Overview

• Official updates from Indo-Pacific installations describe limited disruptions and localized suspensions while most on-base services remain available.
• DoDEA schools keep regular instruction across the region, and all sports and extracurricular activities are paused.
• Yokota suspended its family readiness, youth and resilience centers; Yokosuka modified Fleet and Family Support Center services with closures at Ikego and canceled counseling and TAP sessions; Kadena reported delays to housing and elective medical care and canceled classes and programs; Osan halted several family and transition services.
• Active-duty personnel must report for duty with paychecks set to stop on Oct. 15 unless funding is restored, and the Defense Department expects to furlough about half of its 741,477 civilian employees.
• Exchanges and commissaries continue operating on nonappropriated or working-capital funds, with commissaries projected to run about 60 days on cash reserves, and VA benefits and medical centers continue with minimal changes.