The Department of Defense is in support of U.S. Agency for International Development’s efforts to deliver critical relief supplies to earthquake-affected areas in Indonesia. The September 28 earthquake and tsunami followed a series of powerful earthquakes that hit Indonesia’s Lombok and Sumbawa Islands in July and August. These tremors damaged 85,000 houses and displaced 435,000 people....
The future USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. is the first ship named in honor of Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Frank E. Petersen Jr., the first African-American Marine Corps aviator and the first African-American Marine Corps officer promoted to brigadier general. When he retired in 1988 after 38 years of service, he was, by date of designation, the senior-ranking aviator in the Marine Corps and the United...
The Invictus Games, established by Prince Harry in 2014, brings together wounded and injured veterans from 17 nations for 12 adaptive sporting events, including track and field, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair rugby, swimming, sitting volleyball, and golf. This year's games are in Sydney, Australia.
U.S. Air Forces in Europe/Air Forces Africa, at the invitation from the Kingdom of Morocco and in coordination with the U.S. Embassy-Rabat, will participate in the Marrakech Air Show 2018 from Oct 24-27. The U.S. Air Force has scheduled the following aircraft for display and public view: a C-130J Super Hercules, KC-135R Stratotanker and a C-17A Globemaster II. The presence of these aircraft...
The annual civil-military disaster preparedness and response initiative is co-hosted by the Nepali Army, Nepal Ministry of Home Affairs and the United States Army Pacific and staffed by service-members from U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.
The multinational, multilateral, joint-exercise consists of subject matter expert exchanges, table top evaluations, functional exercises and an after-action...
Exercise Green Flag 19 is a major joint force training event for the United States Air Force and the United States Army. It involves airlift missions carried out in a dynamic, simulated war-like environment.
The Army's One Station Unit Training is being transformed at the Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning, Georgia. Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment is leading the transformation effort, which will take affect across all OSUT training companies in 2019.
The transformation includes changes to the program that are meant to increase Soldier readiness, making them more...
