PUERTO PRINCESA, Republic of the Philippines -- USNS Millinocket (T-EPF 3) and embarked U.S. 7th Fleet staff Sailors and Marines arrived in Puerto Princesa, Republic of the Philippines June 4 as part of the U.S. 7th Fleet theater security cooperation (TSC) patrol.The 7th Fleet team, consisting of...

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- The U.S. Air Force deployed a squadron of RQ-4 Global Hawks, June 1, 2018, intra-theater to Misawa Air Base, Japan from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, in order to maintain theater-wide Global Hawk operations through the Summer and Fall.This rotational...

NHA TRANG, Vietnam -- Service members and mission personnel participating in Pacific Partnership 2018 departed Nha Trang aboard the U.S. Navy’s hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) June 2, after a successful two-week mission in Vietnam.This mission in Nha Trang included personnel from the Japan...

WASHINGTON -- Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with U.S. treaty allies and other partners, America seeks to build an Indo-Pacific region where sovereignty and territorial integrity are safeguarded and the promise of freedom is fulfilled and prosperity prevails for all, Defense Secretary James N. Mattis...

WASHINGTON -- North Korea was a topic in almost all of his bilateral talks with leaders of other nations, Defense Secretary James N. Mattis told reporters last night on his return flight from Singapore and his Indo-Pacific region trip.The secretary’s trip first took him to Honolulu to attend the...

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- Red Flag-Alaska 18-2, a Pacific Air Forces-sponsored field training exercise designed to provide realistic training in a simulated combat environment is scheduled to begin June 7 with primary flight operations over the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam will host a commemoration ceremony at WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument, June 1 at 8 a.m., to mark the 76th anniversary of the Battle of Midway.The public is invited to attend the ceremony at the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center's education...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- U.S. Air Force Airmen from across the Indo-Pacific assembled in Sri Lanka to work with their Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) counterparts to discuss best practices and various courses of action through the second round of Airman to Airman talks, mid-May at the SLAF Headquarters.Sri...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas -- Two 902nd Contracting Battalion Soldiers from Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM), Washington, are in Mongolia through June 10 supporting disaster preparedness and response by multinational civil and military authorities.Gobi Wolf 2018 is a reoccurring...

YOKOSUKA, Japan -- Naval ships, aircraft and personnel from India, Japan and the United States will participate in exercise Malabar 2018, in mid-summer 2018 off the coast of Guam.Malabar 2018 is the first time the exercise has been conducted off the coast of Guam, and the latest in a continuing...