Boxer ARG, 13th MEU Join ROK Forces in Ssang Yong 2016
U.S. ships from the Boxer and Bonhomme Richard Amphibious Ready Groups are underway with the Dokdo Amphibious Ready Group from the Republic of Korea during Ssang Yong 2016. The U.S. Navy and Marine...
View ArticleUS-Japan Participates in Multi Sail 2016
U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships are underway in formation during cannon firing exercises near Guam during Multi Sail 2016. Multi Sail is a bilateral training exercise aimed at...
View ArticleUSS Porter Conducts First SeaRAM Firing from DDG
By Program Executive Office for Integrated Warfare Systems Public Affairs ATLANTIC OCEAN (NNS) -- Sailors of USS Porter (DDG 78), a guided-missile destroyer stationed in Rota, Spain, successfully...
View ArticleKearsarge Completes MDVR, Departs Bahrain
By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Travis DiPerna, USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) Public Affairs MANAMA, Bahrain (NNS) -- The amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), along with embarked Marines...
View ArticleBonhomme Richard ESG Begins Exercise Ssang Yong 2016
U.S. ships from the Boxer and Bonhomme Richard Amphibious Ready Groups sail with the Dokdo Amphibious Ready Group from the Republic of Korea as part of Ssang Yong 16. Ssang Yong is a biennial...
View ArticleTeak Air Show Guide Update: F-35 to touch down at air shows around the world
Members of the first ever F-35 Lightning II heritage flight team from Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., participate in the Heritage Flight Conference at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., March 4-6, 2016....
View ArticleKentucky Departs for First Strategic Mission Since 2011
By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Amanda R. Gray, Commander, Submarine Group 9 Public Affairs BANGOR, Wash (NNS) -- Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine USS Kentucky (SSBN 737) departed...
View ArticleNavy Submarines Arrive in Arctic for ICEX 2016
From Commander, Submarine Forces Public Affairs \ARCTIC CIRCLE (NNS) -- Two Los Angeles-class submarines arrived at U.S. Navy Ice Camp Sargo, a temporary station on top of a floating ice sheet in the...
View ArticleNAS Whiting Field Reopens NOLF Summerdale (KNFD)
Blog Author Note: Frequency profile presented at the end of this article.By Jay Cope, Naval Air Station Whiting Field Public Affairs BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. (NNS) -- With a quick snip of the oversized,...
View ArticleMode-S/ADS Milcom Intercepts 14-15 Mar 2016 - Brasstown NC
US Department of Energy N990ST photo courtesy of Flightaware and Jay Wischkaemper (the photographer)Here is the latest round of Mode-S/ADS-B intercepts and selected ATC call signs logged from here on...
View ArticleMode-S/ADS Milcom Intercepts 16-18 Mar 2016 - Brasstown NC
Here is the latest round of Mode-S/ADS-B intercepts and selected ATC call signs logged from here on the radio ranch in WNC. All dates/times are UTC and list is sorted in Mode-S address order. USAF...
View ArticleIKE Carrier Strike Group Conducts Missile Exercise
In this still capture from video, the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Roosevelt (DDG 80), USS Nitze (DDG 94), USS Stout (DDG 55), USS Mason (DDG 87), along with the Ticonderoga-class...
View ArticleMishap Aboard Ike Injures Sailors
ATLANTIC OCEAN (Dec. 9, 2015) An E-2C Hawkeye assigned to the Screwtops of Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 123 performs an arrested recovery on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight...
View ArticleIKE Carrier Strike Group Underway for COMPTUEX
Guided-missile destroyer USS Nitze (DDG 94), front, steams in formation with USS Stout (DDG 56), USS Mason (DDG 87), USS Monterey (CG 61) and USS Roosevelt (DDG 80). While at sea, the ships supported a...
View ArticleMode-S/ADS Milcom Intercepts 19-23 Mar 2016 - Brasstown NC
Last evening had a USAF E-4B NAOC Mode-S callsign Paddy 17 (ADFEB6 75-0125) over the ranch here in western NC and also caught him passing a 30c 6V424B EAM on UHF 323.800 MHz. Tip for my Milcom...
View ArticleMode-S/ADS Milcom Intercepts 24-28 Mar 2016 - Brasstown NC
Lots of 130s in the air yesterday including Lockheed Martin testing LAC 5791 for about six hours. Here is the latest round of Mode-S/ADS-B intercepts and selected ATC call signs logged from here on the...
View ArticleMode-S/ADS Milcom Intercepts 30 Mar-4 Apr 2016 - Brasstown NC
On April 1 we had three 62AW C-17s that were on one of the mountain low level VR routes do two low level flybys of the radio ranch here in western North Carolina using the call signs - Thug 11/12/13. I...
View ArticleTRAWING 1 Conducting CARQUALS aboard USS George Washington
Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Equipment) Airman Raheem Malloy, from Greensboro, N.C., clears the catapult to launch a T-45C Goshawk assigned to Training Air Wing (TRAWING) 1 on the flight deck of the...
View ArticlePHIBRON/MEU Integration Training Underway
U.S. Marines assigned to Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment (BLT 1/6), 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (22nd MEU)and Sailors assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp...
View ArticleUS, Turkish KC-135 units fly together for first time
By Senior Airman David Bernal Del Agua, 22nd Air Refueling Wing Public AffairsNELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. (AFNS) -- To better understand how each nation completes the vital air refueling mission, the...
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