06/09/2016: Exercise Southern Jackaroo / Diamond Sprint 16 wrapped up with a 12 hour live fire defensive battle against a fictional enemy at Shoalwater Bay Training Area in May. Many of Brisbane 7th Brigade’s assets and weapons systems were used including mortars, javelins, 84mm M3 Carl Gustavs, small arms, machine guns…
06/07/2016: A Coalition unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) observes two Da’esh fighters emplacing an improvised explosive device (IED) near the town of Doudyan, Syria, this information was used to report threat locations back to friendly forces. The strikes were conducted as part of Operation Inherent Resolve, the operation to eliminate the Daesh…
06/06/2016: Three B-52s from Minot Air Force Base land at RAF Fairford to take part in BALTOPS 2016. 2nd Bomb Wing Public Affairs:6/2/16 Fifteen NATO and two partner nations will participate in the 44th iteration of the multinational maritime exercise BALTOPS 2016 in the Baltic region. Events are scheduled to take…
06/05/2016: Airmen assigned to the 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron refuel French Mirage Fighters and a U.S. E-3 Sentry during a refueling mission over Iraq in support of Operation Inherent Resolve April 19, 2016. A coalition of regional and international nations have joined together to enable Iraqi forces to counter ISIL,…
06/05/2016: Australia’s first P-8A Poseidon aircraft has completed its maiden flight. The aircraft flew a short distance from Renton Airfield to Boeing Field in Washington State USA, to where the P-8A’s sophisticated mission systems will be installed as part of project AIR 7000. The $5.4 billion P-8A program will provide Australia’s…
06/01/2016: Marines with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 265 (Reinforced), 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, assists the Government of Japan in supporting those affected by recent earthquakes in Kumamoto, Japan, April 18, 2016. The long-standing relationship between Japan and the U.S. allows U.S. military forces in Japan to provide rapid, integrated support…
05/26/2016: Australian Army soldiers have been ‘digging-in’ with members from the United States Marine Corps, US Army and the Japanese Ground Self Defence Force during Exercise Southern Jackaroo 16 at Shoalwater Bay north of Rockhampton from 14-30 May. The trilateral exercise has been combined with Brisbane 7th Brigade’s annual combined arms…
05/26/2016: The Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Pacific Command, and U.S. Navy sailors aboard USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53) successfully conducted a flight test involving the launch of a medium-range ballistic missile target from the Pacific Missile Range Facility located on Kauai, Hawaii. The flight test, designated Flight Test Other-21 (FTX-21),…
