01 August 2016 Ordnance Marines, Pilots Train with High Explosives Down Under Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni -- Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 122 and Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 12 ordnance Marines built, inspected and loaded high explosive ordnance during Exercise Southern Frontier at Royal Australian Air Force Base Tindal, Australia, July 28, 2016. This...
01 August 2016 Soldiers Test Robot Tech during Visit by Army Secretary Fanning MARINE CORPS TRAINING AREA BELLOWS, Hawaii -- Secretary of the Army Eric Fanning visited the Pacific Manned-Unmanned Initiative training site Tuesday, July 26, as part of his trip to U.S. Pacific Command.During the training initiative, which lasted more than two weeks, Soldiers of the 25th Infantry...
01 August 2016 Joint Operations Seize the Day KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- What began as another calm and quiet summer day on a small island in the Pacific instantly turned into a vortex of dust and a thunderous bedlam of Osprey engines. Marine Corps riflemen stormed the area, neutralized multiple hostiles, and captured a landing strip for...
01 August 2016 Rim of the Pacific 2016: U.S. Marines, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Team Up for Beach Landing MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII -- U.S. Marines and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force members teamed up for an amphibious beach landing exercise at Pyramid Rock today during the final phase Rim of Pacific 2016.The beach landing included close air support from FA-18 Hornets, followed by three waves of...
01 August 2016 U.S., Japan Bilateral Exercise Enhances Mine Countermeasure Capabilities MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan -- An awaiting crew huddled along the deck of a ship as the whirring blades of an MH-53E Sea Dragon displaced the seawater below and landed on the helicopter pad of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force vessel JS Uraga.This afternoon excursion between the U.S. Navy Helicopter...