SANTA RITA, Guam -- The U.S. Coast Guard conducted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Cmdr. Carlton S. Skinner Building located at U.S. Coast Guard Forces Micronesia/Sector Guam on Thursday.U.S. Coast Guard Fourteenth District Commander, Rear Adm. Michael Day, presided over the ceremony. The Lt...

YOKOHAMA, Japan -- Rear Adm. Rick Seif, commander, Submarine Group (CSG) 7/Task Force (CTF) 74, visited the Victorious-class ocean surveillance ship USNS Effective (T-AGOS 21) in Yokohama, Japan, July 13, 2022.During his visit, Seif was given a tour of the ship and took the opportunity to address...

SAN DIEGO -- Royal Australian Navy hydrographic surveyors aboard the San Antonio-class transport dock ship USS Portland (LPD-27) are working with surveyors from the Royal New Zealand Navy to locate inert mines along the coast in Southern California, USA as part of Exercise Rim of the Pacific...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan -- More than 50 military police Soldiers officially changed their uniform patch after a ceremony here Tuesday that signified their move from the 35th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion (CSSB) to U.S. Army Garrison Japan.Both the 88th and 901st Military Police (MP) Detachments, the...

U.S. Embassy in Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu -- On July 12, Vice President Harris will participate virtually in the Pacific Islands Forum leaders’ meeting at the invitation of the Forum Chair Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama of Fiji. As part of this engagement with Forum leaders, the...

KOROR, Palau -- Pacific Partnership 2022 kicked off in Koror, Palau, July 12.Now in its 17th year, Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific.In Palau, the Pacific Partnership 2022 (PP22)...

WASHINGTON -- The meeting between Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Richard Marles was more of a family reunion than a strategic summit.The two men met in the Pentagon to discuss what Austin called the "unbreakable alliance" between...

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawai'i -- Air defenders from across the Indo-Pacific came to Oahu to compete in the first-ever 94th AAMDC Best Squad Competition from July 5-10, 2022. The command is using the Best Squad Competition as a way to change how NCOs from the Command Sergeant Major down to...

WASHINGTON -- Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III met with his Australian counterpart, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Richard Marles, in the Pentagon to discuss on July 13, the unbreakable alliance between the United States and Australia. Secretary Austin shared his appreciation...

PARACEL ISLANDS, SOUTH CHINA SEA -- The People’s Republic of China's (PRC) statement about this mission is false. USS Benfold conducted this Freedom of Navigation Operations (FONOP) in accordance with international law and then continued on to conduct normal operations in international waters. The...