FRIDAY FOTO (January 26, 2018)

And Awaaaaay.

(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Private First Class William Chockey)

A Marine jumps from an MV-22 Osprey tilt rotor aircraft at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California. The January 18, 2018 jump by the 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion came during Integrated Training Exercise 2-18.

FRIDAY FOTO (January 19-21, 2018)

To the Rescue.

(U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Seth Johnson)

For all they do, we don’t run nearly enough photos of the U.S. Coast Guard in action, so here’s one.

An MH-65 Dolphin rescue helicopter crew hoisted an ill fisherman from the deck of the Coast Guard Cutter Willow about 60 miles east of Atlantic City, New Jersey on January 11, 2018.

Willow, a 225-foot seagoing buoy tender based in Newport, Rhode Island, was directed by Coast Guard officials to the fishing boat Illusion and took the man aboard for transfer to the helicopter.

An MH-65 Dolphin brought the patient to Atlanticare Regional Medical facility in Pomona, New Jersey, according to a Coast Guard press statement.  To see a brief video of the medevac operation click here.

FRIDAY FOTO (January 12-15, 2018)

Mountain High.

(U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe)

We’re beginning to think that one just can’t take a bad photo of Japan’s iconic Mount Fuji.

Here an Air Force C-130J Super Hercules flies near Japan’s tallest mountain during a routine sortie out of Yokota Air Base, Japan, Jan. 12, 2018. The aircraft is assigned to the 36th Airlift Squadron.

FRIDAY FOTO (January, 5, 2018)

In the Red.

(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sergeant Justin T. Updegraff)

In case you forgot, there’s still a shooting war going on in Afghanistan, although U.S. troops are deployed largely in advisory and support roles.

As a reminder, here we see U.S. soldiers firing an 81 mm mortar to support Afghan soldiers during Operation Maiwand 10 in Helmand province, Afghanistan, on December 26, 2017. The U.S. soldiers — assigned to Company A, 2nd Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment — fired multiple illumination rounds to light the nearby area of Marjah, in southern Afghanistan, where Afghan soldiers encountered a nighttime ambush.