HAT YAO BEACH, Kingdom of Thailand -- Roaring overhead, a pair of Royal Thai Air force F-16 Fighting Falcons flew over the designated beach as U.S. and Thai forces moved from ship to shore in an integrated beach landing. The Kingdom of Thailand and the United States participated in a bilateral...

YOKOSUKA, Japan -- Units and personnel from the U.S. Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) will kick off a bilateral advanced warfighting training (BAWT) exercise Feb. 29.BAWT is a bilateral training exercise that improves interoperability between U.S. and Japanese forces. The focus...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- Members of the Alaska National Guard's 103rd Civil Support Team participated in a joint training exercise alongside local, state, and federal partners Feb. 24-25 as part of Arctic Eagle 20.The exercise, which involved responding to a simulated Chemical, Biological, Radiological,...

HAT YAO BEACH, Kingdom of Thailand -- The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit commits to improving lifesaving combat medicine through its Expeditionary Blood Bank, or EBB, the first employed on a MEU. The EBB is designed to keep the MEU forward-deployed, and self-sufficient in combat and crisis relief...

ALASKA - The Indiana National Guard's 19th CBRNE Enhanced Response Force Package practiced search-and-extraction measures in Alaska as part of Arctic Eagle 2020, which brought together Guard units from 15 states to work with local, state and national agencies for several weeks."In this environment,...

MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan -- Part of the 35th Fighter Wing mission is to project combat air power, and for the aerospace ground equipment (AGE) flight, the mission starts on the ground with a motto defining the nature of the career field: “no air power without ground power.”AGE flights, most commonly...

PHITSANULOK PROVINCE, Kingdom of Thailand -- The third annual Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) Tabletop Exercise (TTX), as part of the 39th annual Thai, U.S. co-sponsored Cobra Gold Exercise, commenced with an opening ceremony in Phitsanulok Province, Thailand, Feb. 24.The HADR TTX...

MANILIA, Philippines -- U.S. and Philippine service members conducted joint/combined exchange training (JCET) in Palawan from January to February to develop counterterrorism tactics and skills. U.S. Army Special Operations Forces and elite contingents of the Philippine 18th Special Forces Company...

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- Alaska Air National Guard Staff Sgt. Joseph Rotar helps pilots see in the dark, he is the admiral of a fleet comprising dozens of life rafts, and the work he does could provide aircrew with the pathogen-proof suits and masks they would need to survive a...

PHITSANULOK, Kingdom of Thailand -- Engineers with the Royal Thai and U.S. Armed Forces, along with service members from several other nations, continued construction on multipurpose facilities for seven local schools across the Kingdom of Thailand in support of Exercise Cobra Gold 2020, Feb. 24...