YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- Koku-Jieitai (Japan Air Self-Defense Force) security personnel from across Japan gathered together at Yokota Air Base, Japan, to take part in a bilateral training event with the 374th Security Forces Squadron from August 4-6, 2020.The 374th SFS provided Koku-Jieitai members...

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- A B-1B Lancer launching from Andersen Air Force Base conducted a bilateral mission with Japan and a joint mission with the USS Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group (CSG) Aug. 7 in the Indo-Pacific region.The B-1, from the 37th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, integrated...

DHAKA, Bangladesh -- United States Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl Miller and his team provided essential personal protective equipment (PPE) to Inspector General Prisons Brigadier General AKM Mustafa Kamal Pasha as part of continued U.S. support for Bangladesh’s COVID-19 response efforts. This is the...

EAST CHINA SEA - Sailors aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Germantown (LSD 42) received nasal swab tests to determine whether or not they had contracted COVID-19.Within the week, all test results came back negative.Much of the ship’s success at fighting the pandemic can be attributed to...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- Some children dream of growing up to become firefighters, scientists or doctors, but for Cadet Chief Master Sgt. Kailea Deleon, Yokota Civil Air Patrol superintendent, that aspiration is aimed a little higher.Deleon hopes for the experience of roaring engines over tranquil...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- The U.S. Government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), awarded US $1.5 million to the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement to support local community leaders in developing emergency response and mitigation strategies in disaster-prone areas across...

DHAKA, Bangladesh -- United States Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl Miller visited Madhya Khatiamari village in Gaibandha district with Government of Bangladesh officials to observe U.S. assistance to those affected by the flooding. Ambassador Miller spoke with families receiving emergency assistance...

Palau -- The island of Peleliu, Republic of Palau, is a tropical paradise with dense jungles, coral rock beaches, stretching reefs and sandbars just below the surface of the clear turquoise waves. However, encounters with unexploded ordnance (UXO) from World War II are a fact of life in Peleliu that...

U.S. Embassy in Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu -- Ambassador Joseph Cella and Fiji’s Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Yogesh Karan signed the Defense Cooperation Agreement which allows the United States to provide defense and security funding and training...

CAMP HANSEN, Okinawa -- The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) and subordinate units, Battalion Landing Team (BLT), 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 262 (Reinforced), and Combat Logistics Battalion (CLB) 31, wrap up two weeks of crisis response readiness missions...