14 December 2024 Marine Corps Community Service hosts Okinawa Comic Con | 2024 Over 4,000 Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) personnel, service members, and local Japanese residents participated in Comic Con Okinawa 2024 at Camp Foster from Dec. 7-8. The two-day comic convention featured voice actor panels, booths, merchandise vendors, cosplay competitions, costume workshops,...
13 December 2024 USINDOPACOM hosts Transnational Security Cooperation Course 24-2 Adm. Samuel J. Paparo, commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, hosted 36 senior U.S. and international military and civilian officials at USINDOPACOM for the Daniel K. Inouye-Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies’ Transnational Security Cooperation Course 24-2, Dec. 12, 2024...
13 December 2024 SECDEF visits Japan, highlights multilateral cooperation and U.S.-Japan alliance Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin visited Japan from Dec. 8-11, meeting with defense officials, senior U.S. and Japanese leaders to reaffirm the two nations’ alliance and discuss regional security concerns...
13 December 2024 Joint Statement on the Japan – U.S. CBRN Defense Policy Dialogue Mr. Ueda Koji, Deputy Director General, Defense Policy Bureau, Japan Ministry of Defense, and Mr. Richard Johnson, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear and Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Policy, held a Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) Defense Policy...
12 December 2024 Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III Concludes Thirteenth Visit to the Indo-Pacific Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder provided the following statement: Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III concluded his thirteenth official visit to the Indo-Pacific this week. ...
12 December 2024 Armed Forces of the Philippines launches NGAUS-inspired Reservist Organization Over 2,000 Armed Forces of the Philippines Reservists, active-duty leaders, and members of the Guam and Hawaii National Guard State Partnership Programs celebrated the inaugural General Assembly of the Association of Reservists and Reservist Administrators of the Philippines Inc. (ARRAPI)...
12 December 2024 U.S. Air Force 51st LRS, KSC build relationships, readiness The 51st Logistics Readiness Squadron coordinated with 7th Air Force to practice a new interactive strategy with the Korean Service Corps Pyeontaek Mobilization Station members, they conducted a simulated contingency operations training from Camp Humphreys to Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea on Dec...
12 December 2024 Strengthening U.S.-Malaysia partnership in air defense The Western Air Defense Sector and Royal Malaysian Air Force 320 Squadron, Control and Reporting Center 1, recently strengthened their ties through a Sister Squadron Agreement exchange emphasizing collaboration in air defense for the South China Sea region...
12 December 2024 Tri-Command Commanding General's Conversation With Republic of Korea Acting Minister of Defense On Dec. 12, 2024, Acting Minister of National Defense Kim Seon Ho held a video teleconference with Gen. Paul J. LaCamera, Commander of the Combined Forces Command, United Nations Command, United States Force Korea, and the Senior U.S. Military Officer assigned to Korea (SUSMOAK)...
12 December 2024 Bangladesh Armed Forces visit USINDOPACOM for Bilateral Defense Dialogue U.S. Indo-Pacific Command hosted a delegation from the Armed Forces of Bangladesh for the 11th iteration of the Bilateral Defense Dialogue, Dec. 10-12, 2024...