In the video below, released on April 10. 2015, the Netherlands armed forces highlight their contributions to Dutch defense and security, both nationally and internationally. Credit: Dutch MoD
05/01/2015: A CH-47D Chinook and a CH-47F Chinook perform a flyby over the California National Guard's Army Aviation Support Facility in Stockton, California, on Feb. 9. The flyby was part of a ceremony unveiling the Cal Guard's new, high-tech CH-47F Chinooks which are replacing the state's aging CH-47D fleet. This…
05/01/2015: Joint Warrior is a UK tri-Service multinational exercise that involves numerous warships, aircraft, marines and troops. Joint Warrior provides a complex environment in which UK, NATO and allied units can go through training together in tactics and skills for use in a combined joint task force. The exercise runs…
04/30/2015: In this phase of Exercise JOINT WARRIOR, a simulated air attack against Spanish warship Mendez Nuñez off the coast of Scotland is highlighted. This is one tactical exercise among many within Exercise JOINT WARRIOR, which ran from April 11-24 off the coast of Scotland. NATO’s three standing naval forces…
04/30/2015:The Utah National Guard travels to Germany to help keep NATO Surveillance Aircraft in the Air. A typical AWACS operational mission last 10 hours, but there is a need for air refueling to takeoff, operate over the objective area, and land safely. Three aircrews and 19 maintenance personnel from the…
04/29/2015: MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopters are used to transfer ordnance off the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) to USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) while underway in the Atlantic Ocean. Theodore Roosevelt and George H.W. Bush are seen conducting training exercises in the…
04/28/2015: Various ships of the task group 315.06.02 are refueling with the Donau, the flagship of the SNMCMG1 (Standing NATO Mine Counter-Measure Group 1). The Donau refuels the FGS Auerbach, the mine sweeper HNOMS Rauma, as well as the mine hunter HNLMS Makkum. Exercise JOINT WARRIOR 151 is being conducted…
04/27/2015: A U.S. Marine Corps UH-1Y Huey with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron VMM) 262 (Rein), 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), lifts cargo as Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion 31, 31st MEU conduct Helicopter Support Team training aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) at sea, Feb. 5, 2015. [maxgallery id="74549"]…
