Pre-Irene Tailgate Party
August 26th, 2011 | Photography | Posted by Colin Kelly
This could be the oddest place I’ve had to park recently. Before departing on flights to reposition aircraft in advance of Hurricane Irene, crew vehicles were parked inside a hangar, around and underneath a non-operational HC-130 at Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C. Had to leave the keys in the ignition but I don’t think the Hercules is going anywhere soon.
Paris Air Show In a Minute
June 24th, 2011 | Photography | Posted by Colin Kelly
Here’s your chance to go to an international air show without crossing an ocean or braving the crowds. Watch an hour of the 2011 Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, France go by in a minute.
You stay classy FOB Kushamond
April 23rd, 2011 | Photography | Posted by Colin Kelly
…and in other news the human torch was denied a bank loan. Ron Burgundy says “No smoking within 50 feet” of the fuel pump at Forward Operating Base Kushamond, Afghanistan. Allegedly this was the stencil work of one of the previous units to occupy Kushamond in recent years.
Handle With Care
February 2nd, 2011 | Photography | Posted by Colin Kelly
Sometimes door handles are an afterthought on any house or building. So today when we came across KA-BAR knife shaped door handles at United States Marine Corps Special Operations Command (MARSOC) headquarters at Camp Lejeune, N.C., I was kinda impressed. The handles go nicely with the mirrored security tinting on the doors. I wonder if I could keep door-to-door salesmen at bay if I got a set of these for my house.
Watchmen?
June 18th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Colin Kelly
No, this isn’t a Rorschach impersonator event. These guys are Royal Navy sailors on HMS Ark Royal. We were on board to film an episode of a TV show that we produce and in scouting locations we came across these guys. Turns out they were doing a damage control exercise where they were hooded and given commands over radio to simulate working in thick smoke.
Need a flag?
April 6th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Colin Kelly
One of the flag boxes on USS Independence while underway from Key West to Jacksonville, Fla. on April 1, 2010 in the Atlantic Ocean.
Turning a corner
April 2nd, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Colin Kelly
Lt. Eric Traini out for an afternoon run around the flight deck of USS Independence, the Navy’s newest ship, underway from Key West to Jacksonville, Fla.
This is the first underway for the Independence as it just left the shipyard in Mobile, Ala. several days earlier.
On board the USS Bataan
January 15th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Colin Kelly
Marines from the 22nd MEU load onto the amphibious assault ship Bataan in Morehead City, N.C., on Jan. 15 preparing to depart for Haiti in support of earthquake relief efforts.
Split Barrel
December 13th, 2009 | Photography | Posted by Colin Kelly
No, Wile E. Coyote was not involved in the making of this image, nor was Photoshop. A contestant in the first USASOC Sniper competition held last week at Fort Bragg had some sort of mechanical malfunction and shortly after he pulled the trigger to shoot, his barrel split right down the middle. No one knows for sure why the barrel split like it did but I was told that the Armorer is looking into it.