Cope Taufan provides an excellent opportunity to improve combined readiness and interoperability between the U.S. and Malaysia. This large force employment exercise can include operations in air superiority, airborne command and control, close air support, interdiction, air refueling and tactical airlift and air drop.
Lloyd J. Austin III is the 28th secretary of defense, sworn in on Jan. 22, 2021. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., Austin served 41 years in uniform, retiring as a four-star Army general after three years as commander of U.S. Central Command.The defense secretary oversees the Defense Department and acts as the principal defense policy maker and advisor.
The Biscayne Bay Coastal Wetlands (BBCW) project is to rehydrate coastal wetlands and reduce damaging point-source freshwater discharge to Biscayne Bay and Biscayne National Park. The BBCW project will restore wetland and estuarine habitats, and divert an average of 59 percent of the annual coastal structure discharge into freshwater and saltwater wetlands instead of direct discharges to...
Keris Aman 2023 is a multinational United Nations Peacekeeping (UN PKO) exercise conducted in Malaysia and co-sponsored by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and the Malaysian Armed Forces. It consists of a UN PKO Mission staff training event, field training event, and a critical enabler capability enhancement event at the Malaysian Peacekeeping Centre. The exercise is designed to strengthen...
Michigan’s Task Force 46, and National Guard service members from several other states including Nashville, Louisiana, New Jersey, New York and California participates in the Dense Urban Terrain Exercise in Nashville, TN. Joining the many National Guard servicemembers are representatives from local, state and federal agencies, and private sector and academic partners. The DUT series of...
This feature page highlights imagery and video of U.S Military helping to provide relief to areas impacted by the wildfires in Hawaii.
LSE 2023 brings together the combined firepower of the Navy and Marine Corps team across six maritime component commands, seven numbered fleets, and 22 time zones. The exercise is scheduled to run from Aug 9-18. LSE 2023 merges real-world operations with virtually constructed scenarios to create a realistic training environment that allows our Sailors and Marines to train the way we fight,...
This Colombian Air Force lead exercise, Angel de los Andes, is a Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Response (HA/DR) exercise focused on Search and Rescue (SAR). This year's ADLA will be held concurrently with Relampago or "Lightning", an annual Colombian Air Force lead exercise since 2014, which focuses on bolstering air superiority training techniques and tactics in order to strengthen the...
