04 June 2019 Sustainers Provide Water for 25ID during Lightning Forge SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii -- The "Waterdawgs" of the 40th Composite Supply Company (CSC), 25th Sustainment Brigade deployed to Dillingham Beach, Hawaii May 21, 2019 as a part of Lightning Forge 19, where they got hands on training of saltwater purification with a Tactical Water Purification System...
03 June 2019 Message from the Secretary of Defense: Indo-Pacific Strategy Report WASHINGTON -- The Indo-Pacific is the Department of Defense’s priority theater. The United States is a Pacific nation; we are linked to our Indo-Pacific neighbors through unbreakable bonds of shared history, culture, commerce, and values. We have an enduring commitment to uphold a free and open...
03 June 2019 Communications-Electronics Command CG Visits Hawaii Forward Element, 307th ESB WAHIAWA, Hawaii -- Maj. Gen. Randy S. Taylor, commanding general of the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command, visited the CECOM Forward Element - Pacific on May 29, 2019.During the trip, Taylor visited with the 307th Expeditionary Signal Battalion at Helemano Military Reservation, Wahiawa,...
03 June 2019 USS Chung-Hoon Returns Home from Deployment SAN DIEGO - The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon (DDG 93), including a detachment from Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 37 “Easyriders,” returned to its homeport of Pearl Harbor, May 31, following a deployment to the U.S. 7th, 6th and 5th Fleet areas of operation as...
03 June 2019 49th Test and Evaluation Squadron Demonstrates Capabilities from the Fulcrum of the Pacific JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- Hickam Sky Warriors took notice of a visiting aircraft this week as a B-52 Stratofortress and aircrew, assigned to the 49th Test and Evaluation Squadron from Barksdale Air Force Base, performed operations here, May 22 – 31.“Our goal is to support a joint...
03 June 2019 U.S.-Australia-India-Japan Consultations WASHINGTON -- Senior officials from the United States, Australia, India, and Japan met in Bangkok on May 31, 2019 for consultations on their collective efforts to advance a free, open, and inclusive Indo-Pacific. The four nations reaffirmed their shared commitment to preserving and promoting the...
03 June 2019 Alaska Army National Guard Aviation Prepares for Future Operations JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- Alaska National Guard Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment conducted their final annual training as a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter air assault unit earlier this month ahead of their pending transition to becoming part of a larger general...
03 June 2019 PACAF F-16 Demo Team Pilot Turns Childhood Dream into Reality MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan -- Rows of vendors saturated the fairgrounds with the smell of freshly-grilled meat. Visitors filled their bellies with the local cuisine and posed with various aircraft static displays, loading their phone with keepsake photos.Some winced at the ear-piercing jets as they flew...
31 May 2019 Urban Search and Rescue Operations Training in Okinawa CAMP HANSEN, OKINAWA, Japan -- Marine Corps Installations Pacific Fire and Emergency Services exercised urban search and rescue interoperability training alongside Kadena Fire Department Rescue technicians and Navy Corpsman from the U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa for a simulated structural collapse May...
31 May 2019 U.S. Conducts Maritime Safety, Security Improvements with Republic of Palau HONOLULU, Hawaii -- The U.S. Coast Guard, in partnership with Embassy Koror and with the support of the Department of Interior, provided aids-to-navigation infrastructure improvements in the waters of Koror, Palau in early May in support of maritime safety and security development."The United States...