14 November 2024 USINDOPACOM Hosts NDU CAPSTONE Fellows U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Joel Carey, chief of staff for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, welcomed retired Adm. Harry Harris, former U.S. ambassador to South Korea and the 24th USINDOPACOM commander, and National Defense University CAPSTONE fellows at Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii, Nov. 13, 2024...
13 November 2024 United Nations Command honors Korean War veterans, fallen service members at Turn Toward Busan Ceremony Members of the United Nations Command participated in the Turn Toward Busan International Commemorative Ceremony, at the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Busan, hosted by the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs, Nov. 11, 2024...
12 November 2024 Pacific Air Forces commander honors service members in Veterans Day address Nestled within the natural “punch bowl” of an extinct volcanic crater and watched over by the figure of Lady Columbia, military veterans were honored and celebrated for their courage, dedication, and enduring legacy of service during a Veterans Day Ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the...
05 November 2024 Camp Fuji Fire Remembered 45 Years Later On October 19, 1979, a typhoon’s destructive winds led to a fire breaking out on Camp Fuji...
29 October 2024 DoD Releases National Defense Industrial Strategy Implementation Plan The Department of Defense (DoD) today published the unclassified National Defense Industrial Strategy Implementation Plan (NDIS-IP), detailing how the DoD will achieve the four strategic priorities laid out in the NDIS. Released by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base...
29 October 2024 Remarks by Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen H. Hicks at the 2024 Microelectronics Commons Annual Meeting (As Delivered) Good morning, everybody. Thank you, Dr. [Dev] Shenoy, first, for the introduction, and thanks to all of you in the defense research and engineering enterprise, for what you do every day to lead us...
26 October 2024 Recently Promoted Admiral Shares How Hawaiian Values and Mentors Shaped His Leadership Mahelona was recently promoted to Rear Admiral, Lower Half, becoming only the third Native Hawaiian to achieve the rank. He follows in the footsteps of Adm. Gordon Paiea Chung-Hoon and Vice Adm. Robert Kihune, who presided over Mahelona’s promotion ceremony on Oct. 5 aboard the Battleship Missouri...
15 October 2024 NAMRU INDO PACIFIC Grows Partnership in Malaysia Capt. Andrew Letizia, science director of Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) INDO PACIFIC, has described the command’s collaborations with partner nations as the lifeblood of Navy Medicine’s OCONUS research and development...
13 October 2024 President of the Republic of Palau visits Hawaii HONOLULU — President Surangel S. Whipps Jr. of the Republic of Palau visited the Indo-Pacific Command Headquarters at Camp H.M. Smith, where he participated in an honors ceremony and an office call to discuss combined efforts that promote regional stability, mutual defense priorities and deterrence...
11 October 2024 U.S. Indo-Pacific Commander Visits Republic of Korea, Meets with Senior Leaders SEOUL — Adm. Samuel J. Paparo, commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, visited the Republic of Korea (ROK) from Oct. 8-11 to meet with senior Korean military and government officials, future Korean military officers, and visit various locations throughout the peninsula.During the trip, Paparo met...