80 Years of Stars and Stripes Pacific

People dressed in black bow their heads during a memorial service.

WWII POWs remembered in Yokohama on 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender

On the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II, the names of more than 1,000 troops who died as prisoners of war were read aloud Tuesday during a memorial ceremony at the Commonwealth War Cemetery.

George Webb, a civilian technical representative of Northrop Grumman, talks about an electronics system for Naval aircraft with Petty Officer 3rd Class Timothy Russell aboard the USS Kitty Hawk.

Civilian part of ship's tech team

George Webb has, as they say in the Navy, more time in the bathroom aboard ship than many of the sailors on the USS Kitty Hawk.

Petty Officer First Class Todd Wende reviews files in the Fleet Liason Office at Yokosuka Naval Hospital. He's in competition for the Shore Sailor of the Year award.

Petty officer in running for top honor in Pacific

If you ask Todd Wende who helped him become sailor of the year, he’ll credit everyone except for himself.

Navy Counselor 1st Class Neilyn Dionisio gives career advice to a young sailor at Yokosuka Naval Base.

Programs help servicemembers become officers

Airman Kerri Ackman cleans up after junior officers in staterooms aboard the USS Blue Ridge now, but if she has things her way, she’ll soon have a stateroom of her own.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Mark Roland, one of the enlisted surface warfare specialist coordinators aboard the Curtis Wilbur, says the ‘murder board’ is the toughest part of earning an enlisted warfare pin.

The pin says it all

The pin says it all. You can roam around the bridge with ease. Know how the engine room works. Understand what it takes to get a ship or aircraft underway. How a ship’s weapons systems work.

Sailors pursue higher education during their lunch breaks through a midday course at Yokosuka.

Active duty offers variety of ways to pursue education

Whether a servicemember plans to get a degree on active duty or would rather hit the books full time on the outside, each branch of the military can bridge the gap to higher education.

Allison Couch, left, and Melissa Patten lug boxes of Girl Scout cookies into the group's building at Atsugi Naval Air Facility, Japan, on Tuesday.

Cookie time again: Girl Scouts prepare for kickoff of annual campaign

U.S. Forces Korea commander Gen. Leon J. LaPorte got to buy the first boxes of Girl Scout cookies in South Korea this year.