U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Chad J. Pulliammontague, a communications strategy and operations chief, with 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, presents a three-dimensional model of USS Portland (LPD-27) to Marines and sailors during 13th MEU Loading Exercise visit on May 12, 2022. The purpose of this exercise is to provide information of the supportability of ACVs aboard a … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2022
U.S. Meets Milestone in Chemical Weapons Stockpile Destruction
MAY 19, 2022 - The Defense Department's Chemical Demilitarization Program reached a milestone in its effort to eliminate the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile and recovered chemical warfare materiel. The last M55 rocket containing venomous agent X, or VX nerve agent, was destroyed at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant in Richmond, Kentucky on April 19, … [Read more...]
NATO Begins Vigilance Activity Neptune Shield 22
MEDITERRANEAN SEA (May 6, 2022) The Nimitz-class air craft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) conducts a vertical replenishment with an MH60S Sea Hawk helicopter, as it transits the Mediterranean Sea, May 6, 2022. The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Sixth Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national interests, security, … [Read more...]
Tyndall Tests Air-to-Air and Air-to-Ground Live-Fire Weapons
U.S. Sailors assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 83 remove an AIM-9X Sidewinder missile from an F/A-18E Super Hornet at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, May 10, 2022. The VFA-83 participated in the 53rd Weapons Evaluation Group’s Weapons System Evaluation Program-East 22.08. WSEPs are formal, two-week evaluation exercises designed to test a squadron’s capabilities to … [Read more...]
Sweden, Finland Apply for NATO Membership
MAY 19, 2022 - Finland and Sweden officially applied to join the 30 members of the NATO alliance earlier today. Later, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III hosted an enhanced honor cordon at the Pentagon for Swedish Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist. The leaders discussed the strength of the bilateral defense relationship and the historic decision by the Swedish … [Read more...]