04/27/2017: Able Seaman Luke Menz of Australia’s Federation Guard, will read a WWI soldier’s letter during the Anzac Day Dawn Service ceremony at Villers-Bretonneux, in France. On Anzac Day, we remember not only the original Anzacs who died on 25 April 1915, but every one of our service men and women…
04/26/2017: Airmen from the 349 Air Refueling Squadron use their KC-135 Stratotanker to refuel four F-35A Lightning II fighters on their way to Europe for the first time for a training deployment. Europe is scheduled to begin receiving the fifth generation fighter in the early 2020's. KS, UNITED STATES:04.14.2017 Video by Staff…
04/26/2017: Currently, Langley AFB is hosting a trilateral exercise where 4th generation aircraft from the USAF, the RAF and the FAF are flying with USAF fifth generation aircraft in a high end combat training exercise. F35 taxiing at Joint Base Langley-Eustis during Atlantic Trident 2017. 04.20.2017 Video by Senior Airman Enrique Barcelo…
04/26/2017: According to BG Paul W. Tibbets IV, 509th Bomb Wing, in his weekly commander’s message published April 21, 2017: This week our Total Force team has been fully engaged supporting Exercise Neptune Falcon. This multi-day exercise enhances the proficiency of our talented tacticians and planners, Combat Mission Ready aircrews, as…
04/25/2017: The video highlights F-35s from Hill AFB, Utah, arrive at Royal Air Force Base Lakenheath, England, for a training deployment And we published an interview from a visit to RAF Lakenheath April 4, 2017 which follows: During my visit to the United Kingdom in March 2017, I had a…
04/25/2017: U.S. Marines with Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One (MAWTS-1) and U.S. Marines with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 211 conducted the first independent Distributed STOVL Operation (DSO) by flying all ordnance, personnel, and fuel in on mission aircraft at Yuma, Ariz., April 13,2017. Marines employed the manual drive…
04/25/2017: HMAS Choules offloading troops and equipment. Amphibious ship HMAS Choules has arrived in the vicinity of the Keppel Islands to commence the offload of troops, vehicles and equipment to Yeppoon, Central Queensland. More than 850 tonnes of heavy equipment and disaster relief stores are bound for Rockhampton to assist the…
04/25/2017: April 18th marked the 75th anniversary of the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders in which 16 B-25 bombers struck the Japanese mainland from the USS Hornet aircraft carrier, turning the tide of World War II. FORT MEADE, MD, UNITED STATES:04.21.2017 Video by Zachary Welch:Defense TV