[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hst1jyT3A4c[/youtube] Youtube user telin21 uploaded this video of her 2-year-old daughter reacting to a pre-recorded video of her dad, who had left for two-months for Air Force basic training in Texas. It is ridiculously cute, and going viral. Uploaded yesterday, the video already has more than 120,000 views. From the description: Our daughter didn’t understand him leaving or how long he’d be gone, or if he’d come back. She’s so young and I didn’t want her to think he just vanished. Prior to his departure, he recorded several videos of him talking with her, reading to her, making silly faces,…
Author Brian Everstine
Getty photo Here’s a promotion that is … interesting. At this weekend’s NASCAR Sprint Cup series race at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama, malt beverage maker Jeremiah Weed is offering free permanent tattoos for race fans. The designs include a NASCAR driver’s signature and a malt beverage can. For each tattoo, Jeremiah Weed will donate $100 to the Air Force Enlisted Village. Fans who decide to go through with it will be taken to “a local tattoo parlor approved by the Alabama State Health Board.” So if you’ve been waiting for the perfect time to get a tattoo of No. 17…
Nike photo Nike and Lebron James this week unveiled the superstar’s new signature shoes — the Lebron 9 “Cannon.” Apparently, according to the AP, they are inspired by the Air Force. A design for Lebron James’ latest signature sneaker was inspired by the U.S. Air Force. Nike calls it “The Cannon” edition of the LeBron 9. The military-green theme is a nod to the Miami Heat having their first training camp since James joined the team last season at Hurlburt Field and Eglin Air Force Base. Those installations in Florida’s Panhandle hosted the Heat for about a week, and players…
A computer virus has infected the American fleet of Predator and Reaper unmanned aircraft, Wired’s Danger Room reported today. Check back here for more updates.
For just the bargain price of £25,000 (about $41,000), you could be the proud owner of a restored (albeit engineless) German Luftwaffe F-104 Starfighter. The British company Jet Art Aviation bought the retired ‘lawn dart’ from the Luftwaffe and spent just four weeks restoring it to the pristine condition, the Daily Mail writes. ‘This aircraft definitely fits our brief of fast and flashy,” Chris Wilson of Jet Art Aviation told the tabloid. “‘It will be the ultimate garden feature, gate guardian, or museum aircraft”
A guaranteed “aww” moment as a massive Great Dane (with the fantastic name Emmitt Thunderpaws) welcomes his owner home after a nine month deployment, according to the Youtube description.
This video of airmen jamming has started to make the rounds of social media. To steal from the top comment on Youtube, “you guys should go on tour. oh wait …” If they can’t tour, at least the Air Force still has Max Impact.
Photo courtesy of James Snook, the Spokane Indians After playing a paper-toss game between half innings at a local minor league game, the twin 4-year old girls Gracie and Ruby Weichman turned around to see what they had won. To their surprise, and to the delight of the crowd of 4,005 on Monday night in Spokane, Wash., out walked their father, Staff Sgt. Chris Weichman of the 27th Special Operations Support Squadron at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M. Weichman, fresh from a six-month deployment to Afghanistan and a long drive from New Mexico to Washington state, walked out with…
The Princeton Review has released its annual list of top party schools and sober schools, based on a survey of 122,000 students. The Air Force Academy makes the sober list coming in at No. 13. However, the Academy is the lowest of the service academies: The Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., comes it at No. 4; the U.S. Military Academy in West Point at No. 5; the Naval Academy in Annapolis at No. 6; and the Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, N.Y., at No. 12. The top sober school is Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. If…
The 10th Security Forces Squadron at the Air Force Academy will gather today to say to say goodbye to one of their own – Aghbar, a German shepherd and the Air Force’s most decorated military working dog. Man’s best friend in many ways has become an airman’s best friend, with hundreds of dogs accompanying airmen, soldiers and marines on patrols in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with working base security and law enforcement back home. Experts estimate that one dog is responsible for saving the lives of 150 service members, according to a call for legislation to improve the adoption process…
