The Pacific Partnership 2023 (PP23) program was successfully held from August 9-18 in Phu Yen Province, allowing participants, including US and Vietnamese personnel, to work together and foster new and enduring friendships through exchanges in engineering, humanitarian and disaster response, and culture actively engaged the local community.

Two Marine security guards stationed at the U.S. Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam took part in a heroic rescue of several local Vietnamese citizens in early January