02 February 2015 Pacific Command Senior Medical Military Delegation Visits the People's Republic of China A Pacific Command (PACOM) Senior Medical Military Delegation, which included Rear Adm. Colin Chinn, PACOM Surgeon and Brig. Gen. Patrick Sargent, U.S. Army Pacific (USARPAC) Surgeon/Commanding General, Pacific Regional Medical Command (PRMC), along with other PACOM component surgeons, conducted a...
30 January 2015 Japanese Forces Train with US Marines to Enhance Amphibious Capabilities The cold and gloomy morning starts with troops fighting against the waves of a surf line and feeling a rush of the cold ocean water drenching their bodies as they strategically ride in Combat Rubber Raiding Crafts along the coast of southern California.Marines with 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st...
30 January 2015 Guam to Host Japan and Australia for exercise Cope North '15 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...
30 January 2015 Battleship Missouri Memorial Celebrates "Mighty Mo's" Double Launch Anniversaries 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...
30 January 2015 Paratroopers Train with Marines in California 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...