July 29, 2011 — After two straight days of almost nonstop rain about 225 South African National Defence Force soldiers and U.S. Light Armored Reconnaissance Marines wait to begin a company-sized assault on a barren ridge populated by imaginary enemy troops and their pill boxes. It’s about noon, three hours past when the assault was supposed to begin, and a handful MORE
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July 27, 2011 — Throughout the training done at the MWTC, naval medical personnel have been at the ready for any health issues that Marines may encounter, even taking steps to prevent them long before they shipped out for Javelin Thrust. Prior to their departure, the sailors worked to ensure that all personnel were medically ready to participate in the exercise, MORE
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July 27, 2011 — Just about every night around dusk, two opponents meet in the open fog. “They back up about 50 feet, and then they head butt,” explained Staff Sgt. Jeremiah Hurley, ammunition chief with Ammo Company, Greenville, S.C . “That’s our entertainment out here.” They don’t have TV, or, electricity for that matter, but they do have the fights. MORE
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July 26, 2011 — There’s the English spoken in South Africa, and then there’s the English spoken in Southern California. When Lance Cpl. Kyle W. Smith moved from Johannesburg to Orange County following his step-father’s job transfer in 2004, he learned first-hand what that meant. “When we would talk, people would look at us with that deer in the headlights MORE
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July 25, 2011 — For a military operation to be successful, a number of factors and personnel must come together to make the show run smoothly. For the intelligence community, one asset provides some of the most up to date and accurate information: Marine Force Reconnaissance.During Javelin Thrust 2011 Marines with the 3rd Force Reconnaissance Company out of MORE
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July 24, 2011 — The Marine Corps is bringing new meaning to the operational reserve concept during Operation Javelin Thrust 2011 exercise. After almost two years of planning, for the first time ever, Marine Tactical Air Command Squadron 48 Marines participating in JT-11 set up, organized and ran a complete tactical air command center, or TACC as part of a reserve MORE
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July 24, 2011 — With today’s technology, most people can flip out a cell phone and find their position in a minute, but when the batteries die, Marines pull out the compasses and paper maps to complete their missions.To refine their land navigation skills, the Marines and sailors with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment, refreshed their basics’ of land MORE
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July 22, 2011 — Marines with 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment uprooted from the Hawthorne Army Ammunition Depot and headed west to the MWTC, where they will complete their training for Javelin Thrust.Flying in by helicopter, the Marines quickly established a bivouac and settled into the new and unfamiliar terrain. The altitude, which exceeds 8,000 feet, and MORE
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July 22, 2011 — As the old saying goes, an army marches on its stomach. To keep Marines and sailors “marching” during Operation Javelin Thrust, food specialists from participating units gather together to provide a hot meal every day.To prepare thousands of rations for Marines in dispersed training areas, the day begins early in the morning said, Gunnery Sgt. MORE
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July 22, 2011 — U.S. service members and South African National Defense Force soldiers came together July 22 to mark the opening of Exercise Shared Accord 2011 with a brief ceremony. Shared Accord is a bi-lateral military training and civil assistance mission held annually throughout Africa. This year’s evolution represents the first joint U.S.-South African MORE
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