25 February 2020 Cobra Gold 20: Opening Ceremony 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...
25 February 2020 USS Texas Returns Home from Deployment 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...
25 February 2020 Coast Guard Interdicts Illegal Foreign Fishers in Pacific, Turns Cases Over to NOAA OLE 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...
25 February 2020 Rise of the Machines 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...
24 February 2020 Hanuman Guardian 20 Commences with Opening Ceremony 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,...
24 February 2020 USS America, Green Bay Arrive in Thailand for Cobra Gold 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...
24 February 2020 The Rock Crosses the Pacific 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...
24 February 2020 Blue Ridge, 7th Fleet Staff Arrive in Thailand 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...
24 February 2020 Agile Combat Employment: A Leaner, Meaner Force KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- Airmen from Kadena Air Base, Japan, executed a training exercise on Marine Corps Air Station Futenma Feb. 21, 2020, in cooperation with Airmen from the 317th Airlift Wing from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, and MCAS Futenma Marines to sharpen 18th Wing Airmen’s force...
24 February 2020 U.S. Army Pacific: Leaving for Pacific Pathways SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii -- Soldiers of the 25th Infantry Division said their final farewells before heading to Thailand to participate in Pacific Pathways. Pacific Pathways is an operation conducted by U.S. Army Pacific that deploys personnel and material to support security cooperation exercises...
25 February 2020 Cobra Gold 20: Opening Ceremony 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...
25 February 2020 USS Texas Returns Home from Deployment 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...
25 February 2020 Coast Guard Interdicts Illegal Foreign Fishers in Pacific, Turns Cases Over to NOAA OLE 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...
25 February 2020 Rise of the Machines 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...
24 February 2020 Hanuman Guardian 20 Commences with Opening Ceremony 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,...
24 February 2020 USS America, Green Bay Arrive in Thailand for Cobra Gold 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...
24 February 2020 The Rock Crosses the Pacific 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...
24 February 2020 Blue Ridge, 7th Fleet Staff Arrive in Thailand 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...
24 February 2020 Agile Combat Employment: A Leaner, Meaner Force KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- Airmen from Kadena Air Base, Japan, executed a training exercise on Marine Corps Air Station Futenma Feb. 21, 2020, in cooperation with Airmen from the 317th Airlift Wing from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, and MCAS Futenma Marines to sharpen 18th Wing Airmen’s force...
24 February 2020 U.S. Army Pacific: Leaving for Pacific Pathways SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii -- Soldiers of the 25th Infantry Division said their final farewells before heading to Thailand to participate in Pacific Pathways. Pacific Pathways is an operation conducted by U.S. Army Pacific that deploys personnel and material to support security cooperation exercises...