09 May 2014 Spartan Brigade Validates Divers Capabilities at Joint Readiness Training Center "Anywhere, anytime." It's a slogan that the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, has made its own and lived by for the last year. It started when the Spartan Brigade flew 15 hours non-stop across the Pacific Ocean in July 2013 and parachuted into northern Australia...
09 May 2014 7th Fleet Ships Emphasize CUES Training With the endorsement of CUES at the Western Pacific Naval Symposium (WPNS) in April 2014, WPNS navies have affirmed their commitment to safety during unplanned encounters at sea. Across the Indo-Pacific Seventh Fleet ships and aircraft train for the expected increase in use of CUES to ensure quick...
09 May 2014 Engineers Jump North of Arctic Circle The midnight sun turned the sky pink as 12 paratroopers from 84th Engineer Support Company, 6th Engineer Battalion (Combat) (Airborne), 2d Engineer Brigade, jumped out of a C-17 Globemaster III to land north of the Arctic Circle during multi-component joint Arctic mobility exercise Arctic...
08 May 2014 Locklear Named Surface Navy Association's "Old Salt" Adm. Samuel Locklear, Commander, U.S. Pacific Command, accepted the Surface Navy Association's (SNA) "Old Salt" Award at the National Museum of the United States Navy at the Washington Navy Yard, May 7."In the Navy, we have an expression for respected, experienced and knowledgeable mariners. We...
08 May 2014 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit-5 Conducts 2014 Tri-Crab Exercise Sailors from Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 5 trained alongside members of the Royal Australian Navy and Air Force, Australian Army and Republic of Singapore Navy during the biennial Tri-Crab Exercise on U.S. Naval Base Guam. The two-week training, which began April 28 and will...