JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii - Several thousand runners gathered at Ford Island to honor service members who have fallen after 9/11 as part of the 8K Fisher House Hero and Remembrance Run, Walk or Roll here, Sept. 5.According to their official website, The Fisher House Foundation is best...

MANILA, Philippines - Exercise Pacific Endeavor 2015 (PE15) is in full swing, here, after its official start Aug. 31. The 21 participating Pacific partner-nation militaries are learning first-hand the importance of speed and interoperability of communication assets when responding to a multinational...

WASHINGTON -- Exercise Rising Thunder kicksoff for the 22nd time today at Yakima Training Center, Washington.Theexercise annually brings Japanese soldiers to the United States to trainalongside U.S. Soldiers. This year, the exercise runs Sept. 8-25, and involvesabout 300 soldiers from the 10th...

KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- For the first time ever, the 18th Wing participated in a bilateral disaster response exercise alongside Japan Self-Defense Forces and the Okinawa Prefectural Government at Atta Port Sept. 5.The exercise gave participants and spectators an understanding of how the 82...

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- United States Marines and sailors, along with service members from Japan, Mexico and New Zealand, executed an amphibious landing on the beaches of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton as part of Exercise Dawn Blitz 2015, Sept. 5, 2015.Dawn Blitz is a...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- Representatives and specialists from multiple nations gathered at Yokota Aug. 31 to Sept. 3 during the 2015 Pacific Agility C-130 Logistics and Safety Symposium.The symposium is a Pacific Command initiative aimed at increasing relationships and interoperability between...

USS Paul Hamilton (DDG 60) arrived heretoday for routine port resupply missionand liberty call.  The ship iscurrently on its independent deployment to theArabian Gulf and WesternPacific Ocean. The ship departed on its deployment in February and has beenconductingtheater security cooperation...

FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii (Sept. 4, 2015) -- Delta Company of the 249th EngineerBattalion (Prime Power) deployed to Saipan in August and provided much-neededpower line restoration support to the Federal Emergency Management Agency(FEMA), and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) authority missions in...

ASAN, Guam – Pacific Partnership 2015 personnel stationed in Guam, but recently assigned to the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), returned home today as the ship pulled in to U.S. Naval Base Guam for a liberty port call.While many other PP15 personnel will stay with Mercy until Hawaii or the...

Washington, DC - Assistant Secretary for Arms Control, Verification and Compliance Frank A. Rose will travel to China, Australia, and Hawaii September 8 - September 17, for meetings and public remarks on strategic stability, space security, and multilateral arms control.September 8-9, Assistant...