Marines and Coast Gaurdsmen from five ships are participating in the 25th annual Fleet Week Port Everglades, a weeklong celebration with the community of South Florida. The series of events and ship tours provide the citizens of South Florida and opportunity to meet Sailors and Marines, as well as witness first-hand the latest capabilities of today's maritime services, to gain a better...
The United States Marine Corps looks forward to celebrating community, country and Corps with the greater Phoenix area as hundreds of Marines flood the "Valley of the Sun" from 10-13 September 2015. Your Leathernecks will perform band concerts, showcase equipment and aircraft, such as the MV-22 Osprey and AH-1Z Super Cobra, and engage in community service events. Stay tuned for the full...
The 2015 Department of Defense 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...
The first-ever DoD Lab Day showcased more than 100 Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force and DoD Medical innovations designed to improve the military capabilities of our nation's Force of the Future.
Deputy Secretary of Defense Work spoke at the Opening Ceremony of the event, hosted by Mr. Frank Kendall, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, in the Pentagon...
Fleet Week New Orleans is a week long celebration that provides an opportunity for the citizens of New Orleans and the surrounding area to meet Sailors, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, as well as witness firsthand the latest capabilities of today's maritime services. The sea services will conduct community relations projects, band concerts, speaking engagements and moral welfare and recreation...
The 2015 U.S. Army Soldier Show, presented by the U.S. Army Installation Management Command, is a high-energy 90-minute live musical production that showcases the talents of Soldiers who were selected by audition from throughout the Active-Duty, Reserve and National Guard Army. The motto, mission and philosophy of the show – “Entertainment for the Soldier, by the Soldier” – were...
The U.S. Army has approved the awarding of the Purple Heart or the Defense of Freedom, a civilian counterpart medal, to the soldiers and civilians wounded in the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead and more than two dozen wounded in 2009.
Tempest Express is a France-hosted and U.S.-cosponsored multinational workshop designed to prepare French Armed Forces New Caledonia (FANC) and Multinational Planning Augmentation Team (MPAT) partner-nation defense personnel for multinational missions to include; Humanitarian Assistance-Disaster Relief (HADR) Operations, Peace Enforcement Operations (PEO), Pandemic Response Operations,...
