The Marine Corps is world renowned for its amphibious capabilities. Whether it’s conducting amphibious assaults, or humanitarian aid and disaster relief operations, the Marine Corps has earned the reputation as an elite amphibious fighting force.

It is because of this reputation, that Australia asked U.S. Marines to help extend their knowledge of amphibious operations, as they begin to develop their own amphibious capabilities.

A helicopter crew and pararescuemen assigned to Kirtland Air Force Base recovered a hiker Aug. 1 who had been lost in Colorado since July 30.

The HH-60 Pave Hawk crew of four Airmen from Air Education and Training Command's 58th Special Operations Wing, and two pararescuemen from Detachment 1, 342nd Training Squadron, recovered Lashaye Westbrook, a 22-year-old from Farmington, N.M.

GRAFENWOEHR, Germany -- Air hissed between the teeth of Petty Officer 3rd Class Toby League as he maneuvered under a barbed wire fence obstacle as part of Combat Testing Lane 3 during the 2011 U.S. Army Europe Expert Field Medical Badge Standardization and Testing here, Aug. 3.

Sailors and Marines from the U.S. and Romania concluded Exercise Summer Storm 2011 with a combined amphibious assault demonstration Aug. 3.

Sailors aboard amphibious dock landing ship USS Whidbey Island (LSD 41) and Romanian mine countermeasures ship Lt. Dimitrie Nicolescu (MCMV 29), U.S. Marines from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, and Romania's 307th Naval Infantry, participated in the five-day exercise.

Summer Storm included visit, board, search and seizure (VBSS) training on board Nicolescu and deck landing qualifications for Romanian aviators on board Whidbey Island.

The uniforms are different and there are subtle differences in terminology used, but the results are the same for both Australian and American quartermasters: ensuring Soldiers get what they need.

Quartermasters here focused on making sure both U.S. and Australian military personnel got the gear the needed to train with during Talisman Sabre exercises in Australia, July 11-29, 2011.

Marines and Sailors of Company F., Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit conducted live-fire training with machine guns, rockets and snipers here during the exercise Raider Dawn.

As part of the training, the U.S Marines conducted day and night live-fire exercises with M240B machine guns, shoulder-launched multipurpose assault weapons and sniper rifles, all on the Australian ranges.

Video by Talisman Sabre 2011 Combat Camera

USS Halyburton (FFG 40), its two Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicles and Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light 42, Det. 2, returned to Naval Station Mayport Aug. 3, completing a seven-month deployment.

"Every Halyburton Sailor can be proud of our accomplishments during this deployment; the work was hard, the hours were long and the mission was challenging and worthwhile," said Cmdr. John Schmidt, former commanding officer of Halyburton. Schmidt turned command of Halyburton over to Cmdr. Bertram Hodge during a change of command ceremony Aug. 2.

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Seneca, a medium-endurance cutter homeported in Boston, interdicted a drug smuggling, self-propelled semi-submersible vessel in the western Caribbean Sea, July 13.

Used regularly to transport illegal narcotics in the Eastern Pacific, this interdiction is the first interdiction of an SPSS in the Caribbean and the first underwater drug removal of an SPSS.

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection maritime patrol airplane spotted the SPSS while on patrol and alerted the Seneca crew of the location.