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…
2015-04-11 By Robbin Laird Two documents released over the last year provide a clear direction for the US Navy-Marine Corps team in 21st century operations. The first is Expeditionary Force 21, which provides a concept for the Marine Corps (MC) to build, equip and train their forces for 21st century…
2015-04-19 By Robbin Laird On April 17, 2015, a joint symposium on the evolution of airpower was co-sponsored by The Sir Richard Williams Foundation (Australia) and the Centre for Military Studies of the Department of Political Science of the University of Copenhagen. Both organizations are partners with Second Line of…
