Out at the range to observe a live firing of the HIMARS rocket artillery the Commander of the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, Brigadier General Paul Kennedy, told News Corp Australia that there was nowhere else in the region or probably the world where his forces could do what they were able to do in the Top End.
“You can do almost anything you need to do out here,” Brigadier Kennedy said after flying into Bradshaw with the media on board a ship-based Marine MV-22 Osprey tilt rotor aircraft. The Osprey is an amazing piece of kit that allows the Marines to land it in tight spots courtesy of the aircraft’s huge rotors that tilt 90 degrees to transform it from fast plane into a vertical landing helicopter.