07/27/2013: Marines serving with 1st Combat Engineer Battalion and 7th Engineer Support Battalion demonstrated the bridging capabilities of the Improved Ribbon Bridge and Armored Vehicle-Launched Bridge to various 1st Marine Division leaders aboard Camp Pendleton, May 16, 2013.
Credit:1st Marine Division:5/20/13
07/17/2013: A time-lapse of aircraft assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 266 (Reinforced). 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), and U.S. Navy MH-60s assigned to USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) on the flight deck of the USS Kearsarge, at sea, July 13, 2013.
The 26th MEU is a Marine Air-Ground Task Force forward-deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility aboard the Kearsage Amphibious Ready Group serving as a sea-based, expeditionary crisis response force capable of conducting amphibious operations across the full range of military operations.
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The time-lapse was shot with a Canon 5D Mark II and a Vello ShutterBoss, consisting of 3,528 images shot over five hours at a five second interval.
Credit: 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit: 7/13/13
07/11/2013: Marines and Sailors with Maritime Raid Force, 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, utilize MV-22B “Osprey”, AH-1Z ” Super Cobra”and UH-1Y “Huey” aircraft in the beginning stage of a training raid at Fort Irwin, National Training Center, Calif., during Ground Realistic Urban Training, May 6, 2013.
Ground RUT is a nine-day exercise that spans three states and utilizes the 13th MEU’s full spectrum of aviation, ground combat and logistics assets to prepare them for their upcoming Western Pacific Deployment later this year.
Credit: 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit:5/6/13
07/11/2013: U.S. Marines with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 363, Marine Aircraft Group 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing prepare to preserve nine MV-22B Osprey aircraft for shipment to Okinawa, Japan on Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, Calif., June 9, 2013.
The nine aircraft are being transferred to Okinawa, Japan to become part of Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 262.
Credit: 3D Marine Aircraft Wing Combat Camera: 7/9/13
07/08/2013: Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System-equipped C-130s and crews assigned to the 153rd Airlift Wing, Wyoming Air National Guard, train and certify for the 2013 season during week-long training.
The 153rd AW works in conjunction with the U.S. Forest Service and lead planes.
The Wyoming Air National Guard, in addition to the 145th Airlift Wing, North Carolina Air National Guard, 146th Airlift Wing, California Air National Guard and the Air Force Reserve’s 302nd Airlift Wing in Colorado Springs, Colo. serve this unique mission capability.
Credit:153rd Airlift Wing:5/10/13
07/06/2013: An MV-22B Osprey assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 266 (Reinforced), 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), lands aboard the USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), during nighttime flight operations at sea, June 27, 2013.
The 26th MEU is a Marine Air Ground Task Force forward deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility aboard the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group serving as a sea based, expeditionary crisis response force capable of conducting amphibious operations across the full range of military operations.
Credit: 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit: 6/27/13
07/04/2013: Marines serving with Alpha Company, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, team up with Assault Craft Unit 5, a Navy unit based out of Camp Pendleton, CA, to make an amphibious landing.
The Marines learned how to tie down their light armored vehicles onto ACU-5’s landing craft air cushion, a hovercraft class vehicle, in process known as “griping.”
Marines loaded their company of LAVs onto the LACs in the predawn hours and landed on Camp Pendleton’s Red Beach at sunrise.
Credit:1st Marine Division:5/1/13
07/02/2013: ST GEORGE, Utah – U.S. Marines and Sailors land a Lockheed KC-130J Hercules aircraft and three MV-22B Osprey helicopters at St. George Airport, May 9, 2013.
Once landed, Marines and sailors established a forward refueling point (FRP) to resupply military aircraft with necessary fuel and equipment to conduct ground realistic urban training at a forward location.
This training exercise was in preparation for the 13th MEU’s WESTPAC deployment.
Credit:13th Marine Expeditionary Unit:5/9/13