31 August 2016 The Latest Stryker Vehicle is Built for Extremes COLD REGIONS TEST CENTER, Alaska -- When Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan were imperiled by the destructive power of improvised explosive devices, a variant of the armored Stryker combat vehicle sporting a specially-designed blast-diffusing hull saved countless lives. Particularly suited for...
10 August 2016 Five Nations Conduct Post-RIMPAC Multilateral Exercise SAN DIEGO - Ships from the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF), Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN), Royal Australian Navy (RAN), Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) and U.S. Navy (USN) and U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) participated in a post Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) multilateral exercise in the Hawaii operating...
11 July 2016 Soldiers Master Their Craft with Expert Infantryman Badge Training CAMP CASEY, South Korea -- During the month of May, Infantry Soldiers from across the Korean Peninsula pushed themselves through grueling tests of physical and mental capabilities in an attempt to earn the coveted Expert Infantryman Badge.Of the 627 Soldiers who made the attempt, only 131 earned...
20 June 2016 Commemorating Those Lost at Bakers Creek JOINT BASE MYER-HENDERSON HALL -- The lives and legacies of the American Soldiers who were killed in an aircraft crash, considered to be the worst accident involving a transport plane in the southwest Pacific during World War II, were honored during a ceremony June 14 on Joint Base Myer-Henderson...
15 April 2016 Vital Recruits Enhance Cultural Growth During Pacific Pathways MANILA, Philippines. - Early Saturday morning April 9, 2016, Spc. Roel Fantilanan, a U.S. Army Soldier in the 25th Infantry Division, and native of Koronadal City, Philippines, arrived at the 25th Infantry Division Early Entry Command Post in Manila to begin work coordinating transportation and...
01 March 2016 New York Air National Guard Aids Australian Antarctic Researchers MCMURDO STATION, Antarctica - New York Air National Guard Airmen who fly the only ski-equipped aircraft in the American military gave a lift to 35 Australian Antarctic researchers heading back home on Saturday, Feb. 27.Eight members of the 109th Airlift Wing flew one of six LC-130s, which have been...
29 February 2016 Ammunition Operations in Korea U.S. Army ammunition operations within the Korean theater of operations (KTO) are unique from those conducted in other locations. This uniqueness is due in large part to the Korean Armistice Agreement, which ended Korean War operations in 1953. An armistice is a ceasefire between military forces,...
25 February 2016 Return with Honor PACIFIC OCEAN – As a prisoner of war (POW) during the Vietnam War, Cmdr. James B. Stockdale was the epitome of fortitude and love of country. When his captors told him he was going to be used for propaganda, Stockdale slit his scalp with a razor, purposely disfiguring himself, so that his captors...
16 February 2016 U.S. Marines Helocast with Royal Thai, Republic of Korea Marines during Cobra Gold 16 LATOWAN, Thailand -- Royal Thai, Republic of Korea and U.S. Marines helocasted from an MV-22B Osprey Feb. 10, 2016 for the first time in a joint environment during exercise Cobra Gold 16 in Thailand. Cobra Gold is an exercise that increases cooperation, interoperability and collaboration among...
23 December 2015 Alaskan Soldier is a Face of the Guard in His Small Rural Community JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON - More than 400 miles west of Anchorage lies Bethel, Alaska’s largest western community. Although only accessible by air and water, approximately six thousand residents call this city home. This includes the Alaska Army National Guard’s full-time Bethel armory supply...