12 June 2014 Army, Coast Guard Intel Troops Share Experiences to Increase Harbor Awareness Intelligence troops from the 8th Theater Sustainment Command embraced the characteristics of their water-locked home by welcoming the opportunity to learn from their Coast Guard counterparts during a joint training here last month.The 15 Soldiers visited The Coast Guard Integrated Support Command to...
12 June 2014 B-29 Ceremony Cultivates Compassion, Understanding Saturday was a dreary and rainy day for many at Yokota, but in Shizuoka, where the 42nd annual B-29 Memorial Ceremony was held on Sengen Hill, blue skies prevailed. Every year, U.S. and Japanese service members hike to the Sengen Hill monuments in honor of those who lost their lives in a B-29...
12 June 2014 Medical Training Key Component of Pacific Partnership 2014 DA NANG, Vietnam (June 10, 2014) - Vietnamese medical personnel practice chest compressions after an advanced cardiac life support class, part of Pacific Partnership 2014, at Da Nang General Hospital. Pacific Partnership is in its ninth iteration and is the largest annual multilateral humanitarian...
12 June 2014 Band Soldier Uses Bilingual Skills, Music to Strengthen Bonds with Japanese Community "Thank you for saving me that day." Sgt. Cameron Blackhurst, assigned to the U.S. Army Japan Band, here, was told those words by a tearful Japanese woman after he, along with other band members, put on a concert at Showa Kinen Park on the outskirts of Tokyo in November 2013. Blackhurst, who plays...
12 June 2014 8th TSC Troops Prepare for Pacific Theater Humanitarian Assistance Survey Team Mission, Demonstrate Expeditionary Capability More than half the people in the world call the Pacific region home, and history reflects extremely high odds that each of their lives will be impacted in some way by a natural disaster. Typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, cyclones, floods and mudslides characterize the region’s past and realistically...
12 June 2014 U.S., Indonesian Navy Divers Lay Wreath on Wreck of USS Houston during CARAT Deputy Chief of Mission Kristen Bauer, U.S. Embassy Jakarta, joined U.S. and Indonesian navy divers on board the USNS Safeguard (T-ARS 50) to lay a wreath at the site of the USS Houston (CA 30), June 11.The commemoration ceremony occurred mid-way through a five-day bilateral diving exercise as part...
11 June 2014 Over 15,000 Children Receive Vision Care through U.S.-Supported Project Over 15,000 primary and secondary students in Quoc Oai district of Hanoi have received vision screenings with those in need receiving quality eyeglasses under an eye care project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) through a grant provided to Advancing and Partners...
11 June 2014 Day in the Life of a U-2 Crew Chief Imagine working on something worth approximately $60 million and being responsible for the safety of another person's life.For the crew chiefs of the 5th Reconnaissance Squadron, that's just another day at work as they repair and maintain U-2 Dragon Ladies to ensure the Squadron's pilots can safely...
11 June 2014 Cope Taufan begins for Pacific Air Forces Exercise Cope Taufan kicked off today, a biennial Large Force Employment exercise between the Royal Malaysian Air Force and Pacific Air Forces. More than 450 Airmen are participating, as well as four U.S. Air Force airframes, which includes the inaugural deployment of the F-22 Raptor to a Southeast...
11 June 2014 6-17th Cavalry Regiment begins deployment to South Korea The Department of the Army has approved the rotational deployment of the 6th Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment from Fort Wainwright, Alaska, to Camp Humphreys, South Korea within the month of June. The 6-17th Cavalry is the third U.S. Army rotational unit to deploy to South Korea for a nine-month...