Marines test-drive new armored vehicles in Japanese Alps
By SETH ROBSON | STARS AND STRIPES Published: December 20, 2020 CAMP SOUMAGAHARA, Japan — The Marine Corps’ successor to the Humvee — the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle — got its first workout in Japan during this month’s Exercise Forest Light. Twenty of the armored trucks deployed to Japan with 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, out of Camp Lejeune, N.C., which put them through their paces in the mountainous Gunma prefecture, west of Tokyo, during training that concluded Thursday. The battalion was the first in the Marine Corps to replace its Humvees with the new vehicles, Capt. ...
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