25 July 2014 Wolf Pack Airmen Take Part in Korean Armistice Agreement Ceremony Members of the 8th Fighter Wing took part in a Korean Armistice Agreement anniversary ceremony held at the Imsil National Ceremony in Jeonbuk, Korea, July 22.Having been invited by the Republic of Korea Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs, the 8th FW sent representatives from each of its...
25 July 2014 U.S. Ambassador Goldberg Visits Benguet to Promote Disaster Risk Reduction Activities U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Philip S. Goldberg visited Benguet Province from July 24 to July 25 to lead a series of activities that will further advance disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation measures in the region. Benguet is one of the most vulnerable provinces to...
25 July 2014 Rotational Units Get First Taste of Multi-Purpose Range Complex The sun is blazing and the weather is heating up on the peninsula. On some days, the 90-degree temperature seems unforgiving. The good news is the Army trains its forces to defeat the enemy in all elements. Some units show off that ability as they train to maintain the winning strategy in a joint...
25 July 2014 Partnering with the Japanese in Support of Pacific Pivot Army Field Support Battalion-Northeast Asia hosted the Honorable Itsunori Onodera, the Japanese Minister of defense, at the United States Army's Watercraft Equipment Base-Yokohama North Dock, June 27. "This visit was the culmination of several years of partnership between the Japan Ground Self...
25 July 2014 Mercy and NEPMU-6 offer Preventive Medicine Classes during RIMPAC Exercise 2014 Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit Six (NEPMU-6) conducted classes on environmental health, industrial hygiene and pest management throughout the week of July 21 to hospital corpsman aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) during Rim of the Pacific...
25 July 2014 Reserve Sailors Bring Support During RIMPAC Reservist Sailors from around the nation are at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam to support Commander, Anti-Submarine Warfare Force, U.S. 3rd Fleet (CTF-34), participating in the world's largest international maritime exercise, the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC), with activities situated in and around...
24 July 2014 USNS Mercy Hosts Multinational Trauma Courses during RIMPAC 2014 The Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), in conjunction with Canadian military medical personnel, hosted three trauma care courses from July 21 to July 23.The courses included advanced trauma life support, advanced trauma care for nurses and pre-hospital trauma life...
24 July 2014 PACANGEL-Tonga Dental Clinic Treats and Educates Two tables pushed together and a stack of plastic chairs serve as an operating table. Men, women and children of all ages wait patiently for their turn to see a dentist.The dental clinic was one of four clinics set up in the auditorium of Mailefihi Siu'ilikutapu College in Neiafu, Vava'u. American,...
24 July 2014 Fitzgerald Fosters Friendship in Fukuoka Sailors from Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) played basketball with students from The Fukuoka Institute of Technology, July 19, during a goodwill port visit to Fukuoka."No matter what language you speak, sports unite people," said Seaman Zachary Curato, from...
24 July 2014 EOD Community Builds Bilateral Relations "Fire in the hole! Fire in the hole! Fire in the hole!"After these words are shouted, what is left to hear is the sound of a "KABOOM!" from a nearby explosion slowly overshadowed by the resonating splashes of the morning Pacific Ocean. It is just another day on the job if you ask any of Misawa Air...