02 August 2024 USS Mobile conducts Maritime Cooperative Activity with BRP Ramon Alcaraz The U.S. Navy and Armed Forces of the Philippines conducted a Maritime Cooperative Activity (MCA) in the South China Sea, upholding freedom of navigation and overflight, reaffirming the two nations’ commitment to bolstering regional security and stability, July 31...
02 August 2024 VMFA-314 forward-deployed | Best partner for peace, strongest partner for defense Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 314 is the United States Marine Corps’ only operational and forward-deployed F-35C squadron. Over the past year, VMFA-314 as a Tactical Air Integration squadron, integrated with Carrier Air Wing Nine (CVW-9) through multiple pre-deployment exercises conducting...
01 August 2024 NAMRU INDO PACIFIC Monitors Infectious Disease for Public Health and Military Readiness The job of safeguarding the health of U.S. service members requires not just healthcare at the time of injury and sickness, but a vast suite of often unseen work to determine what illnesses service members might encounter, and to develop the countermeasures for an ever-evolving landscape of health...
01 August 2024 Readout of U.S. – ROK Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Committee Plenary Session On July 30, 2024, the Republic of Korea Ministry of National Defense and the U.S. Department of Defense held the 2024 U.S.-ROK Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Committee in Seoul...
01 August 2024 Special Operations Forces cut through Kunsan’s rainy skies to demonstrate strike capability The Republic of Korea’s summers are famous for cloudy skies and torrential downpours that may appear at a moment’s notice. However, during a week in mid-July, members of the Wolf Pack at Kunsan Air Base observed a spectacle precipitate from the open skies unlike the typical monsoon Kunsan Air...
01 August 2024 German Defence Minister visits U.S. Indo-Pacific Command German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius visited U.S. Indo-Pacific Command at Camp H.M. Smith, participating in an honors ceremony and official briefings during his travels to Honolulu, July 30-31, 2024...
01 August 2024 US, ROK test unmanned vehicles in live fire exercise during RIMPAC 2024 The U.S. Navy and Republic of Korea (ROK) Navy successfully held a live-fire exercise using a common unmanned surface vessel (CUSV) during Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024, July 12. The CUSV, equipped with six Poniard rockets, successfully engaged a target...
31 July 2024 U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s PMTEC is changing how the Joint and Coalition force conducts training U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s Pacific Multi-Domain Training and Experimentation Capability Program Office achieved several milestones while supporting Valiant Shield 2024 in Guam, June 9-16. ...
31 July 2024 Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III Concludes Eleventh Visit to the Indo-Pacific Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Ms. Sabrina Singh provided the following release:...
31 July 2024 U.S. Air Force embeds with Royal Australian Air Force E-7A Wedgetail Unit, improves interoperability during Pitch Black 24 Beginning in 2022, the U.S. Air Force began embedding Airmen into Royal Australian Air Force E-7A Wedgetail units through the Military Personnel Exchange Program in preparation of replacing the aging E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System...