24 February 2020 Agile Combat Employment: A Leaner, Meaner Force KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- Airmen from Kadena Air Base, Japan, executed a training exercise on Marine Corps Air Station Futenma Feb. 21, 2020, in cooperation with Airmen from the 317th Airlift Wing from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, and MCAS Futenma Marines to sharpen 18th Wing Airmen’s force...
24 February 2020 U.S. Army Pacific: Leaving for Pacific Pathways SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii -- Soldiers of the 25th Infantry Division said their final farewells before heading to Thailand to participate in Pacific Pathways. Pacific Pathways is an operation conducted by U.S. Army Pacific that deploys personnel and material to support security cooperation exercises...
21 February 2020 Building a Resilient Missile Defense Shield Around Japan OKINAWA, Japan -- Air and Missile Defense in the Pacific theater is an ever present and growing focus in the National Defense Strategy. Each year, the Resilient Shield exercise partners units in the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps. Joint and bilateral networks that provide for the common defense...
21 February 2020 U.S. Sailors, Marines Train Alongside Japanese Soldiers in Exercise Iron Fist PACIFIC OCEAN -- Harpers Ferry-class dock landing ship USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52) and amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland (LPD 27) along with U.S. Marines welcomed aboard Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) Amphibious Rapid Deployment Regiment soldiers in support of Exercise Iron Fist...
21 February 2020 Secretary of the Army: Strong Partnerships Serve as Deterrent to Armed Conflict FORT MEADE, Md. -- As Army leaders look toward the next steps in modernizing the force, they stressed the importance of working with allied partners both in Europe and in Southeast Asia. In the midst of a $178 billion fiscal year 2021 budget proposal, the Army plans to expand its competitive...
21 February 2020 U.S. Forces, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Participate in Resilient Shield 2020 YOKOSUKA, Japan -- U.S. and Japan Armed Forces will be participating in Resilient Shield 2020 starting February 24, at Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka (CFAY), Japan, and other command centers throughout the region.Resilient Shield is an annual computer-based Fleet Synthetic Training-Joint...
21 February 2020 Andersen Answers Royal Australian Air Force Call for Support ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- Earlier this month the United States Air Force 36th Contingency Response Squadron (CRS) sent two cargo load teams to Royal Air Force (RAAF) Base East Sale, Australia, to move supplies in support of Operation BUSHFIRE ASSIST 2019-20.What was scheduled as an...
20 February 2020 18th Aggressor Squadron Replicates Threats during Cope North 2020 ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- Twelve Soviet-style blue, black and forest flanker-themed F-16 Fighting Falcons took flight from a frigid 20-below-zero airfield in the Alaskan frontier to traverse the Pacific to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, to unleash havoc during exercise Cope North 2020 (CN20),...
20 February 2020 US, Japanese, Australian Forces Train Together during Pacific Defender 20-1 ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- Palm trees and tall grasses bend and sway in the near-constant breeze, which offers a welcome respite from the balmy temperatures and humidity inherent to the Northern Mariana Islands. The scene is tropical, beautiful, and could be described as peaceful were it not...
20 February 2020 Battles Like Iwo Jima Must Never Happen Again, Milley Says WASHINGTON -- Seventy-five years ago today, about 70,000 Marines and sailors, backed up by about 400 ships, made the assault landings on Iwo Jima, a Pacific island that is only several square miles in size.It was the bloodiest campaign in American history per square mile, the chairman of the Joint...