07/27/2013: USS Blue Ridge [slidepress gallery='uss-blue-ridge'] Credit: USS Blue Ridge:5/24/13 In the first photo, Aviation Machinist's Mate 3rd Class Jason Ellis, assigned to the Golden Hawks of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC-12), transports an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter on the flight deck aboard U.S. 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge…
2013-07-26 In American discussions of the re-shaping of Pacific defense, naturally the primary focus is upon the American role and contribution. Lost in such a focus often is how the Asian allies are shaping their defense and security futures and shaping those futures in part by building upon evolving European systems.…
2013-07-26 The French operation in Mali opened up a space within which to deploy coalition forces and to shape the opportunity for African forces to perform a peacekeeping mission in that country. But to do so requires assets for the African nations to play their role. No asset is more…
2013-07-26 By Donald Marvin Bohler In the summer of 2012, the head of the Noirmoutier Sister Cities International committee asked me if I could find the family members of the American B-17 crew who had crash-landed their 8th Air Force B-17, the “Battling Bastards”, on the beach at La Guériniere on…
2013-07-24 Recently, the F-35A maintainers received an award from the base command which highlighted their progress for the past year. According to a press release (July 17, 2013) from the 33rd Fighter Wing: The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program continues to garner accolades, as the 33d Aircraft Maintenance Squadron won the…
07/24/2013: During a visit in July 2013, a newly forming ACE for a MEU about to go on deployment was generating its aircraft for the mission. This slideshow shows some of those aircraft on the flight line, or being maintained. [slidepress gallery='new-river-air-station'] Credit: Second Line of Defense:2013 The first three…
07/24/2013: Tradewinds 2013 Exercise This Tradewinds training evolution is the Interdiction Exercise. The Interdiction Exercise is a scenario-based maritime law enforcement evolution involving the detection, interdiction, and apprehension of smuggling vessels. Credit:Navy Public Affairs Support Element West:5/23/13
2013-07-24 By Dr. Harald Malmgren The Euro crisis not only continues, but it is intensifying. The economies of the Eurozone are being sucked into deepening recession, rising unemployment, and collapse of public confidence in government. Fiscal austerity policies imposed by the European Central Bank, the EU Commission, and the…
