Marines from the 2d Low-Altitude Air-Defense Battalion, Marine Air Control Group 28, 2d Marine Aircraft Wing, practice with M1014 shotguns to develop capabilities in counter–unmanned aircraft systems operations.

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May 2025
A Grumman HU-16 Albatross tests a Jet-Assisted Take-Off (JATO) system in this undated photograph. A reader shares a story of a land-based—that is, non-amphibious—Albatross mission from Guam several years after the aircraft was decertified for water operations.

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April 2025
Aircraft

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March 2025
A quartermaster on the USS Bataan (LHD-5) takes a celestial reading using a sextant in the Atlantic Ocean in March 2024. Readers have supported the call for better celestial navigation skills.

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February 2025
The MarSOC multicam pattern on the Raider in the foreground is not authorized for other Marines or their corpsmen.

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January 2025
A reader suggests refitting and recommissioning the former Peleliu (LHA-5), shown here just a few months before her decommissioning in 2015, as an amphibious command ship to host U.S. Africa Command’s presence around the African continent.

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December 2024
The sloop-of-war USS Constellation, date unknown.

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November 2024
C&D Hero

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October 2024
Hero Img C&D Sept 24

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September 2024
The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), right, and the guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG-105) prepare to transfer fuel during a replenishment-at-sea.

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August 2024