09 January 2017 Chief of Naval Personnel Visits Sailors in Hawaii, San Diego PEARL HARBOR (NNS) -- This week, the Navy's top personnel officer is visiting Sailors in Hawaii and San Diego to discuss Sailor 2025 and some of the Navy's other personnel initiatives.While in Hawaii, Vice Adm. Robert Burke and Fleet Master Chief April Beldo will meet with Sailors at Pearl Harbor...
09 January 2017 Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni is Recognized for Energy Efficiency MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan -- Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni received the Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Energy and Water Management Award via an All Navy Message (ALNAV) at MCAS Iwakuni, Japan, Oct. 16, 2016.MCAS Iwakuni earned gold installation status for the second year in a row...
09 January 2017 Pentagon Officials Describe Ongoing Importance of Cyber Capabilities WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, 2017 — Pentagon officials addressed emerging cyber challenges and the game plan to confront them in remarks before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on foreign cyber threats to the United States here today.Marcel Lettre, undersecretary of defense for intelligence,...
06 January 2017 Kadena Air Base 18th Maintenance Group Hosts Annual Weapons Load Competition KADENA, OKINAWA, Japan -- Team members work together throughout the weapons load competition to beat the clock, having only 60 minutes to load eight missiles onto an F-15 Eagle.The 67th and 44th Aircraft Maintenance Units competed in the annual competition Jan. 4.“It was awesome to get everybody out...
06 January 2017 Joint Press Availability with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister (FM) and Republic of Korea First Vice FM DEPUTY SECRETARY BLINKEN : Good afternoon, everyone. It is a great (inaudible). (Inaudible) really grateful for your presence here today.Since our inaugural deputy-level trilateral forum here in Washington almost two years ago, we’ve met six times carrying to new heights a relationship of strength,...
06 January 2017 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Archaeologist Aids POW-MIA team U.S. Army News -- John Campbell has some unfinished business ... in Kon Tum Province, Central Highlands, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, on the other side of the planet from his Galveston duty station.Campbell is living the life of a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Regional Planning and Environmental...
06 January 2017 Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory Secures 35th Fighter Wing strikes on Target MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan -- The sound of jets ripping through the skies, munitions deploy with a loud boom echoing around the area. The words "target hit, confirmed" relay over pilot radios, and in the blink of an eye they veer off into the distance. This would never be possible without the precision...
05 January 2017 E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Coming to Japan, Join Forward Deployed Naval Forces YOKOSUKA, Japan (NNS) – The U.S. Navy announced today that its newest airborne early warning and control aircraft, the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye, will join the Forward Deployed Naval Forces (FDNF) as part of Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5 in Japan in February 2017.Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW)...
05 January 2017 Army Engineers Demonstrate New System for On-Demand 3-Demensional Printed Drones ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- In December, engineers from the Army Research Laboratory flight tested 3-D-printed unmanned aircraft created with a new on-demand system.The demonstration, which was part of the Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiments, or AEWE, at Fort Benning, Georgia, showcased new...
05 January 2017 Lao People's Democratic Republic advances Commitment to Global Health Security U.S. Embassy in Laos -- The Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) has taken a momentous step forward to prevent, detect and respond to infectious disease threats by developing a five-year plan aligned with the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) and the World Health Organization (WHO)...
09 January 2017 Chief of Naval Personnel Visits Sailors in Hawaii, San Diego PEARL HARBOR (NNS) -- This week, the Navy's top personnel officer is visiting Sailors in Hawaii and San Diego to discuss Sailor 2025 and some of the Navy's other personnel initiatives.While in Hawaii, Vice Adm. Robert Burke and Fleet Master Chief April Beldo will meet with Sailors at Pearl Harbor...
09 January 2017 Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni is Recognized for Energy Efficiency MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan -- Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni received the Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Energy and Water Management Award via an All Navy Message (ALNAV) at MCAS Iwakuni, Japan, Oct. 16, 2016.MCAS Iwakuni earned gold installation status for the second year in a row...
09 January 2017 Pentagon Officials Describe Ongoing Importance of Cyber Capabilities WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, 2017 — Pentagon officials addressed emerging cyber challenges and the game plan to confront them in remarks before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on foreign cyber threats to the United States here today.Marcel Lettre, undersecretary of defense for intelligence,...
06 January 2017 Kadena Air Base 18th Maintenance Group Hosts Annual Weapons Load Competition KADENA, OKINAWA, Japan -- Team members work together throughout the weapons load competition to beat the clock, having only 60 minutes to load eight missiles onto an F-15 Eagle.The 67th and 44th Aircraft Maintenance Units competed in the annual competition Jan. 4.“It was awesome to get everybody out...
06 January 2017 Joint Press Availability with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister (FM) and Republic of Korea First Vice FM DEPUTY SECRETARY BLINKEN : Good afternoon, everyone. It is a great (inaudible). (Inaudible) really grateful for your presence here today.Since our inaugural deputy-level trilateral forum here in Washington almost two years ago, we’ve met six times carrying to new heights a relationship of strength,...
06 January 2017 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Archaeologist Aids POW-MIA team U.S. Army News -- John Campbell has some unfinished business ... in Kon Tum Province, Central Highlands, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, on the other side of the planet from his Galveston duty station.Campbell is living the life of a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Regional Planning and Environmental...
06 January 2017 Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory Secures 35th Fighter Wing strikes on Target MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan -- The sound of jets ripping through the skies, munitions deploy with a loud boom echoing around the area. The words "target hit, confirmed" relay over pilot radios, and in the blink of an eye they veer off into the distance. This would never be possible without the precision...
05 January 2017 E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Coming to Japan, Join Forward Deployed Naval Forces YOKOSUKA, Japan (NNS) – The U.S. Navy announced today that its newest airborne early warning and control aircraft, the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye, will join the Forward Deployed Naval Forces (FDNF) as part of Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5 in Japan in February 2017.Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW)...
05 January 2017 Army Engineers Demonstrate New System for On-Demand 3-Demensional Printed Drones ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- In December, engineers from the Army Research Laboratory flight tested 3-D-printed unmanned aircraft created with a new on-demand system.The demonstration, which was part of the Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiments, or AEWE, at Fort Benning, Georgia, showcased new...
05 January 2017 Lao People's Democratic Republic advances Commitment to Global Health Security U.S. Embassy in Laos -- The Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) has taken a momentous step forward to prevent, detect and respond to infectious disease threats by developing a five-year plan aligned with the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) and the World Health Organization (WHO)...