Story by 1st Lt. Robert Nanna | 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit | 08.08.2024
PACIFIC OCEAN – U.S. Marines assigned to Light Armored Reconnaissance Company, Battalion Landing Team 1/5, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, conducted an integrated small craft action team training on the flight deck of the amphibious transport dock USS Somerset (LPD 25) in the Pacific Ocean, Aug. 8....
Story by Seaman Ryan Holloway | USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) | 11.05.2023
The “boom” of live-fire exercises echoing throughout USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) sent a message loud and clear that the ship’s security department takes the training of Sailors to protect themselves and the crew very seriously....
Story by Lt.Cmdr. Tyler Barker | U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. Sixth Fleet | 05.26.2023
OEIRAS, Portugal (May 26, 2023) U.S. Sixth Fleet and Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO (STRIKFORNATO) concluded Europe’s largest integrated air and missile defense (IAMD) exercise, Formidable Shield 2023, May 26, 2023. The exercise, which took place over a 1,000 nautical mile area of waterspace, from northern Norway to the west coast of Scotland, brought together multiple NATO Allied......
Story by Lt.Cmdr. Tyler Barker | U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. Sixth Fleet | 05.23.2023
NORTH ALTANTIC OCEAN – Over the span of four action-packed days in the North Atlantic Ocean off Scotland’s west coast, from May 17 to 20, 2023, NATO Allied surface units accomplished a series of notable integrated air and missile defense (IAMD) successes while participating in exercise Formidable Shield 2023. Formidable Shield, Europe’s largest and most complex IAMD exercise, brings......
Story by 2nd Lt. Daniel Kim | 1st Marine Aircraft Wing | 09.29.2022
MCAS IWAKUNI, Japan – Marine Aircraft Group (MAG) 12 conducted an AIM-9X missile live fire from the southern coast of Japan to exercise their air-to-air warfare capabilities. Fourth generation F/A-18 Hornets and 5th generation F-35B Lightning II aircraft from the group’s fighter squadrons, Marine All Weather Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA(AW)) 533, Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 121,......
Story by Samuel King Jr. | 96th Test Wing | 01.31.2022
Flying over the Gulf of Mexico, the Air Force’s newest fighter, the F-15EX Eagle II, successfully fired an AIM-120D missile Jan. 25....
Courtesy Story | Commander, U.S. 7th Fleet | 10.21.2020
CAMP FUJI, Japan – (Oct. 21, 2020) Staff members from U.S. 7th Fleet visited Combined Arms Training Center (CATC) Camp Fuji to learn about equipment and concepts associated with emergent Expeditionary Advanced Base operations....
Courtesy Story | Naval Surface and Mine Warfighting Development Center (SMWDC) | 10.05.2020
Carrier Strike Group 2 (CSG 2) cruiser-destroyer (CRUDES) warships completed the Surface Warfare Advanced Tactical Training (SWATT) exercise on October 3....
