25 June 2015 George Washington Carrier Strike Group Enhances Alliance with Australia The George Washington Carrier Strike Group (GWCSG) departed Brisbane, Australia, June 24, after a five-day goodwill port visit.GWCSG includes the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73), its embarked air wing, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5, and the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile...
25 June 2015 Northern Edge 15 Provides 673rd's Firefighters Essential Training U.S. Air Force firefighters with 673rd Civil Engineer Squadron, Civil Engineer participated in crash fire exercise during Exercise Northern Edge 2015, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, June 15-26.Exercise Northern Edge 2015 is an Alaskan command hosted exercise and one of Alaska's biggest...
25 June 2015 Command Surgeon of the U.S. Pacific Command to Visit Papua New Guinea for Pacific Partnership 2015 The U.S. Embassy in Port Moresby is pleased to announce the visit of Rear Admiral Colin Chinn, Command Surgeon of the U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM). Rear Admiral Chinn will be in Port Moresby from June 28 to July 01 in support of Pacific Partnership 2015 that will be conducted in Arawa, Bougainville...
25 June 2015 Airborne Engineers Jump, Assault, Repair High in the sky, chutes opened wide as men and women parachuted onto an enemy airfield. After quickly grouping together, the engineers seized the surrounding location and pushed on to establish a presence on the runways. Combat engineer mine sweepers moved in while other combat engineers set up an...
25 June 2015 Marines Wrap-up Exercise Southern Jackaroo 2015 At midday on the culmination of Exercise Southern Jackaroo, various amounts of gunfire could be heard throughout the training area until the battle was done and it was time to prepare for a movement. The battle group consisting of U.S. Marines and Australian soldiers, grabbed their packs, slung...
24 June 2015 US Marines KC-130J Hercules Provides Power for Northern Edge 15 High above the Gulf of Alaska and Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex (JPARC), dozens of fighter jets engage in lengthy and complex joint combat missions for Northern Edge 2015.At one precise moment, two Navy F/A-18F Super Hornets break engagement toward the welcoming sight of a KC-130J Hercules...
24 June 2015 GW Sailors Lend a Hand in Brisbane Community Relations Sailors from the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) participated in a community relations (COMREL) project at Mater's Hospital in Brisbane, Australia, June 22. The COMREL project, spearheaded by the ship's Command Religious Ministries Department (CRMD), allowed Sailors to...
24 June 2015 Western Regional Medical Command Joins Veterans, Korean Communities Commemorating 65 Years of Partnership More than 300 people from the local veteran, military and Korean communities turned out Saturday, June 20, here to recognize the beginning of a long and enduring relationship between two countries.The 65th Korean War Commemoration at the Washington state capital's Korean War Memorial was held to...
24 June 2015 I-Kiribati Nursing Student Saves Child's Life during Pacific Partnership 15 Less than two weeks after completing an eight-hour basic lifesaving course, third-year nursing student Abbie Hinneifa used cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to save the life of a young boy.Hinneifa attended the course, taught by Army nurses from the 62nd Medical Task Force and received refresher...
23 June 2015 US-Thai Environmental Security Forum Thailand Ministry of Defense (MOD) and Ministry of Environment/Natural Resources co-hosted U.S. Pacific Command's fifth annual environmental security forum in Bangkok, Thailand 8-11 June 2015. More than 200 attendees from 22 nations, including government civilians, United Nations representatives,...