07 July 2014 Pacific Partnership Basketball Tournament Held in Tacloban A basketball tournament was held between members of the U.S. Navy, Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF), Royal Australian Armed Forces and locals from Tacloban as part of Pacific Partnership 2014, July 5. "We played this tournament for Pacific Partnership hosted by the Philippines," said...
07 July 2014 Japanese Soldiers Visit U.S. Army Alaska Leaders with the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force visited paratroopers at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson with the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, during a subject-matter expert exchange event June 24.Col. Akira Miyazaki, an education and training department...
07 July 2014 JS Kunisaki arrives in Tacloban for Pacific Partnership The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's JS Kunisaki (LST 4003), carrying a multinational crew of U.S., Australian, Malaysian and Japanese personnel, arrived in Tacloban July 4 as part of Pacific Partnership 2014 (PP14).The ship and its roughly 300 embarked personnel arrived nearly eight months after...
06 July 2014 Navy Surgeon General Visits the Peace Ark The U.S. Navy Surgeon General and Chief of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Vice Adm. Matthew Nathan, embarked the People's Republic of China medical ship Peace Ark (T-AH 866) for a tour, while it is in port for the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise 2014 in Pearl Harbor July 2.Not only is...
03 July 2014 Commander, U.S. Third Fleet Hosts RIMPAC Military Medicine Symposium Commander, U.S. Third Fleet (C3F) hosted the inaugural Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Military Medicine Symposium aboard the USS Peleliu (LHA-5) at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam July 1-2.The medicine symposium, organized by Canadian military medical officials, is one of numerous events taking place...
03 July 2014 Kerry on Solomon Islands Independence Day On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States of America, I send my warmest wishes to the people of Solomon Islands as you celebrate the 36th anniversary of your nation’s independence on July 7.Our two countries have a long friendship, forged in battle, which has only been...
03 July 2014 Gen. Dempsey Talks to USARPAC Soldiers at Historic Palm Circle Soldiers and leaders filled several sets of bleachers at Historic Palm Circle as Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, addressed the audience during a town hall meeting June 30. Dempsey's trip to U.S. Army Pacific's Headquarters for a town hall meeting was sparked...
03 July 2014 Building Partnerships, Projects through Humanitarian Civic Action Mongolian, Republic of India, and U.S. forces are participating in the Engineering Civic Action Program (ENCAP) portion of Exercise Khaan Quest 2014, June 18-29.Khaan Quest is a regularly scheduled, multinational exercise co-sponsored by U.S. Army, Pacific, and U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific,...
03 July 2014 Nepal Army Receives ACROW Bridges U.S. Ambassador Peter W. Bodde today officially provided four ACROW bridges, worth $6.7 million, to the Nepal Army for use during natural disasters. ACROW bridges are built from ready-to-assemble components that can be changed to meet a wide range of uses in Nepal. The bridges will be important...
03 July 2014 Press Release on Assistant Secretary Malinowski's Visit to Burma Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Tom Malinowski led an interagency delegation to Burma comprising senior officials from the Departments of State, Defense, and Treasury, and the National Security Council staff June 22-28. The delegation held discussions with senior...
07 July 2014 Pacific Partnership Basketball Tournament Held in Tacloban A basketball tournament was held between members of the U.S. Navy, Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF), Royal Australian Armed Forces and locals from Tacloban as part of Pacific Partnership 2014, July 5. "We played this tournament for Pacific Partnership hosted by the Philippines," said...
07 July 2014 Japanese Soldiers Visit U.S. Army Alaska Leaders with the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force visited paratroopers at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson with the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, during a subject-matter expert exchange event June 24.Col. Akira Miyazaki, an education and training department...
07 July 2014 JS Kunisaki arrives in Tacloban for Pacific Partnership The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's JS Kunisaki (LST 4003), carrying a multinational crew of U.S., Australian, Malaysian and Japanese personnel, arrived in Tacloban July 4 as part of Pacific Partnership 2014 (PP14).The ship and its roughly 300 embarked personnel arrived nearly eight months after...
06 July 2014 Navy Surgeon General Visits the Peace Ark The U.S. Navy Surgeon General and Chief of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Vice Adm. Matthew Nathan, embarked the People's Republic of China medical ship Peace Ark (T-AH 866) for a tour, while it is in port for the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise 2014 in Pearl Harbor July 2.Not only is...
03 July 2014 Commander, U.S. Third Fleet Hosts RIMPAC Military Medicine Symposium Commander, U.S. Third Fleet (C3F) hosted the inaugural Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Military Medicine Symposium aboard the USS Peleliu (LHA-5) at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam July 1-2.The medicine symposium, organized by Canadian military medical officials, is one of numerous events taking place...
03 July 2014 Kerry on Solomon Islands Independence Day On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States of America, I send my warmest wishes to the people of Solomon Islands as you celebrate the 36th anniversary of your nation’s independence on July 7.Our two countries have a long friendship, forged in battle, which has only been...
03 July 2014 Gen. Dempsey Talks to USARPAC Soldiers at Historic Palm Circle Soldiers and leaders filled several sets of bleachers at Historic Palm Circle as Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, addressed the audience during a town hall meeting June 30. Dempsey's trip to U.S. Army Pacific's Headquarters for a town hall meeting was sparked...
03 July 2014 Building Partnerships, Projects through Humanitarian Civic Action Mongolian, Republic of India, and U.S. forces are participating in the Engineering Civic Action Program (ENCAP) portion of Exercise Khaan Quest 2014, June 18-29.Khaan Quest is a regularly scheduled, multinational exercise co-sponsored by U.S. Army, Pacific, and U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific,...
03 July 2014 Nepal Army Receives ACROW Bridges U.S. Ambassador Peter W. Bodde today officially provided four ACROW bridges, worth $6.7 million, to the Nepal Army for use during natural disasters. ACROW bridges are built from ready-to-assemble components that can be changed to meet a wide range of uses in Nepal. The bridges will be important...
03 July 2014 Press Release on Assistant Secretary Malinowski's Visit to Burma Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Tom Malinowski led an interagency delegation to Burma comprising senior officials from the Departments of State, Defense, and Treasury, and the National Security Council staff June 22-28. The delegation held discussions with senior...