US Coast Guard cutters respond to disabled tug

12/12/2011
12/12/2011: PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The crews of the Coast Guard Cutter Block Island, a 110-foot patrol boat, and the Coast Guard Cutter Elm, a 225-foot sea-going buoy tender, respond to the tug Beth McAllister that was disabled 23 nautical miles southeast of Ocracoke, N.C., Nov. 5, 2011.The tow was passed…

Moving Tanks, Equipment Out of Iraq

12/09/2011
12/09/2011: National Guard Soldiers from 1452nd Combat Heavy Equipment Transport Company, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Load Tanks at Contingency Operating Base Adder, Iraq. Credit: 362nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment:11/4/2011

Operation Eastern Storm: Marines Make Big Bang Clearing IEDs

12/03/2011
12/03/2011: Marines with Engineer Support Company, 3rd Combat Engineer Battalion working in direct support of 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, to clear improvised explosive devices with mine-clearing line charges near Route 611 in Kajaki, which was laced with IEDs.Afghan residents had been forced to leave their homes due to the…

Secretary Panetta on the Pacific and The Threat of the Hollow Force

10/29/2011
10/29/2011 In his recent speech in South Korea, the Sec Def made a powerful case for centrality of the Pacific and of coalitions and the danger of a hollow force.  I n a recent open letter to the Secretary, we provided some ideas of how to avoid the hollow force and…