09/26/2014: MARINE CORPS TRAINING AREA BELLOWS, Hawaii - Marines use the Small Unit Water Purification System to purify murky water from a river to supply water to troops throughout the training area. According to the water purification technicians, the SUWP averaged 15 gallons of purified water per hour. The SUWP…
09/25/2014: The sea base is an increasingly important part of the engagement against land targets. This is true of Ospreys bringing Marines ashore and of the use of precision strike weapons. Indeed, the Navy’s role leveraging the surface, subsurface and air-breathing assets to distribute strike across the strike fleet will…
09/20/2014: Hawaii Marines are seen in this video testing new command and control war fighting concepts and technologies during experiment during RIMPAC 2014. Marines with 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, stationed on Marine Corps Base Kaneohe Bay, begin command and control of distributed Marine forces training on Kahuku Training Area…
09/08/2014: This video includes a speech from the NATO Summit on NATO Special Operations. It begins with an Osprey landing key participants. It is not just Special Ops that is transformed by the Osprey, but the Marines as the only tiltorotar enabled assault force can be a game changer for…
09/01/2014: In the first 5 photos, the future amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) sits pierside in Valparaiso, Chile, during a scheduled port visit. In the remaining photos, Sailors and Marines man the rails as the future amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) departs Valparaiso, Chile after a…
08/20/2014: The French and the Marines have a special relationship forged in war. Marines with Kilo Company, Battalion Landing Team 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, present Marines new to the unit with the French Fourragere during a ceremony at Camp Lejeune, N.C., June 19, 2014. The…
08/17/2014: The USS America is in transit to San Diego and then on to San Francisco for its official commissioning in October. In transit, the crew is training and fitting out the ship. In this slideshow, some of the many skills being learned and applied at sea are highlighted, and…
07/30/2014: KANGAROO FLATS TRAINING AREA, Northern Territory, Australia – Marines with 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, Marine Rotational Force – Darwin, and Soldiers with the Australian Army, participate in the fire team leaders course here. Credit: MRF-D:5/28/14 The Fire Team Leader is a crucial element in a deployed USMC force.…
