"No Marine Fights Alone" promotes the understanding that mental, spiritual and social fitness are as critical to warfighting readiness as physical fitness and technical proficiency.
Service members from Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, the Republic of Singapore, South Korea, and the United States will participate in exercise Super Garuda Shield from August 25 to September 8, 2026 at multiple training locations in Java, Indonesia. This U.S. Army Pacific-sponsored exercise, which involves approximately 3,000 Combined Armed Forces, demonstrates the shared purpose of...
Patriot 26, sponsored by the National Guard Bureau (NGB) and accredited by the Joint National Training Capability (JNTC) Program, is a domestic operations exercise that joins National Guard troops with federal, state, and local emergency agencies to train in high-stress, simulated disaster scenarios. By training in realistic, high-pressure scenarios, participants build critical partnerships...
The Army’s third annual Pershing Cup: Best Observer
Controller/Trainer Competition.
This event marks warfighting advisors from across the Army gathering to compete for the honor of Best OC/T. Twenty-four two-person teams from First Army, Joint Readiness Training Command, the National Training Center, 84th Training Command, Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center, 85th Training...
From August 10-15, Air National Guard Civil Engineer (CE) squadrons from across New England (Region 1) will converge at Ft. Devens, Massachusetts, for PATRIOT FORGE II. This rigorous, field-level Field Training Exercise (FTX) is designed to immerse Airmen in a simulated deployed environment against a peer or near-peer adversary.
Ulchi Freedom Shield – a combined, joint, all-domain, and interagency operating environment. This annual exercise aims to build understanding between Combined Forces Command, United States Forces Korea, the United Nations Command, and ROK Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), ROK government agency, ensuring their ability to fortify the combined defense posture and enhance Alliance response...
Every autumn, national forests and grasslands across the country turn gold, orange and red. Peak color moves with elevation and latitude, shifting from the high country down to the valleys and from north to south over several weeks. This page features photos and video of fall color on Forest Service lands nationwide.
During WWII, the Office of Strategic Services conducted Operation Union II, involving the aerial insertion of six Marines, an Army Air Corps captain, and a French resistance fighter into the German-controlled French Alps in August of 1944. Their mission was to arm and train the French Resistance to aid in the fight to liberate Europe. When they found themselves surrounded by German forces in...
