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  • Global medical practitioners work to seamlessly integrate

    Instructors from the U.S. Defense Institute for Medical Operations are exchanging ideas and techniques with medical practitioners from the different countries participating in Exercise Shared Resilience 2012 May 28 - June 8 here.The information flow is driven from a class titled "Critical Lifesaving

  • Multinational medical exercise readies forces to save time, lives

    A two-week joint medical exercise began during a kickoff ceremony here May 28.Exercise Shared Resilience 2012 is an annual U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff sponsored exercise with a goal to strengthen interoperability, facilitate training in disaster management and crisis response, and validate the

  • Joint partners clear brush, build camaraderie before major medical exercise

    More than 150 Bosnian-Herzegovinian and U.S. military members cleared brush and overgrown vegetation at the Hutovo Blato National Forest here May 27.The goal of the event was to build camaraderie between the partnered nations before beginning the Exercise Shared Resilience 2012, an annual U.S. Joint

  • We remember you

    Commemorating sacrifices incomprehensible to many, red-blooded Americans in all corners of the world make their way to local cemeteries, memorials and hollowed grounds the final Monday of each May. Though U.S. history is short when compared to that of our European and Asian allies, American

  • American WWI veterans honored during Memorial Day ceremony

    U.S. and French service members, veterans and civilians honored American World War I veterans during a Memorial Day ceremony at the Lafayette Escadrille Memorial located on the outskirts of Paris, May 26, 2012. The memorial honors American pilots who volunteered to join the French Escadrille

  • Their legacy lives on

    Whether they perished on the fields of battle, the blackened skies above or out on the foamy brines, it's remarkable how the commitment to fellow service members never waivers, particularly when paying respect to those who will never be forgotten.On May 28, service members from across the United

  • Russian delegates visit for fuels engagement

    Russian delegates visited the 86th Logistics Readiness Squadron fuels service center here for a bilateral fuels engagement tour May 17."The U.S.-Russia bilateral engagement fosters an environment of joint cooperation in the field of energy interoperability between the U.S. and the Russian

  • 493rd EFS flies to protect Iceland's air sovereignty

    The 493rd Expeditionary Fighter Squadron is conducting Icelandic air policing missions here until June 7.The squadron, which is made up of U.S. Air Force and other North Atlantic Treaty Organization personnel, is a specialized team prepared to ensure Iceland's air sovereignty."In this NATO mission,