17 June 2022 Pacific Amphibious Leaders Collaborate on Regional Cooperation TOKYO, Tokyo -- Lt. Gen. Steven R. Rudder, commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific, and General Yoshida Yoshihide, Chief of Staff, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF), co-hosted the eighth iteration of the Pacific Amphibious Leaders Symposium (PALS), Tokyo, Japan, June 13-16.The symposium...
17 June 2022 Soldiers, Japanese Partners End Army Week with New Unique Patch CAMP ZAMA, Japan -- U.S. Army Japan Soldiers and designated Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) liaison officers are now authorized to wear a new uniform patch that symbolizes their enduring bilateral relationship.The patch, which combines both the U.S. and Japan flags, was officially presented...
17 June 2022 USS Frank E. Petersen, Jr. Arrives at Pearl Harbor Homeport JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- The Navy’s newest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, USS Frank E. Petersen, Jr. (DDG 121), arrived at its homeport at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam June 13, after completing its maiden voyage from Charleston, South Carolina where the ship was...
16 June 2022 U.S., Indonesian Air Forces to Conduct Cope West 22 Exercise U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Indonesia -- Service members and aircraft from the U.S. Air Force’s 374th Airlift Wing (AW), Yokota Air Base, Japan and the Indonesian Air Force will participate in Cope West 2022 (CW22), a bilateral, tactical airlift exercise at Abdulrachman Saleh Air Force Base,...
16 June 2022 III MEF Marines in Okinawa Complete Alert Contingency Marine Air-Ground Task Force Exercise CAMP COURTNEY, Okinawa, Japan -- U.S. Marines with 3d Marine Expeditionary Brigade (MEB), 3d Marine Division, and 1st Marine Aircraft Wing conducted an exercise to test their ability to rapidly mobilize, respond, and assist in crisis scenarios throughout the Indo-Pacific Command’s area of...
16 June 2022 Moody Airborne Extensible Relay Over-Horizon Network Enhances Partner Nations’ Airpower MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. (AFNS) -- Gaining air superiority requires cutting-edge technologies. Since January, a team from the 81st Fighter Squadron at Moody Air Force Base has been working with four partner nations to integrate combat data networks into each country’s uniquely developed...
16 June 2022 Thousands of Fijians to Benefit from Essential Health Equipment through USAID/UNICEF Partnership SUVA, U.S. Embassy in Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu -- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the United States Government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), have handed over essential health equipment to the Fijian Ministry of Health and Medical...
16 June 2022 New, Improved Passenger Terminal Open at Yokota Air Base YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- Passengers traveling to Yokota Air Base in Japan will be greeted by a new and improved Air Mobility Command (AMC) passenger terminal, operated by the 730th Air Mobility Squadron ( AMS).The Yokota community celebrated the $27.5 million facility’s opening with a ribbon...
15 June 2022 Eielson F-35As Bring ‘Lightning’ to Palau during Valiant Shield 22 KOROR, Palau -- Three F-35A Lightning IIs assigned to the 354th Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW) deploy to Palau in support of exercise Valiant Shield 2022, June 10.Operating in the Western Pacific island country of Palau increases the U.S. Joint Forces' forward presence and its ability to respond...
15 June 2022 I Marine Expeditionary Force CG Visits Darwin to Reinforce MRF-D’s Movement Forward DARWIN, Australia -- Lieutenant General George Smith, Commanding General of I Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF), visited the Marine Rotational Force-Darwin (MRF-D) on June 7 - 8.“The MAGTF is doing a great job of training alongside the ADF, and has been for years,” said General Smith, who leads the...