Marines of Company C, 3d Tank Battalion receive a brief from their company commander. They are sitting in front of Genesis II while in Saudi Arabia. Photo courtesy of M. O’Neal.
The movement of Coalition forces in the famous “Hail Mary” or “Left Hook” of the ground campaign. Coalition forces blocked the escape route for Iraqi troops that remained in Kuwait. Graphic courtesy of the U.S. Army Center of Military History.
Marines study a sand table map of the obstacle belts in Kuwait. They needed to breach the obstacle belts quickly to avoid being caught in Iraqi artillery barrages and armored counter attacks while unable to maneuver. Photo courtesy of M. O’Neal.
After securing Al Jaber Air Base, Task Force Ripper oriented their attack towards Kuwait International Airport. However, the Iraqis launched a counterattack that the 3d Tank Battalion fended off before resuming their advance. By the evening of 25 February, the 1st Marine Division approached Kuwait International Airport. Smoke from the pervasive oil fires slowed the division, forcing them to wait until the following day. Another set of obstacles to traverse and continued poor visibility meant the 1st Marine Division could not surround and fully secure the airport until the morning of 27 February. There, the division paused while a joint Arab military force liberated Kuwait City. MajGen Myatt then waited for word of a ceasefire or orders to begin an attack on Baghdad.
Marines of 3d Tank Battalion outside of Kuwait City at Kuwait International Airport. This tank was fitted with a mine rake as a measure to help clear the minefields the Marines encountered during the ground assault. Photo courtesy of M. O’Neal.
The assault on Baghdad would not happen. Early on the morning of 28 February, President George H.W. Bush ordered a ceasefire after it was clear that the Iraqi military had been thoroughly defeated. Genesis IIDuring Operation Desert Storm, the Marine Corps sent a team of historians to scour Southwest Asia for items to preserve for posterity. They chose to send back an M60A1 tank called Genesis II. The M60A1 is a relic of the cold war and it was chosen because its tank commander also led Company C, 3d Tank Battalion, the lead tank company to cross the border in Kuwait. According to Genesis II's crew, tank commander Capt Ed Dunlap resembled Genesis singer Phil Collins. They chose to name the tank after Collins's band. The crew also painted "Shoot-N-Loot" on the gun barrel as a tongue-in-cheek reference to their instructions that they were going to Kuwait to liberate the country and not to shoot at and loot the populace.
Genesis II’s crew standing in front of the tank. It was concealed under radar-scattering camouflage netting with it’s main gun barrel protruding. From top left, clockwise: Capt Ed Dunlap, Cpl Sean Pulliam, LCpl Sean Gardner, and Cpl David Schmidt. Photo courtesy of Ed Dunlap
Genesis II somewhere in Kuwait. Photo Courtesy of Ed Dunlap.
LtCol Alphonso “Buster” Diggs commanded the 3d Tank Battalion, the armor component of TF Ripper, during Operation Desert Storm. Photo courtesy of M. O’Neal.
Transition to the M1A1When most people think of Operation Desert Storm, they think of the M1A1 Abrams tanks storming over the desert terrain of Iraq. But the Marine Corps had only begun to transition from the older M60 to the M1A1 Abrams tank immediately before Operation Desert Shield and did not have many by August 1990. 2d Tank Battalion received some of the new Abrams tanks in time for Operation Desert Storm, and two reserve companies, Companies B and C, 4th Tank Battalion received a crash course in the new tank as well. The U.S. Army's 1st Brigade, 2d Armored Division, or "Tiger Brigade," who reinforced the 2d Marine Division for the war, used M1A1 Abrams tanks as well, bringing the number of the new tanks in I MEF to 196.
The U.S. Army’s 1st Brigade, 2nd Armored Division “Tiger Brigade” fought as a component of the 2d Marine Division. Their M1A1 Abrams and Bradley Fighting Vehicles protected the left flank of the Marines’ assault into Kuwait and provided additional armor support to the operation. Photo courtesy of NARA
The Marine Corps deployed more of the cold-war era M60 tanks in support of the operation. For the American armed forces, Desert Storm was the first—and last—hurrah for the M60 tanks in major combat roles. The Marine Corps upgraded the M60s to improve their accuracy and survivability and included passive night vision sights for the gunner and commander. The M60s of Desert Storm featured explosive reactive armor, which exploded when shot to dissipate the destructiveness of an anti-tank round. The tank also only had a 105mm main gun compared to the Abrams's 120mm main gun and the Abrams was faster, more survivable, presented a smaller silhouette, and was more reliable. Immediately after returning from Kuwait, the Marine Corps purged the M60s from their inventories and completed the transition to the Abrams. The 3d Tank Battalion deactivated in the summer of 1992.
RestorationWhen Genesis II came to the old Marine Air-Ground Museum at Quantico, it sat outside in Virginia's humid environment, causing some corrosion problems and damage to the paint. Because of the corrosion, Genesis II needed to be restored. The National Museum of the Marine Corps developed a partnership with Marine Depot Maintenance Center, Albany to complete the restoration. The Museum has worked with MDMC Albany for other restoration projects, and the crews there understand our exacting standards, and have always exceeded the Museum’s expectations.
Genesis II with its Explosive Reactive Armor removed before the restoration process began. Photo by Nathan L. Hanks, Jr.
The restoration took roughly two years. Albany's maintainers carefully removed all of the paint, but first painstakingly documented all of the tank's markings. They completely disassembled Genesis II, removed all of the corrosion, treated the bare metal, painted the components, then reassembled it. Finally, they restored the markings exactly as the crew left them in 1991.
Arrival and InstallationThe newly-restored Genesis II arrived at the National Museum of the Marine Corps from Albany, Georgia, in September 2016. It took two days for riggers to put the tank on its mount. Genesis II was the first artifact installed in the Final Phase galleries, which interpret Marine Corps history from 1975-2015.
Genesis II arriving at the National Museum of the Marine Corps
Installation of Genesis II into Final Phase Gallery
PO Rosalia Indah kembali menambah 10 armada baru untuk melayani rute Antar Kota Antar Provinsi (AKAP). Armada baru perusahaan otobus asal Karanganyar ini memakai bodi terbaru buatan karoseri New Armada, dikombinasi sasis besutan Mercedes-Benz.
Seperti dilihat detikOto di Instagram @newarmada.official, bus baru PO Rosalia Indah ini menggunakan bodi terbaru New Armada Skylander R22 FL tipe Aero 8 Touring. Bus tersebut memiliki tampilan modern dengan kaca samping yang bersih tanpa selendang.
Kesepuluh bus anyar PO Rosalia Indah ini sudah mengadopsi kaca depan ganda alias double glass yang bikin tampilannya jadi lebih gagah. Selain itu, bus ini juga mempunyai tampilan ala bus 'double decker' dengan bagian bodi samping yang sebagian dicat menggunakan warna hitam sehingga menyerupai kaca.
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Geser ke bagian interior, bus yang memiliki kelas executive plus ini mempunyai nuansa kabin mewah dengan lampu yang warm. Sementara bagian kursi menggunakan warna hitam yang dikombinasi warna orange khas PO Rosalia Indah.
Bus ini juga memiliki fasilitas toilet yang dilengkapi fasilitas wastafel. Selain toilet, juga ada fasilitas entertainment berupa layar televisi yang ukurannya lumayan besar. Oh iya, yang menarik lagi, bagian bagasi atas sudah dilengkapi penutup, sehingga terlihat lebih rapi.
Dari bagian sasis, kesepuluh bus PO Rosalia Indah ini menggunakan sasis Mercedes-Benz OH 1626. Di atas kertas, sasis ini menggunakan varian OM 906 LA 6.374 cc 6-silinder injeksi, turbocharger, intercooler. Mesin ini mampu menghasilkan tenaga 260 dk pada 2.200 rpm dan torsi 950 Nm pada putaran mesin 1.200-1.600 rpm.
Megaco (resmi H.248) adalah sebuah implementasi dari Media Gateway Control Protocol arsitektur [1] untuk mengendalikan Media Gateways di Internet Protocol (IP) jaringan dan masyarakat beralih jaringan telepon (PSTN). Dasar umum arsitektur dan antarmuka pemrograman awalnya digambarkan dalam RFC 2805 dan saat ini definisi Megaco spesifik adalah ITU-T Rekomendasi H.248.1.
Megaco mendefinisikan protokol untuk Media Gateway Controller untuk mengontrol Media Gateways untuk mendukung aliran multimedia di jaringan komputer. Hal ini biasanya digunakan untuk menyediakan Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) jasa (suara dan fax) antara jaringan IP dan PSTN, atau seluruhnya dalam jaringan IP. Dalam protokol tersebut merupakan hasil kolaborasi dari kelompok kerja MEGACO Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) dan International Telecommunication Union ITU-T Study Group 16. IETF standar aslinya diterbitkan sebagai RFC 3015, yang kemudian digantikan oleh RFC 3525.
Istilah Megaco adalah sebutan IETF. ITU kemudian mengambil alih kepemilikan protokol dan versi IETF telah direklasifikasi sebagai bersejarah. ITU telah menerbitkan tiga versi H.248.1, terbaru pada bulan September 2005. H.248 mencakup bukan hanya spesifikasi protokol dasar di H.248.1, tetapi banyak ekstensi didefinisikan di seluruh H.248 Sub-series. Pelaksanaan lain Media Gateway Control Protocol arsitektur ada dalam protokol MGCP bernama sama. Ini digunakan melalui antarmuka yang sama dan mirip dalam aplikasi dan fungsi pelayanan, bagaimanapun, adalah protokol yang berbeda dan perbedaan yang mendasarinya membuat mereka tidak cocok.
