Video by Senior Airman Brandt Self | Media Center - Japan | 04.20.2025
U.S. Army Garrison Kwajalein Atoll holds a sunrise patching ceremony; U.S. and Japanese troops conduct Keen Sword; and Soldiers return home from a deployment....
Video by Cpl. Shayla Kuhn | 3d Marine Division | 11.05.2024
U.S. Marines with 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Littoral Regiment, 3d Marine Division, U.S. Army Soldiers with 1st Battalion, 94th Field Artillery Regiment, 17th Artillery Brigade, and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force members utilize High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems and M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System Launchers to execute live-fire missions during exercise Keen Sword 25 at Yausubetsu,......
Video by Sgt. Jose Angeles | 1st Marine Aircraft Wing | 11.01.2024
U.S. Marines with Marine Aircraft Group 12, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, participate in exercise Keen Sword 25 across the Indo-Pacific, Oct. 25 through Oct. 31, 2024. Keen Sword is a biennial, joint and bilateral field-training exercise involving U.S. military and Japan Self-Defense Forces personnel, designed to increase readiness and interoperability while strengthening the ironclad U.S.-Japan......
Video by Airman 1st Class Catherine Daniel | 18th Wing | 10.31.2024
MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan – The 623 Air Control Squadron worked with the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force to provide battle management in support of exercise Keen Sword 25 Oct 18 - Nov 1, 2024. After traveling over 1,500 miles from their home station at Kadena Air Base, Japan, the 623rd ACS integrated with their U.S Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps, and JASDF counterparts to successfully provide......
Video by Lance Cpl. David Getz | Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni | 10.31.2024
U.S. Marines and Sailors with Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, U.S. Marines with Marine Wing Support Squadron 171, Marine Aircraft Group 12, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, U.S. Sailors with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5, Navy Expeditionary Combat Command, Japan Ground Self Defense Force members with 13th Brigade, Middle Army, and Japan Maritime Self......
Video by Lance Cpl. Micah Taylor | Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni | 10.31.2024
U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II’s with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron VMFA 121, Marine Aircraft Group 12, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, and Japan Air Self Defense Force F-35A Lightning II’s with the 302nd Tactical Fighter Squadron, 3rd Air Wing, Japan Air Self-Defense Force, carry out flight operations during exercise Keen Sword 25 at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, Oct. 31,......
Video by Seaman Colin Lightner | AFN Sasebo | 10.31.2024
Commander, Fleet Activities Sasebo security, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force personnel conducted the capstone event of exercise Keen Sword 2024 starting at Fleet Landing and moving to Yokose, OCt. 31 2024. The American Forces Network produces and delivers unique, immediate and uninterrupted media services to inform and entertain overseas DoD personnel and......
Video by Senior Airman Tylir Meyer | 18th Wing | 10.31.2024
U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18C/D Hornets assigned to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 232, conduct aerial refeuling with a U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker assigned to the 909th Air Refueling Squadron, for a Keen Sword 25 training mission over the Sea of Japan, Oct. 31, 2024. Keen Sword is a biennial, joint and bilateral field-training exercise involving U.S. military and Japan Self-Defense Force......
