UK CSG-21 Supports Ex Steadfast Defender 21 [Image 6 of 29]

U.S. 6TH FLEET AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY

05.28.2021

Photo by 1st Lt. Zachary Bodner 

3rd Marine Aircraft Wing

SSgt Owen Castro, LCpl Samuel Wigginton, LCpl Zachary Westjohn and Cpl Caleb Blaedow with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 211 pose on the flight deck aboard Her Majesty’s Ship Queen Elizabeth. The Marines had just completed startup and pre-taxi checklists for an F-35B Lightning II in preparation for a NATO Exercise Steadfast Defender 21 mission. Steadfast Defender 21 is a large scale defensive exercise designed to test NATO’s ability to rapidly deploy forces from North America to the coast of Portugal and the Black Sea region. The exercise provides an important opportunity to demonstrate NATO’s ability and determination to defend its territory and alliance interoperability and coherence.

• Date Taken: 05.28.2021
• Date Posted: 05.31.2021 10:37
• Photo ID: 6670135
• VIRIN: 210528-M-MS099-546
• Resolution: 4896x3264
• Size: 19.76 MB
• Location: U.S. 6TH FLEET AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY