09 December 2014 Marines, Japanese Students Share Culture U.S. Marines participating in exercise Forest Light 15-1 visited with high school students here Dec. 5.A group of 11 Marines took time out of their bilateral training to speak with students at Kumamoto’s Kaishin and Chinzei high schools. The school visits centered on the sharing of cultures...
08 December 2014 Yama Sakura 67 Kicks Off in Japan For the 34th time, U.S. and Japanese Soldiers stood side-by-side to kick off Japan's largest command post exercise here, today.Yama Sakura 67 officially started with a brief ceremony in which commanders from I Corps and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force's Eastern Army lauded the long-standing...
08 December 2014 US Embassy Expresses Condolences to the Philippine Government for the Devastation Caused by Typhoon Ruby On behalf of the U.S. Government, the United StatesEmbassy Manila wishes to extend our deepest condolences for the loss of life anddevastation caused by Typhoon Ruby (international name Hagupit).The U.S. Government, through the U.S. Embassy Manila’s U.S. Agency forInternational Development (USAID),...
08 December 2014 Pearl Harbor Day Commemorates 73rd Anniversary of Attacks Veterans, service members, families and guests commemorated Pearl Harbor Day with multiple ceremonies at Ford Island and Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Dec. 7.The theme of this year's historic commemorations, "Preserving the Memory," focused on keeping the story of the attacks on Oahu and the...
08 December 2014 VMM-265 Lands at MCAS Iwakuni, Begins Preparation for Support of Exercise Forest Light Three MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 265 landed at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, Dec. 6, 2014, to refuel and begin planning for support of Exercise Forest Light in Kumamoto Prefecture.Forest Light is a routine, semiannual training exercise that...