The first three future submariners for the Australian navy have completed initial training to become nuclear power operators as the U.S. ally prepares to stand up a modern submarine force.

Bronco Billy Steak House is a spacious eatery in Akishima, just a short drive from Yokota Air Base. The restaurant was established in Japan in 1978 and today has more than 130 locations.

Airmen at Yokota Air Base are collecting toys, clothes and books until Wednesday for distribution to Japanese orphanages in western Tokyo.

On-base supermarkets are also serving as classrooms for Department of Defense Education Activity students across the Pacific.

A band teacher at Camp Zama outside Tokyo will join band directors from across the United States to march in the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.

The U.S. Coast Guard unit based in Guam has a new brand to go along with a beefed-up fleet, a new name and a mission that includes countering China’s influence in the Western Pacific.

About 100 people gathered at Yokota for the event, part of a widespread tradition 22 years after the terrorist attacks that brought down the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and killed hundreds more at the Pentagon and in a downed airliner in Pennsylvania.

From bulldozers to airfield-repair vehicles, the 374th Logistics Readiness Squadron maintains approximately 1,000 government machines worth about $180 million, according to Staff Sgt. Kevin Saelor, a squadron maintenance supervisor.

The USNS Navajo — the service’s first Navajo-class, multimission, common-hull platform — was christened Aug. 26 during a pierside ceremony at Bollinger Shipyards in Houma, La.

The contact cards are “an effort to cut through any confusion and ensure all of us understand required steps and have critical points of contact on hand in an emergency situation,” III MEF commander Lt. Gen. James W. Bierman said in a June 8 message.