30 October 2019 Navy Underwater Construction Team Widens Channel in Micronesia SAPWAUHFIK, Federated States of Micronesia - Sailors from Underwater Construction Team (UCT) 2 significantly reduced the size of an underwater obstruction in Sapwauhfik Atoll, Oct. 11-29, widening a channel that serves as an important cargo and passenger transfer point for the Federated States of...
30 October 2019 A Life of Service YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- A new leash hangs by the door ready to go on long walks, toys spread out across the home left exactly where they were last played with, a Tempur-Pedic memory foam bed in the corner to nap in when the eyes get heavy, and a family to provide a life’s worth of love. This isn’t...
30 October 2019 Naha Port Undergoes First Dredging in 30 Years NAHA, Okinawa, Japan -- Naha Military Port here is currently undergoing its first dredging operation since 1989.Home to the 835th Transportation Battalion, one of 599th Transportation Brigade's three forward battalions in the Pacific, and Military Sealift Command Okinawa, this major hub in shipping...
30 October 2019 Angels in the Arctic: Alaska Air National Guardsmen Rescue Bear-mauling Victim JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- Blood buys time and spans the vast distances of the Alaska landscape when someone is critically injured in the remote wilderness.The moment a hunter was mauled by a grizzly bear shortly after midnight June 10 near Galena, there already wasn’t much sand left...
29 October 2019 Coast Guard Cutter Stratton Conducts Fisheries Patrol en route Guam from Philippines APRA HARBOR, Guam — On the heels of their operations combatting United Nations sanctions violations in support of the U.S. Navy’s Seventh Fleet, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Stratton (WMSL 752) arrived in Guam, Monday, furthering the United States’ commitment to regional security and...
29 October 2019 1st Marine Aircraft Wing Rapid Deployment Exercise MCAS FUTENMA, OKINAWA, Japan -- 1st Marine Aircraft Wing rapidly deployed more than 25 aircraft to austere, expeditionary locations and then returned those aircraft and forces to Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from October 24 to 25, 2019.Rapid deployment exercises like this are essential to...
29 October 2019 Strengthening Partnerships through the Bilateral Exchange Program YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- Yokota Air Base Airmen participated in the Bilateral Exchange Program (BEP), in which Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) Airmen experience working with U.S. Air Force Airmen, Oct. 17-25.15 Koku-Jieitai Airmen visited Yokota to work with their U.S. Air Force counterparts,...
29 October 2019 109th Airlift Wing to Support Science Missions in Antarctica STRATTON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, SCOTIA, N.Y -- The New York Air National Guard's 109th Airlift Wing launches its 32nd year of support of U.S. Antarctic Program research Oct. 28, when the first of five LC-130 "Skibird" aircraft depart on the weeklong trip to the National Science Foundation's...
29 October 2019 U.S. Air Force, Republic of Korea AF Legal Teams Celebrate Friendship Day OSAN AIR BASE, Republic of Korea -- Members of the U.S. and Republic of Korea Air Forces (ROKAF) paralegal teams gathered at Osan Air Base, ROK, to celebrate a Friendship Day Oct. 23.The purpose of the day was to give both counterparts the opportunity to spend time together and strengthen the ties...
29 October 2019 Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Medical Liaison Officer Inducted into Order of Military Medical Merit CAMP ZAMA, Japan -- A Japan Ground Self-Defense Force officer was inducted into the Order of Military Medical Merit, an honor normally reserved for U.S. Army Medical Department professionals, during an Oct. 24 ceremony here.Lt. Col. Shuichi Kawano smiled as Col. Marvin Emerson, commander of Medical...
30 October 2019 Navy Underwater Construction Team Widens Channel in Micronesia SAPWAUHFIK, Federated States of Micronesia - Sailors from Underwater Construction Team (UCT) 2 significantly reduced the size of an underwater obstruction in Sapwauhfik Atoll, Oct. 11-29, widening a channel that serves as an important cargo and passenger transfer point for the Federated States of...
30 October 2019 A Life of Service YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- A new leash hangs by the door ready to go on long walks, toys spread out across the home left exactly where they were last played with, a Tempur-Pedic memory foam bed in the corner to nap in when the eyes get heavy, and a family to provide a life’s worth of love. This isn’t...
30 October 2019 Naha Port Undergoes First Dredging in 30 Years NAHA, Okinawa, Japan -- Naha Military Port here is currently undergoing its first dredging operation since 1989.Home to the 835th Transportation Battalion, one of 599th Transportation Brigade's three forward battalions in the Pacific, and Military Sealift Command Okinawa, this major hub in shipping...
30 October 2019 Angels in the Arctic: Alaska Air National Guardsmen Rescue Bear-mauling Victim JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- Blood buys time and spans the vast distances of the Alaska landscape when someone is critically injured in the remote wilderness.The moment a hunter was mauled by a grizzly bear shortly after midnight June 10 near Galena, there already wasn’t much sand left...
29 October 2019 Coast Guard Cutter Stratton Conducts Fisheries Patrol en route Guam from Philippines APRA HARBOR, Guam — On the heels of their operations combatting United Nations sanctions violations in support of the U.S. Navy’s Seventh Fleet, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Stratton (WMSL 752) arrived in Guam, Monday, furthering the United States’ commitment to regional security and...
29 October 2019 1st Marine Aircraft Wing Rapid Deployment Exercise MCAS FUTENMA, OKINAWA, Japan -- 1st Marine Aircraft Wing rapidly deployed more than 25 aircraft to austere, expeditionary locations and then returned those aircraft and forces to Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from October 24 to 25, 2019.Rapid deployment exercises like this are essential to...
29 October 2019 Strengthening Partnerships through the Bilateral Exchange Program YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- Yokota Air Base Airmen participated in the Bilateral Exchange Program (BEP), in which Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) Airmen experience working with U.S. Air Force Airmen, Oct. 17-25.15 Koku-Jieitai Airmen visited Yokota to work with their U.S. Air Force counterparts,...
29 October 2019 109th Airlift Wing to Support Science Missions in Antarctica STRATTON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, SCOTIA, N.Y -- The New York Air National Guard's 109th Airlift Wing launches its 32nd year of support of U.S. Antarctic Program research Oct. 28, when the first of five LC-130 "Skibird" aircraft depart on the weeklong trip to the National Science Foundation's...
29 October 2019 U.S. Air Force, Republic of Korea AF Legal Teams Celebrate Friendship Day OSAN AIR BASE, Republic of Korea -- Members of the U.S. and Republic of Korea Air Forces (ROKAF) paralegal teams gathered at Osan Air Base, ROK, to celebrate a Friendship Day Oct. 23.The purpose of the day was to give both counterparts the opportunity to spend time together and strengthen the ties...
29 October 2019 Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Medical Liaison Officer Inducted into Order of Military Medical Merit CAMP ZAMA, Japan -- A Japan Ground Self-Defense Force officer was inducted into the Order of Military Medical Merit, an honor normally reserved for U.S. Army Medical Department professionals, during an Oct. 24 ceremony here.Lt. Col. Shuichi Kawano smiled as Col. Marvin Emerson, commander of Medical...