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Soldier from 89th MP BDE, shows a Soldier of the Niger Armed Forces how to identify reportable terrain during a reconnaissance exercise.

Uganda military showcases humanity while training to counter VEOs with U.S. military information support operations .

CODEL of @HASCDemocrats visits leadership of @US_Emb_Djibouti,@US2SOMALIA and tours @CJTFHOA area of responsibility including Somalia

Alligator Dagger Exercise! @CJTFHOA coordinate w/ @USembassyDjibouti to clear ranges for @USNavy Amphibious Forces & @USMC 51/5th MEUs ARG

Honoring Wing Commander Chimda Hedima jr, ExJam who selflessly sacrificed his life 3 yrs ago 11/09/14 serving our Great Country #WeThankYou

#SBSC

IbnSultaan:
Honoring Wing Commander Chimda Hedima jr, ExJam who selflessly sacrificed his life 3 yrs ago 11/09/14 serving our Great Country #WeThankYou

#wethankyou.
We will always remember and appreciate service of brave men we've lost.

IbnSultaan:
Honoring Wing Commander Chimda Hedima jr, ExJam who selflessly sacrificed his life 3 yrs ago 11/09/14 serving our Great Country #WeThankYou

Create a thread for him with what he did(achievements and feat) and we will make it hit FP

TROOPS AMBUSH BOKO HARAM TERRORISTS NEUTRALIZE MANY AND RECOVER WEAPON

The Troops of 151 Battalion, 21 Brigade Nigerian Army on operation LAFIYA DOLE, at the early hours of Sunday 10th September 2017, laid a successful ambush on a suspected Boko Haram terrorists crossing point at Bocost along Ngurosoye -Bama road, Borno State.
The Troops neutralized a large number of the Boko Haram terrorists, while other terrorists sustained gun shot wounds.

The troops recovered the following items from the terrorists; 1 AK 47 rifle with the registration number 1029, 1 AK 47 magazine, 60 rounds of 7.62mm Special, 3 Bicycles, 4 Empty Jerricans, a Cutlass and the cash sum of Five Thousand and Six Hundred Naira (N5, 600.00k) only.

Brigadier General Sani Kukasheka Usman
Director Army Public Relations

More....

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IbnSultaan:
Honoring Wing Commander Chimda Hedima jr, ExJam who selflessly sacrificed his life 3 yrs ago 11/09/14 serving our Great Country #WeThankYou

I am already preparing something for him that may be posted on FP.
I thought since he was killed on 12/09/14, the remembrance should be tomorrow. What do you think?
Cc. Sconp

bidex111:
NN SBS

Bro please blur his face OPSEC don de cry

bidex111:
Which one would you go for....

-Temsah 2
-Ara Proforce

Aesthetically the Temsah is bae

bidex111:
NN SBS

See as yuu just Dey expose crack commandos, well these guys are meant to wear balaclavas when in photos so I blame them.

Joint Chinese and Pakistani Air Force exercise, wonder how the JF-17s compare to Su-30 series aircrafts in PLAAF service

jakeporeshenko:
Joint Chinese and Pakistani Air Force exercise, wonder how the JF-17s compare to Su-30 series aircrafts in PLAAF service

I'd expect NAF officials being a spectator at the exercise . We could learn a lot about the Su-30

Odunayaw:
I'd expect NAF officials being a spectator at the exercise . We could learn a lot about the Su-30

I agree, on the isssue if Yak-130 and Mig-29 have you heard anything ?

My reasoning is that it’s one thing for NAF to be interested and it’s another for minister of defense (Dan Ali) to show interest.

The alpha jets have to be replaced one way or the other with a new trainer/lights attack so the interest in the yak makes sense to me, it’s either that or the L-15 from China.

Since the JF-17 shares the same power plant (Klimov RD-33) as the mig-29/mig35 I guess it makes sense too

jakeporeshenko:
Joint Chinese and Pakistani Air Force exercise, wonder how the JF-17s compare to Su-30 series aircrafts in PLAAF service

looks like j11 to me

jakeporeshenko:
I agree, on the isssue if Yak-130 and Mig-29 have you heard anything ?

My reasoning is that it’s one thing for NAF to be interested and it’s another for minister of defense (Dan Ali) to show interest.

The alpha jets have to be replaced one way or the other with a new trainer/lights attack so the interest in the yak makes sense to me, it’s either that or the L-15 from China.

Since the JF-17 shares the same power plant (Klimov RD-33) as the mig-29/mig35 I guess it makes sense too

Russian jets meh...None of the officers I know has something better than "let's wait and see"

The Ministry of Defense has been trying to assert its authority over the DHQ and the respective services hence The minister being at the fore of any acquisition


We need a new trainer truly and the L15 and Yak r our best bet but if you ask me i'd say no Yaks r coming


Also i'd like to look at the MIGs as a push for d ruskkies to sell us a better engine for the JFs

But what do I know..am just a civilian

On 8 September 2017, my oldest friend in the Armed Forces of Nigeria, Navy Captain Kolawole Oguntuga, was honored when he was presented his award for outstanding work accomplished while the Nigerian Deputy Defense and Naval Attaché to the United States from 2013 to 2017. The Meritorious Service Medal was presented by Admiral Michelle J. Howard, Commander, Allied Joint Force Command Naples, Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe, and Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Africa during her visit in Abuja.

Kola and I first met in Abuja in March 2004 during my first tour there when he was Aide de Camp to the Commandant of the Nigerian War College. We then linked up again around late-2013 when he arrived in DC and I was the Chief of Defense Foreign Liaison. During my second tour in Nigeria we maintained constant communications between Abuja and DC which aided both our missions greatly.

This award was greatly deserved Captain Oguntuga - Kola. You and others in the Defense Attaché Office at the Nigerian Embassy in DC were highly committed to strengthening the US-Nigerian partnership and I greatly appreciated it.

Be safe my friend. Hooah!

Xbee007:
I am already preparing something for him that may be posted on FP.
I thought since he was killed on 12/09/14, the remembrance should be tomorrow. What do you think?
Cc. Sconp

Even better

bidex111:
NN SBS

I love the kit, bidex111 are you sure this guys are NN so Nigerians can kit like this. They must be protecting someone big.

sconp:
I love the kit, bidex111 are you sure this guys are NN so Nigerians can kit like this. They must be protecting someone big.

#Facepalm
Did you just join this thread?

Bidex111, any addition or subtraction and good input is welcome.
Tomorrow, the final copy should enter FP before 10am, if I am unavailable someone should post it.
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3 Years Remembrance.
Wing Commander Chimda Hedima 1975 - 12/09/2014.
Today we remember and celebrate an unsung hero, Wing Commander Chimda Hedima. He was a fine and seasoned combat pilot with wealth of experience till his capture and eventual demise after his jet was downed over enemy line. In the heat of battle, Wing Commander Chimda Hedima and his copilot's aircraft received significant damages from the enemy's antiaircraft guns. The two pilots had three options. Fly the badly damaged cum attrition ridden aircraft back to base. Bail out of it. Or fly the aircraft into the enemy column. The first two options would increase their chances of survival while the last had obvious steep consequences. Alas, they made up their minds, they would fly into the enemy and bail out in the dial minute. As experienced fighter pilots, they know of the steep consequence of their action. They were fully aware of the little margin for survival yet, like the true hero they were they carried out their heroic action. 63 BHTs were sent to their 72 virgins in hell and others sustained injuries.
Their heroic deed was unprecedented and unmatched in this present era of human existence. We will have to go back in history to the First and Second World Wars to find similar heroic feat. Russian pilots in WWI were the first to practise Air Ramming against enemy aircrafts when their planes either run out of ammunitions or were badly damaged. The Japanese took it to a whole different and unique level in WWII. They called it Kamakaze. Despite the unconventional nature of this tactic, even the enemy grudgingly agreed it was highly effective. The USS Bunker Hill bombing in 1945 is an unforgettable testimony when two Japanese pilots, Ensign Kiyoshi Ogawa and Lt. Seizō Yasunori piloted their bomb-laden aircraft into US army bunker killing nearly 400 personnels. Those Japanese heroes were celebrated. Hymns and ballad were composed for them. Women and men, young and old sang of them. Famous landmarks were named after them. Their names were immortalized.
Sadly, here in Nigeria not even a brick was named after WC Chimda Hedima. When Boko Haram terrorists released the gory footage of his decapitation, ex-NAF spokesman, Dele Alonge denied ever knowing the fine pilot. "The man shown in the Boko Haram video is not our officer. The picture of a man beheaded in the video is superimposed," he told Associate Press (AP) without elaborating. Every Nigerians understand the importance of downplaying enemy propaganda. Heck, I never watch their propaganda videos myself. Dele Alonge under Alex Badeh's leadership never had to deny him. In war, you win some you lose some, Nigerians understand and emphatise. Badeh sent a wrong message by denying his man. He had days to remedy the disgraceful situation yet he remained obstinate. Perhaps, he later gave the man some behind the scene honorarium but none could be like doing what is right.
However, ordinary Nigerians will remember him. His heroic feat will remain indelible in our minds. Posterity shall hear and read of his good deeds. As long as our phones and laptops continue to have internet accessibility, our heroes' names shall never fade from the internet of times.
Alex Badeh's sin as Chief of Air Staff goes beyond denying his comrade but who are we to judge him? Heck! Who are we not to judge him Tax payer's money were budgeted to him to purchase new fighting equipment to prosecute the Boko Haram war. He along with some corrupt defense contractors had other opinion. Moneys that could buy pristine Alpha jets were used to buy scraps that were not airworthy. Helicopters with wrong rotors that kept falling out of the sky terminating the lives of some of our finest pilots were chosen over new ones (more like wearing flip-flops on suits, kolewerk). AK-47s that kept jamming were imported from China when we could produce better ones in DICON. Such was the callousness of NAF's past leadership. Today is not about them anyway.
Wing Commander Chimda Hedima may your gentle, caring soul rest in perfect peace. You died for something far greater than any of us. You died so every Nigerian could have peace of mind. You died because you believed in us. We will not betray your trust.
God bless you true hero!
Rest on!!

Xbee007 the eulogy was already beautiful without Badeh and the consortium of dungbrains

Tomorrow is about honoring him. Please don't let those flaws turn it sour

Odunayaw:
#Facepalm
Did you just join this thread?

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Odunayaw:
Xbee007 the eulogy was already beautiful without Badeh and the consortium of dungbrains

Tomorrow is about honoring him. Please don't let those flaws turn it sour

@xbee007 very beautiful. For me its okay to go posting tomorrow.

sconp:
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Abi I didn't ask well

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Another seizure of 1,100 pump action firearms by Nigerian customs.

Same model of guns seized last time so probably the same importer.