Archive for the ‘Land’ Category
A U.S. Marine with Bravo Company, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion heads to a Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft after executing a narcotics and weapons raid in the Khash Rod district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, May 14, 2012, in support of Operation Lion's Den. The raid was part of an effort to disrupt the selling and distribution of contraband throughout Afghanistan. (DoD photo by Cpl. Marcus Kuiper, U.S. Marine Corps/Released)
The Marine has what appears to be an M110 SASS.
M110 SASS Sally
Marines fighting the war on drugs.
Australian Army Pvt. Luke Challman fires at 300-meter targets while U.S. Army Sgt. Marcus Fontenot, with the 2nd Brigade , 25th Infantry Division, records Challman’s scores at the 2012 Australian Army Skills at the Arms Meeting (AASAM) in Puckapunyal, Australia, May 7, 2012. AASAM is an international marksmanship competition consisting of 16 different countries. This year is the fifth iteration of AASAM and the third consecutive year that United States forces have been invited to participate. (DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Michael R. Holzworth, U.S. Air Force/Released)
U.S. Marines serving as the assault element of the Maritime Raid Force with the 1st Force Reconnaissance Company, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit engage targets during a Special Operations Training Group live-fire qualification at Imperial Valley, Calif., May 8, 2012. (DoD photo by Cpl. John Robbart III, U.S. Marine Corps/Released)
Army Announces Plans to Reactivate 7th Infantry Division
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash., April 26, 2012 – The secretary of the Army announced plans today to reactivate the 7th Infantry Division and stand up its headquarters here.
The two-star headquarters, which will oversee the training and readiness of five of the installation’s 10 brigades, will fill an administrative layer between those units and I Corps. The division headquarters will not be deployable, John McHugh said during a press conference on the installation…
The soon-to-be reactivated division will encompass 2nd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division; 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division; 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division; 17th Fires Brigade and 16th Combat Aviation Brigade, for a total of some 17,000 Soldiers. But as a nondeployable headquarters, the new division headquarters and its estimated 250 personnel will primarily focus on making sure soldiers are properly trained and equipped, and that order and discipline is maintained in its subordinate brigades.
The brigade combat teams are Stryker brigades based at Lewis with their HQ on the other side of the Pacific. This leaves the 2nd ID with its 1st Brigade and a combat aviation brigade and fires brigade in Korea. I’m not sure if there will be other brigades added to 2nd Division or not.
A U.S. Marine assigned to Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, provides security during an amphibious assault in support of Cobra Gold in Hat Yao, Thailand, Feb. 10, 2012. Cobra Gold is a regularly scheduled joint/combined exercise designed to ensure regional peace and strengthen the ability of the Royal Thai Armed Forces to defend Thailand or respond to regional contingencies. (DoD photo by Cpl. Garry Welch, U.S. Marine Corps/Released)
Fleet of ‘double-V hull’ Strykers growing in Afghanistan
Two hundred of the double-V hulls are now in Afghanistan, with more slated to arrive in coming months, according to Lori Grein, a public affairs officer with the Project Executive Office-Ground Combat Systems. There are almost no flat-bottom Strykers left in Afghanistan, Grein said; most have been replaced by the double-V hulls…
Soldiers who swap the older Strykers for double-V hulls notice few differences.
“Ergonomically speaking they have kept everything the same,” said Wood, 25, of Oakfield, N.Y., who patrols regularly in a double-V hull out of Combat Outpost Talukan in Kandahar province. “All the changes they have made are behind the scenes.”
Tech. Sgt. Sam Pastor fires an Mk48 Sept. 10, 2011, at the off-base firing range near Forward Operating Base Mehtar Lam, Afghanistan. Pastor is a vehicle maintainer with the Laghman Provincial Reconstruction Team. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Ryan Crane)
That seems to be very un-pastor-like activity. (Murdoc’s here all week, folks…)
Airmen load a tank into a C-5M Super Galaxy Nov. 15, 2011, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. The C-5M is the upgraded version of the C-5 Galaxy and has a 30 percent shorter take off roll, 58 percent faster climb rate and allows significantly more cargo to be carried over longer distances. (U.S. Air Force photo/Roland Balik)
Two M-1 Abrams tanks from Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., are loaded in the cargo area of a C-5M Super Galaxy assigned to Dover Air Force Base, Del. The C-5M currently holds 42 world aviation records in airlift. The modernized version of the C-5, the Super Galaxy has 70 improvements, including new GE CF6 engines providing 22 percent more thrust and cutting climb time in half. New lighting in the cargo area increases safety of loading and offloading cargo. (U.S. Air Force photo/Lt. Col. Chad E. Gibson)
A Stryker armored fighting vehicle gets upgraded and modified by the General Dynamics team at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Nov. 23. The rocket-propelled grenade grill, which causes RPGs to detonate away from the Stryker, is installed among other upgrades that increase survivability and lethality. Photo by Spc. Ryan Hallock
Story: Strykers get upgrades, modifications at JBLM by patriotic crew
Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) the Honorable Ray Mabus fires an AGS-17, Russian 30mm automatic grenade launcher at the Krtsanisi Training Area weapons firing range. Mabus visited the facility to thank the Sailors and Marines providing support to the Georgian military and meet with senior government and military officials to discuss global maritime partnerships and security matters. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Sam Shavers/Released)
