diff --git a/videos/demonstrations/PosiedonsWatchtower/README.md b/videos/demonstrations/PosiedonsWatchtower/README.md index 10d452fd6bf7ea8ec04ba30df275e21ca7566d0f..7e773d8f9e8bf0b8f90742e989ffdedaf1a7ca30 100644 --- a/videos/demonstrations/PosiedonsWatchtower/README.md +++ b/videos/demonstrations/PosiedonsWatchtower/README.md @@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ ## Overview Increasing awareness, understanding and appreciation for efforts to increase expeditionary engineering and logistics capability is a continuous challenge. -SeaBees and Marines collaborated to rapidly scan all relevant features of a small island and surrounding waters off Okinawa -to begin realizing the art of the possible for new engineering reconnaissance capabilities. +SeaBees and Marines collaborated in exercise **Poseidon's Watchtower** to rapidly scan all relevant features of a small island and surrounding waters off Okinawa +to begin realizing the art of the possible for new expeditionary engineering reconnaissance capabilities.  @@ -19,12 +19,6 @@ This work demonstrates that rapid in-stride digital collection of tactically use SPIDERS3D goals include estabilishing pipelines for distilling such data assets efficiently for Web-based collaboration. Careful attention to metadata further enables correlation to existing model assets and innovative mashups of information in meaningful ways. -## Abstract Description - -> In early June, Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center (NAVFAC EXWC), 3rd Marine Logistics Group, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion FOUR (NMCB 4), and Underwater Construction Team TWO traveled to Ukibaru Island east of Okinawa to conduct a three-dimensional expeditionary reconnaissance—known as Poseidon Watchtower. -> -> Led by NMCB 4, the Poseidon Watchtower Exercise aimed to test and evaluate concepts for conflict contingency plans drafted by the Department of the Navy (DON). - ## Press Releases 1. Sarah MacMillan, [Navy and Marine Corps Conduct First-of-its-Kind Reconn1, @@ -32,10 +26,19 @@ aissance near Okinawa](https://www.dvidshub.net/news/401856/navy-and-marine-corp Naval Facilities (NAVFAC) Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center (EXWC), Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS), 27 JUL 2021. {images](https://www.dvidshub.net/search?q=poseidon%27s+watchtower&view=grid) +> In early June, Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center (NAVFAC EXWC), 3rd Marine Logistics Group, +> Naval Mobile Construction Battalion FOUR (NMCB 4), and Underwater Construction Team TWO traveled to +> Ukibaru Island east of Okinawa to conduct a three-dimensional expeditionary reconnaissance—known as Poseidon Watchtower. +> +> Led by NMCB 4, the Poseidon Watchtower Exercise aimed to test and evaluate concepts for conflict contingency plans +> drafted by the Department of the Navy (DON). + + 2. 1st Lt. Jonathan Coronel, [POSEIDON’S WATCHTOWER 21 | 3D MLG, NMCB-4 REHEARSE NAVAL INTEGRATION, EABO CONCEPTS](https://www.marines.mil/News/News-Display/Article/2641778/poseidons-watchtower-21-3d-mlg-nmcb-4-rehearse-naval-integration-eabo-concepts), 3rd Marine Logistics Group, 2 June 2021. -> Marines and Sailors with 3rd Marine Logistics Group and Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4 are conducting Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations training on islands around Okinawa, Japan, during exercise Poseidon’s Watchtower from June 2-17. +> Marines and Sailors with 3rd Marine Logistics Group and Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4 are conducting Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations training +> on islands around Okinawa, Japan, during exercise Poseidon’s Watchtower from 2-17 June 2021. > > Poseidon’s Watchtower serves as an opportunity to rehearse both Naval integration and EABO, with Marines and Sailors from 3rd Landing Support Battalion > and 9th Engineer Support Battalion working alongside NMCB-4 Sailors, known as Seabees, to simulate reconnoitering and establishing expeditionary advanced bases