by Jeanne McKinney | Sep 2, 2016 | All, Articles, Military, U.S. Marine Corps
SAN DIEGO, September 2, 2016 – Deployed troops with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command (SPMAGTF-CR-CC) have been assisting and advising Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) – forming crucial alliances to help them win their war...
by Jeanne McKinney | May 9, 2016 | All, Articles, Military, U.S. Navy
SAN DIEGO, May 9, 2016 – Warfighting capability has never looked so good for the Grim Reapers of U.S. Navy Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 101. No stranger to supersonic jets and the pilots who fly them, VFA-101, based at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, is home for...
by Jeanne McKinney | Feb 9, 2016 | All, Articles, Military, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy
October and November 2015 saw the launch of the Marine Corps’ new approach to maintaining crisis response forces forward-deployed at sea. Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force – Crisis Response – Africa (SPMAGTF-CR-AF) is testing the Allied Maritime Basing...
by Jeanne McKinney | Nov 14, 2015 | All, Articles, Military, U.S. Navy
‘Everything about America is what Hospital Corpsman Second Class (HM2) Harrison Mwanzi dreamed of, starting at a young age. The son of peasant farmers, he grew up in a remote village in Kenya, where healthcare was a luxury. At the tender age of seven, Mwanzi and his...
by Jeanne McKinney | Jul 26, 2015 | All, Articles, Military, U.S. Army
“Success isn’t final, failure isn’t fatal; it’s courage that counts,” said five-time Olympic Gold medal swimmer Alicia Coutts. It was a different kind of courage that 1st Lt. Christopher Parks brandished when he powered himself through the water at the 2015 Army...
by Jeanne McKinney | Jul 4, 2015 | All, Articles, Military, U.S. Marine Corps
“Every military, whether it’s us or the terrorists, tries to be unpredictable,” said Maj. BJ Grass, a Marine Corps Intelligence officer, recently returned from the Anbar region in Iraq. As part of Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force — Crisis Response —...
