USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) conducts the first demonstration firing of a Naval Strike Missile from a U.S. Navy destroyer during RIMPAC. ...

MONTEREY, Calif. - Students and faculty from the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) conducted expeditionary advanced manufacturing research during the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) and Trident Warrior 2024 exercises demonstrating new technology applications at sea and ashore...

HAWAII — Military Sealift Command (MSC) combat logistic fleet (CLF) ships have completed their support to the world’s largest, international maritime exercise, Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024, in Hawaii...

The U.S. Navy and Republic of Korea (ROK) Navy successfully held a live-fire exercise using a common unmanned surface vessel (CUSV) during Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024, July 12. The CUSV, equipped with six Poniard rockets, successfully engaged a target...

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii - During this year’s Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC), Air Commodore Louise desJardins of the Royal Australian Air Force’s (RAAF) Surveillance and Response Group and the first female air battle manager within the RAAF to reach the O7 rank, served in a key...

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii - In June, Cmdr. Charles R. Lux, 43, earned the Meritorious Service Medal for coordination of all aspects of foreign ship visits to the Hawaiian Islands, Wake Island, and American Samoa from May 2022 to June 2024 as the Commander, Navy Region Hawaii (CNRH)...

Ships and aircraft participating in Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024 conducted long-planned, live-fire sinking exercises (SINKEXs) and sank the decommissioned USS Dubuque (LPD 8), July 11, 2024, and the decommissioned USS Tarawa (LHA 1), July 19, 2024. Both were sunk in waters 15,000 feet...

Royal Australian Navy Mine Warfare Clearance Diving Officer (MCDO) Adam Zilko’s current exchange posting to the United States has seen him lead Mine Counter Measures (MCM) exercise planner at RIMPAC 2024...

PEARL HARBOR - July 13 marked the completion of the first urban search and rescue exercises in RIMPAC history, illustrating the growing value of the world’s largest maritime exercise and the increased range and usefulness of the U.S. Coast Guard...

PACIFIC OCEAN - Ships and aircraft participating in Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024 conducted long-planned, live-fire sinking exercises (SINKEXs) and sank the decommissioned USS Dubuque (LPD 8), July 11, 2024, and the decommissioned USS Tarawa (LHA 1), July 19, 2024. Both were sunk in...

When the team of engineers from the Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing Research and Education (CAMRE) loaded their 3D hybrid-metal printer onboard Somerset as part of the experimentation sector of Exercise Rim of the Pacific 2024, they had no idea that they would soon be asked to solve a...

PACIFIC OCEAN — The Arleigh-Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS Gridley (DDG 101) participated in a multinational visit, board, search and seizure (VBSS) drill while underway July 15 during Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC), a large-scale international maritime exercise...

Gunner’s Mate Seaman Delilah Medina, a native of Riverside, California, is a Sailor currently assigned to the Arleigh-Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS Gridley (DDG 101). On of a team of nine, she is the ship’s only woman Gunner’s Mate...

The Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) portion of the multinational joint exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024 has come to a successful close, July 15. HADR is a military cooperation that aims to save lives, reduce suffering, and resolve emergencies during natural disasters...

U.S. Navy Preventive Medicine professionals assigned to Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit Six (NEPMU-6) hosted a Singapore Armed Forces Expeditionary Public Health Team (SAF) to exchange knowledge about U.S. Navy Forward Deployable Preventive Medicine Unit’s (FDPMU) and their...

Chief Equipment Operator David “Kawika” Earley, a native of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, is serving in the U.S. Navy at Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 18 during Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024, July 3. Earley graduated from James Campbell High School in 2003. According to Earley, the skills and...

Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Lisa Franchetti and Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) James Honea traveled to Hawaii, July 10-12, 2024, to meet with Sailors and visit Allies and partners participating in Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise 2024...

FORD ISLAND, Hawaii – Supply officers and logistic specialists from 29 countries came together at the Ford Island Conference Center, Hawaii, during Exercise Rim of Pacific to coordinate the different phases of RIMPAC, June 29, 2024...

HAWAII — Planners and Liaison Officers (LNOs) from multiple partner nations met at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam to stand up a Commander, Task Force (CTF) 174 theater undersea warfare integrated watch team, marking the beginning of the at-sea phase of exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC)...

International military medical teams from around the globe convened at Sharkey Theater on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for the 2024 Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Medical Symposium, July 1-2, 2024...