Imagery of U.S. Customs and Border Protection of southbound weapons seizures.
Exercise Balikatan is the largest annual bilateral exercise conducted between the Philippines and the U.S. This year’s exercise, scheduled from 22 April-10 May, will be the 39th iteration. Balikatan directly supports the U.S.-Philippine Mutual Defense Treaty by ensuring our partner forces are tactically proficient and interoperable, and by creating opportunities to develop capabilities and...
Join us in viewing the recordings of the 2023 Holistic Health and Fitness Symposium briefings.
U.S. Special Operations Command and the Global SOF Foundation will co-host Special Operations Forces Week, themed “The International SOF Team: The Unmatched Advantage for the World’s Wicked Problems - Hard Missions in Hard Places,” May 6-10. SOF Week is the expansion and rebranding of the annual U.S. SOCOM industry conference. The expansion reflects U.S. SOCOM’s interest in bringing...
Flintlock is the premier special operations forces exercise for U.S. Africa Command. The exercise strengthens security institutions, promotes multilateral sharing of information, and develops interoperability among the partner nations of the Trans-Sahara Counter-Terrorism Partnership.
Checkered Flag, one of the Department of Defense’s largest air-to-air exercises, is a large-scale aerial exercise which fosters readiness and interoperability, designed to integrate fourth and fifth-generation airframes to enhance mobility, deployment, and employment capabilities of aviators and maintainers. The two-week long exercise focuses on integration of the F-22 Raptor and F-35A...
The Neptune Series prepares NATO to use and integrate the high-end maritime strike capabilities of United States's Carrier Strike Group (CSG) into the defence of the NATO Alliance. Neptune Strike prepares the U.S. CSG to work with NATO Commands and provides the framework for future national and multinational CSG integrations to NATO.
The Neptune Strike series have been happening for...
COL Ralph Puckett, Jr., the last surviving Medal of Honor recipient from the Korean War will lie in honor in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on April 29, 2024. Additional information on Colonel Puckett's legacy is available at https://www.army.mil/medalofhonor/puckett/.
