Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Cameron Snell | U.S. Coast Guard Arctic | 08.27.2025
A CH-148 Cyclone helicopter from His Majesty's Canadian Ship Regina takes signals from the landing signal officer aboard U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Waesche (WMSL 751) in the Bering Sea, Aug. 26, 2025. The Waesche and Regina conducted operational training during Operation Latitude to demonstrate multinational interoperability and capabilities in the mission to detect, deter, and defend North......
Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Carson Croom | USS Nimitz (CVN 68) | 05.06.2025
Landing Signal Officers communicate with tower as aircraft prepare to land on the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) in the South China Sea, May 6, 2025. Nimitz is underway in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations on a scheduled deployment, demonstrating the U.S. Navy's unwavering commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Carson......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Scott Griffin | Exercise News Day | 08.31.2024
Army Reserve Best Squad competitors, Spc. Alexander Balicoco, 9th Mission Support Command, Sgt. 1st Class Ruben Chagolla and Spc. Joalys Rodriguez, 311th Signal Command (Theater), reassemble a Sig Sauer M17 pistol under the watchful eye of an Army Reserve drill sergeant during a "Box Of Guns" challenge at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, Sep. 1, 2024. More than 70 Soldiers come......
Photo by Brittany Dickerson | Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division | 02.01.2024
F-35B Landing Signal Officers (LSO) under instruction practice assisting virtual pilots recover onboard a ship amid various sea states in a simulator at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) in Patuxent River, Maryland. The upcoming LSOs spent a week with NAWCAD engineers to refine the U.S. Marine Corps' new curricula for the short take-off/vertical landing (STOVL)......
Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Indra Beaufort | U.S. Naval Forces Central Command / U.S. 5th Fleet | 10.04.2020
201004-N-IE405-1139 STRAIT OF HORMUZ (Oct. 4, 2020) - Lt. j. g. Nathan Dunham, front, and Lt. Tim Cooper, both assigned to Helicopter Strike Maritime Squadron (HSM) 48, stand watch as landing signal officers during flight operations aboard the guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea (CG 58) as the ship transits the Strait of Hormuz, Oct. 4. Philippine Sea is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet......
Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Samantha Jetzer | USS RONALD REAGAN (CVN 76) | 06.28.2020
200628-N-ML137-1276 PHILIPPINE SEA (June 28, 2020) An E-2D Hawkeye attached to the Tiger Tails of Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 125 approaches the flight deck of the Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) maintaining Ronald Reagan’s tactical presence on the seas. Ronald Reagan is part of the Reagan Carrier Strike Group (CSG). The USS Nimitz (CVN......
Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Kody Phillips | Carrier Strike Group 10 | 02.19.2020
200219-N-OQ778-1032 ATLANTIC OCEAN (Feb. 19, 2019) Lt. Zach Jones, assigned to the “Swamp Foxes” of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 74, from Seal Beach, California, acts as the landing signal officer during flight operations aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Truxtun (DDG 103). Truxtun is conducting operations in the Atlantic Ocean as part of the USS......
Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Kody Phillips | Carrier Strike Group 10 | 02.19.2020
200219-N-OQ778-1014 ATLANTIC OCEAN (Feb. 19, 2019) Lt. Zach Jones, assigned to the “Swamp Foxes” of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 74, from Seal Beach, California, acts as the landing signal officer during flight operations aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Truxtun (DDG 103). Truxtun is conducting operations in the Atlantic Ocean as part of the USS......
