U.S. Marines with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron (HMH) 461 and 2nd Distribution Support Battalion (DSB), U.S. Navy Sailors with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Four, and animal packers with the U.S. National Forest Service hike to the site of a downed U.S. Navy MH-60S Seahawk to prepare it for recovery at…
U.S. Marines with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 314, Marine Aircraft Group 11, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW), return to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar after a deployment aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, on Aug. 9, 2022. The historic deployment marked the first U.S. Marine Corps F-35C squadron deployed aboard…
U.S. Marines assigned to Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One (MAWTS-1) conduct ground threat reaction drills with MV-22 Osprey aircrafts, assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 261, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, during Weapons and Tactics Instructors (WTI) course 2-23 near Yuma, Arizona, March 30, 2023. WTI is a seven-week…
By Robbin Laird I ended the last article in this series with this question: What then might be the interaction between the CH-53K and lift mobility in the evolution of the distributed force? I am going to breakdown my answer to that question in several parts. In this article, I…
A U.S. Marine assigned to Spectrum Warfare Department, Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One, jams signals using a Modular Vehicle Power Amplifier, part of a close air support training during Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course 1-24, at Brawley, California, Oct. 4, 2023. WTI is an advanced, graduate-level course…
By Robbin Laird In our interview with the esteemed journalist Ed Rabel, we discussed with him his dealings with Martin Luther King. This is what he told Ed Timperlake and myself: "Rabel described his coverage of the black movement in the 1960s as follows: “I was hired by CBS News…
A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey assigned to Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One (MAWTS-1), conducts live hoist exercises with the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Benjamin Bottoms during Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course 1-23 near San Clemente Island, California, Oct. 28, 2022. WTI is a seven-week training event…
A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey assigned to Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One (MAWTS-1), conducts live hoist exercises with the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Benjamin Bottoms during Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course 1-23 near San Clemente Island, California, Oct. 28, 2022. WTI is a seven-week training event…
