DOCA TRIPS

RECENT DOCA CONFERENCES AT MILITARY INSTALLATTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES
AND DOCA CONFERENCES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES

February 2016: US Southern Command in Miami FL and Panama City, Panama for briefings at the Southern Command. In Panama City briefings at the US Embassy covering strategic, economic and political relationship between Panama and the US, counterterrorism and the status of the new canal. A partial transit of the Panama Canal.

April 2016: U. S. Military Academy West Point, New York for an in depth visit with the cadets, various commands within the school and programs stressing academics, military discipline and moral-ethical foundation designed to prepare the students for military leadership in the Army.

May 2016: Joint Base Charleston and the Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina for briefings on the C-17 heavy lift aircraft, the Naval Nuclear Power Training Command, the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic, the Army’s 841st Transport Battalion and a visit to The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina.

July 2016: Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio for briefings from the Air Force Materiel Command, 88th Air Base Wing, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force Institute of Technology, National Air and Space Intelligence Center and visit the National Museum of the US Air Force.

September 2016: San Diego, CA for briefs at Naval Base San Diego, an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit, Naval Special Warfare Command, NAS North Island, Littoral Combat Ship Training School, briefings at the Marine Corp Recruit Depot and view a graduation.

March 2017: Los Angeles Air Force Base, Los Angeles, CA for briefings from the Space Command and Missile Systems Center. Vandenberg AFB for briefings from the 30th Space Wing, various units within the Space Wing involved with missile launchings and testing of missiles and the Space X launch facility.

April 2017: Buenos Aires and San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina for briefings at the US Embassy, the Argentinian Ministry of Defense, the Argentinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Argentinian Mountain Brigade.

July 2017: Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, North Carolina for briefings from the XVIII Airborne Corps, 82nd Airborne Division Advanced Airborne School, observing a paratrooper drop, briefings from US Army Special Operations Command and a static display of weapons with the 1st Special Forces Command.

September 2017: Beijing, China and Seoul, South Korea for briefings from the US Embassy Beijing and Ministry of Defense, visit the Great Wall of China and the Forbidden City. In Seoul receive briefings at the US Embassy, US Forces Korea, think tanks and academics and visit the Joint Security Area, Panmunjeom.

November 2017: Nellis and Creech AFBs Las Vegas, Nevada for briefings re Red Flag, Green Flag missions, AF Demonstration Team (Thunderbirds), 432nd Wing (Predator and Reaper Drones), Nevada Test and Training Range, Nonproliferation Test and Evaluation Complex and viewing the Bilby and Sedan nuclear craters

January 2018: Northeast Asia II. Pacific Command, Honolulu, Hawaii for briefings at US Pacific Command, Pacific Air Forces Command, US Pacific Fleet Command, Commander, Submarine Force, US Pacific Fleet, US Marine Corp Forces, Pacific, 25th Infantry Division and Kaniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Issues.

March 2018: High North I, Anchorage and Fairbanks, Alaska for briefings at 11th Air Force, Alaskan Command/NORTHCOM, Alaskan NORAD Region, AF 3rd Wing and 176th Wing, US Army Alaska, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25 Infantry Division, AF 354th Fighter Wing, Cold Regions Test Center and 49th Missile Defense Battalion.

April 2018: San Antonio, Texas Battlefield Medicine and Healthcare Delivery. Briefings at the Brooke Army Medical Center, US Army Institute for Surgical Research, Air Force 59th Medical Wing, Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center and UT Health San Antonio-Military Health Institute.

July 2018: NATO I, London, United Kingdom and Brussels, Belgium. Briefings at the US Embassy London, at the Air Force 48th Fighter Wing (RAF Lakenheath), Air Force 100th Air Refueling Wing (RAF Mildenhall), UK Ministry of Defense, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and view the Farnborough International Air Show. At Brussels, receive briefings at the US Embassy, from the US Mission to NATO, the Supreme Head Quarters Allied Powers Europe and tour the Somme Battlefield.

April 2019: Air Force Logistics, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma for briefings from the Air Force Sustainment Center, Air Force Logistics Complex, 72nd Air Base Wing, 76th Propulsion Maintenance Group, and briefings at the Mike Moroney Aeronautic Center from the Federal Aviation Administration re training for air controllers and related activities.

June 2019: High North II and NATO II, Oslo Norway and Brussels, Belgium. Briefings at the US Embassy Oslo, Norwegian Ministry of defense and Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At NATO, briefings from the US Mission to NATO and briefings from Allied officials.

October 2019: Newport, Rhode Island for briefings at the Naval War College, visiting Fort Adams (Revolutionary War fort) for a clam bake, briefings at Naval Submarine Base New London and Naval Submarine School, visiting General Dynamics Electric Boat manufacturing complex and briefs at the US Coast Guard Academy.

March 2020: Air Force Sustainment Center, Hill Air Force Base, Utah for briefings on Nuclear Deterrence, Ground Based Strategic Deterrent, the Air Force’s role in the US Nuclear Triad, the legacy air craft sustainment program for the F-35, F-22, F-16 and A-10, visiting the Minuteman 111 Maintenance program and the 419th Fighter Wing which maintains the F-35 mission support program.