MV-22 Osprey finaly operational? Sept 2007 Iraq

thenorthman · Post by **thenorthman** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 12:20 am

Hello,

I guess this is kind of dated material being June 14th, 2007. Here is a link for those interested.

http://www.navair.navy.mil/v22/index.cf ... ail&id=178

I had not been following it as closly as I was years ago. Kind of snuck up on me that they have finally been slated as operational.

Planned replacment of CH-46's who have served a fine and long career. Probably be many years before they go complely out of US service though. I would suspect they stick around in reserves for many more years.

What made me look it up was recieving a V-22 in my latest order.

Sean

ShortRound70 · Post by **ShortRound70** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 1:18 am

Northman:

June 2007 "Leatherneck" magazine has a small article about VMM-263 (formerly HMM-263) preparing to deploy with the MV-22. Late September is the date they list.

Semper Fi!

thenorthman · Post by **thenorthman** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 2:45 am

Thank you....might be a subscription I should try to pick up anyways.

Sean

intobattle · Post by **intobattle** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 7:03 am

I thought the Osprey has been in use in the middle east for quite some time....didn't you see Transformers the movie?

1ComOpsCtr · Post by **1ComOpsCtr** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:45 am

I had the opportunity to go "tactical" in the new Osprey last year... man what a ride. I am very happy to see the squadron operational.

Will

thenorthman · Post by **thenorthman** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 12:18 am

Tansformers...actually I was surprised with it was enertaining.

A friend of mine up here said the same thing.

Being operational.

Sean

kgpanzer · Post by **kgpanzer** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 12:32 am

I retired in 2003 and before leaving the middle east I saw several of these fly by in a formation....I have flown in these before <state> and it was a blast

Ar

kgpanzer · Post by **kgpanzer** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 12:02 am

thomas.tmcc wrote:
kgpanzer wrote:I retired in 2003 and before leaving the middle east I saw several of these fly by in a formation....I have flown in these before <state> and it was a blast

Ar
so i take it that means it was good mate ? ..

But of course

Thunder · Post by **Thunder** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 2:45 am

http://microarmor.com/gallery/main.php? ... ewsIndex=3

thenorthman · Post by **thenorthman** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 4:10 am

Outstanding. Now I have an idea of how to paint them.

Yet I still like the idea of painting them in the USMC Camo (drak grey/light grey) they had stuff in for awhile. (Not sure if they still do or not.)

Sean

Thunder · Post by **Thunder** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:55 pm

thenorthman · Post by **thenorthman** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 8:12 am

Cool the USAF version.