The Finnish Air Force hosted exercise BAANA 2024, Sept. 4, on Hosio Highway Strip, Ranua, Finland. During the exercise the aircraft landed on a highway strip in Finland to practice Agile Combat Employment which increases the ability of our collective partners to collaborate and operate in a joint, high-intensity environment,…
U.S. and Bulgarian forces work together for Thracian Summer 2024, a flying training deployment, August 19-29, 2024, in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. FTD Thracian Summer is a two-week training deployment for American and Bulgarian forces to work together and learn how each other perform their mission. PLOVDIV, BULGARIA 08.29.2024 Video by Staff…
STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. -- International security force professionals from Indonesia, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mauritius, the Philippines, and Thailand participate in the Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School's (NAVSCIATTS) Patrol Craft Officer Coastal (PCOC) course during Semester 24-5. PCOC is an eight-week maritime course of instruction designed to provide…
U.S. Marine Corps Maj. David Faerber, an F-35B Lightning II pilot with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 542, talks about Exercise Razor Talon 23-1 at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, July 27, 2023. Exercise Razor Talon 23-1 was an opportunity for VMFA-542 to maintain readiness by training…
A Royal Australian Air Force P-8A Poseidon aircraft arrives at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, during Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024. Approximately 320 Australian Defence Force personnel have joined twenty-nine nations, 40 surface ships, three submarines, 14 national land forces, more than 150 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are…
U.S. Marines with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 268 (Reinforced), Marine Rotational Force – Darwin 24.3, shoot an M240B medium machine gun from the back of an MV-22B Osprey during a tail gunnery exercise over Mount Bundey Training Area, NT, Australia, July 11, 2024. Marines conducted the tail gunnery exercise in…
U.S. Marines with the maritime raid force, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, conduct special patrol insertion and extraction rigging during a helicopter rope suspension techniques sustainment exercise on Kin Blue Training Area, Okinawa, Japan, July 11, 2024. The exercise sustained the MRF’s HRST proficiency in insert and extract capabilities for the…
U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Charles Tuan, an AH-1Z attack helicopter pilot with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 262 (Rein.), 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, explains the purpose of firing an AGM-179 joint air-to-ground munition (JAGM) and the use of a forward arming and refueling point (FARP), during an expeditionary (EXPO) strike training…
