FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii -- Regional Health Command-Pacific (RHC-P) has a new commanding general.Brig. Gen. Dennis LeMaster assumed command of RHC-P from Brig. Gen. Bertram Providence during a change of command ceremony on June 20, 2018 at Palm Circle on Fort Shafter, Hawaii.The Army Surgeon General and...

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- Improvements to the main Air Traffic Control tower at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson are almost complete.The renovations, at an approximate cost of 2.4 million, have improved the existing structure built in 1967. The project is scheduled to be complete...

GLADSTONE, Australia -- Military Sealift Command’s (MSC) voyage-charter MV Ocean Grand is traveling through the Pacific as part of mobility operation Pacific Pathways 18-2 (PP18-2) and arrived Gladstone, Australia, to offload gear for exercise Hamel 2018, June 15.During the two-day offload, the...

PATTAYA, Thailand -- The 24th annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) exercise between the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, and Royal Thai Navy concluded in Pattaya, Thailand, June 21.CARAT Thailand 2018 involved over 3,000 military personnel from the U.S. and Royal Thai Navy conducting...

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- A U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress bomber integrated with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and Australian Defence Force (ADF) during a routine Continuous Bomber Presence (CBP) mission over south-east Queensland, Australia, June, 19, 2018.The bomber...

SUAI, EAST TIMOR -- Logistics, contracting, finance, security, host nation lodging and contractors and many more make up a small team of unsung heroes who nearly a year before Pacific Angel 18-1 kicked off planning the mission with a site visit in January and again in March this year.The logistics...

PACIFIC OCEAN -- The 13th annual Pacific Partnership mission concluded June 21 after completing mission stops in Japan and throughout South and Southeast Asia.The annual multilateral, multi-service mission featured partner nation counterparts working together in eight Indo-Pacific nations to improve...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- Sailors from seven homeported surface ships in Pearl Harbor saluted, cheered and thanked 97-year-old former Chief Boatswain's Mate Ray Emory in a surprise ceremony, June 19.Emory thought he was visiting the site of where his beloved USS Honolulu (CL 48) was berthed Dec. 7,...

FIVE HILLS TRAINING AREA, Mongolia -- The opening ceremony for Khaan Quest 2018, a regularly scheduled, multinational exercise co-sponsored by U.S. Pacific Command and hosted annually by the Mongolian Armed Forces, marked the beginning of the exercise here June 14, 2018.KQ18 is scheduled to take...

WASHINGTON -- The Defense Department is a resource unlike any other in the world for aiding civilian agencies as they confront natural or man-made disasters, and DoD continues to look for better ways to work alongside civilian agencies, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said here...