23 July 2018 Special Operations Command Pacific Conducts Airborne Exercises with Multinational Special Operations Forces during RIMPAC WAHIAWA, Hawaii -- About 150 special operations forces members from seven countries flooded the skies during airborne operations in Wahiawa, July 17 and 19.Special Operations Command Pacific (SOCPAC) conducted airborne operations with multinational Special Operations Forces (SOF) in support of the...
23 July 2018 USNS Mercy Returns Home Following Pacific Partnership Mission SAN DIEGO - Military Sealift Command (MSC) hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) returned to San Diego today, to a welcoming of family and friends, following its support of the humanitarian mission to Southeast Asia, Pacific Partnership 2018.The ship’s crew, composed of MSC civil service mariners...
23 July 2018 Andersen Bids Farewell to 20th EBS, 96th Assumes Continuous Bomber Presence Mission ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- The 96th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron (EBS) from Barksdale Air Force Base (AFB), La., assumed responsibility of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command's (INDOPACOM) Continuous Bomber Presence (CBP) missions from the 20th EBS, July 19, here.The 96th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron...
23 July 2018 U.S. Marines and Army Conduct Fuel Experiment during RIMPAC POHAKULOA TRAINING AREA, Hawaii -- U.S. service members performed a field test for the Expeditionary Mobile Fuel Additization Capability system July 18 here, during the Rim of the Pacific, or RIMPAC, exercise.The Expeditionary Mobile Fuel Additization Capability, or EMFAC, is designed to convert...
23 July 2018 Mass Casualty Exercise Enhances Readiness at Tripler Army Medical Center TRIPLER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, Hawaii -- U.S. Army Soldiers and civilian staff at Tripler Army Medical Center (TAMC) conducted a mass casualty exercise, July 12, as part of a state-wide coordinated response to a humanitarian and disaster relief (HADR) event during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC)...
20 July 2018 Combating Chemical Warfare with Combat Logistics Regiment-35 CAMP KINSER, OKINAWA, Japan -- Marines with Combat Logistics Regiment 35 and Headquarters Regiment, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, participated in a reconnaissance, surveillance and decontamination (RSD) course conducted by chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) Marines July 17-19, 2018...
20 July 2018 Rim of Pacific Participants Conduct 2nd Sinking Exercise PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- Live fire from a ship and an aircraft participating in the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise sank the decommissioned frigate USS McClusky (FFG 41) in waters 15,000 feet deep, 55 nautical miles north of Kauai, Hawaii, July 19.The sinking exercise (SINKEX) provided...
20 July 2018 Pacific Angel 18-3 is Underway in Vanuatu LUGANVILLE, Vanuatu -- The U.S. military and Vanuatu Mobile Force (VMF), along with service members from Fiji, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines, kicked off Pacific Angel (PAC ANGEL) 18-3 in Luganville, Espiritu Santo Island, Vanuatu, July 16, 2018.PAC ANGEL Vanuatu, the second of four...
20 July 2018 Air Force and Marines Accomplish Joint Fire Training YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -– On a hot summer day at the fire-pit on Yokota Air Base, Japan, Aircraft Rescue and Fire-Fighting specialists assigned to Marine Air Base Iwakuni, Japan, and 374th Civil Engineer Squadron firefighters dawned their personal protective gear, grabbed a firehose and battled a...
20 July 2018 Pacific Air Forces Demo Team Fuels Alaskan Community during Arctic Thunder 2018 JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- While an F-16 Fighting Falcon demonstration engages communities across the world through its gravity-defying tricks, the team behind the machine also engages with the community across the Indo-Pacific region but in a more... green way.Arctic Thunder, a...