Five former student-athletes, two teams, two coaches and a significant contributor make up the inaugural Athletic Hall of Fame at Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School. Superintendent Maureen Lynch says the Athletic Hall of Fame was established to honor the 50th anniversary of Whittier Tech. A Selection Committee narrowed more than 100 nominations to 10 […]
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) offers many summer internships and programs for midshipmen to take part in each year. One of those internship opportunities is a program
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IMAGE: U.S. Marines with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 163, Marine Aircraft Group 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, deploy an oceanographic sensor buoy during the Trident Warrior exercise. view more
Credit: (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Juan Anaya)
ARLINGTON, Va. Flying several thousand feet above the Pacific Ocean, an air crew and a scientist from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution tossed cylindrical floats from a U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey aircraft. Packed with data-gathering sensors to measure underwater conditions, the floats fell fast before orange parachutes opened to ease splashdown.
The action marked the first time such sensor-laden profiling floats, also called buoys, were deployed from a Marine Corps aircraft. This will increase naval knowledge of the ocean battlespace including the littorals (areas of water close to shoreline), which are crucial to expeditionary and amphibious operations.
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