U.S. Marines with Marine Wing Support Squadron (MWSS) 171 refuel a U.S. Air Force F-16D Fighting Falcon with the 13th Fighter Squadron on Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, Feb. 24, 2021. Marines with MWSS-171 are able to rapidly set up forward arming and refueling points in austere environments to…
64th Aggressors pilot and maintenance Airman prior to take off for Red Flag 21-2 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, March 9, 2021. NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, NV 03.09.2021 Video by Senior Airman Dylan Murakami Nellis AFB Public Affairs
USS Nimitz, part of Nimitz Carrier Strike Group, returned to Naval Base San Diego, Feb. 26, 2021, after a more than 10-month deployment to U.S. 5th Fleet and U.S. 7th Fleet, which included freedom of navigation operations and participation in Operations Freedom’s Sentinel, Inherent Resolve and Octave Quartz. 02.26.2021 Video…
DEFENDER-Europe 21 is a large-scale U.S. Army-led exercise designed to build readiness and interoperability between the U.S., NATO allies and partner militaries. This year, more than 30,000 multinational forces from 26 nations will conduct nearly simultaneous operations across more than 30 training areas in 14 countries. GERMANY 03.11.2021 Video by…
U.S. Marines participate in service-level training events to include Integrated Training Exercise 2-21, and Marine Air Ground Task Force Warfighting Exercise (MWX) 2-21, at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, February 2021. MWX is the culminating event of the service level training exercise, challenging Marines to fight…
The Air Force aims to harness and wield the most optimal forms of artificial intelligence to accomplish all mission-sets of the service with greater speed and accuracy. One way the Air Force aims to accomplish this effort is by embedding innovative Airmen of all ranks and backgrounds into academia and…
A U.S. Air Force BQM-167A Subscale Aerial Target launches during a Weapons Systems Evaluation Program exercise at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, Jan. 27, 2021. Using sub scale drones give pilots the opportunity to fire live munitions and missiles during training to train the way they fight. 01.27.2021 Video by…
U.S. Air Force Special Tactics operators with the 24th Special Operations Wing, conduct water operations with U.S. Navy aircrew members assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron Nine, in a MH-60 Seahawk Helicopter during Emerald Warrior 21.1, at Hurlburt Field, Florida, Feb. 18, 2021. Water operations training is part of training…
