What involves 90,000 forces, more than 50 naval assets, 80 air platforms and more than 1,100 combat vehicles? Exercise Steadfast Defender 2024 – NATO’s biggest in decades, aimed at reinforcing the defence of Europe. February 2, 2024 Natochannel
This U.S. Marine Corps video was created in Adobe After Effects to explain the Distributed Aviation Operations warfighting concept for the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, the aviation combat element of II Marine Expeditionary Force. MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, NC 10.20.2023 Video by Cpl. Adam Henke 2nd Marine Aircraft…
U.S. Marines with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron (HMH) 461 and 2nd Distribution Support Battalion (DSB), U.S. Navy Sailors with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Four, and animal packers with the U.S. National Forest Service hike to the site of a downed U.S. Navy MH-60S Seahawk to prepare it for recovery at…
Beaufort, South Carolina, Feb. 23, 2023. U.S. Marines with 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW) conducted distributed aviation operations outside of their home duty station and local area to validate logistics, sustainment, and communications requirements for command elements. VMA-223 is a subordinate unit of 2nd MAW, the aviation combat element of…
U.S. Marines assigned to Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One, install mock ordnance and conduct refueling on a F-35B Lightning II aircraft during a distributed short take-off/vertical landing operation, part of Weapons and Tactics Instructors (WTI) course 1-24 at Gila Bend Municipal Airport, Arizona, Oct. 20, 2023. WTI is…
Video production of U.S. Marines with 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW) demonstrating their capability to conduct distributed aviation operations, logistics, communications, and sustainment requirements in various locations in Eastern North Carolina, Jan. 21-28, 2023. 2nd MAW is the aviation combat element of II Marine Expeditionary Force. 02.15.2023 Video by 2nd…
U.S. Marines with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron (HMH) 461 and 2nd Distribution Support Battalion (DSB), U.S. Navy Sailors with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Four, and animal packers with the U.S. National Forest Service hike to the site of a downed U.S. Navy MH-60S Seahawk to prepare it for recovery at…
U.S. Marines with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 314, Marine Aircraft Group 11, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW), return to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar after a deployment aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, on Aug. 9, 2022. The historic deployment marked the first U.S. Marine Corps F-35C squadron deployed aboard…