August 12, 2015 - MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, N.C. -- Innovative technology such as tactical data links are changing the way battles are won and strategies are implemented on the battlefield. Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 467, Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 2, and U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Special Operations Command, participated in an exercise … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2015
7 Ways To Make Life Easy For Veterans Returning To College
August 12, 2015, by Rachelle Scott - It is not easy for any person to switch to a completely opposite life suddenly. Similarly, it can be quite challenging for the veterans to join their college once they serve in the military. Adjusting to the academic life is not only stressful to the students but also the veterans, especially because they are coming from a whole different … [Read more...]
Ashland and 31st MEU Transport Water into Saipan
August 11, 2015 - SAIPAN HARBOR, Saipan (NNS) -- The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48) arrived in Saipan on Aug. 8 and is providing disaster relief in the wake of Typhoon Soudelor. When the ship was tasked to go to Saipan earlier in the week, Ashland's Sailors and Marines quickly reconfigured the ship's well deck and … [Read more...]
Georgia Conflict Case of ‘Strategic Surprise,’ Says Expert
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Aug. 11, 2015) -- Russian intervention in Georgia in 2008 took the West by surprise in its rapidity and intensity, said Col. Bob Hamilton, who was there as chief of the Office of Defense Cooperation from 2006 to 2008. "You can't look at Ukraine today in isolation from what happened in Georgia in 2008," he said. It's a classic example of Russian … [Read more...]
Face of Defense: Wounded Soldier Receives Honors at Fort Hood Ceremony
FORT HOOD, Texas, Aug. 11, 2015 – Almost eight months after he was wounded in Afghanistan, Army Spc. Gilbert Frazier accepted the medals he earned at his home station here surrounded by his brothers-in-arms and his wife. Frazier, a combat engineer assigned to 3rd Combat Engineer Company, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, received the Purple Heart, an Army Commendation Medal and the … [Read more...]