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SANTA RITA, Guam

The crew of the USCGC Oliver Henry (WPC 1140) offload donated supplies in Falalop Island, Woleai, on Feb. 24, 2023. The crew of USCGC Oliver Henry (WPC 1140) conducted a week-long deployment to the Federated States of Micronesia in support of Operation Rematau, countering illegal fishing and strengthening partnerships with the local island communities of several Yap outer island atolls. Share

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Joshua Tate, 36th Airlift Wing religious affairs specialist who headed security training for the deployed team at Iwo Jima, discusses aircraft security measures with Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force during practice drills with a JMSDF C-130H Hercules during the Cope North 23 exercise, Feb. 21, 2023. Advance teams and aircraft require protection in potentially contested areas that are provided by security specialists, but Agile Combat Employment training with mission partners can enable forces from other areas to supplement defender positions as required, making for a more flexible force that requires less manpower overall to complete the same effort. Airfield security procedures vary from country to country, so cross-training efforts that follow similar methodologies help improve the interoperability of allied forces and provide additional strategic planning options. Share

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan

A team of U.S. Air Force, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, and Royal Australian Air Force members pose for a photo with a U.S. C-130J Super Hercules from the 36th Airlift Squadron (right), and a JMSDF C-130H Hercules during the Cope North 23 exercise, on the remote island of Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb. 21, 2023. Combat offloads are manual airlift cargo drop methods to safely move cargo pallets without the assistance of heavy equipment, which is useful for delivering cargo to temporary landing strips or for quickly offloading in contested areas. Cope North 23 is a multi-lateral U.S. Pacific Air Forces-sponsored field training exercise focused on trilateral airborne integration for Large Force Employment, Agile Combat Employment, and Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HA/DR) training. Share

YOKOSUKA, Japan

Senior leaders from the U.S. Navy, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and Royal Australian Navy (RAN) pose for a photo following the trilateral theater anti-submarine warfare (TASW) working group (TTASWWG) at Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka. The TTASWWG helped improve information sharing, coordination, and communication between the three countries and across all domains of undersea warfare. Share

ARLINGTON, Virginia

An artist's depiction shows an E-7A in flight. The E-7A is the Department of Defense's future tactical battle management, command and control and moving target indication platform scheduled to replace the E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System. Share

U.S. Embassy in Sri Lanka

For 75 years, the U.S. and Sri Lanka have built a relationship based on people, progress and partnership. Share

CAMP LEMONNIER, Djibouti

Members of the U.S. Navy’s Maritime Expeditionary Security Squadron 8, the Djiboutian Navy, and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force participated in a trilateral training engagement aboard the Japanese destroyer JS Suzutsuki based in the Port of Djibouti, Feb. 25. MSRON 8, assigned to Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, provides CLDJ’s 31 tenant commands and visiting naval vessels protection through 24/7 port security and escorting operations. Camp Lemonnier’s presence in Djibouti is an important part of U.S. mission to partner with Djibouti and U.S. allies in the region to improve regional stability. Share

NAVAL BASE HERA, Timor Leste

Timor-Leste Fuzilierios prepare to board a simulated enemy vessel during Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training/Marine Exercise Timor-Leste, Feb, 14. CARAT/MAREX Timor-Leste is a bilateral exercise between Timor-Leste and the United States designed to promote regional security cooperation, maintain and strengthen maritime partnerships, and enhance maritime interoperability. In its 28th year, the CARAT series is comprised of multinational exercises, designed to enhance U.S. and partner forces’ abilities to operate together in response to traditional and non-traditional maritime security challenges in the Indo-Pacific region. Share

U.S. Embassy in Sri Lanka

Indo-Pacific” Book Launch and Discussion U.S. Embassy Colombo and General Sir John Kotelawala Defense University Joint Pres. Share

HANOI, Vietnam

U.S. Ambassador Knapper Makes First Official Visit to Lào Cai Province Share

U.S. ARMY GARRISON CAMP CASEY, South Korea

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Ethan Jara, a native of East Bethel, Minnesota and an ammunition technician with III Marine Expeditionary Force Support Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, observes his fire team maneuver on an Infantry Platoon Battle Course during a live fire range on U.S. Army Garrison Casey, Gyeonggi, South Korea, Feb. 10, 2023. III MSB is conducting Bushido Strike 23, which comprises training events including a Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation in South Korea to validate its mission essential tasks of providing combat service, security, and administrative services to III Marine Expeditionary Force. Share

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBORHICKAM, Hawaii

Airmen from the 505th Combat Training Squadron, Hurlburt Field, Florida, execute exercise BLUE FLAG, testing Pacific Air Forces' ability to prevail in conflict against a strategic competitor as well as the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command air component's ability to ensure command, control, communications, and computer, or C4I, systems resiliency against escalating cyberspace attacks, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Jan. 28 – Feb. 3, 2023. Share

RIZAL, Philippines

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Adam Clyne, an assistant patrol leader with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, Marine Rotational Force – Darwin 25.3, assists Philippine Marines with 3rd Marine Brigade, Philippine Marine Corps, as a personnel safety officer during a counter-landing live-fire rehearsal in support of Exercise Balikatan 25 at Rizal, Palawan, Philippines, April 27, 2025. Balikatan is a longstanding annual exercise between the U.S. and Philippine armed forces designed to strengthen the alliance, showcase the capable combined force, and demonstrate the commitment to regional security and stability. Clyne is a native of Minnesota. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Keegan Jones) Share

RIZAL, Philippines

U.S. Marines with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, Marine Rotational Force – Darwin 25.3, sight in with a M3 Multi-Role Anti-Armor Anti-Personnel Weapon System during a counter-landing live-fire rehearsal in support of Exercise Balikatan 25 at Rizal, Palawan, Philippines, April 27, 2025. Balikatan is a longstanding annual exercise between the U.S. and Philippine armed forces designed to strengthen the alliance, showcase the capable combined force, and demonstrate the commitment to regional security and stability.  (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Keegan Jones) Share

YOKOHAMA, Japan

The U.S. Navy’s Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary mobile base USS Miguel Keith (ESB-5) completed a five-month Regular Overhaul (ROH) availability at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), Yokohama, Japan, April 15, 2025. The ROH marks the first time a Japanese shipyard has bid on and won an ROH contract of this scale for a U.S. Navy Vessel. For over 75-years, U.S. Naval Ship Repair Facility and Japan Regional Maintenance Center (SRF-JRMC) has been the linchpin of U.S. naval operations in the Indo-Pacific region, providing intermediate-level and depot-level repair for the ships of the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Seventh Fleet. (U.S. Navy Photo by Randall Baucom) Share

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PHILIPPINE SEA (April 29, 2025) — A search and rescue swimmer is lifted into an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter from the “Indians” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 6 during training in the Philippine Sea, April 29, 2025. Nimitz is underway in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations on a scheduled deployment, demonstrating the U.S. Navy's unwavering commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Emma Burgess) Share

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RIZAL, Philippines (April 28, 2025) — Philippine Marines with the 3rd Marine Brigade load an M101 105mm Howitzer, a light field artillery weapon, as part of a counter landing live fire during Exercise Balikatan 25 at Rizal, Philippines, April 28, 2025. Balikatan is a longstanding annual exercise between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the U.S. military designed to strengthen our ironclad alliance, improve our capable combined force and demonstrate our commitment to regional security and stability. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Spc. Riley Anfinson) Share

Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan

U.S. Marines with Animal Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, fast rope from a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter assigned to Marine Medium Tilt Rotor Squadron 265 (Rein.) during aerial fast rope training as a part of MEU Exercise at Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, Apr. 30, 2025. Marines participated in fast rope training to enhance air-to-ground insertion capabilities during MEUEX to prepare for future operations. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed MEU, provides a flexible and lethal force, ready to perform a wide range of military operations as the premiere crisis response force in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Victor Gurrola). Share

OSAN AIR BASE, Republic of Korea

Members of the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, Republic of Korea Air Force and ROK Army level the dirt recently packed into a large crater in an airfield pad during IRON RADR at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, April 24, 2025. IRON RADR is the first complex, joint and combined exercise on Osan AB that tests, evaluates and prepares civil engineers to safely conduct rapid airfield damage repair operations in a simulated contingency environment. One large and six small craters were repaired in less than eight hours; enhancing the U.S.-ROK partnership, ‘Fight Tonight’ mission capabilities, and interoperability for contingency operating bases across the Korean peninsula. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kahdija Slaughter) Share

OSAN AIR BASE, Republic of Korea

U.S. Airmen assigned to the 51st Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordnance disposal flight set off several explosions on a controlled airfield pad in preparation for the first complex, joint and combined IRON RADR exercise at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, April 18, 2025. Rapid airfield damage repair is a process for repairing structural damage on airfields to restore combat airpower generation. The contributions of the EOD Airmen enhanced the realism and complexity of IRON RADR. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kahdija Slaughter) Share

OSAN AIR BASE, Republic of Korea

U.S. Airmen assigned to the 51st Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordnance disposal flight, cut demolition wire for dynamite, TNT and C4 explosives at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, April 18, 2025. The EOD Airmen safely rigged explosives to create multiple craters ahead of the first complex, joint and combined IRON RADR exercise at Osan AB. Rapid airfield damage repair is a process for repairing structural damage on airfields to restore combat airpower generation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kahdija Slaughter) Share

OSAN AIR BASE, Republic of Korea

U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 11th Engineering Battalion and U.S. Airmen assigned to the 51st Civil Engineer Squadron mix flowable concrete fill during IRON RADR at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, April 24, 2025. The rapid airfield damage repair mission encompasses advanced pavement repair techniques and strategies that support airfield operations in degraded and contingency conditions, allowing swift restoration of combat airpower generation capabilities no matter the warfighting landscape. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kahdija Slaughter) Share

PHILIPPINES

U.S. Army High-Powered Microwave weapons with 1st Battalion, 51st Air Defense Artillery Regiment, staged for a training iteration in support of Exercise Balikatan 25, in Naval Station Leovigildo Gantioqui, Philippines, April 30, 2025. Balikatan is a longstanding annual exercise between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and U.S. military designed to strengthen our ironclad alliance, improve our capable combined force, and demonstrate our commitment to regional security and stability. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Brandon Rickert) Share

PHILIPPINES

A U.S. Army High-Powered Microwave weapon from 1st Battalion, 51st Air Defense Artillery Regiment, prepares to shoot down a drone swarm during a live fire demonstration in support of Exercise Balikatan 25, in Naval Station Leovigildo Gantioqui, Philippines, April 25, 2025. Balikatan is a longstanding annual exercise between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and U.S. military designed to strengthen our ironclad alliance, improve our capable combined force, and demonstrate our commitment to regional security and stability. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Brandon Rickert) Share