50 Cal machine gun Range: 500 nm Payload: 24 troops Crew: Four (pilot, copilot and two flight engineers) The MV-22 Osprey is the primary assault support aircraft for the U.S. Marine Corps.

Watson, left, student naval aviator, is awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal at the National Naval Aviation Museum, ...

Capt. Joshua C. Watson rallied his Marines after a 2023 Osprey crash, accounting for all and evacuating wounded despite a ...

The MV-22 Osprey, flown by the Marine Corps, has the ability to take off vertically like a helicopter and then convert into airplane mode and fly up to 300 mph like a traditional turboprop plane.

Osprey squadrons based at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Japan, shown here in 2023, were among those cut as part of the Marine Corps' 2025 aviation strategy. (Hiro Komae/AP) The U.S. Marine ...

The US military is again pausing flights of it troubled V-22 Osprey fleet “to determine if any additional safety measures are necessary,” a Navy spokesperson said Monday. “Today, Naval Air ...

Joshua C. Watson was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal last week for saving lives of service members during a MV-22B Osprey crash on Melville Island, Australia, that resulted in the deaths ...

Swanbeck As the Marine Corps has put it, one L-MADIS vehicle carries the brain and the other the brawn. The first holds the ...

(Lance Cpl. Joshua Barker/Marine Corps) The air crew told their Marines that the Osprey was going down. Capt. Joshua Watson, nearly two dozen other Marines and a sailor braced for impact.