SAN DIEGO -- Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) returned to its homeport Sept. 30 following completion of the 17th annual Pacific Partnership mission.Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission...

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- Red Flag-Alaska 23-1, a Pacific Air Forces-sponsored exercise, is scheduled to begin October 6 with primary flight operations over the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex and is scheduled to run through October 21. Red Flag-Alaska is designed to provide...

WASHINGTON -- Pledging to strengthen the partnership between longtime allies, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and Jose C. Faustino Jr., officer-in-charge of the Philippine Department of National Defense, met at Camp Smith, Hawaii.The talks between the two defense leaders are based on the...

U.S. Army Pacific -- The Association of the United States Army will host a Contemporary Military Forum at 10 a.m., Oct. 11, focused on the critical role Landpower and integrated deterrence play across the Indo-Pacific, as part of AUSA’s annual meeting and exposition at the Walter E. Washington...

HONOLULU, Hawaii -- Leaders from 14 countries representing the Pacific Islands met in Honolulu, Hawaii to convene Pu’uhonua: The Pacific Way Forward, the 12th Pacific Islands Conference of Leaders, Sept 12.The Pacific Islands Conference of Leaders is a multi-day leadership conference that...

We are aware of the two ballistic missile launches and are consulting closely with our allies and partners. While we have assessed that this event does not pose an immediate threat to U.S. personnel or territory, or to our allies, the missile launch highlights the destabilizing impact of the DPRK’s...

CAMP H. M. SMITH, Hawaii – Lt. Gen. Bartolome Vicente Bacarro, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and Adm. John Aquilino, Commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, led the 2022 Mutual Defense Board and Security Engagement Board (MDB-SEB) at Camp H. M. Smith, Hawaii, Sept. 27.Lt...

SUVA, Fiji - Sept. 16-23, 2022 – At Fiji's government's request, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) facilitated Fiji's first-ever Women, Peace and Security (WPS) National Action Plan Orientation Workshop.WPS is a United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325-based policy framework...

MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII – U.S. Marines with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 268 concluded their deployment with Marine Rotational Force – Darwin by executing a 6,100 mile transpacific flight from Australia to Hawaii, September 13-18, 2022. The occasion marks the second time this year that...

HONOLULU – Rear Adm. John F. G. Wade assumed command of Joint Task Force Red Hill on Sept. 30, the new Department of Defense organization responsible for the safe and expeditious defueling of the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility. “For the past several weeks, our team has been hard at work...