03/15/2015: USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) and French aircraft carrier Charles de Gualle (R91) transit together in the Northern Arabian Gulf. Carl Vinson and its embarked air wing, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 17, are deployed supporting maritime security operation and strike operations in Iraq and Syria. Credit:Navy Media Content Services:3/8/15…
03/13/2015: A UH-1Y Huey, assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 365 (Reinforced), 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), takes off from USS Iwo Jima (LPD 7), Jan. 7, 2015, in preparation for a live-fire exercise in the Mediterranean Sea. The 24th MEU and Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group are seen conducting naval…
03/10/2015: Airmen from the 386th LRS Aerial Porters help load MRAPs onto a C-17 with 386th Expeditionary Operations Group Credit:386th Expeditionary Operations Group:12/30/14 MRAPs are large and heavy vehicles and approximately three can be carried at a time by C-17s. By ship, although slower, is a more rational way to…
03/08/2015: A B-1B Lancer with the 34th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron deployed to Al Udeid Air Base in support of operations Inherent Resolve and Freedom's sentinel takes off at night. Credit:379th Air Expeditionary Wing:2/25/15
03/07/2015: Latvian and Canadian soldiers talk about participating in winter training, part of Operation Reassurance, at Camp Adazi, Latvia. Credit:Natochannel :2/25/15
2015-03-07 According to the February 2015, Japan Defense Focus published by the Japanese Ministry of Defence, there has be a significant increase in scrambles by the ASDF in 2014 compared to 2013. And the cause? No surprise here: incursions by the Russians and the Chinese. The ASDF scrambled 744 times…
03/06/2015: Airmen from the 34th Aircraft Maintenance Unit maintaining the B-1B Lancer at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. Credit:379th Air Expeditionary Wing:2/25/15 In a story by Patrick Megahan published on Augusut 29, 2014: As the air war over northern Iraq expanded earlier this month, Pentagon officials for first time acknowledged that…
03/05/2014: MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft, assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, take off from the flight deck of the forward deployed amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6). Credit: Navy Media Content Services:12/15/14
