PACIFIC OCEAN -- Coast Guard Cutter Munro (WMSL-755) began participation Monday, August 17, in this year’s exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) following a 37-day Alaska patrol.Ten nations are participating in this year’s RIMPAC, the world’s largest international maritime exercise held biennially in...

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- The Department of Defense has announced Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) as a winner of the 2020 Commander in Chief's Annual Award for Installation Excellence (CINC IEA).The Commander in Chief's Annual Award for Installation Excellence recognizes the...

CAMP COURTNEY, Okinawa, Japan -- Marines with Defensive Cyberspace Operations - Internal Defensive Measures Company, 7th Communications Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, competed in a 12-hour international capture the flag cyber contest hosted by the Royal Thai Armed...

WASHINGTON -- World War II was raging in 1944. American troops were instrumental in the effort to take back France, including the beach landings in Normandy that caught the Germans off guard. American forces took possession of Rome, and a Soviet counterattack pushed Germany back into Poland.In the...

U.S. Navy -- A Sailor from Fiji reflects on his journey from an island in the ocean to sailing oceans across the globe, on a U.S. Navy ship.The Red Sea is a long way from Fiji, where Retail Services Specialist Seaman Peni Tovehi grew up in a small village with his grandparents and five...