ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam --“Practice makes perfect.” It’s the term that was used by many of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Airmen when describing their Rapid Airfield Damage Repair, or RADR training.This training exercise was part of Exercise COPE North 20, an annual U.S. Pacific Air...

PHILIPPINE SEA -- The embarked forces conducted boat raid scenarios over a few weeks’ time to improve tactics and techniques between Marines of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) and the soldiers of ARDB boat platoon, in coordination with the Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship USS...

PHITSANULOK PROVINCE, Kingdom of Thailand -- Royal Thai Gen. Pornpipat Benyasri, Royal Thai Armed Forces defence forces chief, Michael Heath, U.S. Embassy in Thailand chargé d’affaires, and Maj. Gen. Pete Johnson, U.S. Army Pacific deputy commander, led the opening ceremony for Exercise Cobra Gold...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- The Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Texas (SSN 775) returned home to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Feb. 24.During their seven-month deployment, Texas completed a full spectrum of operations, including theater anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare, in support of...

HONOLULU, Hawaii -- The Coast Guard interdicted several foreign fishing vessels fishing inside the US exclusive economic zone (EEZ) on two separate occasions incidents in the first two months of 2020."While we've seen incursions into the EEZs of partners and illegal, unreported, and unregulated...

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- Near dawn, it hovers 500 feet in the air. Its low hum is inaudible to those on the ground beneath it. Silently it watches, waiting for the tropical sun to rise above the horizon. The first rays of light are broadcast over Pacific waves, and touch the shell covered...

KORAT, Thailand -- Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Inf. Division, and their counterparts from the 23rd Inf. Reg., 4th Bat., Royal Thai Army, officially started Exercise Hanuman Guardian 20 (HG 20) at an opening ceremony Feb. 24, 2020 at Camp Friendship in Korat,...

LAEM CHABANG, Thailand -- Ships from the America Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) arrived with the embarked 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) for port visits to Thailand in preparation for exercise Cobra Gold 2020, Feb. 22.Cobra Gold is a Thailand and United States co-sponsored Combined Joint...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- Airmen from Yokota Air Base welcomed four Air Mobility Command C-130J’s from Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, as part of a capstone exercise Feb. 8-19, 2020.“Yokota has a very unique AOR,” said Capt. John Walitsch, 61st AS C-130J pilot. “By the 61st flying out, we get...

LAEM CHABANG, Thailand -- U.S. 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19), along with the embarked 7th Fleet staff, arrived in Laem Chabang, Thailand, for a scheduled port visit as part of their continuing mission of relationship-building in the Indo-Pacific region.The visit gives the combined Blue...