09 May 2014 Spartan Brigade Validates Divers Capabilities at Joint Readiness Training Center "Anywhere, anytime." It's a slogan that the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, has made its own and lived by for the last year. It started when the Spartan Brigade flew 15 hours non-stop across the Pacific Ocean in July 2013 and parachuted into northern Australia...
09 May 2014 7th Fleet Ships Emphasize CUES Training With the endorsement of CUES at the Western Pacific Naval Symposium (WPNS) in April 2014, WPNS navies have affirmed their commitment to safety during unplanned encounters at sea. Across the Indo-Pacific Seventh Fleet ships and aircraft train for the expected increase in use of CUES to ensure quick...
09 May 2014 Engineers Jump North of Arctic Circle The midnight sun turned the sky pink as 12 paratroopers from 84th Engineer Support Company, 6th Engineer Battalion (Combat) (Airborne), 2d Engineer Brigade, jumped out of a C-17 Globemaster III to land north of the Arctic Circle during multi-component joint Arctic mobility exercise Arctic...
08 May 2014 Locklear Named Surface Navy Association's "Old Salt" Adm. Samuel Locklear, Commander, U.S. Pacific Command, accepted the Surface Navy Association's (SNA) "Old Salt" Award at the National Museum of the United States Navy at the Washington Navy Yard, May 7."In the Navy, we have an expression for respected, experienced and knowledgeable mariners. We...
08 May 2014 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit-5 Conducts 2014 Tri-Crab Exercise Sailors from Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 5 trained alongside members of the Royal Australian Navy and Air Force, Australian Army and Republic of Singapore Navy during the biennial Tri-Crab Exercise on U.S. Naval Base Guam. The two-week training, which began April 28 and will...
08 May 2014 New U.S. Naval Hospital Facility Opens U.S. Naval Hospital Guam officially opened the doors of their new, state-of-the-art facility in Agana Heights for the first time April 21, replacing the old hospital that was built in 1954.Hospital officials said the transition to the new hospital was seamless, and with the exception of going to a...
07 May 2014 USS City of Corpus Christi Returns to Pearl Harbor Family and friends gathered May 6 at the submarine piers on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam to welcome home Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS City of Corpus Christi (SSN 705) from a deployment to the Western Pacific region."This is my final underway in command and I cannot be prouder than...
07 May 2014 Alaska Air Force Reserve Unit Flies Milestone Sortie F-22 pilots from the 477th Fighter Group, Alaska's only Air Force Reserve unit, made history during the Unit Training Assembly weekend May 3. With a combined total of 4000 flight hours, Col. David Piffarerio, Majs. Jonathan Gration, Ryan Pelkola and Chad Newkirk flew the most experienced four-ship...
07 May 2014 Wolf Pack Combat Survival Exercise: Hide Fast, Move Slow From outside the woods, it looks like several Airmen playing a game of hide and seek that any passerby would dismiss as "boys being boys." Once you take a look inside the woods and add the uniforms, well-trained seekers and cold adrenaline-filled pilots, then it becomes a Wolf Pack Survival,...
06 May 2014 USS Hopper to Return from Deployment The guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper (DDG 70) is scheduled to return to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam May 6 from an independent deployment to the 5th and 7th Fleet areas of responsibility.Commanded by Cmdr. Dave Snee, the ship and its crew of nearly 280 Sailors deployed from Hawaii Sept. 6, 2013...