The Joint Civilian Orientation Conference is DOD’s oldest and most prestigious public liaison program. Established in 1948, it is the only Secretary of Defense-sponsored outreach program that enables American business and community leaders to have a full immersive experience with their military. Americans learn more about their military and the men and women who serve. Participants are fully...
Jersey Devil 19 is a large-scale exercise that will be conducted from 27 February - 10 March at three separate locations with multiple flying missions. The exercise will include more than 800 participants, making it the largest mobility exercise conducted since Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst was established in 2009. Six Air Mobility Command and Air Force Reserve Command wings will...
LAGO PATRIA, Italy - The change of command ceremony of Allied Joint Forces Command Naples (JFC Naples) from Adm. Robert P. Burke to Adm. Stuart B. Munsch took place at JFC Naples, Italy, June 27, 2022. The Change of Command Ceremony at JFC Naples symbolises the continuity and unity that is NATO and comes during a time of a changed security environment in Europe.
The U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School (JFKSWCS) conducts airborne operations at Saint Mere Eglise Drop Zone on Fort Bragg, N.C., July 11, 2016. JFKSWCS trains and educates U.S. Army Civil Affairs, Psychological Operations and Special Forces Soldiers on a wide range of special Operations capabilities to include airborne operations.
NORAD is planning to conduct a three-year long operational exercise with the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., beginning fiscal year 2015. JLENS is a supporting program of the Army and Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense, providing persistent, over-the-horizon radar surveillance and fire control quality data on Army...
JMTC Rotation 15-02B is a Georgian Mission Rehearsal Exercise (MRE), a combined training exercise in which U.S. and Georgian soldiers practice counterinsurgency, stability and transportation operations in preparation for a deployment to Afghanistan in support of NATO.
A Marine legend passed away December 8, 2016. Col John H. Glenn Jr. — an astronaut, a senator, a Marine — died at the age of 95. Upon completing his training in 1943, Glenn served as a fighter pilot in WWII and the Korean War. For his service in 149 combat missions in two wars, he received numerous honors, including the Distinguished Flying Cross (six occasions) and the Air Medal with...
The Joint Allied Powers Demonstration Day (JAPDD) is the culminating event of Exercise Noble Jump 23. Over the two weeks prior, some 2,200 Soldiers from 7 NATO Nations (Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Czechia, Luxembourg, Belgium and Latvia) with approximately 500 vehicles of various kinds, deployed to training areas on Sardinia. They conducted a myriad of training evolutions both in...
