The U.S. Marine Corps is adjusting its force lay-down in the Asia-Pacific region to support the President’s Strategic Guidance for the Department of Defense issued in January 2012. Marines are perfectly designed and suited for both crisis response and the Asia-Pacific maritime environment. Two-thirds of the Marine Corps’ operational forces are assigned to the Pacific. This allocation of...
U.S. Central Command - Disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al-Qaeda and its extremist allies and to set conditions in Afghanistan to prevent reestablishment of trans-national extremist sanctuaries
USS Sampson (DDG 102) and USS Fort Worth (LCS 3) are supporting Indonesian-led efforts to locate Air Asia Flight QZ8501. Sampson, a guided-missile destroyer, joined the effort on Dec. 30, followed by the littoral combat ship Fort Worth on Jan. 3.
14 F-16s and approximately 280 Airmen from the 510th Fighter Squadron Aviano Air Base, Italy will be deploying to Ämari Air Base, Estonia to train with the Estonian air force and Estonian Joint Terminal Attack Controllers. This training will focus on maintaining joint readiness while building interoperability capabilities.
Nearly 1,000 gang members and associates from 239 different gangs were arrested in 282 cities across the U.S. during Project Wildfire, a six-week operation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). The operation targeted transnational criminal gangs and others associated with transnational criminal activity.
The U.S. 7th Fleet is conducting operations in accordance with international law in disputed areas of the South China Sea.
USS Carney (DDG 64) sets to join USS Donald Cook (DDG 75), USS Ross (DDG 71), and USS Porter (DDG 78) at NAVSTA Rota, Spain - operating forward in the Europe theater. These ships will continue to operate alongside partners and build critical relationships made possible by being postured forward in Europe, aligning with the CNO's Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower.
The Coast Guard and DoD partners search for the missing 790-foot cargo ship El Faro, which disappeared after the crew relayed a distress message reporting the ship lost propulsion and took on water during Hurricane Joaquin off the coast of the Bahamas on Oct. 2, 2015.
