FRCE supports Marine F-35 recovery training
MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, N.C. — Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE) recently partnered with Marine Wing Support Squadron 271 (MWSS-271) to assist with the squadron’s F-35 familiarization and aircraft salvage and recovery training. The collaboration with FRCE allowed MWSS-271 access to a stripped-down F-35 airframe used for training and testing at the depot, along with the knowle...[Read More]
Destroyer Squadron 50 Assumes Operation Prosperity Guardian Mission
Combined Task Force 153 handed over responsibility for Operation Prosperity Guardian to Destroyer Squadron 50.
Troops arrive at Guantanamo Bay to prepare migrant detention center
Service members arrived over the weekend at Guantanamo Bay, where they’ll work to prepare the Navy base in southeast Cuba for an influx of deported migrants. Marines with the 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division boarded a KC-130J at Cherry Point Air Station in North Carolina on Sunday and departed for Naval Station Guantanamo Bay. There, they joined personnel from U.S. Southern C...[Read More]
Marines, Soldiers Set Up Tents and Cots at Guantanamo Bay for Trump’s Migrant Deportations
The weekend mobilization of troops is the latest move in the Trump administration’s effort to halt immigration at the southern border and conduct what he has described is the largest domestic migrant deportation operation in U.S. history.
Apple’s new Vietnam War series captures ‘shards of light’ amid chaos
The dulcet sounds of Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” could be heard around the city, but it wasn’t to mark the approaching holiday season, it was the American code signaling the start of Operation Frequent Wind — the evacuation of Saigon. Beginning on April 29, 1975, Armed Forces Radio jarringly blasted the Christmas song throughout the bombarded city as increasingly panicked American and South Vi...[Read More]
Texas Guard can make immigration arrests under new Trump agreement
Texas National Guard soldiers now have the authority to make immigration arrests and help detain and deport undocumented people under an agreement between the state and the Trump administration that requires those duties be done under the supervision and direction of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection official. Guard members exercising the authority must be in contact at all times with a CBP off...[Read More]
Military families see bumpy start to household goods moving program
About 1,000 military families have experienced missed pickup or delivery dates, communications issues or other problems with the new contractor tasked with overhauling the system for moving service members’ household goods. That’s about 20% of the 5,195 relocation orders for shipments sent to the contractor, HomeSafe Alliance, since last April, when U.S. Transportation Command began slowly phasing...[Read More]
Military families see bumpy start to household goods moving program
About 1,000 military families have experienced missed pickup or delivery dates, communications issues or other problems with the new contractor tasked with overhauling the system for moving service members’ household goods. That’s about 20% of the 5,195 relocation orders for shipments sent to the contractor, HomeSafe Alliance, since last April, when U.S. Transportation Command began slowly phasing...[Read More]
Military families see bumpy start to household goods moving program
About 1,000 military families have experienced missed pickup or delivery dates, communications issues or other problems with the new contractor tasked with overhauling the system for moving service members’ household goods. That’s about 20% of the 5,195 relocation orders for shipments sent to the contractor, HomeSafe Alliance, since last April, when U.S. Transportation Command began slowly phasing...[Read More]
AI, advanced tech central to new Marine Corps aviation plan
The U.S. Marine Corps released a revised aviation strategy Monday that focuses on using autonomous systems, drones and artificial intelligence-driven software to ensure its aircraft fleet can survive in a fierce war zone. And the Corps is also shifting its procurement plans for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to buy more carrier-based F-35Cs and fewer of the B variants that can hover and vertically ...[Read More]
AI, advanced tech central to new Marine Corps aviation plan
The U.S. Marine Corps released a revised aviation strategy Monday that focuses on using autonomous systems, drones and artificial intelligence-driven software to ensure its aircraft fleet can survive in a fierce war zone. And the Corps is also shifting its procurement plans for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to buy more carrier-based F-35Cs and fewer of the B variants that can hover and vertically ...[Read More]
Navy Installations Seek Feedback to Improve Base Quality of Service Programs
Top leaders overseeing base operations are actively seeking feedback and ideas from Sailors on how the Navy can improve installation quality of service programs.