SOUTH CHINA SEA -- Members of Navy Forward-Deployed Preventive Medicine Units (FDPMU) and Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC) embarked several 7th Fleet ships March 14 to help combat the risk of and provide laboratory batch testing for COVID-19 onboard the ships.Teams are embarked on the amphibious...

Palau -- 1984th United States Army Hospital-Pacific, under the 9th Mission Support Command, headquartered in Fort Shafter Flats, Honolulu, Hawaii is partnering with the University of Hawaii, Manoa to host a three-day leadership camp focusing on preventative health for the youth population of Palau...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command and U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases are aiding in the development of five separate COVID-19 vaccines, Secretary of the Army Ryan D. McCarthy announced Thursday.In support of the federal government's plan...

KUNSAN AIR BASE, Republic of Korea -- The 8th Medical Group took proactive and precautionary measures during the COVID-19 pandemic by standing up a screening tent outside of the clinic for service members who returned to Kunsan between March 6th-12th from international travel.Service members who...

WASHINGTON -- The Defense Department is making plans to combat the coronavirus, DOD leaders said yesterday during a news conference.For the past six weeks, defense leaders have been meeting to plan for any possible scenario with the virus that first surfaced in China. "We've issued a variety of...

PENTAGON, Virginia -- The Department of Defense successfully tested a hypersonic glide body in a flight experiment conducted from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii, March 19 at approximately 10:30 p.m. local time (HST).The U.S. Navy and U.S. Army jointly executed the launch of a...

MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan -- U.S. Airmen with the 35th Logistics Readiness Squadron implemented a new laser profile system to save manpower and reduce time during the Cargo Deployment Function at Misawa Air Base, Japan.“This new system cuts our cargo in-checking time by a projected 75 percent,” said...

WASHINGTON -- More than 2,000 National Guardsmen are taking on COVID-19 as it continues to sweep the globe and safety measures ramp up, said the Army’s top official.To date, at least 49 service members throughout the Department of Defense have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. However, in the...

SAGAMIHARA FAMILY HOUSING AREA, Japan -- As Mamiko Takishima conducts housing occupancy inspections for U.S. Army Garrison Japan, she methodically checks everything, right down to the little handle on the back side of the laundry room door.“I’ve been doing this a long time, about five years,”...

SOUTH CHINA SEA - The Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group, America Expeditionary Strike Group and 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) conducted expeditionary strike force operations March 15-18.The training, the second that the two strike groups have conducted since February, put the full...