25 April 2022 Statement by NSC Spokesperson Adrienne Watson on Senior Administration Travel to Hawaii, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands U.S. Embassy in Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu -- This week, National Security Council Indo-Pacific Coordinator Kurt Campbell and Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Kritenbrink will lead a delegation of U.S. government officials to three Pacific Island...
25 April 2022 Springfield visits Stirling, Australia During Western Pacific Deployment HMAS STIRLING, Australia -- The Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Springfield (SSN 761) arrived at HMAS Stirling Naval Base, Australia, April 23, 2022, for a port visit as part of a routine deployment to the Western Pacific."My crew could not be more excited for a port visit to Perth,"...
25 April 2022 Ambassador Haas’s Remarks at BIISS Seminar on U.S.-Bangladesh Relations (Delivered as prepared)...
25 April 2022 U.S. Army Japan Soldiers Overcome Grueling Tasks to Earn Expert Soldier Badge SAGAMI GENERAL DEPOT, Japan -- Spc. Ryan Lastrapes’ day job is playing the French horn for the U.S. Army Japan Band, but he is now also considered one of the most skilled Soldiers in the Army.Lastrapes and 22 other Soldiers earned the coveted Expert Soldier Badge after a grueling weeklong...
22 April 2022 U.S. Marine Corps Deactivates Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 463 MARINE CORPS AIR STATION KANEOHE BAY, Hawaii -- The oldest flying squadron of Marine Aircraft Group 24, Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 463 (HMH-463), “Pegasus,” cased its colors and deactivated during a ceremony here today.HMH-463 first activated July 20, 1944, at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry...
22 April 2022 The Philippines and the U.S. Launch Inaugural Maritime Dialogue MANILA, U.S. Embassy in the Philippines -- The Philippines and the United States launched their inaugural Maritime Dialogue in Manila, on April 20The Dialogue, led by Department of Foreign Affairs Assistant Secretary for Maritime and Ocean Affairs Maria Angela Ponce and U.S. Department of State...
22 April 2022 Osan Receives Hypoxia Familiarization Trainer OSAN AIR BASE, Republic of Korea -- The 51st Operations Support Squadron’s Aerospace Physiology Training team opened the first hypoxia familiarization trainer (HFT) on the Korean Peninsula for military personnel April 1, 2022.The HFT combats the harmful effects of altitude physiological emergencies...
22 April 2022 Statement from Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks on Earth Day WASHINGTON -- Every day at the Department of Defense, we see the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation here in the United States and around the world.Climate-change induced sea level rise, drought, hurricanes and wildfires threaten to drive instability, increase demands on the...
22 April 2022 U.S. Air Force Academy Accepts First Marshallese Citizen U.S. Army Garrison-Kwajalein Atoll -- One graduating senior at Kwajalein High School received life-changing news, on April 9, 2022,U.S. Army Garrison-Kwajalein Atoll congratulates Kwajalein High School Ri-Katak student Michael Lojkar, the first-ever Marshallese citizen to earn an appointment to the...
21 April 2022 RED FLAG-Alaska 22-1 to Focus on Joint, Multilateral Readiness JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii --Red Flag-Alaska 22-1, a Pacific Air Forces-sponsored joint and multilateral exercise, is scheduled to begin April 28 with primary flight operations over the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex and is scheduled to run through May 13. Red Flag-Alaska is designed...