A non-flyable F-35C Lightning II airframe is flown as part of a CH-53K King Stallion external load certification lift Dec. 13, 2022, at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. The structure is from the first F-35C carrier variant aircraft, CF-1, a former developmental flight test jet from the Patuxent River…
A Royal Australian Air Force C-17A Globemaster has airdropped supplies with a combined weight of 10,470kg to Bunger Hills in Antarctica on 15 December 2022. The stores airdropped include water tanks, dome tents, trestle tables and aluminium planks, ensures the Australian Antarctic Program is able to begin preparations for a…
U.S. Navy Sailors with Expeditionary Medical Facility Alpha, Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command, simulate casualty care during exercise Keen Sword 23 on Camp Foster, Okinawa, Japan, Nov. 17, 2022. During Keen Sword 23, Naval Medical Forces Pacific exercised the inaugural employment of expeditionary hospitalization on the first island chain…
U.S. Marines with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron (HMH) 461 practice an external lift with a CH-53K King Stallion at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, Aug. 11, 2022. T This was the first time the Marine Corps deployed the King Stallion in an exercise. HMH-461 is a subordinate unit of…
U.S. Marines with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron (HMH) 461 fly a CH-53K King Stallion at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, Aug. 8, 2022. This was the first time the Marine Corps deployed the King Stallion in an exercise. HMH-461 is a subordinate unit of 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, the…
U.S. Marines with Marine Operational Test and Evaluation Squadron (VMX) 1 and Combat Logistics Battalion (CLB) 24 transport a Light Armored Vehicle 25 with a CH-53K King Stallion helicopter at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, April 27, 2022. The CH-53K King Stallion, the Marine Corps’ newest heavy-lift helicopter,…
The AH-1Z Viper is the Marine Corps’ primary rotor-wing ground attack aircraft. The AH-1Z attack helicopter provides rotary wing close air support, anti-armor, armed escort, armed visual reconnaissance and fire support coordination capabilities under day night, and adverse weather conditions. The AH-1Z Vipers is fielded in Marine Light Attack Helicopter…
The number of U.S. Marines forward-based and forward-deployed in the Indo-Pacific has increased from approximately 20,000 to 26,000 with the beginning of several multilateral exercises. CAMP H.M. SMITH, HI 04.08.2022 Video by Staff Sgt. Brett Norman U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific https://www.amazon.com/U-S-Marine-Corps-Transformation-Path/dp/1667819577/ref=sr_1_4?crid=PI1XJXEXR4U1&keywords=robbin+laird&qid=1649716597&sprefix=robbin+laird%2Caps%2C46&sr=8-4
