01 December 2014 Hawaii Cavalry Soldiers Prepares for Korea Deployment The Soldiers assigned to 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, vigorously trained day and night here, in a brigade-wide field training exercise to validate 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, as they prepare for an operational deployment to Korea. The focus of this combined training...
01 December 2014 Fort Sill Soldiers, Singaporean Armed Forces Train Together Throughout the past two weeks, Fort Sill has been alive with the sounds of helicopters and artillery as battalions from the 214th Fires Brigade and 75th Field Artillery Brigade hosted the Singapore armed forces, during Operation Daring Warrior. Over 300 Singaporean soldiers and airmen trained...
01 December 2014 CTF-75 Receives New Riverine Command Boats Sailors assigned to Commander, Navy Expeditionary Forces Command Pacific (CTF-75), Coastal Riverine Squadron 3 and Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 aided in off-loading two Riverine Command Boats (RCBs) from USNS Soderman (T-AKR 317) and transported to Naval Base Guam, Nov 24.The new boats...
26 November 2014 Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Army, Air Force Leaders Enrich Joint Partnership Arctic paratroopers jumped from a C-17 Globemaster III piloted by a U.S. Air Force crew onto Malemute Drop Zone, Nov. 18, 2014. While this occurrence is not unusual, on this day there was also an Air Force presence on the ground. The 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry...
26 November 2014 U.S. and Korean Submariners Deepen Understanding during 40th SWCM Commander, Submarine Group (COMSUBGRU) 7 conducted bilateral talks with the Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN) Nov. 24-26 at Chinhae, Republic of Korea (ROK).The 40th Submarine Warfare Committee Meeting (SWCM) brought together representatives from the U.S. and ROK navies. SWCM is a semi-annual flag...
26 November 2014 USS Mississippi Welcomed as Newest Member of Pacific Submarine Force The Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Mississippi (SSN 782) was welcomed to the Pearl Harbor waterfront at an aloha ceremony Nov. 25, as the newest submarine permanently assigned to Submarine Squadron 1 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.The arrival of Mississippi makes her the 4th...
26 November 2014 Ordnance Airmen Focus on Preventing Explosions of Another Nature Explosive Ordnance Disposal's mission is to safely dispose of potentially deadly explosive devices.With the extreme stress of this mission, even the best-equipped Airman may find himself facing unexploded ordnance of an entirely different kind.In a job that exposes workers to potentially devastating...
26 November 2014 Accepting Follow-on Forces the Wolf Pack Way From dawn to dusk and late into the night hours, the roaring sounds of fighter aircraft filled the skies of the Korean Peninsula, Nov. 14 to 22.To sustain the largest flying exercise on the Korean Peninsula, Kunsan AB adapted to meet the needs of multiple units who joined the Wolf Pack from across...
26 November 2014 Japan National Security Advisor, JSDF Staff Visit Lassen The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen (DDG 82)hosted Mr. Shotaro Yachi, Japan National Security Advisor to the Cabinet,Secretary General of National Security Secretariat, for a tour Oct. 31. The tour was to provide the group a better understanding of the Navy’smission and the...
26 November 2014 Stryker Brigade Begins Movement to California As January approaches the roads around Fairbanks will be less cluttered with bulky military vehicles. Earlier this month 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team “Arctic Wolves” began loading more than 260 Stryker vehicles and equipment for a month-long deployment to the National Training Center in Fort...