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VP-47 Keeps Watch during Forum Fisheries Agency’s Operation Rai Balang in Pacific Islands
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Navy Medicine Global Health Team Conducts Trauma Exchange in Vietnam
August 16, 2018 — HANOI, Vietnam -- A team of 13 Navy Medicine trauma members completed a medical exchange Aug. 10 at Vietnam Military Hospital 103.The 8-week program, called Integrated Trauma and Medical Readiness Exchange (ITMRE), is the first of its kind with Vietnam. U.S. Navy Medicine personnel worked side-by-side with Vietnam Military partners to provided... MORE

Stern of World War II U.S. Destroyer Discovered off Remote Alaskan Island
August 16, 2018 — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration -- For almost 75 years, the stern of the destroyer USS Abner Read lay somewhere below the dark surface of the Bering Sea off the Aleutian island of Kiska, where it sank after being torn off by an explosion while conducting an anti-submarine patrol. Seventy-one U.S. Navy Sailors were lost in the... MORE

Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Provides Update on Identifying Service Members Missing from Korean War
August 15, 2018 — WASHINGTON -- The Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency provided an update today on the status of identifying the remains transferred in July to the United States from North Korea.An honorable carry ceremony July 27 at Osan Air Base, South Korea, transferred 55 boxes of remains believed to be of Americans missing in the Korean War. The... MORE

More than 38,000 Guests Visit Fleet Activities Yokosuka for Friendship Day
August 6, 2018 — YOKOSUKA, Japan (NNS) -- More than 38,000 people braved Japan’s summer heat to visit U.S. Fleet Activities (FLEACT) Yokosuka for the installation’s annual Friendship Day festival, Aug. 4.This year marked the 42nd time this base, just 36 miles miles south of Tokyo, opened its gates for the summer event.Visitors enjoyed sampling American food and... MORE

Commander, Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet Visits Sasebo, Discusses Command Philosophy
August 6, 2018 — SASEBO, Japan -- Vice Adm. Rich Brown, commander, Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CNSP), met with waterfront Sailors in Sasebo, Japan, in the hangar bay of the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) Aug. 1 to discuss his command philosophy and vision for the Surface Force.Brown held an all-hands call with area commands, discussing the... MORE

U.S. Air Force B-52s train with U.S. Navy P-8s in East China Sea
August 3, 2018 — JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- Two U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress bombers, assigned to the 96th Expeditionary Bomber Squadron (EBS), participated in a joint training mission with two U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon aircraft, assigned to Patrol Squadron (VP) 45 and VP-4, in the vicinity of Japan over the East China Sea Aug. 1, 2018.This marks... MORE

DNA Testing To Begin Immediately on Remains From North Korea, Officials Say
August 3, 2018 — WASHINGTON -- Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) testing will begin immediately on the 55 boxes of service members’ remains returned to the United States this week from North Korea, where they were contained since the fall of 1950, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) officials told reporters at the Pentagon today.Speaking by phone from the agency’s... MORE

U.S. Receives Fallen Service Members’ Remains From North Korea
July 30, 2018 — WASHINGTON -- The United Nations Command with support from U.S. Forces Korea today repatriated 55 cases of remains of fallen U.S. service members returned by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, also known as North Korea, according to a news release.A U.S. cargo aircraft flew to Wonson, North Korea, to receive the remains and returned... MORE

U.S. Navy Fire and Emergency Services Personnel Respond to Yokosuka Warehouse Fire
July 26, 2018 — Fire crews from both Yokosuka Naval Base and Ikego Family Housing Area responded to the request in support of the Mutual Cooperation Agreement between the City of Yokosuka and Commander Fleet Activities Yokosuka. In total 14 personnel, two engines, one command vehicle, and a passenger van responded to the incident.The Mutual Cooperation Agreement,... MORE