USS Arlington Replenishment at Sea

10/13/2021
CARIBBEAN SEA - (Sept. 3, 2021) Sailors and Marines attached to the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Arlington (LPD 24) conduct a replenishment-at-sea with the Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ammunition ship USNS Medgar Evers (T-AKE 13), Sept. 3, 2021. Arlington is deployed to U.S. Naval Forces Southern…

IndoPacific MAGTF Exercise (2)

10/11/2021
U.S. Marines assigned to 2d Battalion, 3d Marines, 3d Marine Division, and Marine Wing Support Squadron 172, 1st Marine Air Wing conduct forward arming and refueling point operations during Indo-Pacific Warfighting Exercise in the Northern Training Area on Okinawa, Japan, August 31, 2021. This force-on-force exercise demonstrated the ability to…

VMFA-232 Exercise Distributed Operations

10/08/2021
U.S. Marines with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 232 deployed to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, June through September 2021. They deployed to Guam as part of the Aviation Training Relocation program, designed to increase operational readiness while reducing the impacts of training activities. ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, GUAM 08.27.2021…

INDOPACOM MAGTF Exercise

10/04/2021
U.S. Marines assigned to 2d Battalion, 3d Marines, 3d Marine Division, and Marine Wing Support Squadron 172, 1st Marine Air Wing conduct forward arming and refueling point operations during Indo-Pacific Warfighting Exercise in the Northern Training Area on Okinawa, Japan, August 31, 2021. This force-on-force exercise demonstrated the ability to…

Talisman Sabre 2021: Support at Sea

10/01/2021
Royal Australian Navy destroyer HMAS Brisbane and the United States Navy replenishment oiler USNS Rappahannock rendezvoused in the Coral Sea to conduct a core navy-to-navy evolution - a Replenishment at Sea (RAS) during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2021 (TS21). Commissioned into service in 2018, it was the first time the Australian…

U.S. Paratroopers Drop in on Talisman Sabre 2021

09/29/2021
United States Army troops from the 3rd Batallion, 509th Infantry Airbourne conducted an airborne assault dropping into 'Kangaroo Dropzone' near Charters Towers, Queensland for Exercise Talisman Sabre 2021 (TS21). The paratroopers, based in Alaska, jumped from RAAF C-17A Globemaster aircraft, testing interoperability between Australia and the U.S. Held every two…