Category: Asia

A U.S. Marine Corps High Mobility Artillery Rocket System with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, III Marine Expeditionary Force, exits a hide before a simulated fire mission while training at Ie Shima Training Facility, Okinawa, Japan, Oct. 21, 2022.

Abrams became a Soldier and he left for Vietnam on Thanksgiving Day 1967. The private arrived in Chu Lai as a member of 1st Platoon, Delta Company, 196th Light Infantry Brigade, Americal Division.

On 24 October 1966, 1st Lt. John F. Cochrane of the 409th Radio Research Detachment (RRD), 303d Radio Research Battalion, was killed by a Viet Cong sniper while looking for a suitable site to set up a PRD-1 direction finder. He was one of two battlefield losses within the detachment.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un congratulates Chinese President Xi Jinping on his reappointment; hopes to a “beautiful future” as allies

South Korea is slated to hold yet another joint air defense exercise with the US to further “improve combat readiness” against the North.

Last week, the US and Japanese leaders CNO Adm Gilday and Japan Chief of Staff Gen Yamazaki met at the Pentagon to revitalize the alliance.

Tensions in Asia-Pacific continue to stir up this week, from North Korea’s firing another “warning shots” to Japan employing the MQ-9B

U.S. Marine Corps and Royal Thai Armed Forces Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians train EOD students at Ta Mor Roi Training area during Humanitarian Mine Action EOD Level 3 in Surin Province, Thailand, Jul. 27, 2022.

Chief Warrant Officer 5 Brett W. Haskin flew his final mission flight on May 6, 2022 while serving as the Brigade Aviation Maintenance Officer for 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division/ROK-U.S. Combined Division and was greeted with a water canon salute from the Camp Humphreys Fire Department upon his taxi on the tarmac.

During Exercise KAMANDAG in Palawan, Philippines, Marines with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit Command Element had the opportunity to improve their martial arts skills and belt up in the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program while deployed. For one Marine, it was his passion for teaching that drove him to mentor Marines in MCMAP on his off hours, in addition to supporting the11th MEU’s mission on deployment.

The Philippines is looking into purchasing and employing the US-made heavy-lift Chinook helicopters as part of militar modernization.

Xi Jinping vowed to continue its world-class military modernization ambition by 2027 throughout his third term as the China’s head of state.