U.S. Marines with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 267, Marine Aircraft Group 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW) utilize sonobuoys during Summer Fury 21 above the Pacific Ocean, July 20, 2021. Sonobuoys are an expendable sonar system that is dropped/ejected from aircraft or ships conducting anti-submarine warfare in support of…

U.S. Marines with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron (HMLA) 267, Marine Aircraft Group 39, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW) fly from Marine Corps Air Station Pendleton to Helicopter Outlying Landing Field (HOLF) to prepare for flight operations at Camp Pendleton, California, July 19, 2021. HMLA 267 flew to the HOLF…

U.S. Marines with Alpha Company, 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion, participate in egress training in the CH-53K “King Stallion” at Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina, April 28, 2021. Marine Operational Test and Evaluation Squadron 1 (VMX) is training Marines on the CH-53K to improve proficiency and familiarize all…

U.S. Marines assigned to 3d Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, 3d Marine Division, fire Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems during Exercise Talisman Sabre 21 on Shoalwater Bay Training Area, Queensland, Australia, July 19, 2021. TS21, the ninth iteration and conducted since 2005, occurs biennially across Northern Australia. Australian, U.S. and other…

U.S. Marines with 3d Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, 3d Marine Division, conduct a functions test for a Ground Air Task Oriented Radar in preparation for Talisman Saber 2021 at Shoalwater Bay Training Area, Queensland, Australia, July 14, 2021. This is the ninth iteration of Talisman Sabre, a large-scale, bilateral military…

U.S. Marines assigned to 3d Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, 3d Marine Division, fire Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems during Exercise Talisman Sabre 21 at Shoalwater Bay Training Area, Queensland, Australia, July 19, 2021. TS21, the ninth iteration and conducted since 2005, occurs biennially across Northern Australia. SHOALWATER BAY, QLD, AUSTRALIA…

Exercise Talisman Sabre 2021 (TS21) is the largest bilateral training activity between Australia and the United States. This year the peak activity was between 18-31 July and will see an increased number of military and civilian air traffic above Townsville. For the Air Base controllers at Townsville Air Traffic Control,…

The accuracy and lethality of the Boxer combat reconnaissance vehicle has impressed personnel on a turret conversion course. After completing several weeks of theory, members of the 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment finally got their chance to set the sites of the main 30mm armament of the Boxer at the live-fire…