04 March 2015 USS Hawaii Participates in Anti-Submarine Warfare Exercise The Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Hawaii (SSN 776) participated in the 2015 Anti-Submarine Warfare Exercise (ASWEX) with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) as part of their Western Pacific deployment Feb. 8-16.ASWEX is an annual event hosted by the JMSDF that included four...
04 March 2015 Marines Join Kadena Airmen for Contingency Exercise Civil engineer Airmen and combat engineer Marines participated in a jointairfield damage and repair contingency exercise held at Kadena Air Base on Feb.26, 2015.Joint forces from the 172nd and 171st Engineering Companies and18th Civil Engineering Squadron worked together to repair a damaged runway...
02 March 2015 Fil-Am Soldier sees historical 70th Anniversary of Corregidor thru Today's Partnership "Freedom isn't free," U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class ArvinLayugan told Mike Enriquez of Philippine radio station DZBB 594KHZ during a Feb.27, interview broadcast to millions of listeners while speaking about the 70thCommemoration of the re-taking of Corregidor."People have madesacrifices and we are here...
26 February 2015 USS Fort Worth Conducts Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea with Chinese Navy The littoral combat shipUSS Fort Worth (LCS 3) practiced the Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea(CUES) with the People's Liberation Army-Navy [PLA(N)] Jiangkai II frigateHengshui (FFG 572) Feb. 23 enhancing the professional maritime relationshipbetween U.S. 7th Fleet and the PLA(N).Fort Worth and...
11 February 2015 Maritime Prepositioning Force Responds to Cobra Gold 15 The maritime prepositioning ship, U.S. Naval Ship Pililaau, sails across the pacific ocean February 6 with equipment and supplies for exercise Cobra Gold 2015 in Thailand.The Pililaau is one of many ships which make up the Marine Corps' Maritime Prepositioning Force. The MPF provides the Marine...
18 December 2014 Navy develops 'GhostSwimmer' drone that looks like a shark. Seriously Washington — It is the latest offering in what the US military calls its science-fiction-turned-reality projects: the GhostSwimmer, a reconnaissance robot with an exterior shell built to look a lot like a shark cutting through the ocean depths.It is the latest experimental addition to the Pentagon’s...
16 December 2014 Load Out and Fly away; Validation Exercise Soldiers from Company A, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division and airmen from the 535th Airlift Squadron, 15th Wing conduct a load out and fly away validation exercise Dec. 10 on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam using two M1126 Strykers and a C-17...
03 December 2014 Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Puneet Talwar Remarks at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses New Delhi | December 3, 2014 -(As Prepared)Thank you very much, Ambassador Shankar, for that very kind introduction… and even more importantly, thank you for everything you have done to deepen the ties between the United States and India… during your tenure in Washington and afterwards.Let me also...