It’s a muggy humid morning and Marines with 4th Platoon, Kilo Company, Battalion Landing Team 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, stand on the flight deck in a stacked formation ready to rehearse room clearing techniques.“Alright gent’s let’s run it again,” said Sgt...

Since the May 26 deactivation of the Nepal earthquake response task force, Joint Task Force-505, the scope of the U.S. Air Force's contribution to Operation Sahayogi Haat reveal the magnitude of Pacific Air Force's role in the response.During the operation, Airmen, equipment, supplies and aircraft...

Commander, Naval Installations Command (CNIC) Vice Adm. Dixon Smith toured Naval Air Facility Atsugi's 1,250 acres of land and infrastructure June 12, advancing CNIC's role as the global provider of effective shore capability to sustain the fleet, enable the fighter and support the family.CNIC is...

The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Shiloh (CG 67) arrived in Guam for a scheduled port visit, June 11."With all of the hard work and operational stresses this crew experienced in the last few months, I'm happy that my Sailors get to enjoy a little slice of the United States, that is...

Standing outside Sergeant Smith Theater where a possible bomb may be hidden, Spc. Arianna Dotson, a patrol explosive detector dog handler with 520th Military Working Dog (MWD) Detachment, 728th Military Police Battalion, 8th MP Brigade, 8th Theater Sustainment Command, waits with her K-9 partner,...

Volunteers with Okinawa Outreach pride themselves on their hard work and on the fact that no challenge is too big.The volunteers definitely surprised the man who lined up a recent project for them during a two-hour visit to an elderly care facility in Okinawa City May 30.  Katsuhiko Yamashiro,...

Defense Secretary Ash Carter met at the Pentagon today with Gen. Fan Changlong, vice chairman of China’s Central Military Commission, Defense Department officials reported. In a statement summarizing the meeting, officials said Carter stressed his commitment to developing a sustained and substantive...

USS Rushmore (LSD 47) rendered assistance to 65 people on makeshift bamboo rafts in the waters between the Indonesian islands of Kalimantan and Sulawesi June 10. Shipboard lookouts spotted the distressed persons waving orange and white flags. Rushmore's commanding officer, Cmdr. Thomas Stephens,...

Soldiers with Army Band Hawaii and Sailors from the U.S. Pacific Fleet Band, embarked aboard the Military Sealift Command joint high speed vessel USNS Millinocket (JHSV 3), performed at the School and Center for Children with Disabilities in Kiribati, June 8.The event was part of Pacific Partnership...

Friends and families bid farewell to the crew of Logistic Support Vessel-2, the U.S. Army Vessel CW3 Harold A. Clinger, here June 6 as the Hawaii-based Army Watercraft System began its first trans-Pacific voyage in support of Pacific Pathways 15.2.Pacific Pathways 15.2 is the third iteration of the...