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MAG-24's participation in RIMPAC 2024
August 8, 2024 — From June 26, 2024, to August 2, 2024, Marine Aircraft Group (MAG) 24, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW), stationed at Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH), played a critical support role in the 29th iteration of Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC), the world's largest international maritime exercise... MORE

U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Geoffrey Blumenfled, the commanding officer of Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 363, Marine Aircraft Group 24, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, left, poses for a group photo after Marines with Bravo Company, Battalion Landing Team 1/5, 15th Marine Expeditionary demonstrated a fast-rope insertion to partner forces at Marine Corps Training Area Bellows, Waimanalo, Hawaii, as part of Exercise Rim of the Pacific 2024, July 2.

US, ROK test unmanned vehicles in live fire exercise during RIMPAC 2024
August 1, 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... MORE

Republic of Korea Navy tank landing ship (LST 687) ROKS Cheon Ja Bong sails in formation during the at-sea phase of Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024.

US and Partner Nations Conduct Multiple SINKEXs as Part of RIMPAC 2024
July 22, 2024 — Ships and aircraft participating in Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024 conducted long-planned, live-fire sinking exercises (SINKEXs) and sank the decommissioned USS Dubuque (LPD 8), July 11, 2024, and the decommissioned USS Tarawa (LHA 1), July 19, 2024. Both were sunk in waters 15,000 feet deep, more than 50 nautical miles off the northern coast of the island of Kauai... MORE

Royal Netherlands Navy De Zeven Provinciën-class frigate HNLMS Tromp (F803) fires a Harpoon missile during a long-planned live fire sinking exercise as part of Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024.

U.S. Coast Guard, Peruvian, Mexican partners collaborate on first urban search and rescue operations in Exercise RIMPAC 2024
July 19, 2024 — Members from the U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Strike Team, the Peruvian Naval Infantry and the Mexican Navy collaborated for three days of combined training, simulated search and rescue coordination and survivor extraction and triage as part of the humanitarian assistance and disaster response component of RIMPAC... MORE

Peruvian marines assigned to Combat Engineering Battalion conduct an urban search and rescue training exercise with the U.S. Coast Guard at Marine Corps Base Hawaii during Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC), July 12.

MSC Reservists Support RIMPAC 2024 on Land, at Sea
July 17, 2024 — Navy Reservists from Military Sealift Command (MSC) are on station in Hawaii, providing support to the Navy’s biennial, multinational maritime exercise, Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC) 2024... MORE

USS Gridley, Partner Nations Hold VBSS Drill During RIMPAC 2024
July 16, 2024 — The Arleigh-Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS Gridley (DDG 101) participated in a multinational visit, board, search and seizure (VBSS) drill while underway July 15 during Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC), a large-scale international maritime exercise... MORE

U.S Navy Quartermaster 1st Class Alexis Wighaman, assigned to the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Gridley (DDG 101), left, and Mexican navy Ensign Adrian Riveroll, assigned to the Mexican Reformador-class frigate ARM Belito Juárez (POLA-101), await further instructions during a visit, board, search and seizure (VBSS) drill aboard the Singaporean Formidable-class stealth frigate RSS Stalwart (72) as part of Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024, July 15.

Does the Army Float?: 105th Surgical Augmentation Detachment Embarks USS Somerset (LPD 25)
July 15, 2024 — For many, the first image that comes to mind upon hearing Army/Navy is the annual football game between the two rival service academies. For midshipmen and cadets, inter-service competition is instilled in them from the moment they step foot onto their respective campus – exclamations of ‘Beat Navy!’ and ‘Beat Army!’ as much a part of the culture as the shared commitment to service and sacrifice... MORE

Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Keaton Holt (left), a Tulsa, Oklahoma native, and Army Sgt. 1st Class Derek Story, a Fort Worth, Texas native, transport a patient during a medical emergency exercise aboard the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Somerset (LPD 25) as part of Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024.

P-8A hunts submarines in the Pacific
July 8, 2024 — A Royal Australian Air Force P-8A Poseidon dropped four exercise torpedoes on a US Navy nuclear submarine during a maritime patrol serial at exercise RIMPAC... MORE

Air Force aviators from No. 11 Squadron, CPL Brendan King and CPL Zachary Sellman, fit a Mk54 Lightweight Exercise Torpedo to a Royal Australian Air Force P-8A Poseidon during Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024, at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii.

15th MEU, USS Somerset join partner nations at 29th Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC)
July 3, 2024 — Nearly 1,400 U.S. Marines assigned to the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit and Sailors assigned to the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock USS Somerset (LPD 25) will participate in the 29th biennial Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024 from June 27 to Aug. 1, around the Hawaiian Islands... MORE

U.S. Marines assigned to the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit and Sailors assigned to the amphibious transport dock USS Somerset (LPD 25) man the rails as Somerset pulls into port for Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, July 3. Twenty-nine nations, 40 surface ships, three submarines, 14 national land forces, more than 150 aircraft, and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC in and around the Hawaiian Islands, June 27 to Aug. 1. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world's oceans. RIMPAC 2024 is the 29th exercise in the series that began in 1971. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Patrick Katz)

Military Sealift Command Supporting Biennial Rim of the Pacific Exercise
July 2, 2024 — Military Sealift Command will support the biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024 maritime exercise though out the month of July in Hawaii... MORE

Australian Naval Officer celebrates 20 years of service with friends, partners at RIMPAC 2024
July 2, 2024 — Lt. Cmdr. Kimberley Healy celebrated the Fourth of July at Battleship Row in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, with friends and colleagues from New Zealand and the U.S. She is part of the Sea Combat Command and the Australian Defence Force contingent of more than 300 Australians participating in Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024... MORE

Lieutenant Commander Kimberley Healy, Principle Warfare Officer from Sea Combat Command alongside New Zealand Navy Lieutenant Commander Elton Drylie aboard HMNZS Aotearoa during Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024, at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii.

RIMPAC 2024 Medical Symposium Focuses on "Tyranny of Distance: Closing the Gap"
July 2, 2024 — International military medical teams from around the globe convened at Sharkey Theater on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for the 2024 Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Medical Symposium, July 1-2, 2024... MORE

U.S. Navy service members and partner nations organized and successfully held a medical symposium event for Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, July 2

2024 RIMPAC Press Conference
June 27, 2024 — Rim of the Pacific Exercise, or RIMPAC, Press Conference June 27th, 2024... MORE

U.S. Pacific Fleet Announces 29th RIMPAC Exercise
May 21, 2024 — Approximately 29 nations, 40 surface ships, 3 submarines, 14 national land forces, over 150 aircraft and more than 25,000 personnel will participate in the biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise scheduled June 26 to Aug. 2, in and around the Hawaiian Islands... MORE