16 September 2014 Team Osan, Republic of Korea Air Force Completes CBRNE Training Airmen from the United States Air Force and Republic of Korea air force completed a simulated biological response training event Sept. 16, 2014, at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea.Both nations' Airmen demonstrated their capabilities of pulling a biological sample, decontaminating an area and then...
16 September 2014 HIANG Unit Conducts First Pacific Unity Operation in Papua New Guinea Pacific Unity has been ongoing in the Asia-Pacific region since 2010, however the current iteration in Mount Hagen Papua New Guinea marks the first time the Air National Guard has taken the lead on the humanitarian assistance based operation. Pacific Unity is a bilateral Engineering Civic Action...
16 September 2014 Security Advisor Rice's Meeting with S. Korea's National Security Office Director Readout of National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice’s Meeting with National Security Office Director Kim Kwan-Jin of the Republic of KoreaNational Security Advisor Susan E. Rice met yesterday with ROK National Security Office Director Kim Kwan-Jin at the White House. Ambassador Rice and Director Kim...
16 September 2014 Airman Teaches Self-aid and Buddy Care to Students during Pacific Unity 14-8 Maj. Nathaniel Duff is deployed to Papua New Guinea in support of Pacific Unity 14-8, but recently took time out from his duties as the team medic to host a self-aid and buddy care clinic for students at Togoba Secondary School in Mount Hagen.Pacific Unity is a bilateral Engineering Civic Action...
16 September 2014 Japan Self-Defense Forces Join Disaster Preparedness Training Members of the Okinawa Prefectural Government hosted a series of humanitarian assistance and disaster relief drills with the Japan Self-Defense Forces and U.S. Marines on and around Miyako Island Sept. 6.This year’s exercise was the first time OPG asked the Marines to participate, understanding the...
16 September 2014 Exercise Valiant Shield Officially begins on Tinian U.S. service members spent the past two weeks on Tinian preparing the site for participants in Valiant Shield 2014, which commenced Sept. 15 at various locations on land and in the sea, in and around Tinian and Guam. The approximately 450 Marines, U.S. Navy Sailors and Guam National Guardsmen are...
15 September 2014 USS Warrior Joins ROK Navy to Commemorate 64th Anniversary of Incheon Landing Sailors from USS Warrior (MCM 10) joined Republic of Korea navy ships in a naval demonstration and reenactment Sept. 15 to pay tribute to Korean War veterans who fought side-by-side during the Incheon landing 64 years ago. The commemoration also included amphibious assault vehicles, helicopters, and...
15 September 2014 Valiant Shield Exercise Kicks Off in Pacific Exercise Valiant Shield 2014 kicked off with more than 18,000 joint force service members from 30 units, including 200 aircraft and 20 ships in, and around, the island of Guam beginning Sept. 15.The exercise will demonstrate a wide range of capabilities designed to test the inherent flexibility of...
15 September 2014 Hawaii Army National Guard Conclude Garuda Shield CPX in Indonesia An annual bilateral command post exercise between the Indonesian Armed Forces or Tentara Nasional Indonesia (TNI) and Hawaii Army National Guard, came to an end with a closing ceremony at Dodiklatpur in East Java, Indonesia on Sept. 11, 2014.The CPX, based on a United Nations peacekeeping scenario,...
15 September 2014 PACANGEL Engineers Build Deeper Bonds, Brighter Futures Children crowded up against windows and peeked around doors, watching, wide-eyed, as their school nestled in the rural, mountainous outskirts of Nepal was transformed. The lives of more than 2,000 students in remote regions were affected by this year's engineering civic action project efforts for...