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.
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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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.
The MarSOC multicam pattern on the Raider in the foreground is not authorized for other Marines or their corpsmen.
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.
The sloop-of-war USS Constellation, date unknown.
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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.