EAST CHINA SEA -- During the last week of June, Airmen from 961st Airborne Air Control Squadron joined the crew of USS Dewey (DDG 105) to support operations in the East China Sea.Joint operations test the capabilities of U.S. forces serving in Japan. Fighter pilots and air controllers from the Air...

PUSAT MISI PEMELIHARAAN PERDAMAIAN, U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Indonesia -- The Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI), U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM), and service members from partner nations are participating in Exercise Garuda Canti Dharma 2022 (GCD22) at Pusat Misi Pemeliharaan...

PACIFIC OCEAN -- Live fire from Rim of the Pacific 2022 partner nation ships and aircraft sank the decommissioned ex-USS Rodney M. Davis (FFG 60) July 12, in waters 15,000 feet deep, 50 nautical miles north of Kauai.Units from Australia, Canada, Malaysia and the U.S. participated in the sinking...

SANTA RITA, Guam -- The U.S. Coast Guard conducted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Cmdr. Carlton S. Skinner Building located at U.S. Coast Guard Forces Micronesia/Sector Guam on Thursday.U.S. Coast Guard Fourteenth District Commander, Rear Adm. Michael Day, presided over the ceremony. The Lt...

YOKOHAMA, Japan -- Rear Adm. Rick Seif, commander, Submarine Group (CSG) 7/Task Force (CTF) 74, visited the Victorious-class ocean surveillance ship USNS Effective (T-AGOS 21) in Yokohama, Japan, July 13, 2022.During his visit, Seif was given a tour of the ship and took the opportunity to address...

SAN DIEGO -- Royal Australian Navy hydrographic surveyors aboard the San Antonio-class transport dock ship USS Portland (LPD-27) are working with surveyors from the Royal New Zealand Navy to locate inert mines along the coast in Southern California, USA as part of Exercise Rim of the Pacific...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan -- More than 50 military police Soldiers officially changed their uniform patch after a ceremony here Tuesday that signified their move from the 35th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion (CSSB) to U.S. Army Garrison Japan.Both the 88th and 901st Military Police (MP) Detachments, the...

U.S. Embassy in Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu -- On July 12, Vice President Harris will participate virtually in the Pacific Islands Forum leaders’ meeting at the invitation of the Forum Chair Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama of Fiji. As part of this engagement with Forum leaders, the...

KOROR, Palau -- Pacific Partnership 2022 kicked off in Koror, Palau, July 12.Now in its 17th year, Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific.In Palau, the Pacific Partnership 2022 (PP22)...

WASHINGTON -- The meeting between Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Richard Marles was more of a family reunion than a strategic summit.The two men met in the Pentagon to discuss what Austin called the "unbreakable alliance" between...