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 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 ...

The Marine Corps stood up a unit last week meant to sow "chaos and uncertainty" for its adversaries in the Pacific, according to a news release, adding the service's first U.S. anti-ship missile ...

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 ...

For decades, China has aggressively threatened Taiwan with forced reunification, yet an invasion has and never will materialise. Despite fiery rhetoric and provocative military exercises, the stark ...

Eighty years ago, on April 1, a Sunday in 1945, seven troop divisions, four Army, three Marine, landed on the beaches of ...

It patrolled off the island to protect shipping and provide support for the amphibious landings. The ship subsequently guarded convoys to Okinawa and conducted antisubmarine patrols there.

An MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 262 takes off from the flight deck of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA-6) while ...

While I was at the Amphibious Warfare School and as a student at the Marine ... My last three years in the Marine Corps I was stationed in Okinawa, Japan with my wife and four children. I witnessed ...

The Marine Corps has removed more than a dozen videos, photos and stories about Navajo Code Talkers as part of an ongoing ...