SOUTH CHINA SEA - Pago Pago, American Samoa, native and 2011 University of Hawaii graduate is serving in the U.S. Navy aboard the Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Charleston (LCS 18)...

Cmdr. John Keefe has spent the last couple of years commanding one of the Navy's most preeminent forward-deployed units in the Pacific, leading approximately 230 expeditionary Sailors in undertaking some of our Nation's most challenging and dynamic missions at Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit...

U.S. 7th Fleet hosted leadership and staff from III Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) and Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) at Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan, for naval integration staff talks, Dec. 6-9...

Rear Adm. Ron Piret, Commander, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, visited Australia to meet with his counterparts from the Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation (AGO) and Royal Australian Navy (RAN) during a scheduled visit to the region, Nov 7-11, 2022...

The international rules-based order that served the world well, is under attack and the United States and Japan need to work even closer together to defend, maintain and strengthen the order, Ely Ratner, the assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific Affairs said...

Naval Oceanography hosted representatives from the Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation (AGO) for an in-depth tour of Naval Oceanography’s global-reaching, environmental-information capabilities, Aug. 12, 2022.AGO’s visit to Naval Oceanography is in alignment with creation of the enhanced...

Patrol Squadron (VP) 5 deployed an aircraft, aircrew, and maintenance personnel to Batam, Indonesia, in support of Exercise Super Garuda Shield 2022 from July 31 to August 6. The crew provided a P-8A static display for Gen. Andika Perkasa, commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI), and...

As a demonstration of our resolve and commitment to our regional allies, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command conducted a carrier-based air demonstration in the Yellow Sea...

U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Joint Region Marianas, and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands leadership gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Chiget Beach in Tinian...