22 October 2015 USAF, Japan Air Self-Defense Force Maintainers Join Forces Hand-in-Hand MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan -- A bilateral exchange program brought U.S. Air Force and Japan Air Self-Defense Force maintainers together here for two weeks, allowing them to spend time together both at work and home, Sept. 26 - Oct. 9.The program paired 11 JASDF Airmen from Misawa's 8th Air Wing with...
22 October 2015 Fighting Bengals Arrive at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan -- Marine All Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 224, the “Fighting Bengals,” arrived at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, Oct. 7, 2015.The squadron came to the station from MCAS Beaufort, N.C., in support of the unit deployment program, which is a...
22 October 2015 US/ROK Celebrate 12th Annual Korean American Friendship Festival OSAN AIR BASE, Republic of Korea -- Members of Team Osan and the surrounding local communities recently engaged in a cultural exchange during the 12th annual Korean American Friendship Festival, Oct. 17 and 18.The festival, hosted by the Songtan Chamber of Commerce, is a two-day event held each fall...
21 October 2015 Germantown Visits Hong Kong HONG KONG – The amphibious dock landing ship USS Germantown (LSD 42), with embarked elements of the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, conducted a five day quality-of-life port visit to the Chinese territory. After completing an arduous operational patrol of multinational exercises with regional partners...
21 October 2015 Premier Marine Corps Amphibious, Aerial Exercise Underway in Okinawa CAMP HANSEN. Okinawa, Japan -- Blue Chromite 16, a large-scale yet economic training exercise, is now fully underway as Marines and Sailors here wrap up a fire support coordination exercise.The fire support exercise, which took place on a small island near Okinawa, involves air and ground...
21 October 2015 First Vietnamese-American U.S. General Escaped Saigon as Child WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Oct. 20, 2015) -- April 29, 1975 is a day then-9-year-old Viet Luong said he remembers vividly. He was at the Tan Son Nhut Airport in Saigon and bombs were dropping.North Vietnamese forces, led by Gen Van Tien Dung, were on their final push to take the capital of South...
21 October 2015 USS Preble to Return from Independent Deployment PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - The guided-missile destroyer USS Preble (DDG 88) is scheduled to return from an independent deployment to the Western Pacific Ocean Oct. 23.Deployed since March, the crew of more than 300 Sailors steamed a total of 48,550 nautical miles across the U.S. 3rd and 7th Fleet areas...
21 October 2015 25th Infantry Division Soldier Receives Highest Peacetime Medal SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii - A Human Resource Soldier assigned to the 25th Special Troops Battalion, 25th Sustainment Brigade, received the Army's highest non-combat medal, Oct. 7, at Weyand Field.Sgt. Jonathan Westbrook was presented the Soldier's Medal by the 25th Infantry Division's Deputy...
20 October 2015 U.S. and The Philippines: Two Nations, One Goal for the Pacific CAMP H.M. SMITH, Hawaii (Oct. 19, 2015) – Each year key members of the U.S. and Armed Forces of the Philippines and government assemble together to build a plan for sustaining their nations’ alliance over the next year. This year, Gen. Hernando Iriberri, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces...
20 October 2015 USS Lassen Arrives in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia KOTA KINABALU, Malaysia (NNS) -- Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen (DDG 82) arrived in Kota Kinabalu for a port visit Oct. 19, after conducting a routine South China Sea patrol."With the natural splendor Kota Kinabalu has to offer, I am privileged and eager for Lassen to...