The U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, Japan Air Self-Defense Force and Royal AustralianAir Force will conduct the 86th iteration of the annual exercise COPE NORTH 15at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Feb. 15 through 27.Exercise CN15 ispart of an annual, long-standing multilateral exercise, designed to...

Seventy-one years ago, America's last battleship, the USS Missouri was launched out of the Brooklyn Navy Yard to begin a military career that would span three wars over five decades. With the "Mighty Mo" completed ahead of schedule, 19-year-old Margaret Truman, daughter of Missouri Senator Harry...

Paratroopers assigned to Able Company, 3rd Battalion (Airborne), 509th InfantryRegiment are training in the high reaches of the Sierra Nevada range withMarines at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center.Themonth-long training rotation is affording approximately 100 Alaska-basedparatroopers...

The Finnish Army's Cold Weather Operations Basic Course graduated a small class of Finnish and American service members near the Arctic Circle in Lapland, Finland, Jan. 16, 2015. In addition to the Finnish students there were five U.S. Marines and three U.S. Army Alaska Soldiers were in...

U.S. and Chinese defense officials will meet at the Pentagon Feb. 5 for the Defense Policy Coordination Talks, according to a Pentagon official. David Helvey, deputy assistant secretary of defense for East Asia, will host the talks with Rear Admiral Li Ji, deputy director of the Chinese ministry of...