#ValiantShield 2020! Learn about how we train in a blue-water environment that enables real-world proficiency in sustaining joint forces through detecting, locating, tracking, and engaging units at sea, in the air, on land, and cyberspace in response to a range of mission areas.
A #USAF #F15D flies above the #MarianaIslands in support of exercise #ValiantShield Sept. 18. The ex enables proficiency in detecting, locating, tracking & engaging sea, air, land & cyber unitsi n response to a range of mission areas. (USAF photo by SrA Zachary Bumpus)
That's a lot of firepower.
#Sailors move ordnance on the flight deck of the Navy's only forward-deployed aircraft carrier #USSRonaldReagan (CVN 76) in support of #ValiantShield 2020.
Meanwhile #ValiantShield joint force SINKEX in SCS
F/A-18E Super Hornets conduct flight operations from USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) and launch ordnance, including a standoff land attack missile - expanded response and high-speed anti-radar missile (HARM), twitter.com/taiwanformosan…
９月２０日、グアム、アンダーセン空軍基地で給油を受ける横田基地所属C-130Jスーパーハーキュリーズ。横田基地の兵隊はバリアント・シールド軍事演習に参加するため、グアムに展開しました。＃YJ130 ＃YJハーク #YokotaStrong #ValiantShield
#FlyNavy
#USNavy aircraft aboard the Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier #USSRonaldReagan (CVN 76) take to the sky in support of #ValiantShield 2020.
Rear Adm. Michael Boyle ahead of #ValiantShield exercise (schedule for Sept. 14-25 off the coast of Guam): “It is vitally important that we demonstrate to our allies and partners our strong commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific.”
Photo from the 2007 exercise.
Exercise #ValiantShield concludes in the #PhilippineSea , demonstrating '...our nation’s steadfast commitment to the Western Pacific and our allies in the region,” - Capt. Pat Hannifin, CO #USSRonaldReagan (CVN 76). #FreeAndOpenIndoPacific
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Check out the photos from the @GA_JSTARS maintainers working hard in Guam keeping the E-8C Joint STARS flying durring #ValiantShield
U.S Air National Guard photos by Senior Master Sgt. Roger Parsons
Check out #NavyLethality in action! A Tomahawk cruise missile, launched from aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Shoup, lands on an uninhabited island during a live fire exercise as part of exercise #ValiantShield 2018 in the #PacificOcean .
We are the ones that go 💥 in the night.
#USSAntietam (CG 54) strikes the decommissioned Frigate the ex- #USSCurts (FFG 38) during a gunnery sinking exercise as part of #ValiantShield 2020.
#ValiantShield 🛡️ ⚔️
#USSChicago (SSN 721) operates in support of #ValiantShield 2020. Valiant Shield is a U.S. only, biennial field training exercise (FTX) with a focus on integration of joint training in a blue-water environment among U.S. forces.
We Sail Together We Train Together 🇺🇸
#USNavy ships from the Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group sail in formation while a #P8A Poseidon, F/A-18 #Growler 's and #SuperHornet 's, and a U.S. Air Force B1B Lancer and F-22 Raptor's cap off exercise #ValiantShield 2020.
A full team effort.
#USSRonaldReagan , #USSAntietam , & #USNavy Riverines conduct a strait-transit exercise in support of #ValiantShield 2020. Valiant Shield is a U.S. only, biennial field training that focuses on the integration of joint training in a blue-water environment.
TODAY the #USNavy guided-missile cruiser #USSAntietam (CG 54) conducted a Tomahawk land-attack cruise missile (TLAM) strike scenario during #ValiantShield 2020. 💥
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