Story by Chief Warrant Officer John Lamb and Cpl. Thomas Sheng | Marine Corps Installations Pacific | 05.20.2025
KATHMANDU, Nepal – Nature’s fog of war descended on central Nepal as seismic waves erupted below the country’s surface. Roads in Kathmandu crumbled and the Himalayas trembled in all directions. At first, the local populace seemed unsure of the danger, but as the buildings around them cracked and fell, they quickly realized this would become a catastrophe. In the face of avalanches,......
Story by Cpl. Thomas Sheng | Marine Corps Installations Pacific | 05.12.2025
KATHMANDU, Nepal - U.S. Marines with Marine Security Guard Detachment Kathmandu, Marine Corps Installations Pacific, Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 169, Marine Aircraft Group 36, and members of the Nepali Army participated in the 10th Anniversary of Operation Sahayogi Haat Wreath Laying Ceremony at the Nepali Army Military Museum, Nepal, May 12, 2025. In attendance were......
Story by Petty Officer 1st Class Chelsea Daily | Naval Special Warfare Group ONE | 11.06.2023
A U.S. Navy SEAL Team conducted a joint training exchange alongside the Nepali Army and members of the Nepali Army Special Operations Force (SOF) Brigade near Kathmandu, Nepal from October 30 to November 6, 2023....
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Timothy Hughes | 18th Medical Command | 09.19.2023
U.S. Soldiers Special Operations Command Pacific and 18th Medical Command teamed with Health at Home, a Nepal-based nongovernmental organization, to meet the basic medical needs of over 500 people living in Humla Provence in Nepal....
Story by Lt. Col. Caleb Eames | 3d Marine Expeditionary Brigade | 05.12.2022
On May 12, 2022, the U.S. Embassy Kathmandu, Nepal, held a memorial event honoring those lost seven years ago during Operation Sahayogi Haat, the U.S. response to the April 25, 2015, 7.8-magnitude earthquake which struck Nepal....
Courtesy Story | 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) | 01.25.2022
The Nepal Counter Insurgency (COIN) and Jungle Warfare Course is a grueling 12-week course that trains students to master the jungle and navigate the human domain to win in the challenging COIN battlespace. In August 2021, 1st Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group sent two Green Berets to learn and overcome, alongside their Nepal Army Officer peers, the many obstacles that compose CIJW and turn......
Courtesy Story | 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) | 10.30.2020
Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) recently participated in the training opportunity of a lifetime with their Nepali Army partners....
Story by Tech. Sgt. Lynn M. Means | Texas Military Department | 07.15.2020
A patient waits with bated breath. Her time has come – the test has started. She tilts her head back and braces herself, eyes closed as the medic slides a nose swab to the back of the nasal cavity. It keeps going in – relentlessly farther – seemingly all the way to the brain. Why does it need to go so far?! She tries hard not to reel back....
