Soldiers with the 1st Regimental Landing Team, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, strap a U.S. Marine Corps joint light tactical vehicle to a towing crane during a convoy operation at Hijudai, Japan on Feb. 22, 2023. The convoy operations provided bi-lateral training to move both U.S. and Japanese supplies and personnel to operational locations throughout Hijudai. Iron Fist is an annual [Read More …]
U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Peter Shelton, the air operations officer assigned to the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, engages targets with an M4 carbine as part of a combat marksmanship program table five range at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Feb. 1, 2023. The 15th MEU completed combat marksmanship program tables 3-6, including day and night courses of fire at [Read More …]
U.S. Marines with 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division and 3rd Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion, Marine Air Control Group 38, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, fire a training round from an FIM-92 Stinger surface-to-air missile at an RQ-20 Puma during anti-aircraft training off the coast of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Feb. 16, 2023. The Marines conducted [Read More …]
Maintainers from the 23rd Air Expeditionary Wing climb atop an A-10 Thunderbolt II, to perform a post flight inspection during an exercise at Muniz Air National Guard Base, Puerto Rico, Feb. 16, 2023. These A-10s are participating in Operation Forward Tiger, an Air Forces Southern exercise designed to increase combat readiness alongside humanitarian assistance and disaster response capabilities with U.S. [Read More …]
Sailors from Navy Cargo Handling Battalion (NCHB) 1 and NCHB-5 offload sections of modular causeway system from the Military Sealift Command-chartered cargo ship MV Ocean Giant to Soldiers from U.S. Army 7th Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary) at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Joint Task Force–Support Forces Antarctica (JTF–SFA), oversees the activities of the joint services and provides Department of Defense support to the [Read More …]
U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Aaron Meeke, a scout sniper, from Battalion Landing Team 1/4, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, fires an M40 A6 sniper system during a bilateral sniper live-fire exercise with soldiers from 1st Regimental Landing Team, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, during Iron Fist 23 at Hijudai, Japan, Feb. 21, 2023. The bilateral live-fire exercise was conducted to establish an [Read More …]
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Daniel Vatterot, a paratrooper with Chosen Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, supervises the firing of the AT4, an anti-tank weapon, during exercise Justified Accord 23 (JA23) in Isiolo, Kenya, Feb. 19, 2023. JA23 is U.S. Africa Command’s largest exercise in East Africa. Led by U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa [Read More …]
A U.S. Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 262 (Reinforced), 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), hoists a Humvee during external lift training at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, Feb. 19, 2023. This helicopter support team exercise was conducted to certify pilots in sling load operations and improve tactical proficiency. The 31st MEU, the Marine [Read More …]
A U.S. Air Force pilot looked down at the suspected Chinese surveillance balloon as it hovered over the Central Continental United States February 3, 2023. Recovery efforts began shortly after the balloon was downed. (Photo courtesy of the Department of Defense)
The U.S. Air Force’s first operational supersonic bomber, the B-58 made its initial flight on Nov. 11, 1956. In addition to the Hustler’s delta wing shape, distinctive features included a sophisticated inertial guidance navigation and bombing system, a slender “wasp-waist” fuselage and an extensive use of heat-resistant honeycomb sandwich skin panels in the wings and fuselage. Since the thin fuselage [Read More …]
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