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USNS Mercy Departs San Diego
March 24, 2020 — SAN DIEGO -- The hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) departed Naval Station San Diego today, and is now underway to Los Angeles in support of the nation’s COVID-19 response efforts."This global crisis... MORE

Camp Zama’s New Obstacle Course Provides Soldiers Alternate PT Option
March 24, 2020 — CAMP ZAMA, Japan -- Soldiers assigned to U.S. Army Japan’s Headquarters and Headquarters Company conducted physical training on the newly built obstacle course on Camp Zama March 20.Sgt. 1st Class... MORE

9th Mission Support Command Deputy Surgeon Saves a Life during a 7-Hour Flight Overseas
March 24, 2020 — HONOLULU, Hawaii -- On January 27th, 2020, United Airlines Flight 200 from Tamuning, Guam to Honolulu, Hawaii started off as any other ordinary flight across the Pacific. However, when a medical... MORE

Air Mobility Command Temporarily Suspends Most Space-A travel due to COVID-19
March 24, 2020 — SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. -- Air Mobility Command today temporarily suspended most Space-Available travel aboard AMC and contracted aircraft, except for certain Category I, IV, and VI travel,... MORE

Navy Preventive Medicine Teams Embark Ships in 7th Fleet
March 23, 2020 — SOUTH CHINA SEA -- Members of Navy Forward-Deployed Preventive Medicine Units (FDPMU) and Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC) embarked several 7th Fleet ships March 14 to help combat the risk of and... MORE

Pacific Pride Soldiers Planning to Promote Preventative Health in Palau
March 23, 2020 — Palau -- 1984th United States Army Hospital-Pacific, under the 9th Mission Support Command, headquartered in Fort Shafter Flats, Honolulu, Hawaii is partnering with the University of Hawaii, Manoa to... MORE

Army Working to Develop COVID-19 Vaccines as Force Preps Its Response
March 23, 2020 — WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command and U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases are aiding in the development of five separate COVID-19 vaccines,... MORE

Medical Group Protects Wolf Pack amid COVID-19 Response
March 23, 2020 — KUNSAN AIR BASE, Republic of Korea -- The 8th Medical Group took proactive and precautionary measures during the COVID-19 pandemic by standing up a screening tent outside of the clinic for service... MORE

DOD Makes Plans to Combat Coronavirus
March 20, 2020 — WASHINGTON -- The Defense Department is making plans to combat the coronavirus, DOD leaders said yesterday during a news conference.For the past six weeks, defense leaders have been meeting to plan... MORE

Department of Defense Tests Hypersonic Glide Body
March 20, 2020 — PENTAGON, Virginia -- The Department of Defense successfully tested a hypersonic glide body in a flight experiment conducted from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii, March 19 at... MORE

35th LRS Innovates the Cargo Deployment Function
March 20, 2020 — MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan -- U.S. Airmen with the 35th Logistics Readiness Squadron implemented a new laser profile system to save manpower and reduce time during the Cargo Deployment Function at Misawa... MORE

Army Grappling with COVID-19 Head-on, Says Army Secretary
March 19, 2020 — WASHINGTON -- More than 2,000 National Guardsmen are taking on COVID-19 as it continues to sweep the globe and safety measures ramp up, said the Army’s top official.To date, at least 49 service... MORE

Camp Zama Housing Inspectors Ensure Safe, Clean, Comfortable Homes
March 19, 2020 — SAGAMIHARA FAMILY HOUSING AREA, Japan -- As Mamiko Takishima conducts housing occupancy inspections for U.S. Army Garrison Japan, she methodically checks everything, right down to the little handle on... MORE

Air Force Fighter Pilot Joins Navy-Marine Corps Team
March 19, 2020 — PHILIPPINE SEA -- “When I get into the cockpit, it’s like the world shuts off around me and the only thing that matters is the mission,” said Air Force Capt. Melanie Ziebart, a pilot assigned to... MORE

Theodore Roosevelt, America strike groups conduct expeditionary strike force training
March 18, 2020 — SOUTH CHINA SEA - The Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group, America Expeditionary Strike Group and 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) conducted expeditionary strike force operations March... MORE

Misawa Airmen continue Agile Combat Employment training
March 18, 2020 — MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan -- The Greek philosopher Heraclitus once said, “The only constant in life is change.” That’s true in how we learn, how we teach, and even how the military operates in the... MORE

Midnight Sun Guardian aerospace medicine Airman impacts the mission
March 18, 2020 — JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- Impact. Defined as yielding an effect, having an impact is the singular goal Senior Airman Loida Torres Román had in mind when she joined the Alaska Air... MORE

Updated Training Track Guidance Issued
March 17, 2020 — WASHINGTON -- The Navy has issued amplifying guidance to the recently issued “stop movement” order that has frozen non-mission essential transfers and official travel until May 11.Additional guidance... MORE

Flight Provides Vital Support to Entire Continent
March 16, 2020 — YOKOTA AIR FORCE BASE, Japan -- One small unit has the extensive mission of providing support services over a 76.9 million square mile territory.As an active duty service member who has spent 17 years... MORE

USS America, Gabrielle Giffords, Integrate Operations
March 16, 2020 — SOUTH CHINA SEA -- Amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6), flagship of Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) 7, conducted operations with littoral combat ship USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10), March... MORE