BARRIGADA, Guam – Mientras mas megai libidtaña, mas megai babaña. This Chamorro proverb (translation: “the more liberty, the more license") speaks to the indigenous peoples of the Mariana Islands chain that includes Guam and serves as a watchword for the National Guard Soldiers and Airmen charged to...

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii --78,000 pounds of baby formula arrived in Indianapolis aboard a Hickam-based C-17 Globemaster III flying from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, completing the first flight of Operation Fly Formula.On May 19, President Joe Biden authorized Operation Fly Formula to...

PHILIPPINE SEA -- The Independence-class littoral combat ship USS Charleston (LCS 18) conducted a vertical replenishment-at-sea of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Sampson (DDG 102) in the Philippine Sea, May 21. During this evolution, USS Charleston trained for resupply tasking in a contested...

THE WHITE HOUSE: Osan Air Base, Pyeongtaek, Republic of Korea. 1:52 P.M. KSTPRESIDENT BIDEN: First of all, I want to say thank you. And I wish you’d work on your biceps a little bit. (Laughter.) And you too, pal. It’s about as big as my thighs. (Laughter.) And I was a pretty good athlete. And I —...

U.S. Army -- The multitalented Army chaplain who serves at the U.S. military’s only multifunctional all hazards command can preach a sermon, play a song and break a stack of bricks.Lt. Col. Martin S. Cho is not only a well-respected United States Army chaplain serving at the 20th Chemical,...

EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska -- RED FLAG-Alaska (RF-A) 22-1 officially concluded May 13 following a successful two-week training blitz.RF-A 22-1 was a Pacific Air Forces-directed field training exercise for U.S. and international forces flown under simulated air combat conditions primarily out of...

PACIFIC OCEAN -- Ensign Gemelin Lozada and Chief Hospital Corpsman Melinda Canales are a mother-daughter duo currently embarked aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), now underway for Pacific Partnership 2022 (PP22).For Canales, who has served 19 years in the U.S...

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii -- Maj. Gen. Thomas L. Solhjem, U.S. Army chief of chaplains, and Sgt. Maj. Ralph Martinez, U.S. Army Chaplain Corps regimental sergeant major, visited U.S. Army Pacific Soldiers April 29 – May 3, Honolulu, Hawaii.The Spiritual Readiness Initiative was introduced while...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan – “I have been to war in Iraq … but this was a different war, the enemy was COVID-19.”Lt. Col. Natalie Johnson still clearly remembers the dispirited atmosphere and how overwhelmed the health care team seemed when she joined them at Jacobi Medical Center in New York. They had been...

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- In northern Wasilla up a dirt road, dusty in the summer and slick with ice in the winter, there are two buildings belonging to the state of Alaska. In the smaller building, a uniformed group sits around a conference table with their laptops and notepads...