WASHINGTON -- Still up and running during the Navy’s stop movement for travel is SkillBridge, a key Department of Defense internship program which allows transitioning service members to participate in job training, internships and apprenticeship opportunities during their last 180 days of...

CAMP H.M. SMITH, Hawaii – Due to concerns for the health and safety of the participating exercise forces and local populations near the planned exercise areas, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command has cancelled Exercise Balikatan 2020 scheduled for May 4-15 in the Republic of the Philippines...

YOKOSUKA, Japan -- To help stop the spread of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka (CFAY) has implemented a broad scope of health protection measures to help keep the disease at bay.In meeting this challenge, CFAY is also introducing a number of novel methods to...

MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan -- “Initial success or total failure” is the motto fueling explosive ordnance disposal Airmen to accept nothing less than perfection in and out of uniform.The 35th Civil Engineer Squadron (CES) Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) flight’s mission is to clear hazards by locating,...

WASHINGTON -- The Defense Department has established a joint task force to deal with daily requests the department is receiving for medical and personal protective equipment from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the departments of Health and Human Services and Homeland Security, and...

WASHINGTON -- More than 200 military medical students and graduate nursing students from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, known as USU, will be graduating early to support their colleagues in the U.S. military health system amid the global coronavirus pandemic.USU President...

DAEGU, 27, SOUTH KOREA -- 19th Expeditionary Sustainment Command (ESC) and the 2nd Operations Command, Republic of Korea (ROK) Army conducted a combined disinfection operation at an apartment complex in Daegu, Republic of Korea Mar. 13, 2020.The complex experienced an outbreak of COVID-19 a little...

WASHINGTON -- On March 21, the Chief of Naval Personnel issued NAVADMIN 080/20 which supersedes the previous stop-movement NAVADMINs, adds implementing guidance for the “authorized departure” and consolidates all the guidance into a single NAVADMIN for ease of reference and to serve as a “one-stop”...

SUKHATHAI PROVINCE, Thailand - 797th Engineer Company under the 411th Engineer Battalion, 303rd Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, alongside the Royal Thai Army and the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force, constructed a multi-purpose, two-room building in Sukhathai Province, Thailand during Exercise Cobra...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan – Thanks to the Keystone Club at the Camp Zama Youth Center, the Missionaries of Charity in Tokyo will have more than 200 canned food goods to add to their efforts to feed the poor.Club members, however, didn’t do it alone, said Kayesha McNeill, a senior at Zama Middle High School...