Beaufort, South Carolina, Feb. 23, 2023. U.S. Marines with 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW) conducted distributed aviation operations outside of their home duty station and local area to validate logistics, sustainment, and communications requirements for command elements. VMA-223 is a subordinate unit of 2nd MAW, the aviation combat element of…
U.S. Marines assigned to Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One, install mock ordnance and conduct refueling on a F-35B Lightning II aircraft during a distributed short take-off/vertical landing operation, part of Weapons and Tactics Instructors (WTI) course 1-24 at Gila Bend Municipal Airport, Arizona, Oct. 20, 2023. WTI is…
By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake In January 2024, we had a chance to do our final interview for our forthcoming MAWTS-1 book, namely with LtGen Davis. He was the CO of MAWTS-1 from 19 November 2004-7 July 2006 and had served as the XO for Col later MajGen Raymond…
By Robbin Laird Sarah White published a thoughtful piece on Real Clear Defense on 10 January 2024. Currently, I am in Europe where the NATO-Russian campaign in Ukraine is ongoing. She made a core strategic point that the overall effects from the war have a direct impact on the European…
Video production of U.S. Marines with 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW) demonstrating their capability to conduct distributed aviation operations, logistics, communications, and sustainment requirements in various locations in Eastern North Carolina, Jan. 21-28, 2023. 2nd MAW is the aviation combat element of II Marine Expeditionary Force. 02.15.2023 Video by 2nd…
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…
