KUNSAN AIR BASE, Republic of Korea -- Air traffic controllers (ATC) rely on their superior communication skills to communicate from ground to aircraft and vice versa. These highly trained Airmen manage the flow of aircraft through all aspects of flight, ensuring efficiency of traffic on the ground...

Sri Lanka -- Admiral Attygalle, Admiral De Silva, Captain Bretz, Captain Roberts, senior government officials, colleagues, partners, friends, good evening. To those joining us from the USNS Mercy, on behalf of U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives Atul Keshap and all the personnel of the U.S...

SASEBO, Japan -- The amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) returned to Sasebo, April 26, after nearly two months of operations in the Indo-Pacific with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU).Wasp successfully embarked, maintained, and supported near-daily flight operations of the F-35B...

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii -- Being the best Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Team in the Pacific requires physical fitness, poise under pressure, an extensive knowledge of U.S. and foreign munitions, the confidence to face any challenge, and this year… a pair of totally epic mustaches.Every year,...

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- The Arbor Day Foundation recently named Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) a 2017 Tree City USA, an honor the base has earned for 21 years running.Stephen Nickle, State of Alaska Division of Forestry, will present the Tree City USA award to JBER during...

WHEELER ARMY AIRFIELD, Hawaii -- Individual mobilization augmentees assigned to the 599th Transportation Brigade stopped by brigade headquarters for training and familiarization April 17-20 on their way to an exercise."It is great to have them here," said Casey Carr, 599th deputy to the commander...

WASHINGTON -- The Defense Department’s enterprise wide cloud solution will give warfighters the information they need at speed, providing the critical battlefield advantage in the wars of tomorrow, DoD officials told reporters yesterday."It's about data,” DoD Chief Management Officer John H. Gibson...

TRINCOMALEE, Sri Lanka -- U.S and partner nation service members participating in Pacific Partnership 2018 arrived in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka aboard the U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), April 25.The mission in Trincomalee will continue through May 8 and will feature Pacific Partnership...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- This year, our allies West are marking an especially poignant ANZAC Day.Officially, April 25 annually marks the anniversary of the opening engagement that led to casualties for Australian and New Zealand forces in World War I. ANZAC is short for Australian and New Zealand...

CABANATUAN CITY, PHILIPPINES -- Groundbreaking ceremonies took place in five separate locations throughout Luzon, Republic of the Philippines, April 19-20, 2018, which officially started engineering civic assistance projects in support of humanitarian civic assistance events for Exercise Balikatan...