15 April 2015 Eielson Air Force Base Retains Aggressor Mission Air Force officials announced April 14 that Eielson Air Force Base will retainthe 18th Aggressor Squadron and its assigned 18 F-16 Fighting Falcon aggressoraircraft.The aggressors are currently based at Eielson AFB, Alaska,which the Air Force announced last year is the preferred alternative for...
15 April 2015 Submarine Group 7 Participates in Simulated Submarine Casualty Exercise Sailors attached to Submarine Group 7 and the Indonesian navy (TNI-AL) participated in training for Simulated Submarine Casualty Exercise (SMASHEX) in Surabaya, Indonesia, April 13.SMASHEX is a table top exercise that tests the procedure for the very unlikely case of a submarine search, escape and...
15 April 2015 Marines Arrive Down Under to Train with Australian Counterparts Marines with 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, stationed out of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, arrived April 12 at the Royal Australian Air Force Base Darwin, Darwin Australia. The Marines arrived to begin the fourth evolution of Marine Rotational Force - Darwin 2015. MRF-D is the...
15 April 2015 Brian Allgood Army Community Hospital Trains for Simulated Ebola Case Medical personnel from the Brian Allgood Army Community Hospital (BAACH)along with the Korean Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDCP) recentlyparticipated in a Highly Infectious Disease Full Scale Exercise on March 31,2015. The exercise provided Republic of Korea (ROK) and US...
14 April 2015 Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron Rescues Distressed Mariners off Guam Sailors from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 25 conducted a search-and-rescue (SAR) operation and retrieved five distressed mariners west of Apra Harbor on U.S. Naval Base Guam April 11.HSC-25 received a request from U.S. Coast Guard Sector Guam at approximately 7:25 p.m. about five people who...
14 April 2015 Combined Philippine-US Force Continues Humanitarian Efforts in Panay The Combined-Joint Civil-Military Operations Task Force, located on the island of Panay, completed a three-day cooperative health engagement with a train-the-trainer first responder medical course as part of exercise Balikatan, April 9. Over 100 Armed Forces of the Philippines Army soldiers from the...
14 April 2015 Kadena Air Base Conducts Joint Non-combatant Evacuation Operation Exercise with U.S. Navy and Army Members from the Air Force, Navy and Army processed 150 families whileparticipating in a joint Non-combatant Evacuation Operation exercise here April8.In an Okinawa-wide NEO, evacuees may have to go to the closest NEOpoint, which may not always be the military branch their family is with, so itis...