Pacific Air Forces Airmen stood up the first rotation of an Air Contingent at Clark Air Base, Philippines, April 16, 2016, following a joint announcement by Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and Philippine Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin in Manila that highlighted several initiatives aimed to enhance bilateral relations between the two nations. The Air Contingent will promote interoperability...
The Armed Forces of the Philippines and Philippine Marine Corps have invited U.S. Marines and Sailors from the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade and Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group to participate in the 33rd iteration of the Philippines Amphibious Landing Exercise (PHIBLEX 33), 4 to 12 October on multiple locations in Luzon and Palawan. PHIBLEX 33 will include approximately 1,400...
Exercise Phoenix Express is a multinational maritime exercise sponsored by U.S. Africa Command and executed by U.S. Naval Forces Africa bringing together North African, European, and U.S. maritime forces as part of a global network of navies to enhance cooperation and expertise in maritime security operations in the Southern Mediterranean Sea.
Exercise Phoenix Express 2021 is sponsored by U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and designed to improve regional cooperation, maritime domain awareness (MDA), information-sharing practices, and tactical interdiction expertise to enhance the collective operational efforts to achieve safety and security in the Mediterranean Sea.
Exercise Phoenix Express 2022, the 17th iteration of the North African
maritime exercise, takes place May 23 – June 3, 2022, in Tunis, Tunisia, and
throughout the Mediterranean Sea.
The exercise focuses on regional cooperation, maritime domain awareness,
information-sharing practices, and operational capabilities, enhancing efforts to
promote safety and security in the Mediterranean Sea...
Exercise Phoenix Express 2023 is the 18th iteration of the North African
maritime exercise, taking place in Tunis, Tunisia, and throughout the Mediterranean Sea.
The exercise focuses on regional cooperation, maritime domain awareness,
information-sharing practices, and operational capabilities, enhancing efforts to
promote safety and security in the Mediterranean Sea and territorial...
The goal of Phoenix Odyssey II is to improve and refine combined intelligence operations standard operating procedures and tactics, techniques, and procedures to expand the knowledge of individual units, and deepen US/UK bilateral intelligence relationships for future collaboration. The exercise will build upon the successes of Phoenix Odyssey I by strengthening existing UK/US bilateral...
WHEELER-SACK AAF, N.Y. – He didn’t get to fly on one of the most popular helicopters currently in the U.S. military inventory, but that did not spoil his long-awaited time here.
Robert Burik, Princeton, NJ, has served as a freelance photojournalist and writer that has covered the U.S. Army for over 15 years. The type of books that Burik writes are photo-history books.
“These...
