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U.S. Marines do it at night: F/A-18D first ever arrested night landing on Tinian, Northern Marianas Islands

June 1, 2012 David Cenciotti

Do you remember the previous article about the first ever “coral” arrestment on a tiny island of the Northern Mariana Islands? To make it more difficult, on May 29, during the same exercise Geiger Fury […]

The U.S. Marine Corps train for a war in the Pacific: F/A-18 Hornets make first ever "coral" arrestment on a tiny island of the Northern Mariana Islands.

May 25, 2012 David Cenciotti

Tinian, is one of the three principal islands of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, in the Pacific Ocean. It is located about 5 miles (8 km) to the southwest of its sister island, […]