10 July 2014 U.S. State and Treasury Secretaries at Beijing Press Conference SECRETARY KERRY: Good evening, everybody. Thank you for being patient. We’re delighted to be here. Let me begin by thanking our Chinese hosts for their very warm welcome and for the depth and breadth of the discussions that we had in this year’s Strategic and Economic Dialogue.During our meetings...
10 July 2014 Security Assistance Command Delivers Bridges to Nepal for Humanitarian Assistance The U.S. Army Security Assistance Command delivered four Acrow Roadway Bridges to the country of Nepal through its Foreign Military Sales program. The bridges are in preparation to support future humanitarian assistance and disaster relief within their region. Shipments of the bridges began in...
10 July 2014 RIMPAC Sets the Scene for Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief U.S. 3rd Fleet (C3F) conducted a two-day scene setter here for the multinational and interagency participants of the humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HA/DR) scenario of the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise 2014 July 5-6.Cmdr. Eddie Yandoc, C3F's lead HA/DR planner set the scene by...
10 July 2014 Australian, Mexican Militaries Conduct SWET Training during RIMPAC Australian Army and Mexican Naval Infantry Force service members conducted Shallow Water Egress Training at the pool here July 1 as part of the Rim of the Pacific Exercise 2014.During SWET, participants were introduced to breathing with compressed air under water and exiting a simulated cage while...
10 July 2014 Philippine-American Friendship Week Sees Arrival of 80 New Peace Corps Volunteers Philippine-American Friendship Week Sees Arrival of 80 New Peace Corps Volunteers. Landing at Ninoy Aquino International Airport on Sunday, July 6th, 80 new U.S. Peace Corps Volunteers joined the more than 8,000 Americans who have served as Peace Corps Volunteers in the Philippines since 1961,...
09 July 2014 Pacific Partnership Medical Specialists Make an Impact in Tacloban Hospital Medical specialists from Pacific Partnership 2014 fixed ventilators for infants in the neonatal intensive care unit at the Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center (EVMC) in Tacloban, July 9. “We are working on getting their ventilators setup so they can use them on the pediatric patients,” said Lt...
09 July 2014 Kerry in Beijing at Session on Bilateral Cooperation, Security Secretary of State John Kerry at the beginning of the Strategic Track Session 1 on Bilateral CooperationSTATE COUNCILOR YANG: (Via translator) I thank you, Secretary Kerry, first of all, for the warm hospitality accorded to us during our previous meeting, when Vice Premier Wang Yang and I was in the...
09 July 2014 15th OSS Airfield Management Team Kicks into Overdrive for RIMPAC The JBPHH flightline is a hub of flight activity for RIMPAC 2014, and with more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel slated to participate in the exercise the 15th Operations Support Squadron Airfield Management Flight have their hands full playing host to the array of aircraft and people...
09 July 2014 Army Watercraft Supports 25th Infantry Division, 3rd Marines during RIMPAC 2014 Logistic Support Vessel-2, the U.S. Army Vessel CW3 Harold A. Clinger, got underway from its home port July 2, to conduct the first of eight surface lifts between Kaneohe Bay and Kawaihae Harbor, Hawaii, in support of the 3rd Marine Regiment as part of the biennial Rim of the Pacific 2014 exercise,...
09 July 2014 Kadena Eagles Participate in Aviation Training Relocation Members of the 44th Fighter Squadron, 909th Air Refueling Squadron and 961st Airborne Air Control Squadron, along with aircraft assigned to Kadena Air Base, Japan, arrived here June 18, as part of a four week ATR, or aviation training relocation program.The ATR is an opportunity for Kadena Airmen to...