05/15/2014: U.S. Marines with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 262(VMM-262) Marine Aircraft Group 36 (MAG 36) 1st Marine Aircraft Wing (1st MAW) III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF), conducts a land survey of landing zones the first day of exercise Cobra Gold 2014, Feb. 10, 2014. Cobra Gold is a multinational…
02/20/2014: Marines with Marine Aircraft Group 12, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, III Marine Expeditionary Force train with Royal Thai sailors and airmen in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense tactics. Wing One Royal Thai Air Force Base, Nakhon Ratchasima, Kingdom of Thailand, during Exercise Cobra Gold 2014 on Feb. 16.…
12/09/2013: 1st Marine Aircraft Wing's Commanding General Visiting Marines on Tinian during Exercise Forager Fury II. The purpose of Exercise Forager Fury II is to employ and assess Marine Air Group 12's combat power generation and aviation ground support and to operate in a deployed, austere, and unimproved environment. While…
12/06/2013: U.S. Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Steven R. Rudder, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing (1st MAW) Commanding General, takes off from Andersen AFB, Guam, in an EA-6B Prowler, assigned to Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron (VMAQ)-2, on 4 December 2013. VMAQ-2is currently assigned to Marine Aircraft Group 12, 1st MAW, under…
12/01/2013: The Forager Fury exercises in the era of the Opsrey and KC130J have migrated from operating forward to reshaping USMC strategy with regard to leveraging sea and land bases. As then Commanding General First Marine Air Wing put in the interview he did with us last year: SLD: There…
11/25/2013: When first standing up a relief effort, getting supplies off of a plane requires a fork lift. Bringing your fork lift with you is an important tool for the operation. This point was highlighted when we interviewed Col. James from AFPAC. In this slideshow, the USMC loading effort highlights…
11/25/2013: U.S. Marines conducting Forward Arming and Refueling Point operations Nov. 21 at Guiuan Airfield, Republic of the Philippines, during Operation Damayan. In this case, obviously the Marines are doing a Refueling Support Operation only. The Marines supporting the Typhoon Haiyan relief effort are with III Marine Expeditionary Brigade in…
11/13/2013:Earlier this year (June 14th), an Osprey landed onboard the JS Hyuga (DDG-181) during Dawn Blitz off of the coast of Naval Base Coronado. [slidepress gallery='osprey-lands-on-japanese-ship-operating-in-the-pacific'] Credit:III MEF:11/12/13 https://sldinfo.com/osprey-lands-on-japanese-ship-for-the-first-time/ https://sldinfo.com/osprey-mates-with-japanese-ship/ Now this has been done from Okinawa to a Japanese ship deployed in the Pacific. Lt. Gen. John Wissler and…
