Leaders of 25 armies across the Pacific theater gathered in Dhaka, Bangladesh today for the opening ceremonies of the 38th Pacific Armies Management Seminar. The theme for this year’s event is: “A new focus on the Asia-Pacific region: Opportunities and challenges for land forces.” PAMS however, is...

Ships and aircraft sank the decommissioned former USS Fresno (LST 1182) at 3:15 p.m. in waters 18,000 feet deep, 215 nautical miles northeast of Guam as part of the exercise Valiant Shield 2014, Sept. 15. The participating sinking exercise (SINKEX) units included the U.S. Navy, Air Force and Marine...

Airmen from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson and the Indian Air Force achieved a historic milestone after completing a joint air transportability training sortie Tuesday.Three Indian Air Force Airmen rode along on a C-17 Globemaster III crewed by the 517th Airlift Squadron as part of a tactics,...

The crew of the Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided missile frigate USS Rodney M. Davis (FFG 60) held a ceremony Sept. 8 to pay tribute to the ship's namesake on the 47th anniversary of his passing.Sgt. Rodney Maxwell Davis, from Macon, Georgia, was posthumously awarded the nation's highest military...

More than an hour's drive along uneven, dirt roads outside a major city is the rural village of Manahari, Nepal, which is where the Shree Rastriya Rotary Secondary School can be found. Hundreds of Nepalese people line up outside the gate of the compound which is temporarily a site for health...

Airmen from the 8th Logistics Readiness Squadron expeditiously loaded cargo onto 28 long-bed trucks Sept. 7 to 10 at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, to transport to Osan Air Base in support of 8th Fighter Wing flying operations while the runway undergoes construction here. The purpose of the...

The men and women of the Defense Department will never forget the lives of 184 Americans lost, their families and the survivors of the act of terror when a hijacked airliner struck the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said today.Speaking during an observance at the Pentagon...

Japan Ground Self Defense Force troops trained alongside Soldiers of 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, here, Wednesday through Saturday, during the 2014 Rising Thunder Exercise, which is scheduled to end Sept. 23.The annual training partners Japanese military personnel with units from Joint...

Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) chief negotiators completed 10 days of intensive meetings September 10, making progress across a range of issues as they continued their drive toward a comprehensive, high-standard agreement.“We have committed to a focused work plan, which will allow us to boost...

 Lancer Brigade Soldiers from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. are half-way around the world marching side-by-side with counterparts from the Tentara Nasional Indonesia Angatan-Darat (TNI-AD) in order to learn techniques of Jungle survival that have degraded amongst U.S. soldiers over the past 12...