By Lon Nordeen, Jim Laurier
This publication is the 3rd of 3 volumes on US Marine Corps Harrier IIs in wrestle, and it's the first quantity in print to hide the full tale of the AV-8B's provider employment in the course of peacekeeping operations after which in Afghanistan.
In the Seventies the USMC acquired the AV-8A Harrier from the united kingdom to check V/STOL (vertical and/or brief take-off and touchdown) suggestions for shut air help. A profitable investment conflict used to be therefore fought within the Nineteen Eighties to safe army, political, and monetary help to extend this idea to advance and box the second one iteration AV-8B Harrier II from the overdue Eighties onward. The AV-8B used to be, and nonetheless is, the one tactical plane that can installation with Marine forces on amphibious attack ships and supply air conceal and shut air aid cut loose huge deck plane vendors. Having visible motion in-theater in the course of Operation barren region typhoon in 1991, the Harrier II used to be seriously fascinated with peacekeeping operations in Balkans within the Nineteen Nineties, in addition to in Africa from 1992 to 2002. From past due 2001, the jet took half within the 'War on Terror" in the course of the early section of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. devices built with the airplane firstly flew from amphibious attack ships off the Pakistani coast, ahead of turning into land-based in-theater from early 2002 following the career of Afghanistan by means of Coalition troops. Harrier II squadrons have maintained a presence in-theatre helping anti-Taliban and al-Qaeda operations ever since.
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So, if we flew a low pass and made a lot of noise that dispersed the enemy, we might have saved a friendly life down there on the ground. Often, we did not get the satisfaction of dropping bombs but we helped the overall effort nevertheless. May 2004 was characterised by a lot of low flybys and not much (if any) ordnance dropped. ‘We were supporting the MEU ground operations by scanning areas with our Litening II pods and escorting HMM-266 helicopters up to FOB Ripley, near Tarin Kowt, where the MEU Ground Combat Element was based.
He immediately thanked me for saving him and his buddies when their convoy got ambushed. A jet had strafed and rocketed their attackers, getting them out of a jam. com 49 CHAPTER FOUR Flightdeck directors assigned to the V-1 Division chain down a recently landed AV-8B Harrier II aboard Iwo Jima while a second jet closes on LHD-7’s stern on the eve of VMA-542 ‘Det A’s’ deployment to Kandahar (US Navy) of US and Coalition troops. ’ In late July 2004 VMA-542 departed Kandahar and returned to Wasp with the rest of HMM-266 and the 22nd MEU-SOC.
In Afghanistan, all of the ordnance we delivered was dropped under the direction of a ground controller. I think we had 30 troops-in-contact calls that resulted in show of force overflights and the expenditure of ordnance. In ten of these 30 situations we fired guns or rockets. So, in just 20 of the 400+ sorties we completed, we got to deliver bombs. For the rest of the time we had to be satisfied with low passes or routine patrolling. ‘In Iraq, we dropped ordnance on a variety of military targets – tanks, buildings, troop concentrations, etc.