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Australian Navy Working With Vietnam

Posted on June 6, 2017 | by Caroline Teames
06/06/2017
Australian Navy working with Vietnam as part of a deepening defense relationship.
Posted in Strategy, Video, What's New | Tagged Australian Defence Force, Australian Navy, Exercise Pacific Partnership, Great-Britain, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, United States, Vietnam

Exercise Jeanne D’Arc 2017

Posted on May 28, 2017 | by Caroline Teames
05/28/2017
Video:Exercise Jeanne D’Arc 2017
Posted in HOME, Video | Tagged 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, 8th Marine Regiment, Exercise Jeanne D’Arc, Exercise Jeanne D’Arc 2017, France, India Company, Indo-Asia-Pacific region, Japan, U.S. Marines, U.S. Navy, Unit Deployed Program, United Kingdom

Marines Participate with Brits and French in Tinian Exercise

Posted on May 21, 2017 | by Caroline Teames
05/21/2017
Video:Marines Participate with Brits and French in Tinian Exercise
Posted in HOME, Video | Tagged Exercise Jeanne D’Arc 17, France, Great-Britain, Japan, Marines, Tinian, U.S.

VMFA-121 Update

Posted on April 27, 2017 | by Caroline Teames
04/27/2017
VMFA-121 continues its rollout of the F-35B within USMC concepts of operations.
Posted in Con Ops, The Integrated Distributed Combat Force, Video, What's New | Tagged F-35B, Japan, Keon Willingham, Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron (VMGR) 152, Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121, Matthew Schoon, U.S. Marines, VMFA-121

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Japan Talks About North Korea

Posted on March 18, 2017 | by Caroline Teames
03/18/2017
Video:Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Japan Talks About North Korea
Posted in HOME, Video | Tagged Fumio Kishida, Japan, North Korea, Rex Tillerson

COPE NORTH 2017

Posted on February 26, 2017 | by Caroline Teames
02/26/2017
COPE NORTH 2017, a trilateral Japanese-Australian-US exercise has begun on Guam.
Posted in Con Ops, Video, What's New | Tagged Andersen Air Force Base, Australia, COPE NORTH 2017, Japan, Scott Hurrelbrink, Tatsuya Takahashi, Tim Alsop, Tsuiki Air Base, U.S. Marines

VMFA-121 on the Way to Japan

Posted on January 12, 2017 | by SysAdmin
01/12/2017
The Green Knights departed Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, transferring to Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, Jan. 9, 2017.
Posted in The Integrated Distributed Combat Force, Video, What's New | Tagged California, F-35B, F-35B Lightning II, Iwakuni, Japan, Marine Corps, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 121, VMFA-121

Mayor Fukuda Visits MCAS Yuma Prior to Arrival of VMFA-121 to Japan

Posted on December 16, 2016 | by SysAdmin
12/16/2016
Mayor Fukuda visits MCAS Yuma prior to arrival of VMFA-121 in Japan.
Posted in Slideshow, The Integrated Distributed Combat Force, What's New | Tagged Fukuda, Iwakuni, Iwakuni City, J. T. Bardo, Japan, Kosei Nomura, Marcus Annibale, Marine Corps Air Station, Marine Fighter Attack Sqaudron (VMFA) 121, MCAS Yuma, Richard Fuerst, VMFA-121, Yoshihiko Fukuda
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