
This year, the Marines will participate in multiple training activities with Australian troops, including a new humanitarian assistance and disaster response segment.
This year, the Marines will participate in multiple training activities with Australian troops, including a new humanitarian assistance and disaster response segment.
To facilitate operations for the U.S.A. helicopters, temporary airfield matting has been installed at RAAF base Darwin.
This kind of approach could be necessary should the U.S. need to face-off against China, said American defense and security analyst Paul Buchanan: “I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the Marines are engaging in these sorts of exercises because that’s exactly the combat environment that they’re most likely to find themselves in, at least in the near future,”
Environmentalists have argued that the relocation project would destroy their critical habitat and called for a halt to the land reclamation work.
"This is a man of very high character, he has no convictions anywhere in the world and has contributed immensely to society," Colonel Schnelle's lawyer told the court. "The US Marines are going to deal with him very harshly." His lawyer said any conviction would affect any assignments or promotions he could hope to get in future.