ALASKA - The Indiana National Guard's 19th CBRNE Enhanced Response Force Package practiced search-and-extraction measures in Alaska as part of Arctic Eagle 2020, which brought together Guard units from 15 states to work with local, state and national agencies for several weeks."In this environment,...

MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan -- Part of the 35th Fighter Wing mission is to project combat air power, and for the aerospace ground equipment (AGE) flight, the mission starts on the ground with a motto defining the nature of the career field: “no air power without ground power.”AGE flights, most commonly...

PHITSANULOK PROVINCE, Kingdom of Thailand -- The third annual Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) Tabletop Exercise (TTX), as part of the 39th annual Thai, U.S. co-sponsored Cobra Gold Exercise, commenced with an opening ceremony in Phitsanulok Province, Thailand, Feb. 24.The HADR TTX...

MANILIA, Philippines -- U.S. and Philippine service members conducted joint/combined exchange training (JCET) in Palawan from January to February to develop counterterrorism tactics and skills. U.S. Army Special Operations Forces and elite contingents of the Philippine 18th Special Forces Company...

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- Alaska Air National Guard Staff Sgt. Joseph Rotar helps pilots see in the dark, he is the admiral of a fleet comprising dozens of life rafts, and the work he does could provide aircrew with the pathogen-proof suits and masks they would need to survive a...

PHITSANULOK, Kingdom of Thailand -- Engineers with the Royal Thai and U.S. Armed Forces, along with service members from several other nations, continued construction on multipurpose facilities for seven local schools across the Kingdom of Thailand in support of Exercise Cobra Gold 2020, Feb. 24...

The U.S. Department of State has elevated their travel advisory to level three (reconsider travel). The current CDC travel advisory level is one (practice usual precautions).This force protection advisory is issued to sensitize DoD personnelwho may be in or traveling to Mongolia on leave or TDY of...

PHITSANULOK, Thailand -- Standing under the Thailand sun, 450 servicemen and women, from seven countries, stood strong and still in formation as dignitaries from the U.S. and Thailand officially declared the longest-running military exercise in the world has begun.Exercise Cobra Gold 2020 (CG20),...

DYESS AIR FORCE BASE, Texas -- U.S. service members from the 317th Airlift Wing from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, and the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment from Vicenza, Italy, commemorated members of the allied forces in World War II during a ceremony marking the 75th Anniversary of the...

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- A peaceful white-sand paradise is flipped upside down when a magnitude 7.3 earthquake ravages the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), causing devastating tsunamis in a Cope North 20 (CN20) exercise scenario.For the first time in Cope North history,...