01/30/2016: Exercise Red Flag 16-1 is an air combat training exercise which centers on the large force employment of aircraft in a high-end warfighting environment. RF16-1 is being conducted from Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, United States, from 25 January to 12 February 2016. The aircraft will participate in the…
01/28/2016: U.S. Marines with Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response-Africa extract a notional French downed pilot during a tactical recovery of aircraft and personnel exercise, Dec. 7 near Albacete, Spain. TRAP exercise was a part of a month-long Tactical Leadership Programme Flying Course, designed to train fighter jet pilots from…
01/25/206: Sailors, assigned to Assault Craft Unit 5, and Marines, assigned to the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, build a Personnel Transport Module aboard a Landing Craft, Air Cushion in the well deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4). The Boxer Amphibious Ready Group is underway off the coast…
01/21/2015: The sun was shining and the mountains around Kabul were clearly visible, when the first A-29 Super Tucanos touched down at Hamid Karzai International Airport. The A-29 is a light-support aircraft capable of conducting close air support, aerial escort, armed overwatch and aerial interdiction. Four A-29 aircraft arrived to intense…
01/20/2016: Marines, attached to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 166, unfold the rotor blades of a UG-1Y helicopter on the flight deck of amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4). The Boxer Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) is seen underway off the coast of southern California completing a certification exercise (CERTEX). CERTEX…
01/20/2015: The U.S. Air Force delivered four A-29 Super Tucano airplanes to the Afghan Air Force Jan. 15 at Hamid Karzai International Airport here. (Video by Staff Sgt. Robert Kingery/Released) Credit:438th Air Expeditionary Wing:1/15/16
01/15/2016: An AV-8B II Harrier, assigned to Medium Tilt Rotor Squadron (VMM) 166 (Reinforced), lands on and takes off from the flight deck of amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4). The Boxer Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) is seen underway off the coast of Southern California completing a certification exercise…
01/13/2016: SOUDA BAY, Greece (Jan. 10, 2016) USS Ross (DDG 71) prepares to pull out of Souda Bay, Greece Jan. 10, 2016. Ross, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, forward deployed to Rota, Spain, is conducting a routine patrol in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national…
