Story by Senior Airman Ashley Talley | 48th Fighter Wing | 12.03.2025
U.S. Airmen with the 48th and 86th Medical Groups achieved mass certification during an Expeditionary Medical Support exercise at RAF Feltwell, Oct. 27-30....
Story by Emily McCamy | U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Guantanamo Bay | 10.28.2024
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba – A medical team from the Royal Netherlands Navy, stationed aboard the Dutch ship HNMLS Holland (P840), visited U.S. Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay, early October, to tour the facility and assess its capabilities for potential emergency medical support....
Story by Lt.j.g. Rebecca Moore | Commander, Destroyer Squadron 7 | 05.22.2024
By: Lt.j.g. Rebecca Moore, Commander, Destroyer Squadron 7 Public Affairs SINGAPORE (May 22, 2024) - The Netherlands and United States’ navies conducted bilateral operations in the South China Sea, May 22. The bilateral operation provided a valuable opportunity to improve allied interoperability and conduct complex scenarios to improve combined readiness....
Story by Lt. Andrew Thompson | Commander, U.S. 3rd Fleet | 08.01.2018
A six-person team of mine countermeasures (MCM) experts from the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN) partnered with the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) coastal defense vessel HMCS Whitehorse (MM 705) to search for training sea mines during the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise in the Southern California (SOCAL) area of operations....
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Curtis Spencer | Commander, U.S. 3rd Fleet | 07.27.2018
SAN DIEGO (July 27, 2018) –– The tactical free play phase of Mine Warfare operations in the Southern California (SOCAL) area of operations in support of the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise finished here today. The tactical free play phase is one of the five phases of the exercise, and the most complex training for participating units in mine warfare operations....
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Curtis Spencer, Lt. Matthew Stroup and Lt. Andrew Thompson | Commander, U.S. 3rd Fleet | 07.27.2018
SAN DIEGO (July 27, 2018) Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron (HM) 14 conducted airborne mine countermeasure (MCM) operations during the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise in the Southern California (SOCAL) area of operations as part of Combined Task Force (CTF) 177....
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Curtis Spencer, Lt. Matthew Stroup and Lt. Andrew Thompson | Commander, U.S. 3rd Fleet | 07.23.2018
SAN DIEGO (July 23, 2018) – In a Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise first, Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) Lt. Cmdr. Benjamin Martin, commander, HMNZS Matataua, based in Auckland, New Zealand, served as the undersea mine countermeasures commander (UMCMC) in the Southern California (SOCAL) area of operations....
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Curtis Spencer | Commander, U.S. 3rd Fleet | 07.18.2018
SAN DIEGO – U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Dave Welch, commander, Task Force 177, Naval Surface and Mine Warfighting Development Center (SMWDC), visited the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) led undersea mine countermeasures commander (UMCMC), a subordinate command of CTF 177, July 18. Welch is the mine warfare commander for the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise in the Southern California (SOCAL) area......
