I'm very pleased with anything related to action or military - looks really great and cool. I had aspired to become a pilot of fighter jet F-16;-)
It feels very happy if I could help keeping security of the country, despite the fact that war is a bad thing. however Life is too precious to be eliminated. Therefore, I prefer to see or read the heroic actions of the great and brave soldiers. One that I read today is the news of release of hostages in Somalia. Here the news.
Nine dead, hostages saved:
After Taking out Osama bin Laden, SEAL Team 6 Does It Again
First they took out Osama bin Laden. Now the US Navy SEALs have earned their "special forces" designation once again by conducting a daring, pinpoint rescue of two aid workers held hostage for three months in Somalia.
US officials confirmed it was a Navy SEAL team that carried out the pre-dawn raid, but the Pentagon, citing "operation security reasons," would not confirm US media reports that it was SEAL Team 6, the same unit which got Al-Qaeda leader bin Laden deep inside Pakistan last May.
American Jessica Buchanan and Dane Poul Thisted, who both worked for the Danish Refugee Council Demining Group, were rescued unharmed after helicopter-borne US commandos landed in scrubland in central Somalia early Wednesday local time, according to a local Somali official.
They killed all nine of them, the US military said. US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said no US troops had been wounded or killed in the operation, which was personally authorized by President Barack Obama.
The SEALs -- an acronym of "Sea, Air, Land" -- specialise in reconnaissance and sea-borne assaults, often on vessels. They count some 2300 highly specialised operatives among their ranks, and their raids mostly involve participation of two teams totaling nearly 30 commandos.
For a decade, they have been putting their elite training to use on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, as have their US Army counterparts in Delta Force and the Green Berets.
Team 6 is the elite of the elite, and their missions are classified. While its shining moment was the spectacular bin Laden triumph, Team 6 is cloaked in secrecy, and its activities are almost never officially acknowledged.
According to the GlobalSecurity website, SEAL Team 6 is said to have been deployed for a possible -- but never attempted -- rescue of the Achille Lauro cruise ship from hijackers in 1985, and helped free the American captain of the container ship Maersk Alabama amid a 2009 standoff with pirates off Somalia.
According to US media, the elite fighters are also believed to have been involved in the mission to rescue Scottish aid worker Linda Norgrove in Afghanistan after she was kidnapped by members of the Taliban in 2010. Norgrove died in the operation.
Despite the stellar successes of the past year, the SEALs have also known tragedy during the same period. Seventeen US Navy SEALs, mostly from Team 6, were among 38 people killed last August when the Taliban shot down the Chinook helicopter that was transporting the US personnel, in the deadliest incident for US and NATO forces since the war in Afghanistan began in 2001.
The Team 6 moniker had been chosen by the unit's founder, Richard Marcinko, who wrote in his book "Rogue Warrior" that he wanted to trick other nations, notably the Soviet Union, into believing that the United States had more special operations teams than it actually had.
In the 1980s it had some 90 members, but its size swelled to nearly 300 after the 9/11 attacks of 2001.
While the name Team 6 continues to be used, it has not been the official designation since 1987. The unit was subsequently renamed DEVGRU, the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group.
Author:Jimmy Hitipeuw
Source: AFP
Friday, January 27, 2012
Silent Attack Behind the Veil of Night by Navy SEAL Team 6
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Beware of Solar Storms
United States National Weather Service (NOAA) predicts the biggest solar storm since 2005 occurred on this day. Effects experienced by the Earth is a powerful radiation. Quoted from its site "A large geomagnetic storm (a type of solar storm) — the largest such storm since October 2003 — is currently underway."
According to NASA, the bursts of the solar corona (CME) will reach speeds of 2.253 km per second. These solar storms will touch the earth's upper atmosphere on Tuesday (24 / 1), approximately at 09:00 U.S. time. These solar storms will last for approximately 7 hours. NASA and NOAA categorizes this solar radiation storms reaching the S3 level (strong).
While the Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) states, the weather will continue to rise in the earth from Tuesday to Wednesday (Jan-25). Bursts of solar radiation has the potential to isolate the computer systems that exist on earth satellites, damaging the electrical connections, and interfere with radio transmissions. In addition, this radiation will also affect humans who are in space and in altitude, such as on airplanes.
To deal with this radiation, a number of flights in the Arctic has been diverted. Then, launching a satellite into space also will be suspended, at least wait until the solar storms finished.
Meanwhile, the collision loaded particles with the energetic atoms in a layer of earth's thermosphere will produce Aurora around the Arctic circle. The solar storm will also interfere with GPS systems. While on Tuesday night, the sky will look a certain color and light which is the effect of these solar storms. At that time, a number of energetic particles will penetrate into Earth's atmosphere.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Dating Friend of the Captain of Costa Concordia Cruise
Francesco Schettino, captain of the Costa Concordia, perhaps the most popular in Europe today. And starting yesterday, added one more name, Domnica Cemortan - sometimes spelled as Dominica Cermotan - a girl who later revealed dinner and a bottle of wine with Schettino.
The passengers who survived began to tell about what was done by captain of the ship, Francesco Schettino, at night when the ship hit a reef. An Italian passenger said he saw Schettino take a red wine with a girl and others in one restaurant of the ship until 21:05 o'clock, less than an hour before the accident.
Schettino, in dark uniform, was sitting in front of a young woman. She was young, first they thought she is his daughter.
Earlier, Italian media reported when the ship hit a reef, the captain of the Costa Concordia, Francesco Schettino, was mentioned was spending the night with a woman. Later, based on video recordings, the identity of the woman, began to lift; is known from Moldova named Domnica Cermontan.
Cermontan 25-year-old was one of the passenger ship. Cermontan has said in an interview with a TV station in Moldova, that she was at the bridge on the night of the disaster. She is an employee of Costa Crociere ship owners, but not on duty during the voyage, according to Italian daily, La Repubblica, wrote Cemortan at the time as regular passenger on the Costa Concordia.
