Southern Jackaroo News Today

Four hundred U.S. Marines are in Australia preparing for the live-fire phase of a multinational exercise as Aussie sailors help crew a Navy submarine tender that recently arrived Down Under.

U.S. Marines and Sailors with Marine Rotational Force Darwin 24.3 arrive in Townsville, QLD, for Exercise Southern Jackaroo, May 23, 2024.,

U.S. Marines have returned to northern Australia as part of a six-month training tour across the South Pacific that will also include drills in the Philippines and Indonesia.

U.S. Marines deployed to Australia are back home after concluding a six-month training rotation, the Marine Corps announced Monday.

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 […]

The Australia-Japan-U.S. trilateral is older and more formalized than the Quad – and unlike the latter, it explicitly embraces a defense mandate.

Hundreds of U.S. Marines and sailors, Australian soldiers and Japanese Self-Defense Force members are conducting a major warfighting exercise in Australia.

Today we are looking at the rifle versus the carbine and comparing and contrasting the differences between true rifles and short carbines.

With more than 2,000 U.S. Marines in Australia's north, commander USMC Colonel David Banning said the force isn't ...

by   U.S. Marines board an MV-22B Osprey at Royal Australian Air Force Base Darwin, Australia, May 26, 2021. (Sarah Nadeau/U.S. Marine Corps) A company of U.S. Marines will soon join Australian and Japanese troops in the Outback for drills that aim to enhance their ability to coordinate artillery and air support with both manned and unmanned aircraft. Exercise Southern Jackaroo kicks off Tuesday and runs through June 24, Capt. Thomas deVries, a spokesman for Marine Corps Rotational Force — ...