21 June 2022 SECNAV Visits Innovative Forward Deployed Marines and Sailors with MRF-D 22 DARWIN, AUSTRALIA. – The Honorable Carlos Del Toro, the 78th Secretary of the Navy, visited Marines and Sailors with the Marine Rotational Force-Darwin (MRF-D) on June 18.As part of a battlefield circulation tour in the Southwest Pacific, the Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) joined MRF-D for awareness...
17 June 2022 Valiant Shield 2022 Draws to a Close ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- The ninth iteration of exercise Valiant Shield concluded June 17, 2022, following 12 days of joint operations at sea, in the air, on land, and in cyberspace.Valiant Shield 2022 is a biennial, U.S.-only, joint Field Training Exercise (FTX) focused on integration...
17 June 2022 Red Flag 22-2 Underway at Eielson EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska -- Red Flag-Alaska 22-2, a Pacific Air Forces-sponsored exercise and the second of its kind this year, has started and is expected to run June 9- 24, with primary flight and ground operations in the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex.Red Flag-Alaska is designed to...
17 June 2022 Hawaiian Raptors Join the 354th Air Expeditionary Wing MCAS IWAKUNI, YAMAGUCHI, Japan -- U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors from the Hawaiian Raptors, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, arrived at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, June 15, 2022 to join the 354th Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW) in conducting agile combat employment (ACE) training.ACE training...
17 June 2022 Pacific Amphibious Leaders Collaborate on Regional Cooperation TOKYO, Tokyo -- Lt. Gen. Steven R. Rudder, commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific, and General Yoshida Yoshihide, Chief of Staff, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF), co-hosted the eighth iteration of the Pacific Amphibious Leaders Symposium (PALS), Tokyo, Japan, June 13-16.The symposium...
17 June 2022 Soldiers, Japanese Partners End Army Week with New Unique Patch CAMP ZAMA, Japan -- U.S. Army Japan Soldiers and designated Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) liaison officers are now authorized to wear a new uniform patch that symbolizes their enduring bilateral relationship.The patch, which combines both the U.S. and Japan flags, was officially presented...
17 June 2022 USS Frank E. Petersen, Jr. Arrives at Pearl Harbor Homeport JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- The Navy’s newest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, USS Frank E. Petersen, Jr. (DDG 121), arrived at its homeport at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam June 13, after completing its maiden voyage from Charleston, South Carolina where the ship was...
16 June 2022 U.S., Indonesian Air Forces to Conduct Cope West 22 Exercise U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Indonesia -- Service members and aircraft from the U.S. Air Force’s 374th Airlift Wing (AW), Yokota Air Base, Japan and the Indonesian Air Force will participate in Cope West 2022 (CW22), a bilateral, tactical airlift exercise at Abdulrachman Saleh Air Force Base,...
16 June 2022 III MEF Marines in Okinawa Complete Alert Contingency Marine Air-Ground Task Force Exercise CAMP COURTNEY, Okinawa, Japan -- U.S. Marines with 3d Marine Expeditionary Brigade (MEB), 3d Marine Division, and 1st Marine Aircraft Wing conducted an exercise to test their ability to rapidly mobilize, respond, and assist in crisis scenarios throughout the Indo-Pacific Command’s area of...
16 June 2022 Moody Airborne Extensible Relay Over-Horizon Network Enhances Partner Nations’ Airpower MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. (AFNS) -- Gaining air superiority requires cutting-edge technologies. Since January, a team from the 81st Fighter Squadron at Moody Air Force Base has been working with four partner nations to integrate combat data networks into each country’s uniquely developed...