Approximately 3,500 Marines and Sailors based out of Okinawa, Japan will partner with approximately 1,200 of their AFP counterparts to conduct PHIBLEX 15. The exercise will include a command post exercise; multiple field-training exercises, including various live-fire events; and humanitarian and...

Pacific Pathways, an innovative concept established to capitalize on several existing bilateral training exercises, is in full swing within the Indo-Asia Pacific region.The training deployment method overcomes some of the logistical obstacles associated with transit back and forth across this vast...

Pacific Air Forces hosted military leaders from 20 countries throughout the Pacific region during the annual Pacific Rim Air Power Symposium held here Sept. 22-25, 2014. The PACRIM Airpower Symposium, previously known as the PACAF Director of Operations Conference, builds and improves multilateral...

U.S. Army and Singaporean scientists are advancing the future of nanomaterials through an exchange program between the countries.Dr. Govind Mallick, a U.S. Army research chemist, recently completed a two-year assignment that focused on developing cutting-edge materials with graduate students,...

In line with the US Marine Corps’ new strategy document, “Expeditionary Force 21,” future amphibious assaults could be launched 65 to 100 miles from shore, with small landing teams exploiting gaps in enemy defenses.Gone are the days of deploying a large contingent across a beach, moving them from...

Military Sealift Command (MSC) vessels USNS Wheeler (T-AG 5001) and USNS Fast Tempo participated in an Offshore Petroleum Discharge System (OPDS) exercise off of Dogu Beach, Pohang, Republic of Korea (ROK) from Sept. 12-22.The OPDS exercise is a MSC sponsored, semi-annual event that allows...

As Pacific Unity 14-8 wraps up this week, additional construction projects have begun at Togoba Secondary School in Papua New Guinea.Pacific Unity is a bilateral Engineering Civic Action Program conducted in the Asia-Pacific region in collaboration with host nation civil authorities and military...

Good morning. It’s an honor to be back at the Asia Society and to welcome you to today’s event.For nearly six decades, the Asia Society has challenged our conception of the region’s geography. It has encouraged us to transcend the physical and political borders that divide us. And it has pushed the...

Malaysian Soldiers completed training on Tactical Combat Casualty Care to test the cumulative skills acquired during a Medical First Responder course, held Sept. 15-19, here, during the bilateral exercise Keris Strike 14.The ability of U.S. forces to train with partner nations on combat operations...

 During the past 24 hours, Icemen participated in National POW/MIA Recognition Day to honor those unable to return home.Annually the third Friday of September each year is observed across the United States as National POW/MIA Recognition Day to honor prisoners of war and the missing as well as their...