AFRICOM's MEDRETE's hosted by United States Army-Africa, pair small teams of military medical professionals from the U.S. with participating African partner nations to train alongside and share best practices in trauma and surgical medicine. U.S. personnel benefit by providing medical care in a forward and austere environment; and African partners develop closer relationships with medical...
AFRICOM's MEDRETEs pair small teams of military medical professionals from the U.S. with participating African partner nations to train alongside and share best practices in trauma and surgical medicine. U.S. personnel benefit by providing medical care in a forward and austere environment; African partners develop closer relationships with U.S. medical personnel; and local populations receive...
Forest Light 21 is the latest exercise in its series, focusing on an extensive array of interoperability and lethality training between the U.S. Marine Corps and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force. In Forest Light 21, Japanese and U.S. troops will exercise combined amphibious assault skills, integrated command and control, long-range communication and fires, and combine all functions into a...
The Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) provide Geographic Combatant Commanders with forward-deployed, sea-based, expeditionary forces that can operate across the range of military operations. The three ships that compose the Makin Island ARG are the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD 8), the amphibious transport dock ship USS...
Checkered Flag, the largest fighter exercise in the DoD, is a large-scale aerial exercise designed to integrate fourth and fifth-generation airframes to enhance mobility, deployment, and employment capabilities of Air Force aviators and maintainers. The two-week long exercise focuses on the integration of F-22 Raptor, F-35A Lightning II and legacy aircraft in a large-force exercise. Checkered...
The U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Bosnia and Herzegovina Armed Forces will be conducting an Air-to-Ground integration bilateral exercise and interoperability training.
Tropic Lightning Week 2020 is a week-long occurrence comprised of ten competitive events taking place between battalions throughout the 25th Infantry Division. In addition to a sports competition, the Division will host a State of the Division, Patching Ceremony, Brick Dedication Ceremony, ACFT Competition, Light Fighter Cook-Off, Tropic Lightning Got Talent and Guadalcanal Cup presentation.
Earlier this year, he Performed the Duties of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (ASD) for Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict. He also previously served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for Special Operations and Combating Terrorism (SOCT). Mr. Miller was responsible for overseeing the employment of special operations forces in counterterrorism, Military Information...
