Marine Corps and Army faceoff during Hawaii exercise February 19 Marines with Bravo Battery, 1st Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, fire a M777 155 mm howitzer during live-fire training as part of Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise at Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawaii, July 17, 2018. (Lance Cpl. Adam Montera/Marine Corps) At one point 20 Marines and 20 soldiers ditched their cannons and fought each other. No, it wasn’t a turf war or a late night bar fight. It was on the South Range training area aboard the Schofield barracks
on Oahu, Hawaii, within a simulated town as part of the exercise Steel Crucible, an Army-led exercise that saw Marines and soldiers fight against each other and work side-by-side in an island-hopping campaign against the fictional nation and near-peer threat called Torbia.
The U.S. Air Force Is Planning To Get Six New E-11A With The Battlefield Airborne Communication Node Payload
The U.S. Air Force Is Planning To Get Six New E-11A With The Battlefield Airborne Communication Node Payload
File photo of a 430th Expeditionary Electronic Combat Squadron E-11A aircraft outfitted with a Battlefield Airborne Communications Node at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, April 4, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Anna-Marie Wyant)
With the new aircraft the USAF will triple the E-11A fleet, one year after a fatal crash in Afghanistan left the service with only three airframes.
Note: This article has been corrected. The Air Force will soon bid farewell to its 25th service secretary, who also served as the first civilian leader of the newly formed Space Force. Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett is slated to resign effective Jan. 20, a service spokeswoman said. The departure by Barrett, who has served in her role since October 2019, will come the day before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. Barrett will be honored at a ceremony Thursday in Washington, along with departing assistant secretaries Shon J. Manasco, John R. Roth, Thomas E. Ayres, William B. Roper Jr. and John W. Henderson.
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Women will attend boot camp at San Diego Marine Corps Recruit Depot for first time in history December 15, 2020 A drill instructor with Oscar Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, Platoon 4042, instructs her platoon on Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., Sept. 6, 2019. (Lance Cpl. Shane T. Manson/Marine Corps) For the first time in Marine Corps history, women will be trained at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego. The Corps’ West Coast recruit depot traditionally has trained enlisted men born west of the Mississippi River, but all women who enlist in the Corps have been shipped to Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina.