PACIFIC OCEAN -- Coast Guard Cutter Munro (WMSL-755) began participation Monday, August 17, in this year’s exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) following a 37-day Alaska patrol.Ten nations are participating in this year’s RIMPAC, the world’s largest international maritime exercise held biennially in...

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- The Department of Defense has announced Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) as a winner of the 2020 Commander in Chief's Annual Award for Installation Excellence (CINC IEA).The Commander in Chief's Annual Award for Installation Excellence recognizes the...

CAMP COURTNEY, Okinawa, Japan -- Marines with Defensive Cyberspace Operations - Internal Defensive Measures Company, 7th Communications Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, competed in a 12-hour international capture the flag cyber contest hosted by the Royal Thai Armed...

WASHINGTON -- World War II was raging in 1944. American troops were instrumental in the effort to take back France, including the beach landings in Normandy that caught the Germans off guard. American forces took possession of Rome, and a Soviet counterattack pushed Germany back into Poland.In the...

U.S. Navy -- A Sailor from Fiji reflects on his journey from an island in the ocean to sailing oceans across the globe, on a U.S. Navy ship.The Red Sea is a long way from Fiji, where Retail Services Specialist Seaman Peni Tovehi grew up in a small village with his grandparents and five...

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii -- Soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Regiment (FAR), 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, and Marines of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing conducted the first joint artillery exercise at Makua Valley, Hawaii August 11, 2020.Two Marine...

WASHINGTON -- The Naval Safety and Environmental Training Center (NAVSAFENVTRACEN) is adapting to the current operating environment to ensure Sailors and Marines continue receiving critical training.In a typical operational year, NAVSAFENVTRACEN conducts roughly 550 courses worldwide, training...

WASHINGTON -- For the first time, the Defense Department and the entire federal government will have access to secure, trusted, and American-made commercial drones on the General Service Administration schedule, Acting Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Michael Kratsios announced...

PHILIPPINE SEA -- The USS Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group joined Japan's Murasame-class destroyer JS Ikazuchi (DD 107) to conduct joint integrated operations in the Philippine Sea, Aug. 15, as part of ongoing shared commitments to regional stability through cooperation.Symbolizing the strength of...

U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Indonesia -- The U.S. Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), in coordination with the Government of India and the Indian Red Cross Society, donated the second shipment of 100 new, state-of-the-art ventilators to assist India in its...