Update on Airstrikes in Iraq, August 18 2014
08/19/2014
08/19/2014: U.S. Central Command provides an update on U.S. airstrikes on ISIL targets near Mosul, Iraq over the weekend Credit: DOD News:8/18/14
X-47B Flight Operations
08/19/2014
08/19/2014: The Navy's unmanned X-47B conducts flight operations aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). The aircraft completed a series of tests demonstrating its ability to operate safely and seamlessly with manned aircraft. Credit: Navy Media Content Services:8/17/14 And from a piece published by our partner AUVSI: The…
MARFORPAC Change of Command
08/18/2014
08/18/2014: U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Terry G. Robling, Commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific (MARFORPAC), relinquishes command to Lt. Gen. John A. Toolan Jr. during the MARFORPAC change of command ceremony, on Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay, August 15, 2014. Lt. General Toolan served as the I Marine…
Royal Canadian Navy Conducts Mooring Maneuver in the Mediterranean
08/17/2014
08/17/2014: Canadian Sailors aboard the HMCS Summerside conduct a Mediterranean Mooring maneuver during exercise Tradewinds at Las Calderas Naval Base, Dominican Republic, June 19, 2014. Tradewinds 2014 is a joint combined exercise conducted in order to build partner nation counter-transnational organized crime missions and humanitarian aid and disaster response operations…
Additional Video on USS George H.W. Bush Airstrikes Against ISIS
08/16/2014
08/16/2014: Flight deck operations from USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). Bush is operating in the Arabian Gulf on a scheduled deployment to U.S. 5th Fleet. The President has authorized U.S. Central Command to conduct military operations in support of humanitarian aid deliveries and targeted airstrikes in Iraq to protect…
Sea Knight Parachute Training
08/15/2014
08/15/2014: Parachute riggers with 1st Air Delivery Platoon, Landing Support Company, Combat Logistics Regiment-15, conduct 1,500 foot static-line jumps out of CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., June 11. The training gave the Marines the ability to perfect their maneuver capability under the canopy and…
Super Hornet Cockpit Video
08/15/2014
08/15/2014: In flight footage from the cockpit of an F/A-18F Super Hornet, attached to the Fighting Black Lions of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 213 embarked aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush (CVN-77). Aircraft from Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 8 embarked aboard USS Bush are serving U.S. Central…
Preparing the Strike: Arming the Weapons Aboard the Aircraft Carrier
08/14/2014
08/14/2014:U.S. Navy Sailors aboard USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) build GBU-54 bombs. Bush is operating in the Arabian Gulf on a scheduled deployment to U.S. 5th Fleet. The president has authorized U.S. Central Command to conduct military operations in support of humanitarian aid deliveries and targeted airstrikes in Iraq…