Enterprise Returns Home from Final Deployment
The USS Enterprise (CVN 65), the world’s first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, has come home for good after her 22nd …
Desert Shield & Desert Storm
Latest Edition of Defense Debuts at Sea-Air-Space Exposition: Digital Edition Available Now
The newest edition of Faircount Media Group’s Defense debuts at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space 2012 Exposition held April 16-18, at …
Faircount Media Group Releases Defense Summer 2011 Edition
In the Summer 2011 Edition of Defense
Clarence A. Robinson interviews Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) about the defense budget, his …
Desert Shield – Desert Storm: 20th Anniversary of the Gulf War
Throughout this January and February America and its allies everywhere have been recognizing and commemorating the 20th anniversary of Operations …
Gulf War: F-14 Tomcat in Combat
When Operation Desert Storm began, the F-14 Tomcat was the only fighter in the U.S. inventory to have scored an …
Gulf War: Logistics Marvels Made the “Left Hook” Work
When the first paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division hit the ground in Saudi Arabia, the first thing they noticed …
Gulf War: The Battle of 73 Easting and the Road to the Synthetic Battlefield
There is an old training axiom that a military force usually learns a great deal more from their defeats than …
Gulf War: RF-4C Phantom II in Desert Storm
The RF-4C Phantom II was the last manned, tactical reconnaissance aircraft in U. S. Air Force inventory. The 1991 Persian …
Gulf War: Coast Guard Aviators Battled Saddam Hussein’s Oil Spill
Coast Guard aviation gained abrupt visibility during Operation Desert Storm when the service’s sole VC-11A Gulfstream II transport – with …
Gulf War: The 20th Fighter Wing in Operation Desert Storm
Around midnight, Jan. 16, 1991, hundreds of afterburner flames stabbed the inky darkness at many airfields in Saudi Arabia and …