08 September 2015 Delta Company Linemen Power Restoration of Electricity on Saipan FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii (Sept. 4, 2015) -- Delta Company of the 249th EngineerBattalion (Prime Power) deployed to Saipan in August and provided much-neededpower line restoration support to the Federal Emergency Management Agency(FEMA), and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) authority missions in...
04 September 2015 Pacific Partnership Personnel Return Home to Guam ASAN, Guam – Pacific Partnership 2015 personnel stationed in Guam, but recently assigned to the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), returned home today as the ship pulled in to U.S. Naval Base Guam for a liberty port call.While many other PP15 personnel will stay with Mercy until Hawaii or the...
04 September 2015 Assistant Secretary Frank A. Rose to Travel to Australia, China, and Hawaii Washington, DC - Assistant Secretary for Arms Control, Verification and Compliance Frank A. Rose will travel to China, Australia, and Hawaii September 8 - September 17, for meetings and public remarks on strategic stability, space security, and multilateral arms control.September 8-9, Assistant...
04 September 2015 Sea Dragons Share Integrated Air Missile Defense Vision with Philippines Command and General Staff College Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam, Hawaii - Officers attending the Armed Forcesof the Philippines Command and General Staff College (AFP CGSC) were able tolearn about the mission of the 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command duringa visit to Fort Shafter, Hawaii, Sept. 1.The 94th AAMDC staff met...
03 September 2015 Team Kadena Wraps Up Tsuiki Aviation Training Relocation TSUIKI AIR BASE, Japan -- Twelve F-15s and more than 150 Kadena Airmen wrapped up two weeks of bilateral training with the Japan Air Self-Defense Force members at Tsuiki Air Base in Japan, Sept. 3.The aviation training relocation program is designed to increase operational readiness and...
03 September 2015 70th Anniversary of the End of WWII Celebrated Aboard Battleship USS Missouri JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii - Military service members, civilians and veterans celebrated the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII aboard the Battleship Missouri Memorial here, Sept. 2.Seventy years ago, Gen. Douglas MacArthur oversaw the signing of Imperial Japan’s instrument of surrender...
03 September 2015 United States Supports Regional Assessment of Lao Drug Control Master Plan The U.S. government sponsored an August 10-23 regional assessment mission bythe United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to help inform the designof the Lao Drug Control Master Plan 2016-2020. The mission was led by Dr.Bounpone Sirivong, Deputy Head of the Lao Commission for Drug Control...
03 September 2015 USS Germantown Wraps Up CARAT 2015 SATTAHIP NAVAL BASE, Thailand (NNS) -- The amphibious dock landing ship USS Germantown (LSD 42) completed their third phase of Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) exercise in Sattahip, Thailand on Sept. 2.From July to September, Germantown traveled to Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand...
03 September 2015 Engineer Task Force Activated, Set to Conduct Korea Rotation The130th Engineer Brigade hosted an activation and deployment ceremony forthe engineers of Task Force Ready and 95th Engineer Company, Sept. 2, atHamilton Field, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, in preparation for the theirnine-month deployment to Korea as part of U.S. Army Pacific's Korean...
03 September 2015 Blue Ridge Completes Summer Patrol, Returns to Yokosuka YOKOSUKA, Japan (NNS) -- U.S. 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) and embarked 7th Fleet staff returned to Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka after concluding a three-month patrol Sept. 2.During the summer patrol, Blue Ridge visited five ports in four different countries, strengthening...