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Commander of U.S. Space Force unit in Japan

Brig. Gen. Anthony J. Mastalir, the commander of United States Space Forces Indo-Pacific, meets the press on Dec. 3, 2024 at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo, where the new component field command will be set up, ahead of its launch on Dec. 4.

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Ammunition warehouse blaze in western Cambodia kills 20 soldiers: PM

STORY: Ammunition warehouse blaze in western Cambodia kills 20 soldiers: PM SHOOTING TIME: April 27, 2024 DATELINE: April 28, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:47 LOCATION: Phnom Penh CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the ammunition warehouse STORYLINE: Twenty soldiers were killed on Saturday as fire swept through an ammunition warehouse in western Cambodia, setting off a series of explosions, the country's Prime Minister Hun Manet said. The blaze broke out at 2:30 p.m. local time at the ammunition depot in the Third Military Command in Chamkar Doung village of Kampong Speu province's Chbar Mon town. Kampong Speu Provincial Police Chief Major General Sam Samuon told Xinhua that an investigation has been launched to determine the cause of the incident. The extent of the damage to the ammunition depot remains under assessment. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Phnom Penh. (XHTV)

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US Forces Shoot Down Houthi Missiles And Drones

Handout photo dated June 12, 2017 shows F/A-18 Hornets and Super Hornets assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 2 fly over the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), front, the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108), right, USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112), left, and the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain (CG 57) in the western Pacific. On Tuesday, U.S. fighter jets and a warship shot down an onslaught of missiles and attack drones in the southern Red Sea over a 10-hour period, military officials said. The downed weapons included a dozen one-way attack drones, three anti-ship ballistic missiles and two land attack cruise missiles. “U.S. assets, to include the USS Laboon and F/A-18 Super Hornets from the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group, shot them down,” said U.S. Central Command, the Pentagon’s top combatant command in the Middle East. “There was no damage to ships in the area or reported injuries.” It wasn’t clear exactly what the drones an

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CHINA-PLA-WESTERN THEATER COMMAND-EARTHQUAKE-RESPONSE (CN)

(231219) -- CHENGDU, Dec. 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A Y-20 transport aircraft carrying an emergency command group from the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Western Theater Command is pictured before taking off from a military airport in southwest China in response to a 6.2-magnitude earthquake, on Dec. 19, 2023. The PLA and the People's Armed Police Force (PAPF) have deployed multiple rescue forces to quake-hit areas in response to a 6.2-magnitude earthquake that jolted northwest China's Gansu Province late Monday. (Xinhua)

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CHINA-XI JINPING-PLA-WESTERN THEATER COMMAND-AIR FORCE-INSPECTION (CN)

(230730) -- CHENGDU, July 30, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), delivers an important speech during his inspection of the air force of the Western Theater Command of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) on July 26, 2023. Xi made the inspection tour ahead of China's Army Day, which falls on Aug. 1. On behalf of the CPC Central Committee and the CMC, Xi extended sincere greetings to all the officers and soldiers of the air force of the command, as well as festival greetings to service personnel of the PLA and the People's Armed Police Force, civilian personnel posted in the military, and members of militia and reserve forces. (Xinhua/Li Gang)

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Military papers on Hiroshima A-bombing damage found

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A series of books chronicling damage caused by the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima are shown on Jan. 6, 2015, in the western Japanese city. One of the books quotes a memo written by Bunro Saeki, commander at the now defunct Imperial Japanese Army's shipping command, which is believed to be based on written army rescue operation orders found recently at a Defense Ministry institute in Tokyo.

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Kennedy visits Yokota base

TOKYO, Japan - New U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (C) is greeted as she visits the headquarters of Japan's Air Defense Command at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2013. Japanese Senior Vice Defense Minister Ryota Takeda can be seen to the left.

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Philippines, U.S. hold gas field protection exercise

PUERTO PRINCESA, Philippines - Lt. Gen. Duane Thiessen (front L), commander of the U.S. Marines in the Pacific, speaks during a press conference in Puerto Princesa on Palawan Island of the Philippines on April 22, 2012. At front R is Lt. Gen. Juancho Sabban, the Filipino forces Western Command chief. Philippine and U.S. forces have held an unprecedented joint exercise to practice retaking offshore natural gas and oil platforms that have been seized.

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6 U.S. stealth fighters arrive at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - A U.S. F-22A Raptor stealth fighter (foreground) arrives at the U.S. Kadena Air Base in Okinawa on Jan. 10. A total of six of the newest F-22A Raptor fighters arrived there as part of a three-month deployment in support of U.S. Pacific Command's security obligations in the Western Pacific.

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U.S. Navy command ship Blue Ridge calls at Osaka port

OSAKA, Japan - The U.S. Navy amphibious command ship Blue Ridge enters Osaka port on April 14 to allow its crew three days of rest, the U.S. Navy said. The 19,648-ton flagship of the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet, based in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, left there in January for the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean to ask countries such as the Philippines and Indonesia to cooperate in the U.S.-led antiterrorism campaign.

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Waskow takes command of U.S. forces in Japan, replacing Hester

TOKYO, Japan - Lt. Gen. Thomas Waskow, new commander of the U.S. forces in Japan, receives a military flag from Lt. Gen. Paul Hester during a ceremony at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo on Nov. 19. Hester, who served in the post for about two years, will take command of Air Force Special Operations Command at Hurburt Field, in Florida.

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Ukrainian forces hit key bridge near Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant

STORY: Ukrainian forces hit key bridge near Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant DATELINE: Aug. 11, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:53 LOCATION: Kiev CATEGORY: MILITARY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (English): LI DONGXU, Xinhua correspondent STORYLINE: SOUNDBITE (English): LI DONGXU, Xinhua correspondent "The Ukrainian military forces said Wednesday that they hit a key bridge near the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant in the Russia-controlled territory in the Kherson region in southern Ukraine. The bridge over the Dnieper river that served as a logistical route for Russian forces was put out of operation as a result of the strike, said the operational command of the Ukrainian armed forces on Facebook. More than 500 bodies of dead soldiers, who were listed as missing in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, have been returned to Ukraine, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported on Wednesday, citing a senior official. Nine Russian aircraft were destroyed during the explosions at the Saky airfield in western Crimea on Tuesday, said the A

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Turkey nabs 25 Kurdish party members suspected of planning terror attacks

STORY: Turkey nabs 25 Kurdish party members suspected of planning terror attacks DATELINE: May 14, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:43 LOCATION: ISTANBUL, Turkey CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of police teams leaving the police station for the operation in Istanbul, Turkey 2. various of special operations police raiding the house where the terrorists 3. various of police teams 4. various of detained suspects 5. various of the militants of PKK in Turkey STORYLINE: Turkish police detained 25 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) suspected of planning terror attacks across the country, the Istanbul Governor's Office said Thursday. The suspects were captured in parallel operations launched for 24 sites in eight provinces by Istanbul's provincial Gendarmerie Command units, including the western provinces of Istanbul and Izmir, the governor's office said in a statement. At least two guns, organizational documents, digital materials and banners were seized in the operations. One suspect is

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Six killed in missile strikes on Ukraine's western city of Lviv

STORY: Six killed in missile strikes on Ukraine's western city of Lviv DATELINE: April 18, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:43 LOCATION: Kiev CATEGORY: MILITARY SHOTLIST: various of street view in LvivSTANDUP (English): SHOMODI YURII, Xinhua reporter in Lviv, Ukrainevarious of a railway line in Ukraine STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): SHOMODI YURII, Xinhua reporter in Lviv, Ukraine "According to the West Air Command, there were four missile strikes in Lviv this morning, three on military infrastructure, and one on tire fitting. The fires that broke out as a result of the attack are still being extinguished. Six people have been killed and eight wounded in Lviv after missiles struck military facilities and a car tire service point in the western Ukrainian city this morning. This information was confirmed by regional governor Maksym Kozytsky. 'The facilities have suffered significant damage,' he said. Ukrainian railway station on its official Telegram posted about possible minor delays in the schedule." Xinhua News Agency c

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U.S. Navy command ship Blue Ridge calls at Osaka port

OSAKA, Japan - The U.S. Navy amphibious command ship Blue Ridge enters Osaka port on April 14 to allow its crew three days of rest, the U.S. Navy said. The 19,648-ton flagship of the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet, based in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, left there in January for the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean to ask countries such as the Philippines and Indonesia to cooperate in the U.S.-led antiterrorism campaign.

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Waskow takes command of U.S. forces in Japan, replacing Hester

TOKYO, Japan - Lt. Gen. Thomas Waskow, new commander of the U.S. forces in Japan, receives a military flag from Lt. Gen. Paul Hester during a ceremony at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo on Nov. 19. Hester, who served in the post for about two years, will take command of Air Force Special Operations Command at Hurburt Field, in Florida.

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Nakatani, Kennedy to observe command post exercise

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (far R) and Defense Minister Gen Nakatani (L) visit the Ground Self-Defense Force's Itami garrison in the western Japan city of Itami on Dec. 9, 2015, to observe the Japan-U.S. command post exercise. Around 6,500 from both countries will participate in it, while six from the Australian forces will attend as observers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Defense Minister Nakatani to observe command post exercise

Defense Minister Gen Nakatani (far L) arrives at the Ground Self-Defense Force's Itami garrison in the western Japan city of Itami on Dec. 9, 2015, to observe the Japan-U.S. command post exercise. Around 6,500 from both countries will participate in it, while six from the Australian forces will attend as observers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Philippines, U.S. hold gas field protection exercise

PUERTO PRINCESA, Philippines - Lt. Gen. Duane Thiessen (front L), commander of the U.S. Marines in the Pacific, speaks during a press conference in Puerto Princesa on Palawan Island of the Philippines on April 22, 2012. At front R is Lt. Gen. Juancho Sabban, the Filipino forces Western Command chief. Philippine and U.S. forces have held an unprecedented joint exercise to practice retaking offshore natural gas and oil platforms that have been seized. (Kyodo)

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Military papers on Hiroshima A-bombing damage found

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A series of books chronicling damage caused by the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima are shown on Jan. 6, 2015, in the western Japanese city. One of the books quotes a memo written by Bunro Saeki, commander at the now defunct Imperial Japanese Army's shipping command, which is believed to be based on written army rescue operation orders found recently at a Defense Ministry institute in Tokyo. (Kyodo)

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Oka, 1st to report Hiroshima A-bomb, dies at 86

Yoshie Oka, shown in this photo taken in Hiroshima on June 30, 2015, who is believed to have given the first report of the atomic bombing of the western Japanese city in World War II, died of malignant lymphoma on May 19, 2017, aged 86. Oka was 14 years old and working at a command center of the Imperial Japanese Army in the city when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945, killing an estimated 140,000 people by the end of that year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo