The crew of the USCG Cutter Polar Star (WAGB-10) was requested to rescue/recover the Antarctic Chieftain, a 207-foot Australian-flagged fishing vessel with 26 people aboard, beset in ice approximately 900 miles northeast of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica on Feb. 10, 2015. The Antarctic Chieftain suffered damage to three of its four propeller blades when it became stuck in the ice lost its ability...
Advanced Naval Technologies Exercise 2019 took place at Point Loma and San Clemente Island. Photos, B-roll and interviews are available for viewing.
Air Forces Africa, along with Mauritania and Senegal, are hosting an African Partnership Flight at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Aug. 6-10. Approximately 34 air force delegates from Mali, Chad, Gabon, Malawi, Uganda, Mauritania and Senegal are participating in this APF. The APF program is Air Forces in Africa’s premier security cooperation program with African partner nations to improve...
APORA was established during the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak. It is an African-led, AFRICOM facilitated program designed to prevent, detect, and respond to emerging infectious diseases. Various U.S. agencies along with African partner nations, will work together and align best practices to improve response capabilities for outbreaks of infectious diseases.
"Appalachian Care Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) 2019, a contingency comprised of Air National Guard, Air Force, Air Force Reserve, Army, Army Reserve and Navy Reserve assets of the U.S. Armed Forces will deploy, 16-29 Aug. 2019, to the medically undeserved communities of Wise, Virginia to conduct deployment and readiness training for military personnel. Medical operations will be staged...
Exercise Arcane Thunder 24 is a collaborative U.S.-led exercise designed to reinforce strong and strategic relationships between U.S. Allies, and partner nations by demonstrating theater-wide precision synchronization in Germany and Morocco. Participants will test multi-domain capabilities in all domains enabling joint freedom of action in the USAREUR-AF area of responsibility. Arcane Thunder...
U.S. Marines from Marine Rotational Force-Europe (MRF-E), alongside Sweden’s (SWE) 1st and 4th Amphibious Regiments will participate in Exercise Archipelago Endeavor 24, an annual bilateral, integrated field training exercise held in the vicinity of Berga, Sweden, and the Stockholm Archipelago. This year’s exercise will take place from September 2 to 15 and involves approximately 200 U.S....
Readiness/Airborne proficiency: Conducting airborne operations in Alaska makes our paratroopers experts in adjusting to ever-changing conditions on the ground. Exercises like AA give expose our paratroopers to varied terrain, a key capability in a region like the Indo-Pacific.
Joint operations with the Air Force: Arctic Aloha requires our paratroopers and staff to work alongside the Air...
