ASAN, Guam -- U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Joint Region Marianas, and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) leadership gathered for a ribbon cutting ceremony at Chiget Beach in Tinian, Dec. 22.The event commemorated the official reopening of Chiget Beach for public use. The beach and its...

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- The Alaska Army National Guard is providing emergency response assistance to the Matanuska-Susitna Borough starting today after high winds have led to infrastructure damage, power outages, and dangerous transportation conditions for road and air travel.The...

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- Airmen from the 36th Logistic Readiness Squadron (LRS) sent two Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Units (ROWPUs) and five support pallets to Wake Island during a water shortage.Wake Island is a coral atoll in the western Pacific Ocean. It is an unorganized...

BAUCAU, Timor-Leste -- U.S. Navy Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 5 host a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a four-room schoolhouse in Baucau, Timor-Leste Dec. 10.On Aug. 16, the Seabees started the project with a multinational crew of Timor Leste Defence Force and a combat...

MANILA, U.S. Embassy in the Philippines -- The U.S. Civil-Military Support Element-Philippines (CMSE-PHL) recently conducted Tactical Combat Casualty Care and Medical First Responder training with the Philippine Coast Guard-Special Operations Group (PCG-SOG) in Puerto Princesa, Palawan, and the...

We are aware of the ballistic missile launch and are consulting closely with our allies and partners. While we have assessed that this event does not pose an immediate threat to U.S. personnel or territory, or to our allies, the ballistic missile launch highlights the destabilizing impact of the...

SAN DIEGO -- The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group (CSG) departed on a regularly scheduled deployment Monday in support of global maritime security operations.The Abraham Lincoln CSG is led by the command staff of CSG 3 and consists of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72),...

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- The 176th Maintenance Group (MXG) opened its innovative Virtual Reality Training Lab here Dec. 4, 2021.The 176th MXG used squadron innovation funds from ARCWERX to create the lab, which will enhance training capabilities for maintenance Airmen by giving...

VIENTIANE, U.S. Embassy in Laos -- Lao PDR received a new shipment of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, Jan. 2, which is a donation by the United States through the COVAX Facility - a partnership co-led by Gavi, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), and the World Health...

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- Besides her distinctively mottled Canadian Disruptive Pattern uniform and a habit of pronouncing lieutenant as “left-tenant,” there is nothing differentiating Royal Canadian Air Force ( RCAF) Capt. Elyse O’Brien, 176th Air Defense Squadron (ADS) air battle...