Landing Force Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (LF CARAT) 2012

U.S. Marine Corps photos by Lance Cpl. Tyson 

Pic of the day. Amphibs..

Thanks to Scott for forwarding this pic.  Love it.

GCV participants.

Thanks to my buddy Dwi for sending me this link!

via Yadlishyron.com

So called artists are just sick bastards with title.

This is just sick.  You can dress it up and call it art but its just sick. Nicholas Fiorenza of Aviation Week pointed to the article.

Read about the craziness here.

BAE/Iveco SuperAV datasheet.

I made contact with BAE and the good folks provided me with this datasheet...Questions still remain though, and I hope to have answer soon.

Marine Personnel Carrier 0911

General Tolley sacked.

Thanks Tom for sending me this story.  

via the New York Times.

SEOUL, South Korea — The Pentagon has replaced the commander of United States Special Forces in South Korea after a media report quoted him as saying that American and South Korean troops have been parachuting into North Korea on spy missions, a statement denied by Washington and the government in Seoul.

He's lucky if all that happens is that he's sacked, and the cover story that its all part of the normal rotation of jobs is nonsense.  Let me put it another way.  I bet he didn't have PCS orders before the conference in which he made the gaff...and they were suddenly on his desk afterwards.

Good riddance.   

May the General's travels be filled with stormy seas and gail force winds.

This is why I love Black Five!

via B5.

I love people like this, they have the strength of their jackass convictions.

A National Guardsman who served in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay has sued a woman he tried to rent from, after she told him his war service and her peace activism presented a “conflict of interests” and suggested he seek housing elsewhere — though the Dorchester landlady insists his veteran status “would not impede his chances to rent from us.”

She is lying as the VM the guy has proves. This will hopefully cost her dirty, nasty, patchouli-smelling, wrinkled, hippie ass a bunch of money.

Sgt. Joel Morgan, 29, said the two-bedroom $1,220-a-month Savin Hill apartment that property owner Janice Roberts, 63, showed him in April was perfect. But he claims Roberts told him in an April 9 voicemail that renting to him would be a conflict, saying, “We are very adamant about our beliefs.” “It just is not going to be comfortable for us without a doubt. It probably would be better for you to look for a place that is a little bit less politically active and controversial,” Roberts told Morgan, according to his complaint. The voicemail was played for the Herald during an interview with Morgan last week at the Boston office of his lawyer, Joseph L. Sulman.

Peace out, Bee-Yotch!

Well said!

15th MEU Harrier flight ops.

Photos by Lance Cpl. Timothy Childers