YAKIMA, Wash. - The midday sun glistens off the transport buses as they roll to a stop. Moving with purpose, dozens of men disembark and retrieve their gear and baggage. Even out of uniform, these troops wear coordinated civilian attire in the form of matching white dress shirts and black trousers...

PACIFIC OCEAN -- The amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) departed the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations Sept. 4 as part of a scheduled homeport shift.Wasp, which replaced USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations in January 2018, operated with U.S. Marine Corps...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan -- Had the Sagamihara City Disaster Drill been a real disaster, it would have been a great example of how several incidents can unfold at once.The drill included fires, injured people trapped in buildings and thrown from overturned vehicles, power lines in need of restoration, a...

PACIFIC OCEAN -- About 3,000 U.S. Navy and Marine Corps personnel are participating in Arctic Expeditionary Capabilities Exercise (AECE) 2019 in the Aleutian Islands, South Central Alaska and Southern California Sept. 1-28.AECE is one in a series of 2019 U.S. Indo-Pacific Command exercises to...

DARWIN, NT, Australia -- U.S. Marines with Marine Rotational Force – Darwin in collaboration with Australian Army Soldiers completed Exercise Koolendong 2019 in the Northern Territory of Australia in August.Exercise Koolendong, conducted at Mount Bundey Training Area from 21-29 August, was a...

DODIKLATPUR, Indonesia -- U.S. Army Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division and their Tentara Nasional Indonesia Angkatan Darat (TNI-AD Indonesia Armed Forces) counterparts celebrated several first-ever successes as Exercise...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- The 599th Transportation Brigade and partners uploaded 3rd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division cargo and equipment onto the USNS Brittin here Aug. 9-11 for shipment to Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, Louisiana."Divisions normally do not deploy as a single element,"...

PYEONGTAEK, South Korea -- A hemorrhagic stroke can occur one of two ways. A blood vessel will rupture and cause blood to pool within the brain, or a vessel will break and cause blood to accumulate between the brain and the skull.Both ways, the former known as intracerebral and the latter as...

CAMP HANSEN, OKINAWA, Japan -- U.S. Marines with 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, participated in Central Training Area High Mobility Artillery Rocket System field training exercise, known as CTA HIMARS, on Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, from Aug. 15-30, 2019.During the field...

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- Lt. Gen. L. Scott Rice, director, Air National Guard, visited with 176th Wing Guardsmen at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Aug. 26 and 27.The director is responsible for formulating, developing and coordinating all policies, plans and programs affecting...