Operation Lone Star, or OLS, is a Texas state active duty mission, which was launched by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in March 2021. OLS is a joint mission between the Texas Military Department, which is comprised of the Texas National Guard (Army and Air) and the Texas State Guard, and the Texas Department of Public Safety, and other state agencies, to address security concerns along the...
Resolute Dragon 2021 (RD21) is the largest bilateral field training exercise between the Japan Self-Defense Force (JSDF) and the U.S. Marine Corps in Calendar Year 2021 with U.S. Marines and JSDF members deployed to nine geographically-separated training areas throughout Japan. RD21 is designed to strengthen bilateral operational capabilities between the U.S. Marine Corps and JSDF with an...
Supersonic flight. GPS. Space food. Big developments come out of the Air Force Research Laboratory. Lab Life brings you behind the scenes with the Air Force and Space Force scientists, engineers and professionals who are developing tomorrow’s technology, today.
U.S. forces with 1st Marine Aircraft Wing and U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet conducted a large-scale joint rehearsal of tactics and carried out simulated strikes on naval targets off the coast of Okinawa. The purpose of this joint maritime strike rehearsal was to practice tactics, techniques, and procedures for delivering air-delivered strikes against targets at sea. Events like this ensure that we...
Forty-one new USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) chief petty officers were pinned during a ceremony held at the Hampton Roads Convention Center in Newport News, Virginia, Nov. 19, 2021.
On Nov. 4, 2021, in conjunction with exercise Bold Quest 21.2, a demonstration was conducted of the Secret and Below Releasable Environment (SABRE), the CENTCOM Partner Environment (CPE), and the expeditionary capabilities of the Joint Communications Support Element (JCSE).
Shurer was awarded the Medal of Honor on October 1, 2018, for his actions as a Green Beret medic with 3rd Special Forces Group during the Battle of Shok Valley in northeastern Afghanistan on April 6, 2008. Shurer was part of a team sent to capture or kill several high-value members of the Hezeb Islami al Gulbadin militant group. He passed away May 14, 2020, at the age of 41.
On June 6, 1944 the United States military participated in the largest multinational amphibious landing and operational military airdrop in history. This assault led to France’s liberation from the German military and the eventual defeat of the Nazis. By the end of the D-Day invasion, more than 9,000 allied troops were dead or wounded.
78 years later, U.S. troops remain forever indebted...
