MANILA, Philippines -- The United States welcomes the successful arrival of 487,200 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to the Philippines on Thursday, March 4. These vaccines were made available through the COVAX Advance Market Commitment, a global initiative to support equitable access to...

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The U.S. Embassy was honored to host distinguished guests from the Indonesian, Australian, and U.S. Navies, Armed Forces, and Governments for a day of remembrance of shared history in commemoration of the Battle of Sunda Strait, on 1 March 2021. After playing the national...

WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- At this year’s Virtual Air Warfare Symposium, the Air Force Association held a panel Feb. 23 with Department of the Air Force senior leaders titled “No Fuel, No Fight: The Future of Warfighting Energy Requirements.” The purpose of the panel was to discuss the inherent...

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- “Out in the back of my grandpa’s house there were mangrove trees just above the water line after the tide came in. I would love going back there and build forts with wood that I’d find, like I would in America, and people wouldn’t understand what I was doing. It was...

WASHINGTON -- Key to military success and supporting free and open societies in the Indo-Pacific region are: fostering innovation, thinking critically, developing expertise, challenging assumptions and working collectively to realize the full potential of the joint force, the commander of the U.S...