Arctic Forge 25 is a U.S. Army Europe and Africa led biennial exercise that leverages Arctic host nation exercises Local Defense Exercise 25 in Finland and Joint Viking 25 in Norway, February 17-28, 2025, to build Arctic readiness and interoperability in support of the U.S. Army's Arctic Strategy.

Arctic Forge 25 is focused on building the U.S. Army’s Arctic capabilities including deployment to the Arctic, Arctic multi-domain operations, and Arctic sustainment, and includes approximately 330 U.S. and 750 multinational participants from Canada (TBD), Finland and Norway.

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OICC China Lake Delivers First Project of Earthquake Recovery Program
Naval Facilities Engineering Command Pacific
June 2, 2023 | 49:57
Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake hosted a pair of ribbon cutting ceremonies on May 05, 2023 to commemorate OICC China Lake's delivery of its first two of 55 facilities to support the research, development, testing and evaluation mission across the Navy’s single largest land holding, covering more than 1.1 million acres, an area larger than the state of Rhode Island.

Construction of the multipurpose religious facility and gymnasium, began in Fall 2020, with demolition of the old gymnasium, All-Faith Chapel, built in 1957, and the Bennington Plaza Theater, all damaged beyond repair by the 2019 earthquakes.
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