2014-07-07 By Bill Jayne The battle for the future of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is shaping up as a typical D vs. R skirmish over money. The D's say that everything will be ok if the stingy R's just cough up…
07/08/2014: In the first two photos, a Douglas C-47 Skytrain, known as Whiskey 7, flies over Germany, May 30, 2014. The C-47 came to Ramstein for a week to participate in base activities with its legacy unit, the 37th Airlift Squadron, before returning to Normandy to recreate its role and…
07/08/2014: Twenty-two nations, more than 40 ships and submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 26 to Aug. 1, in and around the Hawaiian Islands. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity that helps participants foster and sustain…
2014-07-08 By Robbin Laird During my recent visit to the 2nd I have had the opportunity to visit the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing for a number of years. The Wing has been an important force for innovation in the period in which I have been visiting. KC-130Js, and Ospreys are…
2014-07-08 Second Line of Defense visited 2nd Marine Wing in late June 2014, and we covered the VMX-22 change of command. As part of this effort, we sat down with the departing commander, Col. Michael Orr and with the newly appointed commander, who had been serving as the Executive Officer…
07/08/2014: U.S. Marines with Marine Attack Training Squadron (VMAT) 203 conducted Operation Angry Birds with TAV8-B Harrier aircraft at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort S.C., May 13, 2014. The operation provided the Marines with enough flight hours to become certified Harrier pilots. Credit:2nd Marine Aircraft Wing Combat Camera:5/13/14
2014-07-03 by Kenneth Maxwell On the eve of Ramadan, the Islamic state of Iraq and the Levent (Isis), an violently extremist jihadi group, having seized territory in both Iraq and Syria, tore down the boundaries between them, and established a Caliphate, a sovereign state, believed by many Muslims to be the inheritor of the…
07/08/2014: In the first three photos, first a CH-53E and then two are viewed, from the 22nd Expeditionary Unit conducts an aerial refuel with a KC-130 assigned to Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response from Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron- 252, over the Mediterranean Sea, June 15, 2014. KC-130Js…
