The U.S. Department of State has elevated their travel advisory to level three (reconsider travel). The current CDC travel advisory level is one (practice usual precautions).This force protection advisory is issued to sensitize DoD personnelwho may be in or traveling to Mongolia on leave or TDY of...

PHITSANULOK, Thailand -- Standing under the Thailand sun, 450 servicemen and women, from seven countries, stood strong and still in formation as dignitaries from the U.S. and Thailand officially declared the longest-running military exercise in the world has begun.Exercise Cobra Gold 2020 (CG20),...

DYESS AIR FORCE BASE, Texas -- U.S. service members from the 317th Airlift Wing from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, and the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment from Vicenza, Italy, commemorated members of the allied forces in World War II during a ceremony marking the 75th Anniversary of the...

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- A peaceful white-sand paradise is flipped upside down when a magnitude 7.3 earthquake ravages the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), causing devastating tsunamis in a Cope North 20 (CN20) exercise scenario.For the first time in Cope North history,...

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam --“Practice makes perfect.” It’s the term that was used by many of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Airmen when describing their Rapid Airfield Damage Repair, or RADR training.This training exercise was part of Exercise COPE North 20, an annual U.S. Pacific Air...

PHILIPPINE SEA -- The embarked forces conducted boat raid scenarios over a few weeks’ time to improve tactics and techniques between Marines of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) and the soldiers of ARDB boat platoon, in coordination with the Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship USS...

PHITSANULOK PROVINCE, Kingdom of Thailand -- Royal Thai Gen. Pornpipat Benyasri, Royal Thai Armed Forces defence forces chief, Michael Heath, U.S. Embassy in Thailand chargé d’affaires, and Maj. Gen. Pete Johnson, U.S. Army Pacific deputy commander, led the opening ceremony for Exercise Cobra Gold...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- The Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Texas (SSN 775) returned home to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Feb. 24.During their seven-month deployment, Texas completed a full spectrum of operations, including theater anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare, in support of...

HONOLULU, Hawaii -- The Coast Guard interdicted several foreign fishing vessels fishing inside the US exclusive economic zone (EEZ) on two separate occasions incidents in the first two months of 2020."While we've seen incursions into the EEZs of partners and illegal, unreported, and unregulated...

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- Near dawn, it hovers 500 feet in the air. Its low hum is inaudible to those on the ground beneath it. Silently it watches, waiting for the tropical sun to rise above the horizon. The first rays of light are broadcast over Pacific waves, and touch the shell covered...