HONOLULU (NNS) -- Guided missile destroyers USS Spruance (DDG 111) and USS Decatur (DDG 73), along with embarked Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 49 and staff from Destroyer Squadron (CDS) 31, arrived at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Nov. 3, for the final port visit in their...

PACIFIC OCEAN (NNS) -- Amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) successfully completed its fifth day of F-35B Lightning II developmental test (DT-III) with the support of flight deck personnel who received specialized training in Yuma, Arizona, earlier in the month. Marine Operational Test and...

U.S. Army -- The rumor mill was in overdrive in late October 1950 on the Korean Peninsula.A Republic of Korea unit had first battled what seemed to be Chinese soldiers, Oct. 25, and United Nations forces had begun picking up prisoners who looked different from North Korean troops. They had different...

EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska -- Airmen from the 354th Civil Engineer Squadron and 354th Operations Support Squadron worked together to remove the top 10-foot section of an antenna mast from an Instrument Landing System Oct. 6.The 60-foot antenna mast was shortened to improve flight safety and...

SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia (NNS) -- U.S. and Royal Cambodian navy (RCN) service members completed the 7th annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) exercise in Cambodia with a closing ceremony at Ream Navy Base, Nov. 4.Throughout the five-day exercise, U.S. Sailors and Marines engaged in...

DAEGU, South Korea -- Soldiers from the 19th Expeditionary Sustainment Command successfully conducted and completed a Non-combatant Evacuation Exercise as part of Courageous Channel 2016. Family members, including children, from across the peninsula assisted in the exercise by role playing as...

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii− Kicking off what will be a first of its kind Humanitarian Mine Action collaboration between U.S. Army Pacific (USARPAC) and the Vietnam National Mine Action Center (VNMAC), a team of Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) trainers with the 303rd EOD Battalion, 8th Military...

KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- The potent smell of jet exhaust filled the air as a line of F-15 Eagles crept to their spots after four months away from home.The 44th Fighter squadron returned sharpening their skills in Exercises Cope Taufan, Valiant Shield, Century Aloha, Distant Frontier and Red...

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii− U.S Army Soldiers from the 71st Chemical Company, 303rd Ordnance Battalion (EOD), 8th Military Police Brigade, 8th Theater Sustainment Command participated in the battalion’s first Stryker Gunnery Oct. 10-14, here. For the first time in the battalion’s history, leaders...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- In any environment, under any condition, SERE specialists are highly trained to survive. SERE, which stands for Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape, is a program created to train air crew how to survive and resist the enemy in the event that their aircraft goes down...