I had to sort through roughly 15 pages of idiotic, *mostly* non-war related photos that the new sensitive Air Force thinks I give a shit about to find this gem, but hey…. my sacrifice is your gain eh?
A KC-135 Stratotanker from the Alaska Air National Guard’s 168th Air Refueling Wing refuels an F-22 Raptor from the 90th Fighter Squadron at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Jonathan Steffen).
I think there’s a new chief picking the photos that go up on the Air Force’s website. It used to be that I had to fight over a half-dozen or so awesome shots for our picture of the day. Now, there’s basically two irritating kinds of photos up there:
1) Airmen volunteering for shit that has nothing to do with combat ops.
2) Hey look we have women pilots!
So, to answer the question of a reader who noted the decline in picture of the day posts, that’s why dude.
well it is no secret that the Air Force is more interestd in gender integration and politically correct pleasantries than fighting, so that is no surprise.
and this is coming from someone who is in the Air Force!
I noticed that also. There’s alot more human interest stuff on there now, when I just wanted to look at the pretty airplanes.
PRETTY COOL PICTURE! DO YOU HAVE ANY MORE? PLEASE SEND MORE.
Yeah, all that kind of goes along with the fact that for some reason the Colorado brats’ sports teams rank right up there with all the other USAF-wide news in the USAF’s daily news email. Annoying as hell. I do care about how airmen are managing logistics at a deployed location in order to support the upcoming NATO summit in Romania. What I don’t care about is how the Academy’s hockey team did.
On a brighter note, check this out. A candidate for the next picture of the day? Tactical Herks and Combat Controllers, hard to beat.
I actually passed that one over for the Raptor shot Mike, but I dunno…. email me the direct link and we might just be in business (too lazy to go hunting through the awful AF archives the pic).
Email is inbound.
Email apparently bounced, so here’s the link: http://www.af.mil/news/story_media.asp?id=123092212
This is my sons photograph. He is based in Alaska and has been complimented on his work many times. Thanks for enjoying his work. His mother surely does.
randomly stumbled across this awesome post! thanks for posting a bad ass shot!
Air Force not interested in doing ground combat? WTFO? But then, I’m one of the few who actually did… 1C4X1, Tactical Air Command and Control Specialist. In sort, the USAF TACP’s, ROMADs and JTACs. Blowing stuff up when the Army is all outa ‘hooah’. Check out Steve Call’s book “Danger Close”, the ROMAD Locater (www.romad.com) and some occasional Air Force Times stuff about these guys (of which I was a part of for 6 years and 11 months…). Beyond Tech School and Survival School, I spent all my time on some Army Post living with, training with, and going to war with the US Army.
If you don’t know WTF you are talking about, don’t stick your foot in your mouth by repeating common stereotypes about any branch of service, it just shows your cranium is up your rectum.