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The African Land Forces Summit (ALFS) is a four day engagement event that hosts land force chiefs from across Africa to engage in candid dialogue. This event is the eighth African Land Forces Summit. ALFS is an annual forum designed to bring land force chiefs from across Africa together to forge and strengthen relationships. ALFS 2020 is hosted by U.S. Army Africa and the Ethiopian National...
USASOC Celebrates its 30th Anniversary
U.S. Army Special Operations Command celebrates its 30th anniversary, Dec. 1, 2019. The U.S. Army established USASOC on Fort Bragg, North Carolina, as a major command, days before the start of Operation Just Cause in Panama. USASOC consists of approximately 33,000 Soldiers and Civilians spread across four major subordinate commands, including the 1st...
Soldiers from U.S. Army Pacific (USARPAC) and the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) People’s Liberation Army (PLA) participate in a Disaster Management Exchange (DME) on the Island of Hawaii from Nov. 13-26. The 2019 DME is a U.S. hosted exchange focused on an international HA/DR scenario and will occur in three parts: an Expert Academic Discussion, a Table Top Exchange, and a Practical...
IMX19 is a multinational engagement involving partners and allies from around the world in sharing knowledge and experiences across the full spectrum of defensive maritime operations. The exercise serves to demonstrate the global resolve in maintaining regional security and stability, freedom of navigation and the free flow of commerce from the Suez Canal south to the Bab-el-Mandeb through the...
The Army’s Expeditionary Technology Search or, ‘xTechSearch’ prize competition engages the Army with the small non-defense traditional business sector, spurring economic growth and driving American innovation in one of the Army’s six modernization priority lines of efforts, Long-Range Precision Fires, Next Generation Combat Vehicle, Future Vertical Lift, The Army Network, Air and...
Prince Sultan Air Base (PSAB) is an active United States Air Force Air Expeditionary Base operating in Saudi Arabia and assigned to the U.S. Air Forces Central Command.
Exercise GLOBAL DEXTERITY is a joint exercise between the 535th Airlift Squadron, 15th Wing, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii and the No. 36 Squadron, No. 86 Wing, Royal Australian Air Force Base Amberley, Queensland. Exercise GLOBAL DEXTERITY is designed to Increase force integration across the spectrum of operations and conducting combined military exercises and training events in with...
