KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- Typically, tigers are solitary animals – they usually hunt and fend for themselves in the wild, however, on Nov. 2, four “Young Tigers” took to the skies as a pack while implementing unique tactics during exercise Steel Tiger. The group of KC-135 Stratotankers from the...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa, Japan -- When Sailors and Marines come together they can take a large empty field and, in a day of hard work, transform it into a medical field hospital complete with camouflage netting, medical and utilities equipment that can provide necessary life-saving functions within...

ASAN, Guam -- Called to serve, military chaplains based in Guam celebrated the 243rd U.S. Navy Chaplain Corps birthday at Papa’s Restaurant in Barrigada Nov. 30.Navy chaplains have been a part of the lives of many service members and their families, offering good counsel, warming hearts in times of...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan -- Major Gregory Costello, with the U.S. Army Japan Staff Judge Advocate office, understands just how difficult it is to study a foreign language.Costello has put many long hours into studying Japanese, and has experienced his own frustrations with self-study, including not having a...

SINGAPORE -- More than 120 Sailors from Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 3 participated in community service projects at the Tanglin Salvation Army and the Chai Chee Willing Hearts Soup Kitchen in Singapore, Nov. 26-27.Sailors who volunteered at the Tanglin Salvation Army sorted donated clothing,...

TOKYO, KANAGAWA, Japan -- Engineers and architects from Japan Engineer District (JED) and the Japanese Ministry of Defense met for the fourth Technical Forum on November 9.The Technical Forum is a venue to allow JED and MOD to come together to share information and their experiences and to...

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- The U.S. and Indian air forces are scheduled to participate in exercise Cope India 2019 (CI19) at Air Station Kalaikunda and Air Station Arjan Singh, India, Dec. 3-14, 2018.Exercise CI19 is a long-standing bilateral U.S. Pacific Air Forces-sponsored field...

SEONGJU, 27, South Korea -- Delta Battery, 2nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment of the 2-1 ADA Battalion, 35th ADA Brigade, qualified on the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) weapon system outside of the United States—the first time in Air Defense history.D-2 Battery, the “Defenders”,...

YOKOSUKA, Japan -- USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) achieved a major milestone this week as it successfully launched from dry dock and moored pierside at Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Nov. 27.This milestone is an important step in the ongoing effort to repair and restore one of the U.S. Navy’s...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- Cpl. Dylan Bejer, originally assigned to the Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Kaneohe Bay Meteorology and Oceanography (METOC) Platoon, has been working at the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) for the past several months to support the 24-hour manned watchfloor. Cpl. Bejer...