WASHINGTON -- The Defense Department welcomes the positive news coming out of today’s summit meeting in Singapore between President Donald J. Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, chief Pentagon spokesperson Dana W. White said. In a statement, White …
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Six times in the last 10 years, Sgt. Maj. Jeff Zentz has deployed with his Ohio Army National Guard units. Zentz’s most recent deployment ended just a few months ago when the 371st Sustainment Brigade, headquartered in Springfield, Ohio, …
JOINT BASE CAPE COD, Mass. -- More than 400 eyes stare at a sea of laptops in a series of rooms here. These eyes belong to the participants of Cyber Yankee 2018, an exercise in which National Guard cyber units and civilian agencies train to react and …
MCALLEN, Texas -- In a small, green-pastured yard enclosed by barbed wire in Tamaulipas, Mexico, just three hours south of the Texas-Mexico border, 6-year-old Liliana Chavez marveled at the sight of cropdusters flying over her home and dreamed that one day …
WASHINGTON -- NATO is preparing for its largest military exercise since 2002, with more than 40,000 personnel from 30 NATO and partner counties participating. The NATO commander of the exercise, Navy Adm. James G. Foggo III, briefed reporters on the …
OKINAWA, Japan -- An expert Marine Corps diver came to the rescue of a Hong Kong woman who was scuba diving on her honeymoon here, May 20. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Scott Dahn was practicing rescue diving at Maeda Point when he saw the woman, Ching-Yi Sze, …
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts and Nevis -- U.S. service members and more than 20 Caribbean partner nations’ governments, industrial and civic organizations are taking part in Exercise Tradewinds 2018 here. Tradewinds is a combined, joint exercise conducted in …
PANAMA CITY, Panama -- A team of U.S. military doctors, public health specialists and members of other career fields participated in infectious diseases training here, June 4-8. The training took place during Exercise New Horizons 2018, which is a joint …
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- The 2018 Department of Defense Warrior Games, described by a senior Air Force leader as ‘absolutely’ successful and inspirational, drew to a close at the U.S. Air Force Academy here, June 9. After a week of competition, more than …
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- More than 300 athletes and 500 family members shared tears and laughter and made lifelong friends over the past eight days during the 2018 DoD Warrior Games here. Wounded, ill and injured service members representing teams from …
WASHINGTON -- While Iraq has liberated all of its territory once captured and held by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the U.S.-led military campaign against the rogue organization continues in Syria, Defense Secretary James N. Mattis said at a meeting …
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- While service members and veterans competed in sports ranging from track and field to wheelchair basketball this week at the U.S. Air Force Academy here in the 2018 Department of Defense Warrior Games, their companions stole the …
WASHINGTON -- A U.S. special operations service member was killed and four other U.S. service members and a partner force service member were wounded as the result of an enemy attack during an operation today in Jubaland, Somalia, U.S. Africa Command …
FORT MEADE, Md. -- Marine Corps Master Gunnery Sgt. Scott H. Stalker is a trailblazer as the senior enlisted leader of U.S. Cyber Command. The command was part of U.S. Strategic Command before becoming the nation’s first new combatant command since 2007. …
WASHINGTON -- While Iraq has liberated all of its territory once captured and held by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the U.S.-led military campaign against the rogue organization continues in Syria, Defense Secretary James N. Mattis said at NATO …
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- In August 2015, while Army Master Sgt. George Vera was working for U.S. Special Operations Command in Afghanistan, a large group of insurgents detonated a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device at the front gate and had …
WASHINGTON -- Threats to collective security have not waned, whether from terrorism or Russia’s aggression and hybrid threats, Defense Secretary James N. Mattis said at NATO headquarters in Brussels today. In the global fight against the Islamic State of …
WASHINGTON -- Afghanistan is making progress toward peace even as fighting continues, the commander of NATO’s Resolute Support mission, said today. Afghan security forces are providing the power, NATO is providing support and training, and the Afghan …
Brussels, June 8, 2018 The text of the following statement is a joint release of defense ministers of Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Kuwait, Latvia, …
CAMP TAJI, Iraq -- When the 787th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion took command of its mission here May 5, one of the first things the soldiers did as a unit was to look for ways to improve their work areas, including their new headquarters building. …
