Hard Corps Jobs features the Marine and Sailors of I Marine Expeditionary Force as showcasing the different occupational specialties and billets that make up the Marine Air-Ground Task Force.
Checkered Flag 17-1 involves air power assets from six Air Combat Command installations which will be evaluated on their ability to mobilize, integrate, deploy and employ combat air power assets on a much larger scale than most other exercises. The focus is on the tactical integration of three fighter squadrons and select units to form a large scale total force integration element with the...
7th Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary) and Naval Beach Group Two (NBG2) executes multi-nodal Joint Logistics Over the Shore (JLOTS) operations in the vicinity of Hampton Roads, Virginia. U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 27th Field Artillery Regiment and the 188th Brigade Support Battalion execute JLOTS operations with Army Mariners of the 7th Transportation Brigade...
Emerald Warrior 17 is a U.S. Special Operations Command-sponsored two-week joint/combined tactical exercise designed to provide realistic military training in an urban setting.
Eagle Resolve is the premiere U.S. multilateral exercise within the Arabian Peninsula/Gulf Region and has evolved to become USCENTCOM’s multi-warfare exercise for developing and exercising capabilities with Gulf nations. The purpose of ER 2017 is to address the regional challenges associated with asymmetric/unconventional warfare.
Detachment 1, 414th Combat Training Squadron runs Exercise ANGEL THUNDER - the DoD's only full-spectrum, Joint, Interagency, and multi-national Personnel Recovery exercise.
A Marine legend passed away December 8, 2016. Col John H. Glenn Jr. — an astronaut, a senator, a Marine — died at the age of 95. Upon completing his training in 1943, Glenn served as a fighter pilot in WWII and the Korean War. For his service in 149 combat missions in two wars, he received numerous honors, including the Distinguished Flying Cross (six occasions) and the Air Medal with...
AFRICOM's MEDRETE's hosted by United States Army-Africa, pair small teams of military medical professionals from the U.S. with participating African partner nations to train alongside and share best practices in trauma and surgical medicine. U.S. personnel benefit by providing medical care in a forward and austere environment; and African partners develop closer relationships with medical...
