Ola de Esperanza Sanadora (“Healing Wave of Hope”) is a medical IRT mission with over 510 military participants that provide health care at no-cost to patients during a two week medical exercise throughout six locations in Puerto Rico. Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) is a U.S. military training opportunity that provides real-life deployment training and readiness for military...
The 25th Infantry Division's Lightning Forge is a brigade-level-exercise evaluation that takes place across the Island of Oahu each year. Lightning Forge typically serves as a preparation for a rotation at the Joint Readiness Training Center in Fort Polk, Louisiana.
Exercise Lightning Strike is a 25th Infantry Division level exercise held at Pohakuloa Training Area on Hawaii which trains squads up to the division staff.
Synchronized by the division staff, an aviation squadron, cavalry squadron, field artillery battalion and sustainment units come together in a consolidated effort defeat the enemy. The exercise also tests muli-domian operations in...
Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Richard “Dick” Cole was the final surviving member of the famed Doolittle Tokyo Raiders of World War II. He passed away in San Antonio, April 9, 2019 at the age of 103.
BALTOPS is an annual joint, multinational maritime-focused exercise scheduled for June 09-21, 2019. It is designed to improve training for participants, enhance flexibility and interoperability, and demonstrate resolve among allied and partner forces in defending the Baltic Sea region. The exercise will involve maritime, ground, and air forces to strengthen combined response capabilities...
On April 12, Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan hosted a ministerial meeting with ministers and disaster management officials from 18 Caribbean countries to launch a new disaster resilience initiative, the U.S.-Caribbean Resilience Partnership, at the U.S. Southern Command headquarters in Miami, Florida. The event reinforces the close ties between the United States and the Caribbean, and...
Exercise Palau 2019 is a U.S. Army security cooperation and humanitarian assistance exercise conducted by United States Army Pacific (USARPAC). The exercise is conducted at the company level focusing on building readiness, developing partner land force capabilities and humanitarian assistance. The purpose of the exercise is to simultaneously strengthen relationships while demonstrating the...
The Vigorous Warrior Exercise Series is organized by the NATO Military Medicine Centre of Excellence together with a different host nation each year. This year, approximately 45 Airmen from the 86th Medical Group, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, will join more than 2,500 total participants from 38 countries. Vigorous Warrior is a nationally-funded exercise that offers nations the ability to...
