ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE BASE, Darwin -- Airmen from the 14th Fighter Squadron are on their way home after their successful participation in Exercise Pitch Black 2016 held at Royal Australian Air Force Base Darwin and RAAF Tindal, July 29 through Aug. 19.As the RAAF’s biennial capstone...

KOTZEBUE, Alaska -- More than 1,000 personnel from the U.S. Coast Guard, Alaskan Command, Alaska National Guard, state and local agencies, tribal organizations and Royal Canadian Air Force participated in Exercise Arctic Chinook, a joint USCG and U.S. Northern Command-sponsored exercise on the U.S...

BRISBANE, Australia – Exercise Pacific Endeavor 2016 (PE16) is in full swing after it began Aug 22, and military communicators from 22 Indo-Asia Pacific nations, non-government organizations, and academic advisors have come together to focus on improving Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response...

GUAM -- Commander, Submarine Squadron 15 Public Affairs (NNS) -- Naval Submarine Training Center Pacific (NSTCP) detachment (det) Guam held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the brand new Mobile Trainer (MT) 1000 submarine firefighting trainer on Polaris Point, Guam, Aug. 26. The MT-1000 is the hottest...

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- The B-1B Lancer officially replaced the B-52 Stratofortress in support of U.S. Pacific Command’s Continuous Bomber Presence mission Aug. 15, during a Transfer of Authority ceremony. Lt. Col. Jeremy Holmes, 69th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron commander from Minot Air...

MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan -- Airmen from the 35th Medical Group and Soldiers from the 228th Combat Support Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, completed a joint medical exercise here, Aug. 26.During the exercise MEDEX 16, Soldiers integrated their assets, personnel and procedures with those of Airmen,...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service) -- It's been five years now since the White House first announced an American "pivot to the Pacific," now characterized as a "rebalance." That rebalance came as the United States was drawing down operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and aimed to refocus on partnerships...

SEPANGGAR, Malaysia (NNS) -- USS Fort Worth (LCS 3) completed a port visit to Sepanggar, Malaysia Aug. 26 while on their transit back to homeport in San Diego. On the first port call of Fort Worth's journey home, sailors participated in a joint outreach activity with the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN)...

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan -- Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni’s Provost Marshal’s Office K-9 unit trained with Hiroshima Prefectural Police Headquarters officers and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Kure Repair and Supply Facility Petroleum Terminal unit military working dog...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- The Armies for the United States and the Republic of Korea demonstrated how different nations can work together to enable interoperability and share the spectrum management process during a distinguished visitors’ day here July 18. The U.S. Army Materiel Command’s...