13 July 2018 RIMPAC Units Participate in Sinking Exercise Live fire from aircraft, a submarine, and land assets participating in the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise sank the decommissioned ex-USS Racine (LST-1191) July 12 in waters 15,000 feet deep 55 nautical miles north of Kauai, Hawaii. Units from Australia, Japan, and the U.S. participated in the...
13 July 2018 RIMPAC Disaster Relief Drill Trains and Certifies Military, Civilian Organizations PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- Military and civilian personnel responded to a simulated earthquake and tsunami scenario July 12-13 as part of a task force that included non-governmental organizations, and the State of Hawaii during the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise at Joint Base Pearl...
13 July 2018 Deploying Group System Integration Testing Embarks Ronald Reagan Strike Group Units PHILIPPINE SEA -- More than 35 members of the Naval Information Forces Deploying Group System Integration Testing (DGSIT) team embarks aboard USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) and additional units of the Ronald Reagan Strike Group July 5-13.DGSIT is a fleet-directed program to test interoperability of all...
13 July 2018 US-Mongolia Air Forces Agree to Airman-to-Airman Talks JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- Heidi Grant, Deputy Under Secretary of the Air Force, International Affairs, met with Mongolian officials over a three-day visit to Ulaanbataar and Nalaikh Air Bases, Mongolia, at the invitation of the Mongolian Air Chief May 17-19, 2018.Discussions held...
13 July 2018 Veterans Reflect on First Battle of Korean War; Receive Honors from City They Protected OSAN, South Korea -- "When they stopped us on the road, they lined us up, they set up machine guns across from us and I thought this is the end," recalled former U.S. Army Cpl. Raymond Mullin, who served as a medic with Task Force (TF) Smith, the first U.S. Army ground maneuver unit to enter combat...
13 July 2018 'Exciting, Crucial' Time in Artificial intelligence Development, Official Tells Innovation Board WASHINGTON -- Artificial intelligence is a strategic priority for the Defense Department that could transform the way the department operates, the head of machine learning at the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) said yesterday.“We are in the midst of an exciting and crucial time in the...
12 July 2018 Pacific Angel 18-3 to begin in Vanuatu LUGNAVILLE, Vanuatu -- The United States and Vanuatu will conduct a humanitarian assistance engagement during Pacific Angel (PAC ANGEL) 2018, July 16-21, 2018.PAC ANGEL 18 is an annual joint and combined exercise that provides general health and engineering programs to the residents of Espiritu...
12 July 2018 Senator McCain joins USS John S. McCain Namesake YOKOSUKA, Japan -- Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer inducted U.S. Sen. John S. McCain III into the official namesake of the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) in a ceremony on board, July 12.Commissioned in 1994, the destroyer already bears the names of Sen. McCain’s...
12 July 2018 Inside the Infantry Immersion Trainer Executing Rim of the Pacific CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- “We’re going condition one, move out!” said U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. James Kretchman, a squad leader with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, as he maneuvered his squad through the Infantry Immersion Trainer, or IIT, on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, July 10,...
12 July 2018 Secretary of the Navy, US Forces Japan, III MEF Leadership Visit Iwakuni MCAS IWAKUNI, YAMAGUCHI, Japan -- Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer, U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen Lawrence D. Nicholson, commanding general of III Marine Expeditionary Force, Brig. Gen. Christopher J. Mahoney, deputy commander of U.S. Forces Japan, and other high ranking U.S. military staff...