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;...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

YOKOSUKA, Japan -- Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer inducted U.S. Sen. John S. McCain III into the official namesake of the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) in a ceremony on board, July 12.Commissioned in 1994, the destroyer already bears the names of Sen. McCain’s...

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- “We’re going condition one, move out!” said U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. James Kretchman, a squad leader with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, as he maneuvered his squad through the Infantry Immersion Trainer, or IIT, on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, July 10,...