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...

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- The name of U.S. Pacific Command has changed, but the mission of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command will remain the same, command officials said at the change of command here today.Defense Secretary James N. Mattis announced the name change during his remarks at the...

JOINT BASE PEAR HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- Defense Secretary James N. Mattis today stressed the importance of the Indian Ocean region of U.S. Pacific Command’s area of responsibility and announced that the Defense Department is renaming the combatant command as U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.Mattis made...

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, HAWAII -- F-22A Raptors, aircrew and support personnel, assigned to the 525th Fighter Squadron, Joint Base Elemendorf-Richardson (JBER), Alaska, deployed to Kadena Air Base (AB), Japan under U.S. Indo-Pacific Command's theater security package (TSP) program, May 29,...

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- Republic of Korea Army Gen. Byung Joo Kim, Combined Forces Command deputy commander and staff visited headquarters (HQ) Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) during a four-day visit at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, May 21, 2018.During the visit Kim received a...

KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- Over 20 students from the Australian Defense Force Centre for Strategic and Defense Studies, representing six countries, visited Kadena Air Base, Japan, May 16, 2018.Senior military and civilian officials from Australia and its U.N. allies arrived as part of a hands-on...