04/21/2015: Mr. Stoltenberg visited Iceland to discuss issues at the top of NATO’s security agenda. He discussed Russia’s continued aggressive actions in Ukraine and the rise of violent extremism in the Middle East and North Africa with Icelandic Prime Minister Sigmundur, David Gunnlaugsson and Foreign Minister Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson. …
04/22/2015: The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) sails alongside USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). Theodore Roosevelt is deployed in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations supporting Operation Inherent Resolve conducting maritime security operations, strike operations in Iraq and Syria as directed, and theater security cooperation efforts.…
04/22/2015: The Baltic Battalion -- not to be confused with the Battalion of the same name formed in the 1990’s – is a new initiative combining Estonian, Latvia and Lithuanian forces. In 2014, the battalion began preparations for the 2016 rotation of the NATO Response Force (NRF) and is due…
2015-04-20 By Robbin Laird Lt. General Robling recently retired as Commanding General, Marine Corps Forces Pacific (CG MARFORPAC) and is now serving as the CEO of PKL Services, Inc. (PKL), an aerospace services firm. PKL is headquartered in Poway, California, and throughout its now ten years of operation, has employed…
04/20/2015: AV-8B Harriers assigned to Marine Attack Squadron (VMA) 231, take off and land on the flight deck of the forward deployed amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6). Credit: Defense Imagery Management Operations Center :1/30/15
04/20/2015: U.S. Marines assigned to Landing Support Company, 1st Transport Support Battalion, attach an up armored Humvee to a CH-53E Super Stallion during an external lift exercise at auxiliary airfield 2 near Yuma, Ariz., April 3, 2015. Some shots highlight the refueling of the CH-53E while exercising its lift mission.…
04/12/2015: By Robbin Laird I visited the Final Assembly Line of the A400M in Seville on April 8, 2015 and at the Bricy Air Base at Orléans on April 10, 2015. While at the FAL, I saw 4 A400Ms on the tarmac, one of them a developmental plane and three for…
04/20/2015: USS Theodore Roosevelt Conducts Replenishment at Sea MEDITERRANEAN SEA (April 5, 2015) Sailors aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) conduct an underway replenishment with the Fleet Replenishment Oiler USNS John Lenthal (T-AO 189). Theodore Roosevelt is conducting naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of…
