Exercise Point Blank focuses on the enhancement and progression of NATO Alliances. Servicemembers from the United States Air Force, Royal Air Force, and Royal Norwegian Air Force prioritized the professional engagement of NATO partners by participating in sorties, hot pit refueling, integrated combat turns, and morale events.
Images from the Arctic Edge 2026 Exercise
Wildland Firefighting DoW Support for 2026
North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) conducts sustained, dispersed operations under Operation NOBLE DEFENDER (OND) across the North American continent, through one or all NORAD regions (Alaska, Canada, and the continental U.S.). Each consecutive OND validates and progresses the NORAD missions of aerospace warning, aerospace control, and maritime warning. OND demonstrates NORAD's...
Pre-Commissioning Unit John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) and her crew departed HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) and steamed to sea for the first time for Builder’s Sea Trials, Jan. 28, 2026. After eight days of at-sea systems, equipment and operational testing by the Sailors working alongside industry and government partners, the ship returned to NNS, Feb. 4, 2026 – the operation a success....
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Cutlass Express is one of three African regional Express series exercises sponsored by U.S. Africa Command and enabled by U.S. 6th Fleet. Through CE 26, U.S. forces work alongside participating nations to improve combined maritime law enforcement capacity, promote national and regional security in the Eastern and Southern Africa and Indian Ocean region, and increase interoperability between...
The Hawaii Army National Guard's 111th Army Band held a change of command and retirement ceremony where Chief Warrant Officer 5 Curtis Y. Hiyane after 28 years in command of the unit and 43 years of service, relinquished command to Warrant OfficerClement K. Zhang.
