14 June 2017 VMA-311 Conducts First Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System Live-fire Training in Pacific USS BONHOMME RICHARD, Pacific Ocean -- Marines with Marine Attack Squadron 311 (VMA-311), currently attached to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 265 (Reinforced), conducted training with the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System for the first time in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region during live-fire...
14 June 2017 Restoring Wake Island's Guam Memorial: 'Honoring Those Who Came Before Us' WAKE ISLAND ATOLL -- Pacific Air Forces Regional Support Center and Wake Island’s Detachment 1 leadership paid honor to 45 Chamorros with a rededication ceremony of the Guam Memorial June 8.In 1941, 45 Chamorro men from Guam lived on Wake Island working for Pan American Airlines, said Col. Frank...
14 June 2017 Another Way to Strengthen ROK-U.S. Alliance DAEGU, Republic of Korea -- Did you know that there is a Korea army academy near Daegu city? The academy is called Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon or KAAY. It is at Yeongcheon city which is about 30 miles northeast away from Daegu city.Col. Ted Stephens, U.S. Army Garrison Daegu commander and...
13 June 2017 RED FLAG-Alaska 17-2 Took Off at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- RED FLAG-Alaska 17-2 took off at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson June 8.RF-A is a Pacific Air Forces-directed field training exercise for U.S. and international forces flown under simulated air combat conditions. It is conducted on the Joint Pacific Alaska...
13 June 2017 U.S. Marines and Sailors Hold Shipboard Live-Fire Drill, Continue Integration on Deployment PHILIPPINE SEA (NNS) -- Sailors aboard amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) and USS Green Bay (LPD 20) and Marines of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) embarked on those ships conducted a live-fire ship's self defense drill, June 11 and 12 respectively.The exercise was meant...
13 June 2017 First to Fight: Panton's Celebrate 100th Anniversary KUNSAN AIR BASE, Republic of Korea -- Members of the 35th Fighter Squadron gathered at Kunsan Air Base on June 12, 2017 to observe a historical base fly-over commemorating 100 years of their squadron’s history in the defense of American and now South Korean interests.The 35th FS heritage dates back...
13 June 2017 Mattis Asks Congress for Stable Budgets, End to Sequestration WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Jim Mattis today launched a full-throated attack on looming across-the-board spending cuts during a budget hearing on Capitol Hill, saying "no enemy in the field has done more to harm the combat readiness of our military than sequestration."The sequestration provision...
13 June 2017 USS Michael Murphy to Return from Western Pacific Deployment PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- The guided-missile destroyer USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112) will return to its homeport of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, June 13, after a successful five-month deployment.While deployed to the Western Pacific under the U.S. 3rd Fleet Forward construct, Michael Murphy promoted...
13 June 2017 U.S. Marines and Sailors Hold Shipboard Live-Fire Drill, Continue Integration on Deployment MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan -- U.S. Marines conducted the third annual High Intensity Tactical Training championship preliminaries at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, June 9, 2017.The event brought together the Marine Corps’ toughest male and female athletes to face off in...
13 June 2017 14th Fighter Squadron from Misawa Air Base plants SEAD at Red Flag-Alaska 17-2 MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan -- The 14th Fighter Squadron from Misawa Air Base, Japan, took to the skies for Red Flag-Alaska 17-2, June 8 to 23.“The premise of Red Flag is to provide realistic combat training that is ultimately essential to the success of air and space operations,” said Capt. Ty Perich, a...