02 April 2015 U.S. Marines, Airmen and Republic of Korea Troops Train for Contamination U.S. Marines and airmen along with Republic of Korea airmen came together for a chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear joint training exercise at Osan Air Base in the Republic of Korea March 16.MWHS-1 CBRN and 51st Civil Engineer Squadron CBRN learned different tactics, techniques and...
02 April 2015 Challenges of Earning Sea Legs As an infantryman, Cpl. Jeremiah Skaggs has trained in different places around the world. He has kicked doors down at the mock urban ranges in Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, trudged through the dense jungles of Okinawa, Japan, and climbed the snowy mountains of Bridgeport, California...
01 April 2015 Defense Secretary Discuss U.S.-Japan Defense Issues Defense Secretary Ash Carter called Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani to thank him for his long-term support and to discuss the upcoming major events in the U.S.-Japan alliance, according to a Defense Department statement issued today. Carter reaffirmed commitment to the U.S.-Japan alliance and...
01 April 2015 International Team Conducts Gobi Wolf 2015 The governments of Mongolia and the United States conducted anearthquake-readiness exercise together this week here. Gobi Wolf 2015 is acivil-military disaster preparedness and response initiative that focuses onregional readiness in response to natural and man-made disasters. GobiWolf is part of...
01 April 2015 U.S. Forces Korea Participates in the Highly Infectious Disease Exercise with ROK Counterparts U.S. Forces Korea participated in the Highly Infectious Disease Full Scale Exercise, a Korean Center of Disease Control and Prevention-led exercise Mar. 31. The exercise provided ROK and US interagency and military participants training on responding to a simulated Ebola case. The focus of this...