16 July 2018 USS Chief Pulls into Hakodate HAKODATE, Japan -– USS Chief (MCM 14) pulled into Hakodate, Japan, July 14, for a goodwill port visit and training.Chief, an Avenger-class mine countermeasure ship, is crewed by roughly 90 Sailors. Port visits like this onegives the Sailors aboard an opportunity to interact with the people of...
16 July 2018 Yokota Hosts Military Personnel Exchange Program Conference YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- Yokota Air Base, Japan, hosted the Military Personnel Exchange Program (MPEP) Strategic Engagement forum for the first time in their more than 45 year history, on July 11-12.The MPEP offers active duty personnel the chance to become part of the International Affairs team;...
16 July 2018 Bleeding Blue: Misawa Maintenance Officer's Dreams Comes True MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan -- Her parents gave her a set of model military airplanes when she was younger and she had a grandpa, uncles and cousins in the service. As a little girl, she always knew she wanted to be in the military.As she prepared to go to Misawa Air Base as a then-2nd Lieutenant,...
13 July 2018 RIMPAC Units Participate in Sinking Exercise Live fire from aircraft, a submarine, and land assets participating in the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise sank the decommissioned ex-USS Racine (LST-1191) July 12 in waters 15,000 feet deep 55 nautical miles north of Kauai, Hawaii. Units from Australia, Japan, and the U.S. participated in the...
13 July 2018 RIMPAC Disaster Relief Drill Trains and Certifies Military, Civilian Organizations PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- Military and civilian personnel responded to a simulated earthquake and tsunami scenario July 12-13 as part of a task force that included non-governmental organizations, and the State of Hawaii during the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise at Joint Base Pearl...
13 July 2018 Deploying Group System Integration Testing Embarks Ronald Reagan Strike Group Units PHILIPPINE SEA -- More than 35 members of the Naval Information Forces Deploying Group System Integration Testing (DGSIT) team embarks aboard USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) and additional units of the Ronald Reagan Strike Group July 5-13.DGSIT is a fleet-directed program to test interoperability of all...
13 July 2018 US-Mongolia Air Forces Agree to Airman-to-Airman Talks JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- Heidi Grant, Deputy Under Secretary of the Air Force, International Affairs, met with Mongolian officials over a three-day visit to Ulaanbataar and Nalaikh Air Bases, Mongolia, at the invitation of the Mongolian Air Chief May 17-19, 2018.Discussions held...
13 July 2018 Veterans Reflect on First Battle of Korean War; Receive Honors from City They Protected OSAN, South Korea -- "When they stopped us on the road, they lined us up, they set up machine guns across from us and I thought this is the end," recalled former U.S. Army Cpl. Raymond Mullin, who served as a medic with Task Force (TF) Smith, the first U.S. Army ground maneuver unit to enter combat...
13 July 2018 'Exciting, Crucial' Time in Artificial intelligence Development, Official Tells Innovation Board WASHINGTON -- Artificial intelligence is a strategic priority for the Defense Department that could transform the way the department operates, the head of machine learning at the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) said yesterday.“We are in the midst of an exciting and crucial time in the...
12 July 2018 Pacific Angel 18-3 to begin in Vanuatu LUGNAVILLE, Vanuatu -- The United States and Vanuatu will conduct a humanitarian assistance engagement during Pacific Angel (PAC ANGEL) 2018, July 16-21, 2018.PAC ANGEL 18 is an annual joint and combined exercise that provides general health and engineering programs to the residents of Espiritu...