Members of the Okinawa Prefectural Government hosted a series of humanitarian assistance and disaster relief drills with the Japan Self-Defense Forces and U.S. Marines on and around Miyako Island Sept. 6.This year’s exercise was the first time OPG asked the Marines to participate, understanding the...

U.S. service members spent the past two weeks on Tinian preparing the site for participants in Valiant Shield 2014, which commenced Sept. 15 at various locations on land and in the sea, in and around Tinian and Guam. The approximately 450 Marines, U.S. Navy Sailors and Guam National Guardsmen are...

Sailors from USS Warrior (MCM 10) joined Republic of Korea navy ships in a naval demonstration and reenactment Sept. 15 to pay tribute to Korean War veterans who fought side-by-side during the Incheon landing 64 years ago. The commemoration also included amphibious assault vehicles, helicopters, and...

Exercise Valiant Shield 2014 kicked off with more than 18,000 joint force service members from 30 units, including 200 aircraft and 20 ships in, and around, the island of Guam beginning Sept. 15.The exercise will demonstrate a wide range of capabilities designed to test the inherent flexibility of...

An annual bilateral command post exercise between the Indonesian Armed Forces or Tentara Nasional Indonesia (TNI) and Hawaii Army National Guard, came to an end with a closing ceremony at Dodiklatpur in East Java, Indonesia on Sept. 11, 2014.The CPX, based on a United Nations peacekeeping scenario,...

Children crowded up against windows and peeked around doors, watching, wide-eyed, as their school nestled in the rural, mountainous outskirts of Nepal was transformed. The lives of more than 2,000 students in remote regions were affected by this year's engineering civic action project efforts for...

Leaders of 25 armies across the Pacific theater gathered in Dhaka, Bangladesh today for the opening ceremonies of the 38th Pacific Armies Management Seminar. The theme for this year’s event is: “A new focus on the Asia-Pacific region: Opportunities and challenges for land forces.” PAMS however, is...

Ships and aircraft sank the decommissioned former USS Fresno (LST 1182) at 3:15 p.m. in waters 18,000 feet deep, 215 nautical miles northeast of Guam as part of the exercise Valiant Shield 2014, Sept. 15. The participating sinking exercise (SINKEX) units included the U.S. Navy, Air Force and Marine...

Airmen from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson and the Indian Air Force achieved a historic milestone after completing a joint air transportability training sortie Tuesday.Three Indian Air Force Airmen rode along on a C-17 Globemaster III crewed by the 517th Airlift Squadron as part of a tactics,...

The crew of the Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided missile frigate USS Rodney M. Davis (FFG 60) held a ceremony Sept. 8 to pay tribute to the ship's namesake on the 47th anniversary of his passing.Sgt. Rodney Maxwell Davis, from Macon, Georgia, was posthumously awarded the nation's highest military...