HONOLULU, Hawaii -- Tripler Army Medical Center (Tripler) supported the U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) Blood Safety Program mission in Cambodia earlier this month.Lt. Col. Teresa M. Terry, the chief of Transfusion Medicine Service in Tripler's Department of Pathology, worked with the PACOM Joint Blood...

OSAN AIR BASE, Republic of Korea -- They started with nothing but a few empty, pre-manufactured K-span buildings and 24 concrete pads.Within 72 hours of arrival, they established a fully operational deployed life support area called Rush Park and began accepting follow on forces Monday, Feb. 27.The...

LANGKAWI, Malaysia -- Assets from the U.S. Navy and Air Force are on display from March 21-25 at the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace (LIMA) Exhibition 2017.Founded in 1991, LIMA is a biennial event that has become a premier destination for aerospace and maritime manufacturers. The U.S...

PANCHKHAL, Nepal -- For many in developing nations, having clean water for everyday usage is a luxury, not the standard.To have clean water in these nations, it would have to be either purified for various usages or shipped from various locations, requiring the necessary logistics to get it to and...

NEW SOUTH WALES, Australia -- U.S. Air Force Airmen from Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, touched down at Royal Australian Air Force Base Williamtown, in New South Wales, Australia, for Exercise Diamond Shield 2017.With a dedicated support team topping nearly 150 personnel, over 20 pilots assigned to...

HONOLULU, Hawaii -- The United States Armed Forces are at a crossroads, facing both institutional and operational challenges. The character of war continues to change at a quick pace, requiring military leaders to reassess some of their core beliefs. This situation has led to the testing and...

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan -- “The United States Marine Corps, with its fiercely proud tradition of excellence in combat, its hallowed rituals and its unbending code of honor, is part of the fabric of American myth,” said Thomas E. Ricks, author of “Making the Corps.”U.S. Marines...

PACIFIC OCEAN (NNS) -- Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70) provided assistance to 25 mariners in the early hours of March 19, after receiving a distress call from a civilian ship taking on water.Lake Erie deployed a rescue and assistance team aboard its rigid hull...

PANCHKHAL, Nepal – Multinational Peacekeeping Exercise Shanti Prayas III officially kicked off March 20, 2017 with an opening ceremony at the Birendra Peace Operations Training Center in Panchkhal, Nepal. Shanti Prayas III is a Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) capstone exercise designed to...

CAMP HANSEN, Okinawa, Japan – Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 267 used new auxiliary fuel tanks to fly the AH-1Z Viper and UH-1Y Venom helicopters farther than ever, during flights based from Okinawa, March 10-14.The helicopters demonstrated a 25% range increase, according to Capt...