14 August 2015 Hawaii Army National Guard Instructs First Responder Skills during Exercise Keris Aman 2015 Hawaii Army National Guard combat medics trained alongside Malaysian amy medical personnel to practice first responder casualty care as part of Exercise Keris Aman 2015 at the Segenting Camp, here Aug. 12.Keris Aman is the largest multinational peacekeeping training event this year and is co-hosted...
14 August 2015 Nepali Troops Attend Warrior Leader Course at JBER For some Soldiers, the trip to the Sergeant First Class Christopher R. Brevard Noncommissioned Officer Academy is only a few minutes from home. For those stationed at Fort Wainwright, it's a couple of hours. But for six soldiers currently enrolled, the trip was more than 11 hours.Through the...
14 August 2015 554th RED HORSE Squadron Demolition Team Has Blast at Andersen Located about 20 minutes from Andersen Air Force Base at Northwest Field, a small group of Airmen is tasked to do something many are told to avoid: cause destruction.The 22-man 554th RED HORSE Squadron explosive demolition team is trained to use munitions for a variety of missions, including base...
13 August 2015 Marines Delivers Supplies, Clears Debris for Saipan Typhoon Relief Marines and sailors with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit continue to assist local and federal agencies in Saipan with typhoon relief efforts.Marines and sailors of the 31st MEU, along with the USS Ashland (LSD 48), have been working to distribute relief supplies in Saipan since they arrived Aug...
13 August 2015 Bio-Preparedness Exercise has ASEAN Forum Nations Refining Regional Response One theme that has come out of this week's ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Bio-Preparedness Table-Top Exercise Workshop is that being prepared for an outbreak of an infectious disease is more than having enough doctors and medical staff to respond, its about communication, coordination and...
13 August 2015 Guam Contingency Response Group Assists in Typhoon Recovery Six Airmen from the 36th Contingency Response Group (CRG) stationed at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam are assisting relief efforts in Saipan following Typhoon Soudelor.The aerial port team flew aboard a helicopter to the island on Aug. 9 and has been unloading Federal Emergency Management...
13 August 2015 U.S. Conducts Counter-Narcotics Training with the Office of the Prosecutor General of Timor-Leste From August 12-14, 2015, the U.S. Embassy's Resident Legal Advisor GlennAlexander hosted a counter-narcotics seminar with prosecutors from the Office ofthe Prosecutor General at the Timor Plaza Hotel in Dili. The training sessioncovered all aspects of narcotics investigation and prosecution,...
13 August 2015 Osan Emergency Responders Receive Integrated CBRN Training Emergency Managers from the 51st Civil Engineer Squadron teamed up with Bioenvironmental Engineers from the 51st Aerospace Medicine Squadron August 3-7, to participate in a series of intense, integrated base emergency response capability training exercises.Alliance Solutions Group, a company that...
13 August 2015 It Takes a Team to Aid in Relief Efforts in Saipan Over the past week the United States Coast Guard has been working with local crane operators and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to assist in the cleanup efforts during disaster relief efforts in Saipan. This is just one example of the inter-agency coordination it takes to aid in a...
12 August 2015 USACE deploys to support Typhoon Soudelor relief efforts FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii (August 12, 2015) -- In support of the Governor, local responders and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) personnel deployed in early August to support recovery efforts in the aftermath of Typhoon Soudelor in the Commonwealth of...