Marine Corps Gen. Christopher J. Mahoney, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and an ensemble of celebrities embark on the 2025 USO Holiday Tour across key U.S. military installations in the CENTCOM, AFRICOM and EUCOM AORS, visiting service members deployed far from home during the holiday season.
U.S. Southern Command and Joint Task Force Southern Spear are defending the homeland by conducting counter-narco-terrorist operations across the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility, disrupting the flow of narcotics and degrading the ability of Designated Terrorist Organizations to reach and threaten the U.S. homeland and to traffic narcotics in the Western Hemisphere. JTF-Southern...
Marine Corps General Mahoney was sworn in as the 13th Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on October 1, 2025. In this capacity, he is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the nation’s second highest-ranking military officer. Gen. Mahoney graduated from Holy Cross in June 1987. He completed The Basic School (TBS) and Infantry Officer Course (IOC) at Quantico, Virginia in 1988.
DoD ManTech and its partnering Manufacturing Innovation Institutes celebrated Manufacturing Month with a series of events to connect industries with students, educators, policymakers and anyone else who may be interested in learning more about today’s advanced manufacturing sector.
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At the request of the Government of the Philippines, the U.S. military is working alongside the Armed Forces of the Philippines to provide foreign disaster relief support to communities affected by consecutive Typhoons Kalmaegi (Tino) and Fung-Wong (Uwan), which caused extensive damage and tragic loss of life. The forward presence and ready posture of United States Indo-Pacific Command in the...
Rising Thunder is an annual bilateral military training exercise conducted between the United States Army and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF). Rising Thunder focuses on combined arms operations integrating maneuver and firepower capabilities. The exercise is conducted at Yakima Training Center in Washington State.
