Building trust and confidence is the theme for the first visit by a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to Vietnam since 1971.Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey met with his Vietnamese counterpart Lt. Gen. Do Ba Ty in Hanoi. The two men discussed the future of the military-to-military relationship...

 Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work will travel to the Asia-Pacific region next week to strengthen multilateral security cooperation, build more robust partnerships and discuss ongoing efforts and regional security matters, Work’s spokeswoman said today in a statement.The Aug. 17 to 23 trip, Work’s...

MR. MORRISON: Well, thank you. Aloha. I want to welcome everyone. And for our online audience, and also for the Secretary, I’d like to describe who is here in our audience. We have the mayor of Honolulu, Mayor Caldwell. We have our senator, Mazie Hirono. We have our former governor, George Ariyoshi,...

The remnants of war still exist throughout the Pacific theater's waterways. Unexploded ordnance and sunken munitions line the rivers and streams frequently traveled by military and civilian alike.Nearly a year ago, Army divers from the 7th Engineer Dive Detachment, 130th Engineer Brigade, 8th...

Team Andersen hosted Pacific Defender 14-4, a security forces subject-matter expert exchange Aug. 4-8 conducted as part of the U.S. Pacific Command's Theater Security Cooperation Program.The exchange included military and police representatives from Singapore, Vanuatu, Bangladesh and the Maldives...

Military forces from Australia, New Zealand, Japan and the U.S. are partnering in a multinational anti-submarine warfare exercise around the waters of Guam aimed at increasing the interoperability capacity between these nations operating in the Pacific, Aug. 9-15. The exercise includes multiple...

Two guided-missile destroyers will arrive at their new homeport of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam this week, with USS Preble (DDG 88) expected Aug. 14 and USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53) on Aug. 15.John Paul Jones is an exchange for guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70), which will depart Hawaii...

U.S. and Mongolia Armed Forces service members, with assistance from the governments of Nepal, Thailand and the Peoples Republic of China, kicked of humanitarian assistance operations in support of Pacific Angel 14-4, Aug. 11-16.The U.S. Air Force lead mission supports U.S. Pacific Command’s...

Secretary of State John Kerry has landed in the Solomon Islands, where he commemorated the nation’s cooperation with Allied forces in World War II.After flying into the capital, Honiara, on August 13, Kerry laid a wreath at a memorial to Solomon Islanders who assisted in the fight against Japanese...

After 46 years of service, USS Denver will hold its decommissioning ceremony at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam at 10 a.m., Aug. 14."It is with a great sense of pride that Denver will decommission as the oldest deployable warship in the Navy and as the last and longest serving Austin-class amphibious...