01 August 2016 Joint Operations Seize the Day KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- What began as another calm and quiet summer day on a small island in the Pacific instantly turned into a vortex of dust and a thunderous bedlam of Osprey engines. Marine Corps riflemen stormed the area, neutralized multiple hostiles, and captured a landing strip for...
01 August 2016 Rim of the Pacific 2016: U.S. Marines, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Team Up for Beach Landing MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII -- U.S. Marines and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force members teamed up for an amphibious beach landing exercise at Pyramid Rock today during the final phase Rim of Pacific 2016.The beach landing included close air support from FA-18 Hornets, followed by three waves of...
01 August 2016 U.S., Japan Bilateral Exercise Enhances Mine Countermeasure Capabilities MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan -- An awaiting crew huddled along the deck of a ship as the whirring blades of an MH-53E Sea Dragon displaced the seawater below and landed on the helicopter pad of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force vessel JS Uraga.This afternoon excursion between the U.S. Navy Helicopter...
29 July 2016 Bomber Swap: Lancers to Replace B-52s during Routine Continuous Bomber Presence Rotation JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- The U.S. Air Force’s B-1B Lancers are scheduled to deploy to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Aug.6 for the first time since April 2006 in support of U.S. Pacific Command’s Continuous Bomber Presence mission.The B-1’s will replace the B-52’s currently deployed...
29 July 2016 USS Frank Cable Arrives in Goa, India GOA, India (NNS) -- The submarine tender USS Frank Cable (AS 40) arrived in Goa, India, for a port visit, July 29. The visit is aimed at building friendship and goodwill between the U.S. Navy and the people of India. The Frank Cable team, consisting of more than 500 Sailors and civilian mariners, is...
29 July 2016 US-Japan Mine Countermeasures Assets Set Complete Annual Exercise OMINATO, Japan (NNS) -- U.S. Mine Countermeasures (MCM) units and Japanese Self Defense Force MCM units completed 2JA 2016 Mine Countermeasures Exercise (MCMEX), July 28. 2JA Mine Countermeasures Exercise is an annual bilateral exercise held between the U.S. and Japan to strengthen interoperability...
29 July 2016 Pacific Partnership 2016 Completes First Live SAR Field Training Exercise in Vietnam DA NANG, Vietnam (NNS) -- Pacific Partnership service members from New Zealand, the U.S. and Australia supported a Da Nang border guard-led Search and Rescue Field Training Exercise (SAR FTX) July 26 that began on the Han River and concluded aboard Vietnam people's navy hospital ship Khanh Hoa and...
29 July 2016 Secretary of the Army Views Army Watercraft, Related Capabilities JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii - Pacific Army mariners from 545th Transportation Company, 8th Theater Sustainment Command, shared their unique capabilities with Secretary of the Army Eric K. Fanning during his visit to Logistic Support Vessel - 2, the CW3 Harold C. Clinger, July 27 here. The...
29 July 2016 U.S., Malaysia Airmen Exchange Electronic Warfare Techniques BUTTERWORTH, Malaysia -- Pilots use electronic warfare to simulate training scenarios, but they don’t get to decide who they shoot down when they are up there. A team on the ground controls a system called the Joint Deployable Electronic Warfare Range (JDEWR), which controls the scenario. Cope...
29 July 2016 Joint, Multinational Integration Key to Refueling during RIMPAC JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR HICKAM -- Since their arrival to Rim of the Pacific 2016, July 7, Citizen Airmen in the 507th Air Refueling Wing have worked hand-in-hand with other nations and sister services to offload more than 2 million pounds of fuel to U.S. and Canadian military aircraft.Performing...
01 August 2016 Joint Operations Seize the Day KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- What began as another calm and quiet summer day on a small island in the Pacific instantly turned into a vortex of dust and a thunderous bedlam of Osprey engines. Marine Corps riflemen stormed the area, neutralized multiple hostiles, and captured a landing strip for...
01 August 2016 Rim of the Pacific 2016: U.S. Marines, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Team Up for Beach Landing MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII -- U.S. Marines and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force members teamed up for an amphibious beach landing exercise at Pyramid Rock today during the final phase Rim of Pacific 2016.The beach landing included close air support from FA-18 Hornets, followed by three waves of...
01 August 2016 U.S., Japan Bilateral Exercise Enhances Mine Countermeasure Capabilities MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan -- An awaiting crew huddled along the deck of a ship as the whirring blades of an MH-53E Sea Dragon displaced the seawater below and landed on the helicopter pad of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force vessel JS Uraga.This afternoon excursion between the U.S. Navy Helicopter...
29 July 2016 Bomber Swap: Lancers to Replace B-52s during Routine Continuous Bomber Presence Rotation JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- The U.S. Air Force’s B-1B Lancers are scheduled to deploy to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Aug.6 for the first time since April 2006 in support of U.S. Pacific Command’s Continuous Bomber Presence mission.The B-1’s will replace the B-52’s currently deployed...
29 July 2016 USS Frank Cable Arrives in Goa, India GOA, India (NNS) -- The submarine tender USS Frank Cable (AS 40) arrived in Goa, India, for a port visit, July 29. The visit is aimed at building friendship and goodwill between the U.S. Navy and the people of India. The Frank Cable team, consisting of more than 500 Sailors and civilian mariners, is...
29 July 2016 US-Japan Mine Countermeasures Assets Set Complete Annual Exercise OMINATO, Japan (NNS) -- U.S. Mine Countermeasures (MCM) units and Japanese Self Defense Force MCM units completed 2JA 2016 Mine Countermeasures Exercise (MCMEX), July 28. 2JA Mine Countermeasures Exercise is an annual bilateral exercise held between the U.S. and Japan to strengthen interoperability...
29 July 2016 Pacific Partnership 2016 Completes First Live SAR Field Training Exercise in Vietnam DA NANG, Vietnam (NNS) -- Pacific Partnership service members from New Zealand, the U.S. and Australia supported a Da Nang border guard-led Search and Rescue Field Training Exercise (SAR FTX) July 26 that began on the Han River and concluded aboard Vietnam people's navy hospital ship Khanh Hoa and...
29 July 2016 Secretary of the Army Views Army Watercraft, Related Capabilities JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii - Pacific Army mariners from 545th Transportation Company, 8th Theater Sustainment Command, shared their unique capabilities with Secretary of the Army Eric K. Fanning during his visit to Logistic Support Vessel - 2, the CW3 Harold C. Clinger, July 27 here. The...
29 July 2016 U.S., Malaysia Airmen Exchange Electronic Warfare Techniques BUTTERWORTH, Malaysia -- Pilots use electronic warfare to simulate training scenarios, but they don’t get to decide who they shoot down when they are up there. A team on the ground controls a system called the Joint Deployable Electronic Warfare Range (JDEWR), which controls the scenario. Cope...
29 July 2016 Joint, Multinational Integration Key to Refueling during RIMPAC JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR HICKAM -- Since their arrival to Rim of the Pacific 2016, July 7, Citizen Airmen in the 507th Air Refueling Wing have worked hand-in-hand with other nations and sister services to offload more than 2 million pounds of fuel to U.S. and Canadian military aircraft.Performing...