May 8, 2022
Navy’s V-22 Achieves Initial Operational Capability Designation
AT SEA — The Navy announced Feb. 18 initial operational capability (IOC) for the CMV-22B Osprey, confirming the platform’s operational readiness following the successful completion of its maiden deployment.
A ‘Day in the Life’ of Marine Corps Heavy Lift Maintainers
MARINE CORPS AIR STATION NEW RIVER, N.C. — Personnel with the H-53 Heavy Lift Helicopters Program Office recently visited Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron (HMH) 464 at Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina, to gain “day in the life” perspective of the squadron’s aircraft workload and facilitate communications between Marine personnel and the program office.
May 7, 2022
Disaster Relief Mission to Haiti Highlights Navy/Marine Corps Interoperability, V-22 Capabilities
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — When called on recently to provide life-saving humanitarian assistance, Naval Aviation Training Support Group (NATSG) personnel did not hesitate to displace from their duty station to join a Marine squadron not only to render aid, but also to augment necessary squadron maintenance, operations and supply departments.
May 6, 2022
How Naval Aviation is Solving Its Billion-dollar Corrosion Problem
NAS PATUXENT RIVER, Md. — Before joining the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD), physical chemist Dr. El Sayed Arafat had never really thought much about corrosion. But over the next two decades, it became his specialty.
May 5, 2022
3rd MAW Demonstrates Lightning Carrier Concept
NAVAL AIR STATION NORTH ISLAND, Calif. — The Navy and Marine Corps demonstrated a key capability when they operated 20 F-35B Lightning II jets from America-class amphibious assault carrier USS Tripoli (LHA 7) March 30 through April 8, fully exercising the Marine Corps’ “lightning carrier” concept for the first time in naval history on an amphibious assault ship.
April 1, 2002
Hot Rod Was Here, Too
Gramps from Yesteryear: March-April 2002