06 January 2021 Nation’s Sole Heavy Icebreaker Arrives in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, for First Visit Since 2013 DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska -- The Seattle-based Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star (WAGB 10) arrived Tuesday in Dutch Harbor for a logistics stop 30 days into a months-long Arctic deployment to protect the nation’s maritime sovereignty and security throughout the polar region.The 44-year-old heavy icebreaker...
06 January 2021 Spartan Medics and Physicians Receive First Vaccinations JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, ALASKA – Paratroopers with the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, “Spartan Brigade,” received their initial dose of the COVID-19 vaccine here Jan. 4, 2021Spartan medics and physicians were the first to receive the first of two doses...
06 January 2021 DOD's Inaugural Foray Into 5G Experimentation on Track WASHINGTON -- The United States Department of Defense has taken historic action to advance the application of 5G communications for America's warfighters.In October 2020, Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Michael Kratsios announced $600 million in award contracts to 15...
06 January 2021 Readout of U.S.-Maldives Inaugural Defense and Security Dialogue WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Defense and the Ministry of Defense of the Maldives held their inaugural Defense and Security Dialogue January 5 in Male, Maldives. Mr. Anthony Tata, performing the duties of under secretary of defense for policy, co-chaired the meeting alongside Maldivian...
06 January 2021 COVID-19 Vaccinations Begin at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- An initial shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Pfizer-BioNTech arrived at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Dec. 31, 2020, and inoculations began the same day.The vaccine is part of Operation Warp Speed, a national initiative to...
05 January 2021 DOD and Mongolia Ministry of Defense Conduct 17th Annual Bilateral Consultative Council WASHINGTON -- U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) Heino Klinck and Mongolia Ministry of Defense State Secretary D. Gankhuyag met virtually to conduct the 17th annual U.S.-Mongolia Bilateral Consultative Council, Jan. 5 (Washington, D.C.) and Jan. 6 (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia). Mongolian...
05 January 2021 Army Distributes COVID-19 Vaccine to Troops in Korea CAMP CARROLL, South Korea -- Teams at the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center-Korea (USAMMC-K), working in collaboration with the Defense Logistics Agency, began receiving, storing and distributing the COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 25.USAMMC-K, the theater lead agent for medical materiel, exercised its...
05 January 2021 From Resilience to Recovery U.S. Embassy in the Philippines -- During his 1946 inaugural address, President Manual Roxas told a newly independent Philippines and the world, “We have yet a greater bulwark today…the friendship and devotion of America.” For three quarters of a century, Americans and Filipinos have met and...
04 January 2021 Steaming Into the New Year PACIFIC OCEAN -- The bridge was dark and quiet when Lt. j.g. Grace Miller, from Atlanta, Georgia, the officer of the deck, signed the first deck log entry of the New Year aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson (DDG 114) on Jan. 1, 2021, but what was typically a...
04 January 2021 After 75 Years, Veteran Will Receive Honors for WWII Service WASHINGTON -- The Navy and the Connecticut Air National Guard on Monday will honor Connecticut native son Dan Crowley for fighting against the Japanese in the Philippines 75 years ago.Gregory J. Slavonic, who is performing the duties of the Navy undersecretary, will present Crowley with an honorary...