Story by Spc. Wyatt Moore | 28th Public Affairs Detachment | 06.10.2024
Sgt. 1st Class Jonathan Hebert and his birth mother travel back to the places where she had to make her most difficult sacrifice, to give him up for adoption. Revisiting his past helps him better understand his passion for selfless service and the U.S. Army....
Story by 1st Lt. Anne Pentaleri | 3d Marine Division | 05.12.2024
LA PAZ SAND DUNES, ILOCOS NORTE, PHILIPPINES – U.S. Marines with 3rd Littoral Combat Team, 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, and Philippine Marines with Marine Battalion Landing Team 8 joined forces to plan and conduct the largest combined and joint live fire range of Balikatan 24 on May 6, 2024. The Marines were supported by U.S. Army and Philippine Marine Corps and Army......
Courtesy Story | Exercise Balikatan | 05.10.2024
CAMP AGUINALDO, Quezon City, Philippines – The Armed Forces of the Philippines hosted the closing ceremony of Exercise Balikatan 2024, marking the successful conclusion of the largest annual combined military exercise between the Republic of the Philippines and the United States of America....
Courtesy Story | Exercise Balikatan | 05.09.2024
CAMP AGUINALDO, Quezon City, Philippines – Service members from the Armed Forces of the Philippines and U.S. military successfully completed a series of humanitarian civic assistance efforts focused on community health engagements, engineering civic action projects, and civil-military engagements during Exercise Balikatan 24....
Courtesy Story | Exercise Balikatan | 05.08.2024
CAMP AGUINALDO, Quezon City, Philippines – Philippine, U.S. and Australian military forces integrated land, sea and air platforms to simultaneously sense, target, strike and destroy a decommissioned ship off the western coast of Northern Luzon today....
Story by Staff Sgt. Katelyn Vazquez | 25th Infantry Division | 05.04.2024
Soldiers with the U.S., Philippines, and Australian Armies graduated from Exercise Balikatan 24’s Jungle Operations Training Course at a ceremony held at Fort Magsaysay, Philippines, May 5, 2024....
Story by Capt. Brian Tuthill | 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit | 05.04.2024
OYSTER BAY, Philippines – The 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit’s Amphibious Combat Vehicles Platoon conducted a live-fire, waterborne gunnery range exercise in Oyster Bay, Philippines, May 4, 2024, marking the first overseas employment of the ACVs during their initial deployment. The ACV platoon launched from aboard amphibious dock landing ship USS Harpers Ferry (LSD 49) before organizing......
Story by Sgt. Cameron Hermanet | Exercise Balikatan | 04.30.2024
Anacta was born and raised in the city of Taguig, where he recalls living the life of any ordinary child in the 90’s. When he wasn’t in school, he spent his time playing basketball and mastering billiards with his friends. As Anacta grew up and attended high school, he was mandated to be a part of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps. The military was not an unfamiliar topic for him,......
