Photo by Sgt. David Staten | 3d Marine Division | 11.02.2020
U.S. Marines with 3d Marine Division employ a mobile combat operations center providing command and control and joint targeting coordination throughout Keen Sword, Oct. 26 through Nov. 5, 2020. This exercise featured multiple realistic joint and bilateral training opportunities focusing on combat operations against a near-peer threat in a distributed maritime environment to include the......
Photo by Sgt. David Staten | 3d Marine Division | 11.02.2020
U.S. Marine Corps Chief Warrant Officer 2 John Earney, assistant operations officer during exercise Keen Sword with 1st Battalion, 2d Marine Regiment and Capt. Kazunari Kadokura, executive officer with Japan Ground Self-Defense Force 15th Brigade exercised command and control through combined operations centers located on Camp Foster and Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa, Japan, Nov.......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Albert Carls | 3d Marine Division | 11.01.2020
U.S. Marines teamed up with Japan’s Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade to conduct an amphibious assault on Gaja-Jima, a small uninhabited island off the coast of mainland Japan, as part of Keen Sword, Nov. 1, 2020. Japan Self-Defense Force CH-47JA Chinooks touched down delivering streams of ARDB troops while U.S. Marines hit the beach via small boats briskly navigating over the horizon......
Courtesy Photo | 3d Marine Division | 11.01.2020
A Joint Terminal Attack Controller from 5th Air-Naval Gunfire Liaison Company embedded with Japan’s Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade as U.S. Marines teamed up with the ARDB to conduct an amphibious assault on Gaja-Jima, a small uninhabited island off the coast of mainland Japan, as part of Keen Sword, Nov. 1, 2020. Japan Self-Defense Force CH-47JA Chinooks touched down delivering streams......
