Featured Image: U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl Elijah Scott, a Tupelo, Mississippi native, air traffic control navigational aids technician assigned to Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One, listens to a radio during an expeditionary air traffic control exercise as part of Weapons and Tactics Instructors course 2-24, at Hawk Eye, Arizona, March 28, 2024. WTI is an advanced graduate-level course that provides advanced tactical training to enhance and employ advanced aviation weapons and tactics. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Tyler Raab
Army
U.S. Army 1st Lt. Collin Johnson, assigned to the 75th Ranger Regiment, climbs across the rope to hit the Ranger tab on day 3 of the Best Ranger Competition, Fort Moore, Georgia, April 14, 2024. The David E. Grange Jr. Best Ranger Competition is a three-day competition that pits the military’s best two-person Ranger teams against each other as they compete for the title of Best Ranger. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Justin Yarborough)
A group of M2A4 Bradley Fighting Vehicles, assigned to 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, prepare for a convoy during a situational training exercise during Marne Focus 2024, at Fort Stewart, Georgia, April 9, 2024. This exercise will showcase multi-domain concepts, demonstrate current capabilities, and test innovative tactics, techniques and procedures as the brigade modernizes. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Duke Edwards)
Navy
ATLANTIC OCEAN (April 15, 2024) An E/A-18G Growler from the “Main Battery” of Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 144 launches from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) during flight operations in the Atlantic Ocean, April 15, 2024. Truman is the flagship of the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group and is currently underway as part of the basic phase. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Matthew Nass)
U.S. 7TH FLEET (April 11, 2024) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Russell (DDG 59) sails in formation with the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Murasame-class destroyer JS Ariake (DD 109), right, and the Republic of Korea Navy Sejong the Great-class guided-missile destroyer ROKS Seoae Ryu Sung-ryong (DDG 993) during a trilateral exercise, April 11, 2024. This trilateral exercise allowed maritime forces from Japan, the Republic of Korea, and U.S. to train together to enhance coordination on maritime domain awareness and other shared security interests. Russell is part of the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class John A. Miller)
Marine Corps
U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jack Geels, a team leader assigned to Bravo Company, Battalion Landing Team 1/5, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, and native of Iowa, fires an M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle during a live-fire deck shoot aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4) in the Pacific Ocean April 6, 2024. Elements of the 15th MEU are currently embarked aboard the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group conducting routine operations in U.S. 3rd Fleet. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Joseph Helms
A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 365 (Reinforced), 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), conducts flight operations USS New York (LPD 21) while underway in the Atlantic Ocean, April 13, 2024. The USS New York, with embarked 24th MEU, is underway in the Atlantic Ocean completing integrated naval training as the WSP ARG-24th MEU team under the evaluation of Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 4 and Expeditionary Operations Training Group (EOTG). CSG 4 and EOTG work together to deliver with Joint and Allied teammates to mentor, train, and assess Amphibious Ready Groups and Marine Expeditionary Units in support of U.S. and Allied economic, security, and defense interests. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Ryan Ramsammy
Air Force
A C-17 Globemaster III, assigned to the 62nd Airlift Wing, prepares to take off from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., March 22, 2024. The aircraft, part of the C-17 West Coast Demonstration Team, performed at Luke Days 2024, an air show that presents military airpower and civilian acts over two days, at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., to a public audience of hundreds of thousands of attendees from Arizona and around the world. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Colleen Anthony)
F-16 Fighting Falcons, assigned to the U.S. Air Force Demonstration team “Thunderbirds,” execute a choreographed demonstration during the Luke Days air show March 24, 2024, at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz. The pilots perform approximately 30 maneuvers in a demonstration and the entire show runs about one hour and 15 minutes. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Mason Hargrove)
Coast Guard
A Coast Guard MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter aircrew from Air Station Borinquen worked with the Disney Fantasy cruise ship crew during the medevac a pregnant woman passenger with health complications, April 15, 2024, approximately 180 miles northwest Puerto Rico. The medevac patient was a 35-year-old, U.S. citizen, who was transported to the ‘Centro Medico’ Hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico to receive higher level of medical care. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)
Sector St. Petersburg watchstanders received a mayday call, Friday, April 12, around 11 p.m., from three people reporting that their 47-foot commercial fishing vessel was sinking, 1 mile southwest of Johns Pass. A Coast Guard Station St. Petersburg boat crew recovered all three people floating next to their partially submerged and aground vessel, at around 11:10 p.m., then transported them to Johns Pass Marina to receive higher-level care from emergency medical services. No injuries were reported. The mariners coordinated their vessel’s recovery with commercial salvage and had 605 gallons of diesel pumped, Monday, from the vessel’s fuel tank. The vessel was towed, Tuesday, to Snug Harbor Boatworks. No pollution was reported. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)
