09 July 2014 Army Watercraft Supports 25th Infantry Division, 3rd Marines during RIMPAC 2014 Logistic Support Vessel-2, the U.S. Army Vessel CW3 Harold A. Clinger, got underway from its home port July 2, to conduct the first of eight surface lifts between Kaneohe Bay and Kawaihae Harbor, Hawaii, in support of the 3rd Marine Regiment as part of the biennial Rim of the Pacific 2014 exercise,...
09 July 2014 Kadena Eagles Participate in Aviation Training Relocation Members of the 44th Fighter Squadron, 909th Air Refueling Squadron and 961st Airborne Air Control Squadron, along with aircraft assigned to Kadena Air Base, Japan, arrived here June 18, as part of a four week ATR, or aviation training relocation program.The ATR is an opportunity for Kadena Airmen to...
08 July 2014 US Marines lead Mongolians during nine-day survivor course at KQ14 Your plane crashes in the middle of nowhere; you have no idea where you are. Now you and the other survivors must try to find help but also stay alive with whatever you can find.This was the scenario a platoon of Mongolian Armed Forces service members played out with the direction of their MAF and...
08 July 2014 French honor Japanese-Americans' efforts during World War II Hiroo Endo offered a concise synopsis of World War II on Wednesday afternoon.“I lost some cousins. I lost some friends,” he said in a voice made frail by his 91 years. “That’s what war is about. You kill them or they kill you.”Endo and five other Japanese-American veterans of the Army’s famed 442nd...
07 July 2014 USS Shiloh Departs Singapore The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Shiloh (CG 67) departed Singapore following a scheduled port visit from June 25-29. “Visiting Singapore was a fantastic opportunity for us,” said Capt. Kurush Morris, Shiloh’s commanding officer. “The port visit allowed us to experience the cultural...
07 July 2014 Chinese Hospital Ship Hosts RIMPAC Medical Exchange Conference The Chinese hospital ship Peace Ark hosted a medical exchange conference as part of the 2014 Rim of the Pacific exercise here July 3.Chinese and U.S. naval medical officers gave presentations during the multinational conference, which opened with a video presentation about Peace Ark. “We wanted the...
07 July 2014 Pacific Partnership Basketball Tournament Held in Tacloban A basketball tournament was held between members of the U.S. Navy, Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF), Royal Australian Armed Forces and locals from Tacloban as part of Pacific Partnership 2014, July 5. "We played this tournament for Pacific Partnership hosted by the Philippines," said...
07 July 2014 Japanese Soldiers Visit U.S. Army Alaska Leaders with the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force visited paratroopers at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson with the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, during a subject-matter expert exchange event June 24.Col. Akira Miyazaki, an education and training department...
07 July 2014 JS Kunisaki arrives in Tacloban for Pacific Partnership The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's JS Kunisaki (LST 4003), carrying a multinational crew of U.S., Australian, Malaysian and Japanese personnel, arrived in Tacloban July 4 as part of Pacific Partnership 2014 (PP14).The ship and its roughly 300 embarked personnel arrived nearly eight months after...
06 July 2014 Navy Surgeon General Visits the Peace Ark The U.S. Navy Surgeon General and Chief of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Vice Adm. Matthew Nathan, embarked the People's Republic of China medical ship Peace Ark (T-AH 866) for a tour, while it is in port for the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise 2014 in Pearl Harbor July 2.Not only is...