Sailors attached to Submarine Group 7 and the Indonesian navy (TNI-AL) participated in training for Simulated Submarine Casualty Exercise (SMASHEX) in Surabaya, Indonesia, April 13.SMASHEX is a table top exercise that tests the procedure for the very unlikely case of a submarine search, escape and...

Marines with 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, stationed out of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, arrived April 12 at the Royal Australian Air Force Base Darwin, Darwin Australia. The Marines arrived to begin the fourth evolution of Marine Rotational Force - Darwin 2015. MRF-D is the...

Medical personnel from the Brian Allgood Army Community Hospital (BAACH)along with the Korean Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDCP) recentlyparticipated in a Highly Infectious Disease Full Scale Exercise on March 31,2015. The exercise provided Republic of Korea (ROK) and US...

Sailors from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 25 conducted a search-and-rescue (SAR) operation and retrieved five distressed mariners west of Apra Harbor on U.S. Naval Base Guam April 11.HSC-25 received a request from U.S. Coast Guard Sector Guam at approximately 7:25 p.m. about five people who...

The Combined-Joint Civil-Military Operations Task Force, located on the island of Panay, completed a three-day cooperative health engagement with a train-the-trainer first responder medical course as part of exercise Balikatan, April 9. Over 100 Armed Forces of the Philippines Army soldiers from the...

Members from the Air Force, Navy and Army processed 150 families whileparticipating in a joint Non-combatant Evacuation Operation exercise here April8.In an Okinawa-wide NEO, evacuees may have to go to the closest NEOpoint, which may not always be the military branch their family is with, so itis...

A UH-60 Black Hawk hovered above a placid lake at LZ Elbow, a field site, in South Korea. Strong wind from the propellers stirred the gentle lake violently. From the aircraft, a hoist was lowered down to the ground. Soldiers already on the ground rapidly strapped a 200 lb. dummy onto the hoist. The...

In 2001, Japan Air Self-Defense Force Maj. Kazuto Ueda, then a cadet at Japan's National Defense Academy (NDA), visited the U.S. Air Force Academy for a week.Never in his wildest dreams did he think he'd return here 12 years later to teach Japanese history, military and culture to American...

The smoke is still rising. You lay awkwardly where you thought you were when it happened. It’s dark with just a little bit starlight for you to see your hands. All you know is that everything hurts, and you want to get out of there. You have crash landed into enemy territory and have to take the...

Defense Secretary Ash Carter thanked U.S. troops at Osan Air Base, South Korea, for their service and spoke to them about the importance of the Asia-Pacific region.Traveling on his first official visit to the region as defense secretary, Carter held a troop talk yesterday and told a group of...