SINGAPORE (NNS) -- Rear Adm. Don Gabrielson relieved Rear Adm. Brian Hurley as commander, Logistics Group Western Pacific (COMLOG WESTPAC) during a change of command ceremony, Aug. 11. Gabrielson also assumed duties as commander, Task Force 73 and Singapore area coordinator for U.S. forces stationed...

SAN DIEGO - Ships from the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF), Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN), Royal Australian Navy (RAN), Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) and U.S. Navy (USN) and U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) participated in a post Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) multilateral exercise in the Hawaii operating...

More than 300 Airmen assigned to the 28th Bomb Wing deployed to Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam, in support of U.S. Pacific Command’s continuous bomber presence mission Aug. 9.Aircrews, maintenance and support personnel, will be generating B-1 bomber sorties to demonstrate the continuing U.S...

SAN DIEGO (NNS) -- More than 7,000 John C. Stennis Strike Group (JCSSG) Sailors returned to San Diego following a regularly scheduled seven-month deployment to the Indo-Asia-Pacific region Aug 10.JCSSG left on deployment Jan. 15 and operated in both U.S. 3rd and 7th Fleet areas of responsibility --...

EAST CHINA SEA (NNS) -- The final ship of the Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) departed its forward-deployed homeport of Sasebo, Japan for a routine patrol in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations, Aug. 10.While on patrol, the Bonhomme Richard ESG and 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit...

AUSTRALIA -- As a KC-130J Super Hercules prepares for takeoff, Marines with Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 152 finish last minute preflight checks and secure the aircraft at Royal Australian Air Force Base Tindal, Australia, Aug. 9, 2016. For over 70 years, VMGR-152, also known as the...

EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska -- Finding a camouflaged enemy to “find, fix and finish,” can be difficult even in the best conditions. Add in the element of 14,000-foot peaks, dense vegetation and a 67,000 square-mile battlefield, it takes a trained warrior to pick out the needle in this haystack...

Fort Greely, Alaska -- Members of the Arizona Army National Guard's 363rd Ordnance Company (EOD) conducted team leader certifications during their annual training at the Cold Region Test Center, here July 21 -- Aug. 4. Nearly 40 members of the 363rd escaped the heat of the hot arid environment of...

QINGDAO, China (NNS) -- Adm. Scott Swift, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, visited the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy North Sea Fleet headquarters where he met with fleet commander Vice Adm. Yuan Yubai, Aug. 8. Swift joined Yuan on a tour of the PLA(N) frigate Daqing (FFG 576) the following...

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- Three B-2 Spirits deployed from Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, in the U.S. Pacific Command area of operations Aug. 9.U.S. Strategic Command bombers regularly rotate through the Indo-Asia-Pacific to conduct USPACOM-led...