The 2024 Region II Best Warrior Competition, which is hosted by Maryland Army National Guard, features soldiers and non-commissioned officers from Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. This year’s competition takes place from May 6-10, 2024. The intense four-day competition tests competitors on a wide range of tactical and technical skills relevant in...
Regional Command (SW) is a combined force of approximately 9,000 personnel predominantly from the U.S., U.K., Denmark, Estonia and Georgia operating in Helmand and Nimroz provinces of Afghanistan.
Exercise REGIONAL COOPERATION 2018 (RC 18) is a multilateral U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) command-post exercise, held in conjunction with regional partners from Central and South Asia. The U.S. will host this year’s exercise, which will take place 10-21 September at Camp Edwards on Joint Base Cape Cod, Massachusetts. More than 200 personnel and observers from the U.S., Afghanistan,...
REGIONAL COOPERATION 2019 (RC 19) is a multilateral U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) command-post exercise, held in conjunction with regional partners from Central and South Asia. Tajikistan will lead this year's exercise, which will take place 5 -16 August in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Nearly 200 personnel from the U.S., Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, and observers from Pakistan will...
REGIONAL COOPERATION is the only multi-lateral USCENTCOM exercise in Central
Asia (CAS) designed to promote cooperation and enhance interoperability
among US, Central and South Asia (CASA) States, and other participating
nations. Participants include Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan,
and the United States. The exercise will be conducted in three phases: Staff
integration and...
Six Marines and two Nepalese soldiers lost their lives in the Himalayan Mountains during a helicopter mishap while helping the people of Nepal on May 12 during Operation Sahayogi Haat, "Helping Hand." Four of the Marines are members of Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 469 and two are members of Marine Corps Installations Pacific Combat Camera. All six were deployed on a mission to bring...
Remote Island Disaster Exercise (RIDEX) is a humanitarian assistance/disaster relief exercise organized and executed by the Japan Self-Defense Force. This year is the first iteration III MEF Forces were invited to participate. This collaboration demonstrates the future of our evolving capabilities as a bilateral team to support humanitarian and disaster relief operations.
Defense Department support to the funeral in honor of Representative John R. Lewis in Alabama, Washington, D.C., and Georgia. For more information please contact the Military District of Washington, Public Affairs Office at (703) 835-6561.
