Story by Lt.Cmdr. Miranda Williams | USS Carl Vinson | 12.04.2020
The “Titans” of Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission Squadron (VRM) 30 and USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) made naval aviation history Nov. 20-21 when they conducted the first ever Navy CMV-22B Osprey landings, take-offs, and refueling from an aircraft carrier....
Story by Lt. Michelle Tucker | Chief of Naval Air Training | 04.11.2020
A student naval aviator logged a key milestone in Naval Aviation history April 8 when he landed a T-45C Goshawk aboard aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) during carrier qualifications (CQ), marking the 2,000th trap for the ship....
Story by Yasuo Osakabe | 374th Airlift Wing | 03.26.2020
For the first time ever, Team Yokota conducted a C-130J assault landing on the Foxtrot taxiway March 26. This training is conducted to guarantee our airfield team is ready to perform skilled landings on short, narrow, crowded and even unmarked strips of land....
Story by Staff Sgt. Jamie Spaulding | New York National Guard | 01.08.2020
STRATTON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Scotia, N.Y. -- A good set of skis are expensive. So it’s always a good idea to protect them when they’re being shipped. It’s an even better idea to protect them when the skis being shipped are 25 feet long, weigh 3,000 pounds, and are used to land 75,800 pound LC-130 airplanes on ice and snow. But the shipping containers that the 109th Airlift......
Story by Petty Officer 3rd Class Kaitlyn Eads | USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) | 10.14.2018
The units of the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) participated in a live-fire missile exercise (MISSILEX), Oct. 14....
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Ryre Arciaga | USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) | 10.13.2018
The units of the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) departed Naval Station Norfolk, Oct. 13, to conduct a composite training unit exercise (COMPTUEX)....
Story by Petty Officer 1st Class Jonathan Trejo | Defense Media Activity - Navy Production | 02.05.2018
Rear Adm. Alan B. Shepard Jr., commander of the Apollo 14 mission, takes his first steps out of the lunar module, Feb. 5, 1971, and becomes the fifth man to join this club and walk on the moon, to set foot on its dusty, gray surface, followed by Capt. Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot....
Story by Lance Cpl. Alexia Lythos | 1st Marine Aircraft Wing | 12.22.2017
IEJIMA ISLAND, Japan -- Marine Air Control Squadron 4, Marine Air Control Group 18, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, traveled to Iejima Island to conduct Marine Corps Air Traffic Control Mobile Team Mission Essential Tasks during exercise Voodoo Magic from December 4-15, 2017....
