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[[Image:DM-ST-86-08305.png|left|thumb|400px|'''1 Jun 1985.''' An M-60 tank is driven ashore from an Assault Craft Unit 2 (ACU-2) LCM-8 Mod-1 mechanized landing craft as Onslow Beach during Exercise Solid Shield '85. Overhead is a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter.]] | [[Image:DM-ST-86-08305.png|left|thumb|400px|'''1 Jun 1985.''' An M-60 tank is driven ashore from an Assault Craft Unit 2 (ACU-2) LCM-8 Mod-1 mechanized landing craft as Onslow Beach during Exercise Solid Shield '85. Overhead is a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter.]] | ||
[[Image:DN-SC-87-09987.png|none|thumb|400px|'''2 May 1987.''' An LVTP7 tracked landing vehicle generates a smoke screen as it approaches Onslow Beach, North Carolina, during the field training Exercise Solid Shield '87.]] | |||
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[[Image:DN-ST-91-08968.JPG|left|thumb|400px|'''1 Apr 1991.''' Marine Corps Base. Marines from Company D, 2nd Light Armored Infantry Battalion, prepare to drive their LAV-25 light armored vehicles down the bow ramp of the air cushion landing craft LCAC-8. The 4th Marine Expeditionary Brigade's (4th MEB's) ground units are coming ashore at Onslow beach after disembarking from the amphibious ships on which they were deployed in the Persian Gulf region for Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm.]] | |||
[[Image:DM-SD-03-01126.JPG|none|thumb|400px|'''11 Feb 1997.''' A LCAC (Landing Craft Air Cushioned) heads into Onslow Beach, Camp Lejeune, NC. This LCAC was part of a rehearsal for a demonstration that would be given the following day as part of the REVISED CAPABILITIES Exercise.]] | [[Image:DM-SD-03-01126.JPG|none|thumb|400px|'''11 Feb 1997.''' A LCAC (Landing Craft Air Cushioned) heads into Onslow Beach, Camp Lejeune, NC. This LCAC was part of a rehearsal for a demonstration that would be given the following day as part of the REVISED CAPABILITIES Exercise.]] |
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Onslow Beach U.S. Military exercises. Click on the thumbnails to view larger images.
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16 Apr 1983. A Mark 8 mechanized landing craft (LCM), right, and a utility landing craft come ashore during Exercise Solid Shield '83.
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1 Apr 1991. Marine Corps Base. Marines from Company D, 2nd Light Armored Infantry Battalion, prepare to drive their LAV-25 light armored vehicles down the bow ramp of the air cushion landing craft LCAC-8. The 4th Marine Expeditionary Brigade's (4th MEB's) ground units are coming ashore at Onslow beach after disembarking from the amphibious ships on which they were deployed in the Persian Gulf region for Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm.
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31 May 2000. US Army remote-controlled "B.A.T.S." target rockets being prepared for launch on the E-1 range at Camp Lejeune's Onslow Beach area during a 2nd Low Altitude Air Defense (LAAD) Battalion missile targeting exercise. Marines from the 2nd LAAD Battalion, stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, were using the versatile rockets as fast-moving targets, firing Stinger missiles at them from the Avenger system mounted atop High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV).
17 Aug 2006. A US Marine Corps High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) drives aboard a US Navy Landing Craft, Air-Cushion (LCAC) craft from Assault Craft Unit 4 during operations at Onslow Beach at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina (NC). The LCAC is enroute to the Wasp Class Amphibious Assault Ship USS BATAAN (LHD 5).
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