More than an hour's drive along uneven, dirt roads outside a major city is the rural village of Manahari, Nepal, which is where the Shree Rastriya Rotary Secondary School can be found. Hundreds of Nepalese people line up outside the gate of the compound which is temporarily a site for health...

Airmen from the 8th Logistics Readiness Squadron expeditiously loaded cargo onto 28 long-bed trucks Sept. 7 to 10 at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, to transport to Osan Air Base in support of 8th Fighter Wing flying operations while the runway undergoes construction here. The purpose of the...

The men and women of the Defense Department will never forget the lives of 184 Americans lost, their families and the survivors of the act of terror when a hijacked airliner struck the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said today.Speaking during an observance at the Pentagon...

Japan Ground Self Defense Force troops trained alongside Soldiers of 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, here, Wednesday through Saturday, during the 2014 Rising Thunder Exercise, which is scheduled to end Sept. 23.The annual training partners Japanese military personnel with units from Joint...

Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) chief negotiators completed 10 days of intensive meetings September 10, making progress across a range of issues as they continued their drive toward a comprehensive, high-standard agreement.“We have committed to a focused work plan, which will allow us to boost...

 Lancer Brigade Soldiers from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. are half-way around the world marching side-by-side with counterparts from the Tentara Nasional Indonesia Angatan-Darat (TNI-AD) in order to learn techniques of Jungle survival that have degraded amongst U.S. soldiers over the past 12...

At the base newcomer's brief, residents are shown how four separate Air Force bases from the Pacific can fit inside Kadena thanks to its expansive, 5,900-acre munitions storage area.Although most are aware that the largest conventional munitions storage area in the Air Force is attached to Kadena,...

U.S. and Tentara Nasional Indonesia (TNI) Soldiers are preparing for a combined jungle exercise by teaching each other tactics, techniques, and procedures in bi-lateral academic training in a jungle environment.One hundred and twenty five Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 2nd...

The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group arrived in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility (AOR) Sept. 9.The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group, consists of aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) with embarked Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 1, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 17 and Destroyer Squadron 1,...

As Pacific Unity 14-8 wraps up this week, additional construction projects have begun at Togoba Secondary School in Papua New Guinea. Pacific Unity is a bilateral Engineering Civic Action Program conducted in the Asia-Pacific region in collaboration with host nation civil authorities and military...