Leaders with the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force visited paratroopers at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson with the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, during a subject-matter expert exchange event June 24.Col. Akira Miyazaki, an education and training department...

The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's JS Kunisaki (LST 4003), carrying a multinational crew of U.S., Australian, Malaysian and Japanese personnel, arrived in Tacloban July 4 as part of Pacific Partnership 2014 (PP14).The ship and its roughly 300 embarked personnel arrived nearly eight months after...

The U.S. Navy Surgeon General and Chief of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Vice Adm. Matthew Nathan, embarked the People's Republic of China medical ship Peace Ark (T-AH 866) for a tour, while it is in port for the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise 2014 in Pearl Harbor July 2.Not only is...

Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Tom Malinowski led an interagency delegation to Burma comprising senior officials from the Departments of State, Defense, and Treasury, and the National Security Council staff June 22-28. The delegation held discussions with senior...

Lt. Gen. Anthony G. Crutchfield, U.S. Pacific Command Deputy Commander and Rear Adm. Anne Cullerre, Joint Commander of the Armed Forces in French Polynesia met at U.S. Pacific Command headquarters to sign a Terms of Reference agreement July 2. A Terms of Reference agreement is an initial agreement...