U.S. Navy ships and aircraft are searching for a Sailor from USS Boxer (LHD 4) who went missing while the ship was conducting maritime security operations in the Gulf of Aden.

The Sailor did not report to watch and after a search of the ship, man overboard was called away.

Helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft from Boxer, fixed-wing aircraft from USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), as well as a P-3 Maritime Patrol Aircraft, are conducting an airborne search while Boxer, USNS Alan Shepard (T-AKE 3) and USS Mitscher (DDG 57) conduct a surface search.

Raiders skimmed across the choppy waters off of Kin Blue beach in small black watercrafts; pounding surf nor the driving rain deterred them from their mission.

The Marines of Boat Company were testing their combat rubber raiding craft near Kin Blue beach July 13 in preparation for a possible real-world raid.

Boat Co., composed of Marines from Company F, Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, specializes in ship-to-shore operations.

MIRGOROD AIR BASE, Ukraine – Western Air Defense Sector controllers are participating in Safe Skies 2011, a joint U.S., Ukraine and Polish event where Air National Guard pilots will fly engagements with Ukrainian SU-27 Flankers and MIG-29 Fulcrums and Polish F-16 Fighting Falcons – developing Ukrainian and Polish air sovereignty operations in preparation for the 2012 Olympics, 2012 Eurocup and 2014 Winter Games here in Europe.

Flooding has receded, residents have been allowed back into their homes to assess the damage and unseasonable rainfall has tapered off.

However, the work of the North Dakota National Guard and Minnesota National Guard continues in Minot, N.D., nearly a month after an historic flood crest on the Souris River.

On July 22, the day the North Dakota State Fair was to begin, Soldiers and Airmen from the North Dakota and Minnesota National Guard were working around the clock to bring the city of Minot back to a sense of normalcy.

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AFNS) -- At the opening ceremonies for Air Mobility Rodeo here July 24, service members from more than 25 nations were among the nearly 3,000 mobility personnel in formation around the McChord Field flightline.
Those international partners each carried their country's flag to their formations, creating what one person announced as a "sea of flavorful colors." That may also describe what the international partners bring to the Rodeo 2011 environment: flavor.

Naval Special Warfare (NSW) Command demonstrated its Joint Terminal Attack Controller Virtual Trainer dome. July 19. The simulator will aid in the training of NSW personnel who call in close-air support during combat.

The new simulator was shown to NSW personnel during an open house at Naval Special Warfare Advanced Training Center (NSWATC).

Standing attentively inside a tactical operations center, Sgt. David Johnson was able to pinpoint the location of an enemy sniper team and share real-time, combat-relevant intelligence across the force using networking gear now being evaluated.

The gear is being field tested during the Army's ongoing Network Integration Evaluation, or NIE, and the TOC is located in a "mountain village" strategically nested between hills on White Sands Missile Range, N.M., designed to replicate Afghan desert terrain.

For two Marines attached to Marine Embedded Training Team 2-8, Regional Corps Advisory Command 3-7, in Kunar Province, Afghanistan the morning of Sept. 8, 2009 started simple enough.

Then the world exploded around them.

Their actions during the ensuing fight earned them the nation’s second-highest award for valor. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus presented Capt. Ademola D. Fabayo and Staff Sgt. Juan J. Rodriguez-Chavez with the Navy Cross during a ceremony at the National Museum of the Marine Corps on June 10.