Sunday, June 09, 2013

24th MEU and the rescue of Basher 52


Once the weak signal was validated, a platoon-sized element (41 Marines) from Weapons Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/8 boarded two Super Stallions from Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 464, Marine Corps Air Station, New River, N.C., lifted off the deck of USS Kearsarge in the Adriatic Sea and headed east toward Bosnia.
Two AH-1W Super Cobras from Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 269 at New River and four AV-8B Harriers from Marine Attack Squadron 231, Cherry Point, N.C., rode shotgun, scanning the countryside for any resistance.
All of the Marine helicopters are attached to Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 263, a composite squadron.
The so-called TRAP (Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personnel) team headed northeast through enemy territory to a spot about 20 miles southeast of Bihac, a Muslim safe haven for refugees that has been the scene of heavy fighting over the past year.
Read it all here.... 

NOTE:  Weapons Company did the TRAP mission, not Maritime Raid Force.  Why the Marine Corps is so fixated on that unit and the Marine Expeditionary Brigade as the operating units of the future is beyond me, but I have yet to read anything explaining why.

3 comments :

  1. It wasn't by the USMC but the rescue of the F-117 pilot shot down over Serbia shows just how far the recovery crews will go to get the crew back.

    http://www.airforcemag.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2006/December%202006/1206vega.aspx

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    1. i don't get your point with this.

      this is a Marine centric site.

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