CAMP ZAMA, Japan -- For decades, the sounds of military family life at Camp Zama reverberated within the walls of 1078 MacArthur Drive, but March 26 through 28, firefighters took over the now-uninhabited home and filled it with sounds of hope for earthquake victims.In this case, that meant the...

ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE BASE DARWIN, Australia -- U.S. Airmen assigned to the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, participated in Diamond Shield 2019 at Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Base Darwin, Australia, March 18, 2019.More than 80 Airmen and two B-52 Stratofortresses...

CAMP CASEY, Republic of Korea – Combat arms Soldiers work daily to master ground combat techniques, but for five weeks, select maneuver troops focused on aerial defense training.The 2nd Infantry Division/ROK-U.S. Combined Division hosted a mobile training team from U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery...

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- March 25 signaled the beginning of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson’s bi-annual mission readiness exercise, Polar Force.Polar Force is a two-week exercise designed to test Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson’s mission readiness. This exercise will strengthen and...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan -- U.S. Army Garrison Japan, in coordination with Sagamihara City, conducted a humanitarian aid and disaster relief, or HADR, evacuation drill here March 21.The drill gave both U.S. and Japanese participants the chance to practice their role in the event of an emergency and go...

CAMP KINSER, OKINAWA, Japan -- How does 3rd Marine Logistics Group actually support the Marines fighting on the ground in the Indo-Pacific area of operations? U.S. Marine Corps Col. Joon H. Um, commanding officer, Combat Logistics Regiment 35, and Col. Omar Randall, assistant chief of staff,...

KUCHING, Malaysia -- USNS Fall River (T-EPF 4), a Military Sealift Command expeditionary fast transport ship, arrived in Kuching, Malaysia as part of Pacific Partnership 2019, March 27.Malaysia has participated each year since Pacific Partnership began in response to the December 2004 tsunami that...

KWAJALEIN, Republic of the Marshall Islands -- Pacific Partnership 2019 (PP19) recently conducted a series of exchanges centered on humanitarian assistance/disaster relief (HADR) during their mission stop in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, March 11-28.The Pacific Partnership mission began in...

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii -- "Lines are ready, switch your selector lever from safe to semi, and fire when ready," bellowed from the loudspeaker on a beautiful Hawaii morning at the small arms rifle range on Schofield Barracks, as Army Reserve Soldiers assigned to the 9th Mission Support Command...

ROI-NAMUR, Republic of the Marshall Islands -- Members of the U.S. Navy and Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force along with partner nations from Pacific Partnership 2019 held a ceremony March 26.honoring servicemembers who had died during the WWII Battle of Kwajalein.The battle, which lasted from...