Story by Lance Cpl. Kendrick Jackson | 3d Marine Division | 05.19.2025
CAMP SCHWAB, OKINAWA, JAPAN – The Yokota Friendship Festival highlighted the continued cooperation among the U.S. Marines, Airmen, and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force with a parachute operation during the 49th Annual Japanese American Friendship Festival at Yokota Air Base, May 17–18. Approximately 117,000 civilians gathered for the annual Yokota Friendship Festival, and the coordinated......
Story by Staff Sgt. Kirsten Brandes | 86th Airlift Wing | 10.04.2019
Three C-130J Super Hercules aircraft and more than 90 personnel deployed to Plovdiv, Bulgaria from Ramstein Air Base, Germany for Thracian Fall returned home Oct. 4, 2019....
Story by Staff Sgt. Kirsten Brandes | 86th Airlift Wing | 10.01.2019
Airmen and aircraft from the 37th Airlift Squadron have been providing primary airlift support for a U.S.-sponsored military free-fall course in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Sept. 24 - Oct. 1, 2019....
Story by Lance Cpl. Jamin Powell | 3rd Marine Logistics Group | 08.14.2018
IE SHIMA, Okinawa, Japan – Rain sporadically fell on two tactical vehicles parked in a grassy field next to a weathered air strip on Ie Shima, Okinawa, Japan....
Story by Sgt. Juan F. Jimenez | 210th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 09.09.2017
The Army Golden Knights are well known for their competitions and acrobatics air stunts, but also for tandem jumps with community leaders and educators of the areas in which they perform. The opportunity to interact with Army Soldiers, like those represented by the Golden Knights, gives members of communities a chance to see who a Soldier really is. Sgt. Candice Beebe, a drill sergeant,......
Story by Sgt. Christopher Osburn | 314th Theater Public Affairs Support Element | 09.08.2017
COLUMBIA, S.C. (Sept. 08, 2017)– The flooding and storm damage caused by Hurricane Harvey have disrupted countless lives. With schools shut down or destroyed, many students are forced to travel farther distances to receive the education they want. One local school, however, is doing something to help. Nation Ford High School is raising money to help those students, and their principal is......
Story by Sgt. Christopher Osburn | 314th Theater Public Affairs Support Element | 09.08.2017
COLUMBIA, S.C. (Sept. 08, 2017) -- Approximately 12,000 feet in the sky, Joe Mergo arches his back and smiles as he tumbles from an airplane with the U.S. Army logo on its tail. Mergo doesn’t have a cord to pull to open the chute, however. The person in charge of deploying the parachute is, instead, a highly-trained member of a United States Army parachute team, the Golden Knights. After......
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Brent Powell | 335th Signal Command (Theater) | 10.14.2016
East Point, Georgia – Many people set high goals for themselves, but one Army Reserve Soldier here set his goals higher than most, aiming at an achievement that would take him more than 12,500 feet above the ground....
