JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- The Commonwealth Ports Authority, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands government and the U.S. Department of Defense finalized and signed a 40-year lease agreement worth $21.9 million for the U.S. Air Force’s divert airfield in Tinian May 3, 2019.The CPA...

NORTH PACIFIC -- A U.S. Navy salvage team aboard a contracted vessel completed its mission supporting search and recovery operations with the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JASDF) after locating debris from the downed JASDF F-35A off the coast of Japan, May 8.Working closely with JSDF forces, the...

KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- Most students, at some point or another in their lives, hear the questions, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” and, “What are you going to do after you graduate?”. It’s a question students may hear as early as kindergarten and all throughout high school. Some people...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan -- Members of the Camp Zama community need to carefully assemble their emergency kits, and the reason why boils down to three main words: earthquakes, volcanoes and typhoons.Japan has had more than 1,000 earthquakes of 5.0 or greater on the Richter scale over the past decade; there...

MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII -- Four MV-22B Ospreys from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 268 successfully completed a trans-Pacific flight from Okinawa, Japan to Marine Corps Base Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, on May 2, 2019. This has become a recurring milestone flight that the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing and...

CHINHAE, Republic of Korea -- Senior Chief Operations Specialist John Venetsanakos relieved Command Master Chief (CMC) William Palmer as command senior enlisted leader (SEL) of Commander, Fleet Activities Chinhae (CFAC) during a change of charge ceremony on the installation, May 7.Cmdr. Jeremy...

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan -- For more than four decades, live aircraft performances, hot food, cold beverages, and service members from the U.S. and Japan have created opportunities for new experiences and everlasting memories through a single-day air show which, over the years, has...

U.S. Indo Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) Surgeon, Rear Adm. Louis Tripoli, attended the Southeast Asia Strategic Multilateral Dialogue on Biosecurity in Phuket, Thailand April 29 – May 1, 2019. This is Tripoli’s first time attending the multilateral dialogue since becoming the USINDOPACOM surgeon...

Senior mission leadership, host nation and partner nation personnel attended the opening ceremony of the sixth Pacific Partnership mission stop in Tuy Hoa on May 6.U.S., partner nation military members, and non-governmental organization volunteers are scheduled to take part in a variety of events...

HONOLULU — Coast Guard crews rescued two mariners about nine miles southeast of Diamond Head, Saturday. An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew located the two men in the water holding onto the hull of their 19-foot recreational vessel, Smooth C's. The aircrew hoisted the 30 and 36-year-old aboard and...

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- The Commonwealth Ports Authority, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands government and the U.S. Department of Defense finalized and signed a 40-year lease agreement worth $21.9 million for the U.S. Air Force’s divert airfield in Tinian May 3, 2019.The CPA...

NORTH PACIFIC -- A U.S. Navy salvage team aboard a contracted vessel completed its mission supporting search and recovery operations with the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JASDF) after locating debris from the downed JASDF F-35A off the coast of Japan, May 8.Working closely with JSDF forces, the...

KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- Most students, at some point or another in their lives, hear the questions, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” and, “What are you going to do after you graduate?”. It’s a question students may hear as early as kindergarten and all throughout high school. Some people...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan -- Members of the Camp Zama community need to carefully assemble their emergency kits, and the reason why boils down to three main words: earthquakes, volcanoes and typhoons.Japan has had more than 1,000 earthquakes of 5.0 or greater on the Richter scale over the past decade; there...

MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII -- Four MV-22B Ospreys from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 268 successfully completed a trans-Pacific flight from Okinawa, Japan to Marine Corps Base Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, on May 2, 2019. This has become a recurring milestone flight that the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing and...

CHINHAE, Republic of Korea -- Senior Chief Operations Specialist John Venetsanakos relieved Command Master Chief (CMC) William Palmer as command senior enlisted leader (SEL) of Commander, Fleet Activities Chinhae (CFAC) during a change of charge ceremony on the installation, May 7.Cmdr. Jeremy...

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan -- For more than four decades, live aircraft performances, hot food, cold beverages, and service members from the U.S. and Japan have created opportunities for new experiences and everlasting memories through a single-day air show which, over the years, has...

U.S. Indo Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) Surgeon, Rear Adm. Louis Tripoli, attended the Southeast Asia Strategic Multilateral Dialogue on Biosecurity in Phuket, Thailand April 29 – May 1, 2019. This is Tripoli’s first time attending the multilateral dialogue since becoming the USINDOPACOM surgeon...

Senior mission leadership, host nation and partner nation personnel attended the opening ceremony of the sixth Pacific Partnership mission stop in Tuy Hoa on May 6.U.S., partner nation military members, and non-governmental organization volunteers are scheduled to take part in a variety of events...

HONOLULU — Coast Guard crews rescued two mariners about nine miles southeast of Diamond Head, Saturday. An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew located the two men in the water holding onto the hull of their 19-foot recreational vessel, Smooth C's. The aircrew hoisted the 30 and 36-year-old aboard and...