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The Iwo Jima has Marine aviators and their Harriers on board. With the group are sailors from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 26 and Assault Craft Units 2 and 4, which operate the landing craft and air cushion vehicles that bring Marines to the beach.
By DAVE RESS | The Daily Press | Published: April 18, 2021 NORFOLK, Va. (Tribune News Service) — Climbing onto a 36-foot inflatable boat to be lowered 40 feet from the deck of USS San Antonio onto the Atlantic is just part of the day’s work for sailors with the Norfolk-based USS Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group. “We do this every day,” said Capt. Darren Nelson, the group’s commodore, in a phone interview from the seas south of Ireland. It’s an exercise to make sure that high-risk search and rescue missions on the high seas don’t go awry, he said. It’s also how the group’s...
‘We are ready to respond to anything’: At sea, Iwo Jima group’s sailors and Marines have lots of missions Dave Ress, The Daily Press Climbing onto a 36-foot inflatable boat to be lowered 40 feet from the deck of USS San Antonio onto the Atlantic is just part of the day’s work for sailors with the Norfolk-based USS Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group. “We do this every day,” said Capt. Darren Nelson, the group’s commodore, in a phone interview from the seas south of Ireland. It’s an exercise to make sure that high-risk search and rescue missions on the high seas don...