DoD/Military/Pentagon

YOKOSUKA, Japan (May 22, 2018) The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile-destroyer USS Milius (DDG 69) arrives at U.S. Fleet Activities (FLEACT) Yokosuka, to become part of the Forward Deployed Naval Forces (FDNF) in Japan. FLEACT Yokosuka provides, maintains, and operates base facilities and services in support of the U.S. 7th Fleet’s …

The 7th Engineer Dive Detachment on a recent recovery mission they conducted in support of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency off the coast of Nah Tran, Vietnam

Our SHORAD components provide the command and control (C2) and situational awareness to respond to diverse threats, 24/7, with scalable solutions aiding decision-making, making responses faster and more effective. Our solutions build upon existing Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) architecture to afford a clear path to integrate a variety …

Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft launched to the International Space Station aboard an Antares rocket on May 21, and is scheduled to arrive at the orbiting laboratory in the early morning hours of May 24. Among the research it will deliver to the station is the Cold Atom Lab (CAL), a …

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine talks about the GRACE Follow-on (GRACE-FO) mission to track Earth’s water movement. GRACE-FO is scheduled to launch May 22, 2018 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The mission will monitor changes in underground water storage, the amount of water in …

Philippine and U.S. armed forces conduct a combined arms live-fire exercise at Colonel Ernesto Ravina Air Base, Tarlac, Philippines, May 15, 2018. The exercise was designed to integrate the Philippine military with U.S. forces in a combined arms scenario. Exercise Balikatan, in its 34th iteration, is an annual U.S.-Philippine military …

Additional stationing of 3rd Security Force Assistance Brigades at Fort Hood, Texas; the 4th SFAB at Fort Carson, Colo., and 5th SFAB at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. SFABs are specialized units whose core mission is to conduct advise-and-assist operations with allied and partner nations.

  The new Cold Atom Lab (CAL) facility is among the cargo launching to the International Space Station on the Orbital ATK CRS-9 mission. The Cold Atom Lab could help answer some big questions in modern physics. CAL produces clouds of atoms that are ten billion times colder than deep …

Brig. Gen. Christopher Donahue, U.S. Army Infantry School Commandant, talks about the current and future state of the infantry.

Surf, Sea, Sand Marines with the 3rd Intelligence Battalion practiced seizing beaches in Kin Blue Beach Training Area, Okinawa, Japan. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Jonathan Pearson)