CLARK AIR BASE, Philippines — Cope Thunder 25-2 is a bilateral exercise between the U.S. Pacific Air Forces and Philippine Air Forces that reaffirms each nation’s commitment to the Mutual Defense Treaty of 1951. Held at the invitation of the Philippine government, this iteration of Cope Thunder...

QUEENSLAND, Australia — Blood is the fluid that keeps the human heart beating, without it, our internal clock stops ticking and existence stops as we know it...

TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — Beginning July 4, more than 185 members with the 621st Contingency Response Wing deployed across the United States and U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s area of responsibility to generate support for the 2025 Department of the Air Force’s “first-in-a-generation”...

GLADSTONE, Australia — Sailors from the Royal Australian Navy, Royal New Zealand Navy and the U.S. Navy embarked the Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary sea base USS John L. Canley (ESB 6) to conduct integrated mine countermeasures operations during exercise Talisman Sabre, July 13-19, 2025...

MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan (AFNS) — Airmen of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force Air Rescue Wing, the U.S. Air National Guard’s 102nd Rescue Squadron, and the 130th Rescue Squadron came together for a cross-unit static display and capability exchange during exercise Resolute Force Pacific 2025 at Misawa...

NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga — During their stop in the Kingdom of Tonga, the Pacific Partnership 2025 (PP-25) medical team, consisting of U.S. Navy, Army, Public Health Service and Tongan Ministry of Health personnel, conducted over 30 community health engagements in the fields of One Health, cardiology,...

Northern Territory, Australia — In a historic first for the Indo-Pacific, U.S. and Australian forces executed a fully integrated precision fires sequence, July 15-16, 2025, leveraging the U.S. Army’s Mid-Range Capability (MRC), also known as the “Typhon” missile system, in coordination with the U.S...

QUEENSLAND, Australia — Under the cover of darkness, more than 350 U.S. Army paratroopers assigned to the 11th Airborne Division landed in the training area near north-eastern Australia, in the early hours of July 14, 2025...

GYEONGGIDO [KYONGGI-DO], South Korea — Gen. Xavier Brunson, commander of the United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command, and U.S. Forces Korea, concluded a successful three-day visit to Australia focused on deepening bilateral defense cooperation, including a review of mutually beneficial...

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam — The 354th Air Expeditionary Wing is participating in exercise Resolute Force Pacific (REFORPAC) 25, to test its ability to quickly and effectively command and control air assets throughout the Pacific, July 10 - August 8, 2025...