29 January 2025 Arctic Angels Rehearse MEDEVAC Operations Ahead of JPMRC 25-02 In the frigid early morning on the Alaskan frontier, the 25th Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Infantry Brigade Combat Team, and the 1-52nd General Support Aviation Battalion, Arctic Aviation Command, both of the 11th Airborne Division, conducted a medical evacuation rehearsal ahead of Joint Pacific...
18 October 2024 Arctic Aloha concludes with Spartan Brigade jump Nearly 800 paratroopers assigned to 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 11th Airborne Division, conducted a large-scale joint forceable entry operation onto Malemute Drop Zone in Alaskan history for Arctic Aloha as part of Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center 25-01, Oct. 15, 2024...
04 December 2023 Ceremony Opens Yama Sakura 85 for Australian, U.S. Troops, JGSDF Members With the temperatures outside below freezing, American soldiers from the U.S. Army's 11th Airborne Division and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force members stood tall, saluting the flags of their home countries. And for the first time in 41 years, Australian soldiers were alongside them, saluting their...
22 November 2023 Solidarity and Skill: KAMANDAG 7 Cements U.S.-Philippines Defense As part of the expansive KAMANDAG 7 exercise, U.S. Marines with Marine Rotational Force-Southeast Asia and their Philippine Marine Corps counterparts, 3rd Marine Brigade, forged a deeper alliance on the island of Palawan Nov. 18, 2023...
22 February 2022 Commandant of the Marine Corps and SMMC Visit 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit while Deployed PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. David H. Berger, and Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, Sgt. Maj. Troy E. Black, visited the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) aboard Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) during a scheduled port visit in Pearl Harbor,...
05 December 2016 Newly Formed Sri Lankan Marine Corps Gets 241 Years of Experience in Under a Week TRINCOMALEE, Sri Lanka -- Marines and Sailors of the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit and Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group, embarked aboard the USS Somerset (LPD 25), participated in a Theater Security Cooperation exchange, training side-by-side with the recently inaugurated Sri Lankan Marine Corps...
29 November 2016 US Marines, Malaysian Armed Forces Conclude Exercise Tiger Strike 2016 SABAH PROVINCE, Malaysia -- Approximately 300 Marines and Sailors with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit arrived back on Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group shipping following the final amphibious landing exercise and closing ceremony of Exercise Tiger Strike 2016, in the Sabah Province, Malaysia,...
01 August 2014 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit Conducts Long-range Insert Marines from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, supported by sailors from Amphibious Squadron 5 and the Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group, conducted a long range insertion of more than 800 nautical miles into Bellows Training Area, Hawaii, July 31, 2014.Four MV-22B Ospreys, refueled en route by...
17 October 2019 Boxer Amphibious Ready Group, 11th MEU Build Partnerships in Western Pacific SOUTH CHINA SEA -- Marines and Sailors from the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) participated in three multilateral exercises across the South China Sea to build partnerships and enhance relationships, beginning Oct. 2."The work that this Expeditionary...
16 September 2016 Exercise Yudh Abhyas: 'Ghost Brigade' Soldiers begin Bilateral Training Exercise in India CHAUBATTIA MILITARY STATION, India – Soldiers with the U.S. Army‚ 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 1-2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team, and the Indian army’s 12 Madras, stood together Sept. 15, 2016, in formation on a parade field nestled high in the mountains approximately 200 miles northeast of...