B-52 Stratofortress and B-2 Spirit bombers deploy to Royal Air Force Fairford, England, to exercise skillsets in a forward environment. These exercises validate the vital role RAF Fairford plays in projecting the Department of Defense's strategic bomber force to other areas of responsibility.
While at RAF Fairford, B-52s from Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, will participate in BALTOPS 15 and SABER...
June 6, 2015 marks the 71st anniversary of D-Day, one of world history’s watershed moments. Mayors and civic leaders of the French Normandy region, through the U.S. Embassy in Paris, have requested U.S. participation in ceremonies to commemorate the D-Day landings and subsequent liberation of surrounding communities.
NATO will test and refine the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF) during part two of Exercise NOBLE JUMP, from 9 to 19 June 2015 in Zagan, Poland.
The VJTF is being established as a part of an overall enhancement to the NATO Response Force in order to address new security challenges on NATO’s southern and eastern peripheries.
Exercise NOBLE JUMP represents the first time that...
The Army Reserve Officer Training Corps Cadet Summer Training kicked off at Fort Knox, Ky. - U.S. on June 3. CST will host nearly 14,000 cadets and active-duty and reserve Soldiers throughout the summer. CST, which will rotate through 10 Cadet Leader Course regiments and nine Cadet Initial Entry Training, is a rigorous, four-week exercise that will see nearly 9,000 cadets through graduation...
The 2015 DoD Warrior Games is an adaptive sports competition for wounded, ill and injured service members and veterans. The Warrior Games, founded in 2010, are designed to introduce wounded, ill and injured service members and veterans to adaptive sports, encourage them to stay physically active when they return to their local communities and inspire and promote opportunities for growth and...
At Marine Corps Recruiting Station Cleveland, it is our mission to find the highest quality young men and women to go through the life-changing transformation that is Recruit Training. RS Cleveland is comprised of 10 Recruiting Sub-Stations and one Officer Selection Station. RS Cleveland covers the majority of northern and eastern Ohio and the northern tip of West Virginia. The RS covers more...
The Thomas Jefferson (TJ) Awards Program recognizes military and civilian
employee communication professionals for outstanding achievement in
furthering the objectives of the Department of Defense communication
programs. It operates under the aegis of the Office of the Assistant to the
Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. The program is named after Thomas
Jefferson, the nation's third...
From June to approximately November each year, U.S Marine Corps Forces, South supports the deployment of approximately 300 Marines and sailors to Latin America and the Caribbean. The purpose of SPMAGTF - Southern Command is to conduct security cooperation training and engineering projects with partner nations, while being on standby to respond to natural disasters and humanitarian crises.