PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- The Arleigh-Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS Halsey (DDG 97) returned to its homeport at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Oct. 4, after successfully completing a scheduled deployment to the U.S. 5th and 7th Fleet areas of responsibility.Halsey departed Pearl Harbor,...

BATH, Maine - The Navy’s newest guided missile destroyer, the future USS Daniel Inouye (DDG 118), sailed away from General Dynamics Bath Iron Works shipyard, Oct. 4.The ship is en route to its homeport, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for its scheduled commissioning in December.“Following delivery to the Navy...

HANOI, Embassy & Consulates in Vietnam -- The U.S. delivered an additional 1,499,940 life-saving doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to assist Vietnam in its fight against COVID-19, Oct. 2. These doses were delivered through COVAX and came directly from the Pfizer manufacturing plant in Kalamazoo,...

PHILIPPINE SEA -- Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 1 units conducted bilateral operations with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) while operating in the Philippine Sea Sept. 18-Sept. 29.During the exercise, Japanese and U.S. ships participated in a multitude of events to include anti-submarine...

PACIFIC OCEAN - Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship USNS Alan Shepard (T-AKE 3) helped test the capabilities of the BQM-177A, the Navy next-generation Sub-Sonic Aerial Target (SSAT) while operating in the Western Pacific, Sept. 9-10.“The BQM-177A enhances our readiness because it increases our...

OKINAWA, Japan -- U.S. Marines and Sailors from across III Marine Expeditionary Force and elements of U.S. 7th Fleet executed Noble Jaguar, an integrated naval exercise in and around Japan, Sept. 27-31, 2021.While closely monitoring simulated adversary activities, these forces received the order to...

YOKOSUKA, Japan -- The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, USS Ralph Johnson (DDG 114) arrived to its new forward-deployed location in Yokosuka, Oct. 4.Ralph Johnson is a Flight IIA multi-mission destroyer, capable of embarking two MH-60 variant helicopters with air warfare, submarine...

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- U.S. Air Force Gen. Ken Wilsbach, Pacific Air Forces commander, immediately approved seven action orders to eliminate bureaucracy, forwarded eight more to the Secretary of the Air Force and Chief of Staff of the Air Force for their consideration, added eight...

HONOLULU, Hawaii -- For more than two months, a team from the Hawai‘i National Guard Joint Task Force, Task Force Medical (TF Med) have performed more than 1,400 COVID-19 swab tests since July through September at the Honolulu Police Department (HPD) Substation location in the Chinatown Historic...

MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan -- Fighter aircraft don’t usually need medical assistance, but when they do it requires innovation and teamwork.One such instance occurred when an unlikely duo, the 13th Aircraft Maintenance Unit (AMU) and the 35th Medical Support Squadron, teamed up to ensure F-16 Fighting...