02/15/2013: Approximately 1,000 Marines and Sailors of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit offloaded from three ships of the Navy's Amphibious Squadron 11 to begin the multinational exercise Cobra Gold 2013 in the Kingdom of Thailand. The unit was brought ashore using the Navy's landing craft utility, landing craft air cushions,…
02/13/2013: The USS Blue Ridge is one of two special USN flagships. As Col. Weisz noted about the Blue Ridge and Mount Whitney: Both the BLUE RIDGE and MOUNT WHITNEY offer a great capability for enabling and supporting distributed operations. In fact, I don’t know of any other ship in…
02/12/2013: The aircrew of an Air Station Houston MH-65 Dolphin helicopter return after locating and rescuing a boater that had run aground Dec. 14, 2012, near Port Arthur, Texas. A 33-year-old man was rescued by a Coast Guard aircrew when his boat ran aground, Friday, approximately 7 miles southeast of…
2013-02-11 Maj. Gen. Christopher S. Owens visited with service members on Wing One Royal Thai Air Force Base, Nakhon Ratchasima, Kingdom of Thailand Feb. 10 before the start of exercise Cobra Gold 2013. CG 13, in its 32nd iteration, is designed to advance regional security and ensure effective response to…
02/11/2013: The Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Gen. Mark Welsh holds an all-call with Airmen at Kandahar Airfield, introduces new CMSAF Jim Cody, and discusses the future of the Air Force. Credit:American Forces Network Afghanistan:2/4/13
2013-02-10 The US, Canada, and the UK have provided airlift support to French forces in the Mali operation. In this video, a US flight in support of the French operation is highlighted. Aircrew from the 4th Airlift Squadron, 62nd Airlift Wing from McChord Air Force Base performed a C-17 Globemaster…
12/18/2012: Marines and sailors of Combat Logistics Battalion (CLB) 26, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), participate in a mass casualty scenario during the MEU's Group Sail exercise, Camp Lejeune, N.C., Dec. 14, 2012. Group Sail consists of multiple training scenarios to include different variations of raids; visit, board, search and…
02/07/2013: Army leaders from U.S. Army South, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Security Forces from Panama meet at Joint Base San Antonio - Fort Sam Houston TX for the Central American Regional Leaders' Conference. During the conference regional partners present concerns and explore reasonable approaches in the areas of…
