US defence officials confirmed a Marine F-A 18 jet has crashed near Interstate 17, close to the Miramar Marine Corps Air Station, during a training flight overnight
Two major three-star commands changed leaders in separate southern California ceremonies on Friday. At Camp Pendleton, Calif., Lt. Gen. George Smith relinquished his command of I Marine Expeditionary Force to Maj. Gen. Bradford Gering. Meanwhile, at Naval Base San Diego, Vice Adm. Roy Kitchener turned over command of Naval Surface Forces to acting SWOBOSS Rear […]
What began with 250 American Marines and sailors at Australia’s “Top End” 12 years ago has grown into a Marine air-ground task force of 2,500 that spends its seven-month rotation spread across Australia and the western Pacific. As U.S.-Australia military relations have grown closer, Marine Rotational Force-Darwin’s focus has evolved, too. Lately it’s helping refine […]
Hauling goods via transport helicopter to replenish a military unit is a routine assignment. Dangling supplies over a ballistic submarine skimming across the Western Pacific is anything but routine. A pair of CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters made a supply run to ballistic missile submarine USS Maine (SSBN-741) as it traveled in the Philippine Sea. The vertical replenishment […]