EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska -- With engines screaming and timelines crunching, U.S. Marines prepare F/A-18C Hornet fighter jets for their missions.Part of preparing the aircraft is loading them with ordnance for the mission. A team of six U.S. Marines physically carry missiles and bombs from the...

As a testament to the urgent need for effectively tackling the non-communicable diseases (NCDs) crisis in the Pacific, the United States sent two high level speakers to this week’s inaugural Pacific NCD Summit in Tonga. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human...

WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- Today’s National Guard is in the best shape it’s been in for its almost 380 years of history, President Barack Obama’s nominee to lead the National Guard Bureau told the Senate Armed Services Committee here June 21.Air Force Lt. Gen. Joseph L. Lengyel has been nominated to...

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- More than 50 members of the Hawaii Air National Guard (HIANG) and three KC-135 Stratotankers, based at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPH-H) have returned home following a four-month deployment in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. The three KC-135...

DILI, Timor-Leste -- Pacific Partnership 2016 departed Timor Leste June 21, after completing two weeks of subject matter expert exchanges (SMEE) in civil-military disaster response preparedness, cooperative health engagements (CHE) and engineering projects. "At every level we've continued to build...

SAN DIEGO, California -- History was made June 17 pierside at Naval Base San Diego during a touching reunion 50 years in the making.Sailors aboard guided-missile destroyer USS Howard (DDG 83) were treated to a firsthand account history lesson from the remaining survivors of the Battle of Hill 488, a...

RODRIGUEZ LIVE FIRE COMPLEX, Republic of Korea -- At the end of every Army platform is a warrior who needs a functional, practical and tested system. The Army Materiel Command encompasses a large enterprise dedicated to keeping the warfighter operational, and that enterprise looks for feedback from...

ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia — Only one degree of separation, not the more common six, is needed to link the nation of Mongolia to the state of Tennessee. That degree of separation is Adm. Harry Harris, Commander of U.S. Pacific Command, and a special honor bestowed by Maj. Gen. Dulamsuren Davaa, Chief of...

PHILIPPINE SEA -- Units from the Navy's Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5, Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15, Commander Task Force (CTF) 70, and the Air Force's 18th Wing participated in a joint air defense exercise, June 20.The hypothetical scenario helped improve interoperability between the Navy and Air...

KAMPOT PROVINCE, Cambodia -- Pacific Angel 16-2 to Kampot Province, Cambodia, came to an official end June 20 during a closing ceremony at Wat Seung Primary School, one of the sites renovated by multinational civil engineers during the humanitarian mission.The joint and combined humanitarian...