US Marines – An overview of the US Marine Jungle Warfare Training Center on Okinawa.

• USA Today: Quick and violent: Training for jungle warfare
  

US Navy – The US plans longterm to have more carrier battlegroups in the Western Pacific, to act as a counter to China.

• The Star: US outlines Asia build-up

Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force – Japanese ships are again making port calls in South Korea.

• Korea Herald: Japan’s navy to make port call at Busan

Canadian Navy – HMCS Preserver and HMCS Iroquois have returned home from the Arabian Sea.

• Canadian Press: Canadian ships return home from Arabian Sea
  

US Navy – The USS John F. Kennedy may be able to keep Mayport, Florida as her home port, rather than being redeployed to Japan when the USS Kitty Hawk is retired as Japanese attitudes towards nuclear-powered ships are changing.

• Florida Times-Union: Kennedy may stay longer at Mayport
  

US Marines – The Marines helicopter fleet is getting very old???.

• Atlanta Journal Constitution: As Marines’ mission evolves, aging aircraft pose a problem
  

US Navy – The current state of the DDX program.

• Sea Power: A Complementary Collage of Combatant Capabilities: DD(X) and the Future of Surface Warfare