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Camp Gonsalves, Okinawa, Japan, March 17, 2015: Marines from India Company’s Weapons Platoon enter a pool of murky jungle water during the Jungle Warfare Training Center’s E-Course.

The CH-53 Sea Stallion and MH-53 Sea Dragon helicopters have been mainstays of the Navy and Marine Corps for decades.

This training improved the Marines’ proficiency at the tactical level and developed small-unit leadership

Even as the threats to stability in Asia multiply, there has not been a commensurate increase of U.S. capabilities. While the Obama Administration believes its “Asia Pivot” will animate U.S. policy toward Asia, the U.S. military lacks the resources necessary to implement such a strategy.

Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 367, Marine Aircraft Group 24, cased their colors during the unit's deactivation ceremony at MCAS Kaneohe Bay on April 22.

A Marine Corps video describes the combined U.S.-Japanese maritime warfare unit as a “stand-in-force” ready to engage in high-intensity maritime warfare at any time. 

A recently completed six-month deployment of U.S. and Japanese Marines was not a training exercise but rather a decided effort to replicate and rehearse actual combat scenarios the forces would likely encounter in island areas near Japan and Taiwan.  

29-Apr-2021 As hostile forces seized nearby islands, isolating western portions of the III Marine Expeditionary Force Area of Responsibility, they cut off vital sea lines of communication to the east. In response, during the hours of darkness, “STINGER 45” and “STINGER 46” departed a small island airfield and struck enemy outposts on northern and southern islands to reduce enemy command and control capability as well as eliminate their will to fight. Simultaneously, operations dispatch...

29 As hostile forces seized nearby islands, isolating western portions of the III Marine Expeditionary Force Area of Responsibility, they cut off vital sea lines of communication to the east. In response, during the hours of darkness, “STINGER 45” and “STINGER 46” departed a small island airfield and struck enemy outposts on northern and southern islands to reduce enemy command and control capability as well as eliminate their will to fight. Simultaneously, operations di...

OKINAWA, Japan -- As hostile forces seized nearby islands, isolating western portions of the III Marine Expeditionary Force Area of Responsibility, they cut off vital sea lines of communication to the east. In response, during the hours of darkness, “STINGER 45” and “STINGER 46” departed a small island airfield and struck enemy outposts on northern and southern islands to reduce enemy command and control capability as well as eliminate their will to fight. Simultaneously, operations di...