11 March 2025 Ready at Midnight: 500 Marines and Sailors Deploy Aboard USS San Diego (LPD-22) for the 31st MEU’s First Patrol of 2025 PHILIPPINE SEA - As midnight approaches through the warship’s red-lit passageways and inside every busy berthing, the familiar anthem “We Ready” by Archie Evermore blares over the ship’s public address system or 1 Main Circuit (1MC). Capt. Tim Carter, commanding officer of the amphibious transport...
11 March 2025 America ARG: One Team, One Fight SASEBO, Japan - The America Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) completed their first patrol of 2025, March 6...
11 March 2025 USINDOPACOM Pacific Multi-Domain Training and Experimentation Capability team hosts panel at 2025 Pacific Operational Science and Technology Conference HONOLULU - The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Pacific Multi-Domain Training and Experimentation Capability team hosted a panel during the 2025 Pacific Operational Science and Technology Conference at the Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu, March 4...
10 March 2025 U.S.- based F-35s replace Hornets in rotational deployments to Japan MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan — The U.S. Marine Corps’ Japan-based aviation forces received their first F-35 deployment from the continental United States on March 8, 2025. Based out of Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 214, an F-35B squadron of...
10 March 2025 Eighth Army begins annual exercise Freedom Shield 2025 CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea - Eighth Army began its portion of Freedom Shield 2025 Sunday, March 9...
10 March 2025 Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group Departs Busan, Republic of Korea BUSAN, South Korea – The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group departed Busan, Republic of Korea, March 7, after conducting a scheduled five-day port visit...
10 March 2025 USINDOPACOM Statement on DPRK's Ballistic Missile Launches We are aware of the DPRK’s multiple ballistic missile launches and are consulting closely with the Republic of Korea and Japan, as well as other regional allies and partners. The United States condemns these actions and calls on the DPRK to refrain from further unlawful and destabilizing acts. ...
08 March 2025 Space Force displays capabilities in Cobra Gold 25 KORAT, Thailand - During the Cobra Gold 2025 Joint Exercise, U.S. Space Force Guardians from Indo-Pacific Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, and Fort Buckner, Japan, displayed their technological capabilities with allies and partner nations...
07 March 2025 Five Indo-Pacific nations begin Exercise Sea Dragon 25 GUAM - Two U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft operating under Commander, Task Force (CTF) 72, one from Patrol Squadron (VP) 16 and one from VP 47, joined Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance (MPRA) communities from Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), Indian Navy (IN), Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force...
06 March 2025 U.S. Marine Corps, Royal Thai Marine Corps, Republic of Korea Marine Corps conduct combat marksmanship practice during Cobra Gold 2025 SATTAHIP, Thailand - U.S. Marines with the 1st Light Armour Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, conducted combat marksmanship practice at a short bay range with marines from the Royal Thai Marine Corps and Republic of Korea Marines at the Thai Reconnaissance Battalion base in Thailand...