05/03/2016: As Air Commodore Heap, head of the Surveillance Response Group, noted in an interview with Second Line of Defense in March 2016: “We are small but we want to be capable of being a little Tasmanian Devil that you don’t want to play with because if you come at…
05/02/2016: The annual multilateral training Exercise Bersama Shield 16 has wrapped up in Malaysia and Singapore. The 12-day exercise saw the Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) nations Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand and the United Kingdom conduct joint maritime, land and air operations in a multi-threat environment from 18-29 April 2016.…
05/02/2016: On April 27th, 2016, F-22s deployed to the Baltics. According to an April 29, 2016 article in RFE/RL: The U.S. Air Force landed two of its most advanced jets in Lithuania for the first time on April 27 in a show of support for a region worried by Russian…
05/03/2016: French Mirage, American F22s and B52 fly over the 100th anniversary celebration of the Lafayette Escadrille in France. Credit: American Forces Network Europe:4/20/16
05/01/2016: USS HARTFORD surfaces near Ice Camp Sargo during ICEX 2016 in the Arctic Circle. Credit: Expeditionary Combat Camera:3/6/16 According to a story published by the Associated Press on March 20, 2016: Two U.S. Navy submarines have arrived in the Arctic for regular exercises intended to train crews how to…
05/01/2016: African Lion 16 is a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff sponsored, U.S. Africa Command-scheduled, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa-led, joint and combined exercise conducted in the Kingdom of Morocco, April 18-27. AL 16 is a Combined Joint Task Force Command Post Exercise linked with a…
04/20/2016: An SH-60S delivers mail and cargo from USNS Wally Schirra (T-AKE 8) to USSBoxer during a vertical replenishment. Underway replenishments allow Navy ships to be at the right place st at the right time. Credit:Commander U.S. THIRD Fleet, Public Affairs Office:3/5/16
04/18/2016: PACIFIC OCEAN (Feb. 21, 2016) Amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4) takes on food and supplies during a replenishment-at-sea with fleet replenishment oiler USNS Henry J. Kaiser (T-AO 187). Credit: Navy Public Affairs Support Element West:2/21/16
