Australian-Singapore Cooperation: The Role of HMAS Adelaide

11/06/2020
HMAS Adelaide has provided an at-sea platform for the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) CH-47 heavy-lift helicopter crews to requalify in deck landings and take-offs off the coast of Queensland. The RSAF CH-47 crews, permanently based at Oakey in Queensland, spent two days flying from Townsville to HMAS Adelaide…

Exercise MALABAR

10/31/2020
By Lieutenant Will Singer HMAS Ballarat and USS John S. McCain united on the high seas and remained in company through the Malacca Strait while sailing for Exercise Malabar. Both ships will soon join with Indian and Japanese partners for the high-end military exercise. Ballarat's Commanding Officer, Commander Antony Pisani, welcomed the cooperative deployment with…

Australian MH-60 R Romeos Train with the Fleet

10/31/2020
816 Squadron is the Fleet Air Arm’s MH-60R ‘Romeo’ operational support squadron deploying up to 8 Flights in the Navy's destroyers and frigates. A multi-role Maritime Combat Helicopter, 816 Squadron aircrew and technicians are specialists in flying and maintaining the MH-60R in order to provide a ship or task group with…

FuelTRAX

10/30/2020
U.S. Marines with Marine Wing Support Squadron 274 attending Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course 1-21 test FUELTRAX at Laguna Army Airfield, Arizona Sept. 28, 2020. The WTI course is a seven-week training event hosted by Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One, providing standardized advanced tactical training and certification…

22nd Battallion 3rd Marines

10/29/2020
U.S. Marines with Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, conduct live-fire and maneuver squad supported attacks on Range 10 during exercise Bougainville 2 at Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawaii, Oct. 21, 2020. Bougainville II is the second phase of pre-deployment training conducted by the battalion designed to increase combat readiness…