Alex Hollings, Author at Fighter Sweep

About Alex Hollings

Alex Hollings Alex Hollings writes on a breadth of subjects ranging from fitness to foreign policy, all presented through the lens of his experiences as a U.S. Marine, athlete and scholar. A football player, rugby player and fighter, Hollings has spent the better part of his adult life competing in some of the most physically demanding sports on the planet. Hollings possesses a master's degree in communications from Southern New Hampshire University, as well as a bachelor's degree in Corporate and Organizational Communications from Framingham State University.

We’re looking for WWII bomber pilots so we can tell their story – help us find them!

Fighter Sweep is on the hunt for World War II bomber pilots that we can work with on an upcoming project. Our goal is to tell the stories of the View More ›

Watch the Royal Australian Air Force welcome their new F-35s with an awesome joint formation flyby

Australia received their first two F-35As earlier this week, and the Royal Australian Air Force chose to commemorate their entrance into the world of fifth-generation fighters with some style. In View More ›

Watch: WWII Fighter pilot takes to the skies once more in a vintage P-51 Mustang

America’s World War II aviators found themselves at the very forefront of warfighting technology, and as such, they also found themselves facing challenges never before encountered by anyone in combat. View More ›

Marine Corps identifies 5 Marines lost aboard KC-130 that went down near Japan

Early Thursday morning, a Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet was attempting an aerial refueling from a KC-130 tanker aircraft when something went wrong. While the details regarding the incident remain sparse, View More ›

‘Foo Fighters’ over WWII Europe and the birth of the American love affair with aliens

In the modern age of missiles we can fire at targets over the horizon, and a seemingly limitless suite of radar, infrared, and optics technologies designed specifically to keep our View More ›

Watch the cockpit shake as the A-10 unleashes its 30mm cannon on a strafing run

The A-10 Thunderbolt II has earned a reputation among American war fighters as perhaps the best close air support aircraft ever to take to the skies. In service since 1977, View More ›

Marines call off search for lost KC-130 crew, declare all 5 dead

The U.S. Marine Corps has officially called off the search for the remaining five missing Marines that were aboard a KC-130 Refueler that collided with an F/A-18 Hornet last Thursday. View More ›

Can Top Gun 2 repeat the original’s success as a recruitment tool?

The world was a different place in 1986. Mike Tyson won his first title that year, making him the youngest man ever to do so. A brand new Ford Mustang View More ›

One released from hospital and one dead as search continues for 5 missing Marines after aircraft collision off Japanese coast

The one Marine that has been recovered alive after a mishap involving a Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet and KC-130 Refueler some 200 miles off the coast of Japan on Thursday View More ›

Russia announces plans to mount hypersonic missiles on the Su-57 – here’s why it doesn’t matter

Fifth generation fighter platforms and hypersonic missiles are all the rage this holiday season, with every aspiring global military power in a rush to not only develop and build each, View More ›

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