MACKENZIE EAGLEN AND RICK BERGER AUGUST 4, 2016 Earlier this month, the USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group (CSG) returned to Norfolk from an eight-month deployment, a cruise extended … More »
Dave Majumdar If the United States Navy is either unwilling or unable to conceptualize a carrier air wing that can fight on the first day of a high-end conflict, … More »
Carl Forsling, a former career Marine pilot, describes the cost of cutting stateside flight hours. Lately there have been many articles and reports about the services in general, and the … More »
Ryan Wiggins Last year, I had the distinct honor of watching the Blue Angels fly their dress rehearsal while hosting an infantry Marine who had recently returned from a tour in … More »
The Chief of Naval Air Training (CNATRA and pronounced as if it were Ol’ Blue Eyes) has two problems, both common to many parts of the U.S. military. First, he … More »
By Military Times editors Navy and Marine aviators are contending with an unseen danger in flight: The unexpected loss of breathable air. What makes this especially tough to fix is … More »
BY JASON FIELDS A U.S. Air Force pilot in his A-10 aircraft gets ready for the ”Saber Strike” U.S. Army’s Europe-led cooperative military exercise at the military airfield in Lielvarde, … More »
By: Sam LaGrone An F/A-18F Super Hornet, attached to the Diamondbacks of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 102, assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5, practices a touch-and-go landing on May … More »