Story by Daniel Taylor | U.S. Naval Hospital Yokosuka | 09.23.2025
YOKOSUKA, Japan (Sept. 23, 2025) – U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (USNMRTC) Yokosuka conducted a large-scale mass casualty drill Sept. 23, testing its ability to triage, treat, and transport multiple simulated patients during a crisis. The exercise included 10 casualty injects, ranging from a femur fracture with controlled bleeding to complex scenarios such as progressive......
Story by Seaman Lillian Olen | USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73) | 03.31.2025
On September 16, 2013, Aaron Alexis, a contractor working at the Washington Navy Yard, killed 12 people and injured four within 68 minutes. He was able to unsuspectingly enter the base carrying a backpack containing a Remington 870 shotgun and walk inside building #197 using valid credentials. Alexis committed this act of terrorism against his coworkers and other Navy personnel without......
Story by Cpl. Karis Mattingly | Marine Corps Installations Pacific | 10.14.2021
CAMP HANSEN, OKINAWA, Japan – U.S. Marines across Okinawa participated in the new Annual Rifle Qualification from Oct. 4-8. This consisted of a three-day course of fire that tests Marines’ marksmanship skills in a dynamic-shooting environment....
Story by Lance Cpl. Alison Dostie | Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton | 02.27.2020
Navy sailors with Field Medical Training Battalion - West conducted patient assessment drills at the FMTB training site on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Feb. 19....
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Vincent Abril | 19th Expeditionary Sustainment Command | 03.15.2018
USAG DAEGU – The 19th Expeditionary Sustainment Command held an awards ceremony and reception to announce the winners of the 2018 “Team 19” Best Warrior Competition, Mar. 15 at Henry’s Place, Camp Henry, Daegu, Korea....
Story by Lance Cpl. Terry Haynes | Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort | 01.26.2018
Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting conducted controlled burn training aboard Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, Jan. 19.
Story by Lance Cpl. Gabriela Garcia-Gregorio | Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni | 10.18.2017
U.S. Marines conducted joint training with Japan Ground Self-Defense Force soldiers during exercise Active Shield at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, Oct. 17-18, 2017....
Story by Staff Sgt. Dalton Smith | 316th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) | 08.01.2017
ARABIAN GULF – The 548th Transportation Detachment, a U.S. Army Reserve watercraft unit based out of Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, participated in the U.S. Navy’s quarterly trilateral exercise in the Arabian Gulf, from July 24-26, 2017....
