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…
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…
