07/14/2013: 3rd CEB Repairs an ABV [slidepress gallery='3rd-ceb-repairs-an-abv'] Credit:Regional Command Southwest:5/23/13 In the first two photos, U.S. Marines with 3rd Combat Engineer Battalion (CEB), Regimental Combat Team 7 and Department of Defense civilians mount a turret on M1 Assault Breacher Vehicle on Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan, May 23, 2013.The Marines with…
2013-07-13 Delivery of Morocco’s FREMM frigate is nearing, with the Mohammed VI having recently completed a third set of sea trials prior to delivery later this year, as the North African country continues to expand its navy. The ship’s builder DCNS said that the Mohammed VI frigate successfully completed a…
The evolution of air systems able to operate across the spectrum of warfare is a key dynamic changing the nature of warfare and security operations. Indeed, when one considers the future of combat ships a key consideration is clearly what types of air systems can operate off of those ships. …
2013-07-13 By General Jean-Patrick Gaviard, former French Air Defence and Air Operations Commander. The use of chemical weapons by the forces of Bashar al-Assad has been recently confirmed by the U.S., British and French authorities. The "red line" that the leaders of these three countries had clearly set has been…
2013-07-12 The subtitle of this piece could be: Osprey Carrier Shipboard Trials, and the Evolution of USMC Unmanned Air Systems Earlier we interviewed, Col. Michael Orr, the CO of VMX-22 about the transfer of the squadron from New River, North Carolina to the Yuma Marine Corps Air Station in 2015.…
2013-07-12 by Robbin Laird During our recent opportunity to see and participate in the French ceremony honoring a B-17 crew which crashed in France on July 4, 1943, the SallyB made its entrance onto the air stage to close the event. It was truly a magnificant moment. Later at the…
07/11/2013: Lance Cpl. Robert Boettger, an airframe mechanic with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 363 Red Lions, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, and a Houston native, covers an engine exhaust panel of an MV-22B Osprey aboard Naval Air Station North Island, Calif., July 9. Marines protect the panels and windows as preventive…
07/11/2013: Marines and Sailors with Maritime Raid Force, 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, utilize MV-22B "Osprey", AH-1Z " Super Cobra"and UH-1Y "Huey" aircraft in the beginning stage of a training raid at Fort Irwin, National Training Center, Calif., during Ground Realistic Urban Training, May 6, 2013. Ground RUT is a nine-day…
