05/06/2011 USS Dubuque is the fifth Austin class Amphibious Transport Dock and the second ship in that class built by Ingalls in Pascagoula. The Dubuque is due to be decommissioned this Summer. The USS Dubuque was in the news in the Fall of 2010 for its engagement in a counter-piracy…
[slidepress gallery='usn-in-operation'] Credit: US Navy Visual News Service: 2/19/11 The first photo shows MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopters assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 9 transfering ammunition between the aircraft carriers USS George H.W. Bush and USS Harry S. Truman. The second photo shows amphibious assault vehicle crewman Lance Cpl. Nathan…
4/30/11 An AH-1W Super Cobra helicopter assigned to Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 262 takes off from the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex, commanded by Capt. David Fluker, is on patrol in the western Pacific Ocean. Sailors and Marines prepare Navy and Marine Corps helicopters for take off from…
Board the vessel 04/27/2011 - A boarding team from the Trinidad and Tobago Ship Gaspar Grande and an observing boarding officer from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Diligence conduct a boarding on FBI small boats role playing as possible smugglers as part of the fleet track of Exercise Tradewinds 2011,…
4/27/11 These photos show High Speed Vessel 2 Swift approaches Wharf Bravo at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after completing Southern Partnership Station 2011. While on station, Swift will be loading 130 metric tons of food, valued at more than $900,000, which is scheduled to be delivered to Haiti. [slidepress…
4/27/11 Patriot Hook is an annual Air Force Reserve Tanker Airlift Control Element exercise simulating a joint force response to a natural disaster in a forward deployed location. The exercise deploys three TALCE units and brings together units of the Air Force Reserve, Navy, Department of Homeland Security and other…
04/27/2011 - Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of NATO and International Security Assistance Force troops in Afghanistan, visits the French 7th Mountain Infantry Battalion at Forward Operating Base Kutschbach, during a battlefield circulation, April 21. Petraeus also visited with Afghan National Army Troops working alongside ISAF Troops in the area.…
An aircraft director guides an MV-22B Osprey assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 263 (Reinforced) to a landing aboard the multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Bataan. Bataan is deploying to the Mediterranean Sea. [slidepress gallery='uss-bataan-to-the-med'] Credit; USN Visual Service; 4/11/11 Landing signal enlisted personnel observe as AV-8B Harrier assigned to…
