my cross-global jaunt taught me anything, it is that those countries that dismiss the prospects for continuing American leadership do so at their peril. The U.S. still possesses unprecedented power projection capabilities, and, just as important, it is armed with the goodwill of...

The Photographer Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Allen, United States Air Force   The Via Photo No. 39 at http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20061021.htm