Yama Sakura (YS) is an annual, bilateral exercise between the U.S. military and the Japan Self-Defense Forces. YS is the largest command post exercise that focuses predominantly on the bilateral and joint planning, coordination and interoperability of ground-based elements of the U.S./Japan security alliance.
Exercise Southern Vanguard is an annual U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) sponsored exercise at the operational and tactical levels to increase interoperability between the United States and Western Hemisphere forces. This year’s iteration of the exercise, Exercise Southern Vanguard 23 (ExSV23), will take place throughout November, in Tolemaida, Colombia with U.S. Army personnel training...
Yudh Abhyas 21 is a bilateral training exercise aimed at improving the combined interoperability of the Indian Army and 11th Airborne Division to increase partner capacity for conventional, complex and future contingencies throughout the Indo-Pacific region. The exercise takes place at Auli, India, where participants work together during a command post exercise and simultaneous field training...
Operation Santa Claus began in 1956 in response to a request from St. Mary’s Mission for toys for their children. Spring floods and a drought had caused a severely negative impact on fishing and hunting that year and the mission spent all of their money to pay for food to be shipped in. This left no money to buy gifts for the children for Christmas. However, upon the mission’s request for...
The B-21 is a long-range, highly survivable, penetrating strike stealth bomber that will incrementally replace the B-1 and B-2 bombers, becoming the backbone of the U.S. Air Force bomber fleet.
“Our relationship is very close, we do not do anything without each other,” said Spc. Ronald Oun with the Delaware Army National Guard’s 160th Engineering Unit.
Spc. Ronald Oun and Spc. Rodney Oun were born identical twins in 1995 in South Philadelphia. They graduated High School together, shared birthday parties, attended the University of Delaware together, and then in 2014 decided...
The Secretary of Defense has designated November as Warrior Care Month (WCM), which is defined as, "a Department of Defense-wide effort aimed at increasing awareness of programs and resources available to wounded, ill, and injured (WII) Service members, their families, and those who care about them".
The week of 14 - 18 November 2022 has been designated Warrior Care Week (WCW). During WCW,...
A collection of The Globe, a weekly civilian enterprise newspaper and authorized publication of the Department of Defense produced by the Marines and staff at the MCIEAST-MCB Camp Lejeune public affairs office from 1944-2020.
