06 October 2021 U.S. Navy, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Conduct CODEP PACIFIC OCEAN -- USS Port Royal (CG 73), USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) and JMSDF training ship JS Kashima (TV 3508) conducted drills in the Hawaiian Islands Operating Area, Oct. 4.The Ticonderoga class guided-missile cruiser USS Port Royal (CG 73), Arleigh-Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS...
06 October 2021 35th CSSB Soldiers Compete in Unit’s First Ever ‘Best Warrior’ Competition CAMP ZAMA, Japan -- Five Soldiers assigned to the 35th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion competed in the unit’s first ever battalion-level “Best Warrior” competition Sept. 28 through Oct. 1 on Sagami General Depot and Camp Zama, Japan.Despite his unit being comprised of Soldiers with many...
06 October 2021 U.S. Donates Additional 2.5 Million Pfizer Vaccines to Bangladesh for a Total of 11.5 Million Doses DHAKA, U.S. Embassy in Bangladesh -- Today, U.S. Ambassador Earl R. Miller handed over a donation of 2.5 million doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to Bangladesh, a gift from the American people. The Pfizer vaccines build on earlier U.S. COVID-19 vaccine donations for a total of 11.5 million doses...
05 October 2021 Marine Corps F-35B Conduct First Landing Aboard JS Izumo MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan -- At the request of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 242 successfully conducted the first ever landing of two F-35B Lightning II aircraft aboard the Japanese Ship Izumo on October 3, 2021.Following a series...
05 October 2021 USS Halsey Returns To Homeport PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- The Arleigh-Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS Halsey (DDG 97) returned to its homeport at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Oct. 4, after successfully completing a scheduled deployment to the U.S. 5th and 7th Fleet areas of responsibility.Halsey departed Pearl Harbor,...
05 October 2021 Future USS Daniel Inouye Sails for Hawaii BATH, Maine - The Navy’s newest guided missile destroyer, the future USS Daniel Inouye (DDG 118), sailed away from General Dynamics Bath Iron Works shipyard, Oct. 4.The ship is en route to its homeport, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for its scheduled commissioning in December.“Following delivery to the Navy...
05 October 2021 Vietnam Receives 1,499,940 Pfizer Vaccine Doses from COVAX Made Available by the U.S. HANOI, Embassy & Consulates in Vietnam -- The U.S. delivered an additional 1,499,940 life-saving doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to assist Vietnam in its fight against COVID-19, Oct. 2. These doses were delivered through COVAX and came directly from the Pfizer manufacturing plant in Kalamazoo,...
05 October 2021 Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, U.S. Carrier Strike Group 1 Complete Bilateral Exercise PHILIPPINE SEA -- Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 1 units conducted bilateral operations with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) while operating in the Philippine Sea Sept. 18-Sept. 29.During the exercise, Japanese and U.S. ships participated in a multitude of events to include anti-submarine...
05 October 2021 USNS Alan Shepard Enhances Training with Navy’s New Sub-Sonic Target PACIFIC OCEAN - Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship USNS Alan Shepard (T-AKE 3) helped test the capabilities of the BQM-177A, the Navy next-generation Sub-Sonic Aerial Target (SSAT) while operating in the Western Pacific, Sept. 9-10.“The BQM-177A enhances our readiness because it increases our...
04 October 2021 Exercise Noble Jaguar: Navy-Marine Corps Team Brings Integrated Lethality in the Littorals OKINAWA, Japan -- U.S. Marines and Sailors from across III Marine Expeditionary Force and elements of U.S. 7th Fleet executed Noble Jaguar, an integrated naval exercise in and around Japan, Sept. 27-31, 2021.While closely monitoring simulated adversary activities, these forces received the order to...