KIN BLUE BEACH, Okinawa — An hourlong amphibious landing by U.S. Marines and Japanese troops over the weekend served as the “key bilateral training event” of Iron Fist, a defining exercise ...

The latest display of U.S.-Japan military cooperation comes to us from Stars and Stripes reporters Brian McElhiney and Keishi Koja in a March 3, 2025, article titled “Marines, Japanese forces prepare ...

The AAVP7A1 is an armored assault amphibious full-tracked landing vehicle ... This generation of LVTs was used through the Okinawa campaign in 1945.

The 12th Littoral Combat Team was officially established at Camp Hansen in Okinawa on March 3 to "create chaos and ... the AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar system and the light amphibious ...

Takamatsu Gushiken has spent years voluntarily locating bodies, and fragments of bodies, of World War II victims in Japan’s Okinawa's jungle. Over 80 years since a major battle, Gushiken shared ...

Pyle's final mission was to report on the invasion of Okinawa. It was the largest amphibious operation of the Pacific War and one of the most dangerous. It was here that Ernie Pyle was killed.

The drone flights coincided with Iron Fist, an annual amphibious exercise by the U.S. and Japan that runs through March 7 at various locations in Japan, including Okinawa. In November 2022 ...

Hajime Kitajima, commander of the GSDF Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade ... and around the Nansei island chain, which includes Okinawa. Okinoerabujima island in Kagoshima Prefecture and ...

Adam Cole (Jour) is serving as the public affairs office for the U.S. Navy's Amphibious Force, 7th Fleet in Okinawa, Japan. Cole oversees social media strategy, visual information production, and ...