Friday fun is going to be a little longer than usual. This editor needs the distraction.
Leading off Friday fun, a post from my fave account, The Oklahoma DWC:
A couple of bonus tweets:
This week’s Pearls Before Swine:
This week’s political commentary
Memes!
This week’s Mil Photos. Just a quick note, these images are all the highest definition available and are suitable for wallpaper and screensavers.
Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters fly over the Potomac River in Washington during the 39th Annual Army Ten-Miler, Oct. 8, 2023. The race promotes the Army, builds esprit de corps, supports Army fitness goals and enhances community relations. (U.S. Army photo by Bernardo Fuller)
PACIFIC OCEAN (Oct. 10, 2023) A Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM ) 161 lands on the flight deck of the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) during a training exercise while underway in the Pacific Ocean during Pacific Partnership 2024-1, Oct. 10, 2023. Now in its 19th iteration, Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jacob Woitzel)
TLANTIC OCEAN (Oct. 11, 2023) U.S. Marine Corps test pilot Maj. Paul Gucwa, from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23, flies an F-35B during the final first of class sea trials for F-35B test (DT-3) aboard the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales (R09), Oct. 11, 2023. The Queen Elizabeth-class (QEC) Prince of Wales’s participation in WESTLANT 23 encompasses a range of United Kingdom and U.S. naval aircraft trials in the western Atlantic Ocean throughout the autumn of 2023. Prince of Wales continues to push the boundaries of naval aviation capabilities and operations from QEC aircraft carriers, including increasing the range and lethality of F-35 operations. The U.K. is the only Tier I partner in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program. U.K. and U.S. interactions during this deployment are characterized by cooperation and reinforce international relationships, as well as enhance interoperability between the U.S. Navy and the Royal Navy. The F-35 Joint Program Office is the Defense Department’s focal point for the 5th-generation strike aircraft for the Navy, Air Force, Marines, and our allies. The F-35 is the premier multi-mission, 5th-generation weapon system. Its ability to collect, analyze and share data is a force multiplier that enhances all assets in the battle space, with stealth technology, advanced sensors, weapons capacity, and range. The F-35 has been operational since July 2015 and is the most lethal, survivable, and interoperable fighter aircraft ever built. (U.S. Navy photo by Dane Wiedmann)
A U.S. Air Force HH-60G Pave Hawk assigned to the 33rd Rescue Squadron at Kadena Air Base, Japan, flies alongside a Royal Brunei Air Force Sikorsky S-70i Black Hawk during exercise Pacific Angel 23-3, Rimba Air Force Base, Brunei, Sept. 12, 2023. This iteration of Pac-Angel is focused on regional search and rescue and humanitarian assistance/disaster response capacity-building interoperability with partnering nations. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Shelimar Rivera Rosado)