JULY 26, 2016, COMBINED ARMS TRAINING CENTER, Camp Fuji - U.S. Marines with Marine Wing Support Squadron 171, based out of Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, completed the second stage of Eagle Wrath 2016 at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan, July 23, 2016. This stage focused and trained each individual company on air base ground defense and how they will support … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2016
EBOA Returns to the Navy’s Only Boot Camp
JULY 26, 2016, GREAT LAKES (NNS) - Some of the U. S. Navy's top senior enlisted leaders returned to Recruit Training Command (RTC) to tackle training issues, new innovations at the Navy's only boot camp and determine how recruits can be developed into basically trained Sailors for a 21st century Navy. The senior enlisted leadership return was part of a two-day Enlisted Board … [Read more...]
Veggie Subs? Army Researcher Studies Submarine agriculture for Navy
JULY 26, 2016, NATICK, Mass. - If Don Holman has his way, the Navy could soon be producing its own vegetarian subs, so to speak. Holman, an engineering technician with the Joint Foodservice and Engineering Team at the Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, has spent the past year testing the feasibility of growing fruits and vegetables on U.S. … [Read more...]
Reservists and Active Duty Marine Tankers Train Together
JULY 26, 2016, MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - Marines with Fox Company, 4th Tank Battalion, conducted integrated training with elements of 2nd Tank Battalion, at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., July 22, 2016. The reserve Marines spent three days conducting multiple field exercises in order to develop cohesion with the active duty Marines in the event they … [Read more...]
C-17 Gains Valuable Training Through Integration at Red Flag 16-3
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. (AFNS) - Since its maiden flight in 1991, the C-17 Globemaster III has served as a reliable and maintainable cargo aircraft with the ability of rapid and strategic cargo and troop delivery. During Red Flag 16-3, the 437th Airlift Wing from Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, is training at Nellis Air Force Base on how to integrate pilots, crew … [Read more...]