Iwakuni Maintainers for F/A-18 Hornets

11/02/2014
11/02/2014: Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 115 Maintainers makes sure their fighter jets are operational and ready when they go up in the sky. Credit:American Forces Network, Iwakuni JAPAN:8/18/14 And this story was published earlier this year about the maintainers working to keep the F-18s flying in Thailand during an exercise.…

Spanish Soldiers Board LCAC Being Launched by USS Arlington During Bold Alligator 2014

11/02/2014
11/01/2014: Bold Alligator 2014 is a crisis response exercise and continues the work of BA 2012 and BA 2013. It is about calibrating insertion forces against various threats.  The forces are American and coalition with several nations contributing ships, and combat personnel to both the planning and execution of the…

Bold Alligator 2014: Training To Support an Embassy Under Threat

11/02/2014
11/01/2014: U.S. Marines assigned to 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, conducting simulated embassy measures and countermeasures in support of exercise Bold Alligator 14 abroad Camp Lejeune, N.C., Oct. 29, 2014. Exercise Bold Alligator 14 is a multi-national, synthetic naval amphibious exercise designed to train across the full range of amphibious…

The A400M in Service with the French Air Force: Shaping A Solid Foundation for the Future

11/01/2014
2014-10-23 By Murielle Delaporte The French Air Force has activated its first 400M squadron. And it did not take much time for the new plane to be put to operational use. The A400M in the past months has been involved in various theater missions for Operations Barkhane in the Sahelo-Saharan…

Training for Air Combat: General Hostage Focuses on the Challenge of Training for the 21st Century Fight

10/30/2014
2014-10-30 By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake When we started the website one of the first interviews we did was with the recently retired Air Combat Command Commander, John Corley. Corley provided us with a comprehensive overview on the core foundations of an air combat force, and the challenges facing…

ROK-U.S. “2+2” Ministerial Strengthens Joint Defenses But Faces New Threats

10/30/2014
2014-11-03 By Richard Weitz The United States and South Korea just completed their most important series of national security meetings this year. On October 24, the South Korean and U.S. foreign and defense ministers held their third so-called “2+2 meeting,” which was the first such ministerial since Park Geun-hye became…