Korean language students at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, Presidio of Monterey, got a taste of potential issues they could be dealing with in their future careers during a lecture May 20.Sook Kim, former Korean ambassador to the United Nations, spoke about the...

U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM) and U.S. Pacific Fleet (USPACFLT) held a joint change of command ceremony onboard Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, May 27.Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter presided over the ceremony as Adm. Scott H. Swift assumed command of U.S. Pacific Fleet from Adm. Harry B...

The United States will continue to remain the principal security power in the Pacific region for decades to come, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said in Hawaii today.The secretary also urged countries to work toward a peaceful resolution to territorial disputes in the South China Sea region.Change of...

Defense Secretary Ash Carter began a 10-day international trip yesterday that will take him to U.S. Pacific Command in Hawaii and on to Singapore, Vietnam and India, Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren said.The trip will be Carter's second visit to the Asia-Pacific region since becoming...

Building on relations developedduring Exercise North Wind 2015, American and Japanese forces plan for a jointairborne training exercise during Red Flag 15-03 here.Paratroopers fromU.S. Army Alaska's 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th InfantryDivision and soldiers with the Japan Ground...

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen (DDG 82) and ships from the Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN) conducted separate one-day multilateral naval exercises with France and Turkey in the waters south of the Korean peninsula May 23 and 25.The exercises, conducted with French frigate...

'The United States Air Force, dropping warheads on foreheads since 1947.' Many have heard this phrase before, perhaps chuckled, and moved on.Those who hear it may attribute the glory to the brave men and women piloting fighter jets every day, but few think, 'Where do the bombs come from; and how...

Soldiers assigned to 2nd Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, demonstrated their ability to rapidly deploy in a moment notice by conducting a joint amphibian training exercise with the Navy and the Marines on May 21 at Bellows Air Force Station in Waimanalo, Hawaii. The...

Adm. Tomohisa Takei, chief of staff, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), visited the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73), May 22.Takei received an orientation on flight operations aboard George Washington while strengthening the joint interoperability between the U.S...

LCS Crew 103 Rough Riders successfully completed the second quarter of the littoral combat ship USS Fort Worth's (LCS 3) maiden deployment to the Indo-Asia-Pacific following a crew swap with LCS Crew 102 Gold Crew May 26. The turnover is Fort Worth's second crew swap and marks the halfway point of...