DOD News -- While China remains America's "pacing challenge," there is cause for optimism in this competition, DOD officials said at the Hudson Institute today.Ely Ratner, the assistant defense secretary for Indo-Pacific affairs, and Lindsey W. Ford, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for...

RAYONG, Thailand -- Pacific Air Force Airmen from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, and Yokota Air Base, Japan, have spent nearly a month working alongside their Royal Thai Air Force, Indonesian, and Indian Army counterparts building multipurpose facilities as part of an engineering civil...

AVALON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Australia -- Gen. Ken Wilsbach, Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) commander, highlighted the strength of the U.S.-Australia alliance at the opening ceremony for AVALON – the 2023 Australian International Airshow and Aerospace & Defence Exposition – Feb. 28.AVALON 23 is...

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam – The 3rd Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW) from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, kicked off Exercise Agile Reaper (AR) 23-1 in Guam and Tinian March 1.AR 23-1 is the 3rd AEW’s effort to exercise Agile Combat Employment (ACE), rehearse capabilities in an...

SANTA RITA, Guam -- The crew of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter (USCGC) Oliver Henry (WPC 1140) returned to Guam on Monday, Feb. 27, 2023, following a week-long deployment to the Federated States of Micronesia countering illegal fishing and strengthening partnerships with the local island communities of...