09 February 2015 Fleet Logistics Center Yokosuka Marines Optimize Integrated Logistics Support Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) Fleet Logistics Center (FLC) Yokosuka Marines provided the critical link between forward deployed Marines and their required supplies Feb. 9 in Yokosuka.Seven Marine liaisons attached to NAVSUP FLC Yokosuka optimize the supply chain process for all forward...
09 February 2015 US Ambassador Mark Gilbert Welcomed to New Zealand US Ambassador Mark Gilbert welcomed to New Zealand - 9th February2015US Ambassador to New Zealand Mark Gilbert today presented hiscredentials to Governor-General Jerry Mateparae at a ceremony at GovernmentHouse.This was the final step in the process of officially becoming theUS Ambassador to New...
09 February 2015 Soldiers Learn Jiu-Jitsu, Enhance Combat Skills The route to the gym is far from easy. The Soldiers stand waiting for the bus that will take them to two different military camps before getting off at their stop. Then they have to walk off post into the bustling streets of Korea, navigating across traffic. Entering a door wedged in between two...
09 February 2015 Amphibious Roots: CLB-31 Executes a Live-fire Exercise Aboard Ship For Cpl. Derrick Gary, a massive, rocking amphibious assault ship in the middle of the ocean with a cool breeze blowing onto to its flight deck is not the normal setting for a shooting exercise.U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion 31 executed a live-fire shooting exercise Feb. 4 on the...
09 February 2015 Yokota Airmen Learn Valuable Lessons in Tinian A team of Airmen from Yokota Air Base, Japan, traveled to Tinian, MarianaIslands Jan. 28-31, to prepare the Baker landing zone for Cope North 2015, ahumanitarian assistance and disaster relief exercise.The intent of thetrip was to clear and validate the landing zone utilizing personnel andequipment...
09 February 2015 South Korea: Remarks at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs DEPUTY SECRETARY: Good morning. I just had a very, very good meeting with the Vice Foreign Minister. Let me say that this is my first trip as Deputy Secretary of State and it is no coincidence that that first trip is to Northeast Asia and the first stop is here in Seoul, in South Korea. It’s a...
06 February 2015 US 7th Fleet Seabees Assist Timor-Leste Ministry of Education Seabees from U.S. 7th Fleet's Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 4 worked closely with the U.S. Embassy, the Timor-Leste Ministry of Education, the Fantil-Foras de Defesa de Timor-Leste (F-FDTL), and more than 150 teachers and students to build a new school in Tibar, Timor-Leste, Feb 3.With...
06 February 2015 Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25 Assists in Rescue of Stranded Boaters Near Guam Sailors from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 25, U.S. Coast Guard Sector Guam and rescue crews from Rota, Northern Mariana Islands, 40 nautical miles north-northeast of the U.S. territory of Guam, recovered three stranded boaters a mile offshore near the village of Songsong Feb. 3.The 20-foot...
06 February 2015 Team Andersen strengthens ROK Bonds with Capstone Visit More than 100 Republic of Korea senior military leaders received a first-handlook at Andersen Air Force Base and other military installations on Guam duringa Korean National Defense University capstone event.The visit, supportedby U.S. Pacific Command, is designed to educate newly selected generals...
06 February 2015 ROK, US Interoperability Improves with Counter-fire Exercise On a fateful Sunday in June 1950, the Northern invasion of the Korean peninsula broke out and signaled the tragic warfare that lasted for three years. Although cornered by the enemy at first, brave Soldiers from different countries fought side-by-side to defend Korea’s freedom from communist...