11 December 2015 6th Joint Leadership Walk Connects Japanese Community, Station Residents IWAKUNI CITY, Japan -- Lt. Col. Gary Thomason, executive officer of Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, Yoshihiko Fukuda, mayor of Iwakuni City, and other Japanese government officials participated in the 6th Joint Leadership Walk through the streets of Iwakuni Dec. 4, 2015.The Joint Leadership...
11 December 2015 Corporal Tibor Rubin, Medal of Honor Recipient, Dies at 86 WASHINGTON -- Holocaust survivor, Korean War hero and Medal of Honor recipient Tibor Rubin died Dec. 5 of natural causes. The Garden Grove, California, resident was 86 years old when he passed.Rubin, born in Pásztó, Hungary, in 1929, found himself in the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, at...
10 December 2015 Carter Calls U.S.-India Defense Partnership ‘Anchor of Global Security’ WASHINGTON, December 10, 2015 — The defense partnership between the United States and India will become an anchor of global security, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said today in a joint news conference with Indian Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar.Following a meeting between the defense leaders,...
10 December 2015 U.S. Ambassador to Japan Tours Operations at Yama Sakura 69 CAMP ITAMI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy visited U.S. and Japan Self-Defense Force service members at Camp Itami, Japan, Dec. 9, 2015.Kennedy toured the base as operations were underway for Yama Sakura 69, the annual bilateral command post exercise between the U.S. and Japan...
10 December 2015 Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division Hosts Missile Defense Agency, Japanese for Live-fire Test of SM-3 Block IIA Missile POINT MUGU, California (NNS) -- Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division at Naval Base Ventura County, Point Mugu, California hosted a live-fire test of the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA missile, a 21-inch diameter Standard Missile variant cooperatively developed by the United States and Japan for...
10 December 2015 Aircraft with a Cold Shoulder JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- If driving in snow is a hassle, imagine flying. Instead of every turn being a skidding accident waiting to happen, blocky wings couldn't get the right lift and flying straight would be an impossible task.While the roads and parking lots on base have snow...
10 December 2015 Army Fields Streamlined Network Initialization Tool to Korea ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (December 9, 2015) -- Before the Army's mission command and networked tools can be put to work, these advanced capabilities must first be able to communicate with each other.This important step, known as initialization, is getting easier with the new Initialization Tool...
10 December 2015 U.S. Army Garrison Japan Commander Tours Local Hospital for Future Use CAMP ZAMA, Japan (Dec 10, 2015) -- Col. William B. Johnson and Command Sgt. Maj. Rosalba Dumont-Carrion, commander and command sergeant major of U.S. Army Garrison Japan, respectively, along with Mikio Endo, mayor of Zama City, toured Zama General Hospital Dec. 1 to see construction progress...
10 December 2015 Red Bulls Participate in Yama Sakura JOINT BASE LEWIS MCCHORD, Wash. - Soldiers of the 34th "Red Bull" Infantry Division headquarters based out of Rosemount, Minnesota, traveled to Joint Base Lewis McChord, Washington, in late November to conduct a premier military-to-military training exercise with the Japanese army in support of the...
10 December 2015 Nirai Fire Department Partners with Kadena First Responders for Humanitarian Relief Exercise KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- Nirai Fire department partnered with Kadena first responders in a humanitarian relief exercise Dec. 3 at Kadena.This is the first exercise in which the Nirai Fire Department partnered with Kadena to get to parts of the surrounding area that would have been previously be...