02 April 2015 U.S. Marines, Airmen and Republic of Korea Troops Train for Contamination U.S. Marines and airmen along with Republic of Korea airmen came together for a chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear joint training exercise at Osan Air Base in the Republic of Korea March 16.MWHS-1 CBRN and 51st Civil Engineer Squadron CBRN learned different tactics, techniques and...
02 April 2015 Challenges of Earning Sea Legs As an infantryman, Cpl. Jeremiah Skaggs has trained in different places around the world. He has kicked doors down at the mock urban ranges in Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, trudged through the dense jungles of Okinawa, Japan, and climbed the snowy mountains of Bridgeport, California...
01 April 2015 Defense Secretary Discuss U.S.-Japan Defense Issues Defense Secretary Ash Carter called Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani to thank him for his long-term support and to discuss the upcoming major events in the U.S.-Japan alliance, according to a Defense Department statement issued today. Carter reaffirmed commitment to the U.S.-Japan alliance and...
01 April 2015 International Team Conducts Gobi Wolf 2015 The governments of Mongolia and the United States conducted anearthquake-readiness exercise together this week here. Gobi Wolf 2015 is acivil-military disaster preparedness and response initiative that focuses onregional readiness in response to natural and man-made disasters. GobiWolf is part of...
01 April 2015 U.S. Forces Korea Participates in the Highly Infectious Disease Exercise with ROK Counterparts U.S. Forces Korea participated in the Highly Infectious Disease Full Scale Exercise, a Korean Center of Disease Control and Prevention-led exercise Mar. 31. The exercise provided ROK and US interagency and military participants training on responding to a simulated Ebola case. The focus of this...
01 April 2015 Alaska Soldiers Take Part in Gobi Wolf 2015 Alaska soldiers joined an international team of members from Mongolia and theUnited States to conduct an earthquake-readiness exercise together here lastweek. Exercise Gobi Wolf 2015 was a civil-military disaster preparedness andresponse initiative that focused on regional readiness in response to...
01 April 2015 Sea Dragons Share Air and Missile Defense Expertise at Key Resolve 15' Soldiers from the 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command deployed forward tothe Republic of Korea to participate in the annual multi-national scenario basedtraining exercise, known as Key Resolve, March 3-13. The annualcomputerized exercise focuses on strengthening the ROK-U.S. partnership,...
31 March 2015 Closing Ceremony Brings Angkor Sentinel 2015 to an End Angkor Sentinel 2015, an annual bilateral military exercise hosted by the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces and sponsored by the U.S. Army Pacific, came to close March 20, 2015, at the Training School for Multinational Peacekeeping Forces in Kampong Speu Province, Cambodia. The closing ceremony brought...
31 March 2015 Survival Evade Resist and Escape: Helping Flyers Return Home The worst-case scenario has the potential of becoming an overwhelming realityfor flight crews that fly in the Pacific area of responsibility.Tech.Sgts. Jeffrey Ray and Michael Garcia, 15th Operational Support Squadron SurvivalEvade Resist and Escape specialists, ensure all flight crews assigned to...
31 March 2015 S. Korean President Reaffirms US-ROK Alliance, Vows to Strengthen Defense on Fifth Anniversary on the S. Korean Navy Pohang-class Corvette Cheonan Republic of Korea President Park, Geun Hye joined bereaved family members,surviving crew members, senior government officials and military officers at theDaejon National Cemetery Mar. 26 on the fifth anniversary of the North Koreanattack on the South Korean Navy Pohang-class Corvette Cheonan to...