MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan -- A secluded table of Airmen in a corner of a ballroom on Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni bellows with laughter as the Pacific Air Forces’ F-16 Fighting Falcon Demonstration Team shares memories after a long day of air show performances. Quickly, these...

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- Soldiers assigned to the 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command (AAMDC) completed, Friday May 11, a grueling five-day competition that tested their physical and mental endurance to be named the 94th AAMDC's Noncommissioned Officer and Soldier of the...

PACIFIC OCEAN -- Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) participated in a passing exercise (PASSEX) with the expeditionary fast transport ship USNS Brunswick (T-EPF 6) and Her Majesty’s Canadian ship Vancouver (FFH 331), May 15.PASSEX is an exercise in which multiple naval ships...

BOISE, Idaho -- The Idaho National Guard hosted the United States Pacific Command's State Partnership Program Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response Seminar in Boise May 7 to 11. The seminar brought together members from seven National Guards, 11 foreign countries and multiple civilian...

OKINAWA, Japan -- A South Side native is participating in a large-scale multilateral exercise in the Republic of the Philippines.Lance Cpl. Simon Raygoza, a data systems administrator and graduate of George Washington High school, is deployed to Colonel Ernesto Rabina Air Base in support of Exercise...

HONOLULU, Hawaii -- There are many reasons why one might choose nursing as a profession. Nurses make great pay, they have great benefits, and they get to wear scrubs to work - just to name a few.1st Lt. Carolyn Rice, Tripler Army Medical Center Labor & Delivery nurse staff, has found nursing as more...

WAIMANALO, Hawaii -- U.S. and Singapore armies kicked off Tiger Balm 18, an annual bilateral exercise, at the 298th Regiment, Multi-Functional Training Unit (MFTU), Regional Training Institute (RTI), here, on May 14, 2018.The participating Singapore unit in Tiger Balm 18 is the 10th Singapore...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Halsey (DDG 97) returned to its homeport, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, May 14, after a seven-month deployment to the U.S. 5th and 7th Fleet areas of operation.Halsey departed Pearl Harbor, Oct. 16, to join the Theodore...

ILAGAN, Luzon, Philippines -- U.S. Air Force and Philippine Army engineers completed the construction of a two-classroom building at Alibagu Elementary School on May 5, the first engineering civic action program (ENCAP) site to finish construction during Exercise Balikatan.Over one month of laying...

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, HAWAII -- Service members from across Hawaii vied for the honor to wear a decoration of the German Armed Forces.The competition, hosted by Regional Health Command-Pacific (RHC-P) with the assistance of the Schofield Barracks 303D Ordnance Battalion (Explosive Ordnance Disposal),...