A U.S. Air Force pararescueman prepares to rappel from an HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter during a RED FLAG-Alaska search and rescue exercise.
Photo by SSgt. Shawn J. Jones, USAF
Foreword
Adm.Timothy
J. Keating,
Commander,
U.S. Pacific Command
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Regional
Security ::
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 Nations
Working Toward a Secure
Asia-Pacific in CARAT 2007
The
U.S. Navy’s 13th annual Cooperation Afloat
Readiness and Training (CARAT) 2007 exercise involved
a series of bilateral military exercises between
the U.S. Navy and armed forces of Brunei, Malaysia,
Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. Each bilateral
phase of CARAT was determined jointly by the specific
interests of both host-nation and U.S. forces. The
exercise focused on increased interoperability through
maritime interdiction, information sharing, and tactical
collaboration between participating navies.
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 U.S.
Forces Realignment to Guam:
Protecting the Pacific
The
U.S. decision to move 8,000 Marines and approximately
9,000 of their family members over a 10-year period
from Okinawa, Japan, to the U.S. territory of Guam
benefits the crowded island of Okinawa, Guam, and
the U.S. Armed Forces.
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| Transnational
Threats :: |
 Asia-Pacific
Intelligence Chiefs Conference:
Meeting Transnational Security Challenges
A key focus area for the Commander, U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM), Admiral Timothy J. Keating, is advancing regional security cooperation and teamwork. To that end, the first Asia-Pacific Intelligence Chiefs Conference (APICC) took place in September 2007 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Maj. Gen. DatoÕ Mohd Salleh bin Hj Ismail, Director General of MalaysiaÕs Defence Intelligence Staff Division (DISD), and Rear Adm. Andrew M. Singer, then USPACOM Director for Intelligence, co-hosted this inaugural forum. Military intelligence chiefs from the following 18 countries participated: Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, France, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, and Vietnam.
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| Capacity
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 Building
Multinational Bonds
in RED FLAG-Alaska
More than 1,300 service members from Australia, France and the United States participated in RED FLAG-Alaska 07-1 in April 2007. This was the first of a series of three [U.S.] Pacific Air ForcesÕ field training exercises that provides multinational air forces counter-air, interdiction, close air support, and large force employment training in a simulated combat environment. These exercises are conducted on the Pacific Alaskan Range Complex with air operations flown out of Eielson Air Force Base (AFB) and Elmendorf AFB.
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The History and Future of the
RED FLAG Exercises
The RED FLAG exercises are designed
to give young pilots and aircrew their first 10
combat sorties using the crawl-walk-run approach,
stepping up the level of threat and level of difficulty.
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 AMC Rodeo: Improving International
Air Mobility Skills
More than 2,500 competitors from
10 countries and observers from 23 countries attended
the U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command (AMC) Rodeo
at McChord Air Force Base (AFB), Washington State,
USA, in July 2007. Rodeo was AMC’s premier event
in recognition of the 60th anniversary of the 1947
founding of the U.S. Air Force.
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| Happenings :: |
 Happenings…
U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Loyd S. “Chip” Utterback,
13th Air Force commander, gives opening comments
to Pacific Rim Airpower Symposium (PACRIM) participants.
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