Camp Lejeune Bridge Renamed In Honor Of Major Brooks
Gruber
Most of us didn't remember. But it was five years ago on Friday
that an experimental V-22 Osprey went down during a training
exercise in the Arizona desert, killing 19 Marines. Friday, one of
those Marines, co-pilot Major Brooks Gruner, was honored near his
home base of Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. The people of
Jacksonville, NC, have renamed a bridge leading to the base Major
Brooks Gruner Bridge.
C-130J Hercules are now dropping up to five large bundles of
supplies. A C130J successfully completed the first
five-bundle sequential low velocity airdrop at Edwards Air Force
Base last Tuesday.
The “Screwtops” of Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 123
landed on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, USS
Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ike) (CVN 69) April 17 with new modifications
as the ship commenced another round of carrier qualifications.
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