19 September 2014 Wolf Pack and ROK Defenders Tackle Combat Readiness Training More than 250 Airmen from the 8th Security Forces Squadron tackled quarterly combat readiness training with Republic of Korea Air Force and ROK special operations forces members Sept. 15 to 17 at Kunsan Air Base, ROK.Wolf Pack defenders execute quarterly combat readiness training to ensure a...
19 September 2014 Island Firefighters Learn Rescue Skills in Joint Course Department of Defense firefighters on Andersen Air Force Base and Naval Base Guam joined with their island partners from the Guam Fire Department to develop the skills to perform high-risk rescues by participating in the DOD Rescue Technician course this month.Thirteen military and civilian fire...
18 September 2014 Combined Carrier Strike Group Destroyers, Cruisers Focus Efforts during Valiant Shield 2014 MISSILEX Grey-hulled ships steam silently in formation against an angry grey sky, their wakes churning the deep blue Pacific waters into white foam. Overhead clouds move in and out as though anticipating something will break the stillness. All is silent as the seven warships gently rock on the calm seas. The...
18 September 2014 Forecasters Prepare for Valiant Shield 2014 It is argued that the weather cost the French the Battle of Agincourt as their horses struggled across the swampy land in pursuit of Henry V’s significantly smaller British Army. “If you look across history in different battles, a lot of them have been decided by the weather or it has played a...
18 September 2014 U.S. Extends Humanitarian Relief to India Flood Victims On behalf of the American people, Chargé d’Affaires Ambassador Kathleen Stephens today extended her deepest sympathies to the people of Jammu and Kashmir who have been affected by the recent flooding, especially the hundreds of families who have lost loved ones. In coordination with central and...
18 September 2014 Bilaterally Learning Medical Skills Every summer for the past 13 years, the 35th Medical Group has hosted a shadowing program for Japanese medical students from Hirosaki University in Aomori Prefecture.Four to six Japanese students are selected to participate each summer for the seven to 10 days of on-the-job learning with...
18 September 2014 Joint Forces Team Up for Valiant Shield More than 18,000 joint force service members from 30 units, including 200 aircraft and 20 ships, came together to participate in Exercise Valiant Shield Sept. 15, in and around, the island of Guam.The week long exercise demonstrates a wide range of capabilities designed to test the inherent...
18 September 2014 Valiant Shield a Lesson in Inter-service Communication and Capability Capt. Jarrod Dix likens the Marines and the Air Force working together to putting an Alabaman and a Scotsman together in the same room: They may speak the same language, but they have very different ideas of what makes a good football match.Valiant Shield is the largest U.S.-only military exercise...
18 September 2014 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command Soldiers Make History at Valiant Shield 2014 Soldiers from the 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command Headquarters, Charlie Battery, 1-1 Air Defense Artillery and Task Force Talon, come together for exercise Valiant Shield 2014; which began on Sept. 15 and concludes on Sept. 22.U.S. Forces from around the Pacific Rim take part in this...
17 September 2014 Valiant Shield 2014: Arresting Gear Gives Pilots No Need to Fear Marines with Marine Wing Support Squadrons 171 and 172 completed the installation of the M31 Marine Corps expeditionary arresting gear system at West Field, Tinian, in preparation of Valiant Shield 2014, which began Sept. 15. The movable arresting gear is a system of cables and shock absorbers that...