31 March 2017 New York Army National Guard Completes Military Exercise Key Resolve NEAR DONGDUCHEON, SOUTH KOREA -- It's calm in the morning at Camp Casey and Camp Red Cloud, military installations 15 miles south of the Demilitarized Military Zone that divides North and South Korea.But inside simulation centers at both bases, things were not so calm for 40 Soldiers of the New York...
28 March 2017 Ghost Brigade Tackles Cobra Gold, Foal Eagle CAMP CASEY, South Korea -- Beginning in February 2017, Soldiers of 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment ‘Tomahawks,’ have been in Asia training with our allies during this year's Pacific Pathways, demonstrating the commitment of the United States to the region and enriching engagement through a...
21 March 2017 Remembering 75 Years of History MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan -- “The United States Marine Corps, with its fiercely proud tradition of excellence in combat, its hallowed rituals and its unbending code of honor, is part of the fabric of American myth,” said Thomas E. Ricks, author of “Making the Corps.”U.S. Marines...
13 January 2017 Navy, Marine Corps ‘Significantly Stronger’ Today, Navy Secretary Says WASHINGTON -- Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said the Navy and Marine Corps is “significantly stronger” and “significantly different” today than they were when he took office nearly eight years ago.Mabus told the Defense Writers’ Group Jan. 11 that he is particularly proud of reversing the decline in the...
03 January 2017 Fish for the Future: A ship, a Crew, the Sea and a $7 Billion Fishery HONOLULU , Hawaii -- The sea and sky are dark. One fades into the other. The bright deck lights of a foreign fishing boat are the only horizon reference. Roughly 70-feet in length, at two miles away, the boat appears as a dot. “Set LE Phase 1,” rings out over the 1MC, the ship’s on board intercom...
03 January 2017 PACOM Marks 70 Years of Protecting & Defending the U.S. CAMP H.M. SMITH, Hawaii -- U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM), America’s largest and oldest unified combatant command, turned 70 on Jan. 1, 2017.Since 1947, U.S. PACOM sailors, soldiers, Marines, airmen and Coast Guardsmen have stood watch across half the planet – from Hollywood to Bollywood to the Arctic...
29 December 2016 Last U.S. Ship Transferred to Republic of Korea Navy Decommissioned in Ceremony JINHAE, Republic of Korea (NNS) -- The Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN) decommissioned the ROKN ship Pyeongtaek (ATS-27), Dec. 28, closing the final chapter on the last U.S. ship transferred to the ROK Navy.USS Beaufort (ATS-2), an Edenton-class salvage and rescue ship, joined the U.S. fleet in 1972...
08 December 2016 Media Availability with Secretary Carter enroute to Delhi, India SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ASH CARTER: I'll be -- I'll be brief. This is a really important stop because India is, I believe, destined to be a major strategic partner of the United States.(inaudible) -- yeah. Sorry. Do I need to start over? Okay. Sorry.So I -- as I said, I believe it is an important...
07 December 2016 On the 75th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor, Remembering the Tragedy WASHINGTON (Army News Service) -- In the decades that followed World War II, the attack on Pearl Harbor had faded somewhat in the American public's memory.The attacks of 9/11 changed all of that. "All those bad memories surged forward again," said James C. McNaughton, who served as command historian...
12 September 2016 Pacific Rim Symposium Improves Multilateral Partnerships SEOUL, Republic of Korea -- Sixteen Indo-Asia-Pacific nations gathered here Sept. 5 through 9 to discuss multilateral cooperation during the PACRIM Airpower Symposium co-hosted by the U.S. and Republic of Korea.The theme, “Developing Air, Space and Cyberspace Power…the Foundation of Multilateral...