MANILA, U.S. Embassy in the Philippines -- U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reaffirmed the United States’ support for the Philippines’ COVID-19 response during a turnover of medical equipment and supplies in Manila on August 6.“As the Philippines continues to work to vaccinate people, to...

OLD HARBOR, Alaska -- Army Reserve Soldiers from units around the Pacific have assembled in a very rural location in Alaska to help with the development of a community, testing their mettle while strengthening bonds among the local residents.“Six, seven, eight,” Sgt. Robert Laux, a construction...

U.S. Embassy in Samoa -- Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman met today with Samoan Prime Minister Afioga Fiame Naomi Mataafa in Apia to discuss shared priorities for the Pacific region. Deputy Secretary Sherman and Prime Minister Fiame discussed bilateral cooperation to address climate change...

U.S. Department of State -- The United States will host Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Exercise Fortune Guard 22 on August 8-12, 2022, in Honolulu, Hawaii.Fortune Guard 22 is part of the PSI’s Asia-Pacific Exercise Rotation series. The exercise will bring together 21 countries to address...

PHILIPPINE SEA -- Commander, Task Force (CTF) 70 conducted flag talks with their counterparts from Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), Fleet Escort Force, aboard the U.S. Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) in the Philippine Sea, Aug. 5.During the talks,...

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM -- The world’s largest international maritime exercise concluded Aug. 4 following more than a month of realistic, relevant combined operations training conducted in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California.Twenty-six nations, 38 surface ships, three...

BAY OF BENGAL -- Nearly 50 years after the release of Z-gram 116, female leaders from the Emory S. Land-class submarine tender USS Frank Cable (AS 40) hosted a tour of the ship for students from St. Joseph’s College for Women during a scheduled port visit to Visakhapatnam, India, Aug. 2, 2022.Z-gram...

SANTA RITA, Guam -- In a bid to strengthen relationships and interoperability, the U.S. Coast Guard conducted a multilateral search and rescue drill alongside longtime partners from the United Kingdom, Japan, and the Republic of Palau in late July."We thrive on these opportunities, and we all came...

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- RED FLAG-Alaska 22-3, a Pacific Air Forces exercise, started on July 28 and is scheduled to take place until August 12 in the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex (JPARC). The JPARC is the largest instrumented air, ground and electronic combat training range...

CAMP CARROLL, South Korea -- Eighth Army conducted an Army Prepositioned Stock-4 (APS) tabletop exercise (TTX) and terrain walk here, July 26.The all-day event, coordinated by the 403rd Army Field Support Brigade (AFSB) and hosted by the Army Field Support Battalion – Northeast Asia, attracted key...