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Description: The U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and U.S. Air Force teamed up to unleash a new capability during Exercise Valiant Shield 2016, which debuted Sept 13 in the Northern Marianas region. During the demonstration, B-1B bombers from the 337th Operational Test Squadron and F/A-18C/D aircraft from the 1st Marine Air Wing placed 12 inert Quickstrike-J precision maritime mines and four inert Quickstrike-ER standoff, precision maritime mines to a drop zone west of the Farallon de Medinilla bombing range, located in the Northern Marianas islands.
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SSgt Mariko Frazee, reporting
Lt Col Frank Welton, B-1 Weapons Systems Officer
Maj David Merritt, Operations Officer, Marine Aviation Training Support Site Beaufort
CDR John Bernie, Quickstrike Demo Deputy Operations Manager
| Date Taken: | 09.14.2016 |
| Date Posted: | 09.15.2016 03:37 |
| Category: | Newscasts |
| Audio ID: | 44967 |
| Filename: | 1609/DOD_103662192.mp3 |
| Length: | 00:01:20 |
| Year | 2016 |
| Location: | GU |
| Web Views: | 60 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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