20 July 2016 First-ever: Marine F-35B Takes Part in Red Flag 16-3 NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. - For the first time, the United States Marine Corps will be participating with their F-35B during the three-week Red Flag 16-3 exercise at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. With the Marine Corps bringing this multi-role, next generation fighter, this year’s 16-3 iteration...
16 March 2017 Singapore Air Force Enhances Red Flag 17-2 NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, NEV -- As the Singapore CH-47 Chinook’s twin rotors build speed and spin in unison, a loud but calming hum fills the interior of the helicopter. Seven Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape specialists sit with their gear in front of them, parachutes on their backs.As the...
24 March 2020 9th Mission Support Command Deputy Surgeon Saves a Life during a 7-Hour Flight Overseas HONOLULU, Hawaii -- On January 27th, 2020, United Airlines Flight 200 from Tamuning, Guam to Honolulu, Hawaii started off as any other ordinary flight across the Pacific. However, when a medical emergency emerged, this routine flight quickly “went south”.First Officer Christopher Stokes, who is also...
12 September 2024 Transforming Healthcare in the Solomon Islands: 1984th U.S. Army Hospital’s Impactful Mission in Munda The 1984th U.S. Army Hospital Pacific (USAH-P), a brigade of the 9th Mission Support Command, continued their Global Healthcare Engagement (GHE) in Solomon Islands, for two weeks in August of 2024...
20 February 2018 Army Reserve Answers First Call for Disaster Support Relief in American Samoa PAGO PAGO, American Samoa -- When disaster strikes at home, who answers the call to clean up and rebuild? Immediately after a destructive storm, U.S. Army Reserve forces in American Samoa took immediate action.In concert and coordination with various federal, state, local, interagency, and...
31 October 2018 Army Reserve Answers Call for Typhoon Yutu Disaster Support Relief HONOLULU, Hawaii -- On Oct. 30, the 9th Mission Support Command, U.S. Army Reserve mobilized approximately 300 Soldiers from Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the Pacific area. It supports relief and recovery efforts following the devastation of Super Typhoon Yutu in order to save lives and...
19 May 2017 U-2 Makes First Appearance during Northern Edge 17 JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (AFNS) -- Looking across the flightline at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson during previous Northern Edge exercises you would have seen a mass of gray and white aircraft, but this year the distinctly black U-2S Dragon Lady from Beale Air Force Base, California,...
19 April 2022 Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group Conducts Exercises with the JMSDF SEA OF Japan -- The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group (ABECSG), along with JS Inazuma (DD 105) and JS Kongo (DDG 173), from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) completed bilateral exercises in the Philippine Sea and East China Sea, April 18, 2022.USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), USS Mobile...
31 December 2019 Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group Hosts Thai Military Officials SOUTH CHINA SEA -- The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, embarked on flagship USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), hosted leaders from the Royal Thai Army, Navy, and Air Force, Dec. 23.Top Thai military officials made an arrested landing aboard Abraham Lincoln following its safe transit of the Strait...
28 July 2014 U.S. Military Delivers Medicals Supplies to Vietnamese Soldiers Critically Injured in Helicopter Crash The U.S. military delivered 200 jars of burn cream to Vietnamese soldiers critically injured in a helicopter crash near Hanoi, July 7. The MI-171 helicopter was on a parachute training flight near Hanoi when it went down with 21 crew and special forces soldiers, killing 16, three died later and two...