11 July 2014 Service Members Promoted at Leyte Gulf Historical Landmark Five Sailors and one Airman were frocked at the MacArthur Landing Memorial Park in Tacloban, July 10."This is a major step in leadership," said Capt. Brian Shipman, commander of Pacific Partnership 2014. "Being able to do this at the very place where Gen. MacArthur came ashore to fulfill his...
11 July 2014 U.S. - China Economic Alliance MODERATOR: (Via interpreter) Special representatives, friends of the business community, (inaudible) joining us in the Strategic and Economic Dialogue through a cultural performance, then the roundtable is a routine program of this cultural show. So I will first give the floor to State Councilor...
11 July 2014 Gunsan City, Republic of Korea, Hosts Friendly Baseball Game Fourteen Airmen from the Wolf Pack participated in a game of America's pastime, baseball, against Gunsan City's own baseball league at the Kunsan Sang High School in Munhwadong, Gunsan City, June 21. The purpose of the friendly match between the local community and Kunsan Airmen was to continue the...
10 July 2014 U.S. State and Treasury Secretaries at Beijing Press Conference SECRETARY KERRY: Good evening, everybody. Thank you for being patient. We’re delighted to be here. Let me begin by thanking our Chinese hosts for their very warm welcome and for the depth and breadth of the discussions that we had in this year’s Strategic and Economic Dialogue.During our meetings...
10 July 2014 Security Assistance Command Delivers Bridges to Nepal for Humanitarian Assistance The U.S. Army Security Assistance Command delivered four Acrow Roadway Bridges to the country of Nepal through its Foreign Military Sales program. The bridges are in preparation to support future humanitarian assistance and disaster relief within their region. Shipments of the bridges began in...
10 July 2014 RIMPAC Sets the Scene for Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief U.S. 3rd Fleet (C3F) conducted a two-day scene setter here for the multinational and interagency participants of the humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HA/DR) scenario of the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise 2014 July 5-6.Cmdr. Eddie Yandoc, C3F's lead HA/DR planner set the scene by...
10 July 2014 Australian, Mexican Militaries Conduct SWET Training during RIMPAC Australian Army and Mexican Naval Infantry Force service members conducted Shallow Water Egress Training at the pool here July 1 as part of the Rim of the Pacific Exercise 2014.During SWET, participants were introduced to breathing with compressed air under water and exiting a simulated cage while...
10 July 2014 Philippine-American Friendship Week Sees Arrival of 80 New Peace Corps Volunteers Philippine-American Friendship Week Sees Arrival of 80 New Peace Corps Volunteers. Landing at Ninoy Aquino International Airport on Sunday, July 6th, 80 new U.S. Peace Corps Volunteers joined the more than 8,000 Americans who have served as Peace Corps Volunteers in the Philippines since 1961,...
09 July 2014 Pacific Partnership Medical Specialists Make an Impact in Tacloban Hospital Medical specialists from Pacific Partnership 2014 fixed ventilators for infants in the neonatal intensive care unit at the Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center (EVMC) in Tacloban, July 9. “We are working on getting their ventilators setup so they can use them on the pediatric patients,” said Lt...
09 July 2014 Kerry in Beijing at Session on Bilateral Cooperation, Security Secretary of State John Kerry at the beginning of the Strategic Track Session 1 on Bilateral CooperationSTATE COUNCILOR YANG: (Via translator) I thank you, Secretary Kerry, first of all, for the warm hospitality accorded to us during our previous meeting, when Vice Premier Wang Yang and I was in the...