22 July 2016 Rescue Teams Hone Skills during Pacific Thunder 16-2 OSAN AIR BASE, Republic of Korea –A-10 Thunderbolt IIs are making low passes over mountaintops, providing covering fire for two HH-60 Pave Hawks carrying Air Force rescue teams as they all coordinate to find pilots down behind enemy lines. A distress call is heard on the radio over the roaring of...
21 July 2016 Second Rim of the Pacific Sinking Exercise Concludes PACIFIC OCEAN (NNS) -- Live fire from ships and aircraft participating in Rim of the Pacific 2016 sank the decommissioned USS Crommelin (FFG 37) July 19 in waters 15,000 feet deep and 55 nautical miles north of Kauai, Hawaii.RIMPAC units, including the Royal Canadian Navy Halifax-class frigate Her...
21 July 2016 Tiger Balm 2016 Kicks Off on Oahu with Focus on Partnership WAIMANALO, Hawaii - Soldiers of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team "Broncos," 25th Infantry Division; 29th Brigade Combat Team, Hawaii Army National Guard; and the 9th Infantry Brigade, 6th Division, Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) held an opening ceremony for Tiger Balm 16 at the 298th Regiment,...
21 July 2016 74th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Co. Wins USARPAC Team of the Year Competition Two Years Running SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii - The best U.S. Army-Pacific Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams gathered together July 11-15, here, to compete in the annual EOD Team of the Year (TOY) competition hosted by 8th Military Police Brigade's 303rd EOD Battalion. The weeklong event showcased USARPAC's best...
21 July 2016 USS Shoup Hosts Congressional Staff Members The crew of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Shoup (DDG 86) welcomed six staff members of various congressional members to observe underway operations, during Rim of the Pacific 2016, July 18th.The staff members arrived aboard Shoup in an MH-60S helicopter from the Nimitz-class...
21 July 2016 Military Sealift Command, USARPAC Voyage through Pacific Pathways SATTAHIP, Thailand (July 20, 2016) -- Despite continued conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, the U.S. remains committed to a refocus of strategic priorities to the Pacific region. While long-running conflicts and territorial disputes dominate regional issues in the Pacific, each military...
21 July 2016 Under Secretary of the Navy Visits Newest Amphib during RIMPAC PACIFIC OCEAN (NNS) -- Live fire from ships and aircraft participating in Rim of the Pacific 2016 sank the decommissioned USS Crommelin (FFG 37) July 19 in waters 15,000 feet deep and 55 nautical miles north of Kauai, Hawaii. RIMPAC units, including the Royal Canadian Navy Halifax-class frigate Her...
21 July 2016 Two MC-130J Aircraft Set Wheels on Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni IWAKUNI, YAMAGUCHI, Japan -- U.S. Marines with 2nd Battalion 2nd Marines of Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, U.S. Airmen with the 353rd Special Operations Group stationed at Kadena Air Base, Japan, and MV-22B Ospreys with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 265 from Marine Corps Air Station Futenma,...
20 July 2016 Statement from Adm. Harry Harris on the Passing of U.S. Rep. Mark Takai CAMP H.M. SMITH, Hawaii -- On behalf of all the 380,000 Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen, Coastguardsmen, and civilians that comprise U.S. Pacific Command, I join the people of Hawaii in mourning the passing of U.S. Rep. and Lieutenant Colonel Mark Takai. He'll be missed by the entire PACOM...
20 July 2016 Exercise Cope Taufan 16 Kicks Off in Malaysia PANGKALAN UDARA BUTTERWORTH AIR BASE, Malaysia --“We are doing high end force integration efforts, because that’s the way…if we had to fight…we would fight together in this security environment,” said Col. Travis Rex, United States Air Force Exercise Director.The high end force integration efforts...